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"Promise me one thing?" She asked. "Anything", he replied. "That if I am in any sort of trouble, you'll be there when I call for help?" "I promise", he sworn. "Good, but this is not goodbye Brendan, I'll be back." she assured him. "And I'll be waiting for that call", he smiled. _____ 5 years ago Elisha made her childhood best friend promise her something, something that she had no idea that she would need in the future. After an incident occur a year later, she was on the run ever since. When she couldn't run anymore and things started to catch up to her, she returned back to her childhood hometown and hope that her best friend kept his promise. But promises are meant to be broken right? Well this time we'll see if it will. _______
5 years ago.....
"Hey Brendan I need to talk to you", Elisha approached best friend. He was chilling by his car with two of his friends who shamelessly checked her out.
"What's up Lisha?" He asked, Lisha was her nickname from him since kindergarten.
"In private", she added looking at his friends who said bye and left.
"Do you want to go to my house or yours?" He opened the passenger side for her of his car.
"I can't be long my brother is picking me up soon, we're moving", she looked away.
"Text him, we'll drive around town while we talk", Brendan suggested.
"I only got five minutes", Elisha said.
"Okay, then start talking Lisha, you're worrying me", he frowned.
"When I move, I don't think I'm coming back here", she began.
"But we still will keep in contact right?" He asked.
"Yes of course", she nodded.
"Good because you know we're a team and this year we planned to run the school together", he joked.
"Not if Stephanie does it first", Elisha rolled her eyes.
"Nah you're irreplaceable", he assured her.
"At least Layla doesn't have to fight me for vice captain spot this year in softball", she shrugged.
"Oh yeah I was sure you would of been captain since I'm captain of the baseball team", Brendan boasted.
"Promise me one thing?" She asked.
"Anything", he replied.
"That if I am in any sort of trouble, you'll be there when I call for help?"
"I promise", he sworn.
"Good, but this is not goodbye Brendan, I'll be back." she assured him.
"And I'll be waiting for that call", he smiled.
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Short chapter, but this is the introduction to the book.
Meet Amanda Jones is your typical 16 year old girl, with strawberry blonde hair and capturing baby blue eyes. She is the only girl in her family and luckily enough inherit the blue eyes from her grandmother on her mother's side. There is also something about her, she has five older brothers and they all live together under the same roof. Their parents are always busy leaving their oldest son, Max in charge. That's one of the reason why Amelia can't even go on one single date because of her highly protective and scary brothers. Two of them are seniors at her school and sadly twins. That's all about to change. __________________ Meet Sebastian Grey, he's new in town and so call 'golden boy'. Every girls want to date him and every guy envy him with his silky chestnut hair and light brown eyes. One thing about him is, he doesn't mess with is his grades and can be quite a party king. What happens when he befriends Amanda? How will her brothers react to her getting a new guy friend? Not to mention also having a secret admirer. ____________
Darya spent three years loving Micah, worshipping the ground he walked on. Until his neglect and his family's abuse finally woke her up to the ugly truth-he doesn't love her. Never did, never will. To her, he is a hero, her knight in shining armour. To him, she is an opportunist, a gold digger who schemed her way into his life. Darya accepts the harsh reality, gathers the shattered pieces of her dignity, divorces him, takes back her real name, reclaims her title as the country's youngest billionaire heiress. Their paths cross again at a party. Micah watches his ex-wife sing like an angel, tear up the dance floor, then thwart a lecher with a roundhouse kick. He realises, belatedly, that she's exactly the kind of woman he'd want to marry, if only he had taken the trouble to get to know her. Micah acts promptly to win her back, but discovers she's now surrounded by eligible bachelors: high-powered CEO, genius biochemist, award-winning singer, reformed playboy. Worse, she makes it pretty clear that she's done with him. Micah gears up for an uphill battle. He must prove to her he's still worthy of her love before she falls for someone else. And time is running out.
Lindsey's fiancé was the devil's first son. Not only did he lie to her but he also slept with her stepmother, conspired to take away her family fortune, and then set her up to have sex with a total stranger. To get her lick back, Lindsey decided to find a man to disrupt her engagement party and humiliate the cheating bastard. Never did she imagine that she would bump into a strikingly handsome stranger who was all that she was currently looking for. At the engagement party, he boldly declared that she was his woman. Lindsey thought he was just a broke man who wanted to leech off her. But once they began their fake relationship, she realized that good luck kept coming her way. She thought they would part ways after the engagement party, but this man kept to her side. "We gotta stick together, Lindsey. Remember, I'm now your fiancé. " "Domenic, you're with me because of my money, aren't you?" Lindsey asked, narrowing her eyes at him. Domenic was taken aback by that accusation. How could he, the heir of the Walsh family and CEO of Vitality Group, be with her for money? He controlled more than half of the city's economy. Money wasn't a problem for him! The two got closer and closer. One day, Lindsey finally realized that Domenic was actually the stranger she had slept with months ago. Would this realization change things between them? For the better or worse?
The day Lilah found out that she was pregnant, she caught her fiancé cheating on her. Her remorseless fiancé and his mistress almost killed her. Lilah fled for her dear life. When she returned to her hometown five years later, she happened to save a little boy's life. The boy's father turned out to be the world's richest man. Everything changed for Lilah from that moment. The man didn't let her experience any inconvenience. When her ex-fiancé bullied her, he crushed the scumbag's family and also rented out an entire island just to give Lilah a break from all the drama. He also taught Lilah's hateful father a lesson. He crushed all her enemies before she even asked. When Lilah's vile sister threw herself at him, he showed her a marriage certificate and said, "I'm happily married and my wife is much more beautiful than you are!" Lilah was shocked. "When did we ever get married? Last I checked, I was still single." With a wicked smile, he said, "Honey, we've been married for five years. Isn't it about time we had another child together?" Lilah's jaw dropped to the floor. What the hell was he talking about?
Corinne devoted three years of her life to her boyfriend, only for it to all go to waste. He saw her as nothing more than a country bumpkin and left her at the altar to be with his true love. After getting jilted, Corinne reclaimed her identity as the granddaughter of the town’s richest man, inherited a billion-dollar fortune, and ultimately rose to the top. But her success attracted the envy of others, and people constantly tried to bring her down. As she dealt with these troublemakers one by one, Mr. Hopkins, notorious for his ruthlessness, stood by and cheered her on. “Way to go, honey!”
Two years ago, Ricky found himself coerced into marrying Emma to protect the woman he cherished. From Ricky's perspective, Emma was despicable, resorting to underhanded schemes to ensure their marriage. He maintained a distant and cold attitude toward her, reserving his warmth for another. Yet, Emma remained wholeheartedly dedicated to Ricky for more than ten years. As she grew weary and considered relinquishing her efforts, Ricky was seized by a sudden fear. Only when Emma's life teetered on the edge, pregnant with Ricky's child, did he recognize-the love of his life had always been Emma.
June Rivera was divorced by her husband after three years of marriage because he wanted to be with her sister who was pregnant for him. Kicked to the curb with a divorce and rejected by her parents,she struggles to make ends meet and get a job until she saves Luis Ambrose from an accident - the only child of Rafael Ambrose, a widowed man and the CEO of Ambrose Corporation. When little Luis asks to have her as a nanny, and Rafael's mother pressures him to get married, they draw a contract. To be Luis's nanny and his fake wife for one year in exchange for 50 million dollars!