Cold-hearted CEO Karen of Hayes Group is trapped in brutal internal family power struggles. Convinced that the gentle Shana is a pawn planted by her stepfather Leon, she spends one turbulent night with Shana out of suspicion and caution, leaving money afterwards to treat their encounter as a transaction. Shana refuses to take a single cent. Born into a reclusive wealthy family, she has had a crush on Karen since her youth and approaches her purely out of long-held secret love. Plagued by doubt, Karen keeps testing Shana, yet against her better judgment, she keeps making exceptions and falling for her.Leon and his daughter scheme relentlessly to seize corporate power and close in on Karen step by step. After layers of misunderstandings are finally cleared up, Karen realizes Shana's selfless true affection. She dismantles her stepfather's power-grabbing plot, lets down her defenses, and embraces this years-long secret crush. The two find mutual love and stay together.
When Luca Moretti chose the jewelry for our wedding, he still bought two pieces and let my twin sister Bianca choose first. One was a ruby cuff from a Sicilian auction. The other was an off-the-rack black onyx bracelet, the kind sold in every mall jewelry store. For the first time, I reached before Bianca could. I pointed at the ruby cuff. "This time, can I choose first?" Luca set his palm on my head with the easy affection he used to make me behave. "Bianca has always been stubborn about quality. If it's not the best, she won't take it. You don't care about this stuff, Elena. The other piece isn't bad." I didn't answer right away. Something inside my chest went quiet. In my own family, Bianca always got the first slice, the clean seat, and the room with the view. My mother said she needed the best because she carried the Bellini name better. My father called it practical. Marriage worked that way too. The Bellinis and Morettis had promised one daughter to the Moretti heir long before either of us knew what love was. Everyone assumed that daughter would be Bianca. Instead, she made her position crystal clear: she'd rather keep her freedom and her spotless public image than become Mrs. Moretti. So Luca turned to the remaining Bellini daughter. I had known Luca for twenty years, and in his world, I always stood behind Bianca. I looked at the black onyx bracelet on the table and pushed it back. "Bianca can have both. I'm not choosing." I didn't want another leftover choice. Not anymore.
"""As chaos broke out near the river, my mother secretly left me on a piece of driftwood floating on the water.My crying caught the attention of the winning side.They walked over with their guns raised, and one of them pressed a pistol right against my forehead.“Why don't we adopt him?”Since then, I have 109 sisters in my family.At home, I'm the bratty ruler.But in school, things were not so good.Giovanni Rossi, a rich student, has me cornered in the washroom with his lackeys flanking him.""""You're just a low-income student, so why are you still putting on airs around us? Polluting the air has consequences!""""Since the beating I've received is far too brutal, I grab Giovanni and roll down the stairs with him.When I woke up, Marcella Greco, Dean of Students, berated me angrily.“All Giovanni did was beat you up. When someone talks trash and puts their hands on you, you ought to be asking what you did wrong.How dare you plot revenge against him instead!”“Summon your guardian here right away,or forget about leaving!”
All of my hair stands on end as soon as I hear the command.My guardians—109 sisters—none of them are ordinary people, and I've been leading a normal life for more than a dozen years in order not to cause them any trouble.But if trouble shows up at my door, then I can't help it.“Are you sure you want to meet my guardians, Ms. Greco?”"""
In her past life, Seraphina was killed by her own husband—after he murdered their child. Reborn with her memories intact, she breaks free from that scumbag and chooses the Third Prince of the Dragon Clan, a man hiding his true power. Together, they take revenge and seize control of the Dragon Clan.
I went to exactly one party in my new, wealthy neighborhood. Then my neighbor Brenda sued me. In court, she held her bruised and battered daughter, Tiffany. She accused my son of rape. Mid-hearing, Tiffany tugged her collar down. Red marks circled her neck. "He tried to rip my pants off," she sobbed. "He tried to force himself on me. I fought back. So he beat me. He ruined my face!" Outside the courthouse, protesters held up signs, calling my son a piece of trash, a spoiled rich kid. Online, a photoshopped memorial of me went viral. The caption read: The unfit mother should die with her son. My company’s stock plummeted. But I just sat there. Stone-faced. I asked for my son, Cooper, to be brought in. The courtroom doors opened. Cooper walked in. Everyone froze.
Angel Eric and Demon Hailey fall deeply in love and have twin boys, but one misunderstanding tears them apart. Sixteen years later, their twin sons swap identities to play matchmaker and bring their parents back together.
I am a pureblood Alpha Female. My parents were tied up with pack affairs year-round, so I grew up at their side, living and breathing pack life. After my wolf awakened, every pack duty got dumped on me. When we finally got a break, the whole family agreed to take a trip. Before we left, Mom laid the plane tickets on the table. The five tickets belonged to my parents, Daniel Carter and Vivian Carter; my brother, Marcus Carter; my fated mate, Hale Bennett; and my adopted sister, Leah Foster. Years ago, Leah's father, Gavin Foster, had died saving Marcus during a rogue attack. Born into a frail Omega bloodline and left without a father, Leah had been taken into our family and pampered as one of our own for seven years. I stared at the tickets for a long time. There really wasn't one for me. When I asked Mom what was going on, her eyes darted away. "Don't you have border patrol coming up? I figured you'd be busy, so I didn't buy you one. "Leah finally got some time off. She's been so busy with her job at the council, and we wanted to take her somewhere to relax. The anniversary of her father's death is coming up. We just want her to be happy." Marcus was packing Leah's bags, carefully choosing her favorite pink suitcase. And Hale, my boyfriend of five years, was busy matching her outfits and carefully packing away her passport and boarding pass. "Beatrice, what are you standing around for? Pack up your ski gear and give it to Leah. Gavin saved Marcus's life. We need to show some gratitude." Dad waved at me, motioning for me to get moving too. I stood in the living room, watching my family bustle around. So they did know I existed. They were just using a life debt to wring everything they could out of me. Even my fated mate could defy his instincts and become just one more thing my family was willing to sacrifice to repay their debt to Leah. Since there was no place for me on this trip, I'd give them exactly what they wanted. I lowered my gaze to my phone. The Alpha King
Mafia Don Cesare slaughters Helena's fiancé and family on her wedding day, forcing her into a hellish marriage. For seven years, Helena endures his cruel obsession until she fakes her death and flees pregnant. But when Cesare hunts her down, the bloody truth shatters everything she ever believed...
Kidnapped and brutally dismembered, Nora's ghost returns home to find her police-parents doting on their adopted daughter. But karma hits hard when they're called to autopsy a mutilated corpse. The horrifying truth shatters them: it’s Nora—their neglected biological daughter. Their agonizing regret comes far too late.
After seven years of marriage, Amanda finally conceives a child with her husband, Dante—only to watch helplessly as he strips their unborn baby of its inheritance rights for the sake of his childhood sweetheart. Heartbroken, she leaves and undergoes a dramatic transformation, emerging as the sole heir to a powerful Mafia dynasty. When Dante finally uncovers the truth, can he win back the wife who once loved him so deeply?
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