Stuck-up

Five years ago Anna fled from her marriage, believing it was over. Given a second chance, Anna is thrown back in time to the night of their first wedding anniversary. Now, armed with all the painful lessons the last five years have taught her, including knowledge of her own mistakes, Anna must navigate schemes that threaten her marriage and possibly her life. Can Anna trust her husband and end the schemes against them or will she find it impossible to wake up to love?Waking Up to Love is created by Parker Stevens, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.*Mature Content, 18 Plus*

I was not expecting to pick the wrong man to marry even after I had a chance to redo my life. In my previous life, I chose to marry James Howard, my then fiance. But he cheated on me with Verde Sala, a fake heiress, for three years. They even had a child together. For her sake, he broke my legs so that I would hand over my role as the principal dancer to her. This time, I chose to marry Elwood Howard, James’s uncle. I thought that this meant that I had escaped my fate and could fulfill my dreams, but on the day the principal dancer was supposed to be picked, I got into an accident again. After learning about this, Elwood sent Verde to jail, even if it meant offending all of the powerful people in the city. I was touched and thought that I had made the right choice in this life. That lasted for five years until I heard Elwood’s conversation with our son. “Dad, Verde said that you only married Mom so that you could provide a letter of forgiveness as the victim’s family. “Since Verde is out, could you divorce Mom? I want Verde to be my mother.” Upon hearing that, Elwood remembered my trust in him and shook his head. “No. I’ve betrayed your mother by destroying the evidence and giving Verde a new identity to avoid being indicted, so I’m going to make it up to her for the rest of her life. “She will always be my wife. Don’t ever say such things to your mother and make her sad.” The pain from before could not compare to the pain in my heart at that moment. Our marriage was just a scheme to protect Verde? Elwood only loved Verde? And my son was the same? If that was the case, I did not want Elwood anymore. Nor my son.

Elsa Williams, daughter of Mr Williams Patrick, a driver to Billionaire tycoon Mr Jake Davidson,got into a make or break situation when she was forced to cohabitate with the Davidson's identical twin Son's with contrasting personalities, Jarvis and Jethro in their father’s mansion. She found herself drawn to the good-natured Son Jarvis while Jethro, the junkie detested her with the mindset of tagging her a gold digger. Unhealthy competition arose between the brothers due to their father's preferential treatment towards Jarvis,and Jethro knew to spite his brother,he had to use his only weakness. Love! The love bond between Elsa and Jarvis was a platonic one, but put to test when Jethro claims to have sex with Elsa with believable evidence, while Elsa stood against his word as mere fallacy claiming her virginity was still intact. Elsa’s life got more complicated when her relationship with Jarvis shattered and her direct supervisor at work Dylan Cooper started crushing on her and was always hovering around her claiming to be her fated lover.When things got worse Elsa had to end her relationship with jarvis. Would Elsa's claim be acceptable by the Davidson’s and their love preserved, or would Jarvis bail out on her? Would Elsa give Javis a second chance to rekindle their love once again? Would Jethro eventually achieve his aim to spite his brother using Elsa? Was Dylan truly Elsa's fated lover?.

‘There was just an aura around her that we disliked. We are not mating with Omega Andrea, and sure as hell not fucking her because she will never be our type.’ When Andrea gets rejected by the twin sons of the Alpha that made her miserable her entire life, she decided to leave the pack and head to the city to further education. Shockingly, her mother gets mated to the lycan king of the pack, and she is offered thesame treatment as the twins. She decides to stays back to get revenge for the pain they caused her. With their mate attraction still intact, will the sexy twins be able to resist her or will they come groveling to her feet?

After eight years together, I've proposed to my boyfriend 108 times. Each time, he found a different excuse to turn me down. On the 109th try, I give up a promotion and transfer opportunity. Finally, he said yes. I think he's moved by my sincerity. But instead, he brings his first love into our marital home and falls into our bed with her. "I only proposed to her to spite you. If you just say the word, I'll dump her at the altar and marry you instead!" Staring at the scene before me, I take the tight engagement ring off my finger and toss it down the drain. I decide to call off the wedding before he can. But after I walk away, the man who swore he'd marry someone else went crazy searching for me everywhere.

On the day I won the national esports championship, my girlfriend of eight years told me she wanted to go on stage and personally present me with flowers. Standing on the podium, my heart was racing. I reached into my pocket to pull out the ring I'd hidden there, ready to propose to her in front of the entire nation. But what happened next shocked me. She giggled and, instead of handing me the bouquet, she gave it to her male best friend. Under the bright lights, they became the center of attention. The crowd cheered, and their congratulatory messages flooded the trending topics. Even his fans tagged me in posts, mocking, [I told you not to get in the way of our couple, now look at you.] I simply posted on Twitter, [Respect and blessings. Please be locked together forever.]

Ever since my CEO husband returned from his business trip, he's been acting strange. His hugs are stiff, and his kisses are empty. Even when we're intimate, something just feels off. When I ask him why, he just smiles and says he's tired from work. But everything falls into place the moment I see his first love stepping out of his Maybach, her body covered in hickeys. That's when I finally give up. I don't argue or cry. I just smile… and tear up the 99th love coupon. Once, he wrote me a hundred love letters. On our wedding day, we made a promise—those letters would become 100 love coupons. As long as there were coupons left, I'd grant him anything he asked. Over the four years of our marriage, every time he left me for his first love, he'd cash in one. But what he doesn't know is that there are only two left.

The housekeeper deliberately reveals her busty chest when I'm out of the house. She says coquettishly to my husband, "Oh, my. This is an accident, Mr. Houston …" My husband looks like he's focusing on his drink, but he keeps sneaking looks at her. I see all of this from the housekeeper's livestream.

At the dinner table, my wife's best friend suddenly speaks to her in Lytian. "Three years ago, you married Julian in a grand wedding just to help Jace get Julian's letter of forgiveness. Over the years, I've seen Julian fall more and more deeply in love with you. Yet, you're still lying to him. "You gave him sterilization pills but passed them off as his depression medication. Aren't you afraid that he'll fall apart if he finds out the truth?" My wife, Erica Inman, briefly shows a conflicted expression on her face. She then gives a bitter smile and says, "A child unwanted by their mother has no reason to be born. As long as Julian doesn't stand in the way of Jace's happiness, I will keep my promise and stay by his side for the rest of his life." No one knows that I've learned Lytian to keep up with Erica. I stand in the living room and look at the fresh kiss mark on my neck. As I glance at the medication I take regularly for my depression, my whole body turns cold. It turns out that all of Erica's affection toward me was fake. What I thought was my salvation turns out to be nothing but a carefully planned deception. Since that's the case, I'll do my part to make sure they all get what they want.

Diana Flames was a normal lovable woman till she lost her husband on their wedding day, unable to show her innocence to his parents, Diana fled from Georgia to a small town in Ohio. All she wanted, was to start all over, and mourn her loving husband in peace, but the peace didn’t last long, Diana had gotten a job at the wrong place, a club owned by Mafia gangsters; unknown to her. Simon King, a retired soldier who got involved with the Mafia was grieving with revenge because his wife was killed by the Mafia due to his inconsistencies. Diana and Simon met at the nightclub, two people who had lost what was most precious to them, found comfort in each other, but Diana Flames was wanted by the owner of the club, his son also wanted her, and so did one of the most notorious Mafia killer in Ohio. How would Simon protect this new feeling he had with so many obstacles in his way? How would he deal with his wife’s revenge and falling in love at the same time? Would Diana accept the feeling she had towards Simon, despite just losing her husband? How was she going to get off the moguls coming for her? Find the answers as your journey into this book..