Boyish Makeup

They said I was beautiful — but not real. That my smile was perfect — but my past made me broken. I spent years trying to prove I was more than the girl who changed her face to survive the world’s cruelty. I married Julian Vale, believing love would finally see me. I called Serena Blake my sister, trusting her more than my own reflection. And when my world collapsed under secrets, silence, and the weight of never being enough — I disappeared. Then I opened my eyes… Ten years earlier. Before the surgery. Before the vows. Before I forgot who I was beneath the makeup and the mask of confidence. This time, I don’t need to be fixed. This time, I don’t need to be forgiven. I remember every lie. Every betrayal. Every time I silenced my voice to keep the peace. So I’m not here to win back love. I’m not here to punish the past. I’m here to become the woman I was always meant to be — unedited, unafraid, and finally, completely seen. I was more than pretty. This time, I’ll live like I believe it.

"I'm willing to marry you." Jared Brooks and his brother, Shiloh, turned their heads. Standing before them was a woman in a wedding dress, but this was no ordinary bride. Her gown was stained with dirt and blood, her mascara streaked down her cheeks, and her makeup a ruined mess. Today was supposed to be Julia Watson's wedding day. She was set to marry her fiancé, Carter Ross, until her so-called best friend, Vivien Smith, announced to everyone that she and Carter were expecting a baby—and were in love. Shattered by the betrayal of her fiancé and best friend, Julia was ready to give up. That was until she spotted Jared Brooks, the CEO of Brooks Corporation, at the courthouse. "Who are you?" Jared asked, puzzled by the stranger's proposal. Jared had no intention of marrying a stranger, and even his brother found the idea absurd. He was about to leave when Julia made an irresistible promise: she could cure his brother's legs. "I'm Julia Watson of the Watson family," she introduced herself. Jared assumed Julia sought revenge against her ex-fiancé by marrying him. Little did he know, Julia harbored two dark secrets. First, she had a mission to complete. Second, she wasn't really Julia Watson.

I dropped off lunch for my husband at the Conglomerate HQ, only to bump into my ex from two years ago. The man who'd ditched me at our marking ceremony to go "take care of his sister." I'd changed my hair, my makeup, everything. But he spotted me in the crowd as if it were nothing. "Elena, I'm back to finish what we started. Happy now?" I felt that familiar knot of doubt in my gut. "Sorry, who are you again...?" He let out a shaky laugh. "Babe, come on. Don't be mad. I didn't mean to leave you hanging. The ceremony back then? Ivy's wolf spirit was too weak. I had to find the Wolf God ruins to pray for her. She's my only sister; I couldn't just watch her fade." "Yeah, the healing took a while. So, I got myself an assignment overseas." "Anyway, I just got her wolf spirit stabilized, and I rushed back to bring you home to the packhouse!" That's when it hit me. This scruffy guy, with the stubble and all… this was my ex-fiancé. No. Did nobody tell him? The night he walked out on me? I married his uncle. Alpha Damian. The Wolf King.

"You don't have to love me back. Just be with me for 50 days. After that, I will be gone from your life like I didn't exist at all." *** Adrienne Martinez has been in love with Yvandro Syjuco for God knows how long and she is known for being overly-territorial with him even if he always makes it clear that they are not and will never be an item. But one day, Rienne approaches Andro and tells him this one bizarre thing; she asks him to stay with her in an island for 50 days and promises that after that, she will be gone from his life like she didn't exist at all. He knows she is cunning. But there is something in her eyes that day which tells him that she is sincere. Desperate to free himself from the woman who has been pestering him for a decade, he agrees to her deal. But as he stays with her, he sees a different side of her. Beneath the makeup, designer clothes, and bitchy attitude lies a soft-hearted and fragile Rienne who is almost too good to be true . . . . . . but also too good at goodbyes. *** "You did lots of things to pester me in the past. But out of all the nasty things you did, I hate the way you said goodbye the most."

I spent five years as Dominic Santoro’s wife in name only. Five years hidden behind closed doors, buried under his sheets, erased from his world. When he finally agreed to take me back to Chicago—to stand beside him, to be seen—I thought I had won. I bought a new dress. Soft. Elegant. Worthy of a Don’s woman. The night before we left, he looked at me through the mirror and said calmly, “Take the makeup off. Change into pants.” I asked why. He adjusted his cufflinks like I was nothing more than background noise. “Juliana Lancaster is back. Tonight is our engagement.” Russian Bratva. Lancaster blood. A marriage alliance. Seeing my silence, he laughed—careless, cruel. “What’s with that look? Didn’t we agree on this when we married? Brotherhood. Loyalty. No love.” Then he turned, eyes sharp and mocking. “Victoria Miller… you didn’t actually fall in love with me, did you?” I stood there, frozen. Because inside the inner pocket of his tailored suit— was my pregnancy report. And the Don of Chicago had no idea the woman he was about to sacrifice was carrying his heir.

"Does this mean you approached me on purpose?" Lucas asked with his eyes narrowed darkly and pure anger floating around his blue iris. "Fucking speak! Tell me the bloody reason you approached me?" Lucas yelled in her face as he slammed her back against the wall in the process. She stared in his face for a brief moment, looking very deep in his anger filled eyes, then she let out a mocking chuckle. "Yeah, I, Susan Owen approached you on purpose and I swear on everything unholy, I won't rest until I've made you feel every ounch of pain you made me feel" she let out a spooky laugh which sent an eerie chill down Lucas' spine, even her makeup is making her look like Lucifer's bride at the moment. Sophia Owen was once a sweet and lovely lady, just like every sweet ladies out there. She had always dream to graduate with good grades and get a good job, to cater for her family. But sadly, she met him and that was the end of her dream. However she found another dream and that's to make Lucas and his entire generation pay for what he did to her. Will she get her revenge?

What would you do if you lived the life as Clover Thompson ? Nerd during the school day and Lucky, the supermodel after school hours. Clover has been a model since she was two years old, but her career really took off at age 15 when she started modeling for larger companies. At age eighteen, Clover has become the number one model in the world. But there's a catch to her high life, no one in school know's she's a model except her family, her best friend, Tori, and school officials. No one would suspect her secret when she wears: fake glasses, a wig, and some stage makeup pieces. To the world, she's known as Victoria Secret Angel, Lucky, to her school classmates, she's known as Clover Thompson. But as everyone knows, a perfect life can't last forever. So what happens when Clover's fourth and final year of high school she gets assigned to work on a project with the notorious player of the school, Andrew Carter? Questions can't help but arise, will he find out her secret? Will they be forced to spend more time together? Will her double life become too much to become hidden? Come and find out in, I'm a Model That's Undercover As The School's Nerd.

Aria Austra Lindsei is a sophomore student at Easton University who always involved herself in many different fights. She's independent, smart, and gorgeous, but despite the fact that most of her female schoolmates hate her for being the Campus Princess and the boys’ fantasy; she doesn't give a damn about it. She likes being herself— the boyish kind of girl that not everyone likes. She hates boys, even girls who pissed her off— actually, she hates everybody. She’s a type of girl that is very hard to control. She knows what she wants, and she knows what she doesn’t want in her life. And her life in college was normal, not until she met her new science professor, Sir Gray. Grayson Henry Carter is a very good-looking college professor that everyone likes— except her. Sir Gray is a type of man that makes Aria powerless and controlled, that is the reason why she hates him. She doesn’t want to be controlled with her actions, especially by a man. But everything started to change when she found her heart pounding for a man for the first time, which made her question her thoughts about men. And while dealing with her uncontrollable and strange feelings for her new professor, everything from her past started to come back into her life to remind her that men will only do bad things that will cause great distress and trauma into her life. What will Aria do if she found out the mysterious dark side of her Sir Gray?

"Wala akong pakialam kung sino o ano ka. Kahit na mukha ka pang lalaki kaysa sa akin, ikaw pa rin ang asawa ko, Alexis, at mahal kita." Si Alexis Mendoza, bunsong anak ng mag-asawang anim na babae ang naging supling, ay pinalaki bilang lalaki dahil sa kagustuhan ng kanyang ama na magkaroon ng anak na lalaki. Lahat ng kanyang kilos, pananamit, at laruan ay panlalaki hanggang sa siya ay nagdalaga. Ngunit nang pumanaw ang kanyang ama sa isang aksidente, nag-iwan ito ng matinding lungkot at malaking utang sa kanilang pamilya. Sa takot ng kanyang ina na makulong, napilitan itong lumapit sa isang bilyonaryo. Isang kondisyon lamang ang hinihingi nito: hanapan ng mapapangasawa ang unico hijo niyang si Theo Angelo Garcia—isang babaero at happy-go-lucky na lalaki—sa paniniwalang magbabago ito kapag nagkapamilya. Nagulantang si Alexis nang ipakilala siya kay Theo at sabihang magpakababae na dahil magpapakasal na siya sa binata. Bagama’t litong-lito at labag sa kanyang kalooban, kinailangan niyang sundin ang utos ng kanyang ina upang maiwasan nitong makulong at mabayaran ang kanilang mga utang. Ngunit paano niya matatanggap na siya, na pinalaking boyish, ay kailangang magpakasal? At ano ang mangyayari pagkatapos ng kasal kung bigla na lamang magbago ang tingin sa kanya ni Theo at ituring siyang isang napakagandang babae? May pag-asa pa kayang tumibok ang kanyang puso para sa binata?

Aurora is an orphaned pup, who had everything working against her since the pack she grew up in was raided. Through a happy coincidence, she and her sister were rescued by the Beta of a kind pack: the Midnight Protectors. But they are no ordinary group of werewolves. They are highly trained with special skills that make them exceptionally dangerous to any threat: but especially to vampires. When Aurora stumbles onto a mysterious cavern housing tombs, she can't possibly understand what she's unlocked. Her new pack has many secrets she has yet to understand and the biggest one is that they are housing the male destined to be her true fated mate. Javed is a thousand year old vampire stuck in the body of a seventeen year old male. His boyish good looks are incredibly misleading, no one should mistake how deadly he in fact is. And the lengths to which he would go to have his mate. Excerpt: As I leave dinner and move to walk back inside the packhouse, the cold chill from nights ago hits me. The very thing that set that fateful night in motion. The sun has just set and the air is thick with humidity. I have gotten used to this climate which is all the more reason the cold strikes me as bizarre. My eyes move to a post that sits just in front of the door, the crest of the pack is burned into it. “The Midnight Protectors; Light in the Dark.” I had seen it many times now, but never questioned its meaning. When the cold air hits my skin again, it makes me shake uncontrollably. I force my back to stiffen. “Not again,” I whisper, as I quickly move inside and go to my room. Locking the door.