Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
At my welcome-back dinner, I pushed open the door to the VIP lounge, only to see Ethan Carter with a young girl sitting on his lap.
Her sparkling eyes met my cold glare. She immediately looked down, but one of her hands remained…
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English · Contemporary
At eighteen, the year I won the international piano championship, an earthquake caused a devastating cave-in.
To save Julian, my left hand was pierced by a steel bar, and my legs were crushed under heavy rocks.
My dreams shattered,…
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English · Contemporary
My fiancé, Manuel, was driving me up the mountain on his motorcycle when we ran into his first love, Hathaway.
The former heiress of the bankrupt Miller family was at her absolute lowest, abandoned at the summit.
Manuel’s eyes went…
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English · Contemporary
The night I decided to get a divorce, a single social media post blew my entire world apart.
I had just posted on Instagram when my phone screen started blowing up with fifty-six missed calls.
I shut the phone down immediately,…
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English · Contemporary
On our first day back from the holiday break, my boss’s wife stopped by the office with gifts.
She held a lipstick up to my lips, sizing it up.
"Cute shade," she said. "It’s the exact same color as the lipstick smudge on Henry’s…
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English · Contemporary
On New Year’s Eve, I used my boyfriend’s phone to take some photos and send them to myself.
That was when I saw it.
The pinned chat at the very top of his Snapchat wasn’t me.
It was his ex-girlfriend.
I tapped into it. The most recent…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
My blood stained the freshly mopped floor again.
My mother's scream came before my whimper.
"Lily! How many times have I told you? Don't scratch! Don't let those disgusting fluids get everywhere!"
She pointed the Lysol spray at me,…
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English · Contemporary
While we were relaxing in the hot tub at a mountain spa resort, my husband’s so-called "female bestie" suddenly shoved me underwater.
She ripped my swimsuit and exposed my bare back to everyone.
"Oh my god, Tyler! Your wife actually…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Three years ago, I used every trick in the book to get Sebastian Sterling to marry me.
Three years later, his first love returned to the country, and I calmly demanded a divorce at his family’s annual gala.
Looking at the guests…
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English · Contemporary
Every time I visited my boyfriend Ethan's apartment, I was only allowed to use disposable items.
Disposable hotel slippers, paper plates, plastic forks...
Even when I stayed the night, he would pull out a set of disposable travel…
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English · Contemporary
The year I graduated, Melanie Vance drugged me.
I was set up, ended up with a stranger, and got pregnant.
My boyfriend, Ethan Carter, fought his entire family to marry me anyway.
He treated my daughter, Lily, as his own.
He even…
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English · Contemporary
Five years later, I ran into Ethan again at Daisy's parent-teacher conference.
The hallway was almost empty.
I was kneeling by the classroom door, tying Daisy's shoelaces.
When I looked up, a pair of custom-made, dark leather Oxford…
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English · Contemporary
My husband, Ethan Carter, was a renowned pharmaceutical researcher. To support his career, I secretly signed up as an anonymous volunteer for his high-risk clinical trials, willingly enduring all sorts of agonizing side effects just to…
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English · Contemporary
On my birthday, I found out my husband, Ethan, had booked a high-end waterfront restaurant and ordered a massive bouquet of 99 sunflowers.
To keep from ruining his surprise, I dressed up in my finest evening gown and went there.
But I…
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English · Contemporary
Starting from the second week of college, I suddenly began gaining weight no matter what I ate.
Meanwhile, my roommate Vivian, who used to weigh a massive 200 pounds, was visibly shedding weight by the day.
Within a month, our weights…
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English · Contemporary
When my son, Leo, was three, my wife, Chloe, secretly took him away and gave him to her childhood friend, Carlos. She then lied to me, claiming our boy was lost.
While I was frantically searching the streets, out of my mind with worry,…
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English · Contemporary
I woke up in a hospital bed with amnesia.
I remembered everyone—except Ethan Hayes, the man I’d desperately chased for five years.
But Ethan was never good to me.
All his tenderness belonged to his first love, his ultimate obsession.…
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English · Contemporary
Alex and I had been childhood sweethearts for ten years. But because of a stupid mistake he made in the lab, a chemical mixture exploded.
To save him, I threw myself in front of him. The blast left massive, horrific burn scars all over…
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English · Contemporary
Five years of stomach cancer. I couldn't hold on anymore.
I called my mother, begging her to save me.
"This pathetic trick again? You disgust me."
"If you're going to die, do it already. At least then we can have your kidney for your…
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English · Contemporary
On the third night of our graduation road trip, we were playing Truth or Dare at our Airbnb.
Chloe got a Dare. She had to imitate someone in the room.
She rolled her eyes, sat stiffly on the couch, and started reading in a robotic,…
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English · Contemporary
Chloe was the most obsessive copycat at St. Jude’s Prep.
Whatever tablet brand I bought, she’d get the exact same one, even if she had to finance it in installments.
I signed up for a niche Latin course, and she registered too, even…
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English · Contemporary
My best friend and I married into the Miller family.
I married Zachary, the athletic swimming coach elder brother, while she married Ethan, the licensed therapist younger brother.
We lived in the same suburban neighborhood, right next…
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English · Contemporary
Because I loved my wife so much, I secretly got a vasectomy when our son turned five.
But six months later, she looked me in the eye and told me she was pregnant.
She even blamed me, saying I was too selfishly focused on my own…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
My fiancé staged his own death after hiring a hitman, dying in my arms.
Since then, I became the widow of a convicted murderer, struggling to survive with our unborn child.
I took every dirty, low-paying job imaginable, all to…
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