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No Longer Mrs. Cooley: The Architect's Return
I went to the City Clerk’s office for a routine copy of my marriage license to finalize a trust fund audit. I expected a simple piece of paper, but the clerk’s pitying look told me my entire life was a lie. "The license was never finalized, Ms. Oliver. In the eyes of the state, you are single." The three-hundred-guest wedding at the Plaza and the Vogue features meant nothing. My husband, Gray Cooley, had intentionally filed the documents with a "procedural defect" so he could discard me without a legal divorce. Moments later, an iCloud invite titled "Our Little Secret" popped up on my screen. It was a photo of my best friend, Brylee, holding a positive pregnancy test at our Hamptons estate. Gray’s text to her was the final blow: "Happy anniversary, babe. This baby is the best gift. Once the trust unlocks today, we’re done with the charade." I soon discovered they were even stealing my career, reassigning my architectural masterpiece to Brylee while preparing my eviction notice. Gray's mother called me a "barren mule" in a leaked recording, mocking the infertility I suffered after saving Gray’s life in a construction accident. I wasn't a wife; I was a three-year placeholder used to secure his inheritance. How could the man I bled for treat me like a disposable prop? How could my best friend carry his child while pretending to comfort me through my darkest moments? The betrayal burned until it turned into a cold, hard stone of fury. I didn't cry. Instead, I walked into the penthouse of the Barretts, the Cooleys' most powerful rivals. I signed a marriage contract with Kane Barrett, the man the tabloids called the "Beast of Wall Street." "I want a wedding," I told his father, my voice steady and lethal. "Bigger than the one I had with Gray." If they wanted me gone, they would have to watch me become the woman who owns their world.In the mansion, Wendy, with one hand on her swollen belly, asked a maid anxiously, "Have you gotten any news from Your Highness?"
"Your Highness, His Highness said that he would do his best to help you solve the problem of Qin Mansion. He wanted Your Highness to stay at home and wait for the delivery." The maid Lucy glanced her hand, which was already pale from the grasping by Wendy, and a dash of displeasure flashed through her eyes. Disappointed, she withdrew her hand, and Wendy almost fell to the ground.
"Watch out, Your Highness!" Lucy held Wendy with one hand, and a smug smile flashed across her eyes. From now on, you are not Your Highness, and she will no longer be a slave, but a concubine of this mansion.
Thinking of this, Lucy burst into laughter. Thinking of her wonderful and grand day, she felt all her efforts over the years were worthwhile.
"Lucy, where is Judy? Why haven't I seen Judy these days?" Wendy asked Judy to inquire about His Highness's whereabouts, but Judy hadn't come back. Wendy wondered how her grandpa and other clans were doing, and if His Highness had begged the imperial edict from the Emperor, which meant that he had saved her grandpa's family?
"Judy is helping them. She'll probably be back today." Lucy grinned evilly. "I wonder how Qin Mansion is. Now Your Highness has been busy running around for the Qin family. He should has been very tired."
"Yes he is." Wendy sat down slowly. Jack was her husband, and was the first son of Prince Song. Although he was conferred by the Emperor as Royal Highness, he had no money and status. Jack's fame and fortune were closely related to Wendy.
Jack was a son of a concubine of Song Mansion. Although the heir to Song Mansion was not granted a younger son, the eldest son of a concubine could not get anything else except the title of a Royal Highness. Jack's achievement had something to do with Wendy's family, Qin Mansion.
The Qin family was a military general's family, but only had one son and a daughter. Their son was good. He was well-known in the battlefield, and later took over the position of his father Lord Qin. Their daughter was also talented and married the prime minister. Unfortunately, this prime minister's wife died in a big fire when her daughter Wendy was 14 years old.
Therefore, the Qin family had treated Wendy very well. Although Qin family didn’t think that Jack was an ideal grandson-in-law, they allowed him into the army for the sake of their beloved granddaughter. With the support of the Qin family, Jack won the fame of today.
"By the way, Lucy, where is Alice? How is she doing recently?" Wendy asked again. Thinking of her younger sister, she couldn't help but shed tears. Alice was also a poor woman. After getting married for three years, her husband died, and her mother-in-law was a mighty woman. She swore Alice for cursing her son. Since Alice lived a hard life, Wendy let her sister live with her together.
A vicious light flashed in Lucy's eyes. Lady Alice, was very good. She was now engaged to His Highness in the antechamber. You will lose your position soon.
"Lady Alice has been very busy recently."
"Really? It's all my fault." Fondling her swollen belly, Wendy said, "If I didn't get pregnant, I won't trouble Alice to do concubine work for me."
Lucy looked at Wendy with disdain. What a stupid and hopeless woman! Lady Alice did the concubine work was not for you, but for herself. Only in this way could she be the lawful wife of His Highness!
"Lady!" Suddenly, a figure broke into TY Boudoir. Wendy paused for a moment, and said, "Lucy, I think Judy is back."
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The Reincarnation of Empire's Lady
Noble, good-looking and kind-hearted, she was the daughter of the prime minister. She was kind to her father’s concubine, but that woman killed her mother; she took good care of her humble half-sister, but that girl seduced her husband; she supported her husband, but that man killed their stillborn/0/33056/coverorgin.jpg?v=20221009121518&imageMogr2/format/webp)
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Love and Letters: Dina and David's Story
Dina has always lived a complicated life so she doesn't have many friends. Her Dad is in prison, her Mom is remarried, and she spends most of her time in the streets picking pockets. Dina does this for a good reason though. She needs the money to go home to Botswana, where she can start over again./0/5751/coverorgin.jpg?v=80d789f50743cd58d8ccd6ed91bece49&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The Angel and the Author, and Others
In this amusing novel, Jerome K. Jerome takes what should be grim subject — bargaining with an angel who is attempting to record one's life's deeds and misdeeds — and transforms it into a thought-provoking and funny meditation on the true meaning of good works, charity and morality./0/35676/coverorgin.jpg?v=8a1d88479e36be06bc38c21689610233&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Love and Letters (Ari and Sebastian's Story)
In school, she is the brightest, most cheerful girl you'll ever meet. The one who was lucky enough to be one of the boys. But Ari has held secrets her entire life; the darkness of her home life, and the fact that she has been in love with her best friend David for years. Those were hidden within her/0/31681/coverorgin.jpg?v=7ac7d6fdbecd3e34e05d5a6fd6817d07&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Love and *
Damon’s hands were performing their own magic, she could feel his erection probing the center of her already moist vagina and she widened, giving him closer access. Her panties were already soaked with the wetness. His hand began moving, caressing her inner thighs before they came upon her center./0/13037/coverorgin.jpg?v=edd66742050e31f7fc4c71adb835156e&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern
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Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, 'Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales.' Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at th/0/18528/coverorgin.jpg?v=b59e969fd68bc5ea1dbf580d263d6b26&imageMogr2/format/webp)
My CEO Daddy
After being framed by her boyfriend and best friend, Nicole ended up spending the night with a mysterious stranger. She thoroughly enjoyed the unexpected rendezvous, but when she woke up the next morning, she couldn’t help but feel bad about what she did. All of her guilt, however, was washed away w/0/18728/coverorgin.jpg?v=b1825bdd0989589fb756648cb47b54f2&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Spicy Mommy: Get Into Trouble With Cold CEO
"Not until when she got pregnant did Nora realize that she was not the one Martin really loved. All of his sweet words were nothing but a romantic illusion. As she got the news that he would be engaged to another woman, she finally gave up and left away with his child. When she came back with their/0/18263/coverorgin.jpg?v=74ebd03ae9604f5c95867b6e4a3ceba1&imageMogr2/format/webp)
My Mr. Soldier
When her boyfriend betrayed her, all light and joy was gone from Cherry’s life. Deserted, bereft of hope, she married a man that she had barely met, but she had never expected him to be her ex-boyfriend’s uncle. Cherry thought that she had finally found her happiness, but she had no idea about th/0/60014/coverorgin.jpg?v=d3e6f42363b054202decf7f78eb5cd64&imageMogr2/format/webp)
FUR AND FANG SANCTUARY
Rose's whole world falls apart when her pack turns her down because she doesn't want to kill people. She never thought her intended mate would choose loyalty over love while she was in exile and by herself. But fate has other ideas... When Rose saves a strange hiker named Jake, she gets a second cha/0/64841/coverorgin.jpg?v=d90c3f0975476c1bc71ff9ce7307707c&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Beauty And The Beta
Bailey seems to be never destined to fit in, a little geeky, but under it all, a hidden beauty that so many seem to miss, but still not what her pack Alpha is looking for in a fated mate... so he is determined to reject her and make her life hell. Bailey, knowing her life will likely never be the sa/0/1713/coverorgin.jpg?v=20171116205350&imageMogr2/format/webp)
The School and Society
The three lectures presented in the following pages were delivered before an audience of parents and others interested in the University Elementary School, in the month of April of the year 1899. Mr. Dewey revised them in part from a stenographic report, and unimportant changes and the slight adapta/0/412/coverorgin.jpg?v=20171117175046&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Jack and Jill
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Flappers and Philosophers
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children’s eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea — if you gazed intently enough you could see them/0/1591/coverorgin.jpg?v=20210204114922&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Submarine and Anti-submarine
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Seen and Unseen
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Charles Dickens and Music
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so th/0/7345/coverorgin.jpg?v=8da254917ce1d7b23c4fb27f7ef9a82e&imageMogr2/format/webp)
