Predatory Marriage Chapter 40

In fact, each flower had its own time. Didn't you know? If a high school girl was as your age, shouldn't you be appropriate to have a life partner? Moreover, he was a Chagall Corporation's CEO, Skandar Alexander Hemingway! You did not deserve of him! Author's Instagram account: @Lilanamisha Designed Cover by @Shiraa_sue

"𝐒𝐡𝐡𝐡....𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭, 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭." * He marries her to execute his father's cruel revenge plan. She marries him to save her family. He is cold and feared by many. She is soft and beloved by many. What happens when they're thrust into an arranged marriage and they begin craving more than each other's mere presence?

Pernikahan politik adalah hal biasa di keluarga elit. Namun Selene Cromwell tak pernah menyangka, ia yang akan dipilih sebagai tunangan Leonard Romano, CEO Romano Engineering Group. Bukan karena perusahaannya bangkrut. Bukan pula karena paksaan. Melainkan karena Leonard justru memilih Selene dibandingkan adiknya, Rosette, yang hidup di dunia sosialita. Awalnya, Selene kira Leonard akan sama seperti laki-laki berkuasa pada umumnya, yang hanya menginginkan 'istri pajangan', tetapi... “Selene, kau tunanganku. Aku berhak mengkhawatirkanmu.” “Mari kita bicara dengan kepala dingin. Aku tidak ingin tidur saat kau masih marah padaku.” “…Moonlight, jangan tinggalkan aku.” Selene tidak mengerti kapan hubungan ini berubah dari kontrak menjadi sesuatu yang lebih berbahaya. Namun satu hal pasti. Ia tidak akan menolak perhatian suami tampan ini!

Victor Williams is entitled to a trust fund but can only get it if and when he gets married and has his first child. Lila needs money to treat her mother's cancer that's getting worse by the day. She's not one to fall for money and petty offers of gifts but she's desperate and her best friend Emmanuel, who is Victor’s PA offers her the job of being in a contract marriage with his boss. In this love triangle, Ema has feelings for Lila which he had kept to himself over the years, Lila didn’t for once like Victor but she was in dire need of money to help her mother survive cancer. In a shocking twist, Angela, Victor’s girlfriend was also pregnant.

Twenty-two years old, Aurora Torres suddenly disappeared when she learned that her father made an agreement that was against her will. She had a simple life away from her parents, but after two years of being separated from them, she was forced to return because her father needed her help. Upon her return, she openly accepted the wedding arrangement of a stranger named, Damien Harrison. Even before their marriage, they both agreed to make a rule— their marriage was only up to a piece of the paper. Will Aurora and Damien's business marriage last for a lifetime? Or will they end up never falling in love with each other?

When a young woman's simple life is turned upside down by a powerful business tycoon, she finds herself in a desperate fight for survival. Kidnapped and forced to confront the dark secrets of her family's past, she learns that her late father had accumulated a massive debt to the tycoon. With no way to pay the debt, the tycoon offers her a sinister proposal: marry him and the debt will be forgiven. But with her life threatened, she has no choice but to accept. As she navigates her new life as the wife of a ruthless Mafia boss, she must confront the harsh realities of her new world and the man she has been forced to marry. Will she find a way to escape the clutches of her powerful husband, or will she become trapped forever in a life of misery and fear?

“Aku akan membuatnya miskin, dan menggelandang di jalan!” Laura selalu menanamkan kalimat itu di dalam dirinya, sebagai bentuk balas dendamnya pada suaminya, Erlan. Sejak awal pernikahannya dengan Erlan yang terjadi karena perjodohan orangtua mereka, hanya hati yang tersakiti saja yang selalu Laura dapatkan. Erlan kerap kali selingkuh agar bisa menyakiti hati Laura, demi membalaskan dendamnya pada Laura, hingga harus saling menjatuhkan demi menjaga kedudukan mereka di perusahaan yang mereka miliki. Di dalam keadaan terpuruknya yang tidak bisa lepas dari keluarga Erlan yang sangat berpengaruh itu, Rendra datang ke dalam kehidupan Laura sebagai bodyguard yang Erlan tugaskan untuk menjaga dan mengawasi Laura. Tanpa Erlan ketahui kalau penyamaran Rendra sebagai bodyguard Laura hanya untuk menghancurkan Erlan dari dalam. Dan lambat laun, Rendra menyimpan perasaan pada istri pria itu. Akankah Rendra yang telah jatuh hati pada Laura sejak mereka pertama kali bertemu berhasil mengambil hati Laura yang telah membeku itu?

I still have a week before my due date when a truck suddenly hits me, sending me flying several feet and leaving me bleeding profusely on the ground. As I lose consciousness, I call my husband, Wallace Brown, begging him to rush over and save our unborn child, only for him to reply coldly, "It's Beth's 18th birthday party today, Meryl. You can't seriously be pulling one of your stunts on a day like this, can you?" In the next instant, I hear my son, Daniel Brown, exclaiming, "You're always using the baby to threaten us, Mommy! I really hate it when you do that!" Wallace stresses the importance of Beth's birthday party again, demands that I attend immediately, and then hangs up on me. With a pool of blood spreading beneath me, I close my eyes, overcome by despair. When I open my eyes again, I am met by the sight of a death certificate. The doctor delivers a crushing pronouncement. "I'm sorry, but if you had gotten here sooner, we might have been able to save the baby's life…" I look at the death certificate, feeling as though my heart died with my baby. I finally decide to leave this family, yet now they're the ones begging me to stay.

A receptionist during the day and a waitress at night, with her mail piling with bills and a 9-year-old sister suffering from cancer, Agatha is striving to make ends meet and has no social life outside of her best friend and her dog. So when single billionaire Cade Blackwell who also happens to be the CEO of the hotel where she works as a receptionist, offers her a proposition to be married to him for one year, an offer that comes with benefits that solve all her problems, She doesn't hesitate to accept. It's just for one year, right? What could go wrong? The answer is A LOT.

Lunar dihadapkan pada pengkhianatan sang calon suami. Dia kabur dan suatu insiden mengharuskannya menikah dengan seorang pebisnis kaya. Arkan sendiri terpaksa mengurungkan niat untuk melamar kekasihnya. Ketika hubungan berkembang menjadi lebih dari sekadar pernikahan palsu, mereka terperangkap di antara perasaan yang rumit. Akankah mimpi buruk mereka berakhir indah?