Idol Birthday April

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

"Morning kiss. Utang yang harus kamu bayar lunas sebelum keluar dari apartemen saya." Meira mengira pertemuan itu hanya kesepakatan gila yang terjadi satu kali saja, cukup memberikan satu kecupan manis masalah terselesaikan. Namun, kenyataan seakan menampar realita. Meira justru dipertemukan kembali dengan pria itu yang kini berstatus sebagai dosen pengganti di kampus ia belajar. Akankah asmara penuh cinta di bawah meja kampus sampai pada titik paling membara? Atau justru berakhir duka untuk cinta yang penuh rahasia?

"Tolong, aku butuh uang sekarang untuk operasi ayahku. Haruskah aku menambahkan jadwal kerjaku menjadi asistenmu?" Vanesha harap-harap cemas menanti balasan Radit, aktor yang ditanganinya dan terkenal arogan. Namun siapa sangka pria tampan itu mengangguk? "Baiklah. Tapi sebagai gantinya, kau harus menjadi 'asisten' penurut padaku, termasuk di ranjang." Deg! Apakah Vanesha akan menerimanya?

Con la epidemia se vio afectado mi sueldo, y para ganar más dinero con el que mantener a mi familia, volví a mi profesión anterior de masajista ciego a tiempo parcial. Sin embargo, lo que no me esperaba fue que había un servicio especial oculto en la última planta de ese salón de masajes. La primera clienta que atendí allí fue Cecilia Lagos, la bella presidenta de mi empresa, y quería que le diera un masaje especial...

—¡Ay... más suave, mi esposo me está llamando! —exclamé con las mejillas enrojecidas mientras tomaba el teléfono y contestaba la videollamada. Al otro lado de la línea, mi esposo, con la mirada perdida, me daba una orden tras otra, sin percatarse de que, fuera de cámara, un joven movía la cabeza entre mis piernas.

On our wedding day, my boyfriend, Hayden Grant, had me thrown out of the chapel. Instead, he walked down the aisle hand-in-hand with his childhood sweetheart. I went back in and collapsed at the side of the aisle. The bouquet slipped from my hands, and scattered petals fell everywhere. However, his eyes did not linger on me for even half a second. "Selena's child needs a dad. Once that's taken care of, I'll marry you." Everyone thought I, the lovesick fool, would willingly wait another month. After all, I had already waited for him for seven years. However, that night, I did something no one expected. I agreed to my parents' arranged marriage and left the country. Three years later, I returned home to visit my parents. My husband, William Fields, was the CEO of a multinational corporation. When an unexpected, important meeting came up, he asked me to head to the company's branch back home ahead of him, where his subordinates would take care of me. To my surprise, one of those subordinates turned out to be Hayden, the man I had not seen in three years. His eyes went straight to the sparkling diamond on my ring finger. "Is this a knockoff of that pink diamond Mr. Fields bought for his wife that's worth five million dollars? I didn't expect you to become so vain after all these years. "You've stirred up enough drama. Come home. Selena's kid is in school now, so it's the perfect chance for you to take care of his lunches." I did not say a word and just traced the ring with my fingertips. He had no idea that this was the cheapest of all the gems William had ever given me.

Sean tidak pernah tahu jika dirinya adalah putri Kerajaan Spanyol yang melarikan diri setelah kerajaan diserang dan dikuasai oleh musuh. Beberapa kali sang bibi—yang sebenarnya pelayan mendiang Ratu Spanyol —membawanya melarikan diri, tapi Sean tidak tahu alasannya. Hingga suatu hari Sean yang bekerja sebagai pengawal Ratu Amerika tiba-tiba dikirim ke Inggris—yang berada di tengah perselisihan dengan Amerika—untuk menjadi mata-mata. Pertemuan Sean dengan putra mahkota Inggris yang juga tengah menyamar dan menyembunyikan identitasnya perlahan menumbuhkan perasaan suka di hati keduanya. Saat identitas mereka sama-sama terbongkar, tembok besar telah menjadi penghalang untuk perasaan mereka. Namun, identitas Sean sebagai Putri Spanyol mulai terbongkar dan kejuatan lain datang saat pangeran bungsu dari Amerika menginginkan Sean sebagai istrinya sebagai imbalan atas bantuan yang akan diberikan pada Sean dan kakaknya agar bisa merebut kembali Kerajaan Spanyol.

My sister, Cherry Nicholson, called me nine times before she jumped into the sea. But I didn't pick up once. Now everyone says it's my fault she's gone—even my fiance, my Alpha mate—Samuel Carver. He used to stay by my side through every painful treatment for my wolfsbane fever. Now, he shoves me to the ground like I'm nothing. His once gentle face is now twisted with contempt as he looks down on me and warns, "You don't deserve to be happy!" And truth be told, it isn't just them who believe that. Even I do. Since then, I've stopped going out, stopped dressing up, and stopped meeting anyone's eyes. Even when I run into Samuel holding hands with another she-wolf, I lower my head and walk past silently. But when the wolfsbane fever comes back, I drown in agony and despair. I decide to give my life to atone for what happened to Cherry. That's when they all start to regret it.

Tenía nueve meses de embarazo y estaba lista para dar a luz, pero mi esposo, Sean Conner, me encerró en el cuarto de almacenamiento del sótano y me dijo que retuviera el parto. Comentó que era porque la esposa de su difunto hermano, Quinn Faber, también estaba a punto de dar a luz ese día. Hacía años, Sean y su hermano habían acordado que el primer hijo nacido en la familia Conner sería criado como heredero y recibiría la herencia familiar. —El bebé de Quinn debe nacer primero —dijo Sean como si fuera algo trivial—. Ella perdió a su esposo y no tiene nada. Tú ya tienes mi amor, por lo tanto, es justo que la herencia sea destinada a su hijo. El dolor de las contracciones me dobló por la mitad y lloré, suplicándole que me llevara al hospital. Él me secó las lágrimas y con una tranquilidad inquietante, me dijo: —Deja de fingir. Luego, espetó: —Siempre supe que no me amabas. Todo lo que te importa es el dinero y el estatus. Forzaste el parto para robarle el lugar a mi sobrino... ¿Cómo puedes ser tan cruel? Con la cara pálida y temblando, logré susurrar: —No puedo controlar cuándo nace un bebé, esto es una coincidencia. Te juro que no me importa la herencia. ¡Yo te amo! Él soltó una carcajada llena de frialdad y me dijo: —Si me amaras, no habrías presionado a Quinn para que firmara ese contrato renunciando a la herencia de su hijo. Bueno, una vez que ella dé a luz, volveré a buscarte. Después de todo, el bebé que llevas en tu vientre lleva mi sangre. Sean se quedó fuera de la sala de parto donde estaba Quinn y solo después de que el recién nacido llegó al mundo, él se acordó de mí. En ese momento le ordenó a su secretario que me llevara al hospital, pero la voz de este tembló mientras decía: —La señora... y el bebé... Ambos han muerto... En ese momento, él perdió la razón.

At the annual Mafia Summit, my childhood sweetheart, Salvatore Russo, falls victim to an aphrodisiac slipped to him by a beautiful spy from a rival family. And I, the cherished daughter of the most feared Don in the west, willingly become his antidote. That night, he drives me to the edge of breathless surrender, again and again. "Principessa, what did I ever do to deserve your favor?" he mutters. From that moment on, his love consumes me whole, making me forget what loneliness ever felt like. But in the third year of our marriage, someone sent me a private video of a man and a woman. It's from Rosa Conti, the same woman who once drugged Salvatore. In the video, Salvatore's voice is thick with desire. "Darling, of course I remember. The one who should've been in my bed that night was you." Then, Rosa sends me another voice message, taunting, "Arianna Moretti, for three years, he's been dulling your claws, turning you into something soft and spoiled. Everything he did was just to bring me back." However, she doesn't know that when I love Salvatore, I don't mind surrendering to him. And when I no longer love him, he'll face my fiercest vengeance.