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“Do you think I’ll die a virgin?” I stuttered, the alcohol making me sway until I fell onto his lap. “No,” he murmured, his voice dark and low. “I won’t let that happen.” His hands slid beneath my shirt, stopping only when they cupped my breasts. “I’ll make you taste heaven while you’re still alive,” he whispered. “And I’ll make that fool watch me fuck you until you forget he ever existed.” ***** Dahlia Hayes, a successful and renowned lawyer, faced the ultimate betrayal when her boyfriend of two years sold her nudes to buy a diamond ring for her best friend. That single act destroyed her career, shattered her reputation, and left her homeless. She thought her life was over, until she met him. Alec King. He's the cold, arrogant, but irresistible multimillionaire CEO of King Enterprises. Unlike everyone else, he didn’t cast her aside or judge her for her past. Instead, he promised revenge served on a golden platter. He vowed to help her rise again and make those who betrayed her fall to their knees, begging for mercy. But Alec’s help comes with one condition: She must marry him for a year… and let him show her what it truly means to be worshipped.

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Secrets, Scandals, Parties and Fast living. Name it, Matt Drew has had it all. His playboy lifestyle crashes when his sister is brutally murdered. Matt is thrown into a depression that makes him seek solace in work. And then he meets Ira and everything about him changes...or does it? Smashing hot. Naive. Simple but breathtakingly beautiful. Ira wrenches Matt from the halls of debauchery. For a while, it seems as if she'll redeem him. However, darkness lurks around the corner. Will she be able to handle the secrets, worms and scandals that come with loving a Drew? Find out in this exciting story...

Sa kuwento ng pag-ibig, panlilinlang, at pagbabago, sumasalamin ang kwento ni Sofie, isang babae na nagtrabaho sa isang club upang matustusan ang pangangailangan ng kanyang pamilya. Isang araw, dumating si Matias Chavez, ang may-ari ng isang condo at ilang illegal na negosyo, na nagdulot ng pag-ibig at kaguluhan sa buhay ni Sofie. Ngunit ang pag-ibig na inakala niya ay hindi ganap, dahil may kakambal si Matias na si Mateo na puno ng inggit at galit sa kanya. Nahulog ang puso ni Sofie kay Matias, ngunit hindi niya alam na ang lalaking minamahal niya ay hindi palaging si Matias, kundi ang kanyang kakambal na si Mateo. Sa gitna ng mga pagpapanggap at panlilinlang, nagpatuloy ang pag-ibig ni Sofie kay Matias. Ngunit ang pagkakataon na mabuo ang kanilang pamilya ay laging nasa panganib dahil sa mga plano ni Mateo na sirain ang relasyon nila. Napapaligiran ng mga pagsubok, pagkakamali, at sakit, nagpasya si Sofie na gantihan si Matias at ipakita ang kanyang galit. Ngunit sa gitna ng lahat ng ito, maaaring mayroong pag-asang mabuo ang kanilang pag-ibig at magkaroon ng pangalawang pagkakataon. Sa huli, ang kwento ng pag-ibig nina Sofie at Matias ay nagpapakita ng mga sakripisyo, pagkakamali, at pag-asa. Ito ay isang kuwento na magpapaalala sa atin na ang pag-ibig ay hindi perpekto, ngunit may kakayahan itong magdulot ng pagbabago at pagpapatawad.

When I was six months pregnant, I was visiting the hospital when I saw my husband with his childhood friend, who had recently returned to the country. I was left holding my own prenatal checkup report, watching as they celebrated their soon-to-be born child. Still, Kelly Wallace appeared worried and even sounded guilty. "Quentin, you didn't have to come with me—I'm fine alone. If Jolin finds out, she'll definitely have a fight with you. She's pregnant too… it'll affect her mood and the baby." Quentin Smith was confidently nonchalant. "No, she won't—she always obeys me and loves me too much. If she does argue, I'll just divorce her!" My heat broke, tears of misery rushing down my cheek. But it was true. I loved him so much that I couldn't even bear to argue with him and always obeyed him. Even so, that didn't mean I was going to maintain this sham of a marriage after learning about his deceit. Since he didn't want me and our child, then I could raise my baby alone. Wiping away my tears, I called a number I hadn't called for five years. "Dad, can I come home?" "Oh, Jo! You finally called. Of course you're always welcomed home!" Hanging up, I booked a ticket for a flight to Switzerland that was due to depart a week later. I'd be out of his hair, so why was he losing his mind when he couldn't find me?

New SYNOPSIS – QUEENS AND MONSTERS – Mafia/cartel, arranged marriage, forbidden, love triangle, dangerous romance Reinaldo Roríguez Emiliano Ruiz Both are dangerous, deadly, and powerful. Both are second-generation soldiers proving themselves in the Roríguez cartel. Both want me. Of course, I wasn’t told until it was too late. That’s the way things work in the famiglia. My fate is up to Dario Luciano, my guardian. He doesn’t care the way the men make me feel. How when I’m near them, the air crackles and my skin warms with stinging electricity, stirring something deep inside me that never before existed. One fills me with desire, twisting my insides. The other recognizes my need to be loved, filling me with a comfortable warmth. By the time I learn that both have requested my hand, a deal has been brokered. Neither man from the Roríguez cartel will have me. I’ve been promised to another, the son of Dario’s sworn enemy. Will I have any say in my future? What will happen to the alliance between the Luciano famiglia and the Roríguez cartel when tragedy strikes? Have you been Aleatha’d?

When trauma after trauma seems to occupy her life; the young maria paul escapes to a small town in South Carolina where she planned on spending her new life working and pretending everything was ok. She had a friend Beatrice who accepted her in and few weeks she got a job and started her life anew. But there is something she isn't ready to spill, her life get disrupted when her lover in the past locates her and was ready to capture and destroy her for running away from him. She ran into the handsome and arrogant Damon Anderson, the hottest guy around who seemed like a snub and a total ladies man. She found herself falling for him,every passing day. Will this hot arrogant man be her saviour? Or will Damon be another reason added to the many that have brought hurt to her heart and tears to her eyes? Can she be able to heal from all her past, and can he be able to love with a cold dark heart? Will

I was betting on my mate, but he failed me. He was my worst enemy. How could the moon goddess be this cruel? " I Jake Aloysius reject you Violet Blake" I was stupefied to even speak, I expected it anyway. I thought it was over... not until our parents came up with a plot to get us married, des

The day I died, the baby in my womb was only five months old. In that final phone call, my father, John Harlow, the godfather of the Harlow family, spoke with a voice as icy as a loaded gun. "A married woman belongs to her husband's family, even in death." When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day I had been placed under house arrest. He was circling my college application with a red pen. "Girls who study art are easier to marry off." In front of him, I tore the family's marriage alliance files into pieces. "I'm going to Camford University. I'm studying Computer Science." He sprang to his feet so suddenly that his finger nearly jabbed my face, his sleeve cuff revealing the family crest tattoo. "If you dare defy me, don't ever regard me as godfather." I smiled. "Exactly what I want." Meeting his stunned gaze, I spoke each word deliberately. "The name Harlow. I have long stopped wanting it."

BLOOD AND PETALS PROLOGUE She sells flowers. He spills blood. And he will stop at nothing to make her his. Elena Rossi has always lived quietly among roses and lilies, dreaming of love as gentle as the petals she arranges. She thought she found it in Daniel, the man she planned to marry. Until her wedding day when a dangerous stranger walked into the church and shattered everything. Adrian Volkov is a king in the underworld, a man feared for his ruthlessness and power. But to him, Elena is not just a prize. She is an obsession. A storm he cannot live without. And he will burn the world and anyone in it, to claim her. Torn from the life she knew, Elena resists him, manipulates him, and even runs from him. But Adrian is relentless. His love is dark, his touch both punishing and tender, and his obsession inescapable. When betrayal and bloodshed close in, Elena must face the truth: She doesn’t just fear him. She doesn’t just hate him. She loves him. Petals and Blood is a haunting, passionate tale of obsession, betrayal, and the dangerous kind of love that blooms in shadows.