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English · Romance · Contemporary
My wife bought luxury cars and a penthouse for her lover—
but refused to pay the ten thousand dollars that could have saved our daughter’s life.
The night our little girl died, my wife sent only one text:
“You’re overreacting. He…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Sloane said she couldn’t come to dinner with me.
But an hour later, she walked into the same restaurant, standing right beside him.
She tried to sit next to me like nothing was wrong.
Aiden gave me a quiet, satisfied smile, as if…
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English · Contemporary
Three months before my wedding, my fiancée posted a baby bump photo on her Ins.
It was her with my adopted brother.
The caption read:
[Legally welcoming our little one!]
My adopted brother, Noah, commented with a celebratory emoji.
My…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Sloane cut my salary and gave the money to her assistant Aiden,
then told me I was “too emotional” for questioning it.
When I reminded her I’d built the company with her, she didn’t even look up.
“Stop acting entitled,” she…
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English · Contemporary
My father was a narcotics officer who died in the line of duty.
From a young age, I dreamed of becoming a police officer, just like him.
When I found out I could apply to the police academy, I immediately called my mom to share the…
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English · Contemporary
"Swallow this for the viewers," Mom would whisper, handing me sugar pills.
She built an empire on my fake illness, funded by my pain.
But when a wealthy fan offered a fortune to administer his own "cure," she sold me without a second…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Three years after my groom ditched me for his stepsister, he stormed back home and found me pregnant.
He called me a liar.A whore.
A traitor to the Hawthorne name.
Then he dragged me to the pool and tried to kill the child in my…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I put on another man’s suit and saved Riley from being left at the altar.
For three years, I thought our marriage meant something.
Then her ex came back sick and weak, and she ran to him without even looking at me.
Now she cannot…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The whole school knew I was obsessed with Leo.
I'd bring him breakfast, tutor him, and even knelt to tie his shoelaces when he hurt himself playing basketball.
Until that day on the rooftop, I overheard him say:
"Audrey Hayes? She's…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
We were the four girls the Sterling family took in.
My foster mother, Mrs. Sterling, had one goal: to groom the most exceptional of us to marry her son, Damian Sterling.
The other three—Lily, Sarah, and Maya—they learned flower…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I have face blindness.
My husband was a long-haul truck driver, always on the road.
But every time he came home, it was like he was a completely different person.
Sometimes, he was like a madman fresh out of lockup, pinning me…
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English · Contemporary
When I was four, my younger brother, Noah, and I both drowned.
Only I survived, and from that day on, Mom hated me.
At night, countless times, she'd try to force colorful "sweets" into my mouth, but Dad always stopped her just in…
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English · Contemporary
Online, I had this hot VP boyfriend, six foot three, and I'd get daily ab pics from him to "approve."
So when he suggested we meet up in person, I broke up with him, no hesitation.
Because only I knew the truth: my online boyfriend was…
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English · Contemporary
I had terminal cancer, but my wife, Clara Hayes, gave my treatment opportunity to Alex Stone, who only had early-stage cancer.
When I signed over my company to Alex, my parents smiled with satisfaction;
When I signed Clara's divorce…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I died on my wedding day.
Adrian walked in with Ella. He told the guests he would not marry me.
People laughed. My dress was torn and my life ended at that moment.
Then I opened my eyes again. I was back before the betrayal.
This…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I rushed out of the elevator and found my husband screaming for a doctor—
for his wife in the operating room.
And that wife wasn’t me.
Minutes later, I was the surgeon ordered to save the woman carrying his child.
That was the moment I…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband told me to lick whipped cream off another man’s thigh because his assistant refused.
She picked up a bottle and pressed it to her neck.
“Damon, I won’t do it. Make her go.”
Damon looked at me. His voice did not pause.
“You…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I turned down an offer to be a professor at MIT, choosing instead to work for my parents' company.
But on the day the company went public, my parents pushed a girl onto the stage who bore a striking resemblance to them.
"Harper, the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
That night, clutching the positive pregnancy test, my heart practically soared with joy as I waited for Nealon to come home. I planned to confess everything to him.
Instead, I waited for him to bring a gorgeous woman home for the…
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English · Contemporary
My step-brother, Alex, framed me for his allergic reaction.
My three sisters, fueled by his lies, dragged me into the suffocating, airless basement, chaining the door shut from the outside.
I weakly pounded on the basement door,…
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English · Contemporary
That summer, when I was eighteen, Chloe and I finally crossed that line.
Afterward, I was too excited to sleep a wink, believing my six-year-long secret crush had finally come true.
Until the next day, I overheard her friends teasing…
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English · Contemporary
It had been five years since I was kicked out, and I ran into my brother at a fancy bar.
He was the VIP, casually dropping thousands on Skylar, the daughter of a prominent family friend.
Me? I was just a bottle girl, working for…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
Seraphina Hayes sneered, extending a plate of pastries.
"Sweetheart, try these. I made them just for you."
I swallowed them without a second thought.
That very night, she was assaulted by a cleaner, her reputation utterly…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Mr. Stone told me to choose one of his three sons to marry.
Matteus scoffed, “I’d rather stay single forever.”
Noah snapped, “I’d rather die.”
Caleb sneered, “If my brothers wouldn’t touch her, why would I? I’m not a charity…
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