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Our family is planning a ski trip at a luxury resort. However, my mother gives my snow-view room to my adoptive sister and makes me, her biological daughter, stay in the storage room. I'm about to protest when my father and brother accuse me of being selfish. "We've always given Madie the best of everything; she won't be able to sleep in any other room." "Madie is our family—she's the one who's lived with us this whole time. We're a family, so we have to stay together." I'm the one who shares their blood, yet they consider me an outsider. If that's the case, they can go on vacation without me. I board a cruise and travel the world for a month without ever going home. That's when they panic.

My name is Isabella Wright. In my fifth year of marriage to the Don of a powerful mafia family, I find out that the protection charm he gave me causes me headaches whenever I bring it with me. I take out the sachet I find in the charm and bring it to Cursley Hospital. The doctor inspects the sachet and tells me that it contains a type of slow-acting poison that doesn't just cause harm to the victim's body but also renders them infertile after a while. I cry and exclaim, "But that's impossible! My husband gave this to me! His name is Vincenzo Cursley. He's also the person who owns this hospital!" The doctor looks at me in confusion. "Miss, I think you need to visit the psychiatrist. I know Mr. Cursley and his wife. They're very close and intimate with each other. Also, Mrs. Cursley just gave birth to a baby boy not too long ago. They're both now in the VIP ward, looking at their baby." Then, the doctor shows me a photo on his phone. Vincenzo was wearing his usual black suit with the Cursley family emblem embroidered on it. He was holding a baby in his arms, and as for the woman standing next to him… I know her. Her name is Claudia Henderson. And Vincenzo has always referred to her as his adoptive sister.

Her name was Cathedra. Leave her last name blank, if you will. Where normal people would read, "And they lived happily ever after," at the end of every fairy tale story, she could see something else. Three different things. Three words: Lies, lies, lies. A picture that moves. And a plea: Please tell them the truth. All her life she dedicated herself to becoming a writer and telling the world what was being shown in that moving picture. To expose the lies in the fairy tales everyone in the world has come to know. No one believed her. No one ever did. She was branded as a liar, a freak with too much imagination, and an orphan who only told tall tales to get attention. She was shunned away by society. Loveless. Friendless. As she wrote "The End" to her novels that contained all she knew about the truth inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, she also decided to end her pathetic life and be free from all the burdens she had to bear alone. Instead of dying, she found herself blessed with a second life inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, and living the life she wished she had with the characters she considered as the only friends she had in the world she left behind. Cathedra was happy until she realized that an ominous presence lurks within her stories. One that wanted to kill her to silence the only one who knew the truth.

She provided him with pleasure, and he reciprocated with money. Business was business, but who controlled matters of the heart? He didn't want to lose her, so he invited her to work at his home, and their relationship, though hidden, held the promise of going far. She discovers her pregnancy, but he doesn't believe it's his. And a mysterious man with the same last name appears, claiming he wants to be the father of her child, promising a bright future. The man she loved is engaged to another, yet once again, who dictates matters of the heart?

You’re pregnant, President Jay. Jay looked at the doctor, blinked once, then laughed. “You must be joking, right?” But the doctor wasn’t joking. And neither was the second opinion. Or the third. Because somehow, impossibly, Jayden J. Hale America’s most powerful bachelor and the next in line to the Hale empire was carrying a baby. And not just any baby. The baby of a stranger he can’t forget… A man whose name he doesn’t even know… And the man who shows up at his surprise engagement party as his future brother-in-law.

Isaac White, future alpha of the Ozoic pack, joins his friend Oscar Shine, alpha of the Pearlwood pack, at his Luna ceremony along with his beta, Liam Slayer. Isaac will soon become the alpha of his pack, but before that he has to find his mate. Despite being 27 years old, he covered almost all the nearby packs to find his mate but always failed. Anahita Ivanov also attended this ceremony with her only friend, Natalia. Isaac almost forced himself on Anahita due to misunderstandings.Thankfully; she escaped, but not exactly. When Isaac wakes up the next morning, he realizes that he found and lost his mate last night. Along with Liam, he sends his best hunters to find her whereabouts.

"Jadilah kissing partnerku. Hanya satu kali dalam seminggu dan akan kuberikan berapapun yang kau mau." Kara tak pernah menyangka jika dirinya akan terjebak dalam sebuah kontrak tidak masuk akal bersama dengan majikannya sendiri. Semua bermula saat Bara pulang ke rumahnya dalam kondisi mabuk dan tak sengaja mencium Kara, seorang maid yang baru bekerja belum lama di kediamannya. Gadis itu tak tahu bahwa Bara menderita sebuah phobia aneh yang membuatnya tidak bisa berciuman. Namun dengan Kara, dia tak merasakan hal itu! Sebuah kontrak pun ditawarkan pada gadis itu untuk menyembuhkan phobianya.... Lantas, bagaimana kisah keduanya?

Despite using my cornea, my husband, Felix Halward, forced me to kneel on glass shards. Despite using my heart, my daughter declared that I was not fit to be her mother. Before my artificial heart stopped beating, I called Felix, only to have him snap at me, “Liana, could you stop kicking up a fuss? If you want to die that badly, do it somewhere far away! I’m not collecting your corpse!” I shut my remaining left eye as I lay on the snow. Later on, Felix, who had stopped loving me, plucked out his own eyeball. My daughter, who had denounced me, tried taking her life multiple times just so that she could see me again. However, I no longer longed for their love.

La nuit de ma première transformation, à dix-huit ans, mes deux frères aînés ont emmené à la maison une Oméga orpheline de douze ans. Mon frère Alpha s'est emparé de la précieuse herbe médicinale pour laquelle j'avais dépensé toutes mes économies : des herbes censées apaiser la douleur de ma première transformation, et les lui a données à elle, à la place. « Tu es assez forte, » a-t-il grogné, « tu n'as pas besoin d'herbes aussi précieuses. » Mon frère Bêta a rugi de colère, en pointant la porte du doigt. « Dehors ! Et ne reviens pas ! » Sans un mot, j'ai pris mon sac, déjà prêt, et je suis partie. Ils pensaient que je faisais juste un caprice, que je reviendrais au bout de quelques jours. Libérés de ma présence, mes frères ont emmené la petite orpheline en vacances à l'étranger, sur les îles des Caraïbes : celles dont j'avais toujours rêvé. De nombreux jours plus tard, lorsqu'ils sont revenus à la meute, ils ont été stupéfaits d'apprendre que j'avais accepté un poste du Chef Guérisseur de la meute voisine. Le poste exigeait quinze années de recherches isolées sur les plantes médicinales. Je ne pouvais plus jamais rentrer chez moi. Cette nuit-là, ils se sont effondrés.

Aksi Diandra dalam membalas ketidakadilan yang diterimanya, terutama atas kematian sang kekasih malah membuatnya terjebak pada keadaan yang tidak pernah terbayangkan. Awalnya Diandra merasa sangat puas karena tujuan utamanya dalam balas dendam tercapai. Namun, ia harus membayar mahal perbuatannya, sebab aksinya tersebut mendapat pembalasan. Bahkan, membuahkan hasil. Diandra mengandung benih dari laki-laki yang dulu menjadi kekasih sang kakak. Laki-laki yang seharusnya sangat ia benci. Di samping itu, kejadian yang menimpa Diandra ternyata menjadi pemancing terbongkarnya suatu rahasia. Rahasia besar yang selama ini disembunyikan rapat-rapat oleh keluarganya sendiri tentang dirinya. Rahasia yang selama ini membuatnya mendapat ketidakadilan dari orang tuanya, terutama sang ibu. Rahasia yang sangat menyakitkan dan meremukkan hati setelah ia mengetahuinya. Akahkah Diandra bisa menjalani kehidupan pernikahannya bersama suami yang seharusnya menjadi calon kakak iparnya? Note: Baca juga Unexpected