Blood Isn't Always Thicker Than Water

In a city where Mafia dynasties rule with velvet fists and iron bullets, Laxiel lives in the shadows—an orphan driven by a hunger for revenge. When he crosses paths with Dorian Gates, the golden boy of a bloodstained empire, forbidden attraction sparks into a dangerous inferno. But secrets rot beneath silk and steel. As old enemies resurface, betrayals carve deep wounds, and a dark legacy threatens to consume them both, Laxiel and Dorian must decide: will they cling to the hatred they were born into—or choose each other and set fire to the past? Love is rebellion. Survival is vengeance. And together, they will change everything.

Minsan dumadating sa atin ang isang pagsubok na hindi natin inaasahan. Iyong tipo na ngayon ay masaya ka pero hindi mo alam na may kalakip 'yon na kalungkutan. Kagaya na lang ni Devi na gusto lang naman maranasan ang magmahal at mahalin. Akala niya ay magiging masaya na siya ng tuluyan. Pero hindi niya inaakala na maagang kukunin ang taong nagparamdam sa kanya ng tunay na pagmamahal. Paano niya haharapin ang bukas kung wala na ang taong nakasanayan niya? Makakamove on pa ba siya sa sakit ng kahapon? Kaya niya pa kayang magmahal muli sa ikalawang pagkakataon?

My estranged husband suddenly barges into my parents' home, demanding to know where I am. He forces my mother to her knees and pushes my paralyzed father to the floor before beating him up. He even renders our four-year-old son half-dead. Why? Because his true love is disfigured and needs a skin graft to restore her looks. "Where is Victoria? She should be honored that she can do this for Amelia! Hand her over, or I'll kill all of you!" It's too bad I've been dead for a year.

It was a national holiday and we decided to drive back to my husband's hometown to spend the holidays. One day before we left, my husband's childhood crush came crying to him that she had not managed to buy train tickets home. My husband immediately decided to let her have my seat in the car and insisted that I take the train instead. I looked at him in disbelief. There was shock in my eyes. Even my son insisted I take the train. "Mommy, Aunt Rosie is so pretty. How could you make her take the train?" I did not argue. I booked my train ticket right in front of them. However, it was to my own hometown. I no longer wanted a biased husband and a disloyal son.

Naranasan mo na bang magtiwala sa isang tao? Iyong tipo na akala mo ay hindi ka niya magagawang lokohin at saktan? Ysabelle isang 3rd year college student. Maganda, mabait, matalino at galing sa mayaman na pamilya pero kahit gano'n pa man ay hindi niya ginagamit 'yon para makalamang sa kapwa. Isang araw ay susubukin ang kanyang buhay dahil sa isang trahedya. Paano kung ang inaakala mong totoo sayo ay siya pala ang dahilan kung bakit muntik ka ng mamatay? May lugar pa ba sa puso mo ang kapatawaran?

In a world where love's course is never predictable, Anastasia Perry's life took a dramatic turn on her wedding day. Upon discovering her groom, Matthew Smith had been cheating on her through a video. She made a heart-wrenching decision: to run away, leaving her own wedding in chaos. Now, two years later, Anastasia returns. Anastasia is now married to Matthew's uncle, Harry Smith. Her unexpected reappearance rocks Matthew's world. Harry and Anastasia are involved in a secret contract marriage in order to save his inheritance. The question lingers: Can Anastasia prevent herself from falling for Matthew all over again? As Harry finds himself falling for Anastasia, can he convince her to make their one-year contract permanent? Will Matthew's secret plans to destroy his uncle succeed? With emotions running high and a web of complicated choices to navigate, their story unfolds in a captivating dance of secrets, forgiveness, redemption, and the ultimate question: Can love truly conquer all?

Ice Arceneaux is the heiress of the mafia clan,Blue Pegasus. With her mothers' plan, together with her sisters she escaped the mafia and made a fake deaths to live a new life outside the underworld. With the help of her biological aunt, she got her real new name Wynter Sandrine Verschaffelt. A name given by her before it passed away. Together with her three sister she got a new identity and life away from the watchful eyes of their merciless father. But, when everything was in a right place one revelation will make it a mess. She was arrange to marry the son of the owner of the Collins group of Company. Ice now known as Wynter has no choice but to let Matthew enter her life. A man who has full of secret and dark past. A man who has a pair of eyes, she had feel she already seen before.

"Who is the father of that child, Azalea?" "That's none of your business at all." "You won't be going anywhere until you answer my question. Who else have you been sleeping with besides me!?" "'Sleeping'!? If you remember, Ikaros Alexandrovich, you pinned me down in the kitchen, in a standing position, facing the cabinet, and you did all those disgusting things with me! That's not exactly 'sleeping'! But it was my first and only experience, dammit!"

Born as the Duke's most exquisite daughter, Triana grew up as an innocent, spoiled girl. However, she realizes that her beauty is the reason for all the happiness she has gotten so far. Thus, she asks a witch for an eternal beauty. As a condition from the witch, Triana must give a torture potion to a vampire who has been confined in a hidden castle. Vlador, the last descendant of King Dracula, survived the war but was chained in magic, forgotten, and starving. Triana's deception grants her the timeless beauty she craves, but it also plunges her into a nightmarish reality. When Vlador's chains shatter and he thinks she will be his prey, a strange and perilous connection emerges between them. "You two have the same arrogance. Isn't 'Eat or be eaten' a principle of your lives? Now, suffer together in my curse!" Their hearts beat as one, each reliant on the other for their very existence. Triana must quench her thirst with Vlador's blood to stay alive, while he battles his insatiable craving for hers.

Chance takes another drink of beer and points his finger at Alex. "I bet you can't." Alex doesn't understand why they think it is such a big deal. He can go without s*x if he wanted to. He just doesn't want to. What is so wrong with that? They should be thankful. It keeps him entertained and relaxed. Alex points his finger back at him. "I bet I can." Will Alex find it as easy as he thinks it will be to win the bet? Or will he run into some obstacles along the way? One of which is a tan muscular man who is willing to help Alex with whatever Alex needs, but is the man's help to win the bet or to win Alex?