Independent

"Don't test me, Stone; your family has always thought that it was untouchable... Felt on top of the world, didn't you? You didn't care about who you needed to stomp down to get there?"

His fingers hung dangerously over the trigger; I shook as far as my binds would let me, tears rolling down to the gag in my mouth… that muffled my cries.

But even as I had the gun pointed at my head, my husband wa...

It's the first look on my wedding day.
I turn... but my husband isn't there.
Instead, I see the stranger who ruined my life.

Here's the story:
Six years ago, I was on the worst first date in history.
A blind date with some jerk who wouldn't take no for an answer.
The handsome stranger swooped in.
Saved me.
And sat down to finish the date.

I thought it was crazy.
But we had insane chemistry.
We g...

“You’re under arrest.”

“For murdering my father?”

Agent Weston Foxx’s expression didn’t change. “Murder is only one of the charges.”

I laughed, because apparently there comes a point where your life falls apart so completely that hysteria is the only option left.

“I didn’t kill him.”

“Then prove it.”

——————

Twenty-four hours ago, I was Brooke Mitchell, successful CEO, devoted daughter, and ...

“Just give me one more week.”
“Genevieve, you’re out of weeks.”
My parents left me a failing coffee shop, crushing debt, and an illness that makes every breath a battle. Then I discover a door to a kingdom ruled by dragons.
With no money and nowhere else to turn, I do the only thing I know: open a coffee shop. My drinks soothe troubled souls, and strange wisps of magic seem to ease my illness. For...

He chose his stepmother over her. Then he realized—she was the prize he threw away.
Lyra gave up everything for Alpha Vern: her career, her freedom, her very identity as his bonded Luna. For four years, she endured his coldness, his control, his family's cruelty—all for the sake of her dying mother and fragile sister.
The day her mother dies because Vern's secretary won't release her own emergency...

Ashley was always into hot boys in her hometown.
But this nerd guy made her heart beats fast, and made her blush like an innocent girl.
His glaring just made her panties wet.
“Y-you like me?” Uno’s golden gaze locked with my green one. It was like he was scanning me. my gaze travelled to his kissable lips.
“Isn’t it obvious?” I smiled playfully.
“But—“
I looked back at his eyes “I know you want me...

“You’re not going back to work.”

“You don’t get to decide that.”

“I do when the man sitting beside you was murdered.”

Stone stepped closer. “Walk out that door, Fox, and I’ll follow.”

“To protect me?”

His jaw tightened. “To make damn sure you come back.”

——————

Getting involved with my biker bodyguard was never part of the plan.

Neither was watching one of his brothers die in front of me.
...

Vera's life collapsed completely the year she turned twenty-two. Her father absconded with embezzled funds, leaving behind a staggering $7.8 million in debt. Her mother remarried and severed all ties without looking back. Her seven-year-old brother—a child genius afflicted with systemic lupus erythematosus—required treatments costing $600,000 a month.

Her bank account held exactly $412.

And as i...

Kara Martin was known as Miss Perfect. She was a beauty with good personality and successful career. Unfortunately, her life changed at one night. She was accused of adultery, losing her job, and abandoned by her fiance.
The arrogant man who slept with her did not want to take responsibility. He even threatened to kill her if they met again. What’s worse, Kara was pregnant with twins and she chos...

I died in a rainy day. For twenty-eight years, I clung desperately to my adoptive family, craving nothing but warmth and a home. Yet all my devotion was nothing but a joke.
Everyone in the household loathed me, quick to side with my adoptive sister Isabelle over every lie she spun. I gave my whole heart to my fiancé Damien Sterling, believing he would be my salvation. But when the truth surfaced,...

In her past life, Arabella Oberon was the lowest-ranking member of the Oberon family.

She genuinely took in Regina, the butler's daughter, only to be constantly manipulated by this cunning and manipulative woman.

Regina gradually stole the love from her three brothers.

Arabella was forced to give Regina blood transfusions time and again, her weight plummeting to a mere eighty-eight pounds.
...

My name is Lorelei, and I once had the perfect life—until I lost everything overnight.

My ex-husband destroyed my mother's company, my grandmother lay dying in the ICU—and when I had nowhere left to turn, Dante Ashford appeared.

This ruthless billionaire offered me a devil's bargain: become his secret mistress in exchange for his help.

I told myself we were from different worlds, that I shouldn...

“Keep being my fiancée, and I can pretend nothing happened tonight.”

That was the first thing my fiancé said to me after I publicly exposed the video of him cheating.

Everyone knows I’m just a mixed-blood orphan taken in by the Sterling family.

Cowardly. Ordinary. Hidden behind thick glasses—the lowest of the low in the eyes of pureblood werewolves.

So they were certain of one thing—

Even if ...

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Tropes: Dark Romance | Forced Proximity | Touch Her & You Die | Corrupt Academy

"Who told you that you could touch what's mine?" Blue’s voice was pure ice, his tattooed hand tightening around the bully's throat while his cold, grey eyes stayed locked on me. "Lay another finger on her, and you won't live to regret it."

Sentenced to the brutal Bellamy Institute for an accidental deat...

Mia Villaruiz was abandoned by everyone she loved. Her family left, her friends turned away, and the boy she quietly adored ended up with someone else. Alone, she learned to survive, expecting nothing from anyone.

Then Liam Alcaraz appeared. Confident, magnetic, and impossible to ignore, he saw the girl no one else remembered.

When Mia agrees to a fake-relationship scheme, she finds herself at t...

Merritt Lawson has spent years building two impossible dreams.

The first? Becoming an architect worthy of finally making her mark.

The second?

Convincing herself that one day, Hayes Gallagher–NHL superstar, lifelong best friend, and the man she’s secretly loved for years–will finally see her as more than the girl who’s always there when he needs her.

He doesn’t.

So when Hayes abandons her for...

I was hired to steal a billion-dollar serum.

Instead, I ended up protecting its creator.

Katherine Hawk.

The beautiful CEO who trusts no one.

Now mercenaries, spies, and killers are flooding into Los Angeles for what she created.

Bad news for them.

Because I'm Ghost.

And protecting people is much easier than killing them.

On our anniversary, I overheard my fiancé Eric Foster confess he couldn't let go of his first love. That's when I woke up. I stopped pretending—revealed my identity as Wilson Corporation heiress and entered a contract marriage with CEO William Lowe. He showed me a respect I'd never known. I thought it was just a transaction. But the closer I get, the more I realize: behind his cold, restrained ext...

Richard: “I want her! Part of me saying her name whenever she walks past me. Her lips make me crazy. Her body keeps me awake at night. She looks at me as if she doesn’t know I want her on my bed. But she is my father’s girlfriend’s daughter; my stepsister, someone I shouldn't have imagined in that way….”

Michael: “I burn for her. That mouth, that body, everything about her turns me on. I want her...

One wardrobe malfunction.
Two people who don’t belong together.
Three awful words: “Be my wife.”

Everyone else is at this party to marry the host.
I’m only here until I can get a ride home.
When my dress rips in the world’s worst-timed wardrobe malfunction,
I go find somewhere quiet to fix it.

So I’m standing there in nothing but my heels when,
As my luck would have it, the door opens…

And the ...