What Is A Bonus Son

Après un grave accident de voiture, Ezio Valtenari, un jeune milliardaire brillant mais devenu paraplégique, s’isole dans son immense villa sur la côte italienne. Amputé de sa liberté et de sa fierté, il refuse toute aide médicale... jusqu’à l’arrivée de Lina Morel, une infirmière douce mais au caractère bien trempé, engagée pour un dernier essai. Déterminée à le soigner, elle découvre rapidement que sous les sarcasmes et la froideur d’Ezio se cache un homme meurtri, secret, et dangereusement captivant. Mais Lina aussi a ses propres cicatrices... et un passé qu’elle fuit. Dans ce huis clos chargé de tension, une attirance magnétique naît, bouleversant les règles de leur relation. Et si l’amour était leur seul moyen de guérison ?

Après huit ans de mariage, j'ai hérité une centaine de millions d'actifs de biens que mon grand-père nous avait légués, à moi et à mon mari mafieux. Mais au moment où l'avocat procédait aux formalités de transfert, il s'est rendu compte que mon certificat de mariage était faux et que la centaine de millions d'actifs ne pouvait être hérité que par moi seule. « Mlle Aubry, le système indique que vous avez divorcé il y a un an et que l'épouse légale de votre mari Adrien Lebrun est... Zoéline Chabert. » « Vous êtes maintenant célibataire, cela signifie que M. Lebrun n'a pas droit à l'héritage. » Zoéline était le premier amour d'Adrien qui avait quitté le pays il y a longtemps. Quand j'ai vu le message de l'avocat, je n'ai pas pu me calmer pendant longtemps. Il s'est avéré que toute la tendresse et la sollicitude dont Adrien avait fait preuve à mon égard au fil des ans n'étaient que des mensonges. A l'origine, j'avais prévu de lui annoncer ma grossesse le jour de notre anniversaire de mariage, ce qui était le résultat que nous attendions tous les deux depuis huit ans de mariage. Mais maintenant, il semblait qu'il ne l'attendait probablement pas avec impatience. J'ai frotté mon ventre et je me suis dit silencieusement que ce n'était pas grave si mes jumeaux n'avaient pas de père. Tout ce que je devais faire, c'était de m'enfuir de ce lieu de tromperie.

Lumi-as someone who's being told what to believe and hope in everything as she grows up-reckons that living is a way to comply with and entrust one's entire life to serving superiors on top of the hierarchy. Who will not think of that way anyway? Being harbored in the lands of Castellanos, it is engraved in her mind that she lives to pay her debt of gratitude to the family who sheltered her, who protected her from all the cruelties the outside world has to offer behind those fences. What they're doing is to protect her life and welfare-that's what they told her. So there's no other way to live but be the gullible and obedient yokel of the Castellano clan, because they're doing everything just for her safety. But that's before her life turns upside-down as she discovers a strange note from the attic. "To whoever finds this message, they erased us. This is all that remains. Remember us, please." What does the note want to convey? Is it just one of those mundane trivial stuff found in an attic like the usual when someone decides to clean it? Or is it something connected to her... "safety?" For sure it is for her safety. That's what they always tell her. But what one hears is not always the version of reality. Most of the time, it is the most convenient scheme to twist and bend the truth. That... That's what they will never tell her.

Paige got pregnant by a bad boy in high school. Two years later, after many sacrifices and without having any contact other than phone calls, she and the father of her child reunite. Can they live together for the sake of their shared child? Can the bad boy not be so bad?

Dans Son Ombre Mila invisible aux yeux des autres, elle n’est personne, une ombre dans la foule. Mais pour elle, tout tourne autour de lui : Eliah Reed, star mondiale, voix d’or et idole inatteignable. Depuis trois ans, elle consacre chaque battement de son cœur à le suivre, à le connaître, à anticiper ses moindres gestes. Elle sait tout de lui. Ses heures de sommeil. Le parfum qui imprègne sa peau. Ce qu’il mange lorsqu’il est fatigué. Ce n’est plus une admiration. C’est une obsession brûlante. Une obsession qui dévore. La nuit où Mila parvient à s’introduire dans sa chambre d’hôtel, tout change. Eliah, d’abord glacé par la peur, sent naître une curiosité étrange pour cette inconnue qui prétend lire en lui comme personne. Les mots deviennent des armes, les regards des chaînes. Fasciné autant qu’effrayé, il commence à l’écouter… et à douter de lui-même. Entre eux s’installe un jeu dangereux, fait de désir, de contrôle et de vertiges. Mila veut être son refuge. Eliah, lui, vacille entre l’envie de fuir et celle de se perdre en elle. Mais plus ils se rapprochent, plus la frontière entre amour et captivité disparaît. Jusqu’où peut-on aimer sans détruire ? Et que reste-t-il, quand l’ombre devient plus réelle que la lumière ?

To "fix" Leonard Rinehart's oh-so-tragic depression, Naomi Gaffron—yeah, the same girl who once swore she'd only ever marry me—secretly tied the knot with him. So I gave in. Played along with the family's little matchmaking stunt. Married Aurelia Spencer—Brieton City's golden girl who'd been obsessed with me since forever. For seven years, she clung to me like I was oxygen. Every night, curled up like she'd break if I moved. I thought that was happiness. Then one night, I caught her whispering to her best friend: "Leonard's already got international awards. When are you dumping Leone?" "Whatever—I'm stuck with someone I don't love anyway. Doesn't matter who I married. Someone's gotta keep an eye on Leone so he doesn't screw up everything Leonard built." I checked her study. Found a hidden folder—over 100,000 photos of Leonard. A hundred unsent love letters. Even I couldn't fake it anymore. Bought a silicone dummy. Laid out the plan. The fire would be step one. Dead or alive—we're done.

Laya’s world is falling apart—haunted by a past she can’t outrun and a future she never chose. When shadows resurface and loyalties are tested, survival might cost her everything.

​Amelia Hayes has 30 days to save her niece. ​A judge’s ruling demands the 35-year-old heiress present a stable family unit to win custody of her niece, or the child returns to her abusive father. With time running out, Amelia rushes to secure the only perfect solution: her own bodyguard. ​Her solution? Adrian Cole. ​He’s 25—loyal, quiet, and financially desperate. For a staggering sum, he agrees to a two-year contract with one unbreakable rule: No love, no intimacy, strictly business. ​But when their fake wedding night turns into a real assassination attempt, Amelia realizes her calculated bargain has made them targets. Now, fighting a vengeful ex-friend and a killer lurking in the shadows, Amelia and Adrian must fake their way through a deadly war. ​The contract was just a lie. But the way he risks his life to protect his 'wife' might just be the terrifying truth.

On the day of my ninth wedding attempt, my fiancé, Lucas Yearwood, leaves me jilted again. This time, I follow him. I see him holding his adoptive sister's hand as they walk into the obstetrics department. "Lucas, I dreamed that we're having a boy—he's definitely going to be as handsome as you." Watching the two of them laugh and chat like that, I feel my blood freeze. After I chased Lucas for seven years, I got a chance to use a debt of gratitude to force a marriage contract out of him. I backed him into a corner to make him marry me. Everyone thinks I can't survive without him. But this time, I hand the marriage contract back and leave him without looking back. On my wedding day, he calls me. "Viv! Where are you right now?" I'm in the shower. My new husband picks up the call for me. "Do you have business with my wife?" Later, I hear Lucas turned all of Riverville upside down, digging through every trash can to find our marriage contract.

Warning: This book is for fearless readers only. If you can’t handle heat, knotting, breeding, obsession, or two Alphas who would kill to claim what’s theirs… turn back now. I mean it. Because once you step into this story, there’s no way out. Not without scars. Not without shaking. Not without wanting more. I went into heat for the first time on campus. He found me. He pinned me down. He dragged his tongue up my thighs and told me I belonged to him. Then his father walked in. He didn’t stop us. He didn’t speak. He didn’t blink. He watched. He growled. And he wanted me next. Now I can’t forget what they did to me. One held my hips. The other held my throat. They made me fall apart until I couldn’t remember who I was before them. They are both Alphas. They are both my mates. And they both left their mark. But I only get to keep one. So tell me… How do you choose between the man who claimed you first. And the one who made you beg? Read at your own risk. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when your heart races… and your thighs won’t stop clenching. Welcome to the heat. See you on the other side.