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Saat pemeriksaan kehamilan di rumah sakit, aku bertemu dengan mantan ipar yang sudah lama tidak ketemu. Dia melirik perutku, lalu memarahiku sambil cemberut seperti yang biasa dia lakukan. “Umur sudah segini, masih saja belajar kabur sambil bawa janin? Bagaimana kalau kamu menyakiti cucu kesayangan Keluarga Raiz? Bisakah kamu lebih bijaksana? Jangan buat kakakku terus mengkhawatirkanmu.” Tetapi mungkin dia lupa. Setahun yang lalu, ibuku sakit parah. Satu-satunya keinginannya adalah melihatku menikah dan punya anak. Aku mempertaruhkan segalanya dan melamar Aryan. Di hari pernikahan, aku menunggu sepanjang hari, tapi hanya menerima pesan suara tiga puluh detik. “Aku tidak akan pergi ke pernikahan dan aku tidak akan menikahimu. Ini hukuman untukmu karena telah menindas Farah.” Ibuku yang marah karena sikap Aryan yang sembarangan, terkena serangan jantung dan meninggal dunia. Setelah mengurus pemakaman ibuku dan membuang semua yang tidak perlu, aku meninggalkan Kota Daro dengan membawa barang-barangku yang sedikit. Aryan masih di luar negeri bersama Farah, bermain ski bersantai. Tetapi sekarang mantan ipar berkata padaku, “Kakakku habiskan sebagian besar waktunya pergi ke luar kota setiap bulan untuk mencarimu. Berat badannya hanya 75 kg dan turun 10 kg dalam waktu kurang dari setahun. Dia selalu menunggumu. Kak Rumi, sekarang karena kamu sudah kembali, jalanilah hidup dengan baik bersama kakakku.” Aku tersenyum lembut, mengangkat tanganku yang bercincin. “Maaf, karena aku orang yang sederhana, aku tidak mengadakan pernikahan besar, jadi aku tidak memberitahu kalian.”

"I thought I was his wife. To him, I was just a placeholder for the woman he actually loved." For three years, Evelyn lived as a ghost. To the world, she was the penniless orphan who hit the jackpot by marrying the cold, ruthless billionaire Caleb Knight. She played the part of the perfect, drab wallflower, cooking his favorite meals, enduring his family’s sneers, and secretly using her hidden Sterling Empire connections to save his company from the brink of bankruptcy. But on their third anniversary, the fairy tale shattered. Instead of a gift, Caleb handed her divorce papers. "Seraphina is back," he said, his voice as cold as ice Humiliated and discarded, Evelyn signs the papers and vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a positive pregnancy test in the trash, a secret Caleb wasn't worth knowing. Two years later, Caleb Knight’s "luck" has run out. His empire is bleeding, and his only hope is a merger with the mysterious, untouchable Sterling Global Group. Gone is the shy, plain girl in the $10 dress. Standing there in couture diamonds, flanked by three of the world's most powerful men, is his ex-wife. She is radiant, she is powerful, and she returns with a little boy who looks just like him and a girl who shares her aura. "Evelyn?" Caleb gasps, falling to his knees. "I... I’ve been looking for you. Please, come home." She steps over his hand as if he were a piece of trash. "I’m sorry, Mr. Knight,"she purrs, her voice dripping with lethal indifference. "The wallflower you threw away is dead. This is the Empress speaking and she finds you quite... boring." He broke her heart. Now, she’s going to break his empire!

"Crawl to me, Amber... Let me feel how tight that virgin cunt is. Prove your father didn’t lie.” "Make me do it... You blind bastard!" He doesn’t see the world. He owns it. Zeden Vercetti is a blind mafia don feared across continents—ruthless, unyielding, and lethal with or without his sight. Once a husband. Still a father. But love? That died with his wife. Now his world revolves around power, blood, and pleasure... on his terms. When Amber’s father trades her off to clear a dirty debt, she finds herself trapped in a nightmare—a palace of wolves ruled by the most dangerous one of all. Zeden doesn’t want a bride. He wants obedience. He wants her mouth screaming, her legs spread, her pride shattered. She thought she’d be his wife. He says she’s just a fucktoy. A virgin to break. A slut to train. But Amber isn't built to bend. And Zeden has never met a girl who fights back, tempts him, confuses him... and maybe awakens the parts of him he swore were dead. In a mansion filled with guns, secrets, and scars that don’t fade, one virgin girl is about to face the beast. And Zeden? He’ll make her crawl. Will she survive the dark kingdom of the Vercettis—or will she become the fire that ruins him? Viewer Discretion Advised 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🔞🔞 ☠️This book contains intense, dark themes: Dominance & submissionVirgin training, rough sex, threesomes, and BDSM Raw, explicit, and unfiltered sexual content Violence, trauma, emotional manipulation. 10% plot. 90% sex. And Sin. A possessive blind mafia don with a broken past and a dangerous heart. Read at your own risk. Not for the faint-hearted. Not for the soft. If you dare enter Zeden Vercetti’s world… be ready to bleed.

The Falcon Ridge Series Book 5 Set two months after the Battle of Black Rock. In an old growth forest east of Aurora, the city of Dragons. Wren Miller: You can sum up the story of my life in three words I. Am. Alone. I was raised by the Falcon Ridge Security Unit after they told me everyone I ever knew and loved was dead. I traveled through life pretending I felt like I had a pack, but in truth I longed for my own. I often wished for death. That all changes when I find out some of my pack was alive. Living like Nomads in the wilderness. I'm elated to find them, but my happiness is crushed when the Alpha is not even remotely happy to see me. As much as it pains me, I don't want to see him either after finding out what he has become. Lucius Drake: For 10 years I survived in the wilderness. I built us back up from the ashes that were left of the attack on us. I was happy to live this way. Living off the land. Taking care of my pack. Then she shows up. Seeing her makes my blood boil. Not only did she abandon her pack. She abandoned me. I don't care what the Alliance told her. I never gave up on the hope she was alive. Apparently, she did. I'm jaded and angry. It also doesn't help that I have the Dragons breathing down my neck. We've been relying on them for protection and trade, but now they want more. They want us to join them permanently, which I will only do if I'm dead.

시누이가 나를 대리모로 쓰기 위해 임신을 시키려고 갖은 거짓말을 다 했는데 사실이 알려진 뒤에도 남편과 시어머니는 오히려 시누이를 싸고돌며 발버둥 치는 나를 기절시켜 시누이 남편의 침대에 눕혀놓았다. 하지만 그렇게 10달이나 품고 세상에 나온 내 딸은 남자아이가 아니라는 이유만으로 미친 시댁 식구들에 의해 바닥에 내팽개쳐졌다. 그리고 내 몸에서 돈이 되는 모든 장기를 다 빼가서 또 시누이를 위해 대리모를 찾아주었다. 짐승 같은 인간들 손에서 드디어 벗어난 내가 다시 눈을 떴을 때 나는 시누이가 도와달라고 무릎 꿇고 비는 그날로 돌아가 있었다.

Ariel 's parents died in a car accident when she was 10 years old. She and her sister Esther lived with each other all these years. But they were often bullied by their pack members. Their peels said Ariel and her sister were jinxes and caused their parents’ death. When someone bullied them, Ariel would block all attacks for her sister. Esther quit school early to work for Ariel , and she found her mate at the age of 24. After Esther and her mate Cole Gray got married, Ariel lived in Cole ’s home with Esther. With the help of Esther, Ariel was able to finish college, Ariel was grateful to her. But because of her existence, Esther often quarreled with Cole . Ariel sometimes had been sexually harassed when Esther was not at home. She dared not to tell Esther and didn’t want Esther sad. She always hoped that Esther could live a happy life, so she wanted to leave. But according to new werewolf laws, before she found a mate, she couldn't leave Esther and her pack, otherwise she would be disconnected from the pack and become a rogue. She would also affect Esther, because the rogue's family and pack would be spurned, so Ariel had to find someone to mark her and be her mate, even if the one was not her true mate. Then she could leave Esther and Cole ’s home. But Cole was going to send her to the Alpha King, so Ariel couldn't wait for her mate. Ariel was afraid of Alpha King, she heard some rumors about Alpha King, he was mysterious and cruel, even killed his own mate Ariel moves in with Xavier who is actually the Alpha king in pretense as she gets intertwined in the Royal life of the Alpha king

늦은 밤, 주서예는 재발한 암으로 인해 극심한 고통에 시달리며 남편에게 간절히 애원했다. “제발, 병원에 데려다 달라고...” 그러나 남편은 그녀를 외면한 채 서슴없이 첫사랑에게로 향했고, 차가운 한마디를 남겼다. “네 연기가 점점 더 실감나는데?” 그녀가 바쳐온 지난 10년의 사랑은, 결국 비수가 되어 돌아왔다. 얼마 지나지 않아 남편의 첫사랑이 교통사고를 당했고, 생명을 구하려면 긴급한 심장 이식이 필요했다. 서예는 주저 없이 자신의 심장을 내어주었다. 그렇게 생을 마감한 그녀. 그러나 서예가 사라지자, 한때 그녀를 철저히 외면하던 남편은 서서히 무너져 갔다. 미쳐가기 시작했다.

은퇴 선언 후 사람들은 드디어 내가 연예계에서 사라졌다고 좋아했다. 오로지 내 여자친구의 남자친구라고 소문난, 새로 떠오르는 음악 천재라고 불리는 진성균만이 반대하면서 수많은 기자들 앞에서 가식적인 모습을 보였다. “전부 오햅니다. 지해일 선배님은 가요계에서 없어서는 안 되는 존재입니다. 전 지해일 선배님이 언젠가 다시 가요계로 돌아오길 바랍니다.” 나는 핸드폰을 꺼버리고 그가 했던 말도 전부 무시했다. 지난 생에서 내가 만든 곡이 진성균이 만든 곡과 똑같았다. 네티즌들은 나에게 표절꾼이라며 욕했고 표절의 대가로 온 가족이 죽을 것이라며 저주했다. 인정할 수 없었던 나는 음악 제작 과정을 전부 공개했지만 최종 음원 공개 시간 앞에서는 무용지물이었다. 진성균은 나보다 10분 일찍 음원을 공개했다. 이 10분 때문에 나는 악플러들의 공격을 받았고 어떤 사람들은 영정사진을 만들어주기도 했으며 심지어 내 집까지 찾아와 낙서까지 하기도 했다. 몇 년 동안 공격당한 나는 결국 우울증을 앓게 되었다. 부모님은 나의 억울함을 풀어주기 위해 온갖 재산을 쓰면서 노력하고 있었지만 진성균의 열성팬이 저지른 방화로 결국 사망하고 말았다. 진성균이 골든 뮤직 어줘즈에서 상을 받던 그 날, 나는 옥상에서 뛰어내렸다. 그런데 다시 눈을 뜬 순간 신곡 발표하는 그날로 돌아왔다.

"What? S-so she's going to be my future stepmother, Dad? Seriously? She's even more suited to be my sister! Or...maybe my affair! She must just want to get her hands on your fortune, Dad! Come on! She's nothing more than a deadbeat chick! So, how much do you want, huh? 5 billion? 10 billion? How much? Name your price!" Adrian stared sardonically at the young woman. ***** Alicia Zareta, a young girl of Bandung descent, orphaned, who was only cared for and raised by a distant aunt. Aly, as she is called, is a little innocent, kind, but smart. when she was 19 years old, she received an student scholarship, she met a wealthy man who turned out to be the son of a prominent Billionaire in this country, Australia. They had been in love when they both studied at the same place. He is handsome, a top student, loves speeding or wild racing both cars and motorbikes, but he is also smart and a little arrogant. His charm has always attracted the ladies! He is Adrian Evans Anderson, Adrian was 21 years old that time. Adrian played Alicia thinking of her as an insignificant bet! Adrian even betrayed her by having an affair! Adrian humiliated her in front of many people, which Alicia has never forgotten until now! Left a mark on her that she can't erase! A baby in her womb... Finally Aaron Daryl Anderson 42 year old, a Billionaire CEO in a big company in Australia  came to heal the wounds of her heart, and Alicia tried to accept the man whose age was adrift about 20 years even more with the sincerity of his love. Will Alicia continue with their wedding plans?  Or is this her chance to avenge her heartache by marrying the father of the man who hurt her?

After having a crush on someone for 10 years, out of love, my father drugged his friend and placed him on my bed. When he woke at dawn the next morning, his eyes were ice-cold. But he still accept our engagement. However, life after marriage wasn’t as good as I thought. Mike Ashton would frequently fly abroad and stay there for a long time. I gave birth to our daughter on my own as I waited for him to return home. After four years, when I heard that he was returning home, I postponed everything and went to the airport expectantly with our daughter in my arms. Our daughter reached out her little hand and was hoping for a hug from him. He just looked at me indifferently and said in a cold voice, “I’m sorry, but I’m a neat freak.” From then on, my daughter and I would wash our hands at least three times every day and the house would be spotless. However, he still rarely came home and never gave our daughter a warm hug. That was until when I accidentally saw a video with Mike in it. “Mike, what do you think is the happiest thing in the world?” He answered casually, “I think it’s when I tucked Oliver into bed and dragged Jennifer into the bathroom when I was abroad last week.” The people around him all laughed, but my heart felt ice-cold. Jennifer Bundred was Mike’s ex-girlfriend who he still had an entanglement with and Oliver was her son. It seemed that he had been living with them during the time that he was abroad for the past four years. This fact finally made me give up all illusions. I left a divorce agreement for him, gave up my and our daughter’s identities, and went abroad to start a new life.