Without Merit Colleen Hoover

On the day of my wedding gown fitting, a stranger burst into the VIP suite and stabbed me with a knife. “You think you deserve a dress this expensive after stealing someone else’s man?” She tore at the delicate fabric of my skirt. Then, with a twisted smile, she hurled a bottle of acid at me. The blade was buried in my lower abdomen. The pain drove me to my knees. She grabbed my hair and yanked my head up. “Gerald’s my husband! What are you? You’re nothing but a mistress who can’t even be seen with him in public!” Blood dripped down my fingers. That was when it finally sank in. The man I had been with for seven years had been keeping another woman by his side. “What’re you staring at? Even if I kill you, with my husband’s influence, no one will dare touch me!” Staring at her smug face, I pulled out my phone with hands slicked in blood and called my brother. “Matt…” My voice was unnervingly calm. “Come pick me up at the bridal shop. And please inform the Hoover family that the engagement is off.”

Malaking halaga ang kinakailangan ni Colleen Perez para mabili ang bahay na kanyang nais para sa kanila ng kaniyang kapatid. Ngunit dahil hindi sapat ang kanyang ipon ay pumunta siya sa bangko para kumuha ng loan. At ang housing loan lamang ang available para sa halaga na kinakailangan nya. Hindi naging madali ito dahil hindi pa siya pasado sa kwalipikasyon. May kinakasama o dapat kasal na ang maaaring maka avail lamang ng loan na ito. Dahil dito tinanggap niya ang alok ng kakilala niyang lola na makipag blind-date sa kaniyang apo at pumayag sa alok nitong kasal. Ang hindi niya lang inaasahan ay boss niya sa trabaho ang magiging ka blind-date niya at agad siyang pumayag sa idea na sila ay magkaroon ng isang contractual relationship sa loob lamang ng isang taon.

Bossy, strict hardworking, workaholic and still single at the age of 25 dahil sa pagiging mataray nito. 'Yan si Colleen Brylle Castro, isang Chief Engineer ng isa sa malaki at sikat na luxury cruise ship na lumilibot sa buong Europe at Asia. Isang hot at gorgeous seawoman na pinapangarap ng lahat pero tinatarayan lang nito at nilalagpasan. Sa pagiging workaholic nito ay wala itong oras na inaaksaya para lamang makipagtalo o kaya ay makipag-date sa kung sino man. Ano kaya ang mangyayari kung aksidenteng makilala niya ang 21 years okd na bubbly, playgirl at spoiled brat na 'rich kid' at isip batang si Jane Mondragon na wala nang ibang ginawa kundi ay kulitin siya? At ano ang gagawin ni Jane kung talagang parang nakababatang kapatid lang ang tingin ni Coleen sa kanya kahit 'di niya pa rin mapigilang ma-in love dito dahil sa pagiging sweet at maalaga nito? Tanggapin kaya ni Coleen ang umuusbong na nararamdaman niya para kay Jane kahit alam niya'ng mali dahil sa pagiging kapwa babae nito?

On the company's designated monthly day off, Gigi Lott, Donald Hoover's secretary, posted an Instagram story. The caption read, "So what if you're the boss of me when we're at work during the day? At night, I'm the one on top!" In the photo, she was lying atop a water bed covered in rose petals, and the usually stern Donald was kneeling down to massage her feet for her. From his pocket hung a brand new golden necklace. Just that morning, I bought several gold bars and gave them to Donald while beseeching him to make our relationship public. He happily took the locket from me, but when I tried to take a photo of us with our phone, he smacked my phone out of my hands, smashing it into pieces. With a look of pure derision, he declared, "Why don't you take a good look at yourself in the mirror first? You really are a motherless wretch who wasn't raised right. Look at the lengths you'd go to just to ruin me!" Throughout the last five years, I had meekly gone along with his demand that we keep our relationship a secret, claiming it was because office romances were forbidden. But now, I was abruptly hit with the realization of how laughable it all was. The next day, I sent my father a message. "I admit defeat. I'm willing to come home and inherit the family business."

Even though it's been three years since we held our weddings, Adrian Johnson refuses to get our marriage registered. I overhear him venting to his best friend after he gets drunk. "Colleen got kidnapped before. I keep thinking of her as a tainted woman. Plus, her family has already gone into bankruptcy. She has no idea that my company is about to get listed." I feel my blood turn into ice in my veins. His confession leaves my feet rooted to the spot. Then, Adrian pulls a woman into his arms before kissing her belly. That woman is Rosalind Muller, the young and beautiful bar singer. I'm still dazed when I receive a text on my phone. It's a photo of Rosalind's pregnancy bump. The caption writes, "You're just a tainted woman. How can you ever compare to me?" What Adrian doesn't know is that I never got kidnapped three years ago. At that time, I had carried out a top-secret rescue mission as a secret agent. Soon, I text my dad. "Dad, where's your island? Can you send a helicopter over to pick me up?" On the day I leave Adrian once and for all, it's time for my mysterious identity and the truth from three years ago to be revealed.

The pack's border was under attack by rogues, with countless casualties. As a healer, I led my team to provide support. However, on the way back, I was kidnapped by rogue wolves. Lucas arrived immediately with the rescue force, but he just stood there and watched as the rogues shattered my arm and slashed my face open. He made no move to intervene. As I was tortured nearly to death, I overheard Lucas talking with the captain of the rescue team. "Alpha, if we don't rescue the Luna now, her arm might be permanently damaged." But Lucas remained unmoved, saying coldly, "I have to do this so that Kira can get the position of Chief Healer." "Susan earned merit supporting the border defense. The Chief Healer position should rightfully be hers. The only way is to have someone shatter her arm so she can never hold a scalpel again. Only then will Kira have a chance at becoming Chief Healer." "She'll just have to suffer for now. I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to her." Hearing his words, my heart grew cold, and I stopped struggling. I never imagined that the man I loved most would be the one truly responsible for destroying me.

"Karena dedikasi dan juga merit yang luar biasa, Anda mendapatkan tubuh baru dan juga kesempatan kedua untuk hidup lagi. Selamat menjalani hidup baru Anda di dunia yang baru!!!" Alex yang tewas dalam kecelakaan badai kosmik di luar angkasa menemukan dirinya terbangun lagi di sebuah dunia yang baru, dunia modern di abad ke-21. Bisa hidup lagi adalah sebuah keajaiban, Alex menerimanya, akan tetapi tidak pernah terpikirkan kalau tubuhnya yang baru benar-benar berbeda dari dugaannya. Dari seorang Pangeran tampan yang juga merupakan kandidat sebagai kaisar, Alex menjadi seorang gadis malang yang tidak disukai oleh keluarganya sendiri. Dan dengan teganya mereka juga menjual gadis yang malang ini agar perusahaan keluarga tidak bangkrut. Keluarga Klein: "Alexandra, kami sudah membawamu kembali ke sini dan memberimu hidup yang enak. Sebagai gantinya kau harus menikah dengan Master Dietritch agar perusahaan kita tidak bangkrut!" Orang-Orang: "Meskipun Master Dietritch memberikan perhatian lebih padamu, kau itu tidak lebih dari seorang pengganti di hatinya." Alex: "...." Cold, doting, tyrant President (Husband) X Independent, badass, sassy Queen (Wife)

When Nyx Calder enrolls at Briarcrest Academy, she has no intention of climbing its gilded social hierarchy. The school is built on legacy, power, and unspoken rules, and Nyx is there only to survive it. But survival becomes impossible when she collides with Alaric Moore. Briarcrest’s most untouchable student, the unchallenged ruler of its academic and social elite… and the stepbrother she never asked for. Alaric thrives on control. Nyx thrives on defiance. Their rivalry ignites in classrooms and spills into whispered confrontations after hours, each encounter sharpening the tension between them. Forced into constant competition by the academy’s ruthless merit system, they become obsessed with outdoing one another, until hatred begins to feel dangerously like something else. Something forbidden. Something that could destroy them both. Behind Briarcrest’s pristine halls lies a system designed to crush anyone who threatens its order. As Nyx uncovers how deeply the academy manipulates its students, Alaric is forced to choose between the future he was raised for and the girl who refuses to kneel, and when the rules say she should. At Briarcrest, love is forbidden, rebellion is costly, and bloodlines matter more than truth. But how far does the academy’s power really reach? What happens when loyalty to legacy collides with forbidden desire? And when the system demands one of them fall… who will it be? At Briarcrest, breaking the rules could cost them everything, but not breaking them might cost even more.

Since she could remember, Cassie Smith had been in love with Nathan Greg. When she left home to attend a university two states away, they transitioned from being best friends in school to friends with benefits. Their once-a-month weekends were the pinnacle of her life, when he would fly in to see her and she would have him all to herself for the whole, uninterrupted weekend. Then he announced his impending marriage to her. Cassie had to take action to restore order since her idealized world was in danger of collapsing. She wanted to be the woman Nathan married and had a happy life with because she needed him in her life. She thus devised a scheme to interrupt the wedding and kidnap the groom. She later met Brian. In order to make the groom envious and aid her in calling off the wedding, Brian Colleen, the reclusive aviation Billionaire, promised to pose as her lover. She began to doubt her allegiance to Nathan as a result of his stunning green eyes and the way he made her feel when he touched her. He's also Nathan's stepbrother, incidentally. She couldn't deny that she felt something for Brian, but what would it indicate for her relationship with Nathan going forward? Should she continue on her current path and work for the happily ever after she had always envisioned with Nathan, or take a risk on a new relationship with Brian? Please dear readers, I want to inform you all that this story is in series and I will be uploading all of them in the story, thank you all.

**********This story contains subjects and topics that are not suitable for younger viewers. Scenes that are depicted are that of abuse, slavery, trafficing, vulgar language, ect.. This story has a lot of dark and twisted topics and should not be read if you know these dark themes will be triggering. I will do my best to Label the chapters of abuse but know in almost every chapter there is some sort of triggering material. Again, I do not wish to cause any harm to anys emotional and mental health. Their are also subjestive material that includes but is not limited to emotional, physical, sexaul abuse as well as pedophilia. I in no way support any of these tragedies but do create dark and twisted stories. All stories created by me are completely fictional and have no real merit to any person's life (at least intentionally, I am not psychic and can not be sure that someone has or hasn’t gone through these horrors. Just know that you have been fully warned. Felicity is the oldest daughter of the Alpha of the Howl Pack. They are well known for their underground buisness. Forced to marry another alphas son in order to take over for her father Felicity is at a crossroads from wanting what she dreams and doing what she was brought up to do. Always the dutiful daughter. Felix was orphaned at an early age and sold into the seedy underground world of human sex slavery. Felix has only wanted one thing. Peace. His peace is that of a beautiful girl that sits by the lake every night to console him. In his dreams.