Another Word For Slowly

I breathe heavily as he pins me to the wall, his hands wrapped tight around my throat I could barely breathe. ‘You hear me, Sera? I found you first. I noticed you first! I fell for you first. No one else, I mean, no one should put their hands on you, because if they do, I swear to God, Sera, I'll fucking break their arms and legs and serve it to you to eat!’ He growls. Seraphina Puckett is the perfect definition of trauma. A walking trauma. She tries to navigate her life, trying to bring in sunshine but as the world is determined to make it rain on her, what does she do? Does she get beaten in the rain or walk through it? When her abusive father gets out of prison and is out to get her, how does she face her fear?

When Damien Wolfe raids a cartel safehouse, he isn’t looking for a girl he’s looking for revenge. But then he finds Aria: wounded, silent, staring at him like he’s the last thing she’ll ever see. He should’ve left her. He didn’t. Now she’s under his protection, trapped in his world of secrets and scars, and the line between guardian and captor burns thinner every day. Because the more he tries to save her, the more he remembers the one thing he swore he’d buried mercy. A dark, addictive romantic thriller about two broken people who were never meant to meet and the fire they can’t escape. #darkeromance #hatetolove #enemiestolovers

Sienna Hayes only wanted one thing: to escape the wreckage of her father’s debts and start over at Ridgecrest Academy, the elite school where she’s nothing more than the invisible scholarship girl. But blending in is impossible when her path collides with Luca Russo, the academy’s golden boy with a dangerous edge. Luca has it all—money, power, and the world at his feet—but behind his charming smile lies a storm he can’t control. When Sienna becomes the first person to see through his carefully constructed façade, their connection becomes impossible to ignore. But Sienna has secrets of her own—secrets tied to Luca’s powerful family and the debt that could destroy them both. As their worlds spiral closer, passion ignites, boundaries blur, and the line between love and disaster disappears. Will they survive the fallout, or will their forbidden love become the ultimate betrayal?

ในขณะที่ตากล้องสาวสวยกำลังช่วยตัวเองอยู่นั้น ก็ดันช็อคตายอาวุธที่ปรนเปรอสุขสม แล้วย้อนกลับไปในวันเกิดเรื่องของเพื่อนสนิทที่ตนแอบชอบสมัยมัธยมก่อนเขาจะก้าวเข้ามาในวงการรับตำแหน่ง พระเอกเอวีในดวงใจ!

“You saved my life. Name your price.” “Take responsibility for me.” Asaraiah Montova is the invisible daughter of a brutal mafia bloodline. Born from her father's affair, she survives abuse, cruelty, and betrayal in silence. Her only sanctuary? A shed hidden deep in their estate, until she finds a bloodied stranger inside. Malrik Kaine is the name whispered in fear. A vampire and the ruthless mafia boss of the Kaine Syndicate. Cursed. Untouchable. Dangerous. When she saves his life, he owes her a favor. She demands the unthinkable: marriage. What starts as a desperate bargain spirals into an obsession between a girl with nothing to lose and a man who has lost everything. What if the shed wasn’t the first time they met? What happens when she finds out she has died by his hands more than once? And when her past collides with his curse, neither blood nor death will be enough to stop them. Dare to follow her into the darkness. Because once the blood debt is owed, there is no escape. Step into the shadows of the syndicate. Here, debts aren’t forgiven—they’re collected... in blood. “In the mafia, blood isn’t thicker than water—it’s the price you pay for power.”

At an investor banquet, my fiancé Tanner Clarkson’s secretary, Willow Thorne, recklessly throws a glass of wine at an investor and hurls insults without thinking. In retaliation, the investor demands that Willow make it up to him with her body, or he'll pull his funding. To ensure the company's successful IPO, Tanner hands me a glass of spiked wine. Then, he pushes me to the investor, expecting me to extinguish his flames of rage. His eyes are filled with feigned hesitation as he says, "Willow isn't like you. She just graduated—she's pure and innocent. Stop fighting it, Kathy. I'll make it up to you once the company goes public." When I regain consciousness, I stare at the man across from me, my voice hoarse. "About that deal you mentioned... I'll sign it."

NEWLY REVAMPED: The one moment in college that had left Kate Sloan breathless and wanting more to fulfill her now-opened sexual desire had also left her empty. Seven years later Kate Sloan had worked hard to become a successful businesswoman. She had been working to be a partner when all of her dreams were crushed when her one-night stand bought her company wrecking all her dreams. She couldn’t understand why he had to buy her company or why he was so insistent she stay and be close to him after all he disappeared seven years ago. Now the passionate one-night stand she had was about to come to her present life and take over. As she becomes more involved with his family, there is also the mystery and threat of a devious villain set to cause as much damage as possible to the CEO and consequently her. Would she survive?

She was his secretary. Plain and simple. No complications. No problems. That was Cassandra's life before she started liking her Boss in ways she couldn't explain. Siya 'yung type ng girl na walang masyadong pakialam sa iba, pero when it comes to her Boss na laging cause ng headache niya, she loses her mind. Cassandra knew where this was leading her... but would she risk it? There's a possibility na she might lose the most stable work she ever had. But there was also a big possibility na she might lose her mind if she didn't risk it.

Isang gabi kapalit ng malaking halaga. Ang kaniyang virginity kapalit ng pera na makatulong sa kanilang pamilya. Isang mabuting anak at isang bilyonaryo na naliligaw ang landas.

On the way to get our marriage certificate for the twentieth time, Rolf Trivett regretted it once again. In eight years, this was our twentieth attempt to get the certificate. But every time we reached City Hall, he would always say he needed time to care for his seriously ill childhood friend and couldn't promise to marry me. This time, I couldn't take it anymore and asked him, "If she’s never going to get better, does that mean you’ll never marry me? What am I to you?" Rolf immediately lost his temper and yelled at me, "I've already promised to take care of her for life. Can you stop being so selfish? "Besides, we've been together for eight years. What difference does it make if we don't get this certificate?"