And After The Fire A Novel

Four years of marriage. One signature—his own—that set me free, though he never realized what he was signing. I was Sophia Moretti, the invisible wife of James Moretti, heir to the city’s most powerful mafia family. But when his childhood sweetheart, the dazzling and privileged Vicky, returned, I finally understood: I had always been temporary. So I played my final move. I slid the papers across his desk—divorce disguised as routine university forms. James signed without a second glance, his fountain pen scratching across the page as carelessly as he'd treated our vows, without noticing he was ending our marriage. But I walked away with more than my freedom. Beneath my coat, I carried his unborn heir—a secret that could destroy him when he finally realized what he'd lost. Now, the man who never noticed me is tearing the world apart trying to find me. From his penthouse to the underworld's gutters, he's turning over every stone. But I'm not some trembling prey waiting to be found. I rebuilt myself beyond his reach—where not even a Moretti can follow. This time, I won't be begging for his love. He'll be begging for mine.

My husband, Steve Malone, thinks of himself as a highly-educated person. Not only that, but he's also very uninterested in physical intimacy. When we go to bed every night, we have to sleep with a bowl of water between us. In fact, Steve refuses to let me touch him at all. But on the day he returns from the volunteer teaching program in the countryside, I discover a pair of pantyhose all tangled up in his clothes. Upon hearing my question, Steve maintains his cool facade as he explains, "This is contraband that I've confiscated from a student." I never respond to Steve. Instead, I get in contact with the female teacher, Rebecca Cramer, who has gone teaching with Steve earlier. From the other end of the line, Rebecca's sarcastic voice drifts over. "Your husband sure is unstoppable, Audrey. He couldn't resist kneeling in the pig sty while licking the dead skin off that Paige widow's feet. No one could stop him at all. "I heard that Paige even intends to give birth to a child for him. They went at it once per day, you know. I think you should head over here and witness everything for yourself." As soon as I end the call, I contact my lawyer right away and prepare to file for a divorce. This time, I'm hell-bent on ending things with Steve.

Elaine never thought of going back after having to leave the city after her husband's betrayal without looking back. Five years later, she returns due to her father's insistence that she be present at the party. Has she moved on from the past? How will she face her ex-husband and stepsister, who broke her trust? Will the truth about her giving birth be discovered?

After getting into a fight with my CEO husband, Zachary Langford, I decided to sleep in a hotel room that night out of fury. Little did I know that a video would go viral on the Internet the next day. In the video, I took turns pleasuring seven men in my birthday suit. My moans filled the room the whole time. Zachary delivered a heavy slap across my face with the video shown on his phone. "How could I have ever married a shameless slut like you?" I couldn't even defend myself. All I could do was call the police for help. But once the police were done inspecting the video, they determined that it wasn't a deepfake. They had also discovered traces of the men's and my DNA in the hotel room. Everyone went into frenzied discussions on the Internet based on the video. It was then Zachary publicly announced that he shall be divorcing me soon after. Thanks to that, my mom died of a sudden heart attack. Apparently, the heart attack was triggered out of pure fury toward me. As for my father, he got into a fatal car accident on his way to the hospital. His corpse was completely broken and battered. After I got cast out of my family, those men's wives went as far as to hire hooligans to violate me in order to get revenge on me. Not wanting to get violated, I ended up falling down the stairs while I was fleeing from them. My brain suffered from internal bleeding, which killed me in the end. Even when I breathed my last, I still failed to understand why those videos and the evidence still existed despite the fact that I had done nothing at all. When I open my eyes again, I've returned to the day I'm having a fight with Zachary.

I used to be the apple of my family's eye, but Suzanne Nilson changed that when she showed up on my birthday with a DNA test result. The Nilson family cruelly kicks me to the curb and throws me back to my biological parents, leading to me being sold off to the village idiot. Xavier Gubbens, with whom I've grown up, kicks the door down and saves me. Later, he etches a word on my face. "Do you think you're done repenting for your sins with this, Suzanne Nilson?" Later still, his eyes are red as he pleads, "Can't we go back to how things used to be?" How things used to be? There's no such thing. Everyone has to look to the future.

After breaking up with his girlfriend, Eric Johnson married a beautiful female CEO to cover his father's $15,000 surgical bill.

Rowena, a wolfless omega and the infamous daughter of a murderer saw her life take a sudden turn for the worse on the day she discovered she was pregnant. While still dealing with the humiliation of her sudden canceled marriage and unknown to him she was pregnant, not only was she condemned for her barrenness, she was rejected by Sèbastien, her mate for his childhood sweetheart. Broken and sold out of the pack, her life was further complicated when she was accused of assault and thrown into jail where she barely managed to escape and ran into death. Three years later, Rowena had transformed into a resolute woman, fiercely guarding her twin treasures from the man who had once doubted her potential. With renewed vigor, Sèbastien embarks on a desperate chase to earn back the love he had once taken for granted. Now that the Alpha wants her back, will Rowena accept him or be with Alexander who had rescued her from the clutches of death and gave her a roof on her head when she was still weak? Or will their encounter be the beginning of her revenge?

Elena fled her past to survive . She left her toxic family behind : Serena , the stepmother who favored her stepsister Luna , and Richard, the father who never saw her ; to chase a full scholarship at a Miami university. The only family she has now ? Mila , her fiercely loyal best friend , and Mila’s wealthy boyfriend ; who treat Elena like their own. She met Julian at a VIP club, a billionaire CEO with storm-gray eyes and one thing led to the other , they spend the night together . He vanishes at dawn . Then she found out she was pregnant a month later . Four Years later , Elena is a single mother to Leo , a sharp-eyed boy with a mysterious birthmark . She’s built a cleaning empire : Alvarez Clean & Co. — and unknowingly services Hayes Global , Julian’s empire . Then fate strikes . A hospital emergency lands her in Victoria Hayes’ path : Julian’s powerful grandmother ; who sees Leo’s birthmark and knows . When Julian returns to crush corruption at Hayes Global , he doesn’t recognize the fierce cleaner… until Leo’s face stops him cold . He’s the father . She’s the woman he never forgot . And the past is about to explode . But secrets run deeper than blood . A stolen patent from the 1980s ties the Alvarez and Hayes families in betrayal . Her hidden family resurfaces ; with vengeance . As Serena and rival CEO Marcus Thorne plot to destroy them both , Elena must choose : Trust the man who broke her… or lose everything — again.

I was just the mate of the Alpha fated mate and the nanny to my child, not his Luna. I dedicated my life to him, but he never loved me—this was all because I was just a wolfless omega. Until his ex returned, everyone, including my mate and even my child, looked down on me. Everyone believed she should be the Luna. I turned and walked out of the house, choosing to live for myself. Three months later, I became the world’s most renowned white wolf healer, appearing on television. Son (shocked): "Dad, is that... my mom on TV?"

“ถ้าจะเอาถึงไม่ได้รักก็จะเอา” ถึงจะเห็นแก่ตัวก็ผัวเธอ… "เลือกมาว่าจะทำเอง หรือจะให้ฉันทำให้" "โมโหจนเป็นบ้าไปแล้วหรือไงคะ?!" "เพราะเมียนอกใจ ให้ใจเย็นได้อีกเหรอ!" อายุ 30 ปี นายแบบ/ลูกชายตระกูลดัง ชายหนุ่มผู้มีภาพรักสดใสและเข้าถึงง่าย กลับเปลี่ยนไปเพราะการสูญเสียครั้งใหญ่ในชีวิต เพียงขวัญ อายุ 24 ปี ผู้ช่วยสาวที่ต้องรองรับอารมร์ร้ายที่ของธาม  เธอไม่ได้อ่อนแอแต่เมื่อไหร่ที่ขัดใจเขามักจะลงโทษด้วยบทลงโทษที่เธอไม่คาดคิดเสมอ โรส อายุ 30 ปี คู่หมั้นของธาม เธอทุ่มเททุกอย่างเพื่อคนรักจนเผลอทำสิ่งที่ผิดพลาดไป และความลับนั้นจะไม่มีวันให้คนรักรู้ได้เด็ดขาด ไนท์ อายุ 30 ปี เพื่่อนสนิทธาม/นายแบบ เขามักจะรักชีวิตสงบแต่เมื่อได้ใกล้ชิดเพียงขวัญกลับเห็นใจ ยิ่งเห็นเพื่อนรักทำร้ายเธอมาเท่าไรเขาก็ยิ่งสงสารเธอจนต้องคอยเตือนสติเพื่อน มอส อายุ 27 ปี นายแบบ แฟนเก่าของเพียงขวัญที่เคยหายไป  อยู่ๆ ก็โผล่มาในสถานะเด็กในสังกัดคนใหม่ของผู้จั