Today's Mass Reading

"You bastard, you rotten bastard. . . I will make you pay for this.”Lucianda threatened in a provoked voice but Prince Hakeem only laughed outrageously as he glinted down at her exposed breasts. "You and who will do that?" He made a mocking sound. "My dear Lucianda, the only reason you escaped from my wrath was because my findings indicated you are a decent woman, but don't try to take advantage, you will pay dearly for it." He warned coldly and Lucianda shivered physically. Laughing devilishly at her fear, Prince Hakeem kept his eyes on her pouty breasts and just when Lucianda felt she would die from the embarrassment and the unwanted passion washing over her body, he gave an insulting snort as he got up from the bed, and before she could do anything, with a blank expression, he covered her body with a wrap. “Try to know your place.” He said before striding out of the room. Only then did Lucianda give way to tears. What was her offence? She was just a disillusioned widow trying to get over all that had happened in her life and here is another cruel soul, trying to create more problems for her. ***** Lucianda Castos, the widow of the late powerful Alex Castos, refused to mourn the death of her husband. All she wanted was to start the process of healing. Prince Hakeem, her husband's equally powerful but ten times deadlier rival, would not permit her to do that. He had another thing planned and Lucianda did not know what that meant for her. She hated her husband and everything that had to do with him. And she would avenge the pain they made her go through. She has only two missions; to protect her son and to hurt those who hurt her.

"You can't do this to me" I was yelling the person who is supposed to be my husband in next Twenty four hours. "You don't know, Why I agree to get marry with you" he asked and slapped my face. "You said you love me, then why the hell you are doing this to me" I said again cupping my left cheek with my hand, tears were in my eyes. "There you got me wrong sweetheart" he said hand laughed like Devil. "I wanted to get your father Money which was left for you but today I found out there was no money on your name" he said again slapping on my right cheek. "So I am selling you to the one of billionaire who can give me good amount of your virginity" he said and started to drag me to the store room. "No please leave me" I said while crying.

"I loved you and trusted you but you broke me with your secret. Now, tell me... how could I ever forgive you?" -- Holly Jade Rewis Parang pinag-iwanan na ng mundo. Ang kaniyang ina, ang ama niya at ngayon ay ang lalaking minahal at pinagkatiwalaan niya ng husto. How could she ever forgive the man who was after her and tried to kill her? "Nagkamali ako ng minahal." -- Holly

"Look at you," he mused, his fingers tracing slow, lazy circles against my skin. "You're fucking drenched, your musk is everywhere, even a male passing by would want to have a taste but fate have mercy I don't rip the bastard apart before he even thinks of it" Zara has spent her life being nothing, a wolf-less stain in a world where power is everything. She has endured the cruelty of her pack, the whispers behind her back, and the weight of a name that means nothing without strength to back it up. But when Alpha King Cade, the most feared and untouchable ruler of them all, demands she serve him personally, everything changes. Suddenly, the girl who was nothing has become a target.

เธอคือ หลินเหยาซื่อ ที่มีชีวิตอยู่ในปีค.ศ.2023 แต่เพราะอุบัติเหตุรถบัสตกเขาลงไปในแม่น้ำ ทำให้เธอลืมตาอีกครั้งและพบว่าตัวเองอยู่ในร่าง หลินเหยาซื่อ อายุยี่สิบสอง และยังเป็นคุณแม่ลูกแฝดที่ใช้ชีวิตอยู่ในปี ค.ศ.1980 เหตุการณ์บางอย่างทำให้ 'กั๋วคังเหริน' หายสาบสูญ เมื่อกลับมาอีกครั้งก็พบว่าตัวเองมีลูกฝาแฝดวัยสามขวบ และผู้หญิงที่เขาแต่งงานด้วยจำสามีตัวเองไม่ได้!

Everyone in our circle knew I had always been obsessed with Daniel Rothman. I followed whatever he did—went to school, learnt eight different languages, studied finance. After all, the Rothmans and Fosters were destined to merge through marriage—our intertwined business empires depended on it. However, on our wedding day, Daniel flew overseas to rescue his crush in distress. Our childhood bond, once the envy of everyone, became the biggest joke of all. There I was, wearing a wedding dress worth millions, standing alone as I completed the grand ceremony by myself. The headlines were everywhere. For the first time, my name came before his in the news. How foolish. Men were a dime a dozen. But there was only one well-established business empire. I did not just want his body. I wanted his money, too.

Sinopsis: Aurora DeLuca, seorang dokter muda yang bercita-cita menyelamatkan nyawa, tidak pernah menyangka hidupnya akan berubah drastis setelah bertemu dengan Leonardo "Leo" Moretti—bos mafia yang kejam namun karismatik. Takdir mempertemukan mereka ketika Aurora tanpa sadar menyelamatkan nyawa Leo setelah insiden penembakan. Leo yang dikenal tanpa belas kasihan, justru terobsesi dengan perempuan berhati lembut itu. Namun, dunia Leo bukan tempat bagi orang seperti Aurora. Ketika musuh-musuh mafia mulai mengincarnya, Aurora harus memilih: tetap berada di sisi Leo dengan segala risikonya, atau pergi sebelum semuanya terlambat?

Sebuah cerita tentang kebenaran dan kebohongan. Bagaimana bila gangster, Psycopath dan Mafia berada dalam satu cerita sekaligus. Ini kisah seorang Aglaea Carabella Damian dalam mencari dalang dibalik pembunuhan orang tuanya dan kecelakaan yang menimpa abangnya. Ia diburu oleh Mafia, dipermainkan oleh Psycopath, dan dicintai oleh gangster. Sanggupkah Ara memecahkan teka-teki dan menyusun kembali puzzle yang hilang?

Maryanne has given all she wanted for the man she loved, but he rejects her, mistreats her and abuses her. She finally moves on and is immediately engaged by a strong and cruel Alpha of the strongest pack. Maryanne finds out that her supposed mate and the man she had loved for so long were in war. Where both of them offer her the best life and are willing to take good care of her, who will she choose? Can she move on completely from her past and focus on her new love or will she reclaim the love she has lost?

Via suffers from the disease of a visual hallucination; unable to distinguish the difference between the reality and hallucination whenever she was on its period. On the positive side, she was able to perform artistic talent on the stage and created a number of masterpieces based on what she sees in her hallucination period. Struggling with her disease, she became an ambitious painter since her childhood, has developed an extreme obsession with her talent in creating lifelike paintings as her only source of recovery. She had won numerous art competitions in various places enough to land her on a list of respected artists in her country of origin and popularity among her peers. However, this was not supported by her parents who lacked the proper knowledge in mental illness. She had been socially isolated for the twenty years of her life, as commanded by her helicopter parents. Determined to escape from the forced solitude and to treat her disease, she joined a prestigious art competition to achieve financial and emotional independence.