Duke Shoots His Wife

The urge to protect begins with desire... A widowed researcher, Caitlyn Maddox, opts to take her second honeymoon trip with a hired escort, a mysterious man paired with her through an exhaustive agency matching process. Unbeknownst to her, the handsome stranger, Duke Carter, who her meets her at the airport isn’t the man she hired. Along the twisting channels of romantic Venice and the intimate eateries of sophisticated Florence, sparks fly between the duo. But the agency isn’t the only group looking for the spellbound scholar and her charming companion. Amid the narrow cobblestone streets, spectacular gardens and vitrine art galleries, dangerous secrets from both her late husband’s past and Duke’s present are swiftly encroaching on Caitlyn’s blissful fantasy. Against a firestorm of half-truths and flying bullets, Duke struggles to bring Caitlyn through safely. Not merely because it’s his job to protect her, but because no one is going to hurt what’s his.

Unwanted wedding, that's how their love story started. About two people who both don't like each other at first but eventually they will also love each other. But where they are happy together, there will come an unexpected problem that will separate the two of them. After many years, their path will meet again. Can the former love destroyed by time and opportunity be restored?

[MATURE CONTENT R-18] Two cousins. An enormous inheritance. Two conditions. And a six-month deadline. Declan Laxamana, a self made billionaire at the age of twenty-seven, encountered a predicament regarding his grandfather’s last will. Don Carlos Laxamana, the patriarch of the Laxamana Real Estate Companies, passed away with a ridiculous conditions on his will that Declan, and his cousin Crem Laxamana has to abide before they could get their hands on the enormous inheritance the late Don left. Declan has no desire with his grandfather’s fortune as he has made his own name in the business industry and is a billionaire himself, but a property verbally given to him by Don Carlos Laxamana is at stake. Secret Cliente Resort, a private island in Batanes that Declan developed and is famous among the business elite might fall in the hands of Hideo Laxamana, the adopted grandson of the late Don Carlos, along with his position as COO if the conditions of the will are not met. What is he willing to do for the inheritance that is rightfully his?

On the day of her engagement, her boyfriend had run off. She drowned her sorrows unexpectedly, then she made love with her boyfriend's older brother. Two families caught the two people the next morning in bed! "If that's the case, then get married!" The man who had always been cold and calm used a simple sentence that couldn't be simpler than the conclusion of the relationship between the two. Marrying Damian Desmond??? She doesn't dare! From childhood to adulthood, for some reason, the person she feared the most was him. Her world with his was radically different. Who is Damian Desmond? The pillar of the nation, the elite of society, the first family, the first intelligence, the heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate, and she is just a child of a second wife, not just a slow mind. A slow, reluctant appearance can only be considered elegant, the family background goes without saying, it is as different as chalk and cheese. So, in everyone's eyes, Fiona Forger, she is "an ugly toad dreaming of eating swans. So this time, basically no one expected that the person who ran off was her...

Hannah thought marriage would give her security, but Ivan left her alone in Singapore. Two years later, she comes home ready to sign the annulment he asked for. But seeing her again makes Ivan realize moving on is not as simple as he believed.

Anim na taon nang ibinuhos ni Mildred ang lahat ng oras, puso, at buhay niya para palakihin sina Sophia at Lucas. Hindi man niya sila anak sa dugo, itinuring niya silang kanya. Akala niya, sapat na ang pagmamahal para mapatatag ang isang pamilya. Hanggang sa bumalik si Irene, ang tunay na ina ng mga bata. Isang gabi lang, nagbago ang lahat. Ang mga taon ng sakripisyo ni Mildred ay biglang nabura, at ang lalaking minahal niya, si Oliver, ay mas piniling ipagtanggol ang babaeng minsan niyang iniwan. Ngayon, kailangang pumili si Mildred: Ipaglalaban ba niya ang pamilyang itinuturing niyang kanya o lalayuan ang pag-ibig na matagal nang nakalimot sa kanya?

"Marry me and save your family's reputation or stand the chance of loosing everything." He said, his face stoic. She stood there watching him, the same man she had hated and wished death on for the most part of her adult life. "I'll marry you." She answered, defeated. Sophia Tyler never thought she would meet Bran Garner , the heartless billionaire who previously broke her heart. But when her family's debts became overwhelming, she is left with no option but to meet him again and put her signature on the line. The agreement? In just a year being his wife, her family's money problems will be resolved. Will she survive in a world filled with a lot more than luxury? where her strength is tested and secrets threatening to tear everything apart?

"What do I do, huh?" he nips softly on the skin of my neck as he thrusts in and out of me gently, holding onto me as though I was the most delicate thing in the world. "Tell me how to make it right, baby." He mumbled into my neck, his strokes growing deeper. My eyes met his vulnerable grey ones, and as I looked into the eyes of the man who broke me, I couldn't hold his gaze much longer because of how they seemingly appealed to me and made me waver. Pressing a kiss to his jaw, I whispered, suppressing a moan. "Bandages don't x bullet holes. You cannot x what you have already broken, Sean Wellington, because it's unxable." •••• Sekani Salvador never knew what it felt like to be truly loved, and even when she loved, it had to be a man she wasn't supposed to fall for, Sean Wellington, who happened to be the boyfriend of her twin sister, Simone Salvador, who loathed everything she stood for. Sekani could have sworn that she could never have him but all it took for fate to spin the bottle was one night of vodka and mistakes that she couldn't take back.

Lady Vania, yang masih berusia 22 tahun, harus merelakan mimpinya untuk menjadi peneliti di Akademi Kiloa setelah saudara laki-laki dan kakak iparnya meninggal dalam kecelakaan kereta. Sebagai satu-satunya anggota keluarga tersisa, Vania mendadak harus menjadi wali bagi dua keponakannya yang masih berusia 6 dan 4 tahun. Tak hanya itu, dia juga terpaksa menerima gelar Duchess di Daerah Ansel sesuai surat wasiat sang kakak. Vania tentu awalnya menolak. Dia terlahir tanpa mana--sebuah energi--yang harus dimiliki oleh orang-orang Kerajaan Merden yang menjunjung tinggi dunia sihir. Namun, demi keponakannya, Vania rela melepaskan hidup tenangnya. Ketika satu per satu masalah teratasi, Vania mendapati masalah baru! Dua ponakannya tiba-tiba mencarikan jodoh untuk Vania agar dia dapat mempertahankan Duchess. Bagaimana kisah Vania dan dua keponakannya? Lalu, apakah ketiganya dapat hidup tenang dan bahagia sesuai surat wasiat sang duke?

Perpekto ang buhay ni Mina kasama ang asawa niyang si Tranz Fernandez sa loob ng halos tatlong taon. But her world turned upside down nang mabuntis siya. From having a perfect marrie life, Mina became a battered wife. Tiniis niya ang lahat ng sakit dahil mahal niya ang kanyang asawa. Pero sa hindi inaasahang pangyayari ay hiniwalayan niya ito. Sa tulong ni Seth ay naisaayos ang annulment niya at dinala pa siya nito sa ibang bansa. Matapos ang ilang taon ay bumalik si Mina sa Pilipinas para maisakatuparan ang binabalak niya—ang maramdaman ni Tranz ang naramdaman niya 3 years ago. Magtagumpay kaya siya gayong may kinakasama nang bago si Tranz o kaya niya itong paibigin lalo pa at tinanghal siya bilang isa sa may pinakamagandang mukha sa buong mundo?