Addicted After All

The powerful Stratton family, a tech industry titan, claimed I was their long-lost son. They brought me back from my remote mountain sanctuary. However, when I arrived, my father accused me of peddling superstition and called me a fraud. My adopted brother, the false heir, spread rumors that I was practicing dark magic and cursing the family. My uncle sided with him. He put on a serious face as he warned me. “Ethan, the Stratton family built this empire on technology. If you insist on this occult nonsense, you’ll leave us with no choice but to disown you!” Confronted with their ignorant ridicule and malicious setup, I felt the urge to roll my eyes. I thought. “Whoever said I came back to reconnect? I came down from that mountain to save your lives! Are you really too blind to see everything is about to come crashing down in your family?”

Menjadi dewasa adalah keputusan terbesar Rosea Damita. Memaafkan dan menerima trauma akan masa lalu menjadi awal mula hidup barunya. Di saat Rosea mampu melanjutkan hidupnya, rahasia yang ia tutup rapat malah terkuak. Stereotip yang Rosea takutkan, kini melekat pada dirinya. Rosea pun malu dan egonya sebagai perempuan terluka. Miko dan Julian sebagai laki-laki yang mencintai Rosea, bingung harus bersikap bagaimana menghadapi mental Rosea yang goyah. Mampukah Rosea mengobati 'lukanya' yang menguar tanpa harus membasuh dengan alkohol di atasnya?credit cover: canva

Cami Roux Balmaceda has been attracted to Auden Silverio, the son of a family acquaintance. It was never simple for her to express her feelings for him. Cami Roux Balmaceda is twenty-three years old and a fourth-year psychology student. Cami has a heart problem, but her personality is far from it. She is courageous and living her life to the fullest. The doctor told her that she has a fixed amount of time. As she turned twenty-four, her parents set an arranged marriage to the person she had a deep affection for – Auden. They are well aware of Cami's feelings for Auden. They wanted what's best for their daughter, and they went to great lengths to make it happen. Auden didn't have a choice but to go along with the plan. "It'll only be a few years before she's gone," he reasoned. Over time, he realizes that he is falling in love with her.

Ruby married her fate mate, Lucas, only to endure his repeated betrayals with his first love. In the end, she lost everything—her child, her parents, and her hope. But when she’s reborn on the night of her wedding, she vows to rewrite her fate. Determined to protect those she loves, Ruby finds her former enemy, Caleb, Lucas’s brother—the man who will one day kill Lucas and become the Lycan King. Caleb had never shown up at her wedding before, but this time, Ruby looks into his eyes and says, "I want you to be my husband." Can Ruby take control of her future, or will the past haunt her forever?

Dahil sa kalasingan, maling silid ang napasukan ni Solar. Paggising niya kinabukasan ay katabi na ang kilalang ruthless and cold CEO, si Caellune Santorre. Gulat, takot, at hiya ang naramdaman ng dalaga. Kaya agad niyang tinakasan ang binata. Pinilit kalimutan ni Solar ang nangyari, ngunit nang kausapin siya ng mga magulang tungkol sa kasal ay parang binagsakan ng langit ang dalaga. Pero wala siyang choice nang ipilit ng mga magulang ang kasal bilang kabayaran sa utang ng pamilya. Ngunit hindi inasahan ni Solar ang mas malalang twist. Ang lalaking tinakasan niya matapos ang makasalanang gabi, ito pa lang ang mapapakangasawa niya. Akala ni Solar nakalimutan nito ang nangyari sa kanila. Pinagbintangan siya ni Caellune na sinadya niyang mapalapit dito para akitin ito. Hindi naging maganda ang trato ni Caellune kay Solar. Pero habang tumatagal, napapansin niya na may mga lihim na itinatago si Caellune. Mga kwartong bawal pasukin. Mga tawag na biglang pinapatay. At mga mata nito na tila puno ng sakit at galit sa nakaraan. Ngunit habang tumatagal ay unti-unting nabubuo ang damdaming hindi nila inaasahan. Pero paano kung ang pagmamahal na nagsisimula pa lang ay masira nang bumalik ang babaeng unang minahal ni Caellune? Mapapatawad ba ni Solar ang lalaking sinumpa niyang kamumuhian? O tuluyan na silang sisirain ng mga sikreto at kasalanang pilit nilang nililibing sa nakaraan?

Giovana signed a marriage contract with a man she barely knew, out of gratitude to Nicholas, the man who saved her from her mother's evils. Even living next to a cold and overbearing man, Giovana learned to love Antony. But his life changes completely, when two days after the sudden death of Nicholas, Giovana receives the news that his younger sister is hospitalized in serious condition, and that he needs a blood transfusion. When Antony stops her from helping her sister, forcing her to go sign the divorce, condemning Gina to death. For Giovana there is no more reason to stay married to Antony, even loving him, she knows that she cannot forgive him for all the harm he caused him during those three long years and that cost the life of his own sister. But Antony, realizing the injustice he has committed, will not accept losing it easily. He wants to win her back and will do anything to have Giovana's love again.

If I can't have you... no one else will. Elsa never saw Derek as anything more than her best friend, who was loyal, harmless, and always there. But it took another woman to love him, to see the hunger in his eyes, the madness in his heart... and now Elsa finally sees him too. But it's too late. Derek belongs to someone else now. Or at least, he tries to... Now, Elsa will stop at nothing to make him hers. She'll destroy anyone who stands in her way, even the woman he loves. What she doesn't know is that Derek is far more dangerous than she ever imagined. And the obsession he has buried for years is no longer under control. If anyone tries to take Elsa from him... he won't just hurt them. He'll ruin them.

Isang babae na pilit pinag-aagawan ng magkapatid. Buong akala ng kanilang magulang na isang disente at nakapag-aral ang babaeng kinababaliwan ng kanilang anak. Ngunit isa itong bayarang babae na pinagpapantasyahan ng mga kalalakihan sa White Coast Stripper’s Club. Maria, tunay na mahinhin ang itsura ngunit may nakakaakit na labi at mga mata na pumukaw kay Victor at Vladimir. Dalawang binata mula sa bigating pamilya sa Pilipinas ngunit magkaiba ang pananaw sa buhay. Tila nag-iisang babae sa mundo ang turing kay Maria kung pag-agawan siya ng dalawang magkapatid na handang magpakamatay para sa kanya. Pero paano kung nagpakabulag si Maria sa pera at tunay na tinalikuran ang lalaki na kaya siyang mahalin kahit may pagkukulang ito sa pera? Pagsisihan niya ba ito, o ito ang hudyat upang mailagay ang buhay niya sa peligro?

Susan was devastated when she found her husband sleeping with another woman. She packed her bags and left the marriage. When other men gave her attention, Mark couldn’t take it. Jealousy was written all over his face. “Come with me. I will take you home “He grabbed her hands intending to walk away with her but she pulled them away irritably. ” I am sorry Mark, but you are my ex-husband and I wonder what all this drama is for. I have my life ahead of me and I am never going to get dragged behind by you. I will choose who I want to be with and it is not you.” Then she moved to another city to start her new life unaware that she was pregnant with her ex-husband’s baby. But another man appeared in to the picture and forced his way in to her life. Ethan Griffins was a stranger she met in the club and danced with intimately to get back at her ex-husband not knowing that she would be married to him the next day. “Your wife…. You are scaring me. Please, I am not ready for this kind of a jock. We are practically strangers and I just got out of a marriage that didn’t do me any good. Why would I want to get married to you and when did I even agree to marry you” she stammered. Her brown eyes dilated as she searched his eyes for answers. “It doesn’t matter what is going on in your head but now you are mine and you will stay with me if you want peace in your life. “

I used to be the one and only girl spoiled by my family. But everything changed on my 18th birthday, when my father adopted a she-wolf orphan named Sophia from the Werewolf Charity House. My elder brother, Alex, started to love her more and began to look down on me. My mate, John, who had grown up with me, liked her and ignored me. Even my father said that Sophia, an orphan, was ten thousand times better than his own birth daughter. It was my graduation day from Werewolf University. But instead of celebrating with me, they broke their promise because of Sophia.The 101st time. I counted. And it hurt worse than all the hundred before. I couldn't help crying out, "Am I really part of this family?" My father looked at Sophia—whose eyes turned red because of my words—with pity. Then he slapped me across the face. "You're still fighting for affection? I wish I had never given birth to you," he shouted. Alex snapped at me too. "You make me sick. I'm ashamed to have a sister like you. Get out of this den!" I didn't say a word. I simply packed up my things and left in silence. After I left, the den fell into a strange quiet. They took Sophia to the South Pole to see penguins, as if nothing had happened. No one contacted me or showed concern, because they assumed I would eventually come back—just like before. They never planned to do anything for me. They never had. But this time, they didn't know I was leaving for real. I called my mother, who lived in another pack far away, and told her I'd finally agreed to go live with her. Because this time, the family… Was no longer a place I needed.