I'm often blamed as the bringer of misfortune. My birth led to my mother's death in childbirth, and I was almost abandoned in her grave until my cries saved me. At 12, a plague took my father, leaving me an orphan.
It wasn't until a café owner took me in...
He said, "The world is more intricate than it seems, and Joyful Cafe's true offerings go beyond coffee. Items imbued with mysterious powers from Malifact & Beneware constantly influence humanity. Especially those tied to the zodiac signs poss...

Her mom's a witch.
Her dad's a demon.
And she just wants to be ordinary.
I batted at the curl of smoke drifting off the tip of my candle and tried not to sneeze. My heavy velvet cloak fell in oppressive, suffocating folds in the closed space of the ceremony chamber, the cowl trapping the annoying bits of puff I missed. I hated the way my eyes burned and teared, an almost constant distraction. Not that I didn't welcome the distraction, to be honest. Anything to take my mind from what went on a...

"Chelsea, I love you," those were the words Liam would never have imagined himself saying to anyone, yet he saw himself saying it to her.
This wasn't the plan, and it was supposed to be a loveless contract lasting for a year. She was supposed to be his sex slave. He had dehumanized her so many times, and now he was finding a way to make up for it. test
She was supposed to take contraceptives that prevented her from giving birth. But now he finds himself changing her contraceptive to vitamin...