the mafia's not so fluffy romance

Mike’s father, Jack, was falsely accused of stealing a priceless necklace and was sent to prison. While in prison, Jack was mistreated, denied medical care, and died while serving his unjust sentence. Now, his son, Mike, is determined to get revenge on the billionaire who had his father falsely imprisoned. He will stop at nothing to get justice for his father, even if it means putting his own life at risk. With nothing left to lose, he embarks on a quest for vengeance that will take him to the darkest corners of the billionaire's empire.

Aaron thought graduating top of his class would change his life. Instead, it feels like the world is against him. No one will offer him a job, and the one interview he had hoped for goes wrong after a call about his mom being rushed to the hospital. Broke, hopeless, and with loan sharks threatening his life, Aaron doesn’t know where to turn. Then a mysterious man gives him a business card with an offer that seems too good to be true. The job? A tech startup that promises fast money. The company is actually a front for illegal cybercrime, and his boss, Celeste, is way more dangerous than she looks. Celeste ropes Aaron into shady missions, promising to help him clear his debts. Things blow up when one of his assignments goes wrong, and suddenly, Aaron is being hunted by the cops and a powerful tech mogul whose secrets he accidentally exposed. When the loan sharks come after him, Aaron finds out his mom has been lying to him. The loan wasn’t just for his education, part of it was to cover her gambling debts. Even worse, the loan sharks work for the mafia, and Aaron’s mom has a dark past with them she’s been hiding for years, Aaron was just part of a deal she made to save herself. With everything falling apart, Aaron teams up with Leila, a sharp paralegal who wants to take the mafia down. But Leila’s got secrets too—her brother works for the same people hunting Aaron. Together, they’ll have to outsmart Celeste, the mafia, and everyone else trying to destroy their lives. If Aaron can pull off one last risky move, he might clear his name, take down the mafia, and finally start fresh.

For Damien, life was perfect. He was married to his high school sweetheart and about to make a breakthrough in the research that he had spent the last three years working on. Although their marriage was an hidden one, he had always done his best to support his wife while working hard in the dark. Despite being an orphan, Damien had crawled his way to this point and there was nothing more he wanted. However, in just one night, everything Damien had considered dear seemed to have changed. Was being a Movie Queen enough reason for a divorce or did he just never know his wife well? Damien Storne knows what it feels like to be at the very bottom and now, he's determined to climb to the very top!

After doing his best to make his demanding and easily-irritated wife happy, Duncan never imagined that he would catch her sexually pleasuring another man on the night of his birthday. He feels broken and that same night, his marriage with her ended but one thing he had never believed was to see a fleet of cars stop by him and a dozen of men address him as 'Young Master Walton'. When he gets to know that his real mother who he had assumed abandoned him was the great mysterious Lady Zelda and he was the only heir to her business worth zillions of dollars, he rises to supremacy and starts to weaken the knees of those who crushed him before.

Alexander Leonhart's arranged marriage to Sophia Lancaster seemed doomed, as Sophia despised him, thinking he was a scammer out for her family's wealth. Determined to divorce him, she had no idea that Alex was actually a renowned healer known as "God's Hand" and the owner of the world's largest enterprise, Kingsley.

After Liam was dumped into the sea with an anchor tied around his torso, he awoke to a new knowledge about his biological father, whom he had never met. In exchange for his goodwill, his father was handing him a whole new world of power while Liam protects the empire the man built, and although Liam was not comfortable taking it, he had two women to protect and revenge to carry out, so he accepted the offer. From being a charity case in college to being the boss, he can stand at the top and achieve whatever he desires thanks to his father's mentoring.

High in the sky, I stood above everyone! Looking down on the destruction brought by me! Necessary it was! Needed it was! Only after Chaos will the Order arrive! The story begins with "Once upon a time"! But ends once the villain dies! What I need is peace! Not the vengeance! What I seek is a path! To the glory, a step me! -------------------------------------- Mortal Earth! A planet similar to our Earth but a little backward in terms of technology. Instead, they have energy in their body with which they can perform magic. But not everyone has the ability to understand and use this energy. In the history of Mortal Earth, there are Seven Wonders which were created by the strongest humans. Their wishes and dreams were what structured these Seven Wonders of the world! A guy died under the collapse ceiling, and is transmigrated there. With full of adventure started by owning one of the Seven Wonders of the World, will he be able to find out his true goal in life? ------------------------------------ An Original by the author--- Many things that will happen in the novel is pure imagination and not related to the real world. Update- One chapter every 24 hour Also, english is not my main or second language.

In the year RE-500, a scientific discovery was made that pushed humanity to newer heights -- The Keltar potion! It was an extraordinary potion that allowed humans to extend their life beyond expectations.  With this discovery, Humans found that they could live for 380 to 400 years. The human body grew stronger, no longer succumbing to major illnesses. The rapid rate of cell healing and generation had multiplied ten tens over.  What a glorious discovery! No doubt, the world was in a joyous state. But with this blessing came a sharp rise in Crime.  To counter this, the World Administration, called the ‘Absolutes,’ not only declared the Death sentence Void... but also created a far ‘better’ solution for these many criminals with now longer lives – Mainland 01! And since then, thousands of years have gone by, with the world accepting this order. … Guilty, or Not Guilty? In a massive courtroom, a young man had his eyes lowered to the ground. He was innocent. He knew he was. But his fate now lay in the hands of the judges before him. Bain thought matters would end with justice always prevailing. However, how could his journey begin if it were that simple?

Xander Kings is a poor university student who barely eats three square meals, he is always disgraced and insulted by his rich classmates and his heart got broken when he was chasing the girl of his dreams because of his poverty. Xander is so ashamed of his financial status and wishes that he is dead but little did he know about his true identity and his fortune was about to change when he met his grandfather. His new path is now filled with investment and vengeance as an only heir to the family’s multi billionaire empire.

Ares Anderson, an orphan who had no idea about his origin was a hard-working young man who lived his life solely on providing everything for his girlfriend, even sacrificing his own needs and meals. The day he wanted to surprise her with the gift she wouldn't stop asking about in days, however, was the day Ares caught her accepting another man’s wedding proposal. As though she wasn't the one who had once loved and cared about him, she ordered for him to be beaten up, and if not for his secret treasure, the only thing he knew that linked him to his origin other than his name, coming up to his rescue, he would have become a waste. Unknown to Ares, however, this mysterious gem, which had always healed him anytime he was injured or sick was a seal to a mysterious organization whose power goes beyond the mortal realm, and he is the master of this organization. What will he do the day he comes to know this secret? That he was the master of an organization that has all the wealth and power of this world at its disposal? Wait, forgot to mention, what will he also do the day he triggered the last mechanism in his seal and finally gained one of his countless inheritances, which would directly skyrocket him from a weakling to a full-fledged cultivator, giving him the strength to destroy nations and topple world? Find out in this book.