If Only I Knew Book

Miguel Javier Mortiz, a 26 year old bachelor who fell in love with Gabriella Marie Joson, a 16 year old teenage girl. Sa unang pagkakataong nasilayan ni Miguel si Gabriella ay may kung anong klaseng damdamin ang napukaw ng dalaga sa kanya. Her innocent eyes took him by a surprised. Sinubukan ni Miguel pigilan ang damdamin, ngunit tila bomba itong sasabog kahit ano mang oras. Alam niyang mali, pero hanggang kailan niya kayang itago ang nararamdaman para sa dalaga.

Celeste Vane was twenty-four when Diana Hale dismantled her family’s company with a legal maneuver so precise it left no trace of wrongdoing — only ruin. Four years later, Celeste returns. She walks into Hale Group as a junior financial analyst, unseen and underestimated. But she has already spent years quietly acquiring fragments of the very system that destroyed her family. Every step inside the company brings her closer to reclaiming what was taken. And closer to Marcus Hale. Marcus is nothing like what she expected. Controlled, perceptive, and infuriatingly fair, he is the one man who sees the real structure of her mind — and the one person she cannot afford to be seen by for too long. Celeste is not there to survive Hale Group. She is there to dismantle it from within. But the longer she stays, the more the lines blur. Marcus begins to trust her. And against every rule she has lived by, she begins to trust him back. Then there is Diana Hale — watching Celeste’s rise with quiet precision, as though she has been expecting her return all along. As buried financial truths surface and old alliances fracture, Celeste faces a choice she never designed for: the revenge she built her entire life around, or the man who makes her question whether the woman she became in pursuit of it is someone worth keeping. When Diana finally moves, Celeste will have to decide what reclamation actually means — because what she built in the wreckage may be worth more than anything taken from her.

Arianna Reynolds, second year med school student of King's University attracts the hottest player to ever exsist in the city of London, Damon King, who practices his internal training for cardiology. She was betwichingly gorgeous, and alluringly innocent. A perfect angel with good grades and a little devil who loves chaos. Damon King, the most arrogant badboy and the most cruel heartbreaker. His world toppled when she entered all in her glory as his junior. She excited him, and challenged him when she acted blind to his charms. His excitement turned to anger when she punched him. He was evrything she hated in a guy. Nonetheless, she found him slowly changing for her. Her brown orbs always seemed to tempt his heart with whirlpool of exotic emotions and he was sucked into it when ever she locked his gaze with him. ------------- "You are mine Ria," he yelled slamming her onto the nearby locker. "No," she deadpanned with annoyance. "I love you," he confessed nearning her petite figure, invading her personal space. Her breath clogged for a second as she was stunned with his confession. Her eyes hardened again when she said," No, you wanna play with me." Pushing him back lightly she looked away. "I need you Ria, trust me. It's no sick game of mine. I am had over heels for you. Please, just give me a chance," he begged her with moist eyes, closing the distance again. Her stance grew guarded as the cruel heart breaker was confessing with vehement emotions stirring in his eyes. "Prove that your intentions are true," she said pushing him back from her personal space. Leaving him drown in her thoughts, she walked away from him. "You are mine Ria. I will prove myself worthy of your love. You belong only to me," he promised to himself watching her retreating figure.

"Up until now, my life made sense. Up until now, I had been sheltered away from a world where murder was acceptable and debts were payment. Now, I was exposed to that world, and the lies, secrets and favours were my new currency. The rules were easy to follow and even easier to manipulate. But the last thing I expected was to be thrown in the deep end, fighting for everything I loved." Emiliana was moving on from what she lost, her safety, security, and the love. But what happens when her bodyguard comes back and shows her that the life her family had protected her from, is the life she fits into?

BOOK 2 OF NIGHT SHIFT After the tragedy that happens on Yhra's life, she believes that all she gotta do is Retrieve everything that she loss on the battle between her and Remon.

Cassandra Ashford is a dedicated nurse with a quiet life and a burning hatred for the mafia—especially after they took the life of her undercover agent father. But everything changes the day she unknowingly saves a critically wounded stranger... only to discover he's no ordinary man. He’s Adriano Moretti—the ruthless and dangerously magnetic Don of the most feared mafia family in the country. Worse? He insists she’s destined to be his wife. Already engaged and building her dream life, Cassandra tries to run from Adriano’s dark pull. But betrayal hits hard when her fiancé shatters her trust, and her mother’s sudden, life-threatening illness threatens to crush her entirely. Left with no choice and buried in desperation, Cassandra signs a one-year contract marriage with the man she swore to hate. The Don. The danger. The devil in disguise. But nothing could prepare her for the twisted world she’s about to enter—a world where power rules, passion burns, and one wrong move could cost her everything. Including her heart. Will she survive the game of blood and seduction, or will the shadows of the mafia consume her completely?

My wife's gym is celebrating its grand opening, and I drag my buddy along to check the place out with a 9.90-dollar trial class I bought through an e-commerce platform. For the entire time, I never once let it slip that I'm the owner. Right after we finish training, a male coach tosses a price sheet at us. His eyes sweep over us with contempt as he says, "You two look like freeloaders. Our private sessions cost a few hundred each, and we don't offer freebies to people like you." I let out a disbelieving laugh. "We paid for this trial class. How is that freeloading? Go get your manager." He rolls his eyes and makes it seem like he's enforcing a very important rule. "Don't bother looking for the manager. My girlfriend owns this place, and she hates broke losers who try to get free classes." He dials her number right in front of us. His voice sounds both arrogant and pitiful. "Babe, two guys showed up and tried to con us into giving them a free class. They even told me to call the manager. Come over here and show them what's what!"

COMPLETED. Mature Content. ***** Nahulog si Diana kay William, ang asawa ng kaniyang matalik na kaibigang si Gianna. Hanggang sa nakaisip siya ng masamang balak at nakagawa ng dalawang krimen. Ano at saan ang magiging hantungan niya? Si Gianna ay tapat na asawa kay William. Labis siyang nasaktan nang malaman niya sa kakaibang paraan ang hindi niya inisip na makakayang gawin ng matalik niyang kaibigang si Diana. Mapapatawad pa kaya niya ito at si William? Ano ang gagawin niya sa asawa? Maayos ang buhay ni William kasama ang pinakamamahal niyang asawang si Gianna at ang dalawa nilang anak na sina Wyler at Greisha. Naging magulo ang buhay niya nang dumating si Diana na kailanman 'di niya minahal. Paano niya ibabalik ang dating matamis na pag-ibig nila ni Gianna? Si Yuan ay may gusto kay Gianna ngunit hindi niya ginulo ang buhay nito dahil may asawa't mga anak na ito. Gagawin niya ang lahat para 'di masaktan si Gianna kay Diana at 'di masira ang samahan nina Gianna at William. Ano ang gagawin niya kay Diana? At ano ang papel ng kapatid na babae ni William na si Willa sa buhay niya? Ito ay istorya ng pagkakaibigan, pagpapatawad, pagmamahalan, pagpapalaya, pagiging buo ng isang pamilya at iba pang mga aral.

Sold to the cursed Alpha King. Hated by the man who was once her mate. Chosen by the monster everyone fears. Samantha was once the beloved daughter of an Alpha, until the day she failed to awaken her wolf and lost everything. Betrayed by the man she loved and offered to the ruthless Alpha King as payment for a pack debt, she expects a cruel death. Instead, she finds something far more dangerous. The King is cursed. Feared. Broken. And the only thing that can calm his madness… is her. When one night binds their fates together, Samantha becomes the King’s greatest weakness, and his only salvation. But in a world where she is nothing but a wolfless girl and he is a ruler drowning in darkness, love is a luxury neither of them can afford. And when Samantha overhears a secret that shatters her heart, she does the only thing she can to survive. She runs. But you can’t run from a mate bond. And you can’t hide from a cursed Alpha who has lost the only woman who could save him. He will find her. Even if he has to burn the entire kingdom to the ground.

Her life is full of lies, have many hidden secrets and delusions, way too far from a simple and ordinary life. It all started with the accident that happened to her mom and all the blame was pointed to her. That event changed her life. Everyone around her became hypocritical, everyone had a hidden secret and intentions. But he came into her life and helped her leave the world she's been suffering for a long time, a world that is full of lies. She fell in love with him, but destiny is too playful. When he confessed his feelings to her, Hayacinth rejected him, because for her, a love is not enough to heal a wounded past and a broken soul. Her tears fell down when the person she loves dropped the line that she doesn't want to let others know, that 'kahit magsinungaling ang bibig mo, nagpapakatotoo pa rin ang mga mata'. It marked her mind and her soul. She didn't know what to do at those times because of being hurt, of being not enough and not worthy. She was too afraid to gamble when it comes to the word 'love'. What she wanted to do in those time is to know the truth, to unveil every hidden secret and find the every page of A Book of Lies.