Game Charlie

"Berapa hutang orangtuaku dan bagaimana caraku melunasinya. Cepat!" Paksaku. Aku ingin semua ini berakhir dengan cepat."Simple. Kamu hanya perlu menandatangani kontrak, maka hutang kedua orangtuamu bisa lunas detik ini juga."***"Gio, ini tidak seperti yang kamu lihat. Aku melakukan ini semua dem--""Siapa yang perduli?" Tanya Gio langsung. Dia menghampiri Dania, memeluk adikku sendiri.Sebentar, ini tidak seperti yang aku lihat, kan?. Gio tidak mungkin selingkuh dengan adikku sendiri, kan?. ***"Aku harus pulang, istriku sudah pasti menungguku di rumah," ucap Ryan, mengambil baju kaos di lemari yang entah kapan dimasukkan ke benda itu. "Tapi ini sudah tengah malam," ucapku. "Aku tidak mungkin membiarkan istriku sendirian, bukan?" Ucapnya dan keluar begitu saja dari kamar ini.Aku hanya bisa diam. Mencoba menerima kenyataan yang ada. Pada dasarnya memang tidak akan ada yang menyayangiku."Aku juga istrimu, dan aku sendirian." Ucapku, menutupi diriku dengan selimut. Menutupi tangis yang meledak, tidak bisa aku tahan.

I stood on the pavement outside the townhouse that had been my sanctuary for ten years, watching the removal men haul out my life. Beside me, Lyle didn't even have the decency to look guilty. "It’s just business, Lolly," he’d said an hour ago, dropping the divorce papers onto the marble kitchen island. "You were a beautiful asset. But assets fucking depreciate." Now, I was a 'no one'. No money, no keys, and my reputation dragged through the mud. I stared up at the window of my bedroom. Krista – my ex best friend – was up there right now.. I turned. A man leaned against the frame of a waiting black saloon car. He didn't look like a bloody saviour. He looked like the devil, and right now, the devil was exactly what I needed. "I'm Franco," he murmured. "And I think Lyle just made the biggest mistake of his pathetic life. He thinks he broke you. I think he just let you off the leash." The heat radiating off his body was a phenomenal. I had just lost my husband, but standing this close to Franco, the only thing I felt was a sudden, violent ache. He held out an invitation. The Apex Bloom. A survival game for the elite. The prize is a billion pounds. But it doesn't reward beauty. It rewards the hunger of a woman who has nothing left to lose." A sharp shock shot through me, and I let out a soft gasp. He stepped half an inch closer, his thigh brushing against mine. He knew what that touch did to me. He wanted it just as much as I did. "Rule one," Franco whispered. "In my arena, the only way to bloom is to bleed. Are you ready?"

Born of Beta and witch, Aurora lives a life of cruelty for not being the Beta her father wanted her to be. When the Worthy Wars takes place. She is thrown in the mix. Only to be protected by her 'unknown' fated mated, Liam the future Alpha King. Liam's POV "I want to touch you", Zeus slipped passed me. "And I want to play a game", she taunted, stepping out of my grasp. Zeus whimpered at the loss of contact, giving me a distraction to wrangle full control back from him. "I like a good game", I smirked, raising an eyebrow at her. She stepped back into my reach. She placed both of her hands on my chest, sending sparks into my heart. I placed my hands on her waist, pulling her closer. Her breasts were pushed against my abdomen. "You can touch me, if you can catch me", her voice was low, nervous. "You want to play a game of cat and mouse? With the fastest wolf in the country?", I smirked. "You are drunk, princess. That wouldn't be a fair game. But that's the point, isn't it?", excitement bubbled in my chest, as the pieces began to fall into place.

Charlie is a member of Black Diamonds, they hunt for these inhuman beings called mermaid. When the ship is attack one night, Charlie is pulled into a whole new world under the sea.

Violet, pembuat game VR Beast Dominion, masuk ke dalam game sebagai tester untuk uji coba terakhir sebelum peluncuran. Namun sebuah error fatal terjadi—menu logout menghilang, dan sistem justru menandainya sebagai unit langka: Living Pheromone. Di dunia beastmen, aroma manusia murni mampu menenangkan para jantan yang kehilangan kendali. Keberadaan Violet segera memicu ketegangan antar wilayah, hingga dibentuklah Dewan Perlindungan. Terdiri dari 4 jantan terkuat dari berbagai spesies yang semuanya resmi menjadi suaminya demi menjaga perdamaian. Terjebak dalam dunia yang seharusnya hanya permainan, Violet harus bertahan hidup di tengah insting liar empat suaminya. Akankah Violet berhasil keluar dari dunia game, atau ada rahasia lain di balik terjebaknya di dunia itu?

At the company's afterparty, my assistant, Charlie Langford, lodges a complaint against me while holding a stack of racy photos. "Ms. Spencer, after you slept with me, you told me that you'd take responsibility for me. Why are you entering a marriage alliance with another family soon? "Who did you take me for? A plaything? Then I might as well jump off this building right now just to prove my innocence!" H-Hey now! The only time I've made private contact with Charlie is when I had my driver, Lorelei Green, give him a ride half a month ago purely out of convenience! How on earth did Charlie warp that encounter into having physical intimacy with me? Moreover, I'm a straight man! Why would I even have that sort of relationship with Charlie, to begin with?

After discovering her true heritage and finding out she is a Lycan, eighteen year old Charlie leaves her mate behind and joins Alpha Zach's pack in the hope of reuniting with her long lost mother Sophia. The only problem is Charlie is also mated to Alpha Zach and he is not quite ready to give up on her when Alpha Max reappears in her life. Will Charlie move on with Alpha Zach or will she return to the life she had with Alpha Max. This book can read as stand alone, do check out Book 1 if you're enjoying it!!

30-year old Ginger Cadette faked her death to get closer and revenge on her enemies - Charlie and Charlotte. Ginger was devasted after her fiancé, Charlie, left her during her darkest days. She was battling brain cancer she didn't know that she had for a year and was given only 4 months left to live. During her fight, the Bar & Life bar she owns goes bankrupt when her irresponsible and incompetent twin takes over, and she loses money and the friends she thought were real. Two months after Charlie left Ginger, a miracle happened and she was cancer-free. She tried to see Charlie talk to him because she still loved him but then, she found out that two months ago, Charlie married Charlotte, the heiress of her rival bar who's pregnant with Charlie's child. If things couldn't get any worse, Charlotte bought Ginger's business and lost everything. So Ginger faked her death, and her identity and put on a disguise to apply as Charlotte's Secretary so she could get closer to the two and wreck them as much as they wrecked her.

"Mr Charlie, your son fought in school again" Charlie's assistant reported, Charlie was shocked, he didn't remember having another son in College again. "You fulfilled your promise, so, I will make you my wife no matter what, and I won't take a no for an answer," Charlie told Margret without mincing words. Margret didn't expect her return to Houston with two of her triplets will be very dramatic, a man she doesn't recognise claiming she promised to give him triplets, and another man who wanted to snatch her children from her. And her other son, who doesn't recognise her as his mother.

Back when we were still in love, I heard from someone else that Charlie Grant had been getting unusually close to his secretary. He never offered an explanation. He let me dig for the truth on my own. Over the past five years, I quietly collected countless photos of them together—having lunch, leaving late-night meetings, even traveling for business—but none of them offered conclusive proof of cheating. Until the day he proposed to me. There was a giant screen set up. It was supposed to play a romantic video Charlie had prepared just for the proposal, but the screen suddenly cut to something else. A video of Charlie at a hospital, standing beside his secretary as she underwent a pregnancy check-up. In the video, the doctor clearly referred to Charlie as her husband… and the father of her child. His secretary burst into tears on the spot and apologized to me repeatedly. She sobbed as though she were the victim. Charlie, however, stood there with a cold expression and said flatly, "She's an unwed mother. She was helpless. I was just accompanying her for the checkup. The doctor must've misunderstood." Everyone braced for a dramatic scene. However, I didn’t scream. I didn’t cry. I only reached up and slowly removed the delicate flower hairpiece from my head. I set the hairpiece down. Then I looked Charlie in the eyes and spoke calmly. "You're right. It is sad that she’s pregnant and all alone. "This marriage proposal was meant for her. Not me." I gave a faint smile. "May you enjoy a blissful life. And… congratulations on the baby."