Healing Hero

นางคือภรรยาที่เขาไม่ต้องการ ถูกแม่สามีรังเกียจ ถูกสตรีอื่นแย่งชิงสามี และถูกผลักไสออกจากจวนถูกราวกับของไร้ค่า...สามปีให้หลังนางกลับมาอีกครั้งพร้อมความแค้นที่จะสะสางและทวงคืนอย่างสาสม!

‘ความสุขที่เคยมีและการใช้ชีวิตอย่างที่เคยเป็นของนักศึกษาสาวได้หมดไป เพราะความเป็นห่วงเพื่อนรักทำให้เธอรั้นไม่ฟังคำห้ามเตือนของเพื่อนรักอีกคน จนได้มาพบเจอกับเหตุการณ์ไม่คาดฝัน เมื่อเขาและพวกเพื่อนพากันออกมาปล้นครั้งใหญ่ แต่ความโชคร้ายดันมาเยือนเธอ ได้นำพาเขาให้วิ่งตรงมาหา’ Spoil~ "มะ..หมายความว่าไง แต่ฉันมาส่งนายถึงที่แล้วนะ" เธอเบิกตาโพลงกว้างพอจะเข้าใจในคำพูดของเขาว่าหมายถึงอะไร แต่พยายามต่อรองเพื่อหวังให้เขาปล่อย รู้ทั้งรู้ว่ายากแทบจะไม่มีโอกาสนั้นก็ดีกว่ายอมอะไรง่ายๆ "ส่งแล้วยังไง?" "นายก็ต้องปล่อยฉันกลับสิ" "เหอะ! ปล่อยกลับให้มึงเอาตำตรวจมาลากคอกูอ่ะเหรอ" เขาเค้นเสียงเหอะอย่างเย้ยหยันมองคนตรงหน้าด้วยสีหน้าเหยียด "อย่าพูดอะไรสิ้นคิดเพราะมึงจะดูโง่ จะลงมาเองหรือจะให้กูลากลงมา" "ไม่! นายปล่อยฉันไปนะ ฉันสัญญาจะไม่แจ้งตำรวจไม่ยุ่งเรื่องของ...อึก!"

นอ.ไปงานแต่งงานเพื่อนสนิท จะเข้าไปอวยพรแต่ห้องนั้นกลับสลับกัน มีพอ.ที่ถูกวางยาปลุกกำนันอยู่ข้างใน พอรู้อีกทีก็สายเกินแก้ จะหนีก็ไม่ทัน จำต้องแต่งงานกลับพอ.อย่างไม่อาจหลีกเลี่ยง เพียงเพราะความผิดพลาดในค่ำคืนหนึ่ง นางจึงถูกตราหน้าว่าเป็นฮูหยินที่ไม่ต้องการของเขา...ถูกเหยียดหยามและถูกมองอย่างไร้ค่า ทว่าหัวใจของนางกลับโง่เขลาไม่อาจหนีพ้นจากบุรุษผู้นี้ไปได้

This marks the third year since Alan Cohen and I became mates, and today's finally the day of the Luna ceremony. As the ceremony begins, Alan takes my hand. But then he hesitates, refusing to move forward. I'm still trying to make sense of it when my adoptive sister, Eden Parker, suddenly breaks into the mind-link. She says she's just ended a failed mate bond with another Alpha and will be back within the hour. That's when I see a flicker of a smile on Alan's face. Then, without a second glance, he lets go of my hand and walks away. I turn to my adoptive brother, Dexter Parker, and my adoptive father, Hank Parker, hoping for some kind of comfort, only to realize they've already left the ceremony with Alan. And just like that, I became the joke of the entire pack. Eden sends me a photo. She's glowing beside Alan, her arm looped through Dexter's, with Hank beaming next to them. That's when I give up. I reach out through the mind-link to my birth father. "Dad, I'm ready to return to the Bloodmoon Pack."

At the annual gala, my father had me marry Asher Ziegler, a rising star in the finance industry whom he had groomed. Back then, I, Maddison Gruber, had no idea that Asher was in love with someone else. Sometime later, my father's company is investigated for product fraud, and his company's stock plummets. He even faces criminal charges. When this happens, Asher immediately brings his first love, Cora Singer, home and tells me outright that he is going to make her his legally wedded wife. My mother-in-law admonishes me. "Your family's bankrupt now, and you're completely barren! Why shouldn't my son remarry?" Asher slides a divorce agreement in front of me, his tone condescending. "Sign this, and I can let you stay here and live alongside Cora." But I say nothing. I merely quietly book a ticket to leave this place. In seven days, I will be following my father down south.

During a game of truth or dare, my boyfriend, Ryan Patel, chose to kiss his childhood friend, Michelle Woods, for three minutes to save her from a penalty. When I found out, I was furious. I called him in tears, confronting him about the unbearable intimacy between them. He remained silent for a long time before speaking coldly, "Are you done crying?" Then, he drove Michelle home. I crouched in the rain, watching couples huddle under umbrellas, and from that moment on, I never contacted Ryan again. Three months later, at an auction, I bought a men's wristwatch. When Ryan heard about it, he chuckled. "Forget it. In three days, I'll go and coax her back myself. She just needs a way out." His friends all sent me messages, congratulating me on how well I had him wrapped around my finger. I didn’t reply to any of them. I simply posted a picture in my feed—my newly issued marriage certificate.

Everyone knew that Simon Zimmer and Luna Springfield had been friends with benefits for a year, but they had chosen to hide it from Bertha Marsh, the deaf one. During a New Year’s gathering, Bertha's cold attitude caused displeasure to Simon’s friend. “Simon, is Bertha kicking up a fuss again? Seriously, that doctor of yours is more considerate. She knows how to get you into a good mood and doesn’t throw tantrums,” he said loudly with disdain. Simon’s expression turned dark, and he snapped at him. “Don’t say anything you shouldn’t. Bertha’s the most important person to me. I’ll die if she leaves.” He then anxiously signed to Bertha to ask whether she was sick. What he did not know was that Bertha had heard it all, and their future together was over.

After her first love died, Sophia Hayes hated me for ten years. I tried to win back her favor every day, but she only responded with cold sneers. "If you really want to make me happy, why don't you just die?" Her words were like daggers to my heart. It was a shock when she died in a pool of blood while trying to save me from an oncoming truck. With her final gaze fixed on me, she whispered, "If only I had never met you." Her mother was inconsolable with grief at the funeral. "I should have let Sophia be with Ethan Brooks. I never should have forced her to marry you!" Her father also looked at me with hatred in his eyes. "Sophia saved your life three times. She was such a wonderful person. Why couldn't it have been you who died instead?" Everyone regretted that Sophia had married me—myself included. I was driven away from the funeral, completely devastated. Three years later, I traveled back to the past after a time machine was invented. This time, I chose to sever all connections with Sophia, giving everyone the version of history they truly desired.

I had a perception disorder that messed with how I saw and felt stuff. So when I got dropped into a horror game, everyone else freaked out trying to survive— Me? I thought I was in a dating sim. I raised a young fae like she was my kid, fell for the vampire count, and treated the undead like my in-laws. The first time I saw the vampire—face torn up, soaked in blood—I straight-up blushed. "You're really handsome." He froze. Then, low and uncertain: "Am I... really handsome?"

[THE NEW YORK BACHELORS CLUB, #1] [Formerly known as Healing Mr. Brown] Vincent Brown has a past filled with cuts and bruises. He knows how to transform his pain and rage to bring out the best in him. He has made mistakes big to change, but Joy wasn't one of them. Joyce Gale has grown stronger than ever. After losing the person closest to her, she has done everything she could to feel complete. But nothing could ever make her happy except the man named Vince she met five years ago. When fate brings them together once again, it makes them face the truth that they both have changed and so have their feelings for each other. Their desire for each other has grown into something that neither of them can retract from. The only thing that stands between them is their fear of being too broken to be healed. © 2020 Shreya Sengupta