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English · Romance · Contemporary
After we got back together, I changed every single habit Alexander hated.
I stopped calling him to ask where he was. I stopped getting jealous over nothing. I stopped making a scene over the little things.
Even when I found a delicate…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My CEO boyfriend just gave the promotion he promised me to someone else.
And demoted me to a satellite office.
He casually told his friends,
"Chloe needs this platform more. Evelyn is stronger anyway; she can go to the New York…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At our engagement party, my boyfriend of seven years, Austin, handed me a piece of chocolate. He forgot that chocolate is the one thing I absolutely despise. So, right then and there, in front of everyone, I called off the…
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English · Contemporary
Seven years after my death, my billionaire husband, Carter, sent me a text because of his assistant-turned-mistress, Chloe.
"Harper, Chloe had another hit-and-run. Get over here and take the fall for her!"
"Oh, and when you come to…
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English · Contemporary · School
We were splitting into groups for our senior AP capstone project, and everyone had the freedom to choose their own teammates.
When it was my turn, I asked five different groups, and every single one of them awkwardly rejected…
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English · Contemporary
My family was dirt poor. To pay for my college tuition, I worked on a construction site, but I ended up getting beaten black and blue after pissing off the foreman.
To keep my parents from worrying, I went to a local Urgent Care clinic…
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English · Contemporary
Five years after a car accident left me paralyzed, I signed my organ donor registry form.
As my heart began to fail, I called my mother, wanting to hear her voice one last time.
"Chloe, why don't you just die already? Stop ruining…
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English · Contemporary
During the category 4 hurricane evacuation, my mother completely ignored my broken leg.
She pushed me off the rescue boat with her own hands, forcing me to give up my spot for my sister.
"Mom, my leg is broken. I want to go with…
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English · Contemporary
I had just returned from Paris after finishing my degree in fashion design. My grandpa, Arthur Vance, insisted that he had set up a family alliance agreement for me years ago.
The moment I landed, he dragged me straight to the…
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English · Contemporary
On my last business trip, I stayed near the client’s office to rush a project.
The hotel went over the company budget by a measly eighty dollars.
During reimbursement, my boss, Marcus, pointed his finger right at my nose.
He…
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English · Contemporary
My sister, Foster, dragged me into her friends' "Blind Box Dating Game."
I ended up drawing the name of the scholarship kid, Brooks. Immediately, someone gasped.
"Oh, Brooks! Orphaned, raised by his sick grandma who collects trash to…
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English · Contemporary
On our first wedding anniversary, my husband, Julian Carter, was two hours late.
I noticed a prominent, dark red stain on his collar. It wasn’t wine. It was cheap chili sauce.
I knew immediately. The woman he had been obsessed with…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On the rainy night my husband ran away with his boyfriend, I received a pregnancy notification from the clinic.
My father-in-law, Arthur, dragged him back in a fury, forcing him to get down on his knees and beg for my…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My mother-in-law, Brenda, fell in love in her golden years. She wanted to meet her number-one TikTok Live gifter in real life.
I tried my absolute best to warn her. I told her she was too old, and that this was definitely a…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At our fourth engagement party, Chloe Collins abandoned me again to run to her ex-boyfriend.
Every single time, she used the same excuse, leaving me behind to be the laughingstock of the town.
But this time, I didn't want to stop her.…
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English · Contemporary
I was with my boyfriend for five years when he cheated on me with my best friend.
They orchestrated an "accident" and left me to burn alive.
Twenty years later, my boy toy—who is over twenty years younger than me—brought me home to…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When my son was rushed to the ICU after being kidnapped, he was crying, begging to see Ethan one last time.
But when I called Ethan, his ex-girlfriend, Chloe, was the one who answered his phone.
"Ethan is busy right now. If there's…
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English · Contemporary
My mother-in-law just had a baby.
She expects us to legally adopt him, put him on our health insurance, and raise him as our own.
Why on earth should we?
It’s not like Ethan and I can’t have kids.
When I refused, she threatened to…
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English · Contemporary
During my wedding dress fitting, Julian handed me a yellowed, tattered vintage gown with frayed lace and obvious yellow sweat stains under the armpits.
The makeup artist froze, her hand hovering in mid-air, and the whispers of my…
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English · Contemporary
That day, while waiting to pick up my daughter from school, a viral interview clip popped up on my phone.
A woman on the screen was smiling, bragging about how she had once convinced her boss not to rescue his kidnapped fiancée from…
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English · Contemporary
For our New Year's honeymoon, my husband, Carter, and his female bestie, Mia, secretly changed our destination from sunny Maui, Hawaii, to a freezing, rugged mountain cabin in Aspen, Colorado.
I had severe car sickness and lay in the…
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English · Contemporary
When Ashton's childhood sweetheart, Chloe, threw her sixth tantrum and flew out of the country, I got hired to replace her as his personal assistant.
In just two years, Ashton fell head over heels in love with me.
On the day of our…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My Husband and Son Took His First Love to the Amusement Park Behind My Back, So I Got Divorced
On our wedding anniversary, I saw my husband’s chat history pop up on the computer.
His first love, Claire Bennett, sent him a…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Before the engagement dinner began, I was in the lounge tidying myself up when my fiancée’s assistant, Vincent, suddenly handed me a marriage agreement.
Article One: Without Vincent’s written permission, the man may not have any…
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