Iron Flame

Sehari sebelum pesta kelulusan SMA, Ethan menyeretku ke ranjang. Gerakannya kasar dan dia menuntutku sepanjang malam. Meski tubuhku kesakitan, hatiku justru dipenuhi rasa manis. Aku telah diam-diam mencintai Ethan selama sepuluh tahun. Akhirnya, impianku menjadi nyata. Dia bilang, setelah lulus, dia akan menikahiku. Begitu dia mewarisi kekuasaan Keluarga Luciano dari ayahnya, aku akan menjadi wanita paling terhormat dalam keluarga itu. Keesokan paginya, Ethan memelukku erat dan mengaku pada kakak angkatku bahwa kami telah bersama. Aku duduk malu-malu dalam pelukannya, merasa diriku adalah wanita paling beruntung di dunia. Namun tiba-tiba, mereka mengganti percakapan ke dalam bahasa Italia. Lucas, kakak tiriku, menggoda Ethan dengan tawa, "Nggak heran kamu disebut-sebut sebagai Bos Muda. Baru pertama kali saja sudah ada primadona kelas yang nyerahin diri ke kamu." "Gimana rasanya adik tiriku?" Ethan menjawab dengan nada santai, "Luarannya memang tampak polos, tapi di ranjang ... luar biasa liar." Gelak tawa memenuhi ruangan itu. "Jadi, ke depannya aku harus panggil dia adik atau kakak ipar?" tanya Lucas. Namun, wajah Ethan tiba-tiba berubah dingin. "Kakak ipar apanya? Aku lagi coba dekati kapten tim pemandu sorak, takut dia kecewa sama kemampuanku, jadi Cynthia aku jadikan latihan dulu." "Oh ya, soal aku tidur sama Cynthia, jangan sampai Sylvia tahu. Aku takut dia marah." Tanpa mereka ketahui, aku diam-diam telah belajar bahasa Italia, hanya agar kelak bisa lebih dekat dengan Ethan. Mendengar semua itu, aku tidak berkata apa pun. Aku hanya diam-diam mengubah tujuan pendaftaran universitasku dari Caxtech menjadi Maltech.

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."

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...

The year my boyfriend is dead broke, I leave him. Later, he becomes a mafia boss and uses every means at his disposal to marry me. Everyone says that I am the first love he can never forget, the wife he cares about the most. However, he then starts bringing home a different woman every night, making me a laughingstock. Still, I don't cry or make a fuss. I quietly stay in my own room, never interrupting his affairs. Elton Carter is furious. He pins me beneath him, kisses me harshly, and growls, "Aren't you jealous?" He has no idea that I'm gravely ill. He could buy half the city with violence, threats, and money. He could buy my freedom, my marriage… and each night bring a different woman home, oblivious to the truth. Little does he know, I have just seven days left to live.

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."

A phoenix is a soulless creature with immortality and resurrection or life after death. It has a mortal mate who is in possession of the blue flame, and when that flame connects with the red flame carried by the phoenix, it creates a crystal ball-like structure filled with the energy of yin and yang. When that crystal ball finally enters the body of Phoebe she will become a deity with divine power, but that process is only available to a person blessed with the power of the Phoenix. And if she foolishly decides to become human, the next phoenix will be doomed to a curse that will awaken after its thousandth year of life.

Meet Blake Parker, a billionaire and Mafia Don who rules New York City with an iron fist. He's known for his ruthless demeanour, arrogance, and cold-hearted nature. Despite being the wealthiest man in the city, he has no respect for anyone, especially women, whom he detests. However, despite his disdain for them, women are drawn to him like moths to a flame, willing to do anything for his attention. Blake has strict rules when it comes to relationships: he doesn't do them, he doesn't kiss, and he certainly doesn't share his bed with any woman. These rules must be followed by any lucky woman who catches his eye. On the other side of the spectrum is Bexley, a talented and beautiful tomboy who's passionate about dance and studying computer science in college. Despite being an orphan, she's cherished by her male best friends from school. Bexley's focus is solely on her career and she has no interest in dating or marriage. Her ambition drives her towards her goals. will they find common ground amidst their contrasting lifestyles? Dive into the story to uncover the intriguing dynamics between these two characters

Sarah Jones is a beautiful independent woman trying her best to make it in the world. Things are going well for Sarah until an old flame starts to brew in her heart after so many years. Sarah believed this flame had burnt out a long time ago, but she is wrong once someone she never wished to see in her life appears before her. The fire in Sarah's heart starts to burn, but it doesn't burn in the way she hopes. It burns in passion instead of hate. Jacob Smith is responsible for the flame in Sarah's heart, and even though he knows he has no right to ignite the fire in her heart, Jacob will stop at nothing to see it burn for him. Read and find out how Sarah , who wishes Jacob would perish with every step he takes on this earth, makes himself the center of her world once again.

Aaro has grown up in a special school with her sister, waiting to escape. But just before her eighteenth birthday, Aaro is bought by an Alpha as the new Luna for his son, Storm. Aaro has hidden her identity for years and is waiting for the right time to reveal who she really is. Will she be able to escape Alpha Storm, find her sister, get back home, and claim her rightful place as the Alpha of the Iron River pack? This is the third book in the Iron River series, but you can read it as a stand-alone novel.

ONCE A TRAITOR ALMOST BURNED ALIVE, NOW A FEARED LUNA. As the only member of her pack in centuries who was not given an inner wolf, Deborah Atkins grew up amid ridicule and ostracism, known as the one the Moon Goddess hated. This life of sadness, however, seems to have come to an end when she discovers that her childhood crush, Iron Aster, the Lycan King himself, is her mate. However, on the day of her wedding, instead of love and joy, Deborah receives only betrayal when Iron rejects her, believing that she is responsible for a betrayal that almost destroyed the Wolf Kingdom. Abused, heartbroken and forced to watch her mate take her cousin as his breeder, Deborah endures the misery that her life has become, until her Pack's hatred almost ended her life, culminating in the revelation that she is a Luna, the Goddess's chosen one. Years later, having built a home for herself and her children, hidden in the human world, Deborah finds her life invaded again by Iron and his regrets, which forces her to face the past. The real traitor has not yet been discovered and the kingdom is still under threat, believing that Deborah may be responsible for their imminent downfall. Deborah, however, is no longer the woman who was willing to suffer in silence. Now, she is willing to do anything to get revenge on those who despised and hurt her. And it doesn't matter if Iron is willing to win her back or fix what happened in the past. Because his mistakes, for Deborah, were unforgivable.