Might Through Death Chapter 1

Julian "Jules" Ashford was born to wear a suit, walk the shiny halls of power, and marry the perfect woman - even when he's lied his entire life to everyone, including himself. Closeted, bullied by father Stephen Ashford Sr., and stuck in a copycat marriage to political heiress Camille "Cam" Stratton, Jules has just one freedom: acting... until an ice-blue mess and a beat-up Dodge Challenger smash into his carefully built world. River Moreno is signed, shattered, and too occupied destroying Moreno Custom Garage with his sister Sierra and father Tomás to give a shit about billionaire dickheads in fancy suits - until one of them "accidentally" hits him from behind to get his attention. When Jules and River's worlds collide - quite literally - what begins as a calculated untruth sets something raw and magnetic in motion. One man's existence is constructed on silence and legacy; the other's on survival and truth. But when a brick comes through River's shop window and threats begin to escalate, Jules doesn't hesitate to defend him - even if it means putting himself at risk and exposing himself in ways he's never been brave enough to. As Jules utilizes his power to protect River from harm, something deeper takes root - deeper than lust, deeper than rebellion. It's real. It's risky. And it may cost them everything. In a city where Ashford & Co. Wealth and the Stratton political machine reign supreme, where love between two men puts more than reputation at risk - it puts power at risk - Jules must make a decision: Can the man who was trained to live behind a mask come to love - and live - in the open?

The Horror Game invaded the world. Real players entered the game, and their every move would be broadcast live. My adopted son shoved me—an eighty-eight-year-old woman—straight into a deadly dungeon to save his own skin. One of the comments in the live stream predicted: [What? They’re tossing in such an elderly woman? No way she’s gonna survive the first night!] On the first night, a frost-bitten ghost exhaled icy breath in my face. I shrugged off my thick floral coat, feeling sorry for her. “You poor thing! You must be freezing. Listen to me and bundle up quickly!” The second night, a starving ghost lunged at me with blood dripping down his chin. I sniffed the air, then found a jar of pickled cabbage. “Look at how skinny you are! Come on, let me get you something hot to eat.” On the final day, the last surviving players tied me up, desperate to steal the one ticket to escape. However, before they could touch me, every ghost in the dungeon came storming out, cleavers and rolling pins in hand. “Touch her, and you’re dead meat!”

It all seemed like a naughty prank at first. You know, the 'disappearing' trick lovers usually pull on each other to see who misses the other most? Yes, that was what Katniss thought at first until months passed and still, Noah was absolutely no where to be found.... Witty, beautiful and bubbly. Just a few adjectives to describe Katniss Costello's interesting and charming character. A young lady who had it all; from affluent parents to wealth and popularity to a quite amazing love life she shared with Noah Rogers, her then soon to be husband. Her life seemed to have come to a shattering halt after reality dawned on her that Noah might never return. She barely talked. Barely smiled. Barely went out, always bed ridden, gloomy and depressed. Void of all emotions. Indeed the shadow of her previous self. Her parents took advantage of the absence of her fiance and deemed it fit to have her married off to a proud, rich and arrogant son of their friend. She strongly opposed to the arranged marriage for few wisps of hope that he might return still laid in her heart. It was the motivation and inspiration she had to wait for him and when he does return, she'd still be here...waiting. When the pressure from her parents was getting too tough and unbearable, she wanted to get rid of it all, get rid of the emotional pain, get rid of the weight that was becoming far to heavy to carry. All she wanted was freedom, but there was only one way to do that... That night, underneath the Blue Moon, standing on the deck above the Ballad River where she wanted to end it all, there she met Asher Holden and that was the onset of her rollercoaster love life.

"She was my siren. My unearthly creature, far more beautiful than any angel. I was getting lost in her ocean blue eyes and she was making my heart skip a beat every time she smiles. She was the beginning and the end of all my days, she was my reason to wake up and live a better life. She was my whole life. And my undoing..."

The day my biological family comes to take me home, a car accident occurs. My parents and the fake son who had been living my life all die, but my sister, Kayla Bennett, survives. She despises me completely after that and blames the company's bankruptcy on me too. Desperate to make amends, I work over ten jobs a day, giving her every cent I earn so she can buy back the villa that has all our family memories. The day I finally save enough money, I discover my supposedly dead parents inside that same villa, celebrating Dylan Bennett's birthday. My usually cold sister is laughing warmly with them. As they bring out the cake, Mom mentions me. "Today's Nathan's birthday too. We've been punishing him for eight years now. Maybe we should bring him home?" Kayla cuts her off immediately. "We agreed on ten years to make sure he never suggests sending Dylan away again. Not one year less!" I clutch my medical report and laugh through my tears. But Kayla, I'm dying.

|MATURE CONTENT| R-18 Dahil sa estado ng buhay nilang dalawa ay pinaghiwalay sila. Mahirap para sa kay Astrid na layuan ang taong pinakamamahal niya ngunit wala siyang nagawa dahil na rin sa kagagawan ng ina ni Davin. Paano kung isang araw ay mag-krus muli ang landas nilang dalawa? Mabuo pa kaya ang nawasak nilang pagmamahalan lalo pa at may anak silang dalawa o magiging mitya lamang ito ng muli niyang kabiguan? Matanggap kaya siya nito sa kabila ng trabaho niya bilang isang STRIPPER o kamumuhian siya at pandidirihan dahil sa trabaho niya?

ชะตาพลิกผันให้เจ๊ใหญ่หงทายาทมาเฟียยุค2000 ต้องไปเกิดใหม่ที่มิติใกล้ล่มสลาย ซึ่งทุกอย่างถูกวัดด้วยความแข็งแกร่ง ทั้งพลังปราณ พลังธาตุ ทั้งนางยังมีภารกิจสำคัญที่ต้องรับผิดชอบ ทว่าเมื่อลืมตาตื่นความทรงจำกลับเลือนราง นางกลายเป็นก้อนแป้งน้อยโดยสมบูรณ์! ผักก็ต้องปลูก มารก็ต้องกำจัด ความทรงจำยังเลือนรางอีก สวรรค์ท่านกลั่นแกล้งข้าหรือไร? ดีที่ทุกครั้งเมื่อนางเลื่อนระดับพลัง ความทรงจำที่เคยเลือนรางจะค่อย ๆ แจ่มชัดขึ้นมา ยิ่งเมื่อระดับพลังสูงขึ้นนางจึงได้รู้ว่า แท้จริงแล้วในอดีตนางไม่ได้เป็นเพียงเจ๊ใหญ่หงเท่านั้น แต่กลับมีอีกตัวตนหนึ่งที่ยิ่งใหญ่และสูงส่งมากกว่า!

อัมพุชินี ธิดาของเมืองทวารกะแห่งอาณาจักรกัมโพชน์ ผู้มีความสามารถด้านสมุนไพรและศิลปะ ถูกจับตัวไปเมื่อบ้านเมืองถูกกองทัพอารยันรุกรานจนล่มสลาย เธอถูกขายเป็นนางทาสในวังหลวงไอยคุปต์ อันเป็นที่ประทับของ ฟาโรห์เมเรนคาเร ราชันหนุ่ม ‘หัวใจหิน’ ผู้ทรงไร้รอยยิ้มและเอื้ออาทร อัมพุชินีเริ่มต้นชีวิตอย่างต่ำต้อยในเรือนทาส แต่ด้วยความรู้ทางสมุนไพรและศิลปะการวาดภาพ เธอจึงกลับกลายเป็นบุคคลสำคัญในการช่วยบำบัดอาการบรรทมไม่หลับขององค์ฟาโรห์ โดยผ่านภาพวาดและกลิ่นของดอกบัวศักดิ์สิทธิ์ แม้จะมีนางสนมนับร้อยอยู่รอบพระวรกาย แต่หัวใจของฟาโรห์กลับสั่นคลอนจากหญิงสาวไร้ตัวตน ความรักที่ต้องห้ามระหว่างจอมราชันกับนางทาสกลับเริ่มผลิบาน ท่ามกลางการช่วงชิงอำนาจ แผนร้ายของเหล่าสนม และศัตรูเก่าที่หวนคืน อัมพุชินีจะเลือกเส้นทางใด ระหว่างความรักไร้ตัวตน กับ การกอบกู้อิสรภาพคืนสู่ดินแดนของนาง จอมราชันเย็นชาพระองค์นี้ จะยอมมอบ “หัวใจรัก” ให้เธออย่างศิโรราบหรือไม่  

This story is all about a woman who unexpectedly falls in love with the man who destroyed and ruin her life. She tried to take risks just to make their relationship as a 'wife and husband' work for their son but as the days passed by, the feelings of her towards her husband is developing. Is that kind of feeling healthy for her? He makes her heartbeats so fast and she thinks she's in love with the father of her son. Pero hindi sa lahat ng storya ay may happy ending, may mangyayaring trahedya na magiging dahilan para kamuhian at makalimutan niya ang asawa. Ang tanong, kakayanin kaya ni Liandre na ibalik ang nawalang alaala ng asawa o hahayaan na niya nalang itong walang maalala at bumuo ng magagandang alala kasama ang anak nila?

Quand Ava accepte un mariage arrangé avec Vincenzo De Luca, héritier d'une redoutable famille italienne, elle pense signer pour une cage dorée. Mais dès son arrivée au manoir, elle comprend que Vincenzo n'est pas l'homme distant qu'elle imaginait. Il est énigmatique, magnétique... et irrémédiablement attiré par elle. Entre jeux de pouvoir, attirance irrésistible et tensions à peine contenues, chacun tente de garder le contrôle. Mais dans cette guerre silencieuse où le désir se dispute au danger, Ava et Vincenzo pourraient bien perdre bien plus que leur liberté : leur cœur. Dans ce huis clos brûlant, les regards pèsent plus que les mots, les silences parlent plus fort que les promesses, et chaque geste devient un aveu. Jusqu'où ira ce jeu de séduction ? Et qui en ressortira indemne ? Avertissement : Ce roman s'adresse exclusivement à un public majeur et averti. Il contient des descriptions explicites pouvant heurter la sensibilité de certaines personnes, notamment des scènes de violence physique et psychologique, de consommation de drogue et d'alcool, ainsi que des scènes à caractère sexuel. La lecture de ce contenu est déconseillée aux personnes mineures ou sensibles à ces thématiques. Note de l'autrice Cette œuvre est une fiction entièrement originale. Toute ressemblance avec des personnes existantes, des événements réels, ou d'autres histoires de fiction, publiées ou non, serait purement fortuite. Si certains thèmes ou archétypes peuvent évoquer d'autres œuvres du genre romantico-érotique, l'univers, les personnages et les intrigues de ce récit sont le fruit de l'imagination de l'autrice.