A professional challenge promotes the meeting of two young adults. Different worlds... She is a world-renowned ballet soloist and he is a recognized football player who likes to live life to the second. Their worlds are totally different as are their views on how to live life. Will their differences allow them to stay together or will it be a learning experience? "You were right in what you\'ve been saying. Our worlds are opposites. This relationship is doomed. The best thing is to end it before it causes more pain" my words come out with the certainty that I\'m doing the right thing. But why does it hurt so much? I gain the courage to look at Lara\'s face. Shock is what I see but another emotion starts to emerge... I can\'t decipher if sadness and disappointment or anger. Her lips tremble slightly and her eyes begin to fill with tears that won\'t fall. My anguish grows with every second of silence. I feel my stomach tightening and all I can think about is how I can\'t let it show. My hand lands on the chair next to me, my fist tightens, it\'s my way of not showing what I truly feel. "I don\'t understand..." her barely audible voice finally breaks through the silence. I look into her eyes and see the first tear flow... I fight the urge to hug her and end all the pain but i can\'t, as much as I want to. Finally my words left my mouth "i can\'t fool you or fool myself, give you certainties when I don\'t have them. You prefer calm, I prefer agitation. You crave peace, I like parties and going out. Our careers can take us to different continents... I don\'t want the weight of a relationship in my decisions", it\'s not in mine, it\'s in yours but I can\'t tell you that. "Oh right!" she answers me " The relationship between two people must be managed by their careers. Oh and wanting a future, a life next to the one we love? Oh right!!! In your view that doesn\'t exist. Do you know why? Because you don\'t love me! For real! This is your way of telling me that you want to have the freedom to attend those parties full of women and be without restrictions or feelings of guilt! You said you loved me and I believed it!" Lara\'s words come out like spears. Every letter, every syllable and word sinks me deeper into my agony. I want to scream that I love her and that yes, I would give up all this just for one more opportunity. But I can\'t... I try to hold on tight to the thought that this is right to do. "Love is more than all that. I can\'t blame you, I was the naive one!" she continues, "after all, I was just like all the others you had! All this must have been a fun game! Kyle you are just a kid who doesn\'t know what he wants and hurts anyone who passes by" her anger is immense, before I can say anything else she takes her bag, i can see her back leaving and after a few seconds I hear the door slamming.The sound of the door released my emotions. Tears I didn\'t even know I had start to flow. A few minutes later I start laughing uncontrollably. This is funny, my life is a joke. I have everything I can want, money, houses, cars, women fall at my feet... I have everything and I have nothing in reality. I don\'t have a family, I don\'t have the love of my life, Lara. And all this to protect her and so that she can go on with her life, the life she\'s always dreamed of.

Raquel é uma jovem inteligente bonita e tinha uma vida perfeita. Em cinco meses a perfeição que julgava ser a sua vida tornou-se num verdadeiro pesadelo. O amor da sua vida, aquele que julgava ser para sempre, traiu-a, sofreu um aborto e teve de mudar de país. Quando regressa á sua cidade natal, Raquel decide retomar a sua vida. Envolve-se numa noite de prazer com um jovem médico de futuro promissor. O romance de uma noite passa a uma relação estável. E Raquel pela primeira vez, em dois anos, sente que começa a ser finalmente feliz. Mas nem todas as histórias têm logo um final feliz e a de Raquel também não seria diferente. O passado de Raquel bate-lhe á porta e descobre que afinal as verdades que destruíram a sua vida dois anos antes, não eram como pensava. Parte da sua vida foi-lhe retirada por uma rede e trama de mentiras, desentendimentos. O seu futuro começa a ser ameaçado por uma sequência de eventos. Raquel passa de uma mulher destroçada para uma determinada e é com essa motivação que tenta descobrir quem ameaçou a vida de Marco e quem destruiu a sua relação com Tomás. Quanto mais se aproxima das respostas mais o seu coração fica dividido entre o seu passado e o seu presente. Quem vai escolher? Aquele que foi o seu porto seguro ou aquele que a ensinou a tornar-se mais forte? Este é um romance cheio de intrigas, de dor, mas também de muitos momentos de intenso prazer e amor.

The Great Wizard is coming. He wants to take the Werewolf Kingdom from me and murder my mate, Queen Kayla, the last of her royal bloodline. If he kills her he will have all the power he needs to control the supernatural world. I have only one choice to save her. Our friend and the high witch will swap her body and wolf spirit with another she-wolf. But there are howls of fighting already at the door. There isn't time to fully finish the spell. The fate of the supernatural world is now in the hands of two women, who must untangle the mystery of their switched wolves and fallen kingdom fulfilling the Five Pure Blood Prophecy. --------- Excerpt: King Leon POV I recognize your need to protect me. I appreciate your parents and you, I really do, but I can't forgive my mate because we were supposed to be a team! Our oaths were of eternal love, and love is not this," she screams angrily at me. "Oh yes, love is this. It's wanting to protect someone more than yourself. It's wanting the world to be a favorable place for you to be happy. It's wanting you at every moment, giving you my heart to do with as you please. If I spared you the agony, it was because I thought I had everything under control. After all, I wanted you to be happy. I endured all the agony alone, even when I needed a shoulder to cry on, to spare you!"; She looks at me and rolls her eyes as if she doesn't believe what I told her and that hurts more than her words. I gave myself to her; I am hers, and she does not believe in me. I guess I'm atoning for all my sins. Kayla protests once more. "Love is knowing how to trust, share, and want to face all challenges together." Love is loving others more than yourself; to rather lose your life than see her lose hers without having had the opportunity to enjoy life, to be a mother, and to live!" I yell. She doesn't get it, she doesn't get it, and it's destroying me on the inside. The powerful, unbeatable Alpha now resembles a puppy pleading for his love to be returned and for her forgiveness. This time, I'm going to let her choose what she wants, even if it means losing myself in the process. "You don't understand... or you don't want to understand. You are everything to me, today, now, and forever. I´ll leave." I turned my back and began to leave the room when I hear her voice once again. "Oh, and now you're running away from trouble again!" Her accusation causes me to lose control of my emotions, and tears flow. I pause for a few seconds, without turning myself", I'm not walking away from problems. I'm facing them and their consequences." "Yes, you are. You are fleeing. Turn around and face me!" Her commanding voice is incredible even without Thea. I had no choice but to wipe my tears away and turn around, staring into those eyes. "I, Kayla Hayda MacCarthy,...; My strength is gone as she begins. I knelt in front of Kayla because I couldn't take the pain any longer, my hands on the floor, head down, avoiding the strength of her gauze. More tears fell, and one of them fell into my hand. Rejection. I'm going to be rejected. Kayla responds with a sly smile, "And who said I was going to reject him?" My body reacts immediately to her words. Is she punishing me by making me believe she will reject me? Even if I wanted, I couldn´t because Thea is not with me!!!" She tells us. I have hope as I look at her and wait for her decision. "I, Kayla Hayda MacCarthy, entered into our relationship promising you life by my side, and I vowed to meet every challenge, and this is just another one. Your challenge will be to learn to trust me, to let me be a part of you in every way, and mine will be to show you that I am worthy of that trust, that I am not fragile", she says, her emotions raging. Her voice is shaky, and a tear streams down her beautiful face. "Love is everything you told me, but it's also everything I told you, although what I did say is something we can work on, build on, and make stronger over time", her words made my heart sing with joy. "I saw your world crumble when you lost your family, but you were able to look at me without blaming me. That is love." Her teary eyes are looking at me with such deep emotions that my body shakes in recognition. "To love is to be able to show your emotions in a room full of people, swallowing the excessive pride of Alpha. And you did that today. You forgot your pride and your instincts, and you shared your feelings without fear. That is love"; She claims this without avoiding my gaze. "Love is the ability to ask for forgiveness and the desire to improve. And do you have that determination, Leon?" she asks, holding out her delicate hand to help me up. "I murmured because I can't speak any louder right now. I move closer to her and try to pull her in for a hug, but she pushes me."