Clean-cut

Gilbert Pierce, my wife's male trainee, bragged that he could disarm a bomb just by relying on his senses and with his eyes closed. However, he misjudged it and triggered the bomb's secondary detonation sequence. I stepped in at the last second and used the most dangerous method available, liquid nitrogen flash cooling, to save the entire building. Gilbert was pulled off frontline duty and placed on suspension for review. My wife, Jasmine Clem, tried to speak up for him, but I stopped her cold. "If you defend him now, you won't save him. You'll just get dragged down and suspended alongside him." Unable to handle the pressure, Gilbert blew himself up in an accident. In his suicide note, he accused Jasmine of choosing self-preservation when he needed her most. Jasmine said nothing. She only locked that letter away in her study. Years later, Jasmine became a nationally renowned bomb disposal expert. During a terrorist attack, I was captured and strapped with a timed explosive. Jasmine came to the scene personally to defuse it, but right in front of me, she repeated the exact same mistake her trainee had made years ago. She watched the countdown and smiled lightly at me. "See? He was just nervous back then. If I had encouraged him, he'd be a hero now." The bomb detonated, and I was blown apart. When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the moment she was about to defend Gilbert. She didn't know that inside that building sat the nation's most classified core servers.

"Mas, aku sangat mencintaimu, tapi aku juga tak ingin melepasnya." Dita berteriak ketika Mas Arman menyentakkan tangannya melepaskan diri dari cengkraman Dita di lengannya. "Ak--aku-- Mas, mengertilah." Aku masih bisa mendengar Dita memelas di balik dinding ini. Sungguh luar biasa wanita itu, batinku. "Kamu, Gila!" Mas Arman balik meneriaki perempuan yang aku tahu sangat dicintainya itu. "Aku tahu. Aku gila, Mas. Aku juga tidak memintamu untuk memaafkanku, tapi aku hanya meminta kamu mengerti perasaanku karena awal dari semua kesalahan ini adalah kamu, Mas. Kamu yang membiarkanku untuk jatuh hati pada lelaki lain, saat harusnya aku memilikimu." Apa maksud Dita? Aku mencoba mendengar dengan seksama dan menempelkan kupingku lebih rapat ke dinding kamar yang menghubungkan kamarku dan Mas Arman. "Aap--pa?" Suara Mas Arman terdengar parau dan menahan kemarahannya. Ooh ... Tuhan, perempuan macam apa yang tega menyakiti lelaki baik hati itu. Lelaki yang sanggup mengorbankan seluruh kehidupannya demi membahagiakan wanita-wanita yang dicintainya. Aku mengurut dadaku yang sesak, mungkinkah aku penyebab keretakan hati mereka? Air mataku menganak sungai di pelupuk mata. Takpernah kubayangkan kehidupan keduanya akan sekacau ini.

After my fiancée returned from six months of traveling with her childhood friend, she realized I had changed. For his sake, she broke protocol and promoted him to be the CEO's personal assistant. I obediently stepped aside and gave up my position. When he took over the project I had spent three sleepless months completing, I handed it over without a fight. My fiancée found my sudden compliance strange. Her childhood friend, on the other hand, was smug about it. He said with a grin, "Looks like your cold treatment finally worked. If you want him to behave, you just have to train him like a dog." My heart was calm and unmoved as I listened to their conversation. No one knew that I had been reborn. No one knew that I had finally accepted the truth: she never loved me from the start. No matter how reluctant I felt, from this moment on, I would cut ties with her completely. One clean break, free of all entanglements.

【โลกอสูร + ชีวิตประจำวันหวานละมุน + ทำสวนทำอาหาร + พระเอกทุกคนบริสุทธิ์ (Clean) + นางเอกมีพลังวิเศษดรรชนีทองคำ (Golden Finger)】 เมื่อ “ปรมาจารย์ผู้บำเพ็ญเพียร” ระดับเทพดันทะลุมิติมาอยู่ในร่างอสูรสาวในโลกที่เต็มไปด้วยสัตว์ป่า ลืมตาขึ้นมาอีกทีกลับพบว่าตัวเองกลายเป็นยัยอ้วนร่างยักษ์เสียอย่างนั้น? ลำพังแค่ความอ้วนนางยังพอทน แต่หน้าตานี่สิ... เข้าขั้น “อัปลักษณ์” จนเป็นเอกลักษณ์!!! เมื่อมองดูร่างกายที่กำยำราวกับภูเขาลูกย่อมๆ ของตัวเอง สลับกับสายตาที่บรรดาสามีอสูรสุดหล่อเหลามองมา ราวกับกำลังมอง “ก้อนอึ” ก็มิปาน ไป๋จือจือก็บอกตัวเองเลยว่า... ข้าทนไม่ไหวแล้ว! หล่อแล้วยังไง? ก็ไม่ใช่ของนางเสียหน่อย! ยิ่งไปกว่านั้น แต่ละคนยังขยันส่งเสียงเรียกร้องขอ “ยกเลิกพันธะ” (หย่า) กันทุกวี่ทุกวัน?! โบราณว่าไว้ “ฝืนเคี้ยวแตงที่ไม่หวาน ย่อมไร้รสชาติ” ช่างมันเถอะ หย่าก็หย่าสิ! ทว่าใครจะไปคาดคิด... หลังจากที่นางได้โชว์ฝีมือเพียงเล็กน้อย บรรดาสามีอสูรเกรดพรีเมียมที่เคยรบเร้าจะจากไป กลับเปลี่ยนท่าทีแบบ 180 องศาเสียอย่างนั้น! ไป๋จือจือ: “???” นี่พวกเจ้าเอาจริงหรือ? ข้ายังไม่ทันจะสวยขึ้นหรือผอมลงเลยนะ? หรือว่าพวกเจ้าแต่ละคนจะมีรสนิยมชอบของแปลก (ชอบคนอัปลักษณ์) กันแน่เนี่ย?

It was the first night we spent together as a married couple. When my husband insisted that the hotel manager clean our bed for us, she cried and said to him, "You're asking me to clean up after the two of you made love! How heartbroken do you want me to be before you're finally satisfied?" My husband claimed not to know that the manager was his ex-girlfriend, but when the woman threw a kettle of hot water and left, he chased after her instead of coming to my aid.

I’m the Vettori family princess. The only one. It was our fifth anniversary. A big dinner party at the estate. A waiter spilled red wine on my husband Marco, heir to the Rossi family. My best friend, Sofia, slapped the waiter. Hard. Then she was all over Marco, helping him out of his jacket. Her hand lingered on his waist. A second too long. I just stood there, watching. Sofia saw me. "I was just closer, that's all. Helping him clean up. Don't overthink it." I just smiled. Grabbed my glass. I went to make the rounds with the old dons from the other families. I would finish this night with my head held high. Later that night, Marco crawled into my bed, stinking of booze. His hands were on my waist. He wanted sex. I pushed him off. "The alliance is over," I said, my voice dead. "We're finished." Marco sobered up fast. His face went cold. "I'm trying to apologize here. You're divorcing me because Sofia helped me with my jacket?" I laughed. He didn’t get it. Not until I threw the proof of his betrayal in his face. Not until I cut him off from my family. Then he was on his knees, crying, begging me to forgive him.

This is the story of four souls Davina, Emmy, Sofia, and Max. Each searching. Each desiring. Each learning, sometimes painfully, that love never arrives clean or easy. But when it does arrive, it changes everything.

His eyes locked with mine and I could feel the strength of the mate bond gnawing at me, but I forced it down. Devin eyed me with annoyance and prominent in his gorgeous grey eyes.“Alpha Devin, this is my daughter.” Papa Jamie said with pride in his voice. Devin gave him a weird look, but turned to me instead. Before he could speak I cut him off with a surveying look from head to toe. He was still as hot as hell if not more; his body was more built and his face more chiseled than before. He looked all man and sue me for finding it sexy. mate bond. My eyes were void of emotion as I looked at the pack that flanked him and back into his stormy grey eyes. I stuck out my hand with a smirk on my face, “Welcome to the Blue Moon Pack.” He grasped my hand and shocks ran up my arm and through my body as it did his causing his eyes to widen, but before he could react I continued. “I am Alpha Allison Trust Wells.” My tone oozed confidence and mirth. I heard a few gasps, but the biggest reaction I got was from Devin whose eyes widened in shock.~~~A story of hurt, betrayal and second chances in a world of mystical creatures. Allison is a young Shewolf with a gift from the Goddess Selene. Join her as she navigates the web of secrets and lies weaved by the people she once thought of as family and learns forgiveness.Not all second chances are started on a clean slate...

It is the third year of the apocalypse. All water sources have been thoroughly polluted, making even a single bottle of clean water extremely rare. Every base has to send out search teams to find new water sources for all. My husband, Jasper Curran, is a geologist, and so, he is able to locate water sources that are still pure and unpolluted. However, when someone holds a knife to my throat for the last bottle of water—thinking that he will do anything to stop them—he hands the only bottle of clean water to Avery Grayson, the person who claimed she was my parents' real daughter instead of me. "Ave is thirsty. She's been suffering since she was little and she even had her parents taken by you, Arianne Grayson," Jasper says. "Just let her have the water." Jasper's expression is too calm and collected, as if my life is not on the line because of him. "They're just trying to scare you. You've enjoyed so many years of being spoiled with a luxurious lifestyle anyway. So what if you get bullied a little?" The people then kick me to the ground in a fit of rage as I watch Jasper huddle Avery into his arms and disappear into the desert. I get beaten up so hard that my chapped lips crack and start bleeding once again. I look at the menacing faces around me and quickly exclaim, "Wait, wait! I can help you find clean water too!"

Walking into that bar in that fateful night, Tris had no idea it will alter the course of her life forever. Four is a man with secrets and a painful past. Will he be able to get over his demons and come clean about what happened ten years ago.