Pet Simulator 99 Elf On The Shelf

El día de mi boda, mi hermana menor regresó al país de improviso. Mis papás, mi hermano y mi prometido me dejaron sola y se fueron al aeropuerto a recibirla. Mientras ella subía a sus redes una foto grupal, presumiendo que todo mundo la adoraba, yo marqué una y otra vez: me colgaron todas las llamadas. El único que contestó fue mi prometido: —No hagas un drama; la boda se puede volver a celebrar. Ese día me convirtieron en el hazmerreír de la boda que tanto había esperado. La gente señalaba, se burlaba, y yo tragué en seco. Respiré hondo, arreglé todo yo sola y, en mi diario, escribí un número nuevo: 99. Era la decepción número noventa y nueve. Entendí que no iba a seguir esperando su amor. Completé la solicitud para estudiar en el extranjero y empaqué mi maleta. Todos creyeron que, por fin, me había calmado. No sabían que ya me iba.

Kaelan noticed I hadn't filed a single medical or living expense request in the pack’s resource channel for a week. He must have thought I’d finally kicked my greedy human habits. At dinner, he tossed a black card at me. It cut a cold arc through the air, landing beside my plate. “Your father’s treatment for next month. The wolf gene serum, the lab fees—it’s all approved.” His voice was pure Alpha command. An order, not a suggestion. “Bringing you and your father here was a risk. I fought the Elders for you. You are my mate. Stop begging for pack funds like a common stray. It’s a bad look.” He didn’t know my fingers were ice-cold when I picked up the card. The papers to sever our mate bond were already signed. So was my will. The hoodie I wore when I left was a faded thing he’d tossed at me three years ago. No one would believe it. The fated mate of an Alpha who ran a corporate empire… had to send a photo of a $10 painkiller receipt to a Beta assistant for approval. All because he thought a fragile human like me was a leech who couldn’t be trusted with cash. But a week ago, when my father’s lupus caused his organs to fail, I needed $50,000. He needed a dose of pure gene repair serum, synthesized in the pack’s high-tech med-bay. I begged him on my knees. His childhood friend, Seraphina, just laughed. She froze my request, saying she was helping me break my bad habit of “cashing in on my mate status.” Kaelan never knew I endured that humiliation just so my father could stay alive in his top-tier medical lab. Now, my father was dead. The medicine was cut off, and his ashes were already in the ground. I didn’t need to be his obedient little pet anymore.

Antonio Rivera finally finds out that I haven't asked him for money in a week. For once, he sends me a text message to compliment me. "Darling, you've finally learned how to become a good Donna. I've had my men deliver this week's worth of miracle drugs to your mother's ward. As long as you remain docile and don't be greedy, I'll give you anything you want." What he doesn't know is that I'm printing out a divorce agreement when I receive his message while wearing an old dress from three years ago. No one will believe that I, the Donna of the Rivera family, have to ask Antonio's Consigliere, Elena Gallo, for money even when I need to buy myself some tampons. Hell, I have to apply for a leave request three days in advance if I wish to leave my home. Antonio keeps telling me that he's doing this to protect me. "It's too dangerous outside, sweetheart. All you have to do is stay at home like a good girl you are." But one week ago, Mom's illness took a turn for the worse. I begged Elena to skip the request and let me out of the villa. Elena, however, dragged out my request for seven long days. Only when Mom died did she finally permit me to leave. Miracle drugs? My mom is already dead. I'm no longer tolerating anyone or anything anymore.

Nada’s life shatters the day her husband, Harvey, walks out on her with his best friend turned mistress. She is in labor with their triplets after four years of a childless marriage, but he leaves her side to donate sperm to his best friend, Alisa. Broken and humiliated, Nada gives birth to her triplets alone. She refuses to be a victim. In court, she takes everything—Harvey’s money, his name, his dignity. The once-proud police officer is left with nothing but shame. Harvey turns to Alisa, but she is no savior. He finds out the new wife he adores is secretly engaged to Matteo Morelli, a ruthless mafia Don. She had been a bait to lure Harvey into Matteo’s secret black-market fertility scheme. Harvey’s aristocratic bloodline makes him valuable, and he is forced into an eight-year contract. His life is no longer his own. As years pass, Harvey begins to regret abandoning Nada. But regret cannot save him. The mafia controls his every move. When Interpol finally crushes Matteo’s empire, Harvey is dragged down too, accused as an accomplice. Prison looms, and he has only one hope—Nada. But Nada is now a billionaire and a feared judge in Brooklyn. Her price for saving Harvey is: he must return to her as her submissive pet, living by her strict, sexual rules in her bedroom. Harvey agrees. But inside Nada’s home, he’s tortured not only as a submissive pet of his ex-wife but by jealousy as well. Lucas, the loyal nanny who raised the triplets, has everything Harvey lost—Nada’s trust, the children’s love, and a quiet place in her heart. Will Nada choose Harvey, the father of her triplets who betrayed her, or Lucas, the man who took his place and watched her kids grow?

I come home and find my husband's female best friend, Winona Langdon, who claims to be one of the guys, sleeping in my bed. I bring up divorce with Lucas Gardner for the 99th time. This time, he finally snaps. "Natania Simmon, are you done making a scene? Are you throwing a tantrum again just because Winona stayed over at our place and slept in our bed?" I answer calmly, "That's right." His friends throw their arms around his shoulders and chime in sarcastically, "Don't take it to heart, Lucas. Women get jealous easily. Oh, how I miss the days when we all slept under the same covers together." Lucas smiles bitterly and says, "When you guys get married in the future, remember this—you can't afford to mess with jealous women. Still, there's no helping it. Natania just loves me too much. She's trying to scare me by throwing divorce around. "Listen. In less than three days, she'll come crawling back to me." The derisive smirk playing on my lips deepens. In our seven years of marriage, Winona stays at my house whenever she pleases. I watch with my own eyes as Lucas and Winona grow increasingly inappropriate in their interactions. They reach into each other's pants. They also share the same straw and wash each other's underwear. And now... She even sleeps in my bed! These last seven years were not love. I was just foolishly blind. Right in front of everyone, I dial a number and say, "Dad, I'm done messing around out here. Your heiress is ready to come home."

私の名は桐原司紗（きりはら つかさ）。結婚式の当日、妹の桐原瑠月（きりはら りづき）が一時帰国した。 私の両親、兄の桐原遼（きりはら りょう）、そして婚約者の橘川悠真（きっかわ ゆうま）は、皆私を置いて、瑠月を迎えに空港へ向かった。 瑠月が大勢に愛されていることを自慢げにSNSで投稿する中、私は何度も電話をかけたが、冷たく切られるばかりだった。 唯一電話に出た悠真は、「わがままを言うな。式はまた挙げられる」とだけ言った。 彼らは、私が最も楽しみにしていた結婚式で、私を笑い者にしてしまった。周囲から指さされ、嘲笑の的にされた。 私は冷静に一人で全てを片付け、日記に新たな数字を記した――99。 これで99回目の失望。もう彼らの愛など期待するまい。 留学の申請書を書き上げ、荷物をまとめた。 皆は私が大人しくなったと思っているだろうが、実は去る準備をしているのだ。

鷹野家の後継ぎであり、一族のナンバーツーである夫・鷹野怜司（たかの れいじ）は、今日も私の電話を無視した。 白血病の末期を抱えた私は、ふらふらの体で家の顧問弁護士を訪れる。 「すみません、離婚の手続きをお願いします」 その十数分後、怜司と家族たちが大慌てで事務所に押しかけてきた。 怜司は、私の顔を見るなり平手打ちを食らわせた。 「咲（さき）の昇進パーティを妨害したくて、緊急連絡番号を使ったのか？お前、頭はどうかしてるんじゃないか？」 私がしっかりと握っていた診断書は、母に無理やり奪われる。 母はちらっと診断書を見て、あざけるように鼻で笑った。 「またその手？仮病で同情を引いて、みんなの気を引きたいだけでしょ。澪（みお）、あんたは小さい頃から嘘ばかりついてきたじゃない」 妹の咲は、涙を浮かべて怜司の腕にすがる。 「ごめんね、お姉ちゃん。私なんかが昇進しなければよかったんだよね……だから、もう自分や怜司さんを傷つけたりしないで」 私は唇から滲む血をそっと拭って、弁護士をまっすぐ見つめた。 「……私にはもう、家族なんていません。三日後に遺体を火葬できるよう、離婚の手続きを急いでもらえますか」

Isolde Vancrest had witnessed the ultimate betrayal. Her long-time fiancé, Alan Princeton, had gotten his own sister-in-law pregnant, and he had the audacity to defend it. Alan: "You can't have children. The family can't end with me." How ironic. This was the same man who had once knelt nine times to propose, swearing he would rather be sterile than ever hurt her. If love was a joke, then pride had lost all meaning. That night, Isolde called the one man in Southbridge whose name most people feared to speak. By morning, she was his wife. When Alan saw her again, it was at her wedding. He dropped to his knees, eyes red. Alan: "Honey, I was wrong. Please… look at me." Isolde took a step back and fell into the arms of the man behind her. "The Prince," the ruthless ruler of half the city, wrapped an arm around her waist. "Seems you've forgotten your place." His voice was biting cold as he looked down at Alan. "Now she’s someone you don’t deserve to even look at."

五週年紀念日，周時宴在眾人祝福下單膝下跪： 「許知意，你願意嫁給我嗎？」 可我卻面無表情。 果然，下一秒周時宴丟掉戒指，燒燬婚紗，砸爛求婚現場。 他的小青梅看到後哈哈大笑。 這樣的求婚，周時宴已經求了99次了，只爲了搏他的抑鬱症小青梅一笑。 兄弟們帶著戲謔起鬨： 「嫂子這次怎麼矯情上了，還不趕快答應？」 「我們哥幾個還想看你被嚇得屁滾尿流的模樣呢。」 我的內心毫無波瀾，平靜的開口： 「不好意思啊，我已經訂婚了，就在前天。」 周時宴愣了一秒，接著嘲諷道： 「除了我，還有誰會要你？」 一群人鬨堂大笑，甚至開始打賭我多久能把自己嫁出去。 可他們不知道。 那人聽到我被求婚，已經在趕來搶婚的路上了。

彼氏・武川裕輝（たけかわ ひろき）が99回目に私の薬指に指輪をはめたその瞬間、彼の義妹・生原蓉子（いくはら ようこ）から電話がかかってきた。 そして彼は、抑うつ症状を起こした蓉子を慰めるため、99回目となる結婚式の最中に私を置き去りにした。 私はもう耐えきれず、その背中に向かって叫んだ。 「もしあなたがどうしても行くというのなら、私は別の人と結婚するわ！」 だが彼は取り合わず、私を責め立てた。 「お前はどうしてそんなにわがままなんだ？結婚なんていつでもできる。でも蓉子は俺にとって唯一の妹なんだ」 そう言い残し、振り返りもせず去っていった。 私はただ、道化のようにその場に立ち尽くすことしかできなかった。 彼は知らない。今回の私は、本気だったのだ。 そして後日―― 100回目のプロポーズをして膝をついた裕輝の前で、彼の兄・武川一輝（たけかわ かずき）が片腕で私の腰を抱き寄せ、低い声で告げた。 「悪いな、弟よ。これからは彼女のことを『お義姉さん』と呼ぶんだな」