Ayo Bet

While my husband was chatting with his friend at the dining table, his friend suddenly spoke in Italian. “You married Lyra to write a pardon letter for River. You’ve been showing more concern toward Lyra, but you’re still lying to her and saying that the contraceptives are antidepressants. Don’t you think Lyra will break down if she learns the truth?” My husband wore a complicated expression as he chuckled bitterly and said, “Why let a child be born if I don’t want it? As for Lyra, so long as she doesn’t interfere with River’s happiness, I’ll keep my promise and protect her for life.” No one knew that I had already learned Italian to keep up with my husband. I stood in the living room with fresh hickeys on my neck. In my hand, I held the “antidepressants” and felt a chill run down my spine. So, my husband’s love for me had been fake? My salvation had actually been a meticulously planned lie? In that case, I would help them fulfill their wishes.

She has been married for five years to her Mate, the Alpha of Crescent. Little does she know that on the very day she discovers they are finally going to be parents, her Mate has called a council meeting to ask for a divorce and presents his pregnant lover to take her place. Humiliated and heartbroken, she ends up aimlessly exiled and a famous Alpha rescues her without imagining that this man would give her the second chance she deserves. The problem is, she doesn't know at what cost.

Stella Mathews never imagined her life would become anything after agreeing to marry the cold, and ruthless Alpha Cole Grant out of an alliance.... It wasn’t her first choice to the life she thought for herself, but she grew to love him with her whole heart and together they built a family, or at least that’s what she believed until she decided to include her mate and pups in her birthday celebration and heard her daughter say the words that shattered her heart: “Mommy Sabrina… you’re my real mommy now.”

“If someone ever told me that having a crush on someone could bring unbearable pain in the end, I would believe them because I have gone through that”. Since college, I have always had a crush on Nathan, one of the most popular and handsome guys in school. But, of course, he never for once noticed me. Even after we graduated from college. He became a hotshot CEO while I was a jeweler who worked in his company. They say an opportunity comes but once, and that was the truth. Nathan's father seemed to notice me, and because of him, I was able to get married to Nathan. But little did I know that that was the beginning of my nightmare. I am Adira, and welcome to my story…

"Baby... please don't do this to me! We can fix it! Just please! please don't do this" I beg to him while his packing his things. "I'm sorry Sandra... but I can't.  I can't spend my life to you anymore. Don't make this hard to us, just let me go." He said without any expression to his face. " A-are you leaving me because she's back? Are you  going to throw everything we've been through,  for the fast four years of our marriage? Just b-because.... just because your first love came back? You're throwing me out because of her? " Pagtatanong ko sa mahinahong boses at habang pinapatatag ang sarili ko na 'wag mag- breakdown sa sagot na maririrnig ko mula sakaniya. Tumigil siya sa pag-iimpake at tumingin sa akin ng deretso na halos ikatumba ko. "Yes. Everyone said she's already dead, everyone lied to me. Everyone fool me! I wouldn't marry you if i just known she's still alive. I'm sorry... Sandra I hope you understand." Saad niya. Hindi ko man lang siya nakitaan ng pagsisisi o kahit awa man lang para sa akin para sa nagawa niya. Tang*na! ginawa niya akong rebound. Natawa ako sa mga sinabi niya, puno ng galit at sakit akong tumitig sa kniya at mapait na ngumiti. "So all this time I am just your rebound? all this time pinaniwala mo akong mahal mo ako ! Pinaniwalaan ko lahat ng mga sinabi mo, pinakita at pinaramdam mo, pati mga pangako mong hindi naman pala para talaga sakin! "Wala kang puso Jiro, hindi ka makatao... Pinag-sisisihan kong nakilala kita at nagtiwala ako sa'yo... at lalong pinag-sisisihan kong ikaw pa ang minahal ko."     Saad ko na punong-puno ng galit ngunit sa mahinahong boses at walang emosyong mga matang nakatitig sa kaniya.

She married him to save her family. He married her to settle a score. Neither expected the silence between them to hurt this much. When Lucy Benjamin is forced to take her sister’s place in a high-stakes marriage to the cold, powerful billionaire Gabriel Fernandez, she believes she’s being handed to a monster. Gabriel, haunted by betrayal and bound by secrets, sees Lucy as part of the lie that ruined him. But as icy tension turns to burninig glances, and unspoken pain gives way to raw emotion, both must confront the truth behind the lies that tore them apart. In a world ruled by wealth, power, and manipulation, can love survive the silence or was it never meant to begin?

One mistake Felicia made in her life was to trust her twin sister. In exchange, her life, her dreams and even her future was taken away from her. When she thought nothing could get worse, she was forced to be marked by the man she dreaded the most in her life. … Beta Andrew lost his hopes in mate bond and love when he lost the love of his life. He thought he was never gonna find anyone. His heart was locked away in a metal cage after he encountered betrayal from his chosen mate. Until one smile shattered that cage one day. Will Beta Andrew ever get to find his true mate? Or will he live alone forever?

They say the happiest moment in a Lycan's life is meeting their fated mate. But what if you reject your fated mate to be with your chosen one, only to realize you made a mistake as your chosen mate betrays you? That's the dilemma Elara found herself in. After discovering she was pregnant with the child of her boyfriend and chosen mate, Elijah Reed, he rejected her and chose her step-sister, Fiona Arundel, instead. Little did Elara know, this was all a plot orchestrated by her step-sister and step-mother. They wanted to secure Elijah, the Alpha of their Forestheart pack. Since her mother's death and her father's absence, Elara had been slowly poisoned by her stepmother, leading to a miscarriage and her impending end. In her final breath, she uncovered the truth about her child's death and her stepmom's entire plan. "Even in your last breath, Elara, you remain naive. Too kind, just like your mother. That's why you'll die now without a fight." Fernanda smiled at her, covering Elara's face with a pillow. Helpless and unable to move her body, Elara had no chance. In her last breath, she vowed to seek revenge, to make those who tormented and belittled her pay. And as she opened her eyes, she found herself back in the past, a year before her death. There, she reencounters her rejected fated mate, Damian Raven Ashford, the man she would use to achieve her revenge. "Mark me and I will give you my body and my whole life. In exchange, help me seek revenge against those who have oppressed me." Elara saw the mischievous smile on Damian's lips. "If that's the case, start by making me happy using your body." They marked their alliance. a bond that would draw them closer to each other.

All her life Victoria had wanted to meet her missing father….certain he had the answers she was seeking. Fueled with thoughts of anger and revenge it wasn't until her mother's death she embarked on the journey to find him. Her journey leads her into the arms of her childhood friend, Ivan-the only man she let close to her heart. He understands her and has always been her confidant. But would he if she revealed all of her secrets and the real reason she's searching for her father. Ivan was weary of living a lie. Unable to walk away from family obligations, he's been forced to deceive the only woman he's cared about ….Who he now realizes is his mate. Ivan knows he's doing the unforgivable and its just a matter of time before she finds out the truth but he can't resist the chemistry between them or deny the sensuous passion he experiences with Victoria. A heated encounter seals the fate of Victoria and Ivan. After discovering the true depth of Ivan's deception, Victoria must learn to trust Ivan and trust that the mate bond they share is enough to protect their relationship from her father's wrath and Ivan's scorned ex-lover.

I make my final phone call to my boyfriend when a murderer is hunting me down. He thinks I'm messing with him and hangs up on me. That destroys the final sliver of hope I have for survival. He's celebrating his childhood friend's birthday when I'm being murdered. Later, as a restorative embalmer, he receives a body to restore. He loses his mind when he restores my shattered skull and realizes the body is mine.