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Alessandro Accardi has one aim....to go global. Even if it means marrying the cold hearted De Luca's heiress to secure the deal. Lucia De Luca never saw herself settling down with any man but she temporarily agrees to marry Alessandro so as to keep her opera. Alessandro may have thought that he could seduce his arrogant bride and make her love him but Lucia keeps fighting him every step of the way. Happily ever after was never part of the bargain but Alessandro finds himself intrigued by her feisty defiance.
CHAPTER 1
*LUCIA*
My parents used to say I was a sweet little girl while growing up.And they wanted to see that sweet girl in me again. Well...it doesn't pay to be a sweet girl. Seven years ago,I lost my virginity and everyone saw everything. Too bad I wasn't awake for it. The video went viral. Of course it would. A billionaire's daughter on camera? Wouldn't you click share? Besides,that's what the three guys in the video did. Share. They shared me. One of them was my boyfriend,Julius. It was impossible to think he would do that to me. A coffee mug was bashed in my skull and my purse was used to choke me. They held me bound with ropes. They gagged me. What do you think hurt me the most? The coffee mug? The hot,swollen unlubricated flesh that violated me like I was just a fold of meat to jack off into? The wrenched shoulders and torn ACL from being trussed and tied up like something in a bad porno? The broken cheekbone from being raped from behind so hard my face smashed into the coffee table leg more times than the ER doctor could document? Or knowing that my boyfriend....my best friend had been a part of it. I don't really have it in me to pick which was worse. They're all the worst. How do I know any of this when I was drugged? The video. Everyone saw it. Hell,people in remote areas saw it too. I know this because of the emails...the tweets....the Facebook posts....the Snapchat and instagram and even Pinterest pins that mock me tirelessly although I don't have those accounts. Even now,after seven years....it persisted... Pain never dies. Then there are the pictures of the dicks. Oh God! The endless dick pics. When you're a billionaire's daughter and you get drugged and ganged raped and recorded and the taped video is later broadcast on every legitimate media,web page and pirate torrent site on the planet,you tend to draw out the crazies......the ones who think sending you a picture of their naked,erect little sausage is like bringing candy and flowers on a date. Like that picture will make you sleep with them... Become their girlfriend. Become their property. It seems half the world thought I deserved it. That I got too drunk and passed out and got what was coming. Uhm...What was coming was the three men who drugged me. Set up a camera and posted it online. How many people get to watch a real life defloration? How many people get to later watch themselves being deflowered? That's right. Not only was I violated by three guys I considered friends,but they took my virginity too. They took so much from me that night,seven years ago. They dumped me in front of my house. And two days later....when I could finally tell my family what had happened,my father got to them....tortured hell out of them before handing them to the police. But few minutes before my dad found them...the video had already gone viral. According to them,Julius never loved me. He was only interested in me because of my father's wealth. But he was having doubts if my father would ever accept him because we were still so very young and he really didn't have a good background. So in order to get some money from me....he planned to gang rape me with his friends and have a video of it so that they could blackmail my father with it. They had planned to get tons of money from him before a friend of theirs who weren't in on the show. The fourth guy stubbled on the video in Julius cell phone. I think he possibly enjoyed it or something but he sent it to his phone and sent it to his other friends and that was how the video started circulating until it went viral. My family weren't ashamed of me as I had expected they would be. They stood by me,especially my mom and Dads. Yes. I have two dads. Philip and Alberto. Was it wrong if I said I loved Alberto more? Well I do. And even if he isn't my biological father.....he treats me the same way he does to his other kids. Well not until recently when he started forcing me to come out of my shell and try to love again. I'm not in any shell. I only built strong walls around me so that no one would ever hurt me again. I don't need love. All the men I met after that incident are jerks who only wanted to be with me because I'm Alberto's daughter. So why on earth will I ever want to love or even settle down with any fucking man? They don't deserve it.
She sucked in a breath..."I'd say it's very good for my first time on a horse"She said and looked over her shoulder. Their eyes met and sealed for a long moment.She was so close that all he had to do was move his head forward and kiss that tempting mouth of hers but he didn't. He was trying to figure out what was so intriguing about her, especially her eyes. Dio!(God) He didn't like this one bit. "Stop looking at me like that"Xavier warned, coldly. Amanda and Alisha are identical twins. Alisha is betrothed to Xavier Da Silva. A powerful Italian. She's upset by his ruthlessness and vows to deal with him by running away. This cause their money hungry mother...Isobel to make Amanda become Xavier's bride until Alisha is found. It started as a harmless little ruse....but would it end up being so much more? #Two sisters. #One man #Italian Romance.
Allison fell in love with Ethan Iversen, the soon-to-be Alpha of the Moonlight Crown pack. She always wanted him to notice her. Meanwhile, Ethan was an arrogant Alpha who thought a weak Omega could not be his companion. Ethan's cousin, Ryan Iversen, who came back from abroad and was the actual heir of the pack, never tried to get the position nor did he show any interest in it. He was a popular playboy Alpha but when he came back to the pack, one thing captured his eyes and that was Allison.
Three years ago, Cecilia was left battered and alone by the man she loved most, Alston, yet she bravely completed the wedding ceremony while pregnant. Three years later, although they were married, they grew apart over time. Cecilia focused on her career, no longer foolishly believing in love. But her transformation instantly threw Alston into a panic... And what is the secret from 11 years ago that Cecilia has always been reluctant to reveal? *** "She went to a law firm, met with a lawyer..." A lawyer? Is Cecilia suing someone? Who? Is there any recent litigation against the company? Alston suddenly chuckled coldly, "Who could she sue? I'm the CEO of this company. How come such a matter doesn't come to me first?" The assistant swallowed nervously, speaking softly, "Sir, there's no litigation against the company. She met with... a divorce lawyer."
"Love is blind!" Lucinda abandoned her beautiful and comfortable life because of a man. She married him and slaved off for him for three long years. One day, the scales finally fell off her eyes. She realized that all her efforts were in vain. Her husband, Nathaniel still treated her like shit. All he cared about was his lover. "Enough is enough! I quit wasting my years with an ungrateful man!" Lucinda's heart was shattered into many pieces, but she summoned up the courage to ask for a divorce. The news caused a stir online! A filthy rich young woman recently got divorced? She was a good catch! Countless CEOs and handsome young men immediately swarmed to her like bees to honey! Nathaniel couldn't take it anymore. He held a press conference and begged with teary eyes, "I love you, Lucinda. I can't live without you. Please come back to me." Would Lucinda give him a second chance? Read to find out!
Desperate to handle her grandmother's towering medical bills, Gianna agreed to a contract marriage with Tristan, the enigmatic man she'd once shared a one-night stand with. She assumed they'd fulfill each other's needs and dissolve the arrangement once the terms expired. Unbeknownst to Gianna, this marriage was a dream Tristan had clung to for ten relentless years. Certain she was just filling someone else's role, Gianna prepared to leave when that other woman returned. But Tristan, his eyes burning with unspoken emotion, seized her trembling hand and declared, "You’re mine. Now and always."
Joelle thought she could change Adrian's heart after three years of marriage, but she realized too late that it already belonged to another woman. "Give me a baby, and I'll set you free." The day Joelle went into labor, Adrian was traveling with his mistress on his private jet. "I don't care whom you love. My debt is paid. From now on, we have nothing to do with each other." Not long after Joelle left, Adrian found himself begging on his knees. "Please come back to me."
“You need a bride, I need a groom. Why don’t we get married?” Both abandoned at the altar, Elyse decided to tie the knot with the disabled stranger from the venue next door. Pitying his state, she vowed to spoil him once they were married. Little did she know that he was actually a powerful tycoon. Jayden thought Elyse only married him for his money, and planned to divorce her when she was no longer of use to him. But after becoming her husband, he was faced with a new dilemma. “She keeps asking for a divorce, but I don’t want that! What should I do?”