The First Husband: A Novel

Bagaimana orang-orang bisa saling mencintai? Aku terbiasa mencintai seseorang dalam diam, sampai tidak tahu bagaimana rasanya dicintai oleh seseorang. Sampai akhirnya dia datang, dengan gagah berani meminta kepada ayahku, dan bersedia menyebutkan namaku dalam ijab qobulnya, dengan sambil menjabat tangan ayahku. Permasalahannya, aku sama sekali belum mencintainya bahkan baru sedikit mengenalnya. Apakah aku bisa mencintainya? Apakah dia datang padaku karena adanya cinta dihatinya? Atau sekedar ingin menikah karena sudah waktunya? Mengapa dia memilihku? Sejauh ini, itu yang selalu kupikirkan.

Paige Mathewson had no choice but to marry the annoying Dante Russo who had waltzed into her life one day. It was the only way she could save her father's company. But little did she know that he was more than just inappropriate and annoying - he was the Boss of the Italian Mafia. And he had a personal vengeance against her.

Leonor is a strong and empowered woman, with a businessman and ambitious husband. After one of her companies goes bankrupt, the only solution her husband finds is to accept a proposal from a mobster, who wants a night with Leonor. The attractive and intimidating mobster, Hard, surprises Leonor with a night that brings her many mixed feelings, and the fate that she insists on bringing them together while her husband Call tortures himself for giving her up to save his ego.

The day my son is born, my husband holds him tightly, looking overjoyed. However, while I'm asleep, he secretly swaps my son with the child next door—his first love's baby. I act like I know nothing and arrange for someone to switch the babies back. My husband wants me to raise someone else's child as my own but has no idea he's not even the father of my son. Ten years later, I transfer all my assets to my son's name as a birthday gift. That's when my husband's first love, Amanda Larkin, crashes the birthday party. She looks at me smugly and says, "The son you've treasured for the past decade is actually mine!"

Althea Conor Was forced to marry someone she doesn't know. Sa kalagitnaan ng kanyang pagdadalamhati sa libing ng kanyang Lolo na siyang nag-iisa niyang pamilya matapos maghiwalay at iwan siya ng kanyang nga magulang, ay biglang may mga naka Black suit na dumating at Pilit siyang pinapasama. At sa Lugar na di niya alam ay may iaang lalaking nakaupo, May maraming tattoo at nakahawak ng sigarilyo ang bumungad sa kanya ng tanggalin ang piring nito sa mata. "welcome home. my soon to be wife. " ang Sabi ng lalaki na nagpalito kay Althea.

He? He is her first love. Love at first sight. She? She is not his first love, however, he loves her eventually.Him? He was in love with her from the beginning. But she never sees him as someone that she would fall in love with.The one she loves is an impossible love for her, and another one is the one who is willing to give the world to her.She stuck between two loves and two persons with a different character.Will she choose him? or him?What kind of love do they encounter?This story is about a girl who experiences first love in her college life. A golden time that will lead us to the future we will have.

How will you feel when you end up with the same person you were trying to find an escape from? How will you feel when you end up in a one-night stand with your Ex-husband? Her eyes fluttered as she felt the morning cool breeze brushing against her bare body, which was semi-covered with a quilt. Although her eyes felt heavy to even blink, her other senses were high alert. She could hear the bird chirping outside the windows, she could smell a familiar masculine cologne, her body covered with goosebumps with the presence of someone familiar, and her heart beats rapidly on its own accord. That's when her brain registered her surroundings and could recollect her last passionate night with someone who would be her soon-to-be ex-husband. How? When? Why? She mentally slapped herself, but then she couldn't hide the contentment. She felt as if she was complete now. She couldn't stop but feel happy again. Why? Why does she feel like falling in love again? "I see you are still the w***e you were back then," his words broke her little dream she just thought of. "A desperate woman like you, who can with her ex-husband, can no wonder w***e around any men." He said with no remorse. "I did the right thing by divorcing you. How much do you charge for a night?" he smirked, looking at her teary face. "Here! Take extra 200 bucks for the sake of our old times." She vowed never to cry in front of her husband, but what he said just now shattered her soul beyond repair. Her quivering body and hollow eyes didn't hide the agony she felt at that very moment. "Sorry for loving you."

Agnes Cole, an ordinary barmaid got tricked into marrying Ethan Moore, only for his selfish interest, read to find out what happens.... "Don't you have any idea of who I am and what I can do to you?" He asked, clearly boiling in rage. "Well I do not care who you are and neither do I care to know." She answered him, adding to his anger. "Oh really?" Annoyance was clearly written all over his face. She humiliated him and even dared to compare his looks to others. Ethan was always used to having girls chase after him but this barmaid didn't even want to look at his face. The most torturing part of all this, was that she looked so seductively hot, that he couldn't stop himself. "I will have to make you care then," he lustfully placed his hand on her waist and pulled her closer to himself.

Zhao Yuan Rui, had everything and still has everything but feels as though he has nothing ever since his car accident two years ago which left him paralyzed. He meets the flamboyant Liu Zhi Rou who changes his life in the most uncommon manner. Liu Zhi Rou, an angel stripped of her wings at a young age, between all humans drops by in his hospital room with her silly antics. Learning of each other's pasts and hardships, they work together for the betterment of the other. Follow the two as they venture into the life of a married couple and face all the obstacles ahead of them with an adopted bubble that adds to their adventure. Art by: Pen Guevarra

'She fell first, but he fell harder.' ******* After her billionaire husband divorced her, Bella lost her baby that pained her more. To lessen her sufferings, her parents then decided to send her to New York for her modelling career. After building her name in the industry, she thought that her life would remain calm and in peace. Neither did she know that she'd be forced to go back to her country after signing a contract with a man, and that man was her ex-husband! ******* Her: Do you know why I hate you? It's because you killed my child! Him: If I did, then let's make another one.