The One With Rachel's Crush

After I confessed to my childhood crush, he smirked and said, "If you can get that loser to drink from the same bottle you did, I'll date you." Seriously? Was I really reborn fifteen years ago? I raced over to Noah—top of the class and hot as hell—and dropped the water bottle on his desk in front of everyone. He clocked the lipstick stain, face turning crimson. Future business mogul? Right now, he looked like some poor kid waiting to get crushed. I nudged the bottle closer. "Using that genius brain to collect bottles for cash? Kinda tragic. Be my private tutor instead." He might be broke, but lucky for him, I've got money to burn.

“You’ll live here,” he growled. “You’ll be with me when I want, how I want. I’ll pay your bills and also send you a weekly allowance. “What if I don’t?” I asked, trying to keep my voice calm. “Then you leave. You go back to your dirty little apartment. You go back to begging for scraps, but we both know you won’t, because you want someone to own you, Ethan. You just don’t know it yet.” I signed the papers. …………………. I never thought my life will turn out like this, twenty-five, broke, and desperate. With my sister’s hospital bills climbing, and no one left to turn to, I was willing to sell my pride for survival. That’s when I cross paths with Alexander Veyron, the cold, sinfully handsome billionaire. He offers me a deal I can’t afford to refuse. One contract. One rule. I belong to him. What begins as business quickly turns into something darker, addictive and possessive. Just as I begin to surrender, my father who abandoned me resurfaces offering me freedom in exchange for betraying the man who consumes me. Between obsession and betrayal, which will I choose and what will it cost me?

...In the name of crush, love and lies...They say broken people can't fall in love, right? But what if love really lies? Fighting depression and bipolarity along with eating disorder and coupled with fighting the urge not to take her own life, can things get anymore confusing for Fay when a silly crush transpire into something else? They say obsession is sweet, but when it leads to infatuation, it tends to get more dangerous and powerful. "Can I kiss you?" He whispered, his lips hovering above hers slightly, their lips almost touching. She shook her head negatively, her lips unconsciously dying for his taste. "Alright." His breath out, untangling his fingers from her hair as he made to move his lips away from hers but she pulled his head back quickly before muttering against his small pink lips. "Kiss me." © Josephine. C. Ivy

“You were mine before you were stolen,” he growls, his eyes fixed deeply at Violet. “And I’ll burn the world to take you back.” Violet was never meant to survive. Born wolfless, enslaved, and mocked as the Alpha King’s plaything, her life has been nothing but torment under his cruel daughter, Mira. Until one reckless night of escape brings her face-to-face with a stranger who changes everything. Alpha Xaden. Feared by all. Desired by none. He has come to claim his fated mate. Everyone believes it’s Mira, the Alpha King’s perfect daughter. But when he rejects her and chooses Violet, the broken slave, the entire kingdom erupts in chaos. They start both their lives peacefully and happily but Mira, the girl who once mocked her, will stop at nothing to see her destroyed. Now Violet pregnant and alone must fight to have her place back.

Si Bonita Georgina Martinez aka Borge ay isang scholar student sa High East International University at nagmula sa probinsiya ng cebu. Dahil panganay sa pitong magkakapatid at nagmula sa mahirap na pamilya ay nagsumikap siya. Bukod sa pagiging scholar ay working student din siya. Para makapag- padala ng pera sa kanyang mga magulang at makatulong sa mga ito. Minsan din ay sumasali siya sa mga beauty pageant para may ipangdadag sa kanyang mga pambili ng mga projects. Morena beauty, matangkad at matalino. Dahil sa nag- iisa lang siya sa maynila ay wala siyang masyadong kakilala kundi ang kanyang mga professor at mga kaklase. Dahil sa kapabayaan ng isang tenant ng kanyang bording house na inuupahan ay nasunog ang kanyang tinutuluyan. Kaya naman nang malaman ng isa sa kanyang professor na si Mrs. Trina Cruz ang kanyang sitwasyon ay inalok siya nitong tumira muna sa kanyang bahay dahil wala naman daw siyang kasama sa bahay. Dahil ang kanyang mga anak ay sa condo unit nakatira. Pero hindi niya naman aakalain na ang isang anak nito ay isang sikat na celebrity ng bansa at ang kanyang ultimate happy crush! At nakilala niya ng personal si Kristoff Dale Cruz aka Toffy Cruz ang kilabot ng mga kolehiyala dahil sa galing nitong kumanta at umarte sa harap ng camera. Modelo at endorser ng iba’t – ibang mga sikat na produkto sa bansa. Dahil sa isang kontrobersiyal na kinasangkutan nito ay nagpahinga muna ang binata sa showbiz at maninirahan kasama ang kanyang ina. Matatagalan kaya ni Borge na tumira sa bahay ng kanyang professor kasama ang kanyang ultimate happy crush…??? Paano kung ma- inlove sa kanya ang isa Toffy Cruz??? Paano niya haharapin ang mga fans ng loveteam nito na magiging bashers niya?....

On the night my dad kicked me out, I drank too much and slept with my “brother” It was a one night mistake. Yet, he proposed and claimed me as his mate, his luna. When I woke up, my mom's body was cold. The color was drained from her half-opened eyes, and I could see no signs of life. My father told me that she purposely drank poison to kill herself. But that was a lie. My mother would never kill herself; she would never leave me. That night imprisoned me. - “It wasn’t a mistake,” “What are you talking about, Jonathan?” I asked him. “Arina, you are my mate. You were born to be my luna,” he said. His face showed no signs of humor. “I wasn’t born to be anybody’s luna,” I shot back. “Arina, I love you…” he spoke softly, still staring into my eyes. I could feel the wolf in me stirring; something that I had never felt before. She was awakening; the fire that burned so deep inside of me was beginning to flare. “Love?” I heard myself saying. “There’s no such thing as love…” After everything I knew about “love”, what my mother went through when she married my father, love didn’t exist. “Give me a chance to prove you wrong. Marry me.”

I double over in pain after assisting Adrian Randall with a late-night operation. He immediately carries me to a ward to check on me. However, before he can do that, he receives a call from a patient and hurries off. That night, I miscarry. When I come out of the operating theater, I see his childhood friend's social media update. She's shared a photo of her baby bump. "He hurried to come to my side just because I was lost. You have to treat Adrian well in the future, my darling!" I rub my belly, which throbs with a dull ache. I don't cry and demand an explanation from Adrian as I would have in the past. Instead, I like the post and apply for a position on the Borderless Medical Assistance Program. The day I leave, the high and mighty Dr. Randall looks at me with red-rimmed eyes. He asks, "How can you bear to leave me behind?"

After a hot night with that stranger guy, Zheanna Raselle Romualdez got pregnant. Her parents disappointed on her. She lost everything she had. Her father sent her to another country to make sure that she'll be having a good future and away from humors and criticizes. When she comes back, there company is in danger. In order to save, she has to do her part. When we met their biggest competitor, she was shock, tremble, and nervous. The biggest competitor of their company is none other than the father of her beloved twins. After seeing Zaryan Saquer Del Vaciente, she'll make sure he will suffer. She will revenge for everything she lost, especially the opportunity to take pursue her dreams. Surely, she will make a revenge in any ways.

I help my students gain admission to top state art academies, yet my boss, Sebastian Emerson, withholds every cent of the pay I earned from 24 consecutive days of overtime. When I confront him in anger, he accuses me of stealing 120 thousand dollars in training fees from the students. "Honestly, being poor is no excuse for being shady. And having disabled parents doesn't give you the right to steal. "You've got two days to pay it back! Otherwise, I'll make sure you spend a few nights in jail, and I'll even inform your parents!" When a student calls, he snatches the phone and starts screaming, "There's no money! All your tuition went into buying your art supplies! If you've got a problem, go ahead and sue me, brat!" Meanwhile, Jayla Buckley, who is curled up in his arms, keeps placing order after order of Chaennal haute couture without the slightest hesitation. Watching the two of them colluding so shamelessly, I grip my attorney license in my pocket until my knuckles ache. Take it to court? Litigation? That's my arena. And I'll make sure both of them end up exactly where they belong—behind bars.

Since The Fires of Alira one thousand five hundred years ago, dragons have lived separate from the other races in Midgar. They rarely make contact with others, unless in terms of conflict. Eleonora is the descendant of the dragon sovereign, and will one day assume the throne of the Perilous Horde herself. The horde, despite years of murky conflict, forges an alliance with the human kingdom of Samirya located in the northern region. It is no longer a matter of petty bickering. Now, with the eve of a Great War looming over them, both groups lives depend on a truce. As conflict thickens and land disputes grow increasingly more bitter, the chieftain of the Perilous Horde makes a final desperate move to unite the two worlds: the dragons will send an ambassador to protect the humans capital city of Mimmgar from the oncoming invasion. And who should be that ambassador be but Eleonora? Eleonora just hopes to complete that task quickly so she can return home, but soon finds that the humans are nothing like she expected. Forming an unforeseen connection with the human king, and becoming captivated by a young blacksmith, she begins to question everything she's ever known and learns that her homeland may have some terrible secrets of its own. Book one of A Dragon’s Legacy.