West With Giraffes: A Novel

At a company party, Taylor Kennedy plays a game of mouth-to-mouth cookie biting with his female assistant as everyone watches. I blend into the crowd and laugh along. The room instantly falls silent. The assistant bursts into tears and plays the victim. Taylor lets go of her, turns to me, and coldly scolds me in front of the entire company. He berates me for not knowing how to read the room and being a buzzkill. Then, without hesitation, he wraps his arm around the assistant and kisses her deeply as I watch. If this were before, I would've stormed over in a rage and ripped them apart. Then, I would've humiliated her in front of everyone, not caring whose pride I trampled. But now, I feel nothing. Not even as I watch them kiss. Not even though today marks my ten-year anniversary with Taylor.

"You're here to play nurse, not to pretend you care," he snapped, his cold gaze locking onto hers. "And you are here to waste your life because it's easier than fighting for it," she shot back, her voice shaking but defiant. He wheeled closer, his jaw clenched. "Don't think for a second that you can fix what is so broken." I'm not here to fix you," she whispered, her eyes unrelenting. "I'm here because I believe there's more to you than this bitterness. He was the untouchable golden boy of his family, a magnetic presence destined to inherit a sprawling empire. His charm, his power, and his perfection made him unstoppable until a car crash shattered his life and left him confined to a wheelchair. His once-loyal followers turned their backs, leaving him drowning in the bitterness of betrayal. She was living proof of her family-a forgotten daughter whose dreams of becoming a doctor kept her sane amidst years of neglect. All she wanted in life was freedom, but fate had other plans. Forced into a contract marriage with the epitome of misery, she found herself engulfed in a battle she never asked for. Their worlds collide in a storm of resentment and vulnerability. Underneath his bitterness, though, lies the ruins of a man who had everything to lose-and the dim hope of someone who could help him find it again. As she works her way through his fury, and he pushes against her kindness, a bond forms-a bond neither expected. But with jealous rivals scheming in the shadows and old wounds threatening to tear them apart, their fight for love becomes a war for survival. Can two broken souls find strength in each other, or will the scars of their pasts destroy them both?

“I want to hold his dick just like he did perfectly leading so massive to my little pussy……” Hephzibah Thomas has admired, lusts over her stepbrother, Thomas Newton, since high school to college after her mother remarried. Her worst enemy in the hockey game, Zed Nate, finds out her dirty fantasies about him through her MACBOOK and demands compensation to keep the secret within. Newton’s new girlfriend turns out to be Kate Wells- Hephzibah’s high school nemesis, as she plans for a public humiliation after she discovers the deep secret too. But Zed saves her in front of the whole campus as his girlfriend in exchange for his academic success, while he helps her to expose Kate's manipulation, which Hephzibah dives into. As their fake relationship began, Hephzibah began to see the other side of Zed, a warm, gentle heart despite being a playboy, one that's willing to help her and acknowledge her true self to the world. But will Newton ever discover the truth behind the relationship? And when Hephzibah discovers Zed's deepest secret, will she walk away from him... to chase after her dream? or love him still?

After a blur and crazy one night stand, Ivy finds out that she's and she knows with her current financial state, she cannot raise the baby alone and is not an option, so she sets out to find the father of her child, to her greatest dismay and shock, her baby daddy isn't the regular one, he's a killer, and a very cruel dangerous man and he just might have her killed too because he's not the type of person to be with. But to everyone's surprise, this little lady changed this cold hearted criminal into a for love, her love.

He wanted a housekeeper not a tainted virgin.What Damien found was purity begging to be tainted. Now, he’ll ruin her, softly, cruelly, completely. Barely nineteen and untouched, Elara never thought her first job would place her inside the fortress of a man like him. Damien kael doesn’t request. He commands. And the innocent little maid is about to learn what obedience costs, one breathless gasp, one sinful punishment, one wicked whisper at a time. Dark. Seductive. Obsessive. She thought she was hired to clean his home. She didn’t realize she was stepping into his lair. Elara is broke and desperate, so when a maid position opens in a billionaire’s estate, she takes it, unaware that Damien kael is a man who doesn’t believe in boundaries. He’s older, merciless, and dangerously magnetic. She tries to leave, but he isn’t letting go. He doesn’t want love. He wants loyalty. And she’s about to learn what it means to kneel. As their twisted bond deepens, pleasure collides with punishment, fear tangles with desire, and innocence becomes his obsession. But Damien’s darkness runs deeper than she imagined and claiming his virgin maid isn’t about breaking her body… It’s about owning her soul. Mature Content Warning: This book features explicit sexual content, dark dominant/submissive dynamics, psychological tension, and a dangerously obsessive hero. For readers 18+ who crave power, seduction, and raw intensity.

Fiona Garbera was forced to face a harsh false ideology that love was never enough at her early age. She grew up with the mindset that love only makes one weak, judging by her parents failed marriage. Watching her father age with a sadness that years couldn’t erase made her swore never to give love a chance until hell freezes over. But a drunk one night of sexual bliss with her new boss Colt Harper who fate made them meet again became a threat to all her years of discipline against love. Colt Harper wanted more than a night with her, he wanted her heart and was determined to change her misconception about love and this brought a crack to the walls she had built as a defense against love all her life. Fiona was caught in a dilemma of either holding on to her walls of insecurity to be at the safer side or give into the undeniable attraction between them and stand a chance to risk her heart being broken or mended forever. She had to make a life changing decision as she realized that she couldn’t stand the chance of missing out on sharing the rest of her life with the one man who had taught her that love was a beautiful emotion. Fiona was done with running away from her feelings and the uncertainty that she feels comes with love because of the trauma she had as a kid as a result of her parents failed marriage. She dared to believe that a night with her billionaire boss could lead to happily ever after as she found a partner to deal with whatever crests and troughs life threw at them and she lived happily ever after in love as she chose love over fear.

“ANO!? SIRA ULO!? Hindi mo ba kilala kung sino ang magiging ka-One Night Stand mo?” “Hindi eh, kasi ang nag schedule ng aking One Night Stand ay kaibigan ko at ang sabi nya lang sa akin ay may babae na papasok sa aking room number at yun ang magiging ka-One Night Stand ko… At ikaw ang pumasok sa aking room number.” Si Rogelyn ay isang babae na pinanganak ng mahirap at ang kanyang Mama na nag-ngangalang Rose ay nagkaroon ng comatose saka matagal ng patay ang kanyang Papa. Nung 20th birthday ni Rogelyn ay kanyang nahuli ang kanyang BF na may kasiping na ibang babae kaya sya ay naglasing at pumunta sa isang hotel. Sa hotel room na napasukan ni Rogelyn ay may hindi ina-asahang nangyari sapagkat isang binata na nag-ngangalang Sean ang sumiping sa kanya. Walang nagawa si Rogelyn kundi kalimutan ang nangyari sa kanila ni Sean. Isang araw, isang babae na nag-ngangalang Sarah ang nagbigay ng offer kay Rogelyn upang maging personal assistant para sa kanyang anak at ang kapalit nito ay si Sarah mismo ang magbabayad sa lahat ng bayarin sa Private Hospital. Tinangggap ni Rogelyn ang offer ngunit ang anak pala ni Sarah ay si Sean. Si Sean ay may fiance na nag-ngangalang Cyrell at sya rin ang babae na simuping sa bf ni Rogelyn. Sa pag-tra-trabaho ni Rogelyn bilang personal assistant para kay Sean ay nagkaroon sila sa isat-isa ng pa-unti-unting pagmamahal. Ngunit kaya ba nila Rogelyn at Sean ipaglaban hanggang sa wakas ang pag-ibig na nabubuo sa kanila.

Serena has to accept her greedy father and evil stepmother's arrangement to marry a dying man, Matthew Harrington, in order to save her seriously ill grandmother. Everyone laughed at Serena, ridiculing her for becoming a widow at such a young age. But it didn't occur to those foolish people that after the marriage Serena was completely free and began a plan for revenge without a care in the world! What's even more unexpected is that her husband is the mysterious boss she's always admired! *** Matthew Harrington, rumored to be dead, is actually the heir to the richest family, the mysterious genius entrepreneur. Matthew was hoping to settle this ridiculous marriage with a two-year contract, but then he realized that Serena did seem to be different from other women... But just as he's delivering with all his heart, the woman actually disappears!

After finding out that her sister and fiance were having an affair, Tabitha fled and attended the party her best friend invited her to. In pain, she got heavily drunk and blacked out only to wake up in bed with a man. At first glance, Tabitha recognized the man as the second son of one of the most prominent companies in State Z. However, that night was a mistake, and Tabitha left with the intention of putting it behind her. Tabitha arrived home, only to find herself locked in her room by her family, forced to marry her fiance. But what happens when the second son of BlueDiamonds Enterprise comes to claim Tabitha as his own? Even more, this man, Silas, isn't just a billionaire, but a powerful person who is the future Alpha of Cerulean Moon Pack.

Gumuho ang mundo ni Ashley nang mahuli niya ang kanyang long-time boyfriend na niloloko siya, at sa sobrang sakit, napunta siya sa isang bar para maglasing at mag-vent out. Hindi inaasahan, ang gabing iyon ay nauwi sa isang one-night stand kasama ang isang lalaking hindi man lang niya kilala ang pangalan. Makalipas ang isang buwan ay nagbunga ang nangyari sa kanila ng hindi kilalang lalaki. Naguluhan siya at hindi alam kung ano ang gagawin, pero ang mas ikinagulat niya ay nang biglang magpakita ang lalaking iyon sa harap ng kanilang pintuan. Ang mas shocking? Siya pala ang fiancé ng kanyang stepsister!