Mr. CEO, love is not an option
Unique_Ideas
Amelia's leg tapped against the table as she asked, "What are your thoughts on love?"
Her hands were clasped together on her lap, but her eyes sparkled with curiosity. Lucas met her gaze, a smirk playing on his lips.
"Love is a waste of time," he replied. "It's a tool designed to weigh people down. Without it, we could achieve so much more."
Amelia's eyes lit up with interest; he had just ticked almost all her boxes green.
"I agree," she said, her smirk matching his. "Love is nothing but bullshit. We could save a lot of time by keeping our relationship minimal."
With a proactive glint in her eye, she added, "What do you say? We should get married to fulfill our filial duties."
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Their marriage was a facade, a contract between two individuals who didn't believe in love but were forced to get married to fulfill their obligations.
Everything was going as planned, until suddenly... "Have you eaten, dear?" "How is my baby?" "Is he doing well?"
Lucas's words, once empty and mechanical, now held a tender tone. Amelia found him falling for her, and she seemed to be falling too.
Why were they succumbing to the very thing they once scorned? Love, once a distant possibility, was now becoming an option. But would they choose it?
FATAL OPTION
Sekali seseorang menginjakkan kaki di dunia gelap intelijen, ia tak akan bisa keluar dari dunia itu, kecuali tak bernyawa.
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Kenneth Henry dan Nicky Henry adalah pasangan kakak-beradik non biologis yang tumbuh tanpa sosok kedua orang tua.
Kenneth adalah seorang anti sosial, anggota intelijen yang tergabung dalam sebuah tim yang ditugaskan untuk memburu sebuah organisasi kartel narkoba, penyelundupan senjata, dan human trafficking. Tak ada yang tahu identitas Kenneth kecuali rekan-rekan setimnya.
Sedangkan Nicky adalah gadis remaja tomboi yang memiliki amnesia, serta gangguan psikis berupa PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) dan claustrophobia.
Suatu ketika dalam kehidupan mereka, hadir sosok Shoujin Ueda, seorang pemuda anti sosial putra ekspatriat yang bekerja sebagai polisi.
Baik Kenneth, Nicky, maupun Shoujin, mereka terikat pada satu tragedi di masa lalu yang merenggut nyawa keluarga mereka dan hanya menyisakan mereka satu-satunya. Dan kini takdir mempertemukan mereka dalam pertaruhan antara ego dan misi, serta hidup atau mati.
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The Assassin's Failure
She is a high-level assassin of the Black Eagle Organization, with her unrivaled beauty and aptitudes, everyone admired her but she doesn’t give a damn about it. All she craves is revenge and justice for her mother’s death, the only goal of Gracious Grace Moncatar.
The leader of the Black Eagle Organization gave a special mission by group, and that special mission is to assassinate Don Victorino Tinsmith Sabio. Even if it’s a group; she grabbed the opportunity to work alone for her interest because she already knows that the Sabio Family is the primary suspect in her mother’s death eight years ago. However, his father–the leader of B.E.O won’t allow her to work alone but what do you expect from a stubborn lady? Because of her disobedience, the leader leaves no choice but to use the organization as a bet of the mission, if she failed to assassinate Don Victorino, the organization will be fallen forever.
One night, she planned to seduce the man before assassinating him, but she fell into her pitfall. She never thought that the man was saucy like Adan and handsome like an actor because Don Victorino is old in the photo she saw. How come he became young?
In just one night, one big failure was made.
In just one mission, her goals became chaos.
How can she escape her pitfall? How can she manage to correct her failure? Will she continue pursuing her only goal or leave the organization she loved wrecked by the leader?
What will she choose?
Choose Her, Choose Failure
Menthol
My husband, Samuel Crawford, made an excuse about attending a company business meeting and refused to participate in our daughter's school activity. He also suggested that we should not participate either.
Seeing my daughter's disappointment, I decided to take her myself.
As soon as we entered the school, I spotted Samuel sitting on the stage with his ex-girlfriend, Monica Sterling, and her son. They looked intimate, appearing every bit like a perfect family of three.
Samuel spoke confidently into the microphone about achieving family harmony and career success. Throughout his speech, he occasionally exchanged glances and smiles with Monica.
The audience applauded enthusiastically. Samuel's expression grew increasingly smug, and even the little boy beside him wore an arrogant look.
Soon the Q&A session came. I then grabbed the microphone and asked, "Mr. Crawford, when did you have a son? Does your wife know about this?"
The Billionaire's Second Option
Mercyogochi
If jinx was a person,it would be me.
After losing my parents in a fatal accident, I was left to cater for my disabled younger brother—the only survivor of the accident.
As if struggling to make ends meet wasn't enough, I lost the man I was deeply in love with to another woman.
With a broken heart, I tried to move on from him and I picked up my financial responsibilities from where he left off as a bartender.
However, my fate took a wild turn when Liam, my brother needed a huge amount of money for his surgery. Desperate to save Liam's life, I accepted a contract marriage from a stranger–a stranger who happened to have a one night stand with me by mistake.
What stemmed from clauses and paperwork soon blossomed into love—except I was the only one falling in love.
Raphael never loved me but giving up wasn't an option, I was willing to wait for him. But my hope of winning Raphael's heart died when I found out I was just the other woman in his life
Always is not Forever
For Alina, the worse has already happened and no longer she closed herself in the chains of the past. She got everything a girl could ask for. A boy who loved her, parents back to normal and the new start.
For Kabir, the worse he could see had happened, the love he desired was back to him and at last, he moved on from the haunted past and failure. He got everything a boy could ask for. A girl who loved him and the new start with her.
But they forgot new starts are not easy when your past is still there, haunting and crushing you.
Maybe this new start wasn't a lovely one but the one to push them back to the start.
Maybe they would learn love is not forever.
Second part of published book 'Breaking Myself'
Love Is An Experiment
"Sign it." He said, stretching out the file.
"I'm not going to sign that paper, Carlton." I felt vulnerable and scared. I turned to Carlton, and his eyes just cut right through me. Instantly, a huge lump formed in my throat.
"I... I... don't..." Carlton's expression suddenly softened. He sat next to me and reached out to cup my chin gently. I felt a shiver run down my spine as his hand brushed against my skin.
"I'm not going to hurt you or anything, I just need this. I won't use it against you." He said gently.
I hesitated for a moment, staring into his eyes before I took the pen and file from him with trembling fingers. I signed where necessary and gave it back to him.
He stood, kissed the top of my head, and head for the door, but stopped in front of my wardrobe, where the lingerie he had ordered to be brought to my room was. His eyes fell back on me, his lips thinning into a line.
"That's the only relationship we have now, Good night, Samantha." He said and closed the door.
What?
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When tragedy strikes, Samantha Jones's life is turned upside down. Forced to drop out of high school and take on a secret life as a stripper, she's desperate for a way out. Her desperate life takes a drastic turn when she's propositioned by billionaire Carlton Williams - MARRY ME, AND I'LL GIVE YOU THE WORLD. But there's a catch: he's only using her to secure his inheritance Samantha's willing to do whatever it takes to provide for her sister, even if it means being a pawn in Carlton's game. Will their arrangement ignite into something more, or will the secrets and lies tear them apart?
Find out.
Not Just An Escape
Karena ingin keluar dari permintaan kolot orang tua masing-masing, sepasang sahabat melakukan tindakan yang dianggapnya terbaik dan sama-sama menguntungkan. Tindakan tersebut akan mengikat mereka seumur hidup, meski keduanya belum mempunyai cinta–layaknya sepasang kekasih.
Seiring kebersamaannya, benih-benih cinta di antara Andri dan Zelda pun tercipta, sehingga membuat keduanya sulit terpisahkan. Apalagi dengan adanya kehadiran buah atas tindakan yang mereka ambil.
Cinta itu milik semua orang, termasuk sepasang sahabat seperti kita–Zelda Kinarya Pagory.
Meski awalnya kita sepakat bahwa tindakan ini hanya sebagai pelarian, tetapi kenyataan berkata lain. Lambat laun aku memiliki rasa berbeda kepadamu. Bukan rasa sekadar seorang sahabat, tetapi lebih dari itu. Rasa yang membuatku enggan berpaling darimu, melainkan keinginanku untuk selalu bisa menjadi pelindungmu–Andri Saputra Himawan.
Submission is Not My Style
Kali was never meant to bow. Branded an outsider and raised to obey, she’s spent her life defying the pack that expected her submission. When she rejects her first-chance mate, the future Alpha, she’s banished—expected to crawl back. But she unintentionally runs straight into the territory of Alpha Jack: ruthless, dominant, and her second-chance mate.
He wants obedience. She gives him war.
But when his touch unlocks memories of a forgotten past—and the truth of who she really is—Kali must choose: surrender to the bond and reclaim her power, or walk away forever.
Jack may believe he can tame her.
But he has no idea that the woman he seeks to break is the one he was always meant to kneel before.
Old Love is not Over
Dewi Revia Ananta. Required to return to the head office after previously becoming the head of a subsidiary outside Java.
This is because of the special task of the central leadership to accompany the new leadership, after the transfer of power in the company.
Ironically, it turns out that the new head of the company, a handsome, singular and humble man, is a man that Revia really doesn't want to see again, and even hates him very much. Yunan Ardian Dewangga.
Even though they had attended the same high school. However, there was an unfinished story between the two of them.
In order to avoid Yunan, Revia tries to change herself into someone who is far from her true personality. Until they create friction when they meet.
My Boyfriend is an Alien
Ana is a 20 year old college student. Her only comfort from the monotonous life is books. Her mundane life dramatically changes when she meets Ethan, who is from a very different world from hers and has come to earth in search of a mate. Despite Ana’s indifference towards him, he saves her from several tribulations and inevitably falls for her peculiar persona. Only after she confesses her love for him and accepts to be one of them, does she know who she really is. As the truth is unveiled, will she forgive the great injustice done to her? Will the revelations drive her to turn her back on her true love? Will she embrace her true identity and protect others from ending up a victim for the same fate as hers?
Not an Ordinary Shoe Sole Maker
Charlotte Lewis refuses when she is forced by her parents to marry a rich widower with two children from her neighboring village. But, apparently her parents didn't just give up. She was forced to marry other man. However, this time it was not with a widower, but with a young man who was still single. Unfortunately, the man's profession is "Shoe Sole Maker". So, what will happen after Charlotte accepts the match?
My CEO is an Alpha
She falls in love with her dangerous CEO, who everyone has thought would fire her. She misinterprets his kindness to her as love whereas, he only wants her body.
To satisfy his lust, he sleeps with her. However, she gets blinded by love and a painful feeling of a past life with him.
After sleeping with her, he changes into what everyone believes is his true self.
He makes work unbearable for her. She almost quit until the CEO's cousin comes into the picture and becomes obsessed with her.
The CEO falls head over heels with her and becomes hers. She finds out her CEO is an Alpha werewolf which gives a clue to her painful feelings. Evil rises against their union but their undying love would stand the test of time.
Love Is but an Illusion
Celebrant
I once thought that my and Sebastian Ford's love would last a lifetime.
Yet, the man who claims to love me does everything possible to hurt me. He takes wedding photos with another woman and goes on vacation with her. They even sleep in the same room.
When making love to me, he speaks to a friend in a foreign language. He tells the friend he will marry another woman but keep me bound to him with a fake marriage certificate.
MY LOVE IS NOT BLIND
aisakura_chan
Gia is forced to accept a caring for Raven, who has become blind and paralyzed due to a severe accident.
The truth is, Gia hates Raven to death. Five years ago, he deliberately seduced and her to ruin the relationship between Lonan—Raven’s younger brother, and herself. Gia was devastated at the time, and distanced herself from any man after that.
Taking advantage of Raven's blindness, Gia arrives pretending to be a stranger working for him.
Will Raven fail to recognize her? But for how long? And will Gia finally uncover what really happened five years ago?
The CEO is an Alpha
Harper Williams, a not-so-normal girl was trying to live her normal employee life,
not until she discovered a forbidden secret.
Her CEO is an Alpha.
Morningstar is not just Devious
Lumine Moon is a hardworking scholar at Morningstar University. She has a big dream, and that is to complete the missing piece of their family. She left home, following his father's steps, to bring him back into their embrace. While working in the restaurant, her bullies came and dragged her into the dark. She was saved by a stranger, the known devious heiress Raiden Morningstar: the granddaughter of the owner of the university she was attending. In gratitude, she will do anything in return. Thus the heiress took advantage, asked her to be her slave, and kissed her lips to seal the contract.
THE LUNA IS AN OMEGA
His iron grip fastened around her waist with every second she tried to push him off. "Let go of me," she gritted. "Why should I let go?" He asked devilishly.
Nibbling her earlobe "Have you forgotten you're my mate." "It's about time everyone knew you're mine." He teased with his now exposed teeth gently nibbling her skin.
"Mine." She heard him growled out before his sharp canines bit into the crook of her neck...
In no time she felt a strange heat dripping down her neck, it was blood gushing out from his bite.
"Oh, My God! I can't believe Edward just marked me." She pondered.
When Love is an Accomplice
Neazaleia
After being betrayed and left behind by her ex-lover, Zara told herself that she won’t fall in love again. But when she crossed path with Kestrel, the wall that she was trying to build slowly crumbled. But would it be right for her to love him when she took something precious from him and caused his misery?
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Zara Ruiz was the type of person who’s willing to do everything for the person she loved. So when her boyfriend, Matt accidentally killed a woman in a hit-and-run, she took the blame for it and was imprisoned. Four years after, Zara was determined to find her Matt who left her and vanished while also trying to start a new life. Unable to find a job, she decided to work as a maid for Kestrel de Silva—President of JP Investment Corp., one of the largest conglomerate in the Philippines. Kestrel, who hadn’t opened his heart to anyone after the death of his lover soon found himself slowly falling in love with Zara. But love wasn’t that easy and Zara soon found out Kestrel’s connection to her dark past. Does she still have the right to love him after the pain she had caused him? And with the sudden appearance of Matt, Zara is determined to take off his facade and drag him down.
My Girlfriend Is An Assassin
Author C
Shanra Croft joined the Black Assassin's Squad so she can find the killer who murdered her whole family. She became the best assassin and is well-known as "Silent Assassin." It's because all of her victims died silently and in a peaceful way. She meets her childhood crush, Craig De Silva, who is now a police team captain and has a mission to capture her alive. What if Craig discovers that she is the assassin that he'd been looking for? And what if she discovers that the murderer she'd been looking for a long time is just beside her and that person is the one she trusted the most?