The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate

"Love finds you in the strangest places.!" Marriage wasn't on Preston's agenda. He was enjoying life as the most eligible bachelor until his family began to mount pressure on him. After a time, he had no choice but to get married to a woman he didn't even know. His close friend teased, "You lucky ! Your wife must be gorgeous." When Preston thought of the woman who slept with a mask on in his bed, his blood boiled. “What was gorgeous about her? Humph!” "You had better stop it. One more word and I'll make her yours!" he cursed. Preston thought he was going to be a miserable married man. However, he received a surprise when his marital life turned out to be the exact opposite. Curiosity killed those around him after some time. His friend asked again, " I know you don't like talking about your wife.But can you describe to me what exactly she looks like? Why does she always have a mask on?" This time, Preston's lips curved into a smile. "My sweetheart is beautiful and adorable. Lower your gaze whenever you see her. If l catch you staring at her, I'll make you go blind." Everyone's jaw dropped when they heard that. They looked at him like he was crazy. One day, Preston's wife suddenly packed her bag and declared, "I can't do this anymore. I've had enough of your humiliation. Please, give me a divorce!" This request hit Preston like a bolt out of the blue. When he saw that she was being dead serious, he held onto her with both hands and begged, "Honey, please don't leave me. I promise to treat you better. If you want, I can give you the whole world. Stay with me!"

Stabbed in the back by the people she called her family, Tinsley William's life ended up in shreds. Her sister called her names and tainted her reputation. She was all over the news as a husband snatcher and desperate jealous bitch which resulted in her having a one night stand with a well known Billionaire at the club she went to drink out her sorrows before leaving the country. Fast forward seven years later, now a successful anonymous Millionaire author and a mother of three, Tinsley regained her fame and decided to move back to the place she called home. Little did she know that her sudden appearance would stir up a crisis in the life of her family and everyone around her, including the Triplets father, but her three little genius kids were one step ahead of her.

Iniwan sina Angela ng kaniyang Ama dahil sa ibang babae. Sanggol pa lamang siya nuong umalis ang Tatay niya. Isang lihim ang mabubunyag tungkol sa kanyang pagkatao. Itinago ni Johnny upang hindi mawala sa kanya si Angela.

A eleven year old Jyotsna hears about the legend of a local ghost. When her father finds out about illegal activities in the factory he works, he dies in a freak accident. Jyotsna decides to investigate the matter. Local children are kidnapped, never to be seen again. When one of her friends is abducted, she suspects her dad's boss. When she meets a man who was abducted but returned, she convinces him to accompany her to the ghost's lair to confront her dad's boss, only to find a disgusting secret.

My husband's protégé boasted she could disarm bombs blindfolded, relying on her so-called intuition. Her reckless misjudgment triggered a bomb's secondary detonation sequence, endangering an entire building. I intervened, using the dangerous liquid nitrogen condensation method to save the day. As a result, Rita Smith was removed from frontline duties and placed under investigation. Patrick Munoz tried to defend her, but I stopped him cold. "If you back her now, you won't just fail to save her. You'll be dragged down with her." Crushed by the pressure, Rita staged an accident that killed her, leaving a letter blaming him for abandoning her in her hour of need. He said nothing, only preserving her letter in his study. Years later, he became a nationally renowned bomb disposal expert. During a terrorist attack, I was strapped to a timed explosive. He arrived to defuse it but repeated Rita's fatal mistake. As the timer ticked down, he gave a bitter laugh. "Rita was just nervous back then. If I'd supported her, she'd be a hero today." The bomb detonated, leaving nothing of me behind. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the point when he tried to defend Rita. He didn't know that the building housed the nation's top-secret core server.

Wake up, be fed poison, go to school and put on a show. Come home, have head knocked into the hardest thing available. Go to sleep and repeat. It's a day in the life for Kai Deneiro. Her solace is the many faces she hides behind and the performances she puts on for the world. When she's someone else, she is most loved. But, Kai has long since given up on any real notion of love. In her mind, it simply doesn't exist--not from her psychotic mother, not from her dead-beat, estranged father, and certainly not from the pretty boys with their flowery words. When she transfers to a new school, she runs into the most charmingly arrogant boy she has ever met, and things take a strange turn. When he runs into her wall of faces, he's determined to break it down and uncover the true her.

I was perfect at everything. I have perfect beauty, perfect at school, etc. I can do a lot of things. Everyone envies me. And everyone adores me. But, there’s no such thing as perfect in this ugly world. Everyone has their own darkest secrets that are kept hidden from everyone else. I had mine and none of these people who envied and adored me knew how hard it is to keep them hiding in my closet. I had to be tough to survive. But, when I started getting along with the long-haired 33-year-old man, I realized how flawful I am in my perfect world. He made me realize my imperfections, that I can do sinful things, that I can also be a rebellious daughter, that I can also be an ordinary girl, that I can show off my true identity in front of him without being judged. He understands me because just like me, he’s also a broken soul. He embraced my imperfections. Little by little, my heart recognized him as a lover. I let him get into me, not just through my body, but through my heart, too. Princes do come in unexpected ways, isn't it?! But, behind actions are devious intentions. How did I fall into such a trap of destroying me and my whole clan? How did I not see the red lights? Oh wait, maybe because he's a master of deception. I thought he was the prince, the prince who's going to save me from the poisoned apple. He was the poison I should've run away from the first time he showed me the apple and said that it will grant all my wishes. I was the princess and he was the monster in disguise.

"He is the Lycan King father" She whispered to the white-haired man beside her. Her face was already white with fear. The fear of the unknown. "I know baby girl, but there's no two ways about this. I have to do this. You are a strong girl, Cassidy, you will survive." He whispered back. ****** She thought her parents were the demons in her life but she just realized that in hell, there was hierarchy and her mate was the king of hell. At this point, she realized one thing, not everyone was meant to have a happy ending and she was the first on the list of no happy ending. ****** "I promise to give you back your wings and show you what it means to be loved, Enchanted one. That is my vow to you as your mate." ---------- Cassidy Towers is the infamous daughter of her family. Her parents hid her because they were ashamed of her existence. When her sister, the golden child of her family runs away from the pack with her mate, Cassidy is forced to marry her sister's betrothed. Not only was she forced to marry the Lycan King to save her pack, but she found out that the Lycan King was also her mate who was hell-bent on shattering her already destroyed heart. Finding out that she had another mate, brought more chaos to her chaotic life. Her mates were each other's worst enemy. She should choose one but she finds herself falling hard for the two. What will be her reaction when she finds out that she is not the monster that everyone thought she was, that the real monster had been in front of them all this while?

Book 1. The Alpha and I: Cici is sad and abused by her family. She's lost her wolf. When she finds her mate will everything finally turn out ok? Or will it just get worse? After all who wants a mate with no wolf?Alpha Ash is a brooding, angry but fair leader. His love for his people and need for their safety come first to him, he looked for his mate, but he has a huge secret and has lost hope because of it, his mate should already be here… he never told anyone his secret, hoping to keep everyone safe may backfire when his pack find out what he knows! Book 2. The Triple Threat Territory: Quill is the next in line Alpha of The Black Moon Pack, his mother and father are famous... after all their wolves are basically the King and Queen. They created the first, and so far the only, Triple Territory. They are a pack of wolves, but they also have a Coven of Witches and a Coven of Vampires, all under one rule. His little sister is his best friend and confidant, he can't wait to make her his Beta when he takes over from his father. But first they have to try to find their mates, a pack is stronger with a Luna and a Beta's mate. Unfortunately mates have become scarce, it’s hard for many to find theirs. Can they find their one true destined mate or will they have to settle, like so many others, and pick someone who can't find their mate either?

For fifty years, vampires have suffered defeat after defeat in the Bloodmoon Duel, forced to watch werewolves claim the right to walk among humans. To secure her clan’s survival, Arce is forced into the hands of an Alpha of their enemy clan. But the bond that entwines them is worse than any prison—he is her mate. His blood burns in her veins, intoxicating and forbidden, binding her to the very beast she was born to destroy. She was raised to hate wolves, to see them as nothing more than savage animals. Yet every heartbeat draws her closer, every glance threatens to shatter her resolve. Now, caught between her loyalty to her people and the curse of craving him, Arce must decide—will she kill him as her father commanded, or will she fall and doom them all? The war between vampires and wolves was never truly over. And their bond may be the spark that sets the world ablaze.