Romance stories
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My best friend’s aunt and I had been secretly in love for three years.
I planned to finally go public with our relationship on our third anniversary.
But the day before, I went with my best friend to her company to congratulate her on…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Rushing to get my mom's asthma medication, my husband's secretary, Chloe, insisted I take her to the salon first.
I explained the emergency and refused.
Before I could even start the car, Damian yanked me out.
"You know Chloe just…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I married the man I had secretly adored for seven years.
For three years of our marriage, he brought different women home every night.
It made me a laughingstock among our peers.
Finally, I decided to let myself loose and started…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I watched the whole thing unfold, not in a panic, not screaming for help. Instead, I stood there, utterly calm, a silent observer.
I watched Mr. Peterson, my father-in-law, gasp his last breath, his struggles fading into silence.
In…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My daughter hired someone to kill me after her college entrance exams.
Before I died, I asked her why. I’d dedicated myself to getting her into a top university, helped her smoothly inherit the family business, and cared for her more…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My Sicilian crime boss boyfriend, Dante Volkov, and I had been together for ten years.
I shielded him from blades ninety-nine times.
On the hundredth time, he was finally moved.
He decided to go straight and immigrate to the US to…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My in-laws’ family got bitten by venomous snakes while camping. Only my husband’s company had the antidote.
I called my husband, but faint, suggestive moans and the unmistakable sound of splashing water came from the other end.
Before…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Victoria’s phone home screen had a counter, and for three years, I watched it tick from 001 to 999.
The night before our wedding, I curiously asked her what it meant.
She just stared silently at her phone for a long time, then faintly…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I was beaten to death by my husband, Alex, all because a paternity test claimed the child wasn’t his.
But then, as he was about to throw our son from the sixteenth floor, my mother-in-law, Brenda, dropped to her knees, sobbing, "He’s…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When Liam loved me most, I broke up with him.
Our next meeting was an accident. He, in his Porsche, hit me, riding a rental bike.
I stared at the ripped knee of my jeans, clutching the critical prognosis in my hand.
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When Liam…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Right in front of everyone, Caleb let his childhood sweetheart, Seraphina, douse me with scalding hot soup.
And then, he demanded I apologize.
All because I'd said a few blunt words to her.
I cried, asking him if my life was worth…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I woke up from a vivid dream, and it was like the entire plot of a book had been laid bare to me.
Turns out, I was nothing but the villainess, and my non-blood related, obsessive brother was the one and only male lead.
I was madly in…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The day I died, the man I loved most married the woman he adored.
I sat among the guests, smiling through my tears, applauding their union.
Twenty-five years of my youth taught me one bitter truth:
Turns out, even a lifetime of…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I broke his heart the year Caleb loved me most.
Six years later, he came back to this city.
Mom suddenly found him, asking urgently, "Did Hazel come back with you? How is she doing? Can I see her?"
He scoffed, a bitter, hollow sound.…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My boyfriend had a heavy nicotine addiction.
I hated second-hand smoke and had talked to him about it countless times. But he’d just brush it off, or even grin and deliberately blow smoke right into my face.
“Come on, baby, I can’t…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I was kidnapped. The abductors demanded four million dollars from my mom.
I scoffed. Four million? Chump change.
But my mom? She wouldn't spare a single dime, completely cutting ties with me.
“Your mom’s a real piece of work!” the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
In the darkest year of his life, Alexander Thorne was forced to abandon his first love and marry me in a strategic alliance.
For seven years, we fought. For seven years, he despised me.
He would often curse, "Why don't you just die…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
While Julian was with the woman he always loved, at her prenatal check-up.
I was scheduling my own abortion, alone.
Our eyes met.
I forced a small smile.
"What a coincidence."
Later, I wished them a long and happy life together,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My wife, Chloe Miller, was a dance teacher. Sweet-faced, with a figure that could kill.
To make her mine, I agreed to three cohabitation demands during our first meeting.
For the dowry, her mother didn't mince words: two houses and…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
For the sake of the kingdom and its people, the Crown Prince sent his heavily pregnant wife to the enemy.
And I was his wife.
Two lives gone, in one cruel sweep. My body, merely a discarded battlefield casualty.
That very day, he…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My sister has always been a liar, always setting me up since we were kids.
She stole money, got caught, and said I took it.
She accidentally tumbled down the stairs, but claimed I pushed her.
She ran off with strangers who turned out…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The scion of a powerful family, Caleb, was pushed down the stairs by his sister and fell into a coma.
Caleb’s parents demanded that his sister marry into their family and take care of Caleb for the rest of his life.
His sister,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Julian Blackwood had adored Rory Vance for over twenty years.
She always thought they’d naturally end up together, marry, have children, and live happily ever after.
Until Julian brought home a woman and told her, “Rory, she’s your…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Our fifth year of marriage. That’s when Julian Sterling fell madly in love with a college student.
They said she was poor, but carried herself with a cool pride, refusing Julian’s black card with a defiant, “I won’t be anyone’s kept…
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