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I was a model, five years in the industry, and I’d been criticized for everything imaginable. Worse, I’d offended the darling of the heir to the Holt Corporation. I was blacklisted, my name dragged through the mud. In the glittering…
Start readingAt Northgate High, a string of brutal murders shocked the nation. One by one, the students who bullied me turned up dead. And I became the prime suspect. As the detectives strode toward me, their faces grim, I smiled. I had been waiting…
Start readingThe night before our wedding, my fiancée, Ava, was at her bachelorette party, locked in a passionate kiss with the ghost of her past. As if that wasn't enough of a thrill, they filmed it and blasted it all over their social media. Our…
Start readingMovie star Ted Parsons posted on his social media in the middle of the night: "Folks, secretly going to meet my online crush. If it goes well, call me a stud. If it fails, I'm a clown." The next day, he dropped a photo: a girl in a blue…
Start readingIt happened on game night. The words tumbled out of Sheldon’s mouth, a casual, devastating confession: "It feels so good to be a dad." The room went dead silent. The cheerful buzz of a moment ago evaporated, replaced by a thick,…
Start readingI'm a forgotten shrine god, chained to decaying wood and stone. Forced to grant wishes for offerings, my power shackled by mortal desires. For ten days, Rhys came. Ten days of identical prayers for wealth and power through sacred…
Start readingJust because she was worried her sick first love couldn't handle any hardship, my wife changed our honeymoon tickets and handed me over to his vicious creditors as collateral. "One week, James. A week at most," she promised, her voice…
Start readingMy five-year-old daughter jumped to her death at school. While her teacher frantically called and texted, I calmly turned off my phone and watched a movie. In my past life, I'd rushed there in panic—only to find her lifeless body. The…
Start readingThe night of my first day at the new company, the CEO called my phone by mistake. He thought I was Stella, the most beautiful girl in our batch of new interns. He added me on a messaging app, and for the next six months, we had an…
Start readingThe Thanksgiving holiday was looming, and the plan was to drive to my mother-in-law’s for the week. The day before we were set to leave, my wife, Lillian, announced that her childhood sweetheart wanted to catch a ride with us. I stared…
Start readingAt the university's centennial gala, I ran into my first love, Seraphina Gilbert. After giving her speech as the alumni representative, she turned to me in front of everyone and held up a diamond ring. "You once said you would make me a…
Start readingMy wife, Vivian, lost a herd of cattle while she was out grazing them, leaving us with a fifty-thousand-dollar debt. I loved her, so I spent three years pinching every penny, working every odd job I could find, until I finally scraped…
Start readingMy back screamed with a throbbing ache shooting down my spine. Penniless, I asked each of my three sons for twenty dollars—just enough for pain relief patches. I never imagined those twenty dollars would make my daughters-in-law declare…
Start readingMy colleague was just joking around, slapping a parking ticket on my windshield and snapping a picture to prank me about a violation. I fell for it. Logging onto the city’s traffic violations website, I wasn’t prepared for what I found.…
Start readingMy classmate Missy—now engaged to the city’s richest bachelor, Carter Thorne—sent a group chat invite to everyone but me. "I’ll serve tea to Carter’s great-grandaunt tomorrow," she wrote. "Certain jealous people should stay away." It…
Start readingThe day the Hawthorne family, Miami's wealthiest dynasty, came to claim me, I was one of Hollywood’s brightest rising stars. The whole city’s paparazzi were there, live-streaming my homecoming. But Brielle, the Hawthornes’ adopted…
Start readingAfter our parents' divorce, my sister Serena—playing the saint—discovered our father was dating a Manhattan socialite. Desperate to become an heiress, she came to me with crocodile tears. "Aria," she whispered, "Dad gets violent when…
Start readingThe moment I was reborn, my sister had already been drugged. "Ash, I'm so hot..." Her warm breath ghosted over my earlobe. But this time, instead of making the same mistake, I knocked on the door of the man she truly loved. In my last…
Start readingOn my eighteenth birthday, my stepmother, Sharon, sent me a text. She demanded I return every single dollar of child support my father had given me over the years. If I didn't, she was going to come to my school and make my life a…
Start readingAfter the miscarriage, I walked down the sterile hospital corridor and accidentally overheard my husband, Toby, speaking to the doctor. “Find an opportunity to drug my wife,” he said, his voice a low, cold command. “Then I want her…
Start readingI hadn’t been living with my biological parents for long when their mansion went up in flames. The servants and I scrambled out, choking on the thick, acrid smoke that clawed at our lungs. The heat was a physical presence, pressing in…
Start readingInside the Maybach, Ted was lost in Aurora’s kiss. The hazy glow of the city lights blurred past the tinted windows as he leaned back into the plush leather, the intoxicating scent of her perfume clouding his senses. She was a whirlwind…
Start readingMy mother asked me which of the Levitans I would marry. This time, I didn't choose Joe. I chose his uncle, Julian Levitan. A flicker of confusion crossed my mother's face. After all, the entire elite of New York knew I’d been chasing…
Start readingI gave up a multimillion-dollar inheritance and spent ten years of my life supporting Liam, a simple college athlete, through grueling day-and-night training. I did it all because he promised he’d propose the moment he won a world…
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