Night Smoke Chapter 14

14 วัน ขอรักฉันคืน... ณรันดา นางเอกสาวชื่อดัง จำต้องยุติบทบาททางการแสดงลง ทั้งๆ ที่เธอกำลังโด่งดังถึงขีดสุดเพราะอาการป่วยระยะสุดท้ายซึ่งมาทักทายแบบไม่ทันรู้เนื้อรู้ตัว หนำซ้ำยังต้องกลับไปขอพึ่งใบบุญ อธิป อัศวกุล นักธุรกิจหนุ่มหล่อแสนเย่อหยิ่ง ที่ครั้งหนึ่งเธอเคยหนีการแต่งงานกับเขาไปก่อนพิธีจะเริ่มแค่ไม่กี่ชั่วโมง เขาเป็นทั้งอดีตคนรัก และยังเป็นเหมือนญาติเพียงคนเดียวที่เหลืออยู่... แม้ว่าเมื่อห้าปีก่อนเขาจะเคยรักเธอหัวปักหัวปำ แต่ตอนนี้เขากำลังจะแต่งงานใหม่ นางเอกตกกระป๋องเลยได้แต่ทึ้งหัว กลับมาตายรังยังไม่พอ ยังต้องมาทนเห็นผู้หล่อล่ำกล้ามแน่นไปสวีทหวานกับผู้หญิงอื่นอีก และเมื่อไม่มีอะไรจะเสีย "เป็นไงเป็นกัน ก่อนตาย ฉันต้องได้ผู้ชายคืน" มารยาร้อยเล่มเกวียน ทั้งกลเม็ดเด็ดพรายต่างๆ จึงถูกงัดมาใช้เพื่อการนี้แบบทุ่มสุดตัว คิดแค่ว่าเพื่อความสุขสุดท้ายก่อนตายก็แล้วกัน... มิชชันร้ายๆ ของนางเอกแผนสูงจะคอมพลีทหรือไม่ ต้องติดตาม...

Adler Hayes Vergara may be an easy-going, responsible, calm, and collected Executive but he is a drunk mess when stressed and a man who isn't ready for commitment and responsibility, thinking that he should keep the ball rolling while he's still free from the engagement arranged by his family. But one rainy day, a woman appears on his doorstep, soaked and pale like a stray kitten, introducing herself as his fiancée!

My chances of survival are slim. Going west in the 1880s? Dangerous. Fighting rogues and traveling through pack lands where we are unwelcome? A death sentence. But Akecheta awakens a part of me I've never known before. I'm brave. I'm strong. I'm an Alpha's daughter. I will fight for my people--even if it costs me everything. And chances are, it will. If you love steamy wolf shifter romance that will leave your heart racing, read this new adventure from the author of The Alpha King's Breeder.

Layla is standing too close to him. She knows it the moment she stops moving, when the space between them shifts from accidental to deliberate. Luca doesn’t step back. He never does. He only looks down at her, dark eyes steady and unreadable, as if he’s been waiting to see whether she’d do exactly this. “You’re doing it again,” he says quietly. “Doing what?” Her voice gives her away—soft, breathless. “Standing where you shouldn’t.” His gaze drops briefly to her mouth. “And pretending you don’t know.” Heat coils low in her stomach. “Maybe I don’t care.” That gets his attention. Something sharp flickers across his expression—control tightening. He reaches out slowly, giving her time to pull away. She doesn’t. His fingers hook lightly under her chin, tilting her face up. The touch is barely there, but it steals her breath all the same. “Careful,” he murmurs. “That’s not something you say to men like me.” “Why?” she whispers. “Because you might misunderstand?” His thumb traces her jaw, deliberate. “No,” he says. “Because I won’t.” His hand stays there, steady, grounding. She feels the restraint in him now—the effort it takes not to close the distance completely. “There are lines I don’t cross lightly,” Luca says. “And once I do, Layla, I don’t step back.” She swallows. “Then why are you still here?” He leans in just enough that his breath ghosts her skin. “Because you haven’t asked me to.”

After his father passes away, Darnell becomes the new heir to King Hotels. But his grandfather—who owns shares of the hotels—wants Darnell to marry to earn his (Grandfather’s) shares before his death. After her father’s death, Sasha and her family are left to deal with the burden he leaves behind—a huge debt owed to loan sharks. Darnell approaches Sasha with a two-month marriage contract for five million dollars—enough to pay off her father’s debt and be free from her traditional mother. She accepts. Things are complicated when grandfather doesn’t die after two months, and Sasha is being extorted by loan sharks. She and Darnell must stay married for their benefit, despite their lack of affection for each other. Eventually, they fall in love. But drama unfolds when family secrets are exposed, old lovers resurface, and unknown families appear. Darnell and Sasha must decide if their love is worth it all.

Amelia is an artist in a small town, she paints and draws for her living. She's in her mid-20s and she doesn't have any plan to enter any relationships. She's this lonely girl as her family abandoned her, they doesn't treat her as part of the family anymore. And then a Prince (whom she didn't knew a Prince) entered hee shop just out of curiosity. And that's where it all began.

Violet Harper, an actress, has just about anything going wrong in her life. That is until she's offered a deal that she can't possibly resist: pose as the long-lost sister of billionaire CEO Clyde West to fulfill his father's dying wish. But the moment she plays the obedient daughter, the line between reality and fiction blurs. The longer it takes Clyde to get infatuated with his fake sister, the more Violet is stuck deep into a web of deceit, torn between the role she is playing and the truth she's hiding. Told against a backdrop of clashing family secrets, taboo love, and lethal alliances, the choices Violet and Clyde make dictate the measure of their devotion to their own hearts-and one another.

My Alpha mate has canceled our carefully planned honeymoon trips fourteen times for his Omega secretary. The first time, because of the secretary's phone call about "lost territorial maps," he didn't hesitate to abandon me at a strange Nordic airport. The second time, because of the secretary's plea for help, he drove back alone to the pack's core territory, leaving me alone in the dangerous hunting grounds. For four years, I carefully planned fourteen honeymoon trips, but each time my mate would abandon me to choose to accompany his Omega secretary. Finally, I stopped insisting and decided to give up this mating relationship that was never firmly chosen. But when I joined the Alpha Council's secret research project and decided to leave forever, he cried and searched the whole world for me.

“It’s just fourteen days. What could possibly go wrong in fourteen days?” With her daughter’s life on the line and nowhere left to turn, Jackie agrees to a fake marriage with a wealthy stranger in exchange for the money she desperately needs. All she has to do is pretend to be his wife for 14 days. What starts as a convenient arrangement spirals into a tangled web of secrets, heartbreak, and betrayal.

I was with a fishmonger for seven years. Every night, he pinned me beneath him, reckless and wild. Until one day, he took off his bloodstained apron and came clean–he was getting engaged to Sophia, the Bilotti heiress. Only then did I learn that he was the Don of the Colleo family. “Hahaha! You fooled around with Ms. Mancini for seven years, only to take another delicate young lady’s hand in marriage. Surely, she’s going to come at you.” “Don Colleo, you should keep things sweet with her.” His men’s laughter echoed in my ears. “What’s the rush? I’ve broken her well enough these past seven years. If you don’t mind, you can have her for a couple of days. Evelyn… flexible.” On the day of Vincent’s engagement party, I handed the evidence of his crimes to the police. As the sirens ripped open the city night, someone called out my name. I smiled and leaped from the eighteenth floor.