Struggles And Obsessions
"Before you get too excited, Mom, I turned him down. Forget the dress, and the dance," added Gwen.
"You turned down a date with that hunk, Gwen? What on earth were you thinking?" asked a stunned Kate. "Girls will kill for a date with that guy. I know I would!"
..........
No one had ever asked her out so soon after meeting her. In fact, only a couple of guys had ever even hinted that they would like to date her and she had quickly dashed their hopes. Gwen was very accomplished in her studies and was on track to graduate first in her class. She wanted to be a surgeon and she had long ago decided that fleeting emotional entanglements would not advance her career plans. She was also an avid reader and a born romantic. She was determined to not settle for some mundane romance. In fact, she would settle for nothing less than a love like Juliet had with Romeo. The boys that had shown any interest in her thus far had simply not measured up.
She finally sees her path to redemption. Both of them will stop at nothing to change the world. But will the passion they discover in each other be enough to save the world?
Her Secret Struggles
Liza, a single mother, fights to make ends meet in the corporate world without family support. The weight of her responsibilities threatens to crush her spirit. Each day, the fear of homelessness and not being able to provide for her children ignites a fire within her.
Driven to desperation, Liza enters a hidden realm of debauchery to survive. Fate intertwines her with Jack, a powerful executive. When Jack sees Liza in the club, questions swirl in his mind. He feels an urge to protect her but fears revealing his true identity.
Liza and Jack are bound together by a force stronger than the darkest night. Can Liza persevere and find happiness and security amidst the storm within her? Only time will tell.
About Keenan
PROSES REVISI. JANGAN DIBACA DULU.
Di tengah riuhnya sorakan penonton, Keenan berdiri tegak, sorot matanya tetap fokus meski di sekelilingnya gemuruh tak henti-henti. ISF Basketball World Schools Championship, ajang ini adalah puncak dari segala kerja kerasnya. Bola di tangannya terasa begitu familiar, seolah bagian dari dirinya. Dengan lincah, ia menggiring, melewati setiap lawan yang mencoba menghalangi. Setiap langkahnya ringan, tapi penuh arti, membawa ingatan pada kerja keras yang tak terhitung.
Saat ia mendekati garis tiga angka, seluruh dunia seakan menahan napas. Keenan melompat, bola melayang sempurna di udara, dan saat bola itu menembus jaring dengan mulus, sorak-sorai membahana. Tapi, di tengah semua itu, Keenan tetap tenang. Dia tidak mencari kemenangan demi sorak penonton. Ada sesuatu yang lebih berharga dari sekadar poin.
Matanya menyapu kerumunan, mencari wajah yang selama ini selalu ada untuknya, meski tanpa suara. Dan di sana, di antara lautan orang, gadis itu. Gadis yang selalu ada, yang dengan diamnya telah menjadi kekuatan terbesar baginya.
Keenan tersenyum kecil, hanya sekejap, lalu dalam hati dia berbisik, lembut tapi penuh makna, "Thanks a lot for always having my back. You have no idea how much your support means to me. This win is ours, not just mine."
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Urutan Baca:
1. About Me: Alshameyzea
2. About Keenan
All About Love
Selay Rahmi
Park Jiyeon dan Kim Jaehwan kuliah kedokteran dan telah menikah secara rahasia di Jerman. Ketika mereka kembali ke Korsel, ayah Jiyeon malah menjodohkan Jaehwan dengan Park Mina, kakaknya. Hanya untuk meluaskan bisnis mereka.
Sedangkan di sisi lain, ada Lee Namju, mantan kekasih Mina yang ingin membalas dendam pada keluarga Park karena sakit hati di masa lalu namun malah jatuh cinta pada Jiyeon.
Berbagai usaha dilakukan sepasang suami istri itu untuk membatalkan perjodohan. Namun selalu gagal. Akhirnya Jaehwan berusaha membuat Jiyeon hamil agar mereka dapat membatalkan perjodohan itu.
Pada malam pertunangan, Jaehwan menunjukkan bukti pernikahan dengan Jiyeon pada semua orang. Namun Namju menyangkal dan mengatakan itu palsu. Jiyeon yang tengah hamil diakui oleh Namju bahwa dia adalah ayah dari janinnya.
Pertunangan berlangsung. Jiyeon dinikahkan dengan Namju. Namun Namju meninggal sebelum pernikahan karena diracun. Terungkap bahwa Mina yang meracuni Namju. Akhirnya Jaehwan membatalkan pernikahannya karena Mina dipenjara. Ia juga mendatangkan pendeta yang menikahkan mereka di Jerman sebagai saksi. Ia pun berhasil dan akhirnya bersatu dengan Jiyeon.
All about Raissa
Dinsss
"Gue nyesel jatuh cinta sama lo," ucap Raissa dengan air mata yang menggenang di pelupuk matanya.
"Lo, orang yang udah ngebunuh kakak gue."
Laki laki yang berdiri tepat di hadapan Raissa terpaku, tenggorokannya tercekat, seolah ada sesuatu disana dan itu sangat menyakitkan.
"Maaf," lirihnya.
Destiny About Me
silvia0507
Kekurangan yang di miliki gadis berusia 20 tahun, Bernama Ayana Salsabila tidak membuatnya menyerah pada hidup.
Ia masih bisa menjalani kehidupannya dengan baik, meskipun kadang ada saja orang lain yang memandangnya sebelah mata.
Setelah kepergian orang tuanya akibat kecelakaan beberapa tahun lalu, ia masih sanggup menjadi gadis ceria dan penuh semangat.
Namun semuanya berubah setelah ia menikah dengan pria arogan nan kejam, hari-harinya hanya bisa menangis karena pria tersebut menyiksa fisik dan batinnya.
About Me: Alshameyzea
PROSES REVISI. JANGAN DIBACA DULU.
Pernah merasa terluka tapi tetap memilih bertahan? Itulah Alsha, gadis yang sekuat cahaya, namun juga sering tenggelam dalam bayang-bayang. Alshameyzea Afsheena yang memiliki arti "cahaya yang memancarkan keanggunan" seolah menjadi takdirnya. Cahaya yang selalu hadir, meskipun kadang terselubung oleh awan-awan kelabu.
Seperti matahari yang tetap bersinar meski kadang tak terlihat, begitu pula Alsha. Dia pernah berharap, pernah mencintai, pernah menggenggam mimpi yang kemudian berubah menjadi abu kenangan. Namun, seperti arti namanya, dia tetap bersinar. Keanggunannya bukan dari sempurna, tapi dari caranya bangkit meski jatuh berkali-kali.
Dia pernah menyukai seseorang yang membuatnya merasakan hangatnya mentari, tapi juga pernah merasakan dinginnya bayangan. Semua luka dan kenangan itu, hanya menambah sinarnya, semakin kuat dan anggun. Karena Alsha tahu, tak ada yang lebih indah dari cahaya yang tetap bersinar meski di tengah badai.
Masa lalu, baginya, mungkin menyakitkan, namun di sanalah ia belajar tentang keanggunan.
Keanggunan dalam menerima, dalam merelakan, dan dalam terus bersinar, tanpa pernah kehilangan jati dirinya.
Jangan lupa follow dulu sebelum baca. Semoga betah sampai di akhir kisah Alsha!
Jazakumullah khayran Katsir yang sudah mau baca ceritaku. Salam hangat dari author.
Struggles of the Legal Wife
"If happy ever after did exist, why do married couples split apart?"
The same question Andrea Bartolome had in her mind when things between her husband, Mike Villaflor, started to be wrong. Her life with her husband is almost perfect. A doctor herself married a public school teacher; both of them are professionals in different fields. Sapat ang kinikita nilang mag-asawa para bigyan ng maayos na future ang anak nila.
Yet things perceived to be almost perfect need to overcome an obstacle. Nagsimulang magkaroon ng lamat ang relasyon ni Andrea kay Mike when she started to doubt her husband having an affair with another woman. Sino nga ba ang kaisa-isang kontrabida ng mga mag-asawa kung hindi mga kabit lang naman.
And that is something Andrea has been struggling with. Because of her desire to protect her family, how would a legal wife make a win over the mistress?
All About Love
"Runaway BillionaireWhat happens when two sets of parents decide their thirty-something offspring need to get married? To each other. The problem? Neither one wants wedded bliss, and they don’t even know each other. Kyle Montgomery is happy with his single state and the excitement of running the Montgomery Hotel Corporation. Pepper Thornton is just as happy running the family B&B, the Hibiscus Inn. What started out as a fun ploy suddenly turns into something much more—until reality pokes up its head and nearly destroys it all.Touch of MagicMaddie Woodward is in a pickle. The last person she expects to see when she returns to the family ranch for one last Christmas is her former lover, Zach Brennan. He’s hotter as he ever was, all male and determined to get her naked. She’s just as determined to show him she’s over him—until she ends up in his bed, enjoying the wildest sex of her life. A night of uncontrolled, erotic sex shows her that Zach is far from out of her life. Now if she can just get him to help her convince her sisters not to sell the ranch—or sell it to the two of them.Wet HeatIt was supposed to be a month in a cottage by the lake in Maine. For Peyton Gerard it was time to recover from not one but three disastrous breakups and try to find her muse again. A successful romance novelist needed to believe in romance to write about it believably, and Peyton had lost her faith in it.All About Love is created by Desiree Holt, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author."
Something About You
Sceptical Lou Riley desires love, however what will she do once she gets an opportunity to own her fairytale romance? Will she freak out and push him away, afraid he is getting to break her heart or go along with it and hope it is the real thing?
All About Her
Si Elaisa ay nagmula sa hindi kilalang pamilya na nagpakasal sa mayamang negosyante.
Kung iisipin ay napaka swerte nya dahil hindi nya mararanasan ang hirap ng buhay. Hindi nga ba?
Maraming pagsubok ang dinaanan ni Elaisa. Minsan nang nakaranas ng pang-aabuso at may takot sa dugo. Kung iisipin ay nakapahinang babae nya pero hindi 'yun naging balakid para magmahal sya kahit na hindi sya kailan man kinilala ng asawa.
Nang sa wakas ay natutunan na ng asawa nya ang mahalin sya ay saka naman dumating ang hindi inaasahan at nakapalaking problema sa buhay nila.
Dapat bang sumuko kapag bumitaw na ang isa?
Dapat bang iwan sya para lumiga habang wala ka?
Istorya ng babae kung paano tinanggap at sinugal ang lahat para sa pag-ibig.
About Last Night
Being the least favorite and priority is a real struggle for Oleya Beautrin. She grew up still craving for her parents attention and love that they deprived her from. She grew up having the need to please everyone just so she will be enough and won't be compared to her twin anymore.
But when she realized that pleasing them isn't enough for them to love her the same way as how her parents love her twin, she decided to stop and just go on with her life. She was happy. She found genuine friends that truly cares and love her. She also found the man that completed her. The man that makes her feel safe in his arms.
But a tragedy happened that causes their relationship's devastation. She lost a life that broke her and her love of life. They broke up. And that's when everything started to crush her down.
She begged and kneeed. She lowered her dignity a lot of times to ask for forgiveness from him. But he moved on while she was still in the dark, mourning.
And the worst thing is, he is marrying her twin sister.
A one night happened that will forever change their lives.
She left to move on and gain herself back. And when she came back, she was ready to face the people who inflicted so much pain to her.
And you know what's more?
Oh. Her ex just came running back to her like nothing happened. Like he didn't called her names a lot of times.
The question is, is she going to cave in and just forgive and forget?
But how can she forget when someone who's extremely dear for her became a reminder about what happened that night.
The reminder who is always with her.
About Last Night
KNoetzel
Jenny had big dreams. She wanted to be a publisher and was thrilled to land a part time job at Labyrinth Publishing House's Ground Floor Cafe- The Maze. Seeing this as her foot in the door she's determined to get herself noticed and sets out to get to know Senior CEO Max Sanders. However, what happens when Mr Sanders steps down from being the CEO and gives it to his notorious son Cole?
Jenny can't deny the sexual tension between her and Cole. But he's determined to get under her skin. Will their love-hate relationship bloom into something more after spending the night together? Or will Jenny have to rethink her dreams now that there are concequences?
What About Love?
Jeyah Abby Arguello lost her first love in the province, the reason why she moved to Manila to forget the painful past. She became aloof to everybody else until she met the heartthrob of UP Diliman, Darren Laurel, who has physical similarities with her past love. Jealousy and misunderstanding occurred between them, causing them to deny their feelings. When Darren found out she was the mysterious singer he used to admire on a live-streaming platform, he became more determined to win her heart. As soon as Jeyah is ready to commit herself to him, her great rival who was known to be a world-class bitch, Bridgette Castillon gets in her way and is more than willing to crush her down. Would she be able to fight for her love when Darren had already given up on her? Would there be a chance to rekindle everything after she was lost and broken?
Love and beautiful life
Berada di tempat baru dan jauh dari rumah, Daisy yang melaksanakan KKN harus mampu menyesuaikan diri. Setelah perdebatan dengan temanya, akhirnya daisy memutuskan untuk mengambil jalanya sendiri dan hanya bermodalkan tekad melaksanakan KKN sendiri.
Bertemu dengan orang-orang baru, belajar banyak hal, menemukan makna hidup bahkan menjalin kisah cinta. Daisy menyadari bahwa ternyata untuk pertama kalinya dia mampu keluar dari zona nyamanya, bertemu dengan orang-orang baru menyadarkannya bahwa hidup tidak sesederhana yang dia pikirkan. Apakah praktek lapangan sesederha itu, atau akan banyak permasalahan-permasalah yang harus di hadapi apakah daisy mampu menyesuaikan diri atau malah menyerah dan memutuskan untuk pulang.
About Last Night
Kristina will accidentally and unexpectedly give her cherished Dignity and Cleanliness as a woman to the young man she meets in just one night. In short, Kristina got a one-night stand with Troy Madrigal for the reason that both of them are drunk and not in the right frame of mind.
But despite the accident that happened between them. It would make sense to Kristina, even she once regretted the mistake she had made why she had given herself to a young man she didn't know very well.
It seemed like she just had a preference and interest in the young man after the hot event that happened to them that night. Which seemed to lead to the point that she fell in love with the young man in just an instant.
Can Kristina continue her feelings for the young man, who after taking advantage will leave her alone just like a hired woman?
Will she be able to love the young man when they meet again after disappearing like a bubble?
SOMETHING ABOUT LEON
Peace Philip
Emilia Burke is a young and advanced college student with an eye for trouble. Ever since her last year in high school, when the only man she ever loved disappeared without a single glance, she has been an expert at evading heartbreak. And hasn't formed a meaningful connection since.
Sure, she's young, funny, pretty, and too smart, but she has kept her love interests at a distance and kept everything simple. Fun. No feelings attached.
But now, with as much ease as when he disappeared, Leon Maverick has returned to her life as a successful and sexy business tycoon. He's determined to win back the girl whom once had given her all for him, but there's a problem when she can't even stand the idea of him. If only she would give, but there's just something... Something about Leon.
And maybe, he'll break through her barriers one last time.
Something About Us
Una pa lang na pagkikita ni Zerina at Xander ay asar na asar na siya rito. Kung meron mang sinasabi na 'love at first sight'... si Xander naman ang 'hate at first sight' ng dalaga.
He is way far from the prince that Zerina ever dreamed of! He is almost the exact opposite of the guy she loved for the first time.
When suddenly destiny made a twist in their life... What could really possibly happen?
Will they find out that in them...
Something has changed?
Another Life - Revenge and Love
Atthaletta Evangellyn hidup kembali sebagai Raquella Qyra setelah dirinya tewas tenggelam di lautan karena konspirasi jahat suami dan adik tirinya yang berselingkuh di belakangnya.
Aletta bersumpah, jika ia diberikan kesempatan hidup untuk yang kedua kalinya maka ia akan membalaskan semua rasa sakit tak tertahankan yang pernah ia rasakan. Dan Aletta mendapatkan kesempatan itu, bukan sebagai dirinya melainkan sebagai Qyra -wanita malang yang bunuh diri di tempat yang sama dengan tempat kematiannya.
Melalui tubuh Qyra, Aletta memasuki kediamannya yang dulu sebagai baby sitter putrinya, atau lebih tepatnya putri adik tiri dan suaminya yang dengan bodoh ia rawat selama 5 tahun tanpa tahu asal usul anak itu.
Aletta mendatangkan badai untuk adik tiri dan suaminya. Menagih setiap rasa sakit yang ia rasakan. Merampas kembali apa yang sudah suami dan adik tirinya renggut darinya.
Tidak ada lagi Aletta yang penuh kasih sayang. Yang ada hanya Qyra yang dipenuhi pembalasan dendam. Tidak ada lagi Aletta yang mudah mempercayai orang, yang ada hanya Qyra yang menganggap semua manusia tidak layak dipercaya. Tidak ada lagi Aletta yang mudah dimanfaatkan dan disakiti, yang ada hanya Qyra dengan hati yang membeku.
Namun, di tengah pembalasan dendam. Aletta berhadapan dengan Kenneth, adik suaminya yang ternyata adalah pria yang telah membuat Qyra bunuh diri.
Target balas dendam Aletta bertambah. Mata pedangnya kini tertuju pada tiga orang. Suami, adik tiri dan juga adik suaminya.
Bisakah Aletta membalaskan semua dendamnya dan Qyra saat sebuah tabir tersingkap? Dan bisakah ia menyangkal perasaan pada Kenneth yang mulai tumbuh seiring berjalannya waktu?
About Last Night (Tagalog)
Creivyr19
Aksidente at hindi inaasahan na
mangyayari ni Kristina na basta-basta niya lamang maibigay ang kaniyang iniingat-ingatang Dignidad at Kalinisan
bilang isang babae sa binatang nakilala niya lamang ng isang gabe.
In short Kristina got a One Night Stand to the man she just meet.
Dahil sa kalasingan ng dalawa at
pagkawala nito sa kani-kanilang matinong kalagayan at kaisipan ay nagawa nila ang isang bagay na kailanman ay hindi nila akalain na magaganap.
Ngunit sa kabila ng askidendting
kaganapan sa kanilang dalawa ay
magiging kabuluhan pala ito kay Kristina, kahit pa minsan na siyang nagsisisi sa kaniyang nagawang pagkakamali kung bakit niya naibigay ang kaniyang sarili sa binatang hindi niya lubos na kilala.
Tila basta na lamang siya nagkaroon ng kagustuhan at interest sa binata matapos ang mainit na kaganapan sa kanila nang gabing iyon. Na tila humantong pa na may namumuong pagmamahal sa kaniyang puso para sa binata sa isang iglap lamang.
Ngunit magagawa ba ni Kristina na
ipagpatuloy ang kaniyang pagkagusto sa binata kahit na iniwan lamang siya nito na parang isang bayarang babae, na matapos pakinabangan ay iwan at pababayaan na lang?
Magagawa ba niyang mahalin ang binata kapag sila'y magkikitang muli matapos nawala na parang bula?
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