Better The Devil You Know Meaning

Marry a man for money and he would make you work for every penny.. Kelsey Sinclair abandoned everything she had ever known to marry the billionaire heir, Marcus Phillip. Fairy tales do come true and lucky people fall in love after an arranged marriage, but that wasn’t her case. Marcus did not love her, neither did she love him, but her father was drowning in debt and marrying him was the only way to save her father. Marcus was a literal eye candy. Pleasant to look at and stacked with enough assets to make sure his great grandchildren inherited enough to last them a lifetime. He was every woman’s dream; kind, rich and with the body of a god. But, beyond the surface, he was worse than the devil himself. Now, Kelsey is forced to run away from a cold world with Marcus but unknown to her she gets dragged into the controlling and dominating world of Andre Alessandro, a more dangerous version of Marcus.

When 20 year old Emilia Navarro is sold to one of the most feared mafia lord in the city, her world shatters. Her father and stepmother, drowning in debt and desperate for a taste of luxury, trade her innocence for a pile of blood stained money. She is delivered like property to Dante Calhoun a cold, ruthless man with ice in his veins and a reputation built on violence. Dante didn't ask for a bride, he demanded obedience, a pawn to solidify his grip over a rival family. What he didn't expect was Emilia's fire, fragile yet defiant. Emilia refuses to be broken even as she thrusts into a world of brutal power plays ,deadly secrets and dangerous alliances. As the lines between hate and desire blur, Emilia must learn how to survive in a world where love is a weapon and loyalty is earned in blood. But the deeper she falls into Dante's world, the more she realizes that the most dangerous thing may not be falling for the man she was sold to but discovering secrets behind her true origin.

ROMANCE DEWASA 21+ Harap Bijak dalam membaca! ***** Ini kisah tentang Gaby, wanita angkuh yang sangat perfectsionis. Gaby menikah dengan Gibran atas dasar perjodohan. Setelah mengetahui rahasia kelam Gibran, Gaby yang marah besar dan langsung mengajukan perjanjian pernikahan bahwa setelah satu Tahun menikah nanti mereka harus bercerai. Ini kisah tentang Mirella, wanita simpanan seorang mafia kelas kakap bernama Freddy Santiago. Mirella yang merupakan cinta masa lalu Gibran. Hingga pada suatu ketika takdir mempertemukan mereka kembali dan mempersatukan mereka dalam ikatan suci tali pernikahan. Ini kisah tentang Gibran, lelaki yang memiliki dua istri di mana salah satu istrinya adalah seorang psikopat. Siapakah gerangan dia? Apakah Gaby? Atau Mirella? Temukan jawabannya dalam kisah mereka!

For a chance to avenge her family, Angelica married the enemy--Curtis Arciero, the ruthless owner of the most famous nightclub in the city, a cold-hearted asshole with a heart made of stone. Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer, they say. But when the flames got too hot to handle and the chemistry too much, she realized she had a bigger problem at hand. Does keeping the enemy close include falling for his charm?

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" "It is." "Please don't pull that with me." "Pull what?" "That." She pointed at my face. "Where I explain how pretty everything looks and you say yes but you would be referring to me." She waved her hands in the air, explaining. "It's cliche and kinda getting old." "Would you prefer I do this instead?" I pinned a loose strand behind her ear, my palm roamed her soft features and also on her lips. "Or this?" I leaned in to steal a kiss, stopping midway to see if she'd stop me and she didn't. I couldn't help the tiny smirk that lay on my lips after. "Aren't you going to stop me?" My raspy voice whispered in her ear. She shivered, unconsciously leaning into me for warmth. I stopped her fingers as she tried to wrap them around my neck. ********** She's not the bad girl he thought she was. He's not the good boy she thought he was.

In the ruthless mafia world, loyalty is everything...until it isn't. Sophia Moretti has lived her entire life as the obedient daughter, hiding a sharp mind and a rebellious heart. But when her father's disloyalty puts their family in danger, Sophia is forced to make a sacrifice: marry "The Devil" the most feared man in New York's underworld. Dante Romano also known as "The Devil"—has built his empire on revenge and power. When the man who puts him through hell comes to him for help, he demands his daughter. Dante expects a submissive bitch, a pawn but Sophia is his undoing, his lesson straight from hell. She is fire wrapped in silk and Dante soon realized that taming her might cost him his revenge. But in a city full of rat and snakes, Dante is the one person she can trust when alliances are bought and enemies surface. Their forced marriage turns into a partnership of shared secrets and unquestionable desire. Still, betrayal runs deep in the mafia, can they trust each other enough to survive the betrayal that threatens to tear them apart?

Warning! 18++ Dark romance, violence, sex and lots of sex, BDSM, age gap, sugar daddy/baby kink, kidnapping, etc. *** Series of stories of sizzling hot bad boy billionaires, who are devils in the sheets and out of it, tamed by feisty female leads. Each story can be read as a standalone, but some characters make appearances in various stories. Dive in for a long thick...I meant a good long ride, Unless you would rather be bad, Very bad.

Lelaki dengan sorot mata tajam, minim bersuara dan tegas. Ethand Girogino Alves sang CEO Alves Corp selalu berpikir kritis dan kejam. Bahkan setiap kalimat yang dilontarkannya seperti sembilu yang menyayat hati bagi setiap telinga yang mendengarnya. “Ternyata benar,” Ethand menjeda kalimatnya. Wanita dihadapannya menatap sinis lalu membuang tatapannya ke arah lain. “Barang murah memang selalu berkualitas rendah.” Awal mula pertemuan Ethand dan seorang wanita yang mampu mengubah pandangan hidup dan hatinya. Emma Liandra Jones, seorang wanita yang mahir dalam dunia IT. Bekerja di Alves Corp dan bertemu dengan CEO yang memberinya hukuman di hari pertama kerja. “Bukankah lelaki juga selalu menilai wanita dari sepatu mana yang dipakainya?” Emma seorang yang jenius. Kecantikannya mengalahkan artis papan atas di Vunia. Akankah Ethand me-reset hidupnya dan memulai hidup baru?

“Do you know why people call me the devil? It’s because I live up to that name,” he chuckled and tightened his hand around my neck, making my pulse race. “I've shed a lot of blood, and killing someone as insignificant as you… It means nothing." “Then why haven’t you?” I dared to ask. I shouldn't test his patience, but the thrill of danger was so… Tempting. “You fascinate me. It would be a shame to end someone as amusing as you too soon.” His lips almost brushed against mine, stealing my breathe. "One month. Escape with Clara within one month, and it would seem like you never met me." “And if I fail?” “I’ll kill you. ~~~ When Gwendolyn Harper and her best friend are kidnapped by Lorenzo Raimondo, the ruthless, cunning mafia lord of Sinclair City, she's faces an impossible choice: save herself and abandon her best friend or risk everything to save them both. She chooses defiance, striking a dangerous deal for their freedom. But Gwen may have underestimated how much power Lorenzo had and the seductive, dangerous charm that she couldn't resist. Will she fight for a freedom that seems nearly impossible, or will she succumb to the temptation of the man who holds her life?

He’s known as The Dark—ruthless, feared, and untouchable. She's as pure as the came, naive and beautiful. It all began when she moved her little Pastry right across the street where The Den, a dark wall of velvet sin, displayed its darkness. Now he can't stay away. He likes the chase, the little game they play, cause he knows he will win in the end. But Dormani Diavolo doesn't fall in love. He claims. He consumes. And he wants her. Most sinfully, one could fathom. A dark mafia romance about innocence, obsession, and the kiss that could ruin them both.