Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
A week before the wedding, my fiancée, Seraphina Thorne, declared she had to marry her ex-boyfriend first before she could marry me.
Her ex, Caleb Reed's mother, Mrs. Evelyn Reed, was critically ill, with not long left to live.
Her…
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English · Contemporary
After our driver's daughter moved in, Blake-my already resentful adoptive brother-grew to hate me even more.
She looked like him. That, in his mind, was proof enough: I was the impostor, and she was the real heiress.
Frankly, I…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
To clear my girlfriend's debts, Mom and I worked ourselves to the bone. It cost Mom her life – she got lung cancer.
When I rushed to the hospital with the money to pay for her treatment, I found her gone. She'd taken her own life,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When Ronnie Miller’s mistress showed up pregnant for the third time, I remained strangely calm.
I even had the leisure to admire the wedding photos they’d taken behind my back.
Ronnie frowned, his expression cold, subtly shielding…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
My husband, Brandon, wanted us to be child-free for life.
Ten years later, he brought home a pair of children he'd adopted, expecting me to raise them into successful adults.
I agreed.
When the kids turned eighteen, they both got…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At Daniel's and my engagement party, a banner hung right in the middle of the room, screaming, "Homewrecker Takes Over!"
My name on it was crossed out, replaced with a scrawled, ugly "Bitch."
Before I could even get angry, Daniel…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After my wife, Eleanor Vance, was kidnapped, the captors demanded *me* in exchange.
For my daughter and the company, I didn't hesitate to take Eleanor's place, enduring brutal torture from the kidnappers.
"I'll take good care of our…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Picking up my husband at the airport, I bumped into Brandon Harrison, my ex-fiancé who’d ghosted our wedding two years ago to go see elephants in Kenya with his adopted sister.
I was wearing sunglasses, but he still spotted me…
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English · Contemporary
After I finally woke up, my wife and son, who always favored my childhood friend, came to regret it.
It was my birthday, but my wife, Ava, and our son, Leo, had made a brand-new robot model for her childhood friend, Ryan.
He even…
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English · Contemporary
On Christmas Eve, my wife Sarah, our five-year-old Lily, and I drove back to my hometown in Ohio.
My daughter Lily looked like a little angel.
My relatives crowded around her, cooing and playing, the firelight from the fireplace…
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English · Contemporary
Seven years after my wealthy birth family took me back, the “imposter” daughter had become the victim, and I, the true heir, the family's punching bag.
My brother Justin threw me to the homeless. My fiancé Lucas abandoned me. My…
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English · Contemporary
The year I turned seven, my dad died in a car accident. My mom married her first love, and I became an orphan in my own home.
At our first dinner together, my stepfather, Richard, laid down the new rule. "From tonight on," he said,…
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English · Contemporary
The day Liam stormed out of the house in a huff, I braved the pouring rain to find him.
I never imagined a live power line would snap and strike me, costing me my arms forever.
From then on, my dream of becoming a doctor shattered,…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
On the way to finalize my divorce from Adrian, I died in a car crash.
I'd refused to let him go after finding out he cheated on me with Seraphina Sterling.
We'd spent three years tormenting each other.
I even tried to end my life, but…
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English · Contemporary
Three years after leaving the country, I landed at the airport, my two young children clinging to me.
Seraphina, the Church's Saintess, who was always so cool and distant, messaged me: "You're back?"
I lied without a flicker of emotion:…
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English · Contemporary
To save me from end-stage kidney failure, Mom sold her wedding ring and became a food delivery driver, working days and nights.
She always said, “Mia, you're the only reason I'm alive."
For three years, since the diagnosis, I had been…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On our fifth wedding anniversary, my mother fell critically ill.
In desperation, I had no choice but to sell the gold jewelry Alexander Thorne had given me when we got engaged.
At current market prices, it was worth about $90,000,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
**Aurora Vance pov**
It took me five years of marriage to discover that my husband, Aldrich Thorne, had not only divorced me three years ago, but had also married Celeste Knight, the woman who shattered my right hand all those years…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The night Adrian Donovan demanded to know why I didn’t bring him a birthday gift—while Sierra’s lipstick was still smudged on his mouth.
Everyone expected me to swallow my pride and beg him not to replace me.
But I knew I was…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
He dumped me for “class difference,” moved his new girl into my apartment, and told everyone I wasn’t worth a $30,000 handbag.
But he doesn’t know the lottery numbers he bragged about aren’t the winning draw, and the luxury brand he…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When I was rushed into the ER with a bleeding stomach, my husband was outside setting off fireworks for another woman.
When reporters questioned their intimate display, I was still the one defending our so-called “perfect marriage.”
It…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I return to the exact day my life was destroyed, standing once again between a fiancée who defends her “best friend” and a man whose hidden illness once cost me everything.
In my previous life, revealing Miles’s condition led to…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I only took two plastic bags from the Maynard family’s deli, yet Patricia Maynard stormed into my office and publicly accused me of stealing, forcing me to pay her.
I’d supported their business for years and even asked my father to…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After we lost our baby, my husband Jake and I were drowning in a mountain of debt. I was also battling severe depression.
But Jake, he was always there for me, always protective.
He'd spend his days doing food deliveries and his…
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