Kakashi Without Mask

She hides behind ugly suits and fake names. He's done trusting women. When they meet in a masked sex club, neither realizes they've been fighting each other across boardroom tables for eighteen months. At Taylor Industries, she's Joy Smith—the frumpy CFO who drowns her curves in shapeless polyester and wearing a wig. At home, she's the forgotten wife of a cheating lawyer who hasn't touched her in so long she's starting to wonder if she's broken. When she finds hot pink lace panties stuffed in her couch cushions...definitely not hers, it's not heartbreak she feels. It's freedom. Grayson Taylor doesn't do relationships anymore. Not after walking in on his actress fiancée with another woman. Now he channels everything into hostile takeovers and board meetings, especially the ones where his overcautious CFO fights him on every goddamn acquisition. Joy Smith is brilliant, infuriating, and funny when he pushes all her buttons. But Honey is tired of being invisible. Tired of never having felt real pleasure. So, when her best friend gives her the details of The Velvet Room—Manhattan's most exclusive masked club—she promises herself just one night. One night to find out if her husband's right, if she really is frigid, or if she's just never been touched by the right hands. She doesn't expect the masked stranger who claims her the second she walks in. Doesn't expect the chemistry that ignites between them, the way he makes her body sing, or the orgasms that leave her shaking. Doesn't expect him to hand her an email address with one command: "Only me. No one else touches you."

The second I opened my eyes, I knew. I was twenty-seven again. Back when I was the Leone heiress. The golden girl of Arezzo. Engaged to the Don of the Grimaldis—Marco Grimaldi. Handsome. Loaded. Time magazine's "No.1 Most Desirable Husband in the World." Even the royal family of Inglane had tried to marry a princess off to him. Everyone called me the luckiest woman alive. Yeah. Right. The first thing I did after coming back? I grabbed the marriage contract and walked straight to my father's affair daughter— the fiancée Marco had actually wanted all along. Bella Leone. I slid the contract across the table. "It's yours. You're marrying Marco." She just stared at me. Six years. That's how long I'd chased him. And now I was handing over the contract like it meant nothing. "Everyone thinks you're the better match anyway," I said. "So go ahead. Convince Dad to get the Grimaldis to switch the contract. You can have the Grimaldi Donna title." Not this time. I'm not becoming that suffocated, invisible Don's wife ever again.

Those words defined Claire Reid's entire life—and her death. At twenty-eight, she dies in a hospital bed surrounded by the family she sacrificed everything for: the father who forced her to quit school, the sister who took everything she had, the husband who treated her like an inconvenience, and the mother who demanded endless gratitude for their abuse. As her heart stops, Claire sees their relief and realizes the devastating truth: she wasted her life loving people who never loved her back. Then she wakes up. One year earlier. One month before her family frames her for theft. This time, Claire refuses. Refuses to give money. Refuses to stay silent. Refuses to be grateful for crumbs. Armed with knowledge of their betrayals and a fury born from her wasted first life, she systematically dismantles their manipulations, exposes their schemes, and reclaims her identity. But when she tries to leave her cold, arranged marriage, something unexpected happens.

The day after the new year, during a family gathering, my aunt sneered at me as I worked overtime, reviewing a proposal. "Why are you pretending to be so busy? It’s not like we don’t know you only make three thousand a month. Real money-makers are people like my daughter, a designer so successful she doesn’t even have time to come home!" I ignored her, but she directed her spoiled son to delete all my files while I was in the bathroom. My hands trembled with rage. "This proposal is due in ten minutes—if I don’t submit it, everything is ruined!" She scoffed dismissively. "He’s just a kid. What could he possibly know? Besides, your job isn’t even worth much. If you lose the files, you lose them. Worst case, you get fired." I chuckled coldly but said nothing. She had no idea it was the proposal her daughter had spent an entire month working on. And I was the client who held her daughter’s fate in my hands.

Sa malamig na lungsod ng New York, nagsimula ang kakaibang kwento ng isang simpleng Filipina na si **Azia Montenayor** at ng isang mayamang CEO na si Edward Falcon. Isang aksidenteng banggaan sa loob ng kumpanya ang naging daan upang alukin ni Edward si Azia ng isang hindi pangkaraniwang kasunduan—isang one-year contract marriage kapalit ng malaking halaga ng pera. Para kay Azia na may pamilyang tinutulungan sa Pilipinas, tila praktikal itong desisyon. Ngunit hindi niya inaasahan na mas magiging komplikado ang lahat nang malaman niyang siya ay buntis. Unti-unting nabunyag na bago pa man ang kasal, may koneksyon na pala sila sa isang gabing may maskara—isang charity event kung saan nagtagpo ang kanilang mga landas sa ilalim ng emosyon at kahinaan. Mula sa isang lihim na alaala at hindi planadong pagbubuntis, nagsimulang mabuo ang isang relasyong higit pa sa kontrata. Habang hinaharap nila ang selos mula sa dating kasintahan ni Edward at ang mga pagsubok na dala ng kapangyarihan at impluwensya, mas tumitibay ang kanilang samahan. Sa bawat problema—mula sa aksidenteng pinaghihinalaang sabotahe hanggang sa panghihimasok ng nakaraan—pinatunayan nilang ang tunay na pag-ibig ay hindi nasusukat ng pera o pirma sa papel. Sa huli, ang flash marriage na nagsimula bilang isang kasunduan ay nauwi sa isang totoong pamilya. Sa pagitan ng tawanan, selos, panganib, at lambingan, natuklasan nina Azia at Edward na ang pagmamahal ay maaaring magsimula sa maling oras at maling paraan—ngunit kung ito ay totoo, ito ang magiging pinakamatibay na pundasyon ng kanilang bagong buhay bilang pamilya Falcon.

Everyone in Sparrowville said that Margaret Chapman was the happiest woman in town. Gavin Hartley showered her with gifts—a sapphire ring, an asteroid after her name—treating her like she was the center of his universe. Margaret had always believed it, too. Until the day she accidentally discovered the woman he had been hiding in his villa. For ten years, he had kept her there—his childhood sweetheart. After she lost herself to schizophrenia, she had said, "Margaret is me." And so, for nearly seven years, Gavin had courted Margaret and cherished her, playing out a love story that had never truly been hers. Margaret's heart crumbled to ash after she found out the truth. She left without looking back, moving to a country thousands of miles away. But she never imagined that Gavin would lose himself to rage, his eyes burning red as he nearly tore Sparrowville apart. "Where the hell is Margaret?!"

Olivia D'Rossa, wanita cantik yang terlahir dengan kecerdasan diatas rata-rata. Tapi sangat disayangkan, karena ekonomi keluarga nya yang sangat sulit membuatnya harus putus sekolah dan menjadi pencuri sejak kecil. Dia tinggal bersama Ibu dan Adiknya disebuat rumah kontrak, sedangkan ayahnya menikah lagi saat adiknya dilahirkan. Olivia yang cerdas memiliki trik pencurian yang sulit diketahui oleh polisi biasa. Tapi suatu hari, Olivia yang sangat ceroboh dengan tindakannya langsung di tangkap oleh ketua Mafia. Ia sempat disiksa beberapa hari, tapi karena kejujuran nya tentang keadaan keluarganya. Membuat Mafia berkedok polisi itu memaafkan Olivia dan memberikannya pekerjaan yang hanya bisa dilakukan oleh orang istimewa seperti Olivia. Bagaimana keadaan Olivia sekarang ?. Nantikan ceritanya di Novel #MafiaBehindTheMask

The rumbling of the thunder and the rain kept pouring in torrent as Martina knelt in front of the man she called her husband and beside him was the only person she had ever called friend. With blood dripping down from her white nightwear and sweat glistening her forehead despite the cold weather, tears were streaming down her eyes. The two people in front of her looked like the devil she has watched from movies when she was just a child and the much talked about demon from her Bible stories. This was the longest night of her life, how she wished everything would end and she would wake up in her big comfy bed back at her father’s mansion but here she was, kneeling in front her own husband begging for her life while her best friend just sat there with a glass of whisky in hand. Martina was left wondering if it was not too cold for whiskey at this time. Five years later, she is reborn as the youngest and richest CEO and guess what??? Her ex husband is her cousin and she will be married to the richest and the most dominant man in America.. revenge is sure to be served hot.

On Mia Larson’s birthday, her mother, who had been her anchor, passed away. Her husband, Nick Ford, did not celebrate her birthday, nor did he attend her mother’s funeral. Instead, he was at the airport, picking up his one true love.

“When a marriage is about to fail, they say the red flags start flying early but mine stayed down.” *** When Tania's world crumbles, she's left with a shattered face and a deadly diagnosis. But as she pieces her life back together, she uncovers a web of lies and deceit that threatens to destroy everything she thought she knew. With the help of a mysterious stranger, Celebrity Surgeon, Ivan, Tania must navigate a treacherous landscape of love, family, and betrayal. But as the truth begins to unravel, Tania realizes that her biggest enemy may be the one she sees in the mirror. Will she find redemption, or will the lies consume her? Dive into a world of twists and turns, where nothing is as it seems, and the truth is the deadliest lie of all."