If A Tree Falls In The Forest

I was out for a long time. My eyes could not adjust easily and I felt a lot of pain throughout my whole body. I didn't know what was happening but surely I was somewhere in the dark. "That's ok, now sleep. Tomorrow you will feel better," someone woman voice said. Then I heard another male voice saying, "what has gotten into you? Now we are in deep shit." I couldn't listen to the conversation any longer as I have lost conciousness again. I groaned in agony as I felt myself waking again. I opened my eyes slowly but I could only see blurred. I noticed I had better sense of smell and I could hear better too. What's going on?I could hear a conversation that was outside the room I was locked in. "Please, do not tell anyone. It must have been the haze. It felt stronger then usual this time and I couldn't hold myself any longer. He was way too hot and I felt an unusual feeling like I was out of control." That was definitely Mei, but whom was she talking to? Also, what the hell is she? I couldn't forget last night's images. Fangs, shadows, and, blue eyes glowing at me, no, but then the second time they looked Red. Yes. I remember that. I was not going crazy.

Aris bergegas mengemasi pakaiannya, berderai keringat, nafasnya memburu tak karuan. Sementara di luar jeritan orang tertindas dan lolongan kebencian massa saling bersautan. Toko-toko dan kendaraan dibakar. Langit sedang dipenuhi asap hitam dan tangisan kaum perempuan. Di sisi lain, Asha dengan langkah yang gontai, berusaha mencari kekasihnya. Betapapun kacaunya keadaan di jalanan. Setibanya di tempat tinggal Aris, dia mendapati bahwa pintunya tergembok. Ada sedikit angin yang melegakan tenggorokan, setidaknya Aris masih ada di bumi tentu karena dia masih sempat mengunci pintu. Asha memutuskan kembali ke tempat persembunyian, alih-alih Aris sudah pergi kesana. Sayangnya segerombolan massa telah menghadang. Siap dengan segala aksinya. Asha kelimpungan, gemetar seluruh badan. Suaranya tercekat, sementara air mata terus meluncur bebas tanpa henti. kakinya seperti mati. Dalam batinnya dia menggaung pasrah, di pikirannya dia mengenang nama Aris.

Upon hearing about my husband's surgery, I braved a typhoon and torrential rain, driving four hours back to the city. When I arrived at the hospital, my husband, Xander Gray, was lying on the hospital bed, calling out loudly, "I want my wife! Get my wife here!" His buddies around him joked about how his wife had him completely whipped. Everyone said he loved me to death. Blushing, I walked over with a happy smile and held his hand, saying, "I'm here." To my surprise, he shook off my hand in disgust and snarled, "Get lost! You're not my wife! My wife is Beverly Long!"

Memiliki Retrokognision yaitu kemampuan untuk melihat masa lalu membuat Seika menghindari kontak fisik ataupun mata dengan orang lain semaksimal mungkin. Tapi takdir malah mempertemukannya dengan Kenichi Shinoda, seorang bos besar yakuza yang notabene mempunyai sejarah hidup mengerikan, seseorang yang paling ingin Seika hindari. "Akhirnya kau berada di sisiku uchi no yome" "Tolong lepaskan aku!" "Tidak tempat teraman mu adalah berada di sampingku" Akankah Seika mampu menghadapi Kenichi Shinoda dan masa lalu mengerikan milik laki-laki itu?

Houston Legacies Series Book 1 Angel's life has never been easy. Growing up in poverty with her mother had made it even harder than most. But she was a fighter, in so many ways… How could the truth so totally alter someone's life as they knew it? How did she adjust to this life? All she knew was she had family now, and she was going to make them proud. This was just the beginning she was going to change the world. At least her small part of it. It was time to change some lives… Life was all about change…

Orphan Abused Marriage When Julia lost her parents at a young age, her uncle took her in. The agreement? To transfer her inheritance to her once she reaches the legal age, but her uncle sees it as his escapade from poverty. However, he can’t have them as long as she’s still around, so, they planned to victimize her until she’ll ran away, but she didn’t. The devil she has known for years is better than the angel she might meet, right? When her uncle goes bankrupt, she was used as her cousin’s replacement for a marriage to Arthur- a heir of a wealthy family. It seems like her escape out of the hell and her chance to regain her freedom so she agreed, unbeknownst she was about to fall into the deeper part of the hell- a place where she’ll be the scapegoat. After the marriage, she finds out about the lies that are designed for her as the truth, breaking her heart once more. Heartbroken and disappointed, she determines to take revenge and it’ll start from where it should have end. She’s all set up and Arthur shall be her weapon!

Payton, a normal girl finally figuring out the ropes of adulting. A nice apartment with her boyfriend, and her boyfriends annoying best friend. A steady well-paying job, all sensible people's dream. That was until her boyfriend went away for work and his best friend, asks for her help. It was nothing too difficult, just acting like his girlfriend around his boss to make a good impression. But he left out the part where his boss, was one of the biggest gangsters around. She is thrown in with the sharks, where this sensible girl's normal life, becomes anything but normal. She has to fight her way through all the criminal twists and turns, leaving her unsure of her place in the world. To make matters worse, her pretend boyfriend confessed his own feelings for her! Police, murder, and relationships turn her life upside down. Follow her story to find out what being The Step In Girlfriend really entails.

"So, you're suggesting I marry my sister's man, now she's with my boyfriend?" Alice Dawsey never had any doubt she was the daughter her mother loved least. After all, Kendra Dawsey always made a point of saying this clearly. However, despite all the humiliation and cruelty coming from her mother and sister, she strives to build a life for herself and her beloved little daughter, Millicent. When Alice discovers that her boyfriend left her for her sister, Amber, and her mother destroys her prospects of future, she finds herself forced to marry the last man she expected. Massimo Bianchi has always had a difficult life, even after becoming the CEO of his family's business and the main candidate to marry Amber, uniting the two fortunes. However, after suffering an accident that left him confined to a wheelchair, he became a rude and bitter man, who will certainly make the life of any woman who marries him a living hell. So, of course, Kendra doesn't hesitate to replace her beloved Amber with someone as disposable as Alice. However, it is for another reason that Alice becomes Massimo's wife with her heart heavy. And not just because now the kind man she secretly fell in love with years ago seems to have turned into a reclusive monster. There is a secret that Alice plans to keep only to herself, no matter how much her and her daughter's presence on the Biachi Mansion seems to be, gradually, changing Massimo. ------- Millicent's Story, Revenge with My Fiancé's Billionaire Brother, is Now Available ---------

When a billionaire heiress, Heather Williams catches her best friend coming out naked from her husband's bathroom, she learns the awful truth about her recent predicaments and threatens to sue them, but is hit with yet another shock that shatters her. Billionaire Massimo Valentiti, the Mafia don of a mafia gang will stop at nothing to claim the power he desires even if it means using his newest pawn, Heather Williams, a beautiful and cunning woman seeking revenge against her ex-husband. But as they get into a marriage of convenience, what happens when they begin to develop feelings for each other? Will the dangers of the mafia world consume them or will their love stand the test of times?

Kondisi negara yang tidak baik-baik saja di tahun 1998, mendorong Rega Simbala, mahasiswa yang memiliki jiwa patriotik tinggi terhadap tanah air, bergerak menuju gedung DPR/MPR untuk demonstrasi. Pagi itu, Rega bertemu Aisha-gadis bercadar keturunan Tionghoa, yang sedang menyelamatkan diri setelah terjadi peristiwa kerusuhan. Ketakutan Aisha yang membawanya menggunakan pakaian serba hitam, membawa pula gadis itu pada pergolakan batin tentang keyakinan. Seiring berjalannya waktu kedekatan mereka semakin intens. Baik Aisha maupun Rega sama-sama memiliki perasaan yang sama. Namun tentu saja terbentur oleh keyakinan. Saat Aisha memutuskan menjadi mualaf, keluarganya membawa paksa Aisha dalam pelarian mereka ke luar negeri, selain mereka juga menentang kedekatan Aisha dengan Rega sang muslim pribumi. Bagaimanakah kelanjutan kisah cinta mereka? Temukan jawabannya disini.