Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
After I caught Ethan cheating with my intern, Chloe, things went wild. In the heat of the moment, she fell and got seriously hurt.
Because of that accident, Chloe lost her ability to have children, and I was sent to prison for two…
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English · Contemporary
Wyatt was bankrupt. He owed two million dollars, and his creditors had supposedly broken his leg.
To keep him alive, I worked five jobs a day. I even signed up for shady, underground medical trials and sold my blood plasma twice a…
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English · Contemporary
The third time Austin Vance caught me "in bed" with another man, I didn’t panic. I didn’t scramble to put on my clothes, and I didn’t bother to explain.
Sienna Montgomery, the head of the Vance Group’s legal team, stood at the front…
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English · Contemporary
Seven years of love, and I personally pushed Julian Vance to the absolute peak of Hollywood.
On the day he bid fifty million dollars for a legendary, flawless pink diamond at a charity auction, the entire internet was waiting for him…
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English · Contemporary
Married for seven years, Julian Sterling and I tried every single way to get pregnant, but nothing worked.
Looking at my body, bloated from all the hormone injections and medications, Julian’s eyes would turn red.
He’d hug me and…
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English · Contemporary
I hid my identity as the sole heiress to the Kingswell Group—one of the most powerful Wall Street empires—and spent five years living in a cramped apartment with Carter Miller, helping him build his tech startup from scratch.
Finally,…
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English · Contemporary
The day my twin sister, Jade, got her rejection letter from Juilliard's dance department, the entire family gathered around to comfort her.
I stood quietly in the corner, staring at the acceptance notification glowing on my phone…
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English · Contemporary
On our wedding day, my bridesmaid decided to test Carter with three simple questions before the ceremony.
I thought he'd ace them easily.
I never expected him to get the very first one wrong.
"What's Chloe's shoe size?"
Without a…
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English · Contemporary
The night before our wedding, my fiancé, Ethan Brooks, took me and our friends to a VIP sports lounge to watch the game and place some bets.
No matter what I bet on, I lost. I was forced to down several shots of tequila as a penalty.…
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English · Contemporary
I stood in my own living room, watching my wife hold another man’s baby, while my son, Theo, called a complete stranger "Daddy."
Nobody knew that I had only gone out to take out the trash, got dragged onto a spaceship by aliens, and…
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English · Contemporary
For the eighteenth time, Mom delivered a gift that was supposed to be mine straight to Hayden’s room.
She shot me a guilty look, but immediately turned it around to blame me.
"Why didn't you remind me? Well, since things turned out…
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English · Contemporary
Twenty years ago, my oldest brother, Ethan, made me the fall guy just to keep his precious little sister, Dorothy, out of trouble.
My second brother, Ryan, had even looked me in the eye and promised:
"Victoria, if you just take the…
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English · Contemporary
During the Super Bowl final, my husband, Marcus, suddenly suggested we make a bet.
Watching the game reach its halftime mark, he said casually, "If the Eagles win, we get a divorce. What do you say?"
The Eagles were leading by a…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend was a hardcore eco-warrior.
On the very first day we moved in together, in the middle of a brutal 100-degree heatwave, he locked the air conditioner remote in a drawer.
"We’re supposed to sweat in the summer anyway. Just…
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English · Contemporary
“Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!”
The chants at the party echoed through the crowded bar, loud and relentless.
I stood at the edge of the crowd, quietly watching my wife of three years, Kylie.
She giggled, took a mouthful of whiskey, and leaned…
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English · Contemporary
I have a secret: whenever my skin touches someone else's, I can see the person they love the most.
Three years ago, Anderson proposed to me to secure his family inheritance.
The moment he slid the diamond ring onto my finger, I saw…
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English · Contemporary
I was Alexander Williams's dirty little secret for three years before I finally woke up.
At a charity gala, right in front of everyone, he took the rare vintage necklace I had been trying to bid on for weeks and personally clasped it…
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English · Contemporary
We were playing a drinking game at a party when my boyfriend’s female best friend, Monica, suddenly pushed a shot glass in front of me.
"Drink up if you've ever been a mistress."
No one looked surprised. They just snickered.
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English · Romance · Contemporary
For three years, I played the perfect invisible wife at Sebastian Cross's side.
Everyone knew Sebastian was devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Evelyn — and that he treated his actual wife like she was nothing.
What no one knew was…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Three years ago, for the sake of my fiancé Jason Grayson's bright future, I willingly took the blame for a hit-and-run and went to prison. On the day I was sentenced, he sobbed uncontrollably through the iron bars, swearing that when I…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My mother-in-law, Elizabeth, spent three years turning me into the perfect obedient trophy wife of a wealthy family.
I thought she despised me — until she personally dragged me to a high-end restaurant to catch my husband in the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The moment I pushed the door open, coming home early from my business trip, my blood ran cold.
Chloe, my precious wife whom I wouldn’t even let lift a finger around the house, was leaning cozily in the arms of Austin—the executive…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My EMT license was pending renewal. According to the regulations, I wasn't allowed to perform any medical rescues off-duty during this transition period.
But that day, in our neighborhood park, my neighbor’s toddler was choking on a…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
"Yulia, you shameless skank! Xander is NOT a Johnson!"
At my son's graduation party—the day we were celebrating him getting into a top ivy league university—my ex-mother-in-law crashed the event, dragging my ex-husband and his new wife…
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