Contemporary stories
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On my wedding day, my fiancé, Liam, and his groomsmen were frantically searching for my wedding shoes. Time was ticking, and the ceremony was about to start. Everyone looked really stressed.
Just then, Liam's childhood friend, Chloe,…
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English · Contemporary
I purposely switched to a super basic phone, one of those old flip phones, that couldn't handle mobile payments. I wasn't in a rush, but Chloe, the class beauty, sure was.
In my previous life, right after high school graduation, Chloe…
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English · Contemporary
I’d just wrapped up the biggest tech summit globally when the mentor I saw as a mother called. She’d arranged a marriage for me, to Seraphina Hayes, the daughter of her close friend. Seraphina was a true business titan in Veridia City.…
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English · Contemporary
I was cleaning the house on the second day after my husband left for a business trip when I casually said to our smart speaker, "Alexa, play some music."
Instead, an unfamiliar sultry female voice came through the speaker.
"Sure…
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English · Contemporary
I noticed something strange about my husband sleeping next to me. He was like a dead fish, unresponsive to my intimate advances.
I thought it was because we'd been married for a while, and he had lost his passion and excitement for…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Asher needed a corneal transplant after a terrible accident that damaged his eyes.
I worked around the clock, doing makeup for the deceased, just to scrape enough money together for the surgery. But then, the donor resources were…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I became mute saving Chloe, my childhood sweetheart.
When I discovered I could speak again, a surge of pure joy hit me. I suppressed my excitement, planning to surprise her on our wedding day.
But on the eve of our wedding, she was…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
An accident stole three years of my memory. When it finally rushed back, everything I knew was gone.
He, who should have been a stranger, had become my husband.
And I, who should have been his wife, had been relegated to a live-in…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The day my sight returned, I found a set of women's lingerie in the bathroom that wasn't mine.
I kept it a secret, determined to figure out what was going on.
In the middle of the day, Blake Caldwell came home again to cook for me. As…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Three years ago, as my boyfriend was about to be hit by a car, I instinctively pushed him out of the way.
When I woke up, I was blind.
He promised to take care of me for the rest of my life.
Three years flew by, and then, a high…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I’d loved Victoria Hayes for five years, and she became my fiancée.
But when my Grandpa was on his deathbed, Victoria didn’t lift a finger to help.
All because Julian Sterling, the adopted son of the Sterling family, suggested to her…
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English · Contemporary
The night Chloe didn't come home, I vanished.
She went to see Aiden, her first love, the one who got away, and she ignored all my calls.
I desperately texted her: **"Don't do anything reckless, or I swear I'll die!"**
She just logged…
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English · Contemporary
It was the seventh year of my marriage to Chloe when her rich first love came back home.
He had a face that looked strikingly similar to mine, almost as if he were my shadow.
At the class reunion, he cornered me in the restroom, his…
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English · Contemporary
I had a strange condition: my memory only lasted a day.
Every morning, my boyfriend would tell me I was his love.
Until I saw him wrapped around another woman, his eyes lowered, a wicked smile playing on his lips.
"What are you…
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English · Contemporary
At the party, my asthma flared up.
I fumbled for my emergency inhaler.
But the canister was empty.
My boyfriend, Derek, explained,
"Chloe said her throat was dry, so I gave her your inhaler. You can just have some throat lozenges, that…
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English · Contemporary
At the party, I suddenly had an asthma attack.
I frantically fumbled through my bag for my emergency inhaler.
But the bag was empty.
My girlfriend, Chloe, explained:
"Noah's throat was a bit rough, so I let him use your inhaler. Just…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
So, you accidentally swapped lives with an ancient emperor. How do you survive 30 days without getting yourself killed?
It’s actually pretty simple. Just three steps:
Step one: Facing the dreaded 'bedding' ceremony? Bluff your way…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I was Anya Callahan, heiress to the rich Callahan family, engaged to the man who was supposedly devoted to me, Jasper Hayes, and blessed with a sweet and innocent-looking stepsister, Willow.
Then, overnight, I started hearing their…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When someone from my ancestral line reaches the peak of emotion, a unique, soft fur sprouts from the tip of their tailbone. Legend says, if a man can pluck one, his fortune will multiply.
For seven years, Caleb plucked countless…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
In the ten years since the apocalypse hit, I’d awakened my spatial powers and become the toughest supply hunter our base had.
During one mission, I put myself in harm's way to save my boyfriend, only to be swarmed by zombies. But…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The first time my boyfriend and I got intimate, he actually *complained* that my sounds weren't sexy enough.
Then he had the audacity to suggest playing a recording from his phone.
The sounds from his phone were undeniably arousing,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After the girl he put on a pedestal fell to her death, my stepbrother hated me for ten years.
Even after I used despicable means to completely claim him.
He never truly forgave me.
Until, in a fit of pique, I ran off abroad and got…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My stepbrother despised me.
But I always clung to him.
He’d pay me two thousand dollars to not walk home with him after school, and twenty thousand to transfer out of his class.
But every single time, I’d find a way back to…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My sister, Chloe, got pregnant before she was married. She gave birth to a boy in a small, private clinic and then just vanished.
The doctor from that clinic showed up at our door, following the address she’d left, and thrust the baby…
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