a wizard's guide to defensive baking

It's my fiancé's grandmother's birthday banquet. My father's adoptive daughter suddenly snatches the gift I've prepared and says loudly, "My adoptive sister is so rude. "She tried to take the gift I prepared for Mrs. Scott Senior and play it off as her own. I'll have my father teach her a lesson when we get home later." The guests start to whisper among themselves and criticize me. In the past, I would've fled. I would never have dared to retaliate. Unfortunately for her, I've been reborn. I swipe the gift from her and throw it onto the floor. "When has my family turned into something for you to brag about? You mentioned having your father teach me a lesson, right? He's just been released from jail after being there for a decade due to theft. Are you going to bring him here?"

The daughter of our housekeeper was pretending to be a rich girl at college, handing out my designer stuff just to keep up the act. When I called her out, she actually had the nerve to say she was "redistributing wealth to help the less fortunate." I called the cops, but then she spread this wild rumor that I made her sleep with me for three years, and that she was using my luxury items to help me "atone for my sin." Then she and her boyfriend teamed up to try and have me killed. Next thing I know, I woke up and it was the exact same day she started her whole rich-girl act.

I hated him for being so good at playing me. At making my body crave his touch. At making me forget everything else and focus only on him. I hated that even though I was mad at him, I couldn't resist him. But I wanted to prove so badly that he didn't have me wrapped around his little finger so I spat, "Eric, stop!" Eric looked at me briefly and then pulled his hand out of my slit. He unbuckled his belt and let it hang loosely in his belt loops. Still holding my gaze with his, he unzipped his pants and brought out his cock. I shuddered and swallowed. "Say that again," he gruffed. . In an attempt to forget about her cheating boyfriend, Sapphire not only gets wasted in a nightclub but also takes part in a truth or dare game with her friends and she's dared to make out with any random guy present. She goes through with the dare – only that her pick is not just any random guy. Eric is the drop-dead hot grandson of a family of generational billionaires and also the new CEO of the company where Sapphire works at. After a heated argument between him and his mother over his refusal to get married, he goes to a nightclub to drown away his frustration. There he meets Sapphire, the perfect distraction. Their encounter leads to a mind-blowing one-night stand. And Eric is forced to enter into a one-year contract marriage with her afterwards. What starts out as a mere agreement becomes fueled by raw attraction and love for each other. But Sapphire’s new villainous mother-in-law, Eric’s philandering nature, a dark secret of the Donovans and the universe itself will threaten to break the two apart in more ways than one.

Lunavia Luminari is someone who has spent the most of her life inside, reading and painting her inner thoughts. What she wants is to read her favorite romance book, bask in the sun and paint. But her peaceful life is destroyed when her family suddenly goes bankrupt and her Fiancee broke up with her and got together with her cousin. With the responsibility to help her family get back to her feet, she had no other option but to set herself up with the most dangerous man in the country who is 10 years older than her. It was at that time her life seems to have a new start, with a child that came suddenly and a husband, Luna has to protect herself, help her family rise to the top again and get rid of this marriage. But without realizing it, she already set herself up for a lifetime contract. Will she successfully get her desires without losing herself in the process? How would she cope with the new life that is placed in front of her? With a child between them, will she finally accept him as part of her life?

Fiona Colton a Twenty Three year's old lady who was dumped and duped by her boyfriend, who she loved after taking over her father company. She was looking for a way to solve her company problem when she came across an ad about marrying a billionaire. Will she accept the offer and marry him and what will she face in this marriage.

I had been married for seven years. My husband's nemesis kidnapped me and threatened my husband that they would kill me, yet he ignored it because his sweetheart had asked him to use this opportunity to subdue me and teach me a lesson so that I would give away my assets. The moment I escaped that hellhole, I asked my husband for a divorce, but he claimed his sweetheart tricked him and knelt before me to beg me not to leave.

Napilitan si Eliza na ibenta ng kanyang Tita Linda sa isang guwapong bilyonaryo para may perang gastusin sa ospital ng asawa nito na naaksidente dahil sa kanya. Wala siyang kaalam-alam na ibebenta pala siya. Akala niya no'ng una ay magtatrabaho lang siya sa guwapong bilyonaryo na si Alexander ngunit hindi pala. Kulang na lang ay malagutan siya ng hininga matapos niyang malaman na binenta pala siya ng kanyang sariling tita. Wala naman siyang nagawa kundi ang tanggapin na lang ang kanyang naging kapalaran. Dahil sa binenta na siya ng kanyang tita sa guwapong bilyonaryo na si Alexander ay lahat ng gustuhin nito ay kailangan niyang gawin kagaya ng pakikipag-sex dito. Ano kaya ang kahahantungan niya kasama ang guwapong bilyonaryo na si Alexander? Paano kung maging impyerno nang tuluyan ang buhay niya kasama ang guwapong bilyonaryo na ito? Is there a chance for her to escape? Paano kung magkaroon silang dalawa ng relasyon ni Alexander na guwapong bilyonaryo? Aalis pa ba siya sa piling nito o habang buhay na lang mananatili tutal una pa lang ay pati puso niya ay nabili na nito?

Ivy Young is a final year student whose only aim is to study hard, have good grades and get a scholarship to college. Everything is going according to her plans until she crosses the path of the school bad boy, Romeo Sparks. When Ivy attended a party and got into a TRUTH or DARE game with him. Her first kiss is to be taken by him or she dates him for a month. He is a school playboy and she is just a school nerd. He is dangerous. He is reckless. He is too bad for Ivy.

Matured Contents Ahead. Please this book is highly rated 18+ "You will pay for this Amelia, mark my words, you got married to me through deception, you will suffer the consequences. And now you will face your first punishment, you want to be my wife huh, you will face what happens to them on their wedding night." He chuckled, but it was one filled with bitterness. "You're not that beautiful. But that doesn't mean I won't have your body." Amelia Harper, a young lady with virtue, finds herself in a family and vicinity where she isn't acceptable. Her family borrowed money from Dylan Blackwood the billionaire and couldn't pay their debt. Dylan Blackwood decided to take the Harper's most beautiful daughter as a wife in place of debt but she fled with her lover leaving her elder sister, the not so pretty one, Amelia Harper to suffer the consequences.

What can be more worse and grieving than discovering that your cool and reserved father is involved in Mafia business? Well,learning that you would be married to a cruel Mafia King is worst. ALLISON MCCARTHY is the only child of her parents,she could be termed as a perfectionist;she's ambitious,beautiful and intelligent. Her dreams was shattered when she learnt that she would be married to a Mafia king just to satisfy his lust. Arrogant. Ruthless. Egoistic. RYDER COLTON is the No 1 most influential man in Italy. He is every woman's dream but he detests getting in a relationship with them. He is the Mafia King. A cold blooded Mafia king. He only cares about Money and Power. Can simple Allison bear the scary lifestyle of Ryder? What happens when Ryder begins to have a lot of affection for Allison??