Brown With Purple Underneath

Some people appear in life as blessings in disguise. Not knowing where my life was heading after facing betrayal after betrayal, Someone appeared in my life as my stepdad. What is it? A love? In love with my ex-stepdad whose appearance seems to be a shield for me. Who kept protecting me even after all the lies I had told him. After Mom lied about her identity. I fell in love with him, my mother's contracted husband who divorced her right after he got to learn about her true identity. But he kept me protected as my legal guardian, who makes me his family. And, I fell in love with his sincerity and his warmth.

Hindi sinasadya o sinadya man ng Tadhana na mag-krus ang landas ng lasing na si Bethany at nagtatanggal stress lang na si Gavin ng gabi ng engagement party ng ex-boyfriend ng dalaga; naniniwala sila na may malaking purpose ang pagtatagpo nila. Pagkatapos kasi ng gabing iyon ay sunod-sunod na ang naging interaksyon ng dalawa hanggang sa may mamuong pag-ibig at tuluyang mahulog ang damdamin sa bawat isa. Ngunit subalit datapwat, kagaya lang din ng ibang relasyon at pareha; susubukin sila ng panahon, huhubugin ng mga problema at susukatin ang tatag ng music teacher na si Bethany Guzman at ng abugadong si Gavin Dankworth kung hanggang saan aabot ang binhi ng pagmamahalan nilang naipunla.

Eleanore, dengan segala keterbatasan yang dimiliki, mencoba untuk bertahan dan melanjutkan kehidupannya yang telah dihancurkan oleh Tora; sosok yang semula ia kira bisa berjalan bersamanya. Sosok yang telah memberinya kegelapan eternal dan mencuri satu-satunya hal berharga yang ia miliki, yakni hati. Sayangnya Tora tidak berpikiran sama dengannya. Sosok yang ia cintai dengan sepenuh hati itu dengan santainya melangkah pergi dari kehidupannya. Meninggalkan kenangan dan rasa sakit yang sukar disembuhkan. Di saat ia tengah bertahan dalam kegelapan hidupnya, pemuda itu datang kembali dan menawarkan obat untuk lukanya. Akankah kali ini Eleanore dapat menerima pria itu kembali? Ataukah sekali lagi, Tora hanya singgah dan pergi lagi?

"You're my sister. I don't care if I'm drugged—this ain't it. You ain't my cure." Carlo Quaranta's eyes were shot red, chest heaving, but that rage? Way hotter than any craving. "Even if you make me marry you, I'll never love you." Vera Este didn't doubt it. Not for a second. He meant every damn word. Last time, she was the so-called "cure"... and it dragged her straight into marriage. She stared at his face—still young. Felt like it belonged to someone from a whole other life.

"Aku bukan saudaramu, bahkan darah kita pun berbeda. Persetan dengan mereka yang selalu membandingkan aku denganmu. Aku bukan adik kandungmu, Marissa! Kau tahu itu bukan ....?" Teriakan dari Joanna membuat kelopak mata Marissa terbuka lebar. Ia tidak menyangka, jika gadis yang selama ini dianggapnya sebagai saudara sendiri itu telah menikamnya dari belakang. Mampukah Marissa menjaga amanah dari kedua keluarga yang telah menyatukan keduanya sebagai saudara angkat? Sedangkan di sisi lain, Joanna telah mengkhianati Marissa dengan merebut tunangannya, Kevin. "Aku telah hamil dan ini adalah anak, Kevin." Ujar Joanna yang tidak memperdulikan perasaan Marissa. Marissa terpaku, sekujur tubuhnya gemetar saat membawa sebuah dokumen perusahaan yang entah sejak kapan berpindah tangan ke kubu sang adik. Yuk! Baca kisah perseteruan antara dua saudara angkat ini. Jangan sampai terlewat tiap babnya!

" You are the wrong surrogate!" He said hiding the fact that she was his mate. " You are the one who impregnated me! How could you say that?" She growled, disappointed at the Alpha who stood with no regrets. " This is two years of marriage contract. Sign it. And I will give you everything you want to have!" Aurora Bliss, after being cheated by her boyfriend, was captured by the step-uncle of her ex-lover who informed her that she was the wrong surrogate mother with his child. However, she never knew that this Man was her mate. Without informing her about the mate bonding, the Alpha offered her a two-year marriage contract. She would give birth to his child and raise the child for a year and she would be free. However, she never knew behind the papers of contract, he was aiming to win her heart, making sure, his nephew regret for hurting his mate.

Lia Stormborn has gotten used to a life of abuse and neglect and somehow she has made peace with it, finding happiness in her own little way. She never imagined anything more was possible for her. Especially not in the hands of the monster of her dreams, the hybrid. Clint Montrose can pass as a regular werewolf, except that he is anything but normal. With both vampire and werewolf sides, Clint is forced into the kind of life any wolf dreads: one of isolation. Hybrids were always just a myth, until they weren’t. The power of fate brings Lia and Clint together and their worlds collide in a way they least expect, forcing them to depend on each other to survive. With enemies appearing from thin air and a love too strong to deny, can the fated mates find happiness or will love stay as it has always been for Lia and Clint— a dream?

My husband is known as a ruthless CEO, but somehow, he is tender and warm with me. I'm passionate about art restoration, especially antique paintings, so he transforms his private collection room into a professional-grade studio just for me. He even brings in top experts to mentor me. Once, I spent three sleepless nights restoring a rare 12th-century painting. He ends up buying the entire museum that the painting belongs to, just so I can study it without restrictions. To marry me, he goes head-to-head with his powerful family, even stages a hunger strike, until they finally give in. At our engagement party, he gets down on one knee in front of everyone and says, "Ash, you deserve nothing but the best in this world." The ring he designs himself has an engraving on the inside that says, "Art brought us together, love holds us forever." Everyone says Vincent Hawthorn loves me like a maniac, and I believe it—until I restore one of his late mother's paintings…

Hera Tuazon is a young adult who thinks her life is such a failure. She works in a desktop job where her co-workers and boss mistreat her. She hates fairytales and never believe to such things. With that, love never crosses to her mind, and she manage to be an alpha in her whole life. She had a younger sister whose very fond of fairytale, and is so addicted to a particular story book entitled 'Queen Xena'. One day, out of bored, Hera tried reading the book her sister love, and started dreaming about it for days. She then got into an accident, and woke up to a very unfamiliar place. She then discovered that she might had entered the book, and became Queen Xena herself, and unexpectedly, the King turns out to be the person she hated the most, her boss. On the other hand, Xena is a noble lady who look exactly like Hera. She got forced to be married with the future King as a payment for their family's debt or else the royal family will beheaded her parents. She end up falling in love with the young King but the King hated her as her family was the reason for his past lover's death. What will happen if Xena will suddenly turn into a different person whose not interested with the King?

When I'm accompanying my daughter, Alina Stone, to the hospital for a chemotherapy session, an employee from the social security center calls me. "Ms. Lewis, an error has occurred with the bank card that's set to receive your parents' pension. Please make sure to change to a new card." I'm left feeling stunned. My parents have been dead for three years. Why would they even receive more pension in the first place? After asking the employee, I find out that my parents' pension has been wired into the bank card as normal throughout the years. My husband, Christian Stone, was the one who had previously updated the bank card details at the social security center. Once I get home, I demand answers from Christian after playing him the recording of the phone call. He falls silent for a very long time before telling me the truth. It turns out that he never registered my parents' death back then. Till now, their corpses have been stored in a freezer in my childhood home. That bank card had received a total of 90 thousand dollars' worth of pension over the past three years. Christian has given all of the money to his ex-wife, Lydia Swanson, in order to support her financially. But the thing is, he never gave me a single cent for Alina's treatment before.