Rebel Bloom

Ang kuwento na ito ay tungkol sa isang tao na maraming natuklasan ukol sa kanyang kasarian. Na humantong sa isang desisyon na hindi niya pinagsisihan.

My son was no longer with us. His heart, while he still breathed, was cruelly harvested and given to someone of influence—Michele Finnen, the wife of Scott Langley. Just because she had heart disease and was powerful, she sent people to snatch my son away. As an orphan and now a single mother, my son was all the family I had. He would curl up in my arms and whisper, "Mommy, don't be scared. I'll protect you when I grow up!" He was the center of my universe. Consumed by a seething hatred for Michele, I craved vengeance. I was determined to reclaim my son's heart myself, ensuring he would leave this world whole. To do that, I set my sights on Michele's husband, Scott. He was still enamored with his first love. But fate played a cruel joke: suddenly, out of nowhere, that very woman experienced a car accident. And the strangest part? I looked almost just like her.

With God as her witness, Holly Sullivan had always been a good girl. Taken in by the Hoffman family at a young age, she had spent eighteen years longing for a way to repay Ronald Hoffman's kindness and the life he gave her. However, she could not bring herself to accept the marriage proposal he put forward—not when her heart already belonged, entirely and irreversibly, to Luke Hoffman. On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Luke—drunk and dangerously charming—lured her into bed. From that moment on, it was not just her heart she had given away. She gave him everything.

Sa kagustuhang maipagamot ang kaniyang ina at matustusan ang pag-aaral ng mga kapatid, susuungin ni Chivalry Sandimar ang lahat ng maaaring pasukin; marumin man, mahirap o delikado—na siya ring naging dahilan upang makilala niya si Gavin Ladeo Ambrosia. Inalok siya nito ng isang kasunduan: ang mabigyan ito ng anak. Ngunit taliwas sa inaasahan, hindi lang isa ang nabuo kundi dalawa. Paano niya ipauubaya ang kaniyang mga anak sa lalaking nagkaroon na ng malaking parte sa buhay niya? Lalo pa't hindi lingid sa kaniyang kaalaman na hindi na purong trabaho ang namamagitan sa kanila... 'pagkat kusa siyang nagpaubaya nang gabing iyon dahil sa lihim na pagmamahal niya para rito. Makakaya ba niyang panindigan ang kontrata o tatanggapin niya na lang ang karampatang parusa?

After being homeschooled by her mother in a cabin in the middle of the woods for 17 years, coming to the city and living with her Alpha father and going to a real high school is quite an adjustment for Ava. She doesn't look or act the same as any of the other girls at her school which causes them to pick on her. And with her stepmother and stepbrother causing trouble for her at home, Ava finds solace in the one person that she can turn to after arriving in the city. A fellow classmate, Wesley. Will he be able to help her navigate her way through high school and find the person that she needs to be? Or is there something more sinister going on, threatening to stand in the way of their new love?

After eight years of marriage, I finally get pregnant with Claude Frey's child. It's my sixth round of IVF, and my last chance. The doctor says I can't put my body through it again. I'm overjoyed, ready to share the good news with him. But a week before our anniversary, I received an anonymous photo in the mail. In it, he was bending down to kiss another woman's pregnant belly. That woman is his childhood sweetheart, the one his family watched grow up. She's gentle and well-mannered, and the kind of daughter-in-law every parent dreams of. The funniest part is that his entire family knows about her pregnancy, except me. I'm just the punchline in their joke. It turns out that the marriage I've been holding together despite all my wounds is nothing but a carefully crafted lie. Fine. I don't want Claude anymore, and I'll never let my child be born into a world built on lies. I book my ticket to leave on our eighth anniversary. It's also the very day he's supposed to take me to see the sea of roses. Before we got married, he promised me a sea of flowers all my own. But instead, I find him in front of the rose garden, kissing his pregnant childhood sweetheart. After I leave, he starts searching for me everywhere. "Don't go, please?" he begs. "I was wrong. Don't leave." He finally remembers the promise he'd made to me and plants the most beautiful roses in the world in that garden. But I don't need it anymore.

Having grown up together, Selena Campbell and Frederick Lancaster were childhood sweethearts known as the perfect golden couple. To support him, she planned every step with painstaking care and calculated each move to perfection. She eliminated every obstacle in his path and paved the way for him to become the only Warbringer in Aurensia. Selena thought their love would eventually lead to marriage. But one day, a plain-looking young woman suddenly walked into Frederick’s life. At first, he said, "A mountain girl like her? She's beneath you, hardly even worth a second glance." Later, he said, "She's simple-minded and naive. Don't bother with her, Lena." But Selena slowly came to realise that the way Frederick looked at her was growing colder by the day. And when he looked at that young woman, there was a spark in his eyes—like he'd come alive again, full of the passion and recklessness of youth. One day, Frederick turned to her with a weary look and said, "Selena, how's our picture-perfect life treating you? Because honestly... I think I'm getting a little tired of it." That very night, Selena tore up the betrothal contract and left without a backward glance. "You won't survive without me!" Frederick roared furiously. But Selena smiled softly. "No. You're nothing without me, Your Highness."

Raised by a ruthless mercenary, Rebel became one of the deadliest assassins alive. Trained to kill, she knows only bloodshed—until a mission in Cali leads her to Daniel, an infuriating billionaire who makes her dream of something more. But love has a price. Betrayed by the organization that shaped her, Rebel uncovers a shocking truth: Her parents are alive and were victims of the organization and her disappearance was a warning to her Aristocratic father. Now, with Daniel and her mentor by her side, she’s turning the tables. The assassin becomes the avenger, and the hunter becomes the hunted. Only his love for her is powerful enough to bring her back from darkness.

“Freya you have to tell him the truth.” Anna tells me, her face creasing in worry. “No, I can't, he'll kill me, he'll cut me to pieces, you know him.” I place my shaking hands on my trembling lips. “He wouldn't, he cares for you.” Anna hisses. “Same way he cared for his ex wife before he killed her, burned her to the ground in her own home.” I grit out. “Those are just rumors, it holds no ground to the truth.” Anna tries to convince me. “I can't stay Anna, I'm tired, I can't live like this anymore, I'm loosing my mind, pleaseee help me.” “But you can't just run away, he'll never forgive you, and when he finds you, you know he'll surely kill you then. Rino hates to be deceived.” Anna says frantically before lowering her voice to a whisper. “Especially not when you run away with his child.”

(Unholy Allies Series#1) Jade Thornton woke up in a room full of abused girls with shackles around her ankles and wrists. But the last thing she recalled was going to a party with her father. What she didn't realize was that he was taking her to complete his part of the bargain... Because she was sold. Although her fate was decided and a new master was ready to take her as his slave, she refused to yeild and escaped— only to fall in a bigger trouble— in the arms of a ruthless alpha who hates humans. Will Jade give up first and run away from him and his mysterious kind? Or face him with confidence and tackle his different ways to punish her for disobeying him from time and time again? *** "You don't scare me, Alpha Zach." "I don't?" "No, you don't." Pulling her aggressively to his chest, he breathed in her face, making her heart plummet in her stomach. "One day you will be scared of me, Jade." (Trigger warning-This book contains references to alcohol consumption, violence using fantasy magic, panic attacks, blood and gruesome injuries, slavery and human trafficking, mature scene. read at your risk.)