After-death-novel-stories

Lizzie, a esposa de Carter, vive um pesadelo ao ser sequestrada com a filha de apenas três anos na porta da creche. Mantida em cativeiro e em uma tentativa desesperada de escapar para salvar a si mesma e à pequena garotinha, Lizzie acaba caindo da janela do prédio e não resiste aos ferimentos. Apavorados com a tragédia e com a chegada iminente da polícia, os sequestradores abandonam a criança antes de fugir. Devastado pela morte brutal da esposa e sem qualquer pista sobre o paradeiro da menina, Carter vê seu mundo desmoronar. Carregando uma dor insuportável, ele tenta se agarrar ao último fio de esperança de reencontrar a pequena Rose, sem imaginar onde ela possa estar. Do outro lado da cidade, a brasileira Izabela Lemos inicia sua residência em Psicopedagogia em um orfanato local — a última etapa para concluir seu mestrado nos Estados Unidos. Logo em seu primeiro dia de trabalho, uma garotinha deixada anonimamente na instituição chama sua atenção. Sem documentos, sem passado e assustada, a menininha só consegue repetir uma única pergunta: *— Cadê a minha mamãe?* Tocada pela dor da pequena Rose, Izabela cria um laço instantâneo com ela e decide investigar a fundo de onde a criança veio. O que seria apenas um estágio acadêmico transforma-se em uma missão de vida para reescrever o destino de uma família despedaçada. Enquanto Carter cruza a cidade em uma busca dolorosa, Izabela se torna a única ponte entre um pai desesperado e a filha que lhe foi roubada — sem imaginar que, no meio desse caminho de cura e descobertas, seu próprio coração também encontrará um lar.

Astrid waited for Joshua all night as she usually did... And the first thing she received, instead of a cold greeting, was the divorce papers. “Why?” were her only words when she saw the agreement. Joshua looked at her indifferently. “It's enough. It's a waste of time to continue this marriage. In the first place, if it weren't for my grandfather, I wouldn't have married you... Sign it!” he shouted. Astrid, her eyes filled with tears, hurriedly took the divorce agreement and put it in her mouth. “I don't want a divorce!” Astrid cried. Joshua didn't respond, he just looked at her and walked away. After all, it was difficult to get into the heart of someone like Joshua. She stood firm in her decision. She had married to take care of her mother's health... Until she lost her too, leaving her with nothing left to hold on to. “He doesn't feel anything for me,” she said, wiping her teary eyes. “In the future, I will never appear in front of him again.” She took her luggage and, accompanied by a heavy snowfall, disappeared along with her footprints in the snow. She left behind only her signature on the divorce agreement. With a trembling body, she escaped. Five years later, a little boy reminded her of the person she tried to forget.

A loud moan escaped my throat as Alessandro slams me against the wall, his hard body pinning me tightly. “Keep fighting, baby,” he growls in a low voice, while sliding his hand under my dress. His Fingers find me soaked, plunging them deep and curling until my hips buck and I cry out. “Your body already knows you’re mine.” “Say it, mia cara. Say you’re mine.” Elara Voss is her family’s dirty little secret, the hidden daughter their dad loved in silence, while her sisters burned her with hate. To bury the shame and seal a massive deal, they force her to marry Alessandro Russo, Vegas’s deadliest mafia don. Her sisters were promised to perfect men. While She got handed over to a monster. But he didn’t just take, he became addicted to her. She became the only one who could calm the rage in him. Only she drives him wild, fantasizing about her mouth on him, swallowing every drop as she trembles and begs drives it to the edge. After he learns how cruelly she was treated by her family, the cold rejections and all of the hidden pain, his obsession turns lethal. “I own you,” he said in a raspy voice one night, his fist in my hair, yanking my head back to meet his burning eyes. “Every breath and every cry, if anyone should as much think of Hurting you again, I’ll make you watch while I tear them apart, piece by piece. Any man who gets close to you, dies screaming.” She then later uncovers his darkest secret, the bloody truth he buried deep underneath. Will it shatter them… or chain her to him forever?