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A week before the wedding, my fiancé, Luke Graham, announced that he needed to marry his first love, Mandy Lynch, before marrying me. “It’s because her mother passed away,” he explained, “and her dying wish was to see Mandy married to a good man. I’m just fulfilling an elder’s final request. Don’t overthink it.” But the company had already planned to launch the “True Love” jewelry line on the day of our grand wedding. Impatiently, he dismissed my concerns: “It’s just a few million. Does that compare to Mandy’s love for her mother? If you’re so eager to make those millions, go find someone else to marry.” Hearing his cold and heartless words, I understood everything. Without another word, I turned and dialled my family. “Brother, help me find a new groom.”

Two complete opposites with only one common goal, to please their families. Trying to make it through high school and graduate early with straight As to meet her mother’s expectations of Lyra Robyn Colburn has completely built walls isolated herself from everyone, allowing nothing to distract her from the main goal. Everything is going according to her perfect plan till she chooses as her extracurricular activity and meets the not so dull charming basketball team captain Raphael Oliver Vicario and all walls come crashing down not only for her but him as well. Will their love story have a happily ever after ending or it’ll be another version of Romeo and Juliet……

My son just had surgery. I'm sitting by his bedside in the hospital when I come across a post online. "What's the worst thing you've ever done?" One anonymous comment stands out. "I used the upperclassman who funded me as a stepping stone. My sponsor was rich but clueless. After she paid for my entire college, I slept with her husband and got pregnant. "The craziest part? My son and her son were born on the same day, but my husband swapped the babies. Now, she treats my son like he's her whole world, working day and night to give him a better life. "But her own son lives with me, wearing hand-me-downs and eating leftovers. Today, my son had surgery. I was worried sick, so I slapped her son hard a few times. "Oh, and her family just got a three-million-dollar payout for relocation. My husband is going to the hospital later. He's going to use the excuse of buying a house near the schools to get the money. "Once we have the money, I'm buying a villa. Then I'll get my son back and kick her out!" The post includes a blurry photo of a boy begging on his knees. My breath catches because the charm on his wrist is the same lucky charm I gave my son the day he was born. Just then, my husband pushes open the door to the ward and walks in. "Honey, Sean's starting elementary school soon. Let's use that relocation money your mom received to buy a house near the schools."

After surviving the brutal apocalypse for ten years, hardened survivor Hayley Reid was betrayed by her base and unexpectedly woke up two weeks before the apocalypse began. Back in time, her useless father and stepmother were still pressuring her to give up her house for her brother and his newlywed wife. This time, Hayley didn’t hesitate to sell them the house for dirt cheap. While they celebrate this great deal, Hayley went crazy stockpiling supplies. With the help of the super base system’s overpowered perks, she built an unbeatable shelter. While everyone else was stuck in zombie chaos, Hayley relaxed in her fortress like she was on vacation. While everyone else struggled to find food, her dog enjoyed a full buffet every day. While everyone else risked their lives squeezing into crowded survivor camps, Hayley’s base stood as the strongest steel fortress in the whole world!

Sou uma lobisomem, grávida de oito meses do filho híbrido do meu companheiro vampiro. Quando as contrações começaram, meu companheiro vampiro, Justin, me trancou dentro de um caixão de gelo talhado com runas destinadas a impedir o parto. Eu gritei. Eu implorei. Ele apenas disse: — Espere. Mas tudo aquilo era por causa da sua paixão de infância, Isolde. A vampira de sangue puro havia usado magia negra de sangue para conceber o herdeiro puro de Justin sem sequer ter relações com ele. Uma antiga profecia assombrava o clã. O primeiro filho vampiro nascido em mil anos receberia a bênção suprema do Progenitor. Ele purificaria a linhagem. Quebraria uma maldição que vinha sendo carregada por gerações. — Essa honra pertence ao filho de Isolde — disse Justin, com a voz fria como gelo. — Você já tem o meu amor, Gracie. Este caixão só garante que você dê à luz depois dela. A dor das contrações rasgava meu corpo. Implorei para que ele me levasse ao Santuário da Fonte de Sangue. Justin se inclinou. Seus dedos gelados agarraram meu queixo. Seus lábios ficaram tão próximos dos meus que seu sussurro soou como uma ameaça. — Pare com essa encenação. Eu deveria ter percebido antes. Você nunca me amou. Era uma excluída no mundo dos lobisomens. Só queria meu poder e meu título. — Está tão desesperada que arriscaria a vida do nosso filho com seus truques selvagens de loba só para arruinar a bênção de um sangue-puro... Você é venenosa. Lágrimas escorriam pelo meu rosto. Eu tremia, minha voz se partindo. — O bebê está vindo... eu não consigo impedir. Por favor... faço um juramento de sangue! Eu não me importo com a bênção. Eu só quero você! Ele soltou um riso de desprezo, embora um traço de mágoa traída atravessasse seus olhos. — Se você me amasse, não teria corrido para minha mãe. Não teria envenenado a mente dela contra Isolde. — Voltarei depois que ela receber a bênção. Afinal, a criança que você carrega também é minha. Ele ficou de guarda do lado de fora do santuário onde o ritual de Isolde acontecia. Não pensou mais em mim. Não até ver o halo da bênção coroar Isolde. Então ordenou ao seu servo de sangue que me libertasse. Mas a voz do servo tremia de terror. — Meu senhor... senhora Gracie e a criança... os sinais de vida... desapareceram. Naquele instante, o mundo de Justin se despedaçou.

Após minha morte, meus pais assinaram o termo de doação de órgãos e transplantaram minhas córneas na filha adotiva que eles mais estimavam — Gabriela Lima. Gabriela se casou com meu irmão, Cláudio Lima, e eles finalmente se tornaram uma família de verdade. Eu e Gabriela competimos por uma vida inteira e, no final, tudo o que me restou foi um destino miserável, sem nada. Nesta nova vida, decidi viver a minha própria história e, inesperadamente, encontrei um final feliz.

Ever since I was little, I knew my future mate would be one of two Alpha candidates: Mitchell or Jax. Even with all their Alpha pride, I never once doubted that set future. The pack elders always said it was natural for Alpha candidates to focus on getting stronger and controlling the pack. My mother, Lyra, even told me that every brutal fight they got into was so the winner could give me, their Luna, the ultimate honor. That is, until I and Elara – this Omega stray they'd taken in – got ambushed and captured by our old enemies, the Nightshade pack. Mitchell and Jax only had enough of the life-saving Moonpetal herb for one of us. And they both chose to give it to Elara. To save myself in that fire, I forced a shift. The power surge was too much. The heat twisted my cheekbone, and just like that, I was disfigured. After they dragged me out – like an afterthought – I watched those two future Alphas crying over Elara, who didn't have a scratch on her. "Thank the Moon Goddess, Elara, you're alive." "Once we sort out who's the new Alpha of Blackwood, whoever it is will give you the most honored spot right under the Luna, Elara. Don't you worry. We'll give you the best of everything our pack has, make sure you never suffer again." "Elara, you're the real Luna in our hearts." When I came to, I cut off that ridiculous mate bond for good. Empty promises and a trampled destiny? I was done with it. But after I left, they stayed by my cave every day, begging me to come back.

Ang pagmamahal nila ay walang pinipili. Kayang hamakin ang lahat masunod lamang. Sa mapaglaro na mundo ng pag-ibig, sino ang sa huli ay mananaig? Ang pagmamahal ba mula sa nakaraan o ang pagmamahal sa kasalukuyan? Ang pagmamahal na kayang manindigan, o ang pagmamahal na ipinaglalaban? They were brothers. Brothers who fell in love with the same woman. They both love her at the same time but under different circumstances. And she loved them both at different times in her life. Raven De Ocampo, is entangled between a love from two brothers. A love from her past and a love from her present. Mahal niya ang isa noon, at mahal niya ang isa ngayon. Pero ang magkapatid ay pareho na nagmamahal pa rin sa kan'ya mula noon hanggang sa ngayon. Sino ang sa puso niya ay magwawagi pagsapit sa huli? Mga pusong naghahati-hati sa pag-ibig na hindi kaya na mamili. Mga pusong pinagtagpo-tagpo; Kaninong pag-ibig ang mananaig?

Camille Valentin was never meant to survive the night she landed on Adrien Duval’s operating table. Broken, bruised, pregnant, and hollowed out by a marriage that nearly destroyed her, she becomes just another patient to the most feared surgeon in Paris. Cold hands. Steady eyes. No questions asked. Except Adrien knows her. She is the ex-wife of his best friend. The woman he was never allowed to look at twice. He saves her life and sends her away, determined to forget the way her scars haunt him. But fate is cruel. Weeks later, Camille walks back into his world as his son’s new nanny. Living under his roof. Breathing his air. Healing in his shadow. Too soft for the darkness that surrounds him. Too broken to run. Adrien Duval is a billionaire, a surgeon, a man built on control and restraint. He has rules he never breaks. He does not touch patients. He does not betray friends. He does not want what does not belong to him. Camille is all three. Every glance is forbidden. Every touch is dangerous. Every heartbeat between them is a sin waiting to happen. And when enemies resurface, secrets bleed into the open, and the past comes to collect its debt, Adrien must decide whether to protect the world he built… or burn it down for the woman who was never supposed to be his. Some love stories are written in stars. Theirs is written in scars, silence, and the things you are never allowed to want.

“If you have any sense you would run away from me as fast as you possibly could,” Dougal Wilde said, his voice betraying some new emotions I couldn’t pinpoint. I looked at him through my lashes, and gently touched his cheek. “I do not think I want to take a single step away from you,” I whispered. He flinched at the touch of my finger. His eyes narrowed, the first indication of letting me know I was winning this war already. “Just as well. I am suddenly not in the mood to let you escape from me.” He lowered his head and his mouth moved on mine with astonishing tenderness, easing apart my lips until I obeyed the silent command. His lips surged into my warmth with stunning intimacy. I moaned softly and sagged against him. Never had a man kissed me in this manner. I shivered as he lifted me up against his chest. “Kiss me.” He ordered in a deep, dark voice that sent a delicious chill down my spine. Without stopping to think, I wrapped my arms around his neck. I moaned and sagged against him, my lips taking his in a soft whisper, lashing unto his tongue to suckle. “You little…” a groan was what ended his little speech. His hands found the strap of one end of my dress and pulled it down my arm, exposing my breast and pink little nipple. “So perfect.” He moaned. Without warning, he reached down and latched unto the nipple. ***** Natasha found herself falling for a man who is her father's friend and business partner. She knew she ought to run and never look back, but there was something in the way he looked at her that made her want to fall into sin with him.