Asta X Noelle

Being young and beautiful, Celeste is the only daughter of the Marcon Family and was raised by Don Andres Marcon and Dona Saffira Marcon in their province. She was known to be an in-demand event stylist and a successful event planner. Everything is fine with her life, but she doesn’t remember anything about her childhood to her adolescence. She always felt that something was always missing in her life –not until she found out the truth when an unknown man came named Allastair and he claimed that she was his.

Lauretta Blythe, terpaksa menjalani kehidupan bak Cinderella di karakter Disney. Ibu tirinya bilang, ia akan dibawa pergi oleh Pangeran berkuda putih seperti di negeri dongeng. Namun bukan seorang Pangeran yang Lauretta dapat, melainkan sosok monster berwajah tampan dengan iris mata kehijauan yang meneduhkan. Bernama Elderick Calderon Matthew. Ketua komplotan mafia bertopeng yang dikenal kejam oleh seluruh penjuru negara. Masa lalu kelam mengikat mereka seperti takdir benang merah. Ingin melepas, namun Lauretta sudah terlanjur jatuh hati dengan monster penuh kekurangan itu. Lauretta pun diharuskan menerima kenyataan pahit yang menyakitinya. Mungkinkah kisah klasik itu berakhir bahagia dengan kisah cinta yang rumit? Haruskah merelakan?

I loved and followed him around like a puppy for eight years until finally he noticed me. Hearing him ask me to be his wife was a dream come true. A fairytale. Or so I thought. Three years of marriage meant nothing to Nash. After trying everything I could to make him love me, I realized she never left his heart and was merely with me because I was a Callahan and that came with power. Because one night, he returned home with his first love and their son. My world shattered in silence, every dream I held onto crashing and burning to ashes. Sidelined and forced to watch him shower her with love and tenderness, I had no choice but to divorce him. I was going to leave and start my life afresh but then my husband and his mistress took from me what I'd never forgive them for. With a broken heart, I rose in anger and was ready to punish them both and make them pay for the pain they caused me.

After I risked my life to save the Alpha King, he promised to grant me one wish. While everyone expected me to choose to mate with Kay, the current Alpha of Stormfang Pack, I publicly declared my intention to bind with Eli. He was Kay's half-brother, the illegitimate son of the former Alpha who had been exiled abroad. No one knows that I've died once before. In my past life, after I became Kay's fated mate, I diligently fulfilled my role as Luna. But he always favored my stepsister, Lia. That day, when the pack was attacked, I went to find him for protection. When I desperately found him, I discovered that Kai was desperately protecting Lea, and the two of them were even kissing passionately in danger. To shield Lia, he pushed me forward to face the rogue pack alone. I'll never forget the words he said as he left, holding the weeping Lia in his arms: "She needs protecting more than you do." So this time, I chose to give up on Kay. If I had to choose someone from Stormfang Pack for a mating bond, I'd rather choose Eli. I wanted to be in control of my own destiny. But this time, after I chose Eli as my mate, Kay went completely crazy.

Every Christmas Eve in Port Saint Giovanni, the Camerlano family hosts the Claiming Rite at Saint Giovanni Manor. Twelve girls stand in a line. Whoever receives the white-gold signet pin becomes the heir’s publicly acknowledged bride candidate. I am Grace Sorrento, the bastard daughter of the Sorrento family. If I do not receive that signet tonight, by sunrise I will be put on a plane to Chicago and married off to a Rizzo, a man rumored to have killed two former fiancées. Adrian Camerlano, the boy I grew up with, swore to me in blood three days ago that the signet would be mine. But when the moment came, his hand turned. With a smile, he pinned it on Lucia, the orphan his family had sponsored. Then he leaned close to my ear. "Let Lucia have her moment. No one has ever really looked at her before. Don’t worry. This is my estate. No one will dare arrange your marriage without my say." I grabbed his sleeve, but he removed my fingers one by one. "Lucia has no roots and no last name. Tonight is all she has. But you are a Sorrento. Even without the signet, no one will touch you." That phrase, no last name, drew every gaze in the ballroom toward me, full of pity and quiet mockery. The next morning, I boarded a flight to Chicago. When Adrian heard, he made one call to Port Saint Giovanni Air Control. "Ground every plane. Nothing leaves today!"

It was the thirtieth anniversary of my alma mater, and I had been invited back to give a speech. But as I stepped on stage, my husband's illegitimate son rushed toward me, brandishing a knife. His accusations rang through the hall: I was a homewrecker, the woman who had driven his mother to her death. He went even further, kidnapping my daughter and threatening her safety unless I publicly read a letter of confession. I was beaten to within an inch of my life, my body battered and bruised. I demanded my husband come forward and confront the truth. Instead, he turned on me. "I was forced to be with you in the first place!" my husband spat, venom dripping from every word. "You're the real mistress!"

“If you want me to keep your secret, you have to do one thing for me in exchange,” he said, his lips curled up slightly. “What thing?” Aurora narrowed her eyes, alarmed at the direction of the conversation. “Never never share the same bed with my brother,” he demanded, his alpha dominance rolling off him in waves, making her want to bare her neck for submission. But Aurora straightened her back and challenged him head-on. “Why? I’m his wife,” Aurora stated with a neutral expression on her face. She and her husband were a fake couple, but he didn’t have to know that. The fewer people who knew, the more favorable the situation was to her. “I’m supposed to…” “You are mine!” he released a deep guttural growl. The possessiveness shown in his words and eyes made Aurora both startled and baffled. He stalked to her in calculated steps, his eyes glinting with a deep well of want and desire under the moonlight. Aurora started to retreat cautiously until her back hit a hard wall. In a flash, he was in front of her, his arms resting on the wall beside her head, caging her. He was so close to her. Too close. His lips almost touched hers. A smell mixed of rain and pine forests invaded her nose, making her dizzy. Her wolf perked up. Aurora quickly cleared her senses. “I’m nobody’s woman,” she declared, locking eyes with him. But she quickly regretted it because who wouldn’t lose herself in a pair of deep blue ocean-like eyes on a face carved out by the Moon Goddess herself? “Want a bet?” he smirked, “One day you will be mine.” The audacity of him!

I stumbled across an encrypted folder on my husband's phone, filled with photos of a little girl I'd never seen before. From newborn to first steps, sorted by month—two full years' worth. But the child in those photos wasn't our daughter. When I confronted him, he said she was a girl named Rosie from the children's home I sponsored. The director sent growth updates, and he'd been saving them for me. I never imagined that my warm, thoughtful husband would use my charity to spin a lie. Because every single photo was geotagged to the apartment complex next to his office. And the children's home was on the other side of the city. I didn't call him out right then. Because I wanted to know whose child she really was.

Cuando tenía tres meses de embarazo, la supuesta hermanastra de mi esposo, el Don, apareció en mi puerta. Ruby tenía un vientre abultado que era imposible de ignorar. —Donna, ya que mi fecha de parto está tan cerca, pensé que deberías saberlo... el heredero del Don está en mi vientre. Ella puso todo frente a mí: fotos íntimas de ella y Caleb, registros de las transferencias de dinero semanales que él le enviaba, incluso la escritura de una mansión. Las fechas más antiguas se remontaban a la época en que perdí a nuestro primer bebé, cuando los médicos me dijeron que sería difícil para mí volver a concebir. Todos estos años, yo había estado soportando tratamientos de fecundación in vitro, intentando desesperadamente gestar a nuestro hijo una vez más... mientras él se divertía con su supuesta hermanastra. Bueno, si Caleb quería tanto a otra mujer, podía quedarse con ella. De todos modos, no tenía intención de quedarme. Ya estaba planeando mi partida.

Terlahir dari benih yang tak diinginkan, Dara bahkan tak pernah mendapat pelukan dari ibunya. Sejak kejadian pelecehan itu, dan dinyatakan hamil, ibu Dara mengalami gangguan jiwa. Sejak kecil, Dara diperlakukan tak adil oleh lingkungan sosial. Gadis itu tertolak di lingkungan karena latar belakangnya. Bahkan ia beberapa kali gagal menikah karena lelaki yang mengaku cinta, rupanya malah meninggalkan saat tahu siapa asal usul Dara. Hingga seiring waktu berjalan, Dara semakin yakin bahwa tak akan ada yang bisa menerima keadaannya. Tak akan ada lelaki yang akan menikahinya karena mereka tidak mau ibu Dara menjadi bagian dari keluarganya, malu. Rayyan datang saat Dara sedang di titik rendah pada kepercayaannya akan cinta. Melihat ketulusan Rayyan, Dara kembali jatuh cinta lagi. Namun, lagi-lagi Dara terhalang restu, karena ibu Rayyan tak menyukainya, bahkan selalu menyusun rencana untuk menghancurkannya. Bagaimana Dara akan bertahan?