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At the ceremony announcing this year's graduate fellowship, my dad, the dean of the college, steps up to announce Aldenbury University's only fully funded spot at one of the country's most prestigious graduate schools. Everyone expects…
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On our wedding night, Timothy Soloman tossed a pack of contraceptive pills at me once it was over. "Amanda, you can't get pregnant." My brows knitted together. "But there's nothing wrong with my body." He shook his head. "That's not…
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The day they ripped out my spiritual root, the snow came down hard. I lay on the freezing altar as my fiancee tore the Supreme Bone from my chest and stitched it into the chest of the man she loved. She smiled and said it was for the…
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A gas leak started a fire in the house. The flames closed in around me as I fought to make a call to my oldest brother, Stellan Fontaine. Stellan, the fire chief, arrived with his crew. But the ladder truck stopped at my adopted sister…
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After six months overseas, I finally closed a multi-billion-dollar deal. But when I returned to the home I shared with Julian, the smart lock kept repeating: Unauthorized access. Please stay away. Only after the facial recognition…
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After I found out my fiancée had fallen for another man, I gave her one last chance. She could break off our engagement and go abroad with him for a closed research program, or she could marry me. She chose me. But at our wedding, she…
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Charles Hale wanted to prove he could succeed without inheriting the Alpha position, so he devoted almost all his time to his work on cruise ships. For ten years, I watched him work his way up from deckhand to captain. I was happy to…
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The Alliance's Awakening Trials were finally over. The proctors from the Capital called me a fighting prodigy. I shattered the all-time pack record. That alone scored me an exceptional admission offer to the Royal Elite Academy. I ran…
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When word got out that a bed had opened up in the dorm reserved for Math Olympiad competitors, a transfer student burst into tears and begged my daughter, one of the university’s elite Math Olympiad students, to let her move in. In my…
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During the Christmas holidays, my parents began our family meeting with the yearly "family support vote." Our family's only recommendation letter for Oxford's architecture program lay on the table. My name had originally been on it. "I…
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My fiancé was the youngest Don of Sicily’s Rina family. After years together, he always told me, “No one gets to look at my woman. If a man stares at you for even a second too long, I’ll gouge his eyes out.” That was why he almost never…
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For ten years, I lived in Chase Prescott’s shadow. I was his shadow. When he left for London, our relationship shifted across the nine-hour time difference into something strange and commanding. He started making me call him Sir. He…
Start readingI wrapped up my Paris acquisition early and flew back home without telling a soul. My plan was to go straight to my daughter's engagement banquet and give her a surprise. Instead, standing right outside the grand ballroom, I stared at…
Start readingA thread was trending on a popular forum: "Why do some people stay friends after a breakup?" One girl replied with unmistakable smugness: "To put it simply, they're still in love, but both are too proud to make the first…
Start readingI designed the digital wedding invitations for my best friend Sienna and built the platform myself. A week before the ceremony, I noticed one account had viewed her invitation page 298 times. It belonged to Chris, my boyfriend of seven…
Start readingShane Callahan was the single most offensive human being I had ever encountered. The first time I took an interest in him, he looked me dead in the eye and sneered, "Back the fuck off, you sick faggot. You disgust me." Three years…
Start readingAt our high school graduation party, my so-called best friend tossed an old enamel lapel pin into my lap. She laughed, saying she had way too many guys chasing her, and since the poorest one bore her to death, she was letting me pick up…
Start readingThe guy I had a secret crush on just went official with my roommate. He had mistaken Laura, who volunteered to deliver my love letter, for the actual sender, falling for her at first sight. Later, even when the truth finally came…
Start readingRight after accepting the proposal from Rio, the city's elite trust-fund heir, I stumbled across a viral forum thread. "Idiot. She actually thinks I care about her personality. If she weren't gorgeous, why would I date a mute?" "Once…
Start readingI was raped. When I woke up, my phone was waiting with photos of my naked body. The message read: You look better in the shower than you do dressed. I scrolled frantically through my contacts and called the only person in the world I…
Start readingThe genius boy I secretly loved fell for a bad girl who smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish. He skipped classes, picked fights, and rented cheap motel rooms with her. His legendary grades plunged into the abyss. Out of pity and…
Start readingBy the third month of keeping Rowan locked in the estate, he had barely spoken a word to me. The heavy blackout curtains were drawn shut. His phone was locked away in my safe. The passcode to the bedroom door was changed every…
Start readingOn the evening of our third wedding anniversary, Nicholas Prescott stood before a room full of flashbulbs and federal prosecutors, publicly handing over the ledger that dismantled my family’s empire. Overnight, Robert and Marian Mercer…
Start readingRachel insisted on keeping our marriage hidden from the world. She made me delete our wedding photo captioned "To the rest of our lives," calling it childish. On our third anniversary, I stood in a freezing parking garage for three…
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