What Does It Mean To Kiss With Your Eyes Open

In Alabama’s rot-soaked bayous, Drucilla Drakes survives by three rules: silence, scars, and never letting Louise—her Bible-thumping captor—catch her hoping. But when a schoolyard ambush leaves her bleeding beneath a stranger’s leather jacket, invisibility becomes a death sentence. Enter Dragon Morales: New Orleans’ most notorious runaway, a cartel prince turned outlaw mechanic with grease-stained hands and a death wish. He doesn’t save people—he survives them. Yet in Dru’s lashed flesh and hellfire gaze, he sees his own shattered reflection. Their bond is gasoline and matches. Dragon’s father—Colombia’s cartel kingpin—hunts them relentlessly. Louise, armed with voodoo rites and the chaos-hungry loa Marinette, vows to break Dru. Their only allies? The Lou Nwa, a bayou biker gang trading in bullets and black magic, and Papa Legba, the crossroads spirit who offers Dru a lethal bargain: *“Her soul or yours.”* Fleeing through the Deep South’s cursed underbelly, they dodge cartel hitmen, haunted swamps, and safehouses reeking of betrayal. Dark magic seeps into old wounds; family secrets tighten like nooses. Dragon swears he’s too ruined to love. Dru knows she’s too shattered to trust. But in the bayou’s choking heat, desire is a grenade they can’t outrun. This isn’t a fairytale. It’s switchblade kisses and saintly curses—a collision of fire and ruin where protectors become predators. Dru doesn’t need saving; she needs an inferno. And Dragon? He’s got a lighter and nothing left to burn. Will they raze the South to ashes, or become the sacrifice the crossroads demands? One truth remains: in the bayou, even survival leaves scars. **Warning:** No princes here. Just bayou smoke, blood-soaked magic, and the kind of love that devours.

Prem is a Tourism Management student in Ateneo de Iligan who faces problems in her family but not until she found herself sick which also leads in meeting Isia an Architecture student.

"You need to give me three every day, that's the only way you can have me as your husband" "Three, what?! K-?" "Yes, . Sound easy to do, right?" He smirk and lean closer to me "Not unless you wanted more than just a " "W-What do you mean by that?" "Just so you know, I can accept more but not less of what I ask from you" --- Herravie is the only woman who's using the name Costello for the sake of revenge. For her, the only reason she was born is to die. Her existence only means one thing- vengeance. But her life suddenly turn upside down when she accepted the mission given to her related to the death of her real parents. She must pretend to be someone, for her to become the wife of Sain Czar Ildefonso. She needs to spy on him and then kill him afterward. She thought it was a very easy task to do. She just has to be his wife for everyone's eyes and then kill him. She doesn't need to waste a sweat to please him. But things become out of control when suddenly it turns out that he is the bane of the meaning of her existence and she becomes the subject of all his desire. Will she be able to complete her mission or end up defying everything that was planned just because of a three ? The three dangerous .

If you told me 2 months ago, that the man that murdered my parents in cold blood would buy me as his sex slave, I wouldn’t have believed you. And if you had told me that same man you be my fated soul mate, I would have punched you. But maybe this was a sign from the gods at I was meant to kill him and avenge the death of my parents. Yes. No matter the cost, I will kill my mate Alpha Jake. Cassies parents where murdered in cold blood and she is forced to live on the streets. One day she is kidnapped and sold to the same man who killed her parents. But he doesn’t recognize her. Cassie has vowed to kill him in revenge. But everything takes a wicked twist when she finds out that they are soul mates.

Ivy Young is a final year student whose only aim is to study hard, have good grades and get a scholarship to college. Everything is going according to her plans until she crosses the path of the school bad boy, Romeo Sparks. When Ivy attended a party and got into a TRUTH or DARE game with him. Her first kiss is to be taken by him or she dates him for a month. He is a school playboy and she is just a school nerd. He is dangerous. He is reckless. He is too bad for Ivy.

Sore setelah kepulangannya mengurus sebuah urusan, Sun Fleurry McRay dipertemukan dengan lelaki bernama Noah Bellion yang menolongnya dari dua kubu gangster yang berusaha membawanya pergi secara paksa. Sayangnya, pertemuan pertama Sun dengan Noah tak meninggalkan kesan yang baik di benak gadis itu, mengingat baru pertama kali bertemu, Noah tanpa ragu menumpahkan darah seseorang di depan matanya. Tanpa merasa bersalah, seakan lelaki itu sudah terbiasa melakukannya. Bagi Sun, semua terjadi dengan cepat dan membingungkan. Dia dan Noah tidak saling mengenal sebelumnya, tapi Noah tanpa ragu mengatakan jika dia akan membawa Sun untuk tinggal bersamanya. Noah ingin menjadikan Sun sebagai wanitanya dan itu membuat Sun sangat terkejut dan bersikeras menolak. Meski pada akhirnya Sun memilih untuk ikut sebab Noah yang mengancamnya menggunakan keselamatan sang ibu, tapi jangan kira gadis itu akan dengan suka rela menerima takdirnya menjadi wanita Noah. Sun tidak menyukai Noah, lelaki dingin yang tak berperasaan, yang untuk pertama kalinya memperkenalkan kejinyapembunuhan kepada Sun. Tapi berada di dekat Noah perlahan-lahan membuat Sun menyadari banyak hal. Noah memang jahat, namun dia tidak bercanda dalam menjaga keselamatan Sun. Hal itu membuat Sun sedikit demi sedikit luluh, membuka hatinya untuk mengenal Noah lebih dalam dan siapa sangka, banyak fakta tersembunyi tentang Noah Bellion yang menunggu giliran untuk memberinya kejutan.

Three years after I died, Stella, my wife, decided to divorce me and marry her dying ex. She stormed into my old house like she owned the place, forcing me to sign the divorce agreement. Mom told her the truth—I was already gone. Stella rolled her eyes. "Why's he still pretending? Harvey's dying. I just wanna be there for him. What's so wrong about that? If he won't come out, I'm done paying your medical bills." She thought threatening Mom would shake something loose. But what Stella didn't get? Mom had already stopped treatment. She was just hanging on to watch her crack.

" You like the way my hands touch,right,kitten?" Theo purrs in my ears. I am a mess of nerves,unable to utter even a single word. " Do you want me to stop? Do you still think this is a mistake?" His grip on my waist tightened and I pushed myself closer to him, yearning his touch. *** Camilla gets the shock of her life when her mate suggests an open relationship. She also discovers that Hector has been cheating on her with her worst enemy---Isabella. She is set to seek revenge and what better way to do it than seduce her mate's father?

Badass, hot and untamable, Adam Garcia didn't earn the nickname 'The Wild One' from his fans for nothing. He's a sports enthusiast who loves risky adventures, especially in his dealings with the opposite sex. He fucks but never gives his heart, and he's determined to never let a woman shake him from his bad boy image. That is, until he meets a masked woman at a New Year's Eve masquerade party and he's instantly drawn in by her amber eyes. When she tells him about the legend of the kiss of eternal love which is supposed to make two people who meet on New Year's Eve and kiss at exactly midnight on New Year to love each other forever, Adam kisses her just to prove the legend wrong, but he's in for a shock. Who is the woman behind the mask, and why can't he stop dreaming about her? Is the Legend Of The Kiss Of Eternal Love real, and will it be enough to make Adam finally give love a chance? WARNING!!! THIS BOOK CONTAINS STEAMY CONTENT THAT IS TARGETED AT AN AUDIENCE OF 18+. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Ahrina Tantiana Regalia is a teenage girl living a normal life with her mother. A loving, kindhearted, and friendly girl who always fights for what she knows is right, though she is impulsive and doesn't know how to make decisions wisely. She is a dreamer by nature and always driven by her curiosity. And she can't live without her mother. Her life with her mother was peaceful, not until unidentified smoke-like beings began disturbing her every other night. Scared about the continuous accidents, her mom brought her to Schiz Academy, a school for teenage magicians of different races. And as Ahrina continous her life in such a strange world, everything messed up, especially her rare eye color that will make their country more devastated. How can a stranger to the Magic World survive all the wars she has to experience? Can Ahrina still fight for what she thinks is right? Or will she give up everything to become the successor of evil?