Gap And The Gain

"I thought you were my friend." I say my voice timid as he started kissing my neck. I shivered as his mouth latched onto the skin. He chuckled and brought his mouth up to my ear. "You thought wrong Tesoro." Ayla Rose a naive simple girl. All she sees is the good in people and all he sees is the bad. Ryder Costello, Cambridge Academy's bad boy hated how innocent Ayla was. He hated how she couldn't see that the world around her wasn't at all flowers and rainbows. A project worth 50% of their final grade puts them together causing a rollercoaster of emotions between the two. After all she was the Beauty and he was the Bully. *VERY TOXIC RELATIONSHIP SO IF YOU DONT LIKE THEN PLEASE DONT READ*

When Alora Marino gets involved in the mafia after making one fateful decision, her bland and ordinary life changes completely. She rescues the younger brother of a mafia Don, Dante Bellini, and soon after finds herself stuck in a dangerous game. Torn between her vows as a nurse and the seducing figure of Dante, Alora lives in a mix of dangerous surroundings where new enemies seem to rise everyday. As threats increase, Alora’s choices will not only impact her, but also the people she cares about. Will Alora make the tough choice between love and loyalty? Or will she run for the hills to save herself?

The story you are about to read is inspired by a true story and refers to a time span of three years. During this time, various events take place. Love. Intrigue. Folly. Trips. Hopes. Vicissitudes. A love triangle will put a girl disputed between two important but profoundly different men at the center of attention. A princess. A commander. A sailor. A ship. Between one port to another, from one route to another, in an endless journey between sea and land , in different geographic locations around the world will happen à the unthinkable - in which the main protagonists of the story - it will help in moments of difficulty - but at the same time they will hate each other - struggling to re - establish their bonds and their role. At the seaside, life is different. You don't live by the hour but by the moment. We live by the currents, we adjust to the tides and follow the course of the sun. Cit. (Sandy Gingras) I want the sea to touch me, make me breathe the world and its whys, give me an eternal instant, which I will carry with me as an indelible memory. The sea is the mystery in which I immerse myself to rediscover my life. The sea. Cit. (Stephen Littleword) You can't be unhappy when you have this: the smell of the sea, the sand under your fingers, the air, the wind. Cit. (Irène Némirovsky) When love is true and sincere, it climbs over the mountains, the vastness of the sky and the sea. No human experience is greater than its strength. Cit.(Romano Battaglia)

Heartbroken. Betrayed. Determined to start over. When aspiring chef Evelyn Hayes discovers her fiancé in bed with her best friend, her world falls apart. Leaving behind her small-town life, she heads to New York City, vowing to focus on her dreams—and never let love get in the way again. But fate has other plans. Enter Damian Blackstone: a billionaire playboy with a ruthless reputation and a family determined to force him into a commitment he’s not ready for. His solution? A deal with Evelyn—pretend to be his girlfriend and help him get his mother off his back, and he’ll jumpstart her culinary career. What begins as a simple arrangement soon sparks undeniable chemistry, testing both their hearts and their limits. As the lines between pretense and passion blur, Evelyn fights to protect her heart, while Damian grapples with feelings he never expected. Will Evelyn and Damian find the courage to embrace the love they never saw coming? Or will their carefully constructed façade crumble under the weight of their growing feelings? The Chef and the Charmer is a slow-burn romance full of betrayal, humor, and the kind of sparks you can’t fake.

He is a hater just like his name. Odd Wilson is a bitter man, no looseness, willing to suffer anyone who dares to change his very organized life. The heir to his father's companies. The first born of the family, Odd does not believe in love only in one night pleasure. The unexpected comes and with it disasters, Odd will not be appeased, but she will not be intimidated. Odd's anger is felt at the mere sight of him, but apparently she is not affected at all. He has only fallen in love once and doesn't intend to do it again. He was a man devoted to his wife until one night, a broken heart is capable of becoming something very hard and cold that not even fire itself can melt. It should be known that cruel lies don't last forever and forgiveness doesn't usually exist, but hate unites them and love overcomes them. His world comes crashing down when he meets his beautiful secretary Charlotte Smith.

Isabella Millers is an ordinary girl who works as a waitress in a café. However, her life takes a drastic turn when a luxurious sedan owned by a cruel mafia leader in Brooklyn named Marco Vilante crashes into her bicycle on her way home from work. Isabella is forced to be involved in Marco's dangerous life because he falls in love with her and becomes obsessed with her. Pressure and fear haunt Isabella's life ever since. Will she be able to face the consequences of being involved with a cruel and obsessive mafia man?

Alessia gets kidnapped by a dangerous mafia Boss for having a relationship with the Mafia enemy. The Mafia Don, Rodion Konstantin, believes that a friend to his enemy is also an enemy, so he treats Alessia as an enemy. Stuck in Mafia Territory,  working for Rodion as a maid, Alessia ends up finding a secret that Rodion has been hiding. A secret considered to be Rodion's point of weakness. She learns that he is fighting  a fatal disease. She knows that Rodion's enemies could use this to bring him down. When Rodion learns that Alessia knows about his disease, he is left with no choice but to kill her, but he can't, because this girl that he kidnapped is always in his mind. He is busy fighting his sickness and also busy fighting his feelings for her. He doesn't believe in love, but he feels something strong for her. With Alessia having a secret that can get her free, will she tell Rodion's enemies about it? Being the powerful man in Italy, feared for his name, will Rodion risk keeping her alive or will he end her and continue hiding his sickness? How will two enemies fall in love when Alessia thinks he hates her and Rodion thinks she is going to use his weakness and bring him down?

The day she met him, reminded him of the night he saw her The day she lost her everything, resulted, in the night he got her for a lifetime The day she got a new life, that night snatched his everything The day she made her dream come true, that night, his everything became a nightmare. Everyone assumes that if they get the chance to replay the past, they can play everything right. But is it possible to rewrite fate?! The king of the mafia world! The biggest businesswoman in the technical world! Can there be any possibility for these two to meet each other?! Even if that happened, will the world accept it? What will happen when fate itself is on the path to play, with both these two and the ones surrounding them. What will happen when it is all a déjà vu for everyone, still, they ended up making it worse than before. The day tried to hide every secret, but the night unveiled them all. It is said that we all have a turning point in our lives. For them, it was, “THE DAY AND THE NIGHT”. !!A story where the side roles will write the story of the ones in lead!!

Astria Equilla, Isang mabuting estudyante, anak, at kaibigan, Lumaking masunurin sa matatanda at magalang. Not until, Nang Engagement Day na, her fiancé na childhood friend nya ay tumakbo sa Engagement Ceremony at nagtanan kasama ang Girlfriend neto. She suddenly realized kung gaano kamali ang Desisyon nyang pumayag sa plano neto, Napatingin sya bigla sa lalaking nasa likodan nya na tahimik at mariing nakatitig lang din sakanya. Cairan Funtaveriá, step brother of her supposedly Fiancé and her ex-lover, a gloomy man na binabalot nang kadiliman ang mundo pero tulad nang gabi, may isang bituing nagpapaliwanag sa buhay nya and It was Astria, the fiancee of his step-brother. Sa pagpapanic dahil magsisimula na ang Ceremony, Hinatak ni Astria ang kamay ni Cairan papuntang entablado at sinimulan ang Engagement Ceremony. Ano kaya ang mangyayari sa dalawa matapos ang kaninang mga desisyon?

Think werewolves are just fairy tales? But no! They do exist. And Emily, having lived a calm and unremarkable life, suddenly finds herself in the very epicenter of the war that flared up between the Wolves and the Hunters! And it is she, Amy, who is the cause of this very war. Why? Let's get together and find out.