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The skylight cast a watery hue over the chrome polished floor of the Loft Blanc Gallery, nestled in the heart of Jersey City's elite district. The gallery was an architectural marvel, a seamless fusion of industrial grit and avant-garde elegance steel beams curved overhead like ribs of an exposed heart, and sprawling white walls pulsed with the vibrant expressions of tortured genius. Tonight, the elite brushed shoulders in whispers. Art critics with balding crowns leaned into the curves of women with sharpened smiles. Cameras clicked, champagne flutes clinked, and beneath the polite chaos stood Fred Coleman-tall, perfectly dressed, with that thin-lipped smile that never quite reached his eyes. Fred wasn't here for the art. He never was. "Racheal Lopez has a new piece in Room C," whispered one of the curators, a red-haired assistant who tried not to stare too long at Fred's tailored midnight-blue suit. His heart pinched at the name. Racheal Lopez. She hadn't been seen in public for five years. Not since she vanished, leaving behind a trail of scandal and a ruined engagement. Fred had spent years burying the memory of her-the burn of her perfume, the tilt of her laughter, the things she knew. Things she wasn't supposed to know. He moved towards Room C. Each step echoed with ghosts. Not of art, but of buried lies. As he entered, the crowd hushed slightly. A towering oil painting loomed under a golden spotlight. It depicted a faceless man, his suit stained with red paint that ran like blood down the canvas. His eyes were smeared out, but the title screamed clarity. "The Collector." Fred froze. It was him. She had painted him. Not as he appeared in the polished world of finance and aesthetics, but as what he truly was-an orchestrator. A man who curated deception with the finesse of an artist. "She knows," whispered a voice behind him. He turned. It was Kelvin, the one-eyed Gulf War veteran turned assistant-his most trusted employee. Or so Fred had once thought. "She's back in Jersey," Kelvin continued, tugging at his collar. "I saw her." Fred's jaw clenched. "Why now?" Kelvin gave a half shrug. "Maybe she wants to finish what she started." Meanwhile, in the gallery's corner, Sophia Silas-his ever-efficient secretary-tapped away on her phone, pretending to answer emails while secretly recording faces. She wasn't just an assistant. She was a gatekeeper. And she knew too much. And then there was Albert Samuel, standing like an iron statue by the gallery's emergency exit. The kind of policeman who smiled only once at his own retirement party, fifteen years too early. He wasn't here for the art either. His eyes scanned the crowd for threats, suspects, or sins. "Fred Coleman," he said, his deep voice slicing through the velvet chatter as he stepped forward. "We need to talk. Now." Fred didn't flinch. "Can it wait until after the gallery closes?" That was Albert. A man who wrestled order into chaos with his bare hands. From a distance, Maria Terino watched. She had always envied Sophia her elegance, her charm, the way men looked at her like she was a Monet. But Maria knew Sophia's secrets. They shared more than friendship they shared guilt. And guilt was heavy currency in this city. At the gallery entrance, Forlan Rice adjusted his badge. He was the only officer on duty tonight who still believed in redemption. He held a soft spot for Fred. Maybe because he'd once seen him donate anonymously to a shelter. Or maybe because he saw a flicker of humanity still buried beneath the mask. He didn't know that Fred's masks had layers. Fred followed Albert Samuel into a narrow hallway behind the gallery. The silence screamed. "She's back," Albert said. "You know what that means." Fred met his eyes. "She's not a threat anymore." Albert laughed dryly. "She was never just a threat, Fred. She was a fuse. And you built your entire gallery on a powder keg." "She disappeared." Albert stepped closer. "Because you paid her to. But ghosts don't stay buried. Racheal's painting is a warning." Fred's jaw clenched. "I'll handle it." "You'd better," Albert said. "Before someone else does." Sophia felt the hairs on her arm rise. Someone was watching her. She turned. And there she was. Racheal Lopez. In a black dress, lips stained wine-dark, and eyes like silent daggers. "Long time, Sophia," Racheal said. Sophia swallowed hard. "I heard you left the country." "I did. But Jersey always pulls me back. Like a bad dream." They stood in tense silence. "I see you still work for him," Racheal added, glancing at the hallway Fred had vanished into. Sophia narrowed her eyes. "You don't get to come back and play ghost." Racheal smirked. "I'm not here to haunt. I'm here to remind him of what he tried to forget." "What do you want?" Racheal's voice turned cold. "The truth." In the shadows, Kelvin made a call. His hands shook slightly. He didn't owe Fred l

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The prided itself on elegance and righteousness. Marble-clad cathedrals, high-rise buildings draped in shimmering glass, and a skyline punctuated by the gold cross of Saint Ursula's Cathedral all signs of a place that sold itself as godly and just. Beneath its spotless surface, however, hid networks of deception, espionage, and the relentless pursuit of control. It was on a chilly Saturday evening that the Cornwell estate hosted the most extravagant engagement party of the season. Racheal Cornwell, the bishop's eldest daughter, was now officially betrothed to Victor Launch, a polished businessman with a murky past. The ballroom shimmered with chandeliers, soft jazz played beneath the murmurs of political elites, and champagne flowed like truth in the pulpit rare and intoxicating. Sophia Cornwell, Racheal's younger sister, leaned against the marble rail of the terrace, watching her sister perform the part of the happy fiancée. Sophia knew better. Racheal was calculating, Victor was ambitious, and their love story was less of a romance and more of a treaty. The Cornwells weren't just a family; they were an empire. Bishop Cornwell, revered across the state for his sermons and philanthropic work, held power far beyond the pulpit. His influence reached politicians, law enforcement, and the financial elite. He believed in morality but never let it interfere with power. Inside the party, Governor Arnold Walsh gave a speech praising the couple and the Cornwell family's legacy. Eleanor Dorwell, the bishop's discreet yet intelligent secretary, stood quietly in the back, noting every interaction. Eleanor wasn't just a secretary she was the keeper of secrets. She kept files hidden in old hymnals, phone recordings disguised as prayers, and names written in invisible ink beneath her Bible's cover. She knew the real Grenswick. Police Chief George Orwell arrived late. His silver badge gleamed under his coat, but his eyes were sharp, always calculating. He greeted the bishop with a firm handshake and leaned in. "Your city's starting to hum again, Cornwell. I can hear the wires underground. Two days later, in a darkened room beneath the cathedral, a coded message arrived. A hidden network known as The Veil a group of spies and informants who had long worked to uncover the city's corrupt underbelly was active again. A drop point behind the old cemetery revealed documents exposing covert property seizures, money laundering by religious institutions, and a surveillance scheme run from within the governor's office. Sophia, more rebellious and independent than her sister, discovered the documents while investigating her father's strange late-night meetings. A brilliant but reckless codebreaker, Sophia had long suspected the cathedral was more than a place of worship. She followed Eleanor one night, dressed in a choir robe, and watched her enter the sealed chambers below. Inside, Sophia found evidence that turned her stomach: records of government-sanctioned surveillance, hush money paid to witnesses, and strategic alliances disguised as donations. Victor Launch's name appeared repeatedly. Meanwhile, Racheal began noticing Victor's late-night calls and unexplained absences. She followed him one evening to a hidden apartment in the industrial zone. There, she found him meeting with Chief Orwell and a masked stranger. She took photos but kept silent. If the Cornwells lost power, their enemies would swarm. The bishop preached about divine justice, while Eleanor worked behind the scenes to protect the real motives of the event cementing alliances and neutralizing threats. Governor Walsh agreed to give a televised address from the cathedral on the final night of the revival. Secretly, he was under pressure from The Veil, who had planted agents within his staff. Eleanor had picked up whispers of a coup an attempt to bring down the Cornwell dynasty during the broadcast. "You know he's working against us," she said, tossing the surveillance photos on her sister's desk. "Victor. He's not marrying you he's infiltrating." Racheal stared coldly. "And yet, I still might marry him. Power is loyalty. I can use him better than he can use me." Sophia shook her head. "You're playing his game." "No," Racheal replied. "I'm rewriting the rules." Eleanor met with Chief Orwell secretly in the underground chapel. "You're losing control," he said. "The younger one is sniffing around. The bishop's gotten too bold. Even Walsh is slipping." Eleanor replied, "Then we tighten the screws. Use the preacher's voice to silence the rebellion." "But what if the rebellion is already inside?" They didn't know that Sophia had recorded the entire conversation. As the revival began, Grenswick's streets swelled with worshippers and cameras. Drones hovered over the cathedral, and every pew was filled. But behind the stained glass, the war for the city was reaching its climax. Eleanor was intercepted by an anon

Elizabeth Taylor was a ghost in the system at least, that's what the agency used to call her before she disappeared. A gifted hacker with a photographic memory and a rebellious streak, she had once been the pride of an elite cyber-intelligence unit. That was before the botched operation in Prague, the files that went missing, and the betrayal that almost cost her life. Now, she lives under a fake identity in the grimy outskirts of New York City, posing as a freelance tech consultant named "Eliza Trent." Quiet, unassuming, and invisible until she makes a single misstep that shatters the delicate illusion of her new life. Back when Elizabeth was still Elizabeth, they were more than just lovers they were soulmates. Bound by a mutual love of code and danger, their relationship burned fast and bright in a time when Elizabeth was still working as an undercover cyber-agent. But she left him behind after the Prague incident, disappearing without a word. She assumed he'd moved on, that he hated her for vanishing. But now, by some twist of fate, he's in New York. And he recognizes her immediately. He's not in intelligence anymore. After she disappeared, he quit everything government, freelancing, even his AI startup. Now he runs a bookstore and vintage café in Brooklyn, a kind of sanctuary for the broken. When he sees her on the street same eyes, new name his world tilts. He follows her. Carefully. Elizabeth knows someone is tracking her, and when she finally corners him, a wave of guilt and nostalgia knocks the air out of both. But rekindling old feelings only complicates her already dangerous reality. Elizabeth thought she covered her tracks. She used proxies. Burned SIMs. Masked every IP address that so much as touched her servers. But the photos say otherwise. They arrive in a plain white envelope, dropped at her door. Her real name is on the back. So are the photos some from years ago in Prague, others disturbingly recent. And then, there's the note: "Tell him. Or I will." He or they know everything. They know about Philip. About her hacking history. About a list she stole once called "Protocol Red," which contained the names of compromised agents worldwide names she hid to protect herself. But whoever this is, they want more than exposure. They want her back in the game. She receives a burner phone the next day. A robotic voice gives her her first task: "Extract and erase security footage of a certain address. Send it through a Russian relay server. Do it within 24 hours." By day, she's "Eliza," a private consultant with a quiet reputation for fixing encryption issues. She's even got a nosy landlord, Nathan Duplin, a balding former librarian who reads conspiracy theories and complains about suspicious noises at night. Nathan tries to meddle into her business too often, and Elizabeth suspects he might be more than he seems especially when she finds a wiretap device behind her radiator. Then there's Gilbert Lines, a slick-talking tech support contractor who regularly invites himself into her world under the guise of "work gigs" and shared industry. He's smart, loyal to a fault, and helpful too helpful. Elizabeth notices inconsistencies in his timelines. Why does he always show up when she's being watched? Meanwhile, her relationship with Philip intensifies. He believes she's in danger, but she won't tell him the full truth. Not yet. He invites her to stay with him temporarily when her apartment is vandalized (nothing stolen, just a warning). The intimacy of their new-old relationship is both comforting and devastating. She still loves him, but her secret is a chasm too wide to cross. Brian Woodward is an NYPD officer working undercover for an inter-agency cybercrime task force. His current case? Track the source of a string of sophisticated breaches that seem linked to the infamous "ghost" hacker who vanished years ago. When Elizabeth unknowingly hacks a police database to complete one of the blackmailer's tasks, it triggers a red flag and Woodward is assigned to follow her. He pretends to be a fellow tenant in the building, charming and friendly, using Nathan's suspicions as a cover to spend time in her orbit. He starts to fall for her complexity, not realizing she's the very target he's hunting. When he finds a photo of her with Philip from years ago, he begins to suspect that the rabbit hole is deeper than a simple identity fraud case. Now they want Elizabeth to break into a federal agency's secure server and retrieve a list codenamed "Frost Thread" a cache of blackmail material used by an old European intelligence cell. She realizes the list is tied to the same Protocol Red she stole before. The blackmailer has intimate knowledge of the operation in Prague, which means only one of three people could be behind this. She traces digital fingerprints back to Gilbert Lines. His work history doesn't hold up under scrutiny. When she finally confronts hi

The God of War has returned, only to find his daughter in distress, and his love, held captive. In his furious outburst, the world shakes, and big shots from every corner rush in, dropping to their knees and proclaiming, "We bow in respect before Your Young Majesty!"

Warnings: This book may contain some violence, explicit and matured content and BDSM! > They told her she was too innocent for desire. Now she's the star of every filthy fantasy. Steamy Diaries is a no-limits collection of raw, forbidden, and dangerously addictive erotic stories. From corrupt school officials to bossy billionaires, every chapter is a one-night stand you'll never forget. No rules. No regrets. Just pure, messy, explosive pleasure.

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Narrates the tale of a young orphan taken under the wings of an old witch who has convinced her that the throne belonged to her And she stops at nothing until her bloodthirsty desires are met

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Alex Edwards found himself faced with death after his car brake was tampered with by an unknown person but he managed to survive. His car collides with Hazel and Liam's car. Hazel lost her baby and her husband; she vowed to make Alex and his family members pay for what he did. But everything changed when she came into Alex's family. She found out a hidden secret that would save Alex. Alex, who couldn't walk, was faced with several difficulties; he was betrayed by the people he trusted. Hazel found some secrets that made her heart shattered, and she fell in love with the man who ruined her life. Who tampered with the brake? Will Hazel Mitchell succeed in her quest for revenge? How was Alex able to overcome his challenges even when he was in a wheelchair?

A slave clashes with a prince.... Will their love story be accepted or will it lead to death

Here are short Islamic poems meant to inspire people and connect them with Allah: Poem 1: On Allah's Power When the fire burns in the forest, its destruction brings forth new growth. When the rain falls from the heavens, its waters quench the dry ground. When the plants grow from the Earth, their fruits feed the hungry. Like the fire, Allah makes everything new. Like the rain, Allah restores the Earth. Like the plants, Allah provides rizq for His creation. Fire will blaze, and water will flow, and plants will grow, and in these things, you will witness Allah and his boundless generosity. Allah is all-bountiful and all-knowing and showers mercy on his believers.

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Looking out at the crystal clear turquoise sea, it’s amazing that such beauty can exist after all the clouds and storms that have been strewn over my life. The crystal clear blue skies with barely an artists touch of white clouds in the distance many miles away. The beautiful sea creatures clearly visible below the glasslike surface of the sea. The spotted eagle rays that glide over the surface then gracefully descend back to the other side as if there were no barrier in between. The smell of the salt air all around. And that beautiful sexy fisherman who looks over his shoulder at me from the back of the boat and gives me that sheepish smile even though we’ve been an item for so many years. But the storms that life took me through to get to here, how is it even possible to still see the beauty in life? How can it go from so beautiful, to so dark, and come out so beautiful again even with so many missing pieces… “Hold it!” …