
English · Contemporary
In our three-person Snap group, nobody ever replied to my messages.
At first, I thought they were just busy. After all, Ethan and I had been together for seven years, and Harper had been my best friend for eighteen.
Until today, when I…
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English · Contemporary
I paid my live-in nanny Brenda thirty-five hundred dollars a month. In return, she secretly used my three-hundred-dollar luxury essence as foot lotion and shoved cold leftover scraps down my toddler's throat.
When I caught her…
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English · Contemporary
On the day we were supposed to get married at City Hall, I booked the very first slot, wanting to be the first couple of the day.
Jason showed up a whole hour late.
Just as I was about to lose my temper, my best friend, Sierra, popped…
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English · Contemporary
I sponsored a kid from a dirt-poor rural town for ten straight years.
From middle school to college graduation, I covered everything: tuition, rent, clothes, groceries, and even his first car and corporate job.
I hired him at my own…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Tags: Betrayal, Cheating Ex, Strong Female Lead, Cutting Losses, Revenge
The night before our wedding, my fiancé, Derek, gave away the house we had prepared for three years—all for his precious first love.
"Chloe, Savannah is having a…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On Thanksgiving Day, I went to the clinic for my tenth round of IVF.
The nurse looked up at me, confused. "Mrs. Vance, didn't you authorize your family to take the embryo this morning?"
She pulled up the security footage.
On the screen…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At three in the morning, anaphylactic shock hit me like a freight train. My throat clamped shut. I gasped for air, clutching my husband’s arm beside me.
Austin shoved me away with an irritated grunt.
"What are you screaming about in the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Tags: True Heiress, Total Regret, Unfair Favoritism, Heartache
Five years. That was how long it took for the kidnappers to dump me back at the Hayes estate.
It happened to be the wedding day of my ex-fiancé, Carter Hayes, and the fake…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Tags: Betrayal, Separation Anxiety, Caught in the Act, Regretful Ex, Female Revenge
Ever since my fiancé, Ethan Vance, rescued my best friend Chloe from a mudslide, she claimed she developed severe separation anxiety.
He had to drive…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Natalie's POV
In the third year of our marriage, my husband threw me to the wolves to take the fall for his first love.
And right at that moment, an ultrasound report confirming I was eight weeks pregnant sat quietly in my purse.
Late…
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English · Werewolf
I had been with Alpha Julian for ten years, yet he had always refused to Mark me.
Right on the eve of our Mate Ceremony, he gently cupped my face and dropped a bomb on me.
"Babe, I won't be attending your Mate Ceremony."
I froze in…
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English
The rideshare I was in broke down on a mountain road.
None of our phones had a signal, so we couldn't even make a call.
We waited from midnight until 3 a.m., but not a single car passed by.
After it started raining, we had no choice but…
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English
Having grown up with her parents favoring her brother over her, my mother hates it when parents don't treat their children equally.
For as long as I can remember, our family has operated by pursuing equality over everything else. When…
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English
A week before the wedding, I brought my mother to my fiancee's hospital for a sedated endoscopy.
My mother woke up early in the morning, combed her hair back until not a strand was out of place, changed into her best but already…
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English
By the third year of Waylon Ratliff's affair, I had completely lost my mind.
I leaked private photos of his assistant, Jenna Gilmore, all over the internet. Then, I poured gasoline over myself and threatened to drag everyone down with…
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English
The night Cameron Baxter won Best Actor, I was backstage cleaning up his ninety-ninth dating rumor.
When a reporter asked whom he wanted to dedicate the award to, Cameron looked straight into the cameras and smiled. "To someone who…
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English
One month before the college entrance exam, I ask my childhood friend, Nicholas Lund, about a test question I don't know how to answer.
He doesn't even let me into the house. Instead, he casually sends me a link to a cheap online…
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English
I gave up the home my fiancé and I were supposed to buy together, and the realtor stares at me in surprise.
"You've already paid the deposit. Don't you want to wait until your fiancé gets back before you make it official?"
I smile and…
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English
In my fourth year trapped inside this oceanfront villa, a notification suddenly popped up on my old tablet.
A memo had synced from the cloud.
The title was “The Choice I Made at Eighteen.”
It was a journal entry I’d saved to the…
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English
On my birthday, my boyfriend Heath Merrick sent me a transfer of 200 dollars, same as always.
The note read: [Birthday gift for Macy. Too busy lately, so I won't be around to celebrate with you.]
A second later, I saw a message my…
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English
On the day of the college entrance exam, just as I was writing my name on the answer sheet, my progressive amnesia struck again.
When the scores came out, my younger sister had earned 680 points. I had earned eight.
Mom was so furious…
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English
I had a severe pollen allergy. Even the slightest exposure could leave me struggling to breathe. By some coincidence, my girlfriend happened to be a renowned luxury floral designer.
On the fourteenth of every month, she would come home…
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English
In the summer of 1980, after the college entrance exam, my friend Lucas Grant came out to my house and clapped me on the shoulder.
"Evan Cole, you missed the cutoff by twenty points. College was never in the cards for you. Let it…
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English
There was one rule in my family. Everything had to be fair.
Whenever my older brother Kaiser and his twin sister Kelly thought our parents were showing even the slightest sign of favoritism, the two of them would get into a huge…
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