The Second Story

“Patayin mo ang baby niya, Alexa!” Puno ng muhi na utos ng biyenan. “Either it’s you or her. “Either it’s your baby or hers!” “Malupit ang mundo, minsan kailangan mo lunurin sa putikan ang tao na pilit nagnanakaw ng kaligayahan mo!” * Every woman wished for a fairy tale, for a knight in shining armor, for a prince charming. Si Alexa, isang inosenteng titser mula sa simple pero edukadong pamilya ng mga titser. She is the second wife of Sebastian Dior, a prince of a business empire from a prominent family in the country. Perpekto ang buhay niya— ito ang akala ng lahat.

He lost his mate. She lost her past. Now fate is forcing them together… and someone wants her dead. Lyra wakes in a strange territory, blood on her hands and no memory of who she is. The only thing she knows? The dangerously cold Alpha watching her like she doesn’t belong. Kael doesn’t believe in second chances. His first mate is gone and so is the part of him that could love again. But when Lyra crosses his border, something in him snaps back to life. She’s not just a rogue.She’s a threat.She’s a bond fate never intended.And someone in the shadows will kill to keep her truth buried. Can they survive the secrets tying them together or will this forbidden bond destroy them both?

Silas Vaughn hasn’t touched a man in five years…not since his husband, Emery, died in a mysterious car crash that was never solved. He buried his grief beneath ice, building his empire and locking his heart away. Until one night, at a charity gala, he sees him. Same dimples. Same smile. Same face. But the man isn’t Emery. His name is Julian Reed…a broke artist drowning in debt, hiding secrets he refuses to share. Fascinated and desperate, Silas makes him an outrageous offer: “Marry me for one year. I’ll erase your debts. You’ll never want for anything again.” Julian thinks he’s insane. But against all reason, he accepts. What begins as a cold bargain spirals into dangerous passion, pulling Julian into Silas’s world of obsession, grief, and forbidden desire. For the first time in years, Silas feels alive again. But Julian isn’t just Emery’s lookalike. He knows something about the night Emery died something that could destroy Silas forever.

Scarlet lived with pain all her life. She believed that her affliction was genetic because of all the things her family went through. She had it rough in her pack. She got rejected by her mate who was her Alpha. She was always beaten and bruised. She had scars that made her feel insecure. And when she saw an opportunity to escape, she took it running away from her pack, the only place she ever knew. She found freedom but it was only for a short while. She finds herself in an unknown pack and learns how pathetic her life was in her former pack. How she could have been more and enjoyed even the little things of life. Finding that the moon goddess has given her a second chance mate, nothing could have been better. It was always her dream to have a loving mate. Then one day she experienced a change in her body, something that turned her life upside down. She never knew she was a creature hunters prey on. Her oblivion was the beginning of her calamity. What will happen when her old Alpha tracks her down wanting her back? How will she survive when she realizes that the freedom of the whole werewolf kingdom depends on her?

I thought I was Flynn Lancaster's wife. Until the night his *real* wife showed up at our door, pregnant and demanding a divorce. Three years of being the perfect wife. Three years of dyeing my hair, quitting my job, losing myself. All based on a lie. Flynn never divorced Sienna. Which means our marriage is a fraud, and I'm just the other woman. But when Sienna reveals the truth about Flynn's criminal empire, his pattern of abuse, and the mysterious death of her partner, I realize something worse: I'm not the first woman he's destroyed. I won't be the last. Unless we stop him. Two wives. One monster. And a conspiracy that goes deeper than either of us imagined. Flynn thinks he can control us. Silence us. Make us disappear like he's done to others. He's wrong. Because the woman he tried to erase? She was never really his wife. She was a kidnapped heiress with a photographic memory and nothing left to lose. And she's about to burn his entire world down.

FORMERLY TITLED THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT "Do you, William Hugh White take Jennifer Benjamin King to be your lawfully wedded wife? To cherish and to adore, to respect and to love for the rest of your life?" Mr. William Hugh nodded. "I do." "Do You, Jennifer Benjamin King take William Hugh White to be your lawfully wedded husband, to cherish and to adore, to respect and to love for the rest of your life?" Jennifer turned to her mother, then to her father who had a huge scowl on his face. He looked like he could do anything to her and her mother if she tried to do anything other than she was told. "I do." she answered. "Does anyone sitting in the church right now, have a tangible reason as to why this marriage should not be held? If you do, then speak up now, or forever hold your peace." "I do." Jennifer finds herself suspended from school on her father's wish, and he tells she will get married to some man. In a bid to escape, she falls in the hands of Elijah who instead asks to marry her. She needs to run, and he is offering her a way out. With no other way out, she accepts.

Ayo who is of beta blood has her family slaughtered, is taken prisoner by the Alpha of the full moon pack and made a slave, and Omega. The lowest of the lows in the pack. She works hard to get posted in the Alpha house just for one reason. Revenge. It's all that she can think about. All that she knows. She works on a plan to kill the Alpha without exposing her deep dark secret, or she would definitely be killed. Alpha Cross, the self proclaimed Alpha King of the Werewolves. A power hungry and crazy ruler who wants to be the sole Alpha of all dimensions. Wanting to be more powerful and ruthless than his father before him. He is cursed by a bleeding mother whom he had just killed her child, to become rabid and lose control of his wolf underneath the full moon, a time when werewolves are at their strongest. In his first episode, he kills his Luna by accident and is from then on termed "The Alpha Who Killed His Mate". A wolf only gets one mate, right? Imagine his shock and surprise when he runs into a lowly slave girl who despises him and utters the word "MATE". And she is the only way to break his curse.

Kaya dan rupawan, adalah sebuah perpaduan yang sempurna untuk seorang pria. Karena dengan memiliki semua itu, dia bisa dengan mudah menunjuk wanita mana saja yang ingin ia dapatkan. Tapi bagaimana ceritanya jika ketampanan tidak berbanding lurus dengan kejantanannya? Itulah yang kini dialami oleh seorang pewaris tunggal bernama Gerry Alexander Chen, yang kehilangan kejantanannya karena kesalahan yang pernah ia perbuat kepada seorang gadis lugu bernama Kia. Entah sihir apa yang Kia kirim hingga bisa melumpuhkan kejantanan sang Casanova. Dan bagaimana cara Gerry untuk bisa mengembalikan kejantanannya? So, baca kisah lucu dan menggemaskan ini sampai akhir ya.

Faith Thomas – Thirty-six-year-old accountant and closet romantic whose marriage implodes when she catches her husband of ten years cheating. Devastated, she moves home to Texas, determined to never let another man into her heart ever again. Rick Connor – The handsome thirty-nine-year-old retired Navy cryptologist making a new start for himself after a crushing loss four years earlier. He’s alone, and he's made peace with it – until Faith Thomas wanders into his bookstore and into his heart.

My fiancée was infamous in Culberra for being a heartbreaker. She had countless ex-boyfriends, and only stopped fooling around once she started dating me. However, we had only just planned to get married when her first love returned from overseas. Everyone mocked me, saying that I was a fool for thinking that I'd be any special. Unbeknownst to them, however, I'd long since gotten sick of playing the part of a lovesick idiot.