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“ Know this. You have to do what I ask of you. And don’t ask any questions. ” His voice drops a few octaves. Instinctively, I place my hands over his chest, feeling his beating heart under my palm. “ Just do as I say and everything will be fine. ” His eyes lower to my lips. “ Or else…”  The lingering threat triggers the rebel side of mine. “ Or else? ” “ Or else…” He lifts his gaze to my eyes and shoots me a very promising smirk. “ I will make you. " ******** ******** A wild night out with her two best friends, away from her controlling boyfriend was all Natalie Whitman planned on the ocassion of her 20th birthday, but it didn't turn out quite right. Because now, she was marked and claimed by a man she doesn't even know and her boyfriend of two years is pounding the door. Hide the truth or pretend to be not marked—That's her only choice but it doesn't prove out to be easy when the Alpha who marked her comes barging in her life and it becomes impossible for her to ignore him.

Lex, a mundane office drone, met an untimely end at the hands of a trigger-happy robber. But death wasn't the end. He awakens reincarnated as a lowly palace servant in the city of Greyl. Lex has only one goal: survive in a world of magic, monsters, and deadly political twists. The problem? He's non-essential. No destiny. No skills. Just a faceless cog in a story that doesn't care if he lives-or dies.

Gibson sat across from his mother-in-law, his heart racing as he tried to process her shocking demand. “Divorce?” he repeated, his voice trembling. “Yes, divorce,” the woman replied with an arrogant sneer. “I don’t think you’re good enough for my daughter.” Gibson took a deep breath, trying to control his emotions. He knew his mother-in-law had never approved of him, but he had never expected her to demand a divorce. “May I ask who wants the divorce?” he asked calmly. “It doesn’t matter,” Helen, his mother-in-law replied dismissively. “All that matters is that I want it.” “With all due respect, I don’t think it’s that simple,” Gibson said firmly. “My wife and I have built a life together. We’ve been through a lot, and we love each other.” The mother-in-law scoffed. “Love? Don’t make me laugh. You and my daughter were struggling to make ends meet when you got married. But now, thanks to her hard work, she’s become the CEO of a top 10 company in the city. She can do much better than you.”

He was a man who wasn’t put on this earth to be loved, but to kill. And she was a woman who was nothing more than an object to be used. They weren’t meant to find each other in this dark, cruel world. But they did, and now it’s war because there’s no way in hell he’ll let anyone take her from him. He was feared. She was hunted. Together they will fight to win this war.

He woke up in a city that doesn’t forget—but he remembers nothing. With a name that isn’t his, hunted by ghosts that wear familiar faces, and a past stitched into someone else’s war, Ethan Vale must navigate Echelon City’s labyrinth of lies to reclaim who he is. But the truth may be the deadliest weapon in a world built on deception. In the game of Lazarus, the first one to remember dies.

Three years in prison. All for her. The moment Ethan Cross walked free, his wife handed him divorce papers and called him worthless. What she didn't know? While he was locked away, he became the head of the world's most powerful corporation. Now the woman who abandoned him is begging for mercy.But mercy isn't what kings give to traitors.

Everyone called Jaxen a "Mana-Dead" loser. Even after graduating from the prestigious Aether Academy, he couldn't find a job cleaning toilets. But when his father begs the tyrant Lord Valerius for mercy, Jaxen is forced into a humiliating "Slave-Marriage" to the coldest beauty in the city, Seraphina Valerius. The city laughs as the "Trash Son-in-Law" is forced to sweep the floors of the woman who once chased him. They don't know that Jaxen has awakened the "Primordial Void System." Every insult they throw at him fuels his power. Every time they try to suppress him, he siphons their life force. He isn't just a husband—he's a predator waiting for the perfect moment to devour the entire Valerius lineage.

When luck wasn't on his side, he was fired from his job, evicted from his rental house and couldn't find the money for his sister's surgery. It was there that the system came to his aid, and his life changed 100%. With a mission that is not easy Bryan does battles and matches, dozens of times he falls but he still does it for the sake of the agreement, but when his sister is targeted, he seems to want to stop fighting. Will Bryan give up?

Nolan was humiliated and rejected by the woman he loved, cast aside by her family, and made to feel worthless. Heartbroken, he was forced to walk away, vowing that one day, he would make them regret their decision. Now, armed with wealth, success, and power, Nolan is back and he’s no longer the man they once knew. He will make them plead for forgiveness, begging for a second chance. But some things can’t be undone, and forgiveness… doesn’t come easily. Does it?

What is the role of those third-rate villains in games or novels? I asked this question to myself quite a number of times. They don't have major screen time, but some of them have a huge effect on the storyline. And, if one of them hadn't played their role correctly, what would happen to the storyline? It seems like I am going to answer those questions since I became the third-rate villain in an RPG game. ------------------------------0----------------------------------- Chapter length 1000-2000 words.