Novel Web & Cerita Goodgirl Forgiveness Drama

“I don’t care anymore. I have friends now. I’m sure you made plenty in London.” She didn’t look affected at all. The coldness of it actually made me shiver. “You’re being immature.” “You’re an asshole.” “Watch your tone. I’m still your boss.” “My apologies, Mr. Montgomery,” she said, quiet now. “Don’t I get a welcome-back hug?” I asked, hoping, now that we’d finally said something real, she’d give an inch. Jasmine Ray and Japheth Montgomery were best friends before they were anything else — before four years of silence turned two children into strangers wearing grown-up names. Then he comes home. As her boss. Japheth is handed a company in crisis, a rival who wants to watch him fail, and the one person he never stopped thinking about, sitting behind a desk with a stranger’s coldness in her eyes. Jasmine is handed something worse: a father who’s spent nine years reminding her what she owes this family, and a man she trusts turning that debt into a weapon. Because someone close to them needs one thing — a signature, one document, one moment of Japheth’s total trust — and he knows exactly how to make Jasmine get it for him. She has one impossible choice: protect her family by becoming, once again, exactly what she swore she’d never be to Japheth again. Or risk everything to tell him the truth, and pray he doesn’t throw her out of his life a second time. This time, staying quiet isn’t safety. It’s the same mistake that cost her everything once already.

Jada Adams is just trying to survive-working long shifts at one of the most luxurious hotels in the country, keeping her head down, and ignoring the quiet ways her life is already falling apart. When nausea turns into something she can no longer deny, the truth becomes terrifyingly clear. She's pregnant. Castiel Sterling is thirty, powerful, and untouchable-the CEO of Sterling Hotel, heir to a hospitality dynasty, and a man who has spent years believing he would never become a father. His marriage is already strained by secrets and unspoken resentment, so when Jada tells him the impossible truth, he does the only thing that makes sense to him. He accuses her of lying. Of wanting his money. But the truth has a way of clawing its way to the surface. As lies unravel and betrayals from the past come to light, Castiel is forced to confront the fact that his life and his marriage were never what he believed them to be. And Jada must decide whether love is worth the pain of being doubted, judged, and pulled into a world that was never meant for her.

"Thomas, please. Do you really think someone like me would ever choose someone like you?" Fifteen years ago, Thomas Santos swapped his newborn daughter with the child of the woman who broke his heart. Her name was Victoria and since high school, Thomas had always had a strong obsession towards her and after he had his heart broken by her, he sought revenge by all means. His daughter Kiara grew up in a mansion with everything she could ever disguised as Victoria's daughter while Victoria's real daughter Ivy grew up in poverty, beaten and abused by Thomas, the man who was supposed to be her father. Now the girls turned fifteen and happened to study at the same high school. When Thomas's wife Maria gets a job as a housekeeper for the wealthy Sterling family, she moves into their mansion with her daughter Ivy. Maria still didn't know that the Sterling's daughter Kiara was her real child. At school, Kiara makes Ivy's life a living hell. She bullies her, humiliates her, turns everyone against her and shares videos of Ivy and her Mother cleaning their her family's mansion. Months later, Ellis Sterling, the golden son of the family returned from college. He was charming, handsome and manipulative and took liking to Ivy. He treated ger differently and xared for her which made Ivy to easily trust him. Later on, when Ellis drugs and rapes Ivy, she finally breaks. She tells her mother the truth and Maria confronts the Sterlings immediately, but they didn't believe her. They saw both of them as liars chasing wealth and purshued them out of the house, leaving them with nothing. But the truth doesn't stay buried forever. Some secrets destroy families, while others sets them free.