
백번째 신부8.1남자친구의 특별한 취향을 위해, 나는 성형외과에서 99번의 수술을 받았다.그가 말했다.“백 번째 수술이 끝나면, 우리 결혼하자.”그 한마디에, 나는 미친 듯이 기뻤다.병원을 나서며 하늘을 올려다봤다.오늘은 백 번째 수술이 끝난 날.오늘 밤은 내가 심도윤에게 평생 잊지 못할 밤을 선물할 차례였다.교외 고급주택의 대문을 살짝 밀고 들어갔다.그런데 안에서 터져 나오는 웃음소리 속에, 익숙한 내 이름이 섞여 있었다.걸음을 멈췄다.“도윤아, 경성권 제일가는 유흥계 여자를 완전히 가지고 놀다니, 대단하다. 그 여자는 아직도 네가 진심으로 결혼할 거라 믿는 모양이야.”“2주 뒤에 네가 청혼하는 상대가 자기 아닌 걸 알면 미쳐버리겠지? 분명 예전 상대들이랑 짜서 네 회사를 박살내려고 들걸?”심도윤이 담배를 물고 비웃듯 말했다.“그럴 용기 없어. 내 손에 걔랑 99명의 남자 영상이 있거든. 덤비면 그거 인터넷에 올려서 전국적으로 유명하게 만들어줄 거야.”“와, 도윤아 진짜 짱이다! 그 여자는 아직 모르겠지? 그 영상 속 남자들이 전부 네가 아니라는 걸.”남자들의 웃음소리가 다시 터졌다.그 찰나, 나는 완전히 굳어버렸다.그래서였다. 매번 일이 끝나기 전에 그가 내게 우유 한 잔을 먹이던 이유가.모든 게, 나를 더럽히기 위한 준비였다.나는 손에 쥔 수술 기록서를 찢어버렸다.그의 이름이 적힌 부분이 산산이 흩어졌다.뒤돌아서면서 속으로 중얼거렸다.‘네가 청혼 상대가 내가 아니라면 좋아. 나도 결혼할 상대를 바꿔줄게. 그게 네가 만든 결말이라면, 난 끝까지 맞서줄 거야.’ Read Now
달콤한 함정7.2“서예은? 질린 지가 언젠데.”
주현진은 비웃음이 담긴 눈빛으로 술잔을 흔들며 입꼬리를 살짝 올리고 말했다.
“지안이처럼 애교 많은 여자가 진짜 여자지. 서예은은...”
구석진 곳, 유리잔 하나가 남자의 손바닥 안에서 갑자기 산산조각이 났다.
서예은은 연애 3주년 기념 케이크를 꽉 움켜쥔 채, 그의 선명한 손가락 마디 사이로 흘러내리는 피를 물끄러미 바라보았다.
은하 그룹 대표 박시우는 천천히 손가락의 피를 닦아내며 그녀의 붉어진 눈가를 물끄러미 응시했다.
“서예은 씨, 나랑 결혼할래요?”
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경성이 발칵 뒤집혔다.
모두는 그저 하찮은 디자이너가 재벌에게 매달린 줄 알았지만, 사실 이 결혼은 그가 5년 전부터 꾸민 함정이었다.
박시우의 프라이빗 갤러리에는 그녀의 옆모습이 천여 점이 걸려 있었다.
대학교 2학년 때, 비 오는 골목에서 고양이를 돌보던 모습부터 패리 패션쇼 백스테이지에서 보석을 정리하던 순간까지.
깊은 밤, 그는 담배를 물고 폭우 속에서 무릎을 꿇고 있는 주현진의 CCTV 영상을 응시하더니 갑자기 자기 아내를 품 안에 끌어안았다.
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훗날, 한 경제 기자는 냉혈한으로 소문난 박 대표가 아내 앞에 무릎 꿇고 떨리는 손으로 임신 진단서를 들고 있는 모습을 카메라에 담았다.
반면 서예은은 결혼반지를 흔들며 가볍게 웃었다.
“박시우 씨, 놀랍죠?”
순간, 냉혈한으로 소문났던 남자는 눈가가 붉게 달아오르더니 그녀의 약지에 난 오래된 반지 흔적에 입을 맞추고 말했다.
“예은아, 네가 스물두 살이었던 그 해부터 하고 싶었던 말이 있었어.”
“무... 무슨 말이요?”
“케이크가 너무 달콤했어.”
박시우는 그녀의 귓가에 입술을 대고 잠긴 목소리로 속삭였다. Read Now
The Woman Who Gave the Tycoon an Heir9.4"Give birth to my baby, and I'll give you everything you want."
In order to raise enough money for her mother's surgery bills, Amelia Warren spends a night with a stranger. At first, she thinks she won't see him ever again, but her accidental pregnancy intertwines her fate with his.
Amelia rejects that suggestion immediately. "This is my uterus. I have the right to decide whether or not I want to give birth to this baby."
The man stops her in a domineering fashion. "You have no say in this matter!"
Michael Sutton, the famous business mogul in Southport, is a noble and prestigious man equipped with extremely brutal methods. No one dares to defy him at all.
Rumors have it that he's cold, distant, and isn't interested in the fairer sex at all. Some even whisper of his inability to sire children of his own. That is, until the paparazzi snap photos of him accompanying a woman to a prenatal check-up.
"Darling, you must be tired from all the walking. I'll carry you into the room."
"Darling, you must be thirsty, right? I'll feed you some water."
The so-called cold and distant man transforms into a henpecked husband right in front of the cameras, leaving everyone shell-shocked.
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Before Amelia meets Michael, she's stuck in a hopeless situation. Her dad is a gambling addict, and her mom is very ill. Before she can even graduate from university, she's already saddled with heavy debts. She envisions her life of despair to remain like this for as long as she draws breath.
That is, until she meets the ever-so domineering yet devoted Michael, who loves her with all his heart. That's when everything changes.
Some people mock her for her low status, saying that she's not fit to be a part of the upper crust. They even think that she has no right to stay by Michael's side and speculate that she must have seduced her way to this position.
Michael states, "The moment I laid my gaze on Amelia, I fell in love with her at first sight. I was the one who kept pestering her until she agreed to marry me."
A certain higher-up in the government also pipes up, "Please take good care of Amy, my dearest daughter-in-law." Read Now
Cinderella Fell For Her Bully9.5“W-what do you want to do?”He removed his hand from the doorknob and walked back towards me, placing his backpack down and looked back at me. “Come sit.” He said slowly.I followed him over to the bed and sat down.“What are we going to do?” I was so nervous but there was a slight hit of anticipation in my tone that made him looked excited. “I mean, are we just sticking with what we did last time or—?““Tongue.” He said bluntly.“What?”“I’m going to teach you how to really kiss a guy using your tongue.”*****************************************************Stella Hemmings aimed to leave her wicked stepmother and evil stepsister behind because they treated her like Cinderella in the fairy tale story wherein they made her do the household chores and beat her. The only difference was that her stepmother sends her to school but on one condition. She had to hide her identity, like wearing a curly wig and round glasses. Why? Because she looked exactly like her mom and her stepmother hated her mom so much that she asked her to cover her face and make herself ugly.And just like Cinderella, she also has a Prince Charming but sad to say, he was bullying her. Stella had a huge crush on him but he never noticed because she’s ugly. He only had eyes on the sexy and famous cheerleader Maxine. Knowing she couldn’t compete with Maxine, Stella hid her feelings for Tyler Lewis. However, the stupid cupid played his role and let them crossed their path in an unexpected way.Stella needed a huge amount of money for the operation of her stepbrother’s heart surgery, so she asked her friend Lisa to help her. Her salary as a part time student in the coffee shop wasn’t enough to save money for Dino’s operation. So she went with Lisa to work in one of the famous nightclub intown but soon went into trouble and the guy who bullied her in the school, saved her and saw her without the wig and the round glasses. After that incident, she tried to avoid Tyler in the school as much as she could, for he might recognize her as the girl he saved that night in the nightclub.But how could she avoid him when her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Tyler, he was determined to show her that he had earned a spot in his heart. Read Now
Slave Of The North7.6Marilyn had no idea that being sold as a Slave girl from the North would change the direction of her whole life totally.
Marilyn was just a young teenager growing up in the secluded Island in the Northern Kingdom. Her mother had died when she was six years old and she had spent the most of her life growing up with her very evil stepmother who hated her and usually treated her like a servant.
Her father was the only one who loved her but most times, her stepmother and older stepsister, Kate ( her stepmother bore her in her first marriage) would tell various lies against her on how disobedient and stubborn Marilyn was. This was to make her father scold her and the woman successfully made Marilyn's father turn against her too.
Marilyn didn't care about the ill treatment she always got from home so she wouldn't mind and still continued being the good girl that she was. Washing the dishes and clothes, kneading the dough and doing all sorts of demanding chores that were expected of her even though they were too much for only her to handle.
Unknown to Marilyn, her stepmother was planning to sell her off on a particular evening when she was asked to get medicine from the market for her sick father who was almost on the verge of death.
She had to run fast to the market to meet the local doctor who was waiting for her according to what her step mother had told her but she was not going to meet any local doctor to get medicine for her frail father, her stepmother was actually planning to sell her off.
The woman had already told the slave trader that a young girl was going to come and meet him that day. Poor Marilyn had no idea that her stepmother was selling her into slavery. The moment she got there, she met a very huge man with muscles, he had a rough face and a scar on his face, she felt that he didn't look like a doctor but he had pretended and had told her he was the one.
She tries to run away knowing he was no doctor but he was visibly stronger than she and before she knew it, she was knocked unconscious.
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When Marilyn was firstly sold, the slave dealer who took her away from her original hometown, the Northern Kingdom sold her with other girls to the Southern Ardenian Kingdom.
The girls had always heard of this kingdom and have never had the opportunity to go there.
Getting to see the most revered and respected kingdom in their lifetime felt like a blessing and a curse at the same time because most of them in their wildest dreams would have never had the thought of crossing the border of their tiny Island from the North to the Magnificent and Awe inducing Kingdom of Ardenia from the South, except that they were in the land now as a bound soul. Sold as a common slave who is at the bottomless part of the chain in the society.
Even a servant of the household had an enviable life compared to what they were now subjected to. They were given a slave sign to mark them so that whenever they escaped, it would be easy to find them. Marilyn had hers on the back of her neck and it had taken the effort of three men before they could successfully put it on her. She had to always let her blonde hair down and also tie a piece of scarf on her neck to cover the sign on it that read ' Slave of the North' in their local Northern dialect. Read Now
Torn between both worlds7.1Rohan knight – he has brunette hair, piercing hazel eyes and a muscular build, he is calm and level headed in times of making decision and cares a lot about his family and friends. He is one of the main characters as Avilla's mate, Camilla's brother and ben's best friend. He has been training to become the best warrior in his pack and has worked hard to achieve that.
Camilla knight- she is a pretty brunette with long legs and a gorgeous body, she is Rohan's sister and the mate of the human boy Mitchell, she is going to fight alongside Rohan to banish the law saying werewolves cannot mate with humans.
Avilla Stevenson – her black hair is the first thing that people notices, her eyes are a sparkling grey and she has a body that tempts every one that sees her. She is the new girl that arrived and caused confusion in Rohan's life, she lives with her aunt and is extremely shy. She is an ordinary human who turns out to be something much more.
Benjamin menzel- he is Rohan's best friend who tried to steal his mate from him because he is jealous of Rohan and secretly in love with Avilla.
Mr. and Mrs. knight- Rohan and Camilla's parents
Alpha Dickson- he is the alpha of the stronghold pack, extremely strong and powerful but he is archaic in his ways to mend the law.
Mitchell Rolando- he is the human mate of Camilla, he feels a strong pull towards her but is confused on how to handle such emotions.
Stronghold pack- the second most dangerous pack in the lycans kingdom
Melissa Dorian- is the queen bitch in high school that makes life miserable for everyone, she is your typical blonde girl with blue eyes.
Kenneth Norway- he is the jock in school that gets on ben's nerves by stealing his girlfriends.
It started with Rohan finishing the yearly race in his pack and coming first, they went out for a little celebration between the three of them mainly because Camilla wanted to see her mate but Rohan appeared late making Camilla mad at him and promising to get back at him. Her chance came when she tattled to ben that Rohan hates helping him solve his girl problems, which prompted a mini fight between the two. They patched it up when Rohan explained to ben that he was always doing the opposite of whatever he tells him to do making the problem get worse and later turns round to blame him.
Ben was pretty upset because his girlfriend, Melissa was talking to another boy and according to Camilla, she was already sleeping with Kenneth during the time ben was stuck training for the race. He was close to swearing off females and waiting for his mate but he got interrupted when the most beautiful girl came into the café…
Rohan felt the attraction sizzling from across the room but he was too tranced to say anything to his friends, he was too busy ogling the girl to pay attention to what ben was babbling about, he couldn't believe he had a human as a mate but furthermore he could not believe ben called dibs on his girl, he tried so hard to fight the attraction to this human girl but he it didn't work especially when his sister Camilla was having the same problem, the law was preventing them of being with their mate.
Camilla opened up to Rohan after she saw that he was having the same problem as her because she noticed the pull between her brother and the human and she knows the only way he could fight for her was knowing that his sister was in the same dilemma. They talked on the way home to the pack and looked for ways to avoid telling their parents, the choice came down to either telling them or going for a run and they chose the latter. The went to their favorite place since they were kids and Rohan was reminded that no matter how capable Camilla is in handling herself, he was going to make sure his baby sister was happy.
Avilla has tried her best to talk to the cute boy she saw at the coffee shop the other day but he keeps blowing her off like he doesn't even notice her but his best friend the goofy one always seem to be ogling her each time she passes which was very creepy but she figured if she could get close to ben then she could slip into Rohan's life. She wanted to find more about the pull she felt for him but ben seems to be falling in love with his best friend's mate when he was aware of the mate bond. While Rohan searches for a means to be with his mate, ben on the other hand tries to sabotage the process because he wants Avilla all to himself.
Avilla tries to explain to ben that they were just friends and she has always wanted Rohan, while Rohan decides to be happy even though the law forbids it, he starts hanging out with Avilla and slowly she creeps into his heart, deep enough to make him reveal the real him. He was expecting her to be scared and run far away from him but it only seems to draw her close like she has always been part of the supernatural world. It was a relief that she was open minded about him but he still didn't tell her the truth about their love.
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Rohan knew it was a suicide mission taking on his alpha but it was also a suicide mission to live without your mate and one out of those choices were easier, he was going to do everything within his power to fight for his mate. He treated avilla bad and would always hurt her each time they got closer.
When avilla had enough, she went on a trip and there she met a vampire who claimed her as his mate, spending time with the vampire triggered her vampire side and it became known to her that there are some secrets that she doesn't know.
She is a hybrid, her decision to choose a mate would lead to the never ending war between the wolves and vampires. Read Now