How Many Pages In The Catcher In The Rye

I stared down at the contract, a wave of defiance bubbling up in me. I turned back to him, meeting his gaze head-on. "I never asked for your help," I said, "I would've found a way to save my mother on my own. You may think you own me, but I'd rather die than marry you." A slow smile crept across his face, a smug, knowing look that sent a chill down my spine. He knew exactly what I was thinking, as if my resistance only entertained him. "Look at me," he commanded. I reluctantly turned back, locking eyes with him. His face had shifted, his expression darkened, and for the first time, true fury was etched in his eyes. "I’ll count to ten," he said, "If that contract isn’t signed by the time I reach ten, I’ll make the same call I made to pay those bills. Only this time, the instructions will be different. Your mother... your sister…they’ll both be gone." He took a breath, settling back as if the threat were a mere matter of routine. "So… ONE!!" I swallowed hard, my heartbeat pounding in my ears. Could he be bluffing? No, I'd seen him kill before, seen how casually he turned life and death into sports. "FOUR," he counted. My hands started to shake. What could I do? If I signed, I'd be bound to him forever, trapped as his wife. But if I didn’t... my mother and sister’s lives hung in the balance. "SEVEN." I closed my eyes, fighting the panic rising in my chest. He wouldn’t do it, I told myself. He couldn’t be that monstrous. But even as I thought it, the doubt crept in. I wasn’t sure. Then, he hit "TEN" himself

Deva, seorang Putra Mahkota dari Kerajaan Throne yang terkenal memiliki paras yang tampan, dingin namun pemberani. Tak jarang, banyak wanita yang ingin menjadi pendamping hidupnya, namun selalu ia tolak karena semua wanita yang pernah mendekatinya itu tidak pernah bisa menumbuhkan benih cinta dalam hatinya. Hingga pada suatu hari, ia bertemu dengan Georgia, seorang Putri Mahkota dari Kerajaan Edayon. Parasnya yang anggun dan lemah lembut itu, berhasil mencuri pandang Deva hingga membuatnya jatuh cinta. Deva merasa, jika ia sudah menemukan cintanya setiap kali menatap wajah Georgia. Namun, tak pernah terbayang dipikiran Deva, jika cinta yang ia temukan itu adalah mautnya. Ia terkejut ketika Sang Raja memberitahu jika Georgia adalah Putri Mahkota dari Kerajaan Edayon. Kerajaan Edayon adalah musuh besar dari Kerajaan Throne sejak lama. Mendengar ucapan Sang Raja, Deva pun terdiam dan terus memikirkan kisah cintanya itu. Ia langsung bergegas pergi ke kamarnya untuk menenangkan pikirannnya. Di satu sisi, Georgia yang juga diberitahu oleh ayahnya, jika Deva adalah Putra Mahkota dari kerajaan yang menjadi musuhnya, langsung ikut terpaku dan tidak mengeluarkan sepatah kata pun. Mereka berdua sama-sama memikirkan hal yang sama, terlebih lagi mereka tahu bahwa kerajaan mereka sudah merencanakan perang, jauh sebelum mereka bertemu. Lalu, apa yang akan mereka lakukan? Apakah mereka akan merelakan cintanya demi sebuah perang? Atau mereka akan memperjuangkan cinta mereka sendiri hingga menemukan sebuah akhir?

When millionaire Wade Harrison woke from transplant surgery, his first words were, Hug my boys. But he had no boys! Convinced his new heart was telling him to look after his donor's sons, he headed to Texas, to set up their secret college fund...and met their beautiful mother, Dixie McCormick, who really set his pulse racing! Dixie sensed something oddly familiar in the handsome stranger, and gave him a job washing dishes in her busy diner. When Wade finally confessed the truth, she didn't know what to think -- she'd already fallen for him. But now Wade faced a difficult decision -- return to his life in New York society, or follow his heart into Dixie's loving arms....

Empty vessels make the most noise, and men who fit that description to a tee hardly make for suitable partners. When Corinne had to go on a blind date with someone like that, she did the unthinkable simply to show her disinterest in him—she kissed a handsome older man whom she had never met before. "I hereby pledge myself to you," the older man vowed. If a single kiss from her was all it took for him to devote himself to her, would a second kiss entail much more? There was only one way for Corinne to find out…

April and Zade were childhood friends, until the day they learned that they were fated mates. The Alpha's son rejected her and April was banished by the pack releasing a dormant curse to plague the wolves who treated her so badly. Now Zade is determined to get April back, but she is the key to a prophesy held close to the heart of a dragon lord, who has waited an eternity to be with her, and thus begins a race against time to win the heart of the future, as dragon and wolf compete for the rights to her heart.

Ava was born and brought up in the Voltrons pack, she had lived her whole life among them although she did not know who her real parents were. She was later betrayed by her best friend Lina who accused her wrongly to the entire pack. Ava tried to prove her innocence but no one believed her, not even her love interest Theodore. She was forced to leave the pack to go and make a life for herself elsewhere. She later met and fell in love with Alpha Lesley, the Alpha of the Luna pack who she was later to discover was her mate, he is all powerful and most feared among other alphas. He took her into his pack and she was accepted as one of them. She vowed to take revenge on the people that had betrayed her with her new acquired power. Along the line, her former pack was attacked by another powerful pack, she was moved to pity, and the realization that all the pent up anger and hatred she had gathered for them were not as strong as she thought. She made up her mind to forgive and save them. But she was later to discover that saving them would also mean going against her current pack, and the people that had saved her from exile when she was rejected, and also betraying the love of her life. Would Ava leave everything that is important to her behind including betraying her true mate just to save the people that had betrayed and rejected her in the past?

Number 1: Kidnap the Mafia's Wife. Number 2: Great, the bitch is gone. Stage an accidentally-on-purpose meet up to get his attention. Number 3: Have his eyes on me the whole night. Number 4: Let him take me home. Number 5: Experiment: take one; put a gun to the bastard's head. The last thing Indigo Mae expected was for a terror from her past to come knocking on her door at midnight. And by all means, the last thing she could have possibly hoped for was this little visit being the reason she gets roped into a twisted and deadly experiment, using the most dangerous man in the continent as her labrat. All Indigo ever wanted was a breakthrough. Unfortunately, life has other surprises. And it all begins with her getting thrown, hands tied, into a sinister Mafia world of conspiracies, lies, desires and death. Or, in other words, this mad man called Alessandro Ferrara.

(REVISED) Misunderstanding and lack of communication had caused a huge gap between the two childhood sweethearts, Athena Stanford and Terrence Adams until they were shackled to marriage by their elders. She left loathing him in silence but after few years, she returned, determined to put up a fight and slap him with the truth. However, things didn't go according to her plan and everything turned upside down...

When Naya Kim lost her best friend in suicide, she starts to lose her interest, in school, in fun, in friends, and in love too. It leaves a permanent scar on her and distant her from happiness she deserves. She makes herself alone and isolated from everyone. Only going to the rooftop of the campus to watch sunset becomes her therapy and comfort. She thought this is her treasure that she will never share with anyone, until one night, Adam Yung, a new student suddenly appears on her spot.

You think being a teenager is hard enough as it is. Try being a teenager that has the respossibility of saving people from their own demons and fears. That is exactly what Zelenia Erickson has been doing from the time she discovered what she was...