it was only a kiss

When my body is engulfed in flames, my firefighter father is watching a new movie with my sister. My mother is baking them a cake. I hear laughter in the living room, and I can smell the caramel popcorn in the kitchen. Today is my family's weekly family day—it's a day for my sister and parents to be with each other. The doorbell rings, and the perpetrator gives me a chance to ask for help. My limbs are bound, and stones fill my mouth. I stand at the door and desperately wait for my parents to open it. They don't get up. Instead, they sit on either side of my sister and hug her. "We promised you we'll only be with you on our family days. No one can disturb us." "What if it's Danica?" Ravenna Sutton, my sister, asks. "Her? She hasn't answered her phone in days—who knows where she's off being wild? I'll think of her as dead if she still doesn't return tomorrow!" Ravenna giggles. Mom feeds her some popcorn, and Dad discusses the movie's plot with her. The perpetrator drags me back upstairs and laughs mockingly in my ear. "Looks like I did something unnecessary. They genuinely don't care about you." Smoke permeates every corner upstairs, and the flames start to lick at my body. Mom and Dad protect Ravenna as they run downstairs. They have no idea their birth daughter is screaming in pain amid the blazing fire.

Zeus had spent the last twelve years of his life as a substitute for a powerful man, Damon, living a false life of wealth, all in exchange for money. What he hadn’t anticipated that the identity he had assumed would tie him to the most dangerous man of all. Odin Romano. “I am your god, and I am your devil here, Damon.” When Odin’s sister took her own life, she left a note with Damon’s name on it. Odin who was known to exhume graves and crush whatever remained would never let his sister’s “killer” go free. Soon, Zeus found himself kidnapped by a deadly handsome man. “Who… who are you?” Zeus’s face turned white when his eyes met with animalistic yet sexy brown eyes that could not possibly belong to a human. The man tilted his chin up not with his fingers but with his claws, his hot breath brushing against Zeus’ lips, “Call me Alpha.” Zeus was trapped, accused of a crime he didn’t commit, yet trying to convince Odin seemed impossible. At every turn, Odin was prepared to turn Zeus’ life into a living hell. Escape felt impossible, and, against all odds, the allure of his enemy grew more irresistible. Until ever so slowly Zeus becomes Odin’s obsession. “What the hell do you want from me now? Haven’t you had enough of your revenge already? Haven’t I paid enough? Let me go now. My fiance is waiting for me!” Zeus glared at his kidnapper who was pinning him down to his bed. “Your fiance?” Odin chuckled a dark smile tugging at his lips. “Tell her to rest. Your husband is back.” Falling in love with the enemy was unforgivable, but would their hearts follow the rules?

After 6 years of relentless demon attacks on the werewolf packs of the United States, The Werewolf monarchs decide to turn to the witches for help defeating them. The witches agree to help, but only if Bryan, the Alpha Prince, seals their alliance by taking the witch Queen as his mate. The Witch Queen is the only supernatural entity powerful enough to defeat the demons, so Bryan agrees to the terms. Josie, is a recently widowed archeological occult specialist that has dedicated her entire adult life to studying the supernatural. With only a year left in her second graduate program, she already has two masters degrees, and two best-selling books on the truth about the supernaturals that live among humans under her belt when she is called to New Orleans, the witch capital of the country, to consult on an artifact. Only she wakes the next morning with restored memories that she hadn't even known were stolen from her. Now she must make a choice whether to bind herself to the Werewolf Prince to restore her power, take back her throne and save the Werewolves, or continue her life as a the successful archeological occult specialist author that she has dedicated the past 10 years of her life to being.

"Excuse me! Do you think you can walk back into my life after you've ruined me?!" I yelled, feeling the tears roll down my cheeks as I stared at him with hate brimming in my eyes. "Dela, it's not what you think. I really..." "Enough!" I swiftly interrupted, wiping tears from my cheeks with my bare hand. I adjusted the purse I was holding in the other hand. "Adele..." He tried to touch me but I stepped back from him immediately. "You broke me into many fragments, Carlo. It took a lot of efforts to fix me again. I won't have you or anyone else ruin my life in that manner, ever again!" I turned away and stepped into the waiting cab, closing the door after me and ignoring his attempt to chase me as the cab began moving. My eyes sting me and the tears continued to flow down my cheeks but I did nothing to hold it back. Who abandons his bride on the day of their wedding without any notice_not a single word and disappears without a trace for a long time, only to show up years later in another country, in another city, pleading to be forgiven, begging to be taken back?? Wouldn't I be the most stupid woman on earth if I'm to fall into his trap again? I'm definitely going to make him pay for ruining my life. I'd make him have a taste of the humiliations I faced. I'll pay him back so much till he'll wish we never met again! ~~~ Well, Adele is soon to discover, just how wrong she was and how she ended up being the reason things happened the way they did.

Rebecca trusts her friend Veronica (Nica) to the point she tells her everything including her love life. She thinks Veronica is a good friend to her and she tells him about her boyfriend Carlos and things turn out bad for her after Veronica met Carlos for the first time. Veronica plans to separate Carlos from Rebecca and her plan finally succeeds. This leaves Rebecca devastated and totally heartbroken she tries to save her relationship with Carlos but her efforts only goes to waste because he had moved in with Veronica already. Will the relationship of Nica and Carlos last.? Will Rebecca heal from the betrayal and heartbreak and finally move on.?

The saying that revenge is a dish best served cold had never been truer in Richard Gilbert's case.  Orphaned at the age of ten, he had to work very hard for everything to be able to get back what was stolen from his family and to do that- he got close to the daughter of his father's enemy; Meira Daniels. Meira lost her family in a home invasion and she was alone until she met Richard whom she fell in love with at first sight and married him a few months after she met him not really knowing who he was. She realized too late that her life wasn't so perfect when she and her kids were left homeless and penniless by her husband who also suddenly disappeared so she turned to her husband's former boss for help and got a proposal from him that she couldn't say no to for her children's sake.

Adira Celestine Gotesco gets whatever she wants. She likes to play with men's feelings knowing how alluring she is in the eye of everyone. How come Adira fell for a trap that will make her break the bond she has with her family?

เธอ : คงไม่ผิดมั้ง หากจะเก็บผู้ชายไว้ใกล้ตัวสักคน เขา : อยากเป็นเด็กเลี้ยงของสาวที่อายุมากกว่า ‘ภาสกร’ คิดว่าเจ้านายเก่าของตนเป็นผู้หญิงที่เจ้าระเบียบ เย็นชาเหมือนเจ้าหญิงน้ำแข็ง ทว่าเขาเมื่อได้เห็นความอ่อนแอของเธอแล้วอยากกอดปลอบชะมัด ‘พนิดา’ ต้องการข้อมูลในการเขียนงานของตัวเอง แต่มันเป็นเรื่องเรต ยี่สิบบวก ที่เธอดันไม่ถนัดเอาเสียเลย งานนี้ยังไงก็ต้องมีตัวช่วย

Lisa is a photographer from the Siluetas agency. She dreams of becoming a businesswoman to live up to her boss. However, an unexpected situation leads her to a contract that she never imagined, but which completely changes her life.

Isang ubod lalim na paghinga ang ginawa ni Anya bago inilibot ang tingin sa kanyang paligid. Pagkatapos ay sinuot niya ang de- kulay na salamin sa mata. Sinukbit ang signature na shoulder bag at maingat na hinila ang katamtamang maleta. Marahan siyang naglakad palabas ng paliparan. Dalawampu’t taon ang lumipas ng lisanin niya ang bansang Pilipinas para manirahan sa Amerika. Baon ang labis na hinagpis at pagkabigo sa pag-ibig ay nakipagsapalaran sya sa ibang bansa. Kaya naman ngayon sa muling pagtapak ng kanyang mga paa sa bansang kanyang tinakasan ay may kung anong pakiramdam sa dibdib niya ang hindi niya sukat mawari. Isa lang ang sigurado si Anya naroon pa rin ang bigat sa puso niya. Tila nanariwa ang pighati na dulot ng nakaraan. May butil ng luha na gustong bumukal sa sulok ng kanyang mga mata. Agad niyang pinawi iyon at pinuno ng hangin ang nagsisikip na dibdib. Mayroon siyang mahalagang pakay sa kanyang pagbabalik. Iyon ay ang lalaking kanyang inibig ng wagas subalit nagawa niyang talikuran. Subalit lagi na’y naroon ang katanungan sa isip niya. Kaya ba niya itong harapin? Handa ba siyang anihin ang poot at galit ni Clark sa kanilang muling pagtatagpo? Pagka’t ang tingin na ng lalaki sa kanya ay isang talusira.