Ruruka Ando

Mis padres tenían miedo de que yo usara la identidad de hija de ricos para fastidiar a otros. Así que me mandaron al rancho, adoptaron a la niña de esa familia y la trajeron a la ciudad para educarla. En el rancho todos los días me levantaba a las cuatro a dar de comer a los puercos, caminaba tres horas para estudiar, y casi me muero al enfermarme por no comer bien. Por treinta dólares de colegiatura, llamé por primera vez a su teléfono, pero me acusaron de gastar dinero a lo tonto. Pero, de inmediato, para que mi hermana menor escogiera escuela, donaron un edificio. Cuando con esfuerzo entré a la preparatoria a la que ella iba, obtuve un lugar de honor. Pero mis padres me pidieron que se lo diera a mi hermana menor, y me regañaron con furia: —De verdad que eres una maldita, le robaste las cosas a tu hermana menor, y, por tu culpa, no puede estar tranquila. Estás en deuda con ella de por vida. Con su identidad, renunciaron a mi lugar de honor, y dejaron que mi hermana menor cumpliera su deseo. Incluso, para su futuro le dieron a ella las acciones de la compañía y la casa. Toda la familia se estaba preparando para salir del país juntos. Viendo todo esto, ya no me sentía triste, por lo que, tranquila, me limité a empacar mi maleta, dejé aquella casa que no me pertenecía.

“We ain't divorced yet, Gabriella and you are already cheating. Is this why you wanted a divorce? Cutting me off from your business? Just to bring in someone and you didn't even do that alone but my uncle? Doing shit with my uncle?” My eyes widened more and more until I understood what was happening. For three years, Gabriella thought she had it all, a loyal husband, a growing interior design business, and a best friend she’d known since college living under their roof “just until she got back on her feet.” When her friend announced a surprise pregnancy, Gabriella celebrated, until she discovered the father was her own husband. The betrayal slices deeper when Gabriella learns the affair began long before the baby, and worse, her husband signed over half of their joint properties to the friend in secret. Now publicly humiliated and privately devastated, Gabriella refuses to be the woman who begs to be chosen. Divorce is not just a choice, it’s survival. Enter Aidan Voss, her newest client: a reclusive billionaire known for designing luxury hotels and for ruthlessly dismantling the competition. He’s charming, calculated, and hiding scars of his own. He offers her a high-stakes design contract that would put her business back on the map, but his interest in her is anything but professional. What she didn't know was that the newest client was her ex-husband's uncle. But Gabriella made a vow: never to lose herself in a man again. Not even one who seems to see past the ruins she hides behind polished smiles. And certainly not one who might just be planning revenge on the man who broke her, because Aidan has his own unfinished business with her ex-husband.

I sacrificed half my life to make a deal with a witch to be with Rook. After one night together, Rook coldly promised the packs to be allied through marriage. However, on the second day of our wedding, he left the territory to be on the battlefield. He was gone for three years. I brought up our son, Ari, on my own in our territory while I waited for his return. Three years later, he suddenly came home and brought his sweetheart and their daughter along. He coldly ordered, "Move to the basement with your son and give your room to my daughter." For three years, he had built a life with them while I waited alone. I threw the divorce papers in his face and walked away from him with my son. The princes of the Heavenly Wolf Pack would never be trapped by a man's love again. What I want is to rule the packs and become a queen.

"You look so fucking sexy with your mouth wrapped around my cock," Ryan groaned, increasing the speed of his thrusts into my mouth. I moaned at his praise as I widened my mouth. And a split second later, he filled my mouth with his warm release. I smirked as I gazed up seductively at him and licked the remnants of his cum off my lips. +++ Ophelia Alvarez is a helpless third-year college student during the daytime and a bottle girl at a strip club by night. She resorted to such a controversial occupation because she has to pay for her cancer-stricken father's chemotherapy treatment. When billionaire CEO, Ryan Torres offers her a juicy proposal to be his exclusive sex slave, she has no option but to accept it to ease her Dad's medical expenses. A lot of wild sexual escapades happen between them, and they eventually part ways, albeit in a terrible manner. When fate has them meet some years later, will it be enough to get her to forgive the cruel, and arrogant billionaire, for abandoning both her and their unborn baby in a pool of blood, three years ago?

It is the third year of the apocalypse. All water sources have been thoroughly polluted, making even a single bottle of clean water extremely rare. Every base has to send out search teams to find new water sources for all. My husband, Jasper Curran, is a geologist, and so, he is able to locate water sources that are still pure and unpolluted. However, when someone holds a knife to my throat for the last bottle of water—thinking that he will do anything to stop them—he hands the only bottle of clean water to Avery Grayson, the person who claimed she was my parents' real daughter instead of me. "Ave is thirsty. She's been suffering since she was little and she even had her parents taken by you, Arianne Grayson," Jasper says. "Just let her have the water." Jasper's expression is too calm and collected, as if my life is not on the line because of him. "They're just trying to scare you. You've enjoyed so many years of being spoiled with a luxurious lifestyle anyway. So what if you get bullied a little?" The people then kick me to the ground in a fit of rage as I watch Jasper huddle Avery into his arms and disappear into the desert. I get beaten up so hard that my chapped lips crack and start bleeding once again. I look at the menacing faces around me and quickly exclaim, "Wait, wait! I can help you find clean water too!"

Nalaman ko na buntis ako kasabay ng childhood sweetheart ng asawa ko na si Rosa. Para protektahan ang kanyang anak mula sa pagpapaabort, sinabi ng asawa ko na anak niya iyon. Sa anak ko? Pinagaan niya ang loob ko, sinabi niya na aangkinin lang niya ang bata kapag isinalang na ito. Kinumpronta ko siya, gusto ko malaman kung bakit niya ito ginagawa sa akin. Malamig at walang alinlangan ang sagot niya: “Ang angkinin ang baby ang tanging paraan para protektahan sila pareho. Hindi ko hahayaan na may mangyari sa kanya o sa baby niya.” Sa oras na iyon, habang nakatingin ako sa lalaki na minahal ko ng sampung taon, napagtanto ko na namatay na ang pag-ibig ko para sa kanya. Hindi nagtagal, kinundena ako ng pamilya ko, tinatawag akong pokpok dahil nagkaanak ako ng wala itong ama at pinressure ako na magpa-abort. Samantala, nasa ibang lungsod naman ang asawa ko, kasama ang sweetheart niya, tinutulungan siya sa kanyang pagdadalantao. Sa oras na nakabalik siya, nakaalis na ako.

Após renascer, evito deliberadamente toda e qualquer possível ligação com Zachary Lawson. Quando ele se matricula na Universidade Prestwick, escolho estudar no exterior, em Norell. Quando ele viaja até Norell para me procurar, vou ainda mais longe, mudando constantemente de lugar como correspondente de guerra. Anos depois, retorno ao meu país de mãos dadas com a pessoa que amo para realizar nosso casamento. Zachary é barrado do lado de fora do local, com os olhos vermelhos. — Por que você não me ama mais?

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. Mine's been chilling for five years. The night James Reed kicked me out of his life, I was pregnant, penniless, and naive enough to believe love mattered more than money. He taught me better. When you're bleeding out in the rain, clutching your stomach while your best friend laughs from his doorway, you learn exactly what you're worth to people like them. Zero. But the woman who nearly died that night? She stayed dead. The one who came back is someone else entirely. Anna Quinn. Lost daughter of California's most powerful family. CEO of her own pharmaceutical empire. And the silent majority shareholder in James Reed's failing company. He's about to learn what happens when you build an empire on stolen foundations. His marriage has cracks he doesn't see. And the investors keeping him afloat? They answer to me now. He thinks he's untouchable. That my formula made him invincible. But success built on stolen work has a way of crumbling when the original genius decides to pull the rug out. I don't want him back. I want him ruined. And this time, I'm the one holding all the cards.

Dans ma vie précédente, personne ne m'a aimée à part mon compagnon Alpha, Grayson. Mes parents et mon frère me traitaient comme une simple réserve d'essence de loup ambulante pour ma sœur Victoria. Mais Grayson n'avait pas oublié que j'avais peur du noir et laissait discrètement une veilleuse après mes transfusions d'essence ; il a gardé au fond de son cœur ma remarque en passant sur mon envie « de trouver un coin tranquille pour peindre », et m'a offert sans broncher cinq milliards d'euros pour que j'achète ma forêt préférée. Quand je lui ai avoué mes sentiments, même s'il a été surpris, il a tout de même accepté ma déclaration et m'a promis qu'il me marquerait, c'était certain. Dieu sait à quel point j'étais heureuse sur le moment — celui que j'aimais m'aimait aussi. Ce n'est qu'en mourant que j'ai compris que sa gentillesse envers moi était conditionnée par mes dons réguliers d'essence de loup à Victoria. Après ma renaissance, la première chose que j'ai faite a été de claquer cinq milliards d'euros dans l'achat d'une forêt isolée. « Mlle Ember, vous êtes sûre de vouloir acquérir cette forêt ? Si vous l'achetez et vous y installez, il sera quasiment impossible de joindre le monde extérieur. » J'ai hoché la tête, un soulagement perceptible dans la voix. « C'est précisément ce que je cherche — un endroit où personne ne pourra me retrouver. » Mais alors, quand je suis vraiment partie, pourquoi ma famille et Grayson sont devenus complètement fous en me suppliant de revenir ?

Minha melhor amiga, Adeline Miller, e eu nos casamos com membros da família Caldwell juntas. Por coincidência, ficamos grávidas na mesma época. Eu sou casada com Rowan Caldwell, o irmão mais velho, que é um psiquiatra famoso. Já Adeline é casada com Elliot Caldwell, o irmão mais novo, um médico extremamente habilidoso. Rowan está me levando de carro ao hospital, ele pretendia me acompanhar em um exame de rotina devido ao desconforto que tenho sentido durante toda a gravidez. Mas, no meio do caminho, ele me abandona na beira da estrada por causa de um telefonema de seu primeiro amor, Veronica Whitmore. Enquanto soluço, imploro a ele: — Por favor, Rowan, eu estou te implorando! Está chovendo muito agora! Você pode, por favor, me levar ao hospital primeiro? Rowan solta minha mão com impaciência. — A Veronica cortou o pulso! Isso significa que ela pode morrer! Você pode ser mais compreensiva com a situação dela, Emilia? Eu vou cuidar do ferimento dela agora mesmo! Você pode ir para o hospital sozinha! Lá fora, o mundo está desabando em uma tempestade. Mesmo assim, Rowan não hesita em me largar no meio da rodovia. Sem escolha, só me resta ligar para Adeline e pedir que ela venha me buscar. Inesperadamente, no caminho para o hospital, vemos um caminhão vindo em nossa direção em alta velocidade. Enquanto estou inconsciente, ouço Adeline chorando ao ligar para Elliot, apenas para ser repreendida por ele. — Pare de palhaçada, Adeline! Você tem que inventar todo tipo de mentira sempre que estou passando um tempo com a Veronica? É graças à ajuda de um pedestre que uma ambulância é chamada ao local do acidente. É assim que conseguimos sobreviver depois. Infelizmente, nós duas acabamos perdendo nossos bebês. Ao recuperarmos a consciência, apenas sorrimos amargamente uma para a outra. — Você vai pedir o divórcio? — Vou.