Living Again: Never a Stepdad This Time

My closest friend achieved elite status in Clance society through a sinister luck-swapping system. To maintain her stolen influence, she must harvest the destiny of a designated "Child of Fortune" every five years. Now, her parasitic gaze has turned toward me. To survive, I must confront the system that threatens to strip away my very future in this modern fantasy LitRPG tale of survival and stolen destiny.

On the night of the Winter Solstice Banquet, a devastating betrayal shatters the pack's hierarchy. At exactly 10:08 PM, the sacred mate bond violently ruptures, leaving a sickening sensation of decay in its wake. As Lycan Decay rapidly infects both James and Tucker, the rejected Luna clutches her burning mark in agony. Pushing through the crowded great hall in her ceremonial cloak, she must face a crumbling reality where her bond is severed and her pack's future hangs in the balance.

At 10:47 PM, Kiara Wagner's life shatters in front of three hundred pack members. Her mate and Alpha, Lucas Foster, publicly rejects her, erasing three years of shared intimacy. As he speaks the devastating words, the mark on Kiara's neck burns with agonizing heat before turning to ice. Inside her mind, her wolf lets out one final, grief-stricken howl before going completely silent, leaving Kiara collapsed on the cold stone floor of the Silverfang Pack's great hall.

Luna Collins has always kept her medical struggles private, strictly forbidding her husband from accompanying her to the hospital. However, determined to surprise her on her birthday, he decides to pick her up from the clinic. Instead of finding a routine checkup, he walks in on a highly questionable, intimate encounter between Luna and her doctor. With her clothes disheveled and a bizarre physical examination underway, he is left questioning everything he knew about his wife's illness.

To maintain a fragile peace, the Royal Court mandates a mixed-blood heir to rule over humans, vampires, and wolves. After choosing Alpha Owen, the protagonist is murdered by him on the night she gives birth, a vengeful act for his sister Nora's accidental death. However, she miraculously wakes up on the day of her selection. Now, she must navigate the Covenant of Three Realms again, using her knowledge of Owen's hidden hatred to alter her fate and protect her future.

Veyra gave everything to build her husband's empire, enduring poverty while he secretly amassed a fortune. After discovering his betrayal—his mistress wearing her ring and his money funding luxury instead of her mother's treatment—she loses her baby, her mother, and her faith in love. Seeking escape, she spends one anonymous night with a mysterious, powerful man. That stranger is Dorian, a billionaire with secrets of his own, and soon revealed as her husband's older stepbrother. Now her regretful ex begs for reconciliation, but Dorian is determined to claim her. As Veyra plots to reclaim her stolen life, she must choose between a man consumed by remorse and one offering a new future.