Diesel has been in the military since he was 18 and so ready to be out and start his life. He wants to find someone and fall in love maybe even have a family. He wants all of that with Aria but she feels moving on would betray her deceased husband. Can these two get past their heartbreaks and find love again in each other....
Prologue
Aria's pov
Watching the planes crash into the towers changed me forever. Knowing instantly my husband was gone forever broke something inside of me. I didn't need the officers to come to my door and tell me what I already know.
I didn't shed a tear that day. I just got angry. After my husband was buried, I went down to the recruiter's office and signed up. I had so many plans, but they died right along with my husband. I had to do this. I needed to feel like I was doing something.
I didn't know if they would take me because I wasn't in shape. I have always been a curvy girl. People always called me fat. When I got to boot camp a few of the guys laughed at me. They said someone lazy like me would never make it. I would show them.
I would prove I can do this. See I wanted revenge on the monsters that took my husband away from me. I had to do this. I needed this, or else I would fall apart. It seems like no one believed in me. That only pushed me to do better.
I was tired of being the victim. I had one person here that I would call a friend. He has been in since he was 18 so he has helped me out here a lot. We shouldn't be friends since he's my commanding officer, but he's nice to be around.
His girlfriend left him for someone else. I told him about my husband, and we bonded over being broken hearted. It was nice to have someone to talk too here. I didn't feel so alone anymore.
Everyone accuses us of being more than friends but were not. My heart is shattered. I could never love anyone again. I was better off being alone. one could ever take the place of my husband.
Diesel's pov
I look around at all the new recruits thinking I was once like them. Now I have seen too much and done too much. I'm feeling old and worn down, and I'm only 32. I put in my paperwork, and soon I will be retired from all of this.
I wanted to have a life outside of war. I have been in since the day I turned 18
Now I was ready to meet someone, and possibly get married one day. I know who I have my eye on, but it will never happen. She hasn't been the same since she lost her husband a few years back.
We met when she came here for boot camp. Everyone said she wouldn't make it, but she did. We have become inseparable. Yet we are just friends. She feels that moving on would be betraying her husband.
I wish more than anything that Aria would love me the way I love her. Maybe that's another reason I am leaving. I need to put some distance between us. I need to get over her. Hell, I haven't dated since my girl left me when I was shipped over to Iraq. She sent me the famous "Dear John" letter.
I couldn't really blame her for not sticking around. At the time we were both young, and we never promised each other a future. At the time I was broken up over it, but now I am over it.
I just want to find a nice woman and settle down. I want to have a family. That's the one thing I have always wanted. Honestly, I want that with Aria, but I know it will never happen. I need to get that fool thinking out of my head.
She has told me time and time again the only man for her was her husband. I mean we have held hands a few times, and she did kiss me once. But she regretted it right after. She broke my heart when she said it was a mistake that will never happen again. No, the best thing for me is to leave this place and forget all about her.
Brailey has always been what some would call an empath or a little bit psychic it runs in her family, but it isn't something she likes to share, and she never really had issues with it until him. Now she sees every little move he makes as if they were one. This must mean something right?
Nakia was the kind of woman other women thrived to become. She had a successful career and a beautiful home that she bought, and she was always on point. At thirty years old, she thought she had it all figured out, but boy was she wrong. Her mama always taught her that you need to be the woman a man wants and not the woman you want to be. Every day Nakia lives to prove that theory wrong. Through her so-called weakness, she has found a strength she never knew existed. Don't ever let someone's negative opinion of you become your reality.
Aiden was good and safe. Everything Josie should want, and everyone thought she needed. Yet he was not the one she craved. She was tired of always playing it safe. So, when she met Bryce, he set her world on fire. He was bad with a capital B. Everything she was missing in her life. The only problem was that Bryce would only end up breaking her heart. He was the love-on-them and leave-them type always looking for the next best thing. She knew that Aiden could give her the type of future she would need but was that even enough?
What would you do if your father hated you so much that he sold you off to a group of alpha werewolves? That's the very thing that happened to poor little human Fiona. Now she is forced to live with six sexy shifters and sleep with the four remaining single brothers and whoever gets her pregnant first not only gets land, but they will also become her mate. Who even does that? There was no way she wanted to be a part of any of this...
Willow lost her mother before she could even remember her or get to know her. It was just her dad and her brothers along with her. She started to see a lady riding a horse down by the lake but no one else but her ex Ethan could see the woman so everyone called her crazy. Is she really going crazy or was it someone trying to warn her of incoming danger?
Niko has always strived to be nothing like his Mafia crime boss father even leaving and falling love with a woman and having a son he named Noah. His father hated that so much that he had the girl killed and kidnapped Noah all to bring Niko back to him. All Niko wants to do is get his son Noah and little brother Nikolas away from his father but he knows the only way to do that is a fight to the death....
Kallie, a mute who had been ignored by her husband for five years since their wedding, also suffered the loss of her pregnancy due to her cruel mother-in-law. After the divorce, she learned that her ex-husband had quickly gotten engaged to the woman he truly loved. Holding her slightly rounded belly, she realized that he had never really cared for her. Determined, she left him behind, treating him as a stranger. Yet, after she left, he scoured the globe in search of her. When their paths crossed once more, Kallie had already found new happiness. For the first time, he pleaded humbly, "Please don't leave me..." But Kallie's response was firm and dismissive, cutting through any lingering ties. "Get lost!"
"There will be no falling in love, we will only act as a loving couple when we are in public, we will share a room to make it believable, but no intimacy, touching is off-limits. We'll only have sex once a month, and that's solely to produce an heir. You won't interfere in my business, and I won't interfere in yours. You will be my wife in every sense and you will not be involved with any other man," he said, arrogance seeping from every word. I watch his mouth move, I'm not ready to fall in love with any man, especially not one as arrogant and egoistic as him. I can handle acting as a loving couple, and as for intimacy once a month. I can agree to that just to satisfy my sexual cravings with no strings attached. "Where can I sign?" I asked since I had nothing to lose. *** Nadine's wedding dreams turned to nightmares when she caught her sister and fiancé cheating! With a secret recording, she's ready for revenge. But then mysterious billionaire Logan West offers a deal: A Contract Marriage to take down her ex's empire. But what Nadine doesn't know is her life is getting complicated as she takes her chance to get revenge or risks everything for a chance at love?"
Rosalynn's marriage to Brian wasn't what she envisioned it to be. Her husband, Brian, barely came home. He avoided her like a plague. Worse still, he was always in the news for dating numerous celebrities. Rosalynn persevered until she couldn't take it anymore. She upped and left after filing for a divorce. Everything changed days later. Brian took interest in a designer that worked for his company anonymously. From her profile, he could tell that she was brilliant and dazzling. He pulled the stops to find out her true identity. Little did he know that he was going to receive the greatest shocker of his life. Brian bit his finger with regret when he recalled his past actions and the woman he foolishly let go.
Rachel used to think that her devotion would win Brian over one day, but she was proven wrong when his true love returned. Rachel had endured it all—from standing alone at the altar to dragging herself to the hospital for an emergency treatment. Everyone thought she was crazy to give up so much of herself for someone who didn’t return her feelings. But when Brian received news of Rachel’s terminal illness and realized she didn’t have long to live, he completely broke down. "I forbid you to die!" Rachel just smiled. She no longer needed him. "I will finally be free."
To the public, she was the CEO's executive secretary. Behind closed doors, she was the wife he never officially acknowledged. Jenessa was elated when she learned that she was pregnant. But that joy was replaced with dread as her husband, Ryan, showered his affections on his first love. With a heavy heart, she chose to set him free and leave. When they met again, Ryan's attention was caught by Jenessa's protruding belly. "Whose child are you carrying?!" he demanded. But she only scoffed. "It's none of your business, my dear ex-husband!"
She thought he was the villain. He was only trying to save his soul. Rena lives in a world of sunshine, sweets, and simple dreams. Until one reckless decision drops her into a dark realm of secrets, curses and werewolves. Kidnapped, heartbroken. She doesn't know who to trust anymore especially not Logan, the arrogant, cruel Alpha who's keeping her as a hostage. Until she discovers his dark secret. He's been hearing her thoughts all along. Now the walls between them are crumbling. And when feelings grow where hatred once lived, a curse demands that blood becomes a love that demands sacrifice. But how can she give her heart to the one who might need it to die?