12 Hours

"No stop. We should not be doing this. You are Noah's brother and my boss" Esme murmured and tried to push Leo away. But he didn't budge. He pinned her to the glass wall in his office and started kissing her. Her protests drowned with his kiss. ....... Esme stood on the Altar alone, waiting for the groom who dissappeared. Standing alone on the Altar on her big day should have been devastating. That too when the groom was her best friend of fifteen years and fiance of four years. She should have seen this coming. And she should be a crying mess. But she is not. Strangely, she is feeling relieved. Her gaze fixed on Leo Ashford, her Fiance's elder brother. The wrong brother she fell for. The brother she shouldn't be thinking about. The brother who is off limits. The last man to whom she shouldn't have lost her virginity to. 'I promise Esme, I will cherish you this time' she remembered Noah's promise from just a few hours ago. She felt bitter, because he couldn't even hold his promise for even a day.

Melissa uses her son, Dominic, to get a revenge on a tragic experience. In order for her son to protect the love of his life, he agreed. He needs to act like an evil and betray Elie. She made Elie's family suffer, yet she's not satisfied, she wants more, she's getting worst. She even killed her parents. During the training Elie was at lost but when the tragedy happened, she promised herself to make the best out of herself, for her to be on top and for her family to have the justice they deserve. Gerlie planned to make her revenge, alone. She entered the training. A training where only children from the wealthy family's can join. A training where you need to excel or else you'll regret. An organization composed of multi-millionaires and billionaires all over the world. The F12. This organization is very mysterious for some people and it was hidden, only the 12 families were able to have the complete information and knowledge. She wants Melissa dead, like what she did to her parents, but she doesn't want Dominic to suffer and feel the pain she had left up until now. That night she decided to continue her plan only to see Dominic in front of her, begging her to stop. Gunshots filled the whole place. Would still their relationship come to an end? Would they have a happy ending?

娘が虐待され、生き埋めにされて、頭蓋骨が砕かれて、全身血まみれだった。 犯人の親たちは謝ることを拒んだ。「まだ子どもだ。何も分かっていない。 どうして他の女の子には手を出さなかったんだ？片方だけじゃ成り立たない。あなたの娘に原因があるんだ」 犯人は私に向かって変な顔をした。「ババア、俺はまだ12歳だ。法律は俺を裁けないぜ」 私は無表情のまま精神診断書を取り出した。 「法律はあなたを裁くことができないのか？奇遇だな……私もだ」

Namaku Melia Maharani, usiaku 32 tahun, jadi bisa di bilang sudah tidak muda lagi. Aku adalah seorang Ibu dengan 2 orang anak. Ketika menikah, Aku baru berusia 19tahun dan Anak pertamaku berusia 12 tahun dan Anak keduaku berusia 8 tahun. Suamiku hanya seorang karyawan biasa yang gajinya standar. Aku menerima nafkah pemberian suami ku dengan lapang dada, Rumah tangga Kami pun harmonis saja. Hingga Aku bertemu lagi dengan seorang mantan teman SMP ku yaitu Kartika. Sekarang penampilannya sungguh berbeda, wajahnya putih glowing terawat, barang yang di pakai dan di bawa Tika semua branded. Aku jadi penasaran, bagaimana bisa hidupnya berubah singkat, karena 1 tahun yang lalu dia masih mencari hutangan via pesan whatsup grup SMP. Aku Iri sekali melihat Tika yang sekarang, Aku pun menanyakan Hal yang membuat dia bisa berubah seperti sekarang, padahal yang Aku tahu suaminya hanya pelatih karate di kotaku, dan yang ku tahu hanya di ber gaji pas-pasan juga. Bagaimanakah kisah ku selanjutnya?Apakah Tika memberi tahuku cara yang dia lakukan hingga seperti sekarang? Dan apakah Aku bisa hidup seperti Kartika? Ikuti kisahku selanjutnya ....

Many times I have seen people struggling to talk with strangers or in public places. This was due to anxiety and nervousness that happens unintentionally in our body. We can’t control them but have to overcome them. I came across the word “Glossophobia” in 2014 when I was working on how to overcome stage fears. I have seen my friends and myself struggling to talk with strangers or to speak in public. There are cases where I have acted speechless. This is where the idea arrived and I have created a character “Abhirath Srivastav” who cannot talk with strangers or in public places due to a phobia called “Glossophobia”. The Character Abirath Srivastav does not represent any real life personality, it is solely of my imagination. The story “ The only hope” is a love story set in the style of 1994. The story is about an orphan boy who suffers from glossophobia; he can't talk to strangers or in public places. He finds it hard to stay in an orphanage and escapes to find a better place in his life. He meets a Christian girl in an unknown village and becomes her best friend. He speaks to her, but not to any other villagers. Things are not, however, what was expected. Half of the villagers migrate to another place for work, and they take the boy with them. The boy has to leave his favourite place and his only best friend. After 12 years, however, he meets her and here how the story takes its turn.

"We can't keep fighting this," Michael said. "YOU can't keep fighting this." Diane looked away guiltily, "I have no idea what you're talking about." Michael pulled her closer to himself, "I'll accept that. For now. But I plead that you only give me a chance to prove to you, that I've loved you ever since. And if I have to spend my whole life doing so, then I don't mind, Diane. That's how much you drive me crazy." * * After Diane loses everything and ends up in the hospital, an elegant woman walks in with a single paper that can change her fate. With nothing but anger, hurt and revenge on her mind, Diane knows her life is about to change. Because not only did Diane Winters die twenty seven hours ago, but Diane Deveraux is a whole new woman who is out for blood and revenge on her ex husband and everyone who had set her up. Meanwhile Michael on the other hand would do anything humanly possible to get Diane back even if it meant crawling to h*ll on his knees and getting back. * A book of heartwrecking betrayal, lies, cold revenge, pettiness and intense love. Unexpected plot twists and heart swooning romance.

I stayed up a few hours to watch you fall asleep Maximiliam Declan Addison, siapa yang tak mengenalnya? Ya, Dia adalah putra dari pasangan Anna dan Alexander Addison. Sosok pria dingin yang sialnya memiliki wajah rupawan itu, nyatanya adalah seorang penerus perusahaan Addison Corp. Pribadi yang tertutup membuatnya tak tersentuh. Ditambah dengan keseriusannya dalam memimpin, menjadikan dirinya begitu disegani walau usianya baru dua puluh lima tahun. Akan tetapi, tak ada yang menyangka di balik semua itu, Liam bisa berubah menjadi pria posesif jika hal tersebut menyangkut adiknya -Jazzlyne Addison- Suatu ketika, Jazzy membuat masalah hingga menuntun Liam pada takdir cintanya. Usaha Liam untuk menyelesaikan masalah malah mempertemukannya dengan sosok wanita asing yang terjatuh dari kapal yang dinaikinya. Liam tak menyangka bahwa pertolongannya pada wanita itu, harus berakhir dengan malam panas menggairahkan sehingga membuatnya tak mampu melupakan setiap deru napas wanita yang menghilang setelah malam tak terduga itu berakhir. Siapakah sosok wanita itu? Apakah Liam mampu menemukannya? "Unexpected night." ༺༻

Just because I forget to bring my mate's lover back—leaving her alone in the wilderness for three hours—he flies into a rage and throws me into an abandoned well in the desolate countryside. "You need to experience the torment that Belinda was put through." The well is deep and narrow, forcing me to curl up in my wolf form. I struggle to breathe. I plead for mercy and beg for forgiveness. However, all he does is tell me off icily. "Stay there and repent for your sins. You'll only understand the dignity required of a Luna once you learn your lesson from this." He orders his men to seal the well with a large boulder. I let out anguished howls and roars as I claw my way upward. However, I only fall back down over and over again. The walls of the well are covered in my claw marks. I continue like this until I can't make a sound through my parched throat. … Half a month later, my mate's heart softens when he sees the birthday gift I've prepared in advance for him. He decides to end my punishment. Unbeknownst to him, worms and snakes have already gnawed my body beyond recognition at the bottom of the well.

Aria Leviste Delgado was never the chosen one. Laging nasa anino ni Sienna-ang perpektong panganay, matalino, maganda, palaban. Si Aria? Tahimik. Sunod-sunuran. Hindi pinapansin. Hanggang sa tumakas si Sienna. A scandal no one saw coming. Just hours before her arranged marriage to Damian Valtor-the ruthless CEO every family wanted to be aligned with. Para maiwasan ang kahihiyan at tuluyang pagbagsak ng pamilya nila, si Aria ang ipinasuot sa gown. Walang tanong-tanong. Pretend. Smile. Say "I do" to a man who was never meant to be hers. Damian Valtor is cold. Calculated. Furious. He knows this isn't the woman he agreed to marry. Pero tinuloy pa rin niya. Because power is everything-and Aria? She's just a pawn. A weak replacement for her strong, flawless sister. But Aria is done playing nice. Done being quiet. Done being invisible. Sa isang kasalang binuo sa kasinungalingan, Aria and Damian enter a war of wills. She's not the weak girl he expected. And he's not as heartless as she thought. What started as a six-month deal slowly begins to blur... into something dangerously real. But when secrets rise and Sienna returns, Aria must face the truth: Will she always be second best? Or will she finally become someone's first choice?

I worked for a restaurant, and our boss loved making empty promises about giving us restaurant shares. The boss said we would start with zero shares, but we could earn 0.01% for every two hours of overtime, covering someone else’s work or saving the restaurant 1,000 bucks. I suggested she write this down in an official document and have someone track it properly. She just smiled and told everyone to work harder. She never actually put it in writing. The experienced staff did not believe her, but one prep cook took it seriously. At the end of the year, he went to the boss to claim his shares. The boss said, “Sorry, the head chef told me there’s no official document, so it doesn’t count. You can’t claim any shares.” The prep cook worked hard all year and got nothing for it, so he took his anger out on me. The day before I was going home for the New Year, he killed me with a knife. “If you hadn’t said it doesn’t count without an official document, this whole restaurant would’ve been mine!” I lay in a pool of blood. When I opened my eyes, I was back to the day the boss first made those empty promises.