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I Slapped My Fiancé-Then Married His Billionaire Nemesis
Being second best is practically in my DNA. My sister got the love, the attention, the spotlight. And now, even her damn fiancé. Technically, Rhys Granger was my fiancé now-billionaire, devastatingly hot, and a walking Wall Street wet dream. My parents shoved me into the engagement after Catherine disappeared, and honestly? I didn't mind. I'd crushed on Rhys for years. This was my chance, right? My turn to be the chosen one? Wrong. One night, he slapped me. Over a mug. A stupid, chipped, ugly mug my sister gave him years ago. That's when it hit me-he didn't love me. He didn't even see me. I was just a warm-bodied placeholder for the woman he actually wanted. And apparently, I wasn't even worth as much as a glorified coffee cup. So I slapped him right back, dumped his ass, and prepared for disaster-my parents losing their minds, Rhys throwing a billionaire tantrum, his terrifying family plotting my untimely demise. Obviously, I needed alcohol. A lot of alcohol. Enter him. Tall, dangerous, unfairly hot. The kind of man who makes you want to sin just by existing. I'd met him only once before, and that night, he just happened to be at the same bar as my drunk, self-pitying self. So I did the only logical thing: I dragged him into a hotel room and ripped off his clothes. It was reckless. It was stupid. It was completely ill-advised. But it was also: Best. Sex. Of. My. Life. And, as it turned out, the best decision I'd ever made. Because my one-night stand isn't just some random guy. He's richer than Rhys, more powerful than my entire family, and definitely more dangerous than I should be playing with. And now, he's not letting me go.Mara's POV
My mum couldn't even wait for me to get close to her room door before she threw her shoe at me.
"Ouch mum!" I yelped and held my nose that had just been bruised because she didn't miss her target.
"What are you doing here?. You intruder!" my mum screamed at me.
"Someone please help there is a thief in my house, a murderer, a kidnapper, someone save me,!" My mum suddenly began to yell.
"Mum?" I looked very surprised because I couldn't comprehend what was happening.
"Don't you even dare to call me that because I am not your mother. The daughter I gave birth to will never be brave enough to spend late nights outside" my mum was giving me a stern warning as she pointed her index finger at me.
Tears flowed from my eyes as I couldn't hold them back anymore.
"I don't know what I have done to you that makes it difficult for you to trust me.
You couldn't even open the door for me last night and you risked my life. I was attacked yesterday and I ran to the house. I ran to my own mother but she shut the door and refused to take me in" I continued my sob as I wiped the tears from my eyes.
"You didn't even bother to ask why I was late and where I had been all this while, you just concluded and decided to scold me. It is so not fair mom because I do everything for you and you don't care about me.
I'm such a horrible child" I managed to talk in between my sobs and I could see that my mother's heart had melted as she walked up to me and tried to touch me but I moved away from her.
"You already denounced me as your daughter. What else do you want?" I wiped my tears.
"I'm sorry Mara, I thought.." My mother was trying to plead with me as she felt very remorseful.
"You thought that I had purposely stayed out late! You thought that I had started doing the things you forbade? But even at that mum. The punishment you gave me last night was more than my offense.
I could have been killed" I interrupted her.
"I'm so sorry, my baby. I didn't mean to but I was so upset" my mum also joined me to cry.
"I'm really sorry, it won't ever happen again okay" my mum was trying to assure me.
"Come I will make your favorite meal for you" my mum promised me as she made her way to the kitchen.
"No mum, I have had breakfast.
My boss was the one that helped me. Come let me tell you everything" I pulled her back and made her sit on her bed as I wiped her tears and began to narrate the whole story to her, cutting off the part where I threatened my own boss of course. I didn't want to put any crazy ideas in her mind.
At Mia's orphanage
"Why are you packing your things Mia?" A little girl came running into Mia.
"I am going for a sleepover at school, Lakshmi said it would be nice" Mia replied as she continued to go through the things that she would be needing.
"Wow! Can I come with you?" The little girl looked at Mia with pleading eyes which had no effect on Mia at all.
"No I don't think the school would allow me to bring you along" she replied the girl.
"But Mia, I won't be in any trouble." The girl wasn't planning on giving up.
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Garden Ornaments
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The Secret Garden
One of the most beloved children's books of all time and the inspiration for a feature film, a television miniseries, and a Broadway musical, The Secret Garden is the best-known work of Frances Hodgson Burnett. In this unforgettable story, three children find healing and friendship in a magical forg/0/811/coverorgin.jpg?v=20171121201128&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Garden of Survival
IT will surprise and at the same time possibly amuse you to know that I had the instinct to tell what follows to a Priest, and might have done so had not the Man of the World in me whispered that from professional Believers I should get little sympathy, and probably less credence still. For to have/0/1808/coverorgin.jpg?v=20171116170309&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Garden Without Walls
It happened about six in the morning, in a large red room. A bar of sunlight streamed in at the window, in which dust-motes were dancing by the thousand. A man and woman were lying in bed; I was standing up in my cot, plucking at the woman with my podgy fingers. She stirred, turned, rubbed her eyes,/0/200/coverorgin.jpg?v=20171121104904&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911. Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now on/0/83416/coverorgin.jpg?v=82e414ceec2d3079bb446c8d528d66c4&imageMogr2/format/webp)
A Garden of Us
"A Garden of Us" blossoms around the lives of Dr. Elara Vance, a driven and brilliant botanist dedicated to revitalizing dying ecosystems, and Liam Thorne, a reclusive yet deeply empathetic landscape architect haunted by a past loss. Their paths collide when they are both independently drawn to the/0/2453/coverorgin.jpg?v=8cb889cb5102013cc1324a1081385589&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Garden of Survival
The Garden of Survival, written in 1918, began in Blackwood's usual polished and expressive style. His protagonist, Richard, a former military man now making a living as a foreign diplomat in Africa, details in epistolary format his musings of life and love. We are informed of his having been marrie/0/12027/coverorgin.jpg?v=468c2e9340ad1f04c529f50883db2bd8&imageMogr2/format/webp)
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The Garden of Allah
The fatigue caused by a rough sea journey, and, perhaps, the consciousness that she would have to be dressed before dawn to catch the train for Beni-Mora, prevented Domini Enfilden from sleeping. There was deep silence in the Hotel de la Mer at Robertville. The French officers who took their pension/0/84871/coverorgin.jpg?v=903912920d3e956943176ff60f9a58ba&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Rose Garden Revenge
For ten years, I, Eleanor Vance, played the perfect wife, silent and supportive, while my celebrated architect husband, Robert, built his monuments of glass and steel-and enjoyed a revolving door of ninety-nine mistresses. But the real crack in my meticulously constructed facade came when his lates/0/18638/coverorgin.jpg?v=7a4556070d98135e2ee8ee76e5c4bd5e&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Magical Girl: Spell On Prince Vampire
After her brother had received admission to Royal Magic School, Anne decided to follow him into this magical world. It was there she met Brice, the great vampire lord. He was both intrigued and annoyed by this human girl, and once she ruined his date and used a spell to freeze him, it was all over./0/11472/coverorgin.jpg?v=c58ef9684f3240f7719aee42f7f29e61&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Kitten's Garden of Verses
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Garden-Craft Old and New
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Told in a French Garden / August, 1914
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The English Flower Garden / with illustrative notes
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