Iron Flame Chapter 48

Isa lang naman ang gusto ni Cathy Xyra Garcia at ito ay si Grey Sanford, ang lalaking kinahuhumalingan niya ngunit sa kasamaang palad, hindi siya mahal nito kaya naman sa sobrang pagmamahal niya sa binata, ginamit niya ang kaniyang kapangyarihan at kinulong ito sa isang kasal. Akala ni Cathy ay ito na ang magiging daan para sa kanilang happy ever after na ending, ngunit siya ay nagkakamali. Dahil sa kasamaang palad, imbis na makatanggap ng pagmamahal, nakatanggap siya ng pang-aabuso mula sa kaniyang asawa. Ngunit dahil mahal niya ito, nanatili parin siya sa piling ng asawa at piniling magpakamartyr. Hanggang kailan siya magtitiis? May pag-asa pa bang mahalin siya ni Grey? abangan....

For stumbling upon a purge, I was taken by the city’s most dangerous don, Lucca of the Rossi family. He said it was the only way I’d survive. So he kept me in his mansion, taught me how to shoot, and drilled me in the rules of the underground world. He would stroke my hair and call me his innocent lily. Everyone knew I was his woman. Until one day, he handed me over to the enemy to secure an alliance with the Balsamo family. That was when I realized I was never his lover, just the sharpest blade in his hand. I buried all my feelings, faked my death, and disappeared. Years later, we met again at a casino. He looked at me in a backless gown, the rose tattoo on my back on full display. “Eliana, I once loved that purity of yours. Look at you now—tempting, yet cheap.” I smiled lightly, brushing his hand away. “Can’t help it, Don Rossi. The owner of this place just likes me this way.”

My widowed mother-in-law has an affair with a married man. Whenever she goes out to meet him, she uses me as an excuse and says I need her to run errands. Slowly but surely, my husband, William Sanders, thinks of me as a cruel daughter-in-law who orders her mother-in-law around. One day, my mother-in-law gets pregnant. She secretly uses my name when getting a checkup at the gynecology department and even wants to play the child off as mine and William's. Her lover's wife mistakes me for his mistress and strips me in public before beating me to death. When I open my eyes again, I'm back to the day when my mother-in-law's lover's wife finds out about her going to the gynecology department under my name. This time, I'm calm as I tell the woman what to do. "Let's get to the bottom of this. Let's ask the doctor who the actual patient was!"

นักวิชาการเกษตรวัยทองผู้ไม่เคยสัมผัสคำว่าผู้ชาย ใช้ชีวิตโสดสตรองจนตายไปในวัยหมดประจำเดือน เมื่อลืมตาตื่นขึ้นมาอีกครั้ง นรกกลับเล่นตลกให้มาอยู่ในร่างของสาวน้อยในยุคจีนโบราณ ผู้กำลังคลอดลูก นักวิชาการเกษตรวัยทองวัย 48 ปี เธอร่างหนา ไม่สวย ถึก และบึกบึน จับจอบเสียมมาจนชิน ล้วงก้นผสมเทียมให้วัวก็ทำมาแล้ว ใช้ชีวิตโสดสตรองอย่างเปลี่ยวเหงา ตายอย่างโดดเดี่ยวบนโซฟาตัวโปรดหน้าโทรทัศน์ เมื่อลืมตาตื่นขึ้นมาอีกครั้ง นรกกลับเล่นตลกให้มาอยู่ในร่างของสาวน้อยในยุคจีนโบราณผู้กำลังคลอดลูก ไม่ใช่ลูกธรรมดาด้วยสิ นี่มันเด็กแฝด ฉันมีลูกแฝด! นี่มันเวรกรรมอะไรกัน ไม่นะ ไม่! เกิดใหม่ทั้งทีต้องเกิดดี ๆ หน่อย จะมาแหกขาคลอดลูกอยู่แบบนี้ได้ยังไง ช่วยด้วย! เยว่เหล่ารังแกข้า

I've been in a secret relationship with my stepbrother, Caesar Kane, for eight years. He promises he'll marry me after graduation. As graduation approaches, he tells me he's tired of me and has found someone younger and prettier. I throw away the ring he gave me and cut up my wedding dress. All of his friends place bets on how long it will take before I come crawling back to him. Caesar has always treated me like I'm his property and declares with complete confidence, "Give it three days tops. She'll come crawling back in tears, begging me to take her back." So I accept the invitation from a prince from my Farbourne University prep program. I follow him to Snowcall, leaving behind the stepbrother who clearly doesn't care about me anymore. Caesar finally cracks and calls me. "Miranda, enough with the drama. Come home." A man's low, amused chuckle comes through the phone. "Pro tip—you shouldn't wait around if you want to win your woman back. Someone else might sweep her off her feet." Caesar practically snarls into the phone. "Put Miranda on the phone!" The man leans down and kisses me. "Sorry, we wore each other out pretty thoroughly just now, and she's out cold. Give me a second to wake her up properly."

When I steal the cheer captain, Cora Knightley's, number one spot in our grade, her childhood sweetheart—an Alpha heir—confesses his love to me the next day. Flashing me a mesmerizing smile, Raymond Knox says, "Join my world and relish the ultimate freedom and recklessness, will you?" Of course, my answer is… yes. I agree, sealing his lips with a passionate kiss. My grades start dropping, until I eventually become one of his kind. At the same time, his body belongs to me. We can't keep our hands off each other. But despite the countless intimate moments we share, he never seems to enjoy kissing me—until the entrance exam for Lycanshire University is finally over. That's when he kisses me and seduces my wolf, luring me to go to Mangy Hollow Community College with him. So this has been his goal all along. But I'd known it since the start. Gently slapping my Lycanshire University admission letter against Raymond's face, I say, "Being with you this year has been fun. I'm very satisfied. "But my future matters more. Let's break up."

Before our marking ceremony, my fiancé, Adrian Conner, insists on bringing his childhood sweetheart along on our trip—all because Flora Wooledge says she also wants to see the northern lights. He switches my first-class ticket to Flora's name. He says, "I'll fly first class with Flora. You can take connecting flights by land. The doctor said it's not good for a pregnant woman to stay at high altitude for too long." I don't cry or argue. Instead, I calmly push him toward Flora. He snorts. "You've finally learned to behave. You're not as clingy and troublesome as before." After he leaves, I quietly sign the abortion consent form at the hospital. Then, I book a ticket to the southern hemisphere. In my past life, I begged and clung to him, hoping to keep him with our pup. But on that trip, Flora was attacked by rogue wolves and torn apart in the snow. Adrian kept a calm facade. Yet on the night I was about to give birth, he dragged me back home and cut open my belly with his own hands. He stood there and listened as our pup's cries slowly faded away. He poured all his hatred onto me. He believed I caused Flora's death and that I ruined his chance to become the Conner family's heir. To him, I was nothing more than a sacrificial pawn. In this new life, when I step off the private jet, I see Adrian standing there with his eyes bloodshot. He stares at my belly and asks, "Where's the pup?" Before I can answer, his half-brother wraps an arm around my waist. "Adrian, show some respect to your sister-in-law."

La veille du bal de fin d'année du lycée, Étienne m'a attirée dans son lit. Il a été brutal et m'a baisée toute la nuit. Malgré la douleur, mon cœur était rempli de douceur. Parce que j'aimais Étienne en secret depuis dix ans. Enfin, j'avais ce que je voulais. Il a juré de m'épouser après le lycée, et de faire de moi la femme la plus respectée des Luciano une fois son héritage assuré. Le lendemain, il m'a serrée contre lui et a annoncé à mon frère adoptif, Lucas, que nous étions ensemble. Blottie contre Étienne, rouge de timidité, je me sentais la plus heureuse du monde. Mais soudain, ils se sont mis à parler en italien. Lucas a ricané : « Notre Jeune Chef est vraiment génial - la première fois, et la plus jolie fille de la classe se jette à toi. » « Alors, ma sœur, elle était comment ? » Étienne a répondu distraitement : « Innocente en apparence, mais salope au lit. » Les rires ont fusé. « Alors, je l'appelle désormais petite sœur ou belle-sœur ? » Mais Étienne a froncé les sourcils : « Belle-sœur ? En fait, je m'intéresse à la capitaine des pom-pom girls, j'ai peur qu'elle pense que je ne suis pas bon au lit. Alors, je m'entraîne d'abord sur Cécile. » « Ne dites pas à Sylvia‌ que j'ai couché avec Cécile, j'ai peur qu'elle soit mécontente. » Mais ils ne savaient pas que j'avais depuis longtemps appris secrètement l'italien pour Étienne. En entendant tout cela, je n'ai rien dit. J'ai simplement modifié ma candidature : d'emlyon BS à HEC Paris.

I am the woman who stays the longest by the side of mafia Don Jasper Shaw. I believe I hold a unique place in his heart. But when his beloved Rosie Hurley suffers violation and falls pregnant, everything changes. Accused of orchestrating Rosie's downfall, I become the venomous villain in their eyes. To shield Rosie from gossip, Jasper publicly claims her unborn child as his own. Meanwhile, I am branded a depraved woman, defiled and discarded. Desperate, I reveal my own pregnancy to Jasper, pleading for our child’s future. He dismisses it as a ploy for attention. When I confront him, his words cut deep. "This is the sin you must atone for. Rosie has always been raised like a princess, and she can't endure the whispers—not like you." For the first time, I realize I am nothing to Jasper but a tool for his desires. Rosie locks me in a cramped cellar, where I suffocate and die. My body lies undiscovered for a month. When Jasper receives the call to identify my corpse, he brushes it off, prioritizing Rosie's prenatal checkup. "Amara's lies are piling up. So what if she's dead? Cremate her and then talk to me." My body enters the furnace and is reduced to a handful of ashes. Later, the mighty Jasper Shaw kneels and sobs uncontrollably. He begs for just one glimpse of me.

Di tahun kedelapan pernikahan, aku akhirnya hamil anak Renaldo Santoso. Ini adalah upaya bayi tabung-ku yang keenam dan terakhir. Dokter bilang aku sudah tidak perlu menderita lagi. Aku sangat gembira dan siap menyampaikan kabar baik ini kepadanya. Namun seminggu sebelum ulang tahun pernikahan, aku menerima foto anonim. Di dalam foto, dia sedang menunduk dan mencium perut wanita lain yang sedang hamil. Wanita itu adalah teman masa kecilnya. Wanita lembut, penurut dan tahu bagaimana cara menyenangkan orang tua. Dia bahkan sejak kecil tumbuh besar bersama Renaldo, merupakan menantu perempuan ideal. Yang paling konyol adalah seluruh keluarganya tahu tentang anak itu, hanya aku yang diperlakukan sebagai bahan lelucon. Ternyata pernikahan penuh masalah yang selama ini aku pertahankan, hanyalah tipu daya yang dirancang dengan hati-hati. Sudahlah. Aku sudah tidak menginginkan Renaldo lagi. Anakku tidak boleh lahir dalam kebohongan ini. Aku sudah memesan tiket pesawat untuk pergi, tepat di hari ulang tahun pernikahan kami yang kedelapan. Hari itu, seharusnya dia menemaniku pergi melihat kebun mawar. Itu janjinya sebelum kami menikah, dia akan memberiku sebuah kebun bunga yang khusus untukku. Tapi aku tidak menyangka akan melihatnya memeluk dan mencium teman masa kecilnya yang sedang hamil di kebun mawar. Setelah aku pergi, dia mulai mencariku ke seluruh dunia. Dia memohon padaku. “Jangan pergi, ya?” “Aku bersalah… tolong, jangan pergi.” Dia menanam semua mawar terindah di dunia di kebun mawar itu. Dia akhirnya ingat janjinya padaku. Tapi aku tidak lagi membutuhkannya...