Chapter: Conditions~Grayson As I stand around waiting for the spoiled brat to come out of the dressing room, my eyes roam about the store. I have just taken interest in a space sectioned off from the rest by a glass door, with several mannequins displaying clothes either made or lined with furs when a soft, silky voice comes from behind me. “Gray.”I’m startled at first before I turn to meet face-to-face with Renata. Her face is devoid of any makeup and expression as she stares at me. Even her lips which are usually shaded a wine red maintain their natural light pink colour. Born more out of habit than anything else, my eyes flit away from her face and trail down her body. She is dressed in an almost nonexistent strap of fabric that might as well be a gown. It comes as a surprise to me since she only ever steps out in moderate dresses and my eyes are still glued to her body when her voice sends them flying back to her face. “You didn’t come to meet me again.” The way her lips curve down in a frown g
Huling Na-update: 2024-03-29
Chapter: Ditched~GraysonI sit at reception of the grand hotel, idly thumbing through the pages of one of the guides lying around on the glass table. Two sets of curved leather cushions surround the one I'm currently seated on, giving me some sense of privacy. Maybe it's just me but the space feels less open—not like there are much people in the reception anyways. My feet tap away on black granite floor every once in a while but I stop the moment I become conscious of the action. I glance up every once in a while to see the red haired receptionist staring at me. She disappears behind the large screen of the expensive monitor in front of her whenever our eyes meet. It happens so often, it's almost become disturbing. When I'm done looking through the hotel guide and marvelling at the prizes of each room, I busy myself by looking around the reception area. Unlike most hotels I and Renata had been to in the past, this one has a gloomy feeling. Usually, the hotels she picked went all out with white an
Huling Na-update: 2023-11-12
Chapter: Compromise~Adeline“What did you just say?”Her voice is stern, her craved brow arched up as her cold stare remains fixed on me, challenging me to repeat myself—to defy her. I take in a deep breath. “I know you don’t understand me now and y-you think you’re doing this for my own good.” I pause, sucking in a lungful of air. “But I can’t just get married because you want me to. This is my life and you should at least let me make the decision myself. It’s not fair that you get to decide what I do with my own life without even letting me have a choice. You’re—”“Not another word from you, Adeline. You will do as I say.”She continues to sway towards the exit. “You’ve lived your life, let me live mine!”My voice halts her in her tracks and she swings around with so much force, I’m almost certain she should have fallen down. “What insolence is this? Since when did you become this disrespectful? You’re getting married and that’s final! As long as you stay under my roof, you have no other choice but
Huling Na-update: 2023-09-13
Chapter: Bride to be~AdelineMy grip on the dresser tightens as the unwanted tears continue to rain down my cheeks. I release my grip from it and swipe at the tears, willing them to stop. I manage to rid my face of all traces of it for the moment but the hollow in my chest remains. I try to steady my breathing as I stare at my reflection. I can barely recognise the image of the girl staring back at me in the mirror. Her face is swollen from crying for so long, her eyes coated a bright red. Strands of her dark hair stick to her face, her green eyes lacking the glow it usually has. I look away once tears begin to cloud my vision again. I can confidently say I look like a zombie and for the first time, it doesn’t bother me. I sigh, trudging across the room before plopping down on my queen sized bed. I try to distract myself by going through the magazine I had been reading earlier but nothing seems to be working. My mind constantly goes back to the fact that I’m supposed to get married to a total strange
Huling Na-update: 2023-09-08
Chapter: Contract proposal~GraysonMy heart stops the moment I hear the lawyer's words. It takes a while for me to work through the meaning, even longer for me to digest it. I stare at the girl who seems just as shocked as I am. Her mouth hangs open and she doesn't even bother to close it, her face looking even more drained of color—not that it had any to begin with. I finally get a good view of her face, her green eyes sparkling under the chandelier lights. For a moment, it seems like they aren't really sparkling just because of the lights. They're shinny one minute and the next, they're cloudy? She shakes her head, blinking a bit too much as her fingers curl into fists. Her lips tremble and I can't ignore how her body seems to be shaking too. She pulls her gaze away from the lawyer and anchors it on the ground for a second before they move up, landing straight on my face.Our eyes meet, the intensity of her gaze making me shudder a bit. I look away, trying hard to ignore her glazed eyes. This should be t
Huling Na-update: 2023-09-08
Chapter: Billionaire overnight~GraysonThe first thing I register on waking up are hushed voices around me. I open my eyes slowly, aware of the pain in the side of my head. At first my vision is a blurry mess of figures hovering above me. It becomes clearer with each second until I'm able to make out the faces of Simon and Philip both staring at me. "He's awake," Philip announces, moving away from me. Simon continues staring at me long after that, till the point that I'm spooked. He looks away from me and addresses someone I can't see because of the inclination of my head. "You didn't have to hit him so hard," he says. I try to raise my head, ignoring the pain threatening to tear down my sanity. "He didn't have to hit him at all," Collin Rodriguez says, throwing his son, Clade, a glare. I spare Clade a glance to see a metal rod stained with red lying at his foot. "That's enough!" The female officer says and soon she blocks my view. "Handcuff him," she tells one of the male officers with her and he obliges.
Huling Na-update: 2023-07-03
THE WIFE HE PUSHED AWAY BUT WANTS BACK NOW
Whenever Ariana heard people describe the first time with someone you love, they described it as something beautiful, intimate, memorable, and not something she had to find out about with other people on a large TV screen. They also never told her that it would be broadcast by the very same person she loved.
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Ariana once believed Salvatore Rossi was her happily ever after until she woke up two days after their wedding with no memory, bruises she couldn’t explain, and a husband who looked at her like a stranger. The truth, when it finally came, came as a public humiliation: her own husband drugged her, slept with her, recorded it and played it for everyone to see.
It became clear that he didn’t want her when he brought another woman into the picture. So she ran. She rebuilt. She became a world renowned doctor and raised a son Salvatore never knew existed.
Twelve years later, he’s back, asking the woman he wronged to save the one person dearest to him: his dying mother. He barely recognizes her now. She’s cold, brilliant, alluring and unmoved by his name or his fortune.
But proximity is dangerous. Old wounds reopen. The desire neither of them buried deeply enough claws its way back to the surface. And as the truth behind who really destroyed their marriage finally comes to light, Ariana has to decide whether revenge tastes sweeter than the love she swore she’d never feel again.
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Chapter: Nine~Ariana “Wonderful,” Salvatore said, walking into the room. “You wanted me to leave but you don’t mind being comforted by my best friend. Since you guys were okay with snuggling in a hospital room, God knows what you would have done if it were somewhere else. Seems like faithfulness was the one thing you just couldn’t inherit from your father.” I snorted, ignoring the pain that rose in my chest as I did so. “Rich coming from someone who couldn’t stop flaunting his mistress in public. Isn’t that against the rules, Salvatore? The least you can do is respect your wife in public.” He clenched his jaw. “But what if the said wife doesn’t deserve the respect.” I sighed, placing my ventilator mask back on when I realized I was running out of breath. “This is exactly why I asked you to leave earlier. It’s hopeless talking to you.” “You’re calling me hopeless?” I didn’t respond. I closed my eyes and started counting in my head as I waited for him to leave. I heard his footsteps but
Huling Na-update: 2026-07-31
Chapter: Eight~Ariana "Hey," Milo said, walking towards my bed. In his right hand was a bouquet of flowers. He dropped it on the bedside cabinet and settled on the chair next to my bed. "I remembered you loved delphiniums, and I just happened to be near a florist shop when I heard what happened, so I grabbed a bunch." His nice gesture gave me the confidence I needed to ask him what I wanted to. I sat up, wincing a bit, before pulling off my ventilator mask. "What are you doin—" "I need your help," I said, cutting him off. "Okay. But can you please put on your mask. You're literally gasping for breath." I nodded and placed the mask back on my face. Once it was securely placed, I started talking. "I want to leave this place." Milo's brows furrowed as he stared at me. "I understand but you haven't fully recovered." I shook my head vigorously. "Not just this hospital. I want to leave Salvatore and this life behind. I'm tired." He blinked, opened his mouth to speak and closed it
Huling Na-update: 2026-07-30
Chapter: Seven~ArianaMy mouth felt like sandpaper. I battled against the weight of my eyelids, failing terribly to keep them apart. The pain in my chest increased with each breath I took and I could feel my strength diminishing with each attempt. Different objects appeared and disappeared out of my sight. Voices drifted in and out of my ears. Everything was a cacophony that further disoriented me.After sometime, I realized I was being wheeled on a bed to somewhere. I didn’t know why and I couldn’t understand how I even got there to begin with. I tried to scream but I couldn’t even move my body. Then, one distinct scene came into my vision.It was Sal hugging a blonde woman. And the next thing, they started kissing. After witnessing the scene, I didn’t try to fight the heaviness anymore and I just let my eyelids shut out the sight. ****I did not know how long I had been asleep but even when I woke up, I felt like I hadn’t been asleep for a long time. The pain all over my body was unbearable.
Huling Na-update: 2026-07-25
Chapter: Six~SalvatoreI hesitated for a moment. “But Ariana?”My question caused my mum’s frown to deepen. “You’ll see your love very soon. Let’s sort this out first.”Her emphasis on ‘my love’ rubbed me off the wrong way but I let it slide. I followed her to her car and she insisted on waiting for her driver even though I keep telling her I was very capable of driving.After waiting for another ten minutes, I let out a heavy sigh. “Mum, can you please get in the car so I can take us to the hospital. We’ve already wasted enough time waiting for your driver to show up.”Even though we had two drivers for each person in the house and they all lived with us, you could never find a single fucking driver when you actually needed one.“Relax. He’ll be here in a minute.”I resisted the urge to glare at her. “You said this ten minutes ago.” Usually she would have been the one complaining and probably have the driver fired once he eventually arrived but she was suspiciously calm now.“That’s what he tol
Huling Na-update: 2026-07-13
Chapter: Five~SalvatoreI felt a sudden pain in my chest even though it was Ariana the bullet hit. I had been so caught up in the chaos, I didn’t realize I hadn’t pulled her under the table with me. Her eyes dropped to the bullet wound in her chest before they drifted shut and she dropped to the floor beside me. Tears blurred my vision and before I knew it, I was beside her screaming her name. In the process, I got hit by a bullet on my left arm. My brain didn’t register the pain and I immediately pulled out my gun to put an end to the idiot that shot her. But my men were finally handling it and they had managed to gun down all the attackers. I don’t know where they were earlier when Ariana was getting shot but if anything happened to her, they all would be dead too. I carried her in my arms and rushed straight for my car. I ignored everyone that tried to talk to me on my way out. I made sure she was securely strapped into the back seat before I took the steering wheel and started driving. I
Huling Na-update: 2026-06-18
Chapter: FourI followed behind him, hoping to calm him down before the whole thing escalated. “Salvatore!” he called the moment he got to where Sal was seated with that blonde woman leaning against him. “Father?” Sal responded, sitting up in his chair. “What is the meaning of this nonsense?” Carlo shifted his glare between Sal and the blonde.His glare caused the blonde to shrivel away from Sal. “Father, I—”“I don’t want to hear it. Get this woman out of here and I only want you to be seen with your wife for the rest of this event.” “I can’t . . .” Sal started speaking but his father walked away, signaling an end to their conversation. I stood awkwardly by the side, aware of Sal’s glare on me. “I’ll leave,” the blonde said, causing Sal to break his glare. He turned to her, his eyes softening significantly as he stared at her. “No, you’re not going anywhere.”“But your dad—”“I said you’re not going and that’s final.”She nodded and he smiled at her. He fucking smiled at her. The dull ache
Huling Na-update: 2026-06-18
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