Ex Machina Definition

What would you do if your fiancé's sister hijacked your wedding and became the bride? Life, as they say, is unpredictable. Victoria never imagined that her eight-year union with Brandon would end this way. After legally marrying in court a long time ago, they wanted an open wedding this time to celebrate their union, but things took a sour turn. Victoria decided to contact her lawyer for a divorce despite being pregnant. To her surprise, Brandon willingly signed the papers, convinced that she was never pregnant and had a plan to separate him from Elese, his acclaimed sister. What unfolds after Victoria makes the toughest decision of her life, leaving her comfort zone for a new city to rebuild herself and heal from the betrayal? Will Brandon and Elese find happiness together, or will he come to realize his mistake and seek Victoria's return? Will Victoria be willing to take him back?

BLURB She never stopped loving him. He just stopped seeing her. David Cole only reached for Lydia when he wanted her. Outside of that, she was invisible. So she poured herself into work – the only place that saw her worth. To fix the empty house, she hired a maid. What she didn’t know was that the maid and her husband had a past. And loneliness plus an old crush is a dangerous combination. The betrayal broke everything. The divorce finished it. Lydia walked away quietly and rebuilt herself. Now she’s stronger. And finally being loved the right way – by someone who actually shows up. Then David walks into the biggest deal of her career. They’re forced to work together or lose everything. He sees who she became without him. He sees the man who makes her smile. And something in him breaks open. So he fights. Quietly. Constantly. Always close. Learning to love her the hard way. But some secrets don’t stay buried forever. Can two broken people rebuild what was destroyed? Or will the truth finish what the divorce started?

(Warning 18+) He can’t forgive. She can’t remember. But their past won’t stay buried. Atticus Roan is desperate for a fresh start. After two years of hardship, she’s ready to rebuild her life, even if it means facing rejection for the way her plus-size figure no longer fits society’s ideals. Applying for a secretary position at Royal Cruise Manufacturing Company is her last hope. But she never expected her potential boss to be Phoenix Everette — a man whose icy glare hides a storm of resentment and pain.Phoenix remembers everything Atticus forgot. Two years ago, her betrayal left him broken, both in heart and body. Now he walks with a cane, a daily reminder of the accident that shattered his life — and he blames her for it. Her return stirs old wounds and a fury he thought he’d buried. How dare she stand before him, unaware of the damage she caused?As their worlds collide, a tangled web of lost memories, buried secrets, and raw emotions threatens to destroy them both. Atticus must uncover the truth about their past, while Phoenix must decide if he can let go of his anger.Can they confront their painful history and find forgiveness, or are some wounds too deep to heal? In a battle between resentment and redemption, second chances don’t come easy — but they might be worth the fight.

“We shouldn’t share the same room.” “We are married.” “But it’s a contract marriage.” “And there is no rule.” Laura and Chris were bound by an arranged marriage since childhood, but Laura rejected her mother’s wishes to marry a poor man and chose another path. Betrayal from her father and her mother’s tragic coma shattered her world, and the bond between the two families was broken. Chris left the country devastated, only to return years later as a powerful billionaire. By then, Laura’s company was collapsing and threatened by her stepbrother’s schemes. Desperate, she had no choice but to seek Chris’s help. But Chris has conditions: he will save her company only if Laura honors their old marriage agreement. Forced into a contract marriage, Laura and Chris must navigate bitter resentment, unresolved passion, and dangerous family rivalries. Will this marriage of convenience remain a contract or will it awaken the love they once denied?

Cassie pensait que le mariage était pour toujours — jusqu'à ce que douze ans de sacrifice se soldent par une trahison, des abus et la perte cruelle de sa fille. Brisée et abandonnée, elle ne jura plus que d’une chose : Alexandre, son ex-mari, regretterait chaque blessure qu’il avait infligée à son âme. Mais lorsque le destin la met face à face avec celui qu’Alexandre déteste le plus — son impitoyable rival — Cassie entrevoit une chance non seulement de survivre, mais de se venger. Ce qui commence comme une alliance dangereuse se transforme rapidement en quelque chose de plus profond : passion, pouvoir et un amour qui défie le passé. Désormais, Cassie ne se bat plus seulement pour son cœur brisé — elle saisit l’opportunité de renaître, de faire payer Alexandre et de construire un avenir avec l’homme qui n’aurait jamais dû être le sien.

Nachdem sie sechs Monate nach ihrer Hochzeit die Scheidungspapiere von ihrem Mann erhalten hat, versucht Lisa, ihre Ehe zu retten, doch sie zerbricht, als sie von der Affäre ihres Mannes mit ihrer Cousine erfährt. Verraten und am Boden zerstört, verlässt sie ihn, um ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Sechs Jahre später ist sie die mächtigste Frau der Unterwelt und eine geniale Ärztin in der Außenwelt. Was wird sie tun, als sie herausfindet, dass der Mafiaboss, der ihren Sohn entführt hat, um sie zu erpressen, damit sie das Leben seiner sterbenden Verlobten rettet, niemand anderes ist als ihr Ex-Mann? Wird sie ihren Hass gegenüber den beiden beiseitelegen und das Leben ihrer Cousine retten? Oder wird sie zusehen, wie sie stirbt? Wird sie ihrem Ex-Mann vergeben, dass er seinen eigenen Sohn entführt hat? ~~~~~ Trey Collins, ein rücksichtsloser, herrischer und mächtiger CEO in der Geschäftswelt und ein gnadenlos brutaler Mann, der in der Unterwelt nicht zögert, zu töten, zu foltern oder jemanden spurlos verschwinden zu lassen. Jede Frau in Pearl City träumt davon, seine Ehefrau zu sein, fürchtet sich jedoch vor seiner tödlichen, dominanten Aura. Trey heiratete Lisa nur, um seine Freundin Valerie zu bestrafen. Nachdem er wieder mit seiner Freundin zusammenkam, verlangte er die Scheidung, doch Lisa weigerte sich zu unterschreiben. Als sie schließlich doch unterschrieb, war er überrascht, spielte aber Gleichgültigkeit vor. Er dachte, sie wolle ihn nicht gehen lassen. Er dachte, sie würde betteln. Doch warum erinnert ihn nach ihrem Weggang plötzlich alles an sie? Er dachte, er wolle sie aus seinem Leben verbannen… Nein! Er muss zurückholen, was ihm gehört — nur ihm allein!

“ก็เพื่อนกันทั้งนั้น เรื่องมันก็ผ่านมานานแล้ว ใช่ไหมแหวน” เสียงของเรซหนึ่งในกลุ่มเพื่อนของน้องชายฝาแฝด เรซกำลังพยายามทำให้บรรยากาศดีขึ้นหลังจากที่นาฟบอกให้ฉันรู้ว่าใครบางคนนั้นมาที่นี่ด้วย “แหวนไม่นับผู้ชายที่เคยนอนด้วยเป็นเพื่อน” ฉันพูดตรง ๆ ใครกันจะอยากเป็นเพื่อนกับคนที่ทำให้เราเจ็บ แม้ว่าความเจ็บที่ได้รับ 90% จะเป็นฉันที่วิ่งเข้าไปหาเองก็เถอะ แต่แล้วเสียงจากด้านหลังของฉันก็ดังขึ้น เสียงที่ฉันเคยคุ้นเมื่อนานมาแล้ว ถึงเป็นคำสั้น ๆ แต่ฉันก็รู้ว่าเขาเป็นใคร “หึ” เสียงและตัวมาพร้อมกัน เจ้าของร่างสูงเดินไปนั่งที่ว่างตรงที่ฉันทักไปก่อนหน้า ซึ่งมันอยู่ตรงข้ามกับฉัน ฉันมองเขาแค่เพียงเล็กน้อยและเบือนหน้าหนี เชื่อเถอะว่าไอ้เสียงที่เปล่งออกมาจากลำคอนั้นเป็นคำสั้น ๆ แต่มันมีความหมายและความหมายของเขาก็คือ ‘คิดว่าฉันยังอยากจะได้เขาอยู่ไง’

I've always lived in the shadow of my husband's ex because he is still in love with her. Things get to a head when he divorces me without warning not long after she comes back into his life and he gets her pregnant. Heartbroken, I decide to put myself first for once in my life, but not long after I make that decision, I find that I'm pregnant with his child as well. Five years later, our paths cross again, and this time around, the tables have turned. Not long after, secrets from five years ago begin to unravel themselves and I find out that things are not what they seemed back then after all.

“What! The groom has changed!” The crowd started murmuring, as they looked at the couple walking down the aisle. ‘The groom should be changed, if needed’ I mulled in my head as I walked down the aisle with my Ex's uncle. *********** Michelle prepared for her upcoming wedding, she was happy to leave the bondage of her family, and she wanted to get married to the man she loved, but her hope of survival was a trap. She caught her husband-to-be cheating on her with her stepsister the night before her wedding, but she refused to stop the wedding. She made a contract to marry his fiance's uncle, and changed the groom on the wedding morning. But Michelle has no idea about the contract clauses, neither did she about the man she signed the contract with. Did you think Michelle can survive in the same household?

  “Liar. Slut. That thing in your belly isn’t mine.” Those were his last words before the door slammed and I hit the floor, shaking, wondering how the man I married had turned into someone who enjoyed watching me fall apart. Love wasn’t supposed to feel like punishment, but with him, it became exactly that. The insults. The bruises. The silence afterward. And the worst part was watching my own cousin the girl I grew up with slide into his life watching mine fall apart. He threw me out like trash. They both did. But I didn’t die out there. I got back up. And the woman who stood again wasn’t the weak one they tried to break. She was someone they should’ve feared from the start. There’s someone new now. He doesn’t see me as a burden but as someone worth fighting for. So when my ex shows up months later, suddenly soft-spoken, suddenly sorry, mumbling, “Emily… please. I messed up,” he expects the old me to crawl back. Instead, I look him in the eye and tell him the truth “You’re not part of my life anymore. You’re just what I had to survive.”