Dead Plate Vincent

Menikah dengan Ethan Andrew sebagai lelaki urakan dan pemalas tidaklah membuat Nada lantas bersedih. Kehidupan sederhana yang diberikan Ethan sebagai kompensasi dari rumor bahwa putri sulung dari keluarga Vincent adalah gadis glamour dan mata duitan, ternyata malah membuat Ethan tercengang dan merasa penasaran karena wanita yang menjadi istrinya itu jauh dari kata glaomur dan penuh ambisi uang. Nada Blessy White, anak angkat dari keluarga Vincent, terpaksa menerima pernikahan sebagai pengantin wanita pengganti Danica, kakak tirinya demi mendapatkan uang untuk pengobatan ibu asuhnya. Pernikahan yang dilandasi oleh rasa kecewa pada Xavier, kekasihnya yang dipergoki sedang memadu kasih bersama Danica saat dia baru pulang bekerja. Nada dan sifatnya yang membuat Ethan yang sejatinya adalah pria kaya, tidak bisa membuatnya mengelak. Hidup bersama dan rasa penasaran Ethan lambat laun berubah menjadi rasa tidak ingin kehilangan. Begitu juga dengan Nada, pesona Ethan dan cara Ethan menggodanya selalu bisa membuat darahnya berdesir.

Although I was the second child in the family, my mother loved me the most. When Dad bought my sister a new dress, she stayed up late knitting a sweater for me. When Grandma took my younger brother out for burgers, she baked me a homemade sponge cake. Until the New Year’s Eve dinner. Dad placed the big chicken drumstick onto my sister’s plate. Grandma immediately stuffed the other one into my brother’s. My mother hurriedly picked the chicken wing from her plate and placed it onto mine, smiling as she said, “I saved this especially for you.” The relatives laughed and teased, “Your family really has a clear division of love. Everyone spoils a different child. What a loving family.” The next second, I suddenly flipped the table. Under everyone’s stunned gaze, I grabbed that chicken wing and shoved it straight into my mother’s mouth.

BLURB They sold me for five million dollars but two wolves paid ten million, and now I belong to both of them for six months. My name is Beatrice, three days ago my mate sold me at auction to pay gambling debts he created while I secretly ran our pack and kept us from collapsing. He called me defective because I couldn’t give him children. That was his lie to hide his own failures and I let him spread it because the truth would make me a target for something worse than a bad marriage. Now I stand in a billionaire's penthouse owned by Vincent who bought me for revenge and Christopher who bought me because we were friends when we were children before I disappeared to escape a fate I would rather die than accept. Vincent treats me like a fascinating problem to solve and Christopher treats me like fragile glass that might shatter and neither one understands that I already broke years ago and put myself back together. Six months with two wolves who both want to own me in different ways, six months to plan what happens when the contract ends, six months to remember that before I was property I was a person who survived impossible things and I can survive this too. But somewhere between business dinners where Vincent watches me like I might be worth more than he paid and late nights where Christopher reminds me what it felt like to be seen as human, something dangerous is happening. I am starting to want things beyond survival and wanting things means having things to lose. They think they bought a broken Luna who will be grateful for rescue. They are about learning that surviving taught me to be something more dangerous than broken.

I should have been walking down the aisle. Instead, I was running through the woods in my wedding dress. The white fabric caught on every branch, tearing apart like my life. My name is Camela Siegel. My father is the Mayor, and he sold me to save himself. Vincent Castellano was supposed to be my husband. They call him the Mad Prince, but I learned he’s so much worse than that. His hands trembled when he touched me—sometimes gentle, like I might break, and sometimes rough, like he wanted to overpower me. “You’re mine now,” he’d whisper in the dark corners of that house. “No one else gets to touch you. No one else gets to hurt you but me.” I tried the door handle every day for three months. It only turned from the outside. When help finally came, I thought it was over. I thought I could go home and pretend none of it ever happened. I was wrong. Vincent found my journal—the one where I wrote about him, about what he did to me, and about who he truly is. Now he’s not just keeping me locked up. He’s hunting me. They call him “The Fox” for a reason. He’s patient and waits. When he catches what he’s after, he never lets it go. I can feel him watching me even now—through my bedroom window, from across the street, in the shadows where I can’t see him but I know he’s there. My father thinks making that deal saved his life. He doesn’t realize it destroyed mine. Vincent said he’d keep me until the last day of my life. I’m starting to think that day is coming soon.

Pada hari kelahiran kembar, aku menyuap dokter keluarga dan menyuntikkan semua inihibitor persalinan kuat yang ada di rumah sakit untuk menunda persalinan. Alasannya karena di kehidupan sebelumnya, Vincent Kusuma didiagnosis dengan oligospermia. Demi punya penerus, Vincent sampai cari belasan selingkuhan di luar. Dia mengumumkan, siapa pun yang duluan melahirkan anak cowok, anak itulah yang akan jadi bos keluarga berikutnya. Katanya, asalkan aku duluan melahirkan, dia akan mengusir semua selingkuhannya dan membiarkan anakku menjadi pewaris Keluarga Kusuma. Aku memercayainya. Saat tahu aku hamil kembar, rasa haru dan senang yang sulit dikatakan membuatku gemetaran. Tapi setelah melahirkan, dia malah suruh orang mengurung aku dan bayi yang baru lahir ke dalam gudang anggur yang dingin dan melarang semua orang dekatin kami. “Lusi berasal dari keluarga sederhana. Aku cuman mau kasih anaknya status yang sah supaya masa depan mereka lebih baik. Tapi kau sengaja menyebarkan kabar itu, sampai dia keguguran karena putus asa. Akhirnya dia dan bayinya mati.” “Kau segitu kejam! Kau sama sekali nggak layak jadi ibu pewaris Keluarga Kusuma! Renungkanlah kesalahanmu! 3 hari lagi baru aku lepaskan kau dari sini!” Setelah selesai berbicara, Vincent suruh kepala pelayan kunci pintunya tanpa menyisakan lubang. Tapi, dia nggak tahu. Malam itu, gudang anggur kebakaran. Aku dan anak kembarku tewas terbakar. Pas aku buka mata lagi, ternyata aku kembali ke malam sebelum melahirkan. Di kehidupan yang baru ini, aku nggak mau jadi istri sah mafia lagi. Setelah anakku lahir dan tenagaku pulih, aku akan bawa anakku pergi jauh dari sini.

When I'm about to apply for medical insurance for my son, Connor Sawyer, who's about to start his first year in kindergarten, I'm told that I'm not his biological father at all. "Are you sure this is your son? The system shows that his father is an entirely different person." I don't respond at all. Instead, I secretly take a photo of the unfamiliar-looking address before tracking it down. It turns out that it's actually a residential area right by my own. The moment my wife, Giselle Lambert, sees me, she freezes momentarily. At the same time, she blocks the door subconsciously with her hand. "In the end, you still found out about the truth. But there's no use kicking up a fuss, you know. I never mistreated you in any way over the past three years, after all." When I notice the familiar figure standing behind Giselle, I feel my limbs going cold. That person is actually my younger brother, Vincent Sawyer, who has just graduated from college. Vincent hands Giselle a glass of water before smiling at me apologetically. "Don't blame me, Hayden. The doctor says that I'm severely depressed, so I can't handle hearing a child's cries at all. I'm really thankful to you for raising Connor on my behalf in the past few years." At that moment, Connor, who's supposed to be waiting for me in my car, rushes into the apartment. He runs into Vincent's arms happily before turning to look at me. "Don't cry, Uncle Hayden. Daddy says you're a good person, so he's asked you for help. Mommy tells me that if I call you 'daddy' in your home, I'll get to visit my real daddy during the weekends."

Romana is a forty-year-old rich, intelligent, and sophisticated woman who falls in love with a male dancer who is already married. Vincent, who was clinging to the knife to save the life of his heart-diseased wife, agreed to be Romana's fuck buddy. Are a lot of money and good in bed enough to win the heart of the person you love? What if the love you want can destroy a whole and happy family? This is a story about money, heart, and lust that will deliver us a unique lesson.

“Tell me again,” he murmured, his bare chest a hot, dangerous brand against her back. His teeth grazed the shell of her ear, making her shudder. “How you want me to treat you.” She clutched the silk sheets, dragging them up to her chin, hating the tremor in her voice. “I—I want you to be professional.” A low, dark laugh ghosted over her damp skin. “Then stop looking at me like that.” His amused, arctic-blue eyes held hers captive in the bedroom mirror. She squeezed her eyes shut, wondering what in the world she’d gotten herself into. ^ ^ ^ Isabella Rossi’s life shattered when she discovered her boyfriend’s affair with her best friend, Chloe. The happy couple were even expecting a baby, and she was supposed to be happy for them. Hah. Heartbreak was just the beginning. Drunk and deceived, she woke up in the bed of a powerful, enigmatic stranger—Vincent Sinclair. She thought it was a one-time, humiliating mistake. A secret she would bury forever. Until Monday morning, when Vincent Sinclair strolled into her office as the new, ruthless CEO. And she found out he was her ex-best friend Chloe’s half-brother. Flustered but confident, she met his eyes. Men like him didn’t remember girls like her. She was sure of it. He was most likely just an entitled playboy and the faces in his bed probably blurred. But oh, how wrong she was. Vincent Sinclair remembered everything. Finding his "one-night stand" playing the part of a forgettable employee was his new favorite amusement. First, he made her his personal secretary. Then, he made her life a living, tempting hell. Finally, he served her a contract. Not for a raise—for marriage. It was absurd. But with her life in shambles and his offer too lucrative, Isabella signed.

For ten years, I was Vincent's blood bag and his sharpest blade. I offered my rare blood to sustain his ancient power. I offered my loyalty to secure his throne as the Vampire Lord of this territory. I thought my devotion might earn me the eternal embrace of the turning. Instead, I received the announcement of his marriage to Lilith. A princess from a powerful European vampire clan. He said it was a necessary alliance. He said my blood was still precious. But when the sanctified silver tearing through the car,he used my body as a shield, to ensure his bride remained unblemished. That's when I knew. I was never his lover. I was just a consumable resource, a blood bag to be used and discarded. So, when I was ordered to become his blood servant under the title of his fiancée, I made a call to my father. “In seven days,” I said, my voice clear and final in the dark, “make the name Elena Rossi disappear from this city. From vampire’s world. Forever.” In seven days, when Vincent finds his precious living blood bank gone, he went insane. And this decade-long game of predator and prey… will have a new set of rules.

Elaidia Valleja, the only daughter of Edalyn and Chris Valleja. She forced to be married with the son of their competitor in business. For the sake of their company, she need to live with Vincent Lincoln. Ano nalang ang mangyayari sa buhay niya habang kasama ang isang bayolenteng lalaki, at walang ibang iniisip kung hindi ang sarili nitong kaligayahan? Magiging maayos ba ang kanilang pag-sasama? O magiging miserable lang ang buhay niya?