
Bound By Power, Torn By Love
Cynthia Adama · Ongoing · 351.7k Words
Introduction
She regards him as her only salvation, but he regards her as a pawn for revenge. When two enemies dance on the sharp knife, what will be the final outcome?
Chapter 1
The neon lights of Manhattan reflected off the rain-slicked streets as I stumbled into Velvet Eclipse..a place where anyone could get sex and feel alive after a hectic day .Clutching my bag like it could hold my sanity together. Music throbbed through the club, a deep pulse that matched the erratic beating of my heart. I shouldn’t have come here , I shouldn’t have run away. I shouldn’t have drunk that much. But every instinct screaming inside me demanded this: just one reckless choice that belonged to me
I had to feel alive and I had to feel like I could choose something for myself, even if it was reckless.
I ordered a drink, trying to calm the storm in my chest, when I felt it … but there was this gaze from afar that was sharp enough to cut a glass.
He was sitting in the VIP section looking calm and deliberate, every inch of him radiating control and danger. It wasn’t flashy, nor loud but Just… powerful enough I couldn’t look away.
“Do you always approach strangers like that?” His voice sounded low, measured and dangerous.
I raised a brow with a smirk tugging at my lips. “Only when I don’t plan on remembering them.”
He stood tall, Broad-shouldered and commanding and my pulse quickened.
“What are you planning tonight?” he asked me .
“Freedom,” I said, almost whispering.
Something flickered in his eyes that seemed to be recognition, Interest or Perhaps even amusement.
“You don’t look like someone who wants saving,” he said.
“I don’t,” I replied with my voice firmer than I expected.
A slow smile curved his lips... “Then why are you here?”
I shrugged, “to see what it feels like to be reckless.”
He studied me for a moment, as though measuring my soul, and then, unexpectedly he stepped closer...close enough that I could feel the heat radiating off him without him touching me.
“Take me somewhere private,” I found myself telling him.
His gaze sharpened. ..“Last chance to walk away,” he said.
I didn’t.
The penthouse was quiet , too quiet, and the city’s chaos felt miles away. He poured a drink, then handed it to me with a deliberate slowness and his fingers brushing mine. I shivered but not from the cold , but from the electricity that sparked between us, the danger and the thrill.
“Name?” he said softly.
“Kay,” I replied..A lie? or truth? It didn’t matter.
His lips twitched in acknowledgment but he didn’t question it. He didn’t need to.
“Rebellious girls don’t understand consequences,” he murmured against my ear.
“And controlled men don’t scare me,” I shot back, letting my defiance echo louder than the music still humming in my head.
The tension snapped like a live wire when his kiss was sudden, consuming and dominant . It was not soft, nor gentle but deliberate. Every nerve in my body screamed, and for the first time, I wasn’t Gerald Meyer’s daughter. I wasn’t a pawn either …I was choosing recklessly and wildly and I didn’t care what the cost might be.
Morning came harshly and the sunlight stabbed through the blinds, and my head pounded from the drink and adrenaline. My body remembered too much, but my mind raced faster.
I turned, expecting him to be gone but he wasn’t. He was still there, calm, almost unreadable.
Panic rose as I dressed quickly, collecting my few belongings and then I noticed it …the bracelet with the silver Meyer crest, my father’s gift for my eighteenth birthday.
It gleamed innocently on the bedside table. But I knew better. It was a signature, a mark and a beacon. I froze and my stomach twisted.
He woke shortly after with his eyes falling on the bracelet. A slow, calculating smile spread across his face. He turned it over, tracing the engraving with one long finger. This was proof. Proof of her, proof of her father and proof of the game that had just begun.
“She’s mine now,” he whispered to himself.
Twenty minutes later, my phone rang.. Unknown number.
“Hello?” I whispered.
Initially there was silence and then a low, deliberate voice:
“Good morning, Miss Meyer, I believe you left something in my room.”
I froze.
“How do you… know who I am?”
There was a soft chuckle, “I know exactly who you are.”
I clutched my chest, realizing I was already caught in someone else’s orbit, someone as dangerous and controlled as my father but more unpredictable.
“And now,” he said with voice calm and sharp, “you belong to me.”
The line went dead.
And for the first time, I wasn’t afraid of my father, I was afraid of him.
I tried to rationalize, tried to ground myself, but the fear wasn’t for the night. It was for the storm I had walked into. The storm named Jason Lugard, the man whose gaze alone could slice through me. He was a predator, and somehow, I had become his prey.
The bracelet gleamed in my trembling hand, heavy with meaning. It wasn’t just a family heirloom , it was my link to my father’s empire, and now, unknowingly, a lever in someone else’s hands.
I sank onto the edge of the bed, realizing that freedom I had chased? It was a lie, I had chosen recklessness, and now the consequences were already circling, waiting to strike.
Outside, Jason leaned back against the window with the bracelet in his hand, watching the city stretch beneath him. He could already imagine the moves he would make, the traps he would set, the game he would play. She didn’t know yet, but the hunt had begun.
And he intended to win.
The phone rang again. He had called once already, proving he knew and Now? He would move.
“Prepare to corner her,” a voice commanded in my ear.
The city had never felt so dangerous and for the first time in my life , I realized freedom had a price and I had just sold myself to the wrong man.
Last Chapters
#301 Chapter 301
Last Updated: 7/18/2026#300 Chapter 300
Last Updated: 7/17/2026#299 Chapter 299
Last Updated: 7/17/2026#298 Chapter 298
Last Updated: 7/17/2026#297 Chapter 297
Last Updated: 7/17/2026#296 Chapter 296
Last Updated: 7/17/2026#295 Chapter 295
Last Updated: 7/9/2026#294 Chapter 294
Last Updated: 7/9/2026#293 Chapter 293
Last Updated: 7/9/2026#292 Chapter 292
Last Updated: 7/9/2026
You Might Like 😍
A pack of their own
The Deadly Mafia Princess
Her gang take the matter in their own hands, to try to save their leader from the horror of her home. What none of them know, they wasn’t her real parents, and now Ro will be sent away to live with her real family. That makes her closest members in her gang pack up and move as well. They don’t want to be far away from their leader.
Alpha Under Love Spell
Thorin pushed her on the bed and pinned her with his body. He growled near her face, “Liar!”
“No! No! I am not lying!”
“Then explain this!” Thorin whipped the screen of his phone near her eyes. Maeve looked at the screen, and her eyes widened with shock. It was a DNA report. It clearly said that Valeska was Maeve and Thorin’s daughter. “You have been lying to me for months now. Why did you hide that she is my daughter? Why did you start hating me? Did you never love me?”
“What should I have done? Let you kill my daughter!” snapped Maeve.
“What? Kill? What the hell are you talking about?” shouted Thorin.
After a passionate night with the Alpha Heir Thorin Blackridge, Maeve Arrendale, a human, found herself pregnant. She knew she had left her contact details for Thorin to find her, but he never came. Desperately, she went to tell him everything and ask him to take responsibility. But what came at her was humiliation and the devilish serial killer, Ozul.
She had no idea how she escaped her certain but she thanked every god and ran far away from Thorin and his world. She raised her child on her own. She herself had a difficult life and didn’t want her daughter to suffer. So she did everything in her power to give Valeska a good life.
Her life was turned upside down when Thorin came to her office as her boss. His fated mate, Vespera clinging to his arms. Now, Thorin hated her for vanishing from his life, and Maeve hated him for sending a serial killer to kill her.
Will Thorin accept his daughter? Will Maeve forgive him for attempting to kill her? If not Thorin, then who sent a serial killer to kill Maeve? An ancient magic, a prophecy, a powerful child is going to change everything in everyone’s life. Is everyone ready?
Where The Ice Gives Way
Blake Atlas scents his mate the moment Charlotte arrives. The bond hits hard and unmistakable, but Charlotte doesn’t recognise it. She doesn’t know why her chest keeps pulling toward the one boy she absolutely cannot afford to want. Blake is Charlie’s new hockey captain. Charlie’s chance at making something good. Charlie makes it clear; his sister is off-limits and Blake tries to do the right thing, but secrets don’t stay buried forever. Rogues prowl the edges of town. The ice cracks. The bond tightens. Then Charlotte’s rare white wolf awakens, the very thing that makes her powerful, also makes her a target.
Shanti needs Shakti. (Peace needs strength.)
Where the Ice Gives Way is a slow-burn YA paranormal romance filled with fated mates, protective alpha energy, fierce sibling loyalty, found family pack bonds, hurt/comfort, and quiet, aching tension. It’s a story about first belonging, learning to be cared for, and what happens when the girl who has always held everyone else up finally falls, and someone catches her.
Protectors Of Her Warrior's Heart
Rescued by men who call themselves Protectors—warriors from another realm who embody the legends of angels and vampires—she is thrust into a world she never knew existed. For the first time, she experiences freedom, safety, and the possibility of a future.
But freedom comes with a price.
Tali is forced to face the father she believed abandoned her and a powerful council determined to use her for their own ends. Stranger still are the abilities awakening within her—powers no one understands, yet everyone seems desperate to control.
As she learns to trust, she chooses the mates destined to stand beside her. In their arms she finds love, devotion, and a family worth fighting for. But not everyone wants their bond to survive.
When the council betrays the Protectors and attempts to steal her newborn son, it ignites a war that will shake every realm.
Now Tali stands at the center of a conflict far greater than herself. The answers to ancient mysteries, the fate of her child, and the future of countless worlds all rest on her shoulders.
Surrounded by mates who love her fiercely and refuse to leave her side, Tali will battle enemies old and new, forge powerful alliances, and discover just how strong she truly is.
Because this war won't be won for her.
It will be won with her.
And together, they will fight for their future, their family, and a love worth crossing realms to protect.
His Lethal Obsession
He didn't respond but moved his eyes around the room, scanning the place.
"Wha...what are you doing here?"
His icy blue eyes returned to me, sending shivers down my spine. Then further dropped to my dress and then back to my eyes.
"The shit going on downstairs, what does it mean?" he asked, making my legs as weak as they are eager to flee.
"It's....it my wedding,"
He scoffed darkly. "Excuse me?"
I swallowed. "I am......getting married,"
He let out a humorless laugh, looking away and giving me lesser comfort. He looked at me with a demonic frown.
Terror washed me.
"Every single motherfucker/human being here, be it adult or child, including you, will burn before that happens,"
〽️〽️〽️
The quiet but pathetic life of Twenty-year-old Mia Jefferson changed the night she found a few months old interracial baby boy abandoned in a dumpster on her way home. She saved him and kept him in her care for almost a month until she was taken by a deadly gang who accused her of abduction. She thought it was it for her until the ruthless gang leader, Nathaniel Kincaid, known on the streets as Big Kai and the father of the baby appeared and added to her punishment. At the point when Mia is about to give up, Nathaniel makes her his baby's nanny as the only way to convince him that she is not the abductor. As she picked up her care for the baby, Nathaniel watched her every move consistently, placing his heart in a dark and passionate risk.
Rebirth Of The HighSchool Villain
When he chose Jane Sinclair over her, Aurora lost control and on graduation night, she died after drinking a poisoned wine, not knowing who poisoned her. With her last breath, she wished for a second chance and woke up one year before her death.
This time, Aurora refuses to be the villain. She breaks off her engagement, stops chasing Adrian, and walks away with her pride intact. But the more she ignores him, the more Adrian wants her back.
And when his cold, mysterious half-brother Marcel, the one who was supposed to die, returns and begins to fall for Aurora after she saves him. Now the brothers are at war.
One wants the girl who stopped loving him. The other wants the girl who saved him. But Aurora isn’t chasing anyone anymore. She’s rewriting her fate.
Will Aurora be able to change her fate? Will she return back to Adrian or choose Marcel? Or will fate turn her into the villain again? There is only one way to find out.
Take note, that names, characters, location are all fictional.
The Alpha King's Human Mate
“I have waited nine years for you. That’s nearly a decade since I’ve felt this emptiness inside me. Part of me began to wonder if you didn’t exist or you’d already died. And then I found you, right inside my own home.”
He used one of his hands to stroke my cheek and tingles erupted everywhere.
“I’ve spent enough time without you and I will not let anything else keep us apart. Not other wolves, not my drunken father who’s barely holding himself together the past twenty years, not your family – and not even you.”
Clark Bellevue has spent her entire life as the only human in the wolf pack - literally. Eighteen years ago, Clark was the accidental result of a brief affair between one of the most powerful Alphas in the world and a human woman. Despite living with her father and her werewolf half-siblings, Clark has never felt like she really belonged in the werewolf world. But right as Clark plans to leave the werewolf world behind for good, her life gets flipped upside down by her mate: the next Alpha King, Griffin Bardot. Griffin has been waiting years for the chance to meet his mate, and he's not about to let her go anytime soon. It doesn't matter how far Clark tries to run from her destiny or her mate - Griffin intends to keep her, no matter what he has to do or who stands in his way.
Mated To My Ruin: A Dragon's Debt
But the prince lied. The dragon she touched bound itself to her soul and now she is trapped in the vampire kingdom with a king who has waited centuries for her return. King Caelan remembers everything. The love she destroyed and the great war she started. The lives she burned to ash with the very dragon now living inside her.
She remembers nothing.
He wants her to suffer for crimes she cannot recall. She wants to survive long enough to save her sister. But the bond between them refuses to stay buried and the dragon has its own plans. When she turns twenty and her fae powers awaken, Nyx discovers the truth is far more twisted than centuries of hatred.
The prince who sent her was the one who destroyed her family. The king who hates her saved the only person she loves. And the past life she cannot remember might be the key to stopping another war.
This time she will not run. This time she will burn the world herself if that is what it takes.
The mafia princess return
Pawn of the Starless God
Instead, a god found me.
One moment, I was bleeding beneath the neon glow of the city, my life slipping through my fingers. The next, a glowing blue screen appeared before my eyes, offering me a choice that was never really a choice at all.
Accept the Summoner’s Mark. Or die.
Now I belong to the Death Game — a brutal cosmic system where ordinary people are turned into Players, thrown into impossible missions, and forced to survive horrors designed for the amusement of gods.
Every trial has rules.
Every monster has a weakness.
Every victory comes with a reward.
And every reward makes me less human.
My name is Nerissa Valehart, and I refuse to be anyone’s pawn.
But surviving the Game means trusting the one man everyone warns me to fear.
Veyren Ashford is ruthless, powerful, and dangerously beautiful — a veteran Player with blood on his hands and secrets in his soul. He says attachment will get me killed. He says love is a weakness the Game always punishes.
Yet when death comes for me, Veyren is the one standing between us.
In a world where gods gamble with mortal lives, monsters hunt from the shadows, and desire may be the deadliest weakness of all, I have only one goal:
Survive long enough to cross the board.
And make the Starless God regret choosing me..............
Pregnant by My Husband's Rival Alpha
Those words should have destroyed me, but the truth was worse: I'd been used as a broodmare by the man who swore to love me, set up in a hotel room with a stranger because My husband Alexander Cross couldn't father children himself, and now I carried the secret babies of Damon Lester—the most powerful and dangerous Alpha in San Loris—while my own family replaced me with the daughter they'd always wanted. But when that same stranger's doctor appeared at my door, when twenty million dollars exchanged hands over a fake perfume bearing my secret identity, and when Damon's gray eyes locked onto mine with recognition I couldn't afford, I realized my carefully hidden life as the legendary perfumer Vera was colliding with a pregnancy that could cost me everything.
Could I protect my babies from the husband plotting my death, hide my true identity from the Alpha who's been hunting me for years, and reclaim the freedom I'd buried along with my dreams—even if it means standing alone against the wolves who see me as nothing more than a womb to be used and discarded?












