Chat Intens

On the third day of my business trip out of state, someone new joined the group chat formed for my son's class. It had been quiet for weeks when she suddenly sent a voice message. I tapped it, and an unfamiliar woman's voice played through my phone. "Hello, everyone. I'm the new language teacher at the school, and I'm also Tony Gardner's mother. Looking forward to getting to know you all!" My whole body went cold. I opened the group member list and checked it over and over. My son's name was Tony Gardner, and she said she was Tony Gardner's mother. Then, who the hell was I? I immediately called my husband. "Did someone get added to the parent group by mistake?" He paused on the other end before he laughed it off like it was nothing. "Oh, probably just a mix-up. The school has so many kids. It's not unusual for kids to have the same names. What's the matter? Did something happen?" I kept my voice light and told him everything was fine. The second I hung up, I booked the next flight home and headed straight to my son's school.

Silas Thorne est l'insolence incarnée. Alpha pur-sang, il ne collectionne que les partenaires Omégas, aimant leur fragilité apparente. Il ne remarque jamais Dante Vance, le secrétaire efficace et "Oméga" qui travaille dans son entreprise . Ce que Silas ignore, c’est que Dante est le cerveau derrière le réseau criminel qui menace son empire : un Stigma dont la puissance dépasse l'entendement. Dante nourrit une haine passionnée pour Silas. Il veut le briser autant qu'il veut le posséder. Profitant de la faiblesse de Silas lors d'un rut précoce qu'il a lui-même orchestré, Dante l'isole dans un hôtel de luxe. Entre haine et désir, les rôles s'inversent. Silas se réveille avec des souvenirs flous d'une étreinte d'une force surhumaine croyant un reve de comprendre comment un simple Oméga a pu le dominer ainsi. Le jeu du chat et de la souris commence, mais qui est la proie ?

Anisa adalah seorang wanita muda yang pernah memiliki segalanya. Karir yang cemerlang, kekasih yang penuh kasih, dan masa depan yang tampak cerah. Namun, dalam hitungan minggu, semuanya runtuh. Kekasihnya, Reza, meninggalkannya tanpa alasan yang jelas, dan karirnya hancur seiring dengan hilangnya kontrak besar yang selama ini menjadi kebanggaannya. Terpuruk dalam keputusasaan dan kesendirian, Anisa merasa hidupnya telah mencapai titik terendah. Di tengah kegelapan dan kesedihannya, Anisa bertemu dengan seorang pria misterius bernama Arya. Arya muncul dalam hidupnya tanpa peringatan, membawa serta aura kelam yang tidak bisa Anisa abaikan. Meskipun terkesan menakutkan, ada sesuatu tentang Arya yang membuat Anisa merasa tertarik. Sebuah daya tarik yang sulit ia pahami, namun tidak bisa ia lawan. Seiring berjalannya waktu, hubungan mereka berkembang menjadi sesuatu yang lebih dalam dan intens, tetapi juga semakin berbahaya. Arya memiliki rahasia-rahasia gelap yang perlahan mulai terungkap, menarik Anisa ke dalam jaringan manipulasi, ketergantungan, dan perasaan terperangkap yang semakin sulit untuk ia hindari. Anisa kini terjebak di antara keinginannya untuk menemukan cinta yang ia dambakan dan kenyataan pahit yang dihadapi. Di dalam cinta yang berbalut kegelapan ini, Anisa harus memilih antara melarikan diri dan menyelamatkan diri dari bayang-bayang kelam Arya, atau tetap terjerat dalam hubungan yang berpotensi menghancurkannya.

While picking up my parcel from the mailroom, I run into Ivan Judd, an underprivileged student from my grade who is working part-time there. While we chat, he finds out that I'd spent 128 thousand dollars during the Black Friday sales. Dumbfounded, Ivan cries, "I've never even seen that kind of money in my entire life! And you're spending it so casually? Did your mom send you to college to study or to blow money like this?" He yanks the parcel out of my hands and physically blocks the exit. "Return it immediately! Kids like you never understand how hard it is for adults to earn money! If you're this wasteful now, what man can afford to marry you in the future?" I can't help but laugh angrily at Ivan's ridiculous attitude. I retort, "What does me spending my mom's money have anything to do with you?" "How does it not?" He looks completely justified when he says, "I'm dating your mom. Every cent you spend counts as our future marital assets!" I am shocked. Isn't Mom a lesbian? Since when did she start liking men?

At the dinner table, my mother-in-law slid a contract across to me, right in front of more than 20 relatives. "Just sign it," she said lightly. "Consider it a favor to me." I looked down. A home mortgage agreement for 150,000 dollars. Across from me, my husband's younger brother, Jim Canfield, watched with a grin. Beside him, my husband's eldest sister, Cindy Canfield, urged impatiently, saying, "Shirley, what are you waiting for? Just sign it." I said I needed to go home and talk it over with Howard Canfield first. My mother-in-law's expression darkened. "What? You can't even make this decision for your own marriage?" That night, I did not sign anything. Later, she sent a three-minute voice message in the family group chat, accusing me of being childish, ungrateful, and heartless. More than 70 replies followed—not a single one in my defense. A month later, I came home from work to find three men waiting at my door, there to seize the house. I pulled out my phone and checked the property registry. The record was clear. [Mortgaged. 150,000 dollars.]

By the fifth year of my marriage to River Grayson, I had stopped checking his call logs and chat records. Instead, I spent my nights drinking and partying with my girlfriends at the poolside bar. When his ninety-ninth missed call lit up my screen, I let out a cold laugh and tossed my phone straight into the water. It didn't take long before he came storming in. The moment he pulled the strawberry-scented condom out of my pocket, he turned grim and banned me from leaving the house after 7:00 PM. "Joanne, you weren't like this before." I thought back to last month, when I had run into him at the hospital. He had lied about being on a business trip out of town, but there he was, holding Yvonne Sinclair's hand. I still remembered his words. "You lost your uterus from saving me back then. My sperm is perfectly fine. I'll give you a child—with your mother's help." Now, staring into his furious eyes, I said coldly, "Don't worry. There's no going back for us anymore."

I'd been married to Joshua Merck for five years, but we still didn't have kids. To stay healthy, I took those pricey custom vitamins he ordered from overseas—never missed a dose. Then my cousin came back from studying abroad, took one look at the bottle, and was like, "That brand doesn't even make custom vitamins." I sent them to the hospital for testing. The lab report hit me like a truck—birth control pills. Powerful ones. Suddenly, all those mornings with Joshua hovering over me, acting so concerned while I took my "vitamins," made sense. The whole thing had been a lie. Five years of lies. Just as I was gearing up to confront him, my phone buzzed—a group chat notification. Shirley Hoare had tagged Joshua. [Honey, I had a prenatal checkup today, and the doctor said I'm carrying twins! Your family's about to get two grandchildren at once—excited?] My heart turned to ash. Everything clicked. Fine. We were done. I pulled out my phone and replied to my childhood sweetheart's message from three days ago: [After watching the northern lights, I still wanted to see penguins in Antarctica.]

Love knows no limit. Love is a game that only luckiest can win. No overbearing, toxic male lead. No violence or rape. This book is a collection of romantic love stories between CEO, billionaire, mafia, vampire orany more. 1- Bride of vampire lord. When a young girl got tangled with a vampire and the only way out was to make his heart belong to her. 2- Love from the past. She traveled to the past only to reveal secrets of the forbidden prince and his dead lover. 3- A strange love story. She was married to the brother of his runaway groom and a war started that turned into love. 4-My sweet bully She bullied him endlessly only to find out he was the prince she was supposed to tutor. 5-Trapping the CEO A chat with a wrong person made her meet to the right person. 6-Teach me to love Being betrayed, he married her to revenge but learned how to love 7-Fairy love A little fairy was lost in human world when she met her savior. 8-Road to love A little journey and they found their soulmates. 9-Out of sight She was an average person who suddenly got in sight of a handsome engineer 10- Taming Mr Husband He wanted to divorce her when he find out he was in love with his wife.

After finishing work for the day, I checked my phone and realized I had been added to a group chat called "Catch the Thief." The members were my parents, my brother, Brian Wise, and my sister-in-law, Paulene Wise. I typed a question mark. Paulene replied instantly. [My jewelry is missing. I didn't add you here to accuse you or anything. I just wanted to ask what you think. Honestly, there's no use for other people in our family to take my jewelry, so I've been wondering... I'm not saying you definitely stole it. But if you did, you don't have to deny it. I'm willing to give you a chance to make things right.] My mother said nothing. She just kept tagging me over and over. I let out a small laugh and typed back. [Maybe Brian took it and gave it to his side piece. I'm not saying he definitely has someone else. Just that men his age sometimes start looking around. I'm only guessing here. And if he really did mess up, you could give him a chance to make things right, too.]

Kong Lao, dia seorang Kaisar Alam Semesta yang mana memimpin para manusia melawan ras monster yang menjadi kegelapan Alam Semestanya itu. Kong Lao sendiri bertarung melawan pemimpin mereka sekaligus bisa dianggap rival seumur hidup. Pertarungan mereka benar-benar intens bahkan dunia kecil bergetar dan ada yang hancur. Dampak pertarungan keduanya menciptakan retakkan ruang yang mana mengundang makhluk lain yang lebih tinggi. Tepat keduanya terbaring, makhluk itu memindahkan mereka ke dunia lain. Kong Lao kini menempati tubuh seorang pemuda, dia menyadari bahwa tubuh miliknya lemah, bahkan aliran energi sendiri juga salah. Kong Lao tidaklah bingung terus-menerus. Dia segera mengatasinya, akan tetapi selalu ada seseorang yang mengganggu dirinya. Seorang sepupu, bahkan kakaknya juga ikut campur. Pengawal klan lain, sampai dihina oleh berbagai warga di kota. Kong Lao merasakan kebencian dan tatapan hina itu. Namun, semua itu akan dirinya balas saat Turnamen Mingguan Klan. Dia akan membuktikan dirinya bukanlah orang yang mudah disinggung. Perlahan-lahan dia akan diterima oleh warga kota. Namun, di luar kota sendiri ada ancaman yang pernah dirinya temui. Ancaman tersebut ialah monster. Bagaimana proses Kong Lao meyakinkan para warganya, bagaimana Kong Lao mengatasi ancaman monster itu kembali. Juga apakah dia akan bertemu musuh bebuyutannya yang sama dipindahkan ke dunia lain. Nantikan semua itu hanya ada di Novel Legend Of Kong Lao.