Novel & Cerita Quotes About Christmas Eve

At a press conference, business tycoon Charles Lewis and heiress Julia announced their relationship. As reporters frantically clicked their cameras to capture the breaking news, Julia's assistant suddenly collapsed. Bright red blood spread beneath her, forming a pool of blood. With a calm expression, Charles turned to the stunned reporters and explained, "She's pregnant but insists on working. Maybe she just wants attention." I lost my child and my uterus after that incident. At the same time, I became the target of online outrage. I was the assistant, and Charles was my legal husband.

In Alabama’s rot-soaked bayous, Drucilla Drakes survives by three rules: silence, scars, and never letting Louise—her Bible-thumping captor—catch her hoping. But when a schoolyard ambush leaves her bleeding beneath a stranger’s leather jacket, invisibility becomes a death sentence. Enter Dragon Morales: New Orleans’ most notorious runaway, a cartel prince turned outlaw mechanic with grease-stained hands and a death wish. He doesn’t save people—he survives them. Yet in Dru’s lashed flesh and hellfire gaze, he sees his own shattered reflection. Their bond is gasoline and matches. Dragon’s father—Colombia’s cartel kingpin—hunts them relentlessly. Louise, armed with voodoo rites and the chaos-hungry loa Marinette, vows to break Dru. Their only allies? The Lou Nwa, a bayou biker gang trading in bullets and black magic, and Papa Legba, the crossroads spirit who offers Dru a lethal bargain: *“Her soul or yours.”* Fleeing through the Deep South’s cursed underbelly, they dodge cartel hitmen, haunted swamps, and safehouses reeking of betrayal. Dark magic seeps into old wounds; family secrets tighten like nooses. Dragon swears he’s too ruined to love. Dru knows she’s too shattered to trust. But in the bayou’s choking heat, desire is a grenade they can’t outrun. This isn’t a fairytale. It’s switchblade kisses and saintly curses—a collision of fire and ruin where protectors become predators. Dru doesn’t need saving; she needs an inferno. And Dragon? He’s got a lighter and nothing left to burn. Will they raze the South to ashes, or become the sacrifice the crossroads demands? One truth remains: in the bayou, even survival leaves scars. **Warning:** No princes here. Just bayou smoke, blood-soaked magic, and the kind of love that devours.

Humanity is going extinct, there are only a few fertile people left in the world so the government decided to test everyone on their 19th birthday to see if they are fertile. If they test is positive, the government matches the person with another fertile individual for reproductive purposes. Everyone seems to accept this new reality except for a small group of rebels. After taking her test, Aubrey Campbell, a regular 19-year-old girl, is confused with a rebel. She is jailed and sentenced to death until her fertility test result comes back positive. So authorities give her a choice: she can either be executed or she can pay her debt by giving children to society. She chooses the latter and she is matched to Leopold Mortensen, the most frightening man Aubrey has ever seen. Now she will be his forever.

I found my husband with another woman, and by the next day, she was calling my mother "Mom." Selene thought discovering her pregnancy would save her marriage. Instead, she walked in on her husband with his first love, learned she wasn't her parents' biological daughter, and watched as her entire world was handed to a stranger. Aurora, the biological daughter, the first love, the woman with a vendetta. She knows about the pregnancy. She knows about the hospital cover-up. She knows everything. And she won't stop until Selene has nothing left. Some betrayals are planned years in advance. This one was perfect.

Rafa memutuskan untuk mengejar cinta Nanda saat perempuan itu sudah berhenti berjuang dan berharap lagi. "Cinta boleh, bego jangan" Ucap seseorang. Sekarang, Nanda mengerti. Hidup tidak melulu soal cinta.

Gendis, harus mengubur impiannya untuk meneruskan pendidikan ke kota dan menerima permintaan sang bapak untuk menikah dengan Dirga, anak juragan Sapto yang terkenal kasar dan arogan. Ketakutan Gendis menjadi kenyataan, ketika di malam pertama pernikahannya dengan Dirga, dia mendapati dirinya berada di dalam kamar bersama seorang pria setengah tua. Penasaran? Baca ya...

Ikuti IG : zhu.phi Claudia tidak menyangka kalau perkenalan dirinya dengan seorang pria di tempat kerjanya yang baru membawa petaka bagi dirinya. Gadis ini mengalami siksaan yang super kejam dari kekasih pria ini yang menganggap Claudia merebut kekasihnya ini. Claudia yang bangkit dari siksaan dan hampir mati ini memperoleh semangat hidup yang baru lagi setelah belajar ilmu bela diri dari seorang Master Bela Diri yang misterius. Tujuannya hanya satu yaitu membalaskan dendamnya kepada wanita misterius yang telah menyiksanya, beserta seluruh orang yang terlibat dalam penyiksaan dirinya. Tapi yang tidak Claudia ketahui adalah wanita misterius ini bukanlah wanita yang mudah untuk dilenyapkan. Penculikan dirinya juga menjadi sebuah misteri yang harus dipecahkannya, karena semakin dia menyelidikinya maka semakin rumit permasalahan yang dihadapinya. Bagaimana Claudia mengatasi permasalahan dirinya ini? Siapa sebenarnya wanita misterius yang menjadi target Claudia ini?

Jasmine Reign Campbell has one rule. Stay invisible. Stick with her friends. Avoid drama at all costs. Then Draven Augustus Green walks into her life. The campus bad boy. Arrogant, irresistible, and impossible to ignore. The one everyone loves and the one she wants to stay far away from. He breaks every rule and somehow gets under her skin. Jasmine is determined to never fall for someone like him. Rule number one exists for a reason. But some rules are not meant to last.

Misty Lawrence has an ex-boyfriend whom she can't forget—Zach Sterling. Carter Flanagan has always hoped that he would one day replace Zach's place in Misty's heart. In the eighth year of his and Misty's marriage, he accidentally breaks a bowl that Zach randomly bought. Misty screeches, "Get the hell out of here! I don't want to see you anymore!" That's when Carter realizes he'll never win when it comes to Zach, especially since the latter is dead. This time, he prepares a divorce agreement and leaves after signing it. It's Misty's turn to panic…

The day my wife slept with her terminally ill “male best friend” to take his virginity, I left a divorce agreement behind and walked out. Before I left, I commented under their hand-holding photo on Instagram. [Let's get divorced. I wish you and Theo a long and happy life together.] One minute later, she called me. "Logan, how did I end up marrying someone as selfish as you? Can you really let him die without someone to carry on his line?" I sneered and replied that she wasn't my wife anymore, so that wasn't really my problem. She panicked.