Almost Love

Pierre Paul Abutu gives a humorous, fascinating and dispassionate narration of the unique intimate and romantic events of his life from teenage to adolescence, and into the early stages of his adult life. This narration revolves around the lives, and relationships of sixteen ladies with whom he shared happy, intimate, eventful and evergreen moments of his life with. These love affairs occur in Pierre Abutu’s life, at his university, the Augustine Nnamani Campus, Agbani, in Enugu Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Akwa Ibom State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Due to his religious beliefs, personal convictions, personal principles, metaphysical and supernatural predictions and postulations, the media, intellectual and literary effects in his life, most of these affairs either ended abruptly or amicably. These love affairs also reveal the negative attitudes, traits and deceptive machinations of these girls and ladies. Even though certain unpleasant and resultant effects were never intended at any particular stage, or with any of these girls and ladies, one thing was very clear: each love affair was and would always be evergreen to Pierre Abutu.

Kita tidak pernah tahu kemana takdir akan membawa kita. Yang pasti, takdir akan mendekatkan kita dengan jodoh kita. Andini Khumaira, seorang gadis yang bercita-cita ingin menjadi Tahfiz Qur'an. Namun, tekadnya mulai diuji ketika cinta terhadap lawan jenis mulai bersemi di hatinya. Memilih dan memilah kumbang yang datang dan pergi. Akankan Dini mempertahankan cita-citanya? Atau malah terbuai dengan manisnya cinta?

Losing my family, best friend, best friends family and fiancee all in one day was hard. Being called back to deal with a family issue seems almost impossible. They all still don't know what really happened a and I wonder what they will say when they realize they accused me of nothing and do I really care. This story is dedicated to Justin Blaine Lacewell and Floyd Lacewell. I love you cuz and wish you were still here with us. Uncle Floyd, you fought a good fight and I will miss all your stories.

Maximus was a playboy quite the opposite of his younger brother, Nathaniel, who was a complete gentleman. He never approved of his older brother's lifestyle but though they may have their differences, they were still brothers no matter what. Until one day, Nathaniel's best friend and one of his older brother's many lovers caught Maximus sleeping with another woman. She was enraged with the fact that she was being cheated by her lover and betrayed by her best friend for not telling her. What was worse, they didn't know she was a witch. Fueled by anger, she cast a curse on them. A curse of immortality. As proof, she gave them a mark of a small bloody rose surrounded with vines on their chest. The only way to break the curse was to find true love. But, it was not that simple.

　見合い結婚をした、九条　美月（くじょう　みつき）は夫からの愛情を受けることなく仮面夫婦を続けていた。 　夫である孝介（こうすけ）の豪遊、浮気、監視されている環境が耐えきれなくなり、孝介が出張中にふらり気分転換へ出かけた美月。 　そこで加賀宮（かがみや）という謎の男性に出逢い、美月の運命は変わっていく――。 ※このお話はフィクションです。 ※過激な描写があります。苦手な方はご遠慮ください。 ※イラストは武田ロビ様に描いていただきました。作中に挿絵があります。 イラストの無断転載・転用、二次利用禁止です。

Isang masayahin si Luna, lahat ginagawa niya para sa kanyang pamilya at kapatid. Pero hindi niya akalain na sa isang iglap ay kayang magbago ang lahat. Ang pamilya na akala niya masasandalan niya at kaya siyang ipagtanggol ay ito pa ang nagdala sa kanya sa kapahamakan. Kaya kaya siyang ipagtanggol ng lalaking pinakamamahal niya o katulad din ito sa pamilya niya?

Alleta shu awalnya adalah gadis polos yang sangat penurut sampai akhirnya nasib tak berpihak padanya, ia bertemu dengan reymond pradana seorang diktator yang terlalu terobsesi dengan alleta dan melakukan apapun untuk mendapatkan alleta. Karena perbuatan licik reymond yang mengancam keluarga alleta pernikahanpun tak terelakkan. Disinilah titik balik hidup alleta,dari gadis polos dan penurut menjadi wanita tangguh yang penuh ambisi setelah melalui masa-masa sulit hidup bersama reymond. Kemudian alleta bertemu dengan lelaki yang mampu meluluhkan hatinya,dia adalah rizwan alfridlo, seorang pemuda tampan dan humoris yang selalu mengukir tawa di hidup alleta. Namun karena status yang di sandang oleh alleta saat ini, ia merasa minder untuk mengungkapkan perasaannya kepada rizwan. Bagaimanakah kelanjutan kisah cinta alleta? Akankah alleta mampu menemukan bahagia bersama seseorang yang mencintai dan menerima keadaannya saat ini?. Temukan alur tak terduga dari kisah alleta dalam novel silent love.

“And that is the reason why I said those words. I like your fear, not because it is a normal thing. I love it because deep down you are a monster like me, schiava. You fear me on a primal level, you can feel my power and dominance, and you know you aren’t the strongest here. So you don’t fear Renzo Valentino the human, you fear the monster that lurks inside.” My life changed the night of my birthday. What started as a funny dare ended with blood and having a price on my head. I thought Renzo was the hero who saved me that night, but he was the devil who owned me forever. I, Misha Yakov, princess of the Russian mafia became Renzo Valentino's slave. He broke me, tortured me, and molded me into something new, something I hated and craved at the same time. I, Misha Yakov became my master's pet.

Have you ever experienced the love that strikes at the most unexpected place, like the arrow of cupid went haywire, or like the love potion you made for someone landed in someone else's hand. How Columbus must have felt when he started in search of a sea route to the East Indies, but ended up discovering America? I mean, it was even better, isn't it? That's what going to happen to our Jia Davis, a 23 year old 'full of life' girl. Her life revolves around her friends and her adventures. Her friends love her with their life. So is she ready to face the world of love after her first unfortunate experience, or she will do what she is been doing, that is 'staying away from the mess' and as she always says 'love is waste of time'. But that doesn't stop her from crushing on the most handsome man she had met. Is he the one who will make her believe in love, or maybe someone...

Since day one, Shen has never been so fascinated by the bouquet of red roses and box of chocolates that always appear at the gate of her apartment every evening. Thinking it was just only nearby to her, or someone she knew, she didn't put any attention onto it. Not until a crime happened in Metro whose main suspect is a secret admirer, she became eager to find all the possible answers that may lead to the true identity of her mysterious secret admirer.