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The Placeholder Bride's Secret Billionaire Revenge
For two years, I was the invisible force behind tech billionaire Kieran Douglas, convinced that our "private" romance was his way of protecting us from the tabloid spotlight. I managed his mergers, warmed his bed, and waited for a future that didn't exist. The illusion shattered at 6:00 AM when a Page Six alert debuted Kieran's "real" romance with socialite Aspen Schneider. Before I could even process the betrayal, Kieran sent me a cold, professional text: "Order flowers for Aspen. Pink peonies. Her favorite." When I tried to walk away, my own mother called me a disgrace and threatened to lock my inheritance forever unless I married a sixty-year-old businessman to save her failing estate. At a high-society gala that same night, Aspen intentionally crushed my burned hand in front of the cameras, while Kieran stood by and dismissed me as a "mediocre assistant" who had overstayed her welcome. I stood in the cold New York rain, drenched in champagne and humiliation, realizing that every sacrifice I made for Kieran was a joke. I was a ghost in a penthouse that was never mine, discarded the moment his "soulmate" returned. To the world, I was just a placeholder whose time had run out. But Kieran forgot one thing: my father's multi-million dollar trust fund unlocks the moment I legally marry. I didn't need love; I needed a signature and a shield. I walked into a discreet law firm and signed a marriage contract with a man I believed was the city's most notorious, scandal-ridden playboy. I thought I was marrying a degenerate "beard" to buy my freedom and secure my revenge. I didn't realize the man who signed that paper wasn't a playboy at all, but Gaston Collins-the most powerful and dangerous man on Wall Street-and he had no intention of letting our fake marriage stay fake.Prologue
They say you can't trust a person so much because they can deceive you.They say be careful who you are trusting for because they can betray you without noticing it.They say some people act like they care and worried for you but...the truth is they just curious.That is the truth in this world.In this world that is cruel and you thought someone care for you.
I thought that it was just a nonsense those words not until...I experience it all in this cruel world and I said to myself that I need to survive...no matter what because survival is a must.
I'm Melody Rodriguez,a 16 years old girl who needs to survive in this cruel and false hope world because someone taught me the importance of surviving even it's hard to do.
Waking up in the morning without getting any enough or well sleep.How can I sleep if those memories will keep coming to my mind every night?I guess...every night I will always get sleepless night.
I have problem that I need to solve but my mind is completely weak because I don't really have enough sleep.Not just the trauma is the 'cause...my boardmates are so noisy when the nights come especially when it's Friday night.
"What an horrible past of mine..."I murmured before biting the toasted bread.
"Hey,Melody...do you have a USB?"Stephanie ask me while going down to the stair.
"I don't have one.Try to ask Nicole,as far I know she have a lot of USB."I answer before sipping the coffee that Sophia made.
I'm living in a boarding house because I'm already orphan.Since I was kid I'm living in an orphan house with the sisters and the other orphan kids.I leave the orphan because I want to be a independent person.
"Hey,Melody...did you see my make up kit?"Sophia ask me while preparing breakfast for us.
"No...ask Nicole I saw her yesterday using your make up."I answer before putting the cup in the sink.
"You already done drinking coffee,we're not even eating breakfast,Melody."she said while looking at me.
"You know...I have a sleepless night.That's why I need to drink coffee so that I will never get sleep in class."I defend myself because that's the truth.
"I heard that you have issue in the school that you're attending.But...I want to ask personally because I don't believe what people say.It is true that you did that kind of thing?"
I sighed while looking at her with a stoic expression on my face.Issue...that's one of my problem that I need to deal everytime I'm in the school.Everyday I'm always accepting a hurtful and harsh words from the people that know about that nonsense issue.
"Do you think I can do that?"I asked her since I really wanted to know what her thoughts about me.
People will always act like they like you but it's opposite...they hate you...they secretly hate you and they wish that you will never exist in this world.
"Well...you know,I'm not being judgemental...I'm just saying the truth,Melody.Don't hate me because you want to know what are my thoughts to you,right?"
I nodded to what she said because I know she afraid that I'm might feel angry if she will tell the truth but...the truth I will never get angry to anyone...I'm tired of forming a angry feeling inside of me.
"Well...you're a silent and quiet girl that's why I cannot tell the way you thinking.That's why I think that you can do that kind of thing.Because you might deceiving us."she honestly said while looking at my eyes.
"Well...you're deceiving us too,Sophia.Every people are acting,so be careful because you might end like what happen to me."the last words that I said to her before leaving her and going up to the stairs.
Walking is the only thing I can do so that I can reach the school that I'm attending.I don't have enough money because I forgot to get my money from my boss.
The cold wind is relaxing me and letting me to temporary forget all my problems especially my past that I don't want to think.The past that I always regret.The decision in my past were nonsense because I'm so innocent that time.
It's been 4 years when I left from the orphan house where I grew.They let me to leave because they know that I can live alone and become a independent person.Some of the orphan kids like me leave too that time.
No one is want to commit to adopt us because they think that we can be selfish when they adopt us.There's news that a adopted child of a CEO of a publishing company is killed the biological daughter of the CEO and that kid is came from the orphan house where I grew.
The society have a crab mentality when they saw and heard that news...that's why the funds of the orphan house is going down.There's still younger kids than us that's why we older ones sacrifice for them because they still need to live in orphan house.
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The Other Dimension Of Life
Melody Rodriguez a girl who only wants to feel beloved by the people around her.She's so much trusting that's why when someone betrayed her it cause her to feel traumatic.She entered to the door wherein the other dimension is from the book.She didn't expected that she will be the leading lady of the/0/42159/coverorgin.jpg?v=20230627183140&imageMogr2/format/webp)
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Other
Sydney Trousseau has always known she was a witch, but at the age of eighteen, she learns she is immortal as well. Orphaned, and time lost, she doesn't remember her parents and always wondered who she had received the gift of magic from, her mom or her dad. Learning she could summon the dead through/0/59773/coverorgin.jpg?v=20240802185855&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Pleiades and The Orions Guidelines to The 5th Dimension
Many are called few are chosen, as few were chosen To be Forerunners of the New Earth, from the 5th Dimension, this few beings are called the Light workers, they are guided by The Spirit beings of light The celestials Which are the Arm and feet of the Universe/1/103176/coverorgin.jpg?v=d3bafc763a38d4b06eb251e4e46265ef&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Other Man's Child
Selene was just eighteen when her life was rewritten. Pregnant, abandoned, and forced into a marriage of convenience, she carried another man's child down the aisle-without the man she married ever knowing the truth. Years later, her marriage to Tom Harold is a cage of cold words and hollow promis/0/21558/coverorgin.jpg?v=68da98badbd3334553d088ce0002516b&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Other Side
Mary can see beings from the other side where most people don't. Her ability causes her to have a hard time growing up. She always thought that it was a gift to see the paranormal entities around us. But it turns out to be a curse since she can't live a normal life. When she turned into an adult,/0/25828/coverorgin.jpg?v=723db197a8d7b4eba110b76f2df108cb&imageMogr2/format/webp)
THE OTHER WOMAN
Kantil is a beautiful divorce woman with a body like a Spanish guitar. Since her divorce, Kantil has struggled to meet the needs of her sickly child and mother. Meeting an old friend carries Kantil into the night world. In there, she met with Hendrik. A wealthy man who owns many companies, Hendrik/0/83681/coverorgin.jpg?v=20260106202723&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Hero's Other Life
My husband, Mike, was a hero: a National Guard Sergeant, beloved teacher, and football coach. I was his proud, supportive wife, a registered nurse at the VA, and I believed our life was built on his service to our country. But on a charity delivery for Gold Star families, I drove to a quiet town e/0/16563/coverorgin.jpg?v=54ee7ed0c13ec8384679aa0fe2918ddc&imageMogr2/format/webp)
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The Other Twin
Some call her RED, others call her the Angel of death. Whichever one she was called she lived up to it, she was invincible, smart, swift, and merciless and she had a meek twin, who serves in an orphanage. She was mistress to one of the most formidable Spanish gangsters, who was also ruthless. They w/0/5026/coverorgin.jpg?v=2f8c7aaff06e1acb599cba95cc9657fb&imageMogr2/format/webp)
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The Duel and Other Stories
Life Is Nothing More Than a Never-Ending Duel"To be in continual ecstasies over nature shows poverty of imagination. In comparison with what my imagination can give me, all these streams and rocks are trash, and nothing else." - Anton Chekhov, The DuelUsing his keen spirit of observation, Anton Chek/0/8431/coverorgin.jpg?v=20210813182729&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Preliminaries, and Other Stories
The Preliminaries, and Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer/0/15789/coverorgin.jpg?v=20210813185618&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Deserter, and Other Stories
The Deserter, and Other Stories by Harold Frederic/0/16408/coverorgin.jpg?v=20210813185841&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Mantle and Other Stories
The Mantle and Other Stories by Nicholas Gogol/0/5250/coverorgin.jpg?v=20210813190115&imageMogr2/format/webp)
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The Party and other stories
AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband’s name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity of the servants, the long intervals bet/0/79639/coverorgin.jpg?v=d120edfc595220e29f599bab7a546f88&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The other woman was ME
Eldoria is a calm and serene metropolis, where a beautiful story unfolds-where power masks pain and love is a luxury few can afford. A billionaire's perfect life shatters when his wife's silence buries a secret, and the woman hired to carry their child rather carries away his heart instead. --- --/0/90946/coverorgin.jpg?v=07e44c92e5757437b66f68e86a2e6ffd&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Tangled With The Other Brother
She was always the good girl. Until heartbreak made her reckless. Elena Sinclair thought marriage meant forever. But five years in, her "forever" has become a gilded cage of pain and betrayal. She's the wife who couldn't give him a child. The barren disappointment. And for that, her husband offere/0/11449/coverorgin.jpg?v=20210813183059&imageMogr2/format/webp)
