Rachel Ward

On a rainy night at Cascadia General Hospital in Portland, two women share the same ward without ever knowing how deeply their lives are about to become entangled. One leaves with everything she ever wanted. The other loses something she will spend the next eighteen years trying to find.

Rachel Larson was adamant about marrying me, and she spent ten years stealing my heart. On the night before our wedding, I overheard her conversation with her friend. "You're marrying Leonardo? What about your side piece?" A moment of silence later, Rachel answered, "That guy? He's just a cheap replacement. Leonardo's the real deal. Don't compare my side piece to him. If he stays put and keeps his mouth shut, I might let him stay around. Leonardo's a broad-minded man. He won't mind." The side piece did not stay put. In fact, he caused a scene at the wedding the next day. He shoved me off the stage, but the woman who was supposed to marry me darted over to his side instead. Why? He was holding a piece of broken glass against his throat. Gutturally, he roared, "Choose! Me or him?" Panicked, Rachel kicked me away despite my injuries, and she roared, "Get out of the way! I need to take him to the hospital! If anything happens to him, I'll kill you!" She didn't need to wait that long. My heart died right there and then. … That night, I bought a flight ticket that would take me abroad and left her.

Putriku sakit parah dan membutuhkan sejumlah besar uang untuk pengobatan. Sementara itu, suamiku bukan hanya langsung menyerah dalam memberikan pengobatan, tetapi juga memulai hubungan asmara dengan teman masa kecilnya, Rachel Linata. Dalam keputusasaan, cinta pertamaku, Collin Luandra, mentransfer 10 miliar ke rekeningku dan menemaniku merawat putriku. Namun, putriku tetap tidak dapat terlepas dari cengkeraman maut. Enam tahun kemudian, Collin dan aku memiliki anak sendiri. Saat pergi ke rumah sakit untuk melakukan pemeriksaan kehamilan sendirian, aku mendengar percakapan Collin dengan dokter. "Pak Collin, kamu dan Bu Rhea juga sudah punya anak kalian sendiri sekarang. Gimana kalau apa yang terjadi waktu itu terungkap?" "Waktu itu, Rachel sakit parah. Aku mau nggak mau pakai sedikit trik supaya Rachel bisa terima transplantasi jantung dari anak itu. Lagian, Rhea sudah hamil lagi sekarang. Dia seharusnya nggak akan permasalahkan hal itu lagi." Saat ini, aku baru menyadari bahwa putriku sengaja didiagnosis secara salah. Collin telah diam-diam mentransplantasikan jantungnya kepada Rachel.

“You are nothing, and you are no one. I will never have a human as a mate. I Jarek Hudson reject you as my mate and my future Luna,” he says to me with no emotion. “Now accept it,” he demands. Keena is a human among Lycans and werewolves. At least that is until she turns 18 and her powers begin to manifest. Keena is destined to be a witch. Knowing that she doesn't have a wolf or a lycan her fated mate rejects her. Keena is heart broken and fears a life without a mate until she meets her new body guard, Ward. Ward shows her all of the love and care that a mate should. Will Jarek come around or will Ward win her heart before Jarek can change his? Or will something sinister tear her away from both of them? Book one: Fated to the Enemy Series Book two: Rogue Princess Book three: The Lycan King's Rejected Daughter

Rachel pensait vivre son conte de fées lorsque le milliardaire Vincent Ashford l'a demandée en mariage après seulement deux rendez-vous. Mais les contes de fées sont faits pour être brisés. Dès qu'elle rencontre Camilla – sa belle-sœur sublime, ancienne championne de ski et la seule femme qu'il ait jamais vraiment aimée – Rachel comprend la vérité. Elle n'est pas l'épouse. Elle est un substitut. Pour lui, elle abandonne tout. Sa carrière. Ses rêves. Elle devient la femme parfaite… pour un homme qui la regarde à peine. Invisible dans son propre mariage. Comparée. Rejetée. Oubliée. Puis tout s'écroule. Accusée à tort d'un crime qu'elle n'a pas commis. Trahie par l'homme qu'elle aimait. Abandonnée sous la pluie tandis qu'il consolait une autre femme. Rachel perd tout : son bébé, sa dignité et le dernier espoir qui lui restait. Même ses ravisseurs lui témoignent plus de compassion que son propre mari. Et c'est alors qu'elle comprend enfin : Elle n'a jamais rien représenté pour Vincent Ashford. Alors elle disparaît. Mais ce que Vincent ignore… c’est que Rachel n’a jamais été aussi faible qu’il le croyait. Et à son retour, ce ne sera pas pour supplier. Ce sera pour se relever.

Le jour de son mariage, Rachel voit son monde s’écrouler. Droguée par sa demi-sœur, accusée à tors , rejetée par son père et son fiancé, elle fuit la maison familiale en titubant. Son esprit s’embrouille, son cœur bat trop vite, et la drogue qui circule dans son corps devient insupportable. Elle n’a qu’une pensée : s’éloigner de tous. À la mairie, alors qu’elle cherche à annuler sa demande de mariage, Rachel perd l’équilibre et s’effondre contre un inconnu qu’elle prend pour un chauffeur. Un homme au regard froid, à la présence dangereuse, qui semble absorber tout l’air autour d’elle. Elle ignore qu’il s’agit de Hendery Lamber, héritier du puissant empire Lamber, un milliardaire tout juste humilié par la fuite de sa propre fiancée. Rachel, tremblante, incapable de supporter les effets croissants de la drogue, murmure d’une voix brisée : « Aidez-moi… faites quelque chose… je n’en peux plus. » Hendery comprend l’urgence. Sans poser de questions, il la porte jusqu’à sa voiture de luxe. Avant de monter, il ordonne à son assistant, d’une voix glaciale : « Prépare un certificat de mariage. À nos deux noms. Tout de suite. » Pendant que l’ordre s’exécute, Hendery reste seul avec Rachel à l’arrière du véhicule. Alors Hendery l’attire contre lui, l’apaise, et la mène exactement là où elle a supplié d’être emmenée, répondant à ce besoin irrépressible qu’elle n’arrivait plus à contenir Un silence brûlant s’installe. Chaque geste, chaque souffle, chaque contact physique est chargé de tension et d’intimité, la poussant à se calmer, à se sentir protégée et… étrangement liée à cet homme qu’elle ne connaît presque pas. et pour hendery Rachel lui appartient désormais.

My husband is a haute couture designer. When his true love goes blind in her right eye, he goes to his mother's ward and asks her for help in getting me to sign an organ donation agreement. What he doesn't know is that I'm already dead.

I die in the corridor of the private hospital my husband established after being forced to give my heart to his true love. Before my death, my six-year-old son tearfully begs him to save me thrice. The first time, he holds my husband's hand and says I'm coughing up blood. My husband sneers. "Looks like she's learned tricks—she knows how to teach children to lie now." Then, he has his bodyguards kick my son out of the ward. The second time, my son grabs his sleeve and says I'm in so much pain that I'm incoherent. My husband frowns. "It's just a heart transplant. The doctor said she won't die." The bodyguards step forward and drag my son out of the ward again. The third time, my son grovels at my husband's feet and grabs his pants, sobbing and saying that I'm already unconscious. My husband is infuriated. He grabs my son by the neck and throws him out of the ward. "I told you Nadia won't die! I'll throw her and you out of the hospital if you come here and disturb Ruby's rest again!" My son gives his most previous item—a guardian angel pendant—to a nurse to save me. The nurse accepts it and arranges for me to be admitted to the last available ward in the hospital. However, Ruby Sharpe has someone stand before it with her pet dog. She says, "Sorry, kiddo. Your father's worried I'll be bored without my dog, so this ward has been set aside for my dog to stay in."

"Please tell them it's a lie," I whispered in my quivering voice and looked up into his eyes. They were cold. Emotionless. "This marriage isn't one from my end." He crashed his lips into mine taking them for a dominant, rough kiss. My eyes teared up as the scenes of my tortured future flashed in my mind. "Welcome to hell Rachel. I warned you not to play with me." His bone-chilling voice rang in my ears. What will happen when Vincenzo forces himself into Rachel's life? Where will this forced marriage lead them to? Vincenzo is ruthless and cold. Doesn't care about consequences and certainly doesn't accept denials. Rachel is innocent but not submissive. Her confident attitude makes her appealing to the mafia king who wants to tame her.

Rachel Martínez is drowning. Shuffling multiple jobs, settling debts, and taking care of her sick brother, whose failing heart needs a surgery she can't afford, she's out of options. When the hospital gives her forty-eight hours to come up with twenty thousand euros or lose Benjamín forever, she's desperate. Then a stranger walks into the bar where she works. A billionaire tech CEO who left Spain years ago to escape his family. He's back, and his dying grandmother has one wish: to see him happy with someone real before she dies. Joseph makes Rachel an offer: fifty thousand euros for one night. Just show up to his grandmother's birthday dinner and keep him company.