delyonworld

"I can't be pregnant for my uncle!" I muttered under my breath, staring at the results in a state of incredulity. 

Skylar has life's struggles all put into one burden on her young shoulders: the fight to balance school and work, to help with her mom under her uncle's hard rule. Life spirals right at the turn of one weird incident that humiliates her, costs her her job when it is discovered she is pregnant.

Then, when it feels like Skylar's world is falling apart, her mother remarries a very wealthy man whose twin sons immediately complicate her life. One has quietly watched her every move, while the other suddenly comes to her rescue, finding her torn between gratitude and suspicion.

As secrets unravel and hidden agendas finally surface, Skylar must manage a world of deceit, temptation, and betrayal. Can she find the way to retrieve her life, or is the danger too much to bear in this new family?

Lurk Color

<p>I noway imagined I'd be contending against time on a night like this. It all started when I got that frantic call from Donnie — my handler, my lifeline in a world that sounded determined to crush me under its weight. " Liam, hear up, " he barked over the line, his voice edged with urgency, " there's a retired bomb in the heart of the megacity. We've got less than two hours before it goes off. " I felt my stomach drop like a gravestone. A bomb? In a major megacity? And then I was, caught between two insolvable choices save thousands of innocent lives or secure the vital intelligence that could bring down the whole felonious network behind it.</p>

<p>I climbed to my bases in the confined safe house, heart pounding like a barrel. The timepiece on the wall glowed red — 1115 PM. I had slightly time to suppose. My mind contended through all the plans we'd made, every parlous step I'd taken to insinuate the syndicate. But nothing prepared me for this moment.</p>

CHAPTER 82