Protective

I'm Evan Cross, and my upgrade path requires genuine connections with women who actually challenge me. A martial artist who uses me as a training dummy. A genius hacker who won't let anyone in. Each bond unlocks abilities I need to stop being everyone's victim.

Fired for no reason. Dumped by his girlfriend for being broke. His sister’s condition at the hospital was getting worse, and Aiden was losing everything, until life hit him with an insane twist. ---- "Empire Building System Activated." "Task: Own a company within 24 hours." "Penalty: Death." ---- With time ticking and death on the line, Aiden had no choice but to fight. From nothing, he rose, scraping, building, and breaking through every wall in his path. This wasn’t just about survival anymore. It was about taking over. What began as survival soon became domination. He wasn’t just building a business—he was carving out a legacy. And for anyone who dared to stand in his way? "Bow or be buried.”

Aric Blackthorn is cursed by a power that loves him too fiercely, a psychic leviathan with no respect for boundaries—a Devil’s Fruit that warps flesh, mind, and fate. When House Blackthorn is torn apart by ancient betrayals, Aric must master psychic warfare and arcane combat to survive. But the power inside him hungers, and if he gives too much, it might devour everything he holds dear. Devil’s Fruit: I Couldn’t Evolve is a brutal, sensorial journey into love turned monstrous, where sarcasm scythes through blood‑dark magic and each spell is a promise of beauty and violence. Aric Blackthorn awakens in the ruined halls of his ancestral keep, the psychic presence of his Devil’s Fruit thrumming in his mind—a beast that speaks in riddles and carves runic fractures through reality. Determined to reclaim his legacy, he forges uneasy alliances: Seris the shadowsmith, Vira the mercurial envoy, and Kael the steadfast guard. Every encounter sparks a battle of senses and strategy—color‑bleeding mana webs, sigil‑etched swords, psychic pressure like thunder in the veins. As Aric climbs the ladder of power, House Blackthorn fractures under envy, and rival factions—Elowen’s hollow‑vein cult, Garrick’s iron‑sigil enforcers, Thane’s dread‑spiral cabal—seek to claim the psychic core within him. But when his psychic companion Lysander whispers that love is the greatest threat, Aric must choose: let the fruit consume him, or turn its monstrous devotion into salvation. Sacrifices will bleed sincerity, sarcasm will break bones, and comedy will red‑raw the absurdity of power.

Well, like any other virus affecting the world, this one came all too sudden and with little control. Early morning on Monday, I prepared my son Javi to go to school. I packed his lunch, water, and breakfast for the whole day. It has been a routine for years that it only takes me an hour or so. At exactly 6:30 am, I led my son to board the school Van to go to school. I said hi to the school driver and the teacher on duty before going back into the house. I had so many things to do. I was done with laundry and heading to the kitchen when I heard shouting's from outside. We live on the third floor, room number 205. My husband worked at a research facility. For the last few days, he had been busy and had little time to spend with us. Which is normal regarding his line of work. Saving people's lives I rushed to the balcony to see what was happening, and I was stunned. People were attacking each other. It was weird. When two people attack each other, then it may be normal. When a whole lot of people attack and bite each other, then it's something else. My neighbor was also on the balcony looking outside. "What's happening?" I curiously asked the neighbor Before she could answer me, her husband came rushing to her and bit her on her neck. I was shocked and shouted at them. "What are you doing? Let her be?" He could not hear me.

*There are three books in one! Since they need to be read in order, they are one right after another! * With a genius IQ and her own tattoo shop, Kristen is about to become 18. After years of being abused by her stepmother, Kristen has decided to leave her pack with the money her tattoo shop has made. Regardless of who her mate is, Kristen will be on her own adventure. Unfortunately, more than one male has a problem with her independence. Kristen's fiery personality has placed her into a situation that is forcing her to face everything she has escaped. How much can one person endure before they give up?

BLURB Alexander Morello has mastered the art of surviving in silence—until survival means swallowing one humiliation too many. At Winston College, he's the outcast, the charity case, the punching bag for Paxton Jennings, the school's golden quarterback. But when a cruel assault on his dignity crosses the line, something in Alexander begins to crack.

Kelvin Hughes, a brilliant but jaded young spy, is sent on a dangerous mission to dismantle the powerful drug empire of Victor Alonso. What begins as a simple infiltration spirals into a deadly game of deception and survival when Kelvin discovers that his own agency has betrayed him. Hunted by his enemies and his allies, Kelvin must uncover a web of corruption that reaches the highest levels of government. As he navigates this treacherous world, Kelvin finds an unlikely connection with Maria, a mysterious woman tied to Alonso’s syndicate. But when Maria’s true loyalties are revealed, Kelvin is left questioning everything and everyone he thought he could trust. With the agency’s top operatives hunting him down, a dangerous romance brewing, and a mastermind known only as "The Architect" pulling the strings, Kelvin races against time to expose the truth. Along the way, he uncovers shocking secrets about his family’s history, forcing him to confront his past while fighting for his future. In a world where betrayal lurks in every shadow, can Kelvin survive long enough to bring the real villains to justice? Or will he become just another pawn in a deadly game?

After eight years of living under the cruelty of his in-laws, Bradley Turner rough-handles his brother-in-law in self-defence which leads to his arrest and the discovery of his wife's betrayal for the promise of a better marriage. Full of resolve to take get back at them and reunite with his loving daughter, the only person that truly mattered, the Urban Ascendancy System activates in him after a failed assassination attempts, with the promise to help him rise to the pinnacles and see that his desired revenge is full enacted on all those that had a hand in his humiliation and the sufferings of his daughter.

Ethan Cross was no ordinary mercenary. Beneath his skin, something ancient lurked — a fragment of divinity long thought destroyed. He was Aurelian, the Warlord of the Sun, a god exiled from Heaven for daring to defy the divine order. Now reborn as a man, he has no knowledge of his pasty life, his power sealed across six celestial locks, he walks the human world as both weapon and curse. But when a mafia heiress named Elena Vitale saves him from the brink of death, everything changes. In her eyes, he sees the spark he lost — compassion. Humanity. And something dangerous: faith. He was ready to endure anything for her, including the degradation and humiliation her family put him through until he could take it no more and when all six locks sealing his powers were broken, his memory returned, he decided to fight the world back with his divinity and power.

After being fatally struck on the head and presumed dead, Zach awakens in the morgue—alive and puzzled. Instead of relief, his wife is horrified by his strange awake and demands a divorce. Despite years of sacrifice to give her the life she wanted, she tosses him aside without remorse. Hurt by betrayal and grieving his mother’s death while his sister remains in danger, Zach feels his world collapsing—until a mysterious, stunning woman appears, claiming he is the lost leader of the country’s most powerful organization. Thrust into a life of unimaginable wealth and influence, Zach discovers the true extent of his power. No longer the man they once discarded, he sets his sights on vengeance. The people who wronged him and his loved ones will now be the ones begging for mercy in hot tears.