the bellagio

In Bellagio Heights, a city built on secrets, corruption and bloodlines no one is innocent, least of all the men who rule it. Elena Marquez has only one goal, protect her six-year-old son Mateo and give him the kind of ordinary life she never had. Working late nights at a quiet downtown diner, she thinks she’s finally found stability… until one fateful night changes everything. When she accidentally witnesses a mafia execution behind the diner Elena’s world implodes. The man holding the smoking gun, cold, commanding, terrifyingly magnetic is none other than Dante Moretti, the ruthless and feared head of the Moretti syndicate, a man whose name makes even corrupt politicians tremble. Dante cannot afford loose ends. Elena has seen too much yet something about the terrified woman who refuses to beg for her life stops him from pulling the trigger. Instead he makes a decision that shocks even himself, he spares her. And worse, he brings her into his world to “protect” her until he can find out who ordered the hit she witnessed. But protection in Dante’s world is a gilded cage. Elena and her son are taken to his sprawling mansion outside the city, a fortress built on blood money and loyalty. There the lines between captor and protector, enemy and saviour begin to blur. Elena sees the monster everyone fears but also glimpses the broken man beneath the armour, a man shaped by betrayal, violence and loss. And when she learns that her late husband may have once been tied to Dante’s empire the hatred between them deepens… even as desire takes root. As rival families close in and the city spirals into a brutal gang war, Dante and Elena are bound by fire, fury and an attraction neither can deny. Each secret uncovered threatens to destroy what fragile trust they’ve built. Each act of violence drags them closer to an impossible choice, love or survival. When enemies target her son Elena discovers what Dante truly is capable of and what he’s willing to sacrifice for the woman who once wanted him dead. Spanning betrayal, redemption and the dangerous pull of forbidden love, Bellagio Heights is a dark, addictive enemies-to-lovers saga about a woman who witnesses a murder and a man who becomes both her captor and her salvation. In a world ruled by crime and revenge, their greatest risk is learning to trust and to love.

Seorang anak! apa yang mereka inginkan dari orang tuanya? kasih sayang kah? harta kah? atau yang lainnya? Menurut aybel, dia hanya meminta kasih sayang yang tulus dari orang tuanya, bukan harta, kedudukan, atau semacamnya. percuma ada semua yang dia inginkan dan dapatkan bisa dibeli. apakah kasih sayang juga bisa dibeli? jika bisa dia akan membelinya dengan harta yang dia punya. Bandel, pecicilan, blak-blakan, pintar, cantik, baik, dan misterius ada pada dirinya. namun sifatnya akan berubah menjadi cerewet, caper, dan juga manja kepada dinel. Dinel? siapa dia? kenapa aybel bisa berubah karenanya? dinel adalah seseorang yang mampu membuat aybel menjadi seperti itu hanya dalam waktu pertama kali bertemu. anggap saja cinta pada pandangan pertama. pintar, ganteng, dingin, dan cuek itulah dirinya. namun dia akan berubah menjadi ramah, perhatian khusus untuk sira. Sira? siapa lagi dia? ada hubungan apa dia sama mereka berdua? "terimakasih untuk semuanya, dari perjuanganku yang pertama-tama tidak kau hargai hingga perjuanganku sampai detik ini. kita dapat dipertemukan dengan baik namun takdir selalu berusaha memisahkan kita." kata aybel "pertemuan dan takdir kita sudah ditentukan oleh-nya. maaf jika telah membuatmu tidak baik-baik saja selama kau menyukaiku, jika ku tahu akhirnya akan seperti ini, mungkin dari awal aku tidak akan menyia-nyiakanmu." kaya dinel

Ivy was just an average schoolgirl until, at the blink of an eye, she met him and he revealed to her a dark and mysterious world full of secrets waiting to be uncovered. Despair sets in as the darkness of her reality slowly creeps up from the shadows. Was everything that she had been taught a lie?

"Tampan sekali wajahnya." "Dia beneran dosen?" "Ha?! bodyguard?! yang bener aja pah!" Bella seorang aktris dan mahasiswa di jurusan manajemen tapi apa yang akan terjadi kalau pria tampan yang ternyata dosennya itu adalah bodyguardnya juga?

un ex militar que fue abandonado en una misión junto a 12 más es reencarnado luego de recibir una Granada con el odio hacia su capitán que los abandono allí para salvar su vida

In the village, Albel was known as the girl who has a face of an angel but the personality of a demon, but her mother Anagha was the saint who helped everyone and had a kind personality, to the villagers, she said her daughter was a fine girl, what should the villagers believe...?

" I've searched the high heavens and I've roamed in hell just for you. You are mine. You always were and always will be. "

A relationship between foster siblings , true love or incest

Do you have the courage...? This novel is also hosted on RoyalRoad under the name Einlion.

[Irresistible MC + Farming & Entrepreneurship + Strong Female Lead + Cute Baby + Love Rivalry + Farming System + Male Competition] Deng Yuyuan wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a period novel about a "pampered group darling" — as the biological mother of the vicious female villain. The female villain has a biased grandmother, a mooching uncle and his family, a blindly filial father, and a spineless mother. She was a small-time thief as a child. As an adult, she committed every kind of evil — constantly framing the female lead — and ultimately met a miserable end. The female lead is the only daughter in another family, doted on by her older brothers. The villain targeted her out of pure jealousy. And now, Deng Yuyuan has become that villain's cowardly mother — and the villain herself is currently just an ugly, wrinkly-faced infant. The blindly filial father loves his wife, but gives all the good things to his own mother. He says to his starving wife and daughter: "Xiao Yuan, come drink some water. I specially heated it for you." Deng Yuyuan looks at her own bony frame and her tiny child — and decides to get a divorce. Goodbye, useless husband. She's going to raise this little cub with an abundance of money and love. No way she'll go astray this time. Lost one husband, gained a crowd of suitors. A beautiful sent-down youth coveted by many — she knows some self-defense and burns the midnight oil studying. With the reinstatement of the college entrance exams, she takes her child toward a much wider world. Riding the wave of the times, Deng Yuyuan works her way up to become a gaming tycoon and a cutting-edge scientist... Except — why are so many men fighting to be her cub's stepfather?