9 Minutes

Blurb I WOULD NOT MARRY HIM AND THAT'S ON PERIOD!!! Echoes of my voice filled the room, immediately followed by a dead silence. It's been barely two minutes since my parents exposed their long hidden secret of marrying me off to someone I know nothing..... absolutely nothing about. "Diana please", comes my mom's voice, she sounds broken but I don't care "You're doing this to save us all" "What's the worse that could happen" I yelled back immediately "than marrying me off to a bastard" "Hello Diana" comes a voice embodied in masculinity, different from the one I'm used too but least unique enough to steal my attention.

When the boss...gets unbuttoned! Deep in the Brazilian rainforest, innocent English rose Grace has come to reclusive billionaire Rafael's lair to save her business. With just minutes to persuade him to help – her only other option is to settle her debts in his bed! Alexandra is worlds away from Max Goodwin's glamorous staff, but this CEO needs a secretary – fast. So he hires Alex, with one condition: a makeover! Soon Max's thoughts turn from professional to very personal indeed... Brilliant surgeon Ben Blackwood grew up with nothing. So when the rich daughter of the man who jeopardised Ben's career appears as his new trainee surgeon, Ben isn't happy... But sparks are flying!

Piper is in love with Cory. It started as an innocent childhood crush that eventually grew into deep feelings. They have known each other since Piper was 5, and Cory was 9, but Cory doesn’t feel the same way; he’s always treated her more like a little sister, and with good reason. She IS his little sister! Well, step-sister.. When Cory comes home for their father's funeral, emotions are running high, and what starts as a little bit of sibling comfort soon turns into something more… Something that's so wrong but feels so right… ------------------------------------------------------- Please note, this is a Forbidden romance between STEP-SIBLINGS. This story will contain detailed chapters of sexual content. If that isn't your thing, then please don’t read. You have been warned. To be clear, the main characters in this story ARE NOT RELATED in any way by blood. This IS NOT an incest story.

"Jadilah istri kedua untuk suamiku!" Sandra Monika mengalami kecelakaan saat hamil tua, hingga kehilangan anak bahkan rahimnya harus diangkat. Karena kejadian itu sang mertua terus meminta suaminya untuk menikah dengan wanita lain agar memiliki keturunan, sebab Irsyad adalah anak tunggal dan hanya dari Irsyad penerus keturunan di harapkan. 9 tahun berlalu setelah kejadian itu, sang mertua terus meminta suami Sandra menikahi wanita lain. Namun, Irsyad selalu menolak karena cintanya yang begitu besar pada Sandra, tetapi Sandra sudah lelah dengan keadaan yang tak berubah. Akhirnya ia memiliki ide untuk mencarikan istri kedua untuk suaminya dan memilih asistennya sendiri, Hana Ashadiya, sebagai istri kedua untuk suaminya.

I, Lilian Newton, am the top luxury goods repair specialist. 90 percent of the store's revenue comes from me. Three years on the job, I turn a little shop that nearly goes bankrupt into a nationwide chain. Just because I am two minutes late to work, the new manager locks the front door and plans to take the staff on a trip. I ask her why I was not informed. She scoffs and says, "The capable should do more work. We are going on a trip. You stay behind to work overtime. If you can't handle it, then get lost!" I laugh in exasperation and call my husband right away. "I hear you're planning to fire me. Is that it?"

She was broken. He was inevitable. Seraphine Ashton Academy Award-winning actress and America’s Sweetheart thought she’d survived the worst when she finally escaped her toxic, controlling boyfriend. But when Derek Castellan orchestrates her public humiliation at a film premiere, flaunting his new relationship in front of cameras and the world, Seraphine’s carefully rebuilt confidence shatters. Forced to attend an exclusive charity gala just days later, the last thing she expects is an encounter with a mysterious stranger on a shadowed terrace. He’s intensely private, dangerously perceptive, and sees past her celebrity facade to the wounded woman beneath. For fifteen minutes, Seraphine feels truly seen for the first time in years. What she doesn’t know is that the stranger is Damien Hale the world’s richest and most powerful man, a ghost in the business world who controls empires from the shadows and never, reveals himself to the public. And in those fifteen minutes, Damien makes a decision that will change both their lives forever: Seraphine Ashton is his to protect. He doesn’t ask for her permission to destroy her enemies. He doesn’t seek her approval to clear obstacles from her path. He simply declares with absolute certainty that she belongs to him and he’s willing to wait for her to realize the same truth he knew from the moment he saw her. Now Seraphine must navigate a world where the most powerful man has decided she’s his, where protection feels like possession, where surrender might feel like redemption. Damien Hale doesn’t do relationships. He doesn’t compromise. He doesn’t fail. But for Seraphine, he’ll learn. Because when a man who controls everything meets the one woman he can’t control, the only question is: who will surrender first?

It was my third day working as an NPC cashier in a horror game when the supermarket got completely wrecked by players. They stormed in, smashing shelves, looting everything, setting fires, feeling real proud of themselves. "Told you the shopkeeper here was useless. Absolutely trash in all combat stats," one said. "Grab whatever you want. Once we're done, we'll just kill the owner," another chimed in. My mouth was gagged. I shook my head in terror. One of the players sneered. "Begging? That won't save you." No! That was not what I was trying to say! I was trying to tell them that today was the NPC internal shopping day. Three minutes from now, every single dungeon boss in the entire game would be rushing here to shop.

Emma had been hidden away from the world her entire life. Her twin brother, Dylan, was the only person she actually got to talk to and spend time with. She was 5 minutes older and born to be the next Alpha. But her father wanted Dylan to take over. He didn't like the idea of having a female for an Alpha, and wasn't sure the pack would like it either. So he kept her locked away as a baby, the world not even knowing she existed. Until the night she met her mate, then her whole world changed. And not all of it was for the good, including the night she was almost killed by her brother. Emma went from being hidden to hunted. Will her mate be able to keep her safe? Or will she be hidden once more?

Kasihan si Gadis, dia harus jadi janda di usianya yang masih muda dan diceraikan suaminya setelah 9 hari menikah. Ucapan itulah yang sering terdengar oleh Gadis dari semua orang yang menatap iba padanya. Devano tega memberinya talak tiga demi perempuan lain yang ternyata adalah sepupunya sendiri. Untuk menata hatinya dan melupakan pernikahannya yang kandas, Gadis akhirnya memutuskan untuk melanjutkan kuliah di Jepang. Kedatangannya ke Jepang ternyata membawanya keajaiban yang tak pernah dibayangkannya sama sekali. Gadis bertemu dan jatuh cinta pada dosen pembimbingnya, Yamazaki Kento. Keduanya pun akhirnya menikah, namun pernikahan kedua Gadis ini dijalani dengan adanya wanita di masa lalu sang suami. Apakah pernikahan kedua ini akan yang terakhir bagi Gadis?

In the seventh year of our marriage, I caught Nolan Garrison kissing his secretary at a bar. He called me shortly after I walked away. "It was just a friendly kiss! What’s with the attitude?" he snapped through the phone. I could hear his friends in the background teasing him and saying that I would be madly jealous while pleading for him not to leave me tonight as usual. Before hanging up, Nolan warned me that he wouldn’t come home if I didn’t apologize. However, I wasn’t bothered by his threat. I didn’t care if he decided to come home or get a divorce. Three minutes later, I posted an update on my social media: “Prioritize self-love and grant others the freedom they seek.”