So Close But So Far Away

The first thing my fiance's childhood sweetheart—Eve Hodgson—does after returning from abroad is make me sign a bet. It states that if my fiance—Holden Lane—chooses her over me nine times, I'll have to step aside willingly and let her have him. I agree. On the ninth time, she calls him in tears. "If you don't marry me, Holden, I'll be forced to marry that notorious Croft heir from Jedburgh!" He ends the call in a frenzy and leaves me behind yet again. With his identification documents in hand, he rushes to marry her right away. They announce their marriage to the world on the same day. Elites of Jedburgh strain their necks, eager to see me and the Crofts humiliated. That's when Ryland Croft comes to me, smirking with that careless arrogance of his. "Since your fiance stole my bride, it seems only fair that you pay the debt. So, how about you marry me instead?" I nod and say, "Fair enough. When's the wedding?"

On our tenth anniversary, I came home with roses and the biggest deal of my career. I expected celebration. Instead, I found my husband in bed with my cousin. They looked at me like I was the one who had interrupted something that mattered. That night, I walked away from the man I thought loved me and the company I built. They thought I vanished. They rebranded everything in my absence, twisted the story, and erased my name from what I created. But I did not disappear. I became Juliana Cross. And I am not here to beg for what was mine. I am here to take it all back.

I've been with Giovanni Rossi for ten years. In fact, I'm the only lover he has. During countless nights of passion, he promised me that he'd marry me as soon as he became the Don of his family. But on the night he sits on the throne, he decides to cast me out for the sake of my replacement, Lisa Esposito. "Selena, she's different from you. You can stay as my secret lover, but she needs an official title. Lisa has been living in a clean world. The love she has for me is pure as well. She's just like you when you were 19 years old." After that, Giovanni gets down on one knee and puts on a pair of ballet flats onto Lisa's feet in a tender manner. As I step out in the heavy downpour, I never look back. What Giovanni doesn't know is that Vincenzo Bellini, the strongest Don of the mafia world, has been waiting for me for the past ten years with a crown in his hands.

While taking the high-speed train home, I came across a post online. “My brother-in-law is pushing thirty, but no wedding bells so far. Would it bother you if he came back to visit all the time?” The comments were all over the place. With the post blowing up, the poster started arguing with commenters. “It’s bad enough that he doesn’t start his own family, but he took one of my yogurts. I can’t stand him. “Geez. Does he know nothing about keeping boundaries? I’ve been dying to put him in his place. “I converted his room into my walk-in closet. Well, that should show him for staying here.” At that point, I stopped reading. Since I paid for the family home back then, one room would always be reserved for me. As I stepped off the train, my mother texted me. “I booked you a room at the hotel, Miles. “You might want to skip staying home this time.”

"You're a dangerous woman, Elena," He reached, turning on the shower beside her head. "I think your demons are making you see things wrong, Mr. Rossi," she murmured through the water spilling down her head. He laughed, "They are right; you're my trigger," his nose buried into the crook of her neck, he muttered, sending shivers down her spine. "And too bad a lot of people cross you..." ***** Her life came crashing down when she signed a contract marriage with the calm President Nikolai Rossi, who only had eyes on one woman who wasn't her. To make matters worse, she couldn't help but fall in love with him and his son, knowing he'd never reciprocate. After a terrible divorce, three years later, Elena Vero is a mother of one. She now has to return to Italy for business, unfortunately falling into the waiting palms of her ex-husband, who surprisingly wants her back. But being his wife has never been a bed of roses and never will it be, especially when she finds out he isn't all that he seems.

Gene and Trini's 24 years of friendship started when they were just 5 years old... They treat each other so special that people around them thought they were lovers. As a result, no other men approached Trini and asked her out. She never had a boyfriend. Trini got so frustrated that when she turned 29, she persuaded Gene to just give her a child. His own flesh and blood. She wanted him to father her child, and she was serious about it. Ang tanong... papayag ba si Gene na maging sperm donor?

"คำพูด..ไม่เคลิ้ม แต่การกระทำของฉัน ทำเธอเคลิ้มตลอดนะ..เยิ้มด้วย" ********************** ตัวอย่าง คนตัวโตที่นุ่งผ้าเช็ดตัวอย่างหมิ่นเหม่ มีหยดน้ำเกาะพราว ออกจากห้องน้ำอย่างเงียบเชียบ แล้วมายืนอยู่ด้านหลังของเธอที่กำลังเปิดลิ้นชักกางเกงชั้นใน เขาขยับเข้าใกล้กักเธอเอาไว้ด้วยสองแขนที่ยื่นเข้าไปแย่งกางเกงในตัวเดียวกันกับที่เธอจับอยู่ ความใกล้ชิดทำให้เธอได้กลิ่นหอมของแชมพูและครีมอาบน้ำที่เขาใช้ประจำ ไหนจะลมร้อนๆ ที่ยังคงหลงเหลือกลิ่นแอลกอฮอล์อ่อนๆ ชวนให้หัวใจดวงน้อยสั่นสะท้าน "ไอ้พัชร์ แกทำอะไร" "ก็จะใส่กางเกงในไง" "มีเต็มลิ้นชัก แกจะมาแย่งตัวที่ฉันถืออยู่ทำไม ปล่อย จะพับใส่กระเป๋าให้ จะได้รีบเดินทางกันซะที เมาเหมือนหมา ทำคนอื่นตกเครื่องแล้วยังจะมาเรื่องมากอีกนะ" คนตัวบางไม่ยอมแพ้ ยื้อยุดสิ่งที่อยู่ในมือ ไม่ยอมให้คนกวนประสาทแย่งไปได้

"You slept here?" George asked. "Yes, I…um,” Irene gulped, licking her lips and making a quick calculation in her mind on what to say, “I um…I was feeling hot when reading, so I decided to take a shower and might have fallen asleep after it. You just woke me up, have-have you been standing here? Um what's up, are you ready for work?” She asked while getting up to put on her nightwear. George watched her then sighed, “Irene, can I ask you something?” His eyes was burning red, and he was bitterly angry which was showing on his face “Why did you do this to me, what have I done to deserve the betrayal from you, What haven’t I done for you, what else do you need from a man i’ve not given to, why didn’t you tell me you want to be a model, why do you chose to let me know this way, do you want a divorce?” Irene and George had met in school and fallen in love, then their relationship had led into a beautiful marriage where she had been most happy until she had miscarried two pregnancies. Down and broken, George had decided to make her better by hiring a cook who would bring all her online delicacies to their dining table for her. But who would have expected that her one night of mistake would not only change her but would fill her beautiful marriage with lies? How is she to avoid her sins despite knowing it was wrong and still craving for it? How would she face her darling husband and tell him her darkest secret? But even though the sin was addictive, she had no idea what other secrets lies between, waiting to shatter her heart.

Asul and her mother became poor in just one snap. Her stepfather stripped off their wealth and even accused her mother of cheating. She knows from the start that the man and his son won't do them anything good. Too late for her mother to regret it. As her mother died of sickness, and her former stepbrother showing up in unexpected situation, she planned on getting her revenge. She will do everything to get even with him. Everything. And that includes seducing him until he give in.

“มึงไม่ชอบกู แต่แฉะขนาดนี้? มึงปล่อยให้กูทำแบบนี้ ถ้าเกิดกูจะเอามึงจริงๆ ขึ้นมา มึงคิดว่ายังไง?”