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For three years, everyone had a key to Ethan Hale’s penthouse but me.
His friends. His mother. Vanessa, the childhood friend who just moved in.
I waited in the lobby and told myself it was enough.
Until he used my locket to keep me from breaking up with him. So I did the one thing Ethan never saw coming.
I walked away.
Now the CEO who thought money could fix anything wants me back. He’s changed th...

I was getting married. Damon, the boyfriend I’d lived with for eight years, didn’t know yet.
He’d just hired a young, pretty assistant named Fiona, and the two of them were inseparable.
For Fiona’s birthday, Damon ordered an enormous five-tier cake for the office.
At the party, everyone smeared cake everywhere. Some of it ended up on my face.
Damon had completely forgotten that I have a severe dai...

Enzo Falcone wasn't just the ruthless heir to the city's most dangerous mafia family. To me, he was the man I had secretly loved for eight years.

On my twentieth birthday, he finally took me to his bed. I thought I'd finally won his heart.

But thirty minutes later, standing outside his private VIP lounge, I heard his underboss laughing.

"Boss, you seriously took Serena's virginity just to win a...

My fated mate married my sister in my wedding dress. Before the party was over, I walked past him in another man’s.
Three times we planned our wedding. Three times, Theron chose Coralie. This year a seer said she’d die unless she married him today, so my family gave her my place and locked me upstairs. Then they ignored my screams when his friends forced their way into my room.
They all laughed of...

I stared at my reflection in the wedding dress, suffocatingly happy.
Kyle approached without a sound.
His chest was warm against my spine, his arms looping around my waist. His fingers idly mapped the line of my collarbone. His breath heated my ear, drawing a shiver from my body.
Face burning, I met his eyes in the glass. "Do you like it?" I asked softly.
He pressed a kiss to my earlobe. And with ...

At our twelfth attempt at a wedding, Elias was late again.
To keep the guests calm, I had to walk around with a glass of champagne, explaining to each of them one by one like an idiot.
That was when I got a text from Chloe, one of the researchers in his lab:
Stop waiting. He's not coming. He's still in the lab with me.
And here's a little secret while I'm at it: the only reason he proposed to you ...

Eight years married, and Draven still left video calls open all night on business trips just to hear me breathe.

Friends called it devotion. Only the two of us knew what it was.

The night before our wedding, I walked in on him tangled naked in bed with a girl.

Since then he's owed me — and he paid, in grand gestures and in a love that landed ten times heavier than it needed to.

Last week, I fo...

One careless moment, and I got transmigrated into a tearjerker novel.
The System said that once the heartbreak meter was full, I could go back to my own world.
I nodded thoughtfully.
Nathan Sterling was about to ask for the emerald bracelet my mother left me, so he could lend it to his childhood sweetheart to show off in. I spoke first.
"Lucas came over today and accidentally broke the wishing jar...

In my fourth year as Alexander Sullivan's canary, he got bored of me and ended it.
I was ready to beg him to stay—tears, screaming, threats, the whole act. Like I had a hundred times before. Perform the devotion. Keep him happy.
But the comments drifting across my vision said that this time, Alexander meant it.
He'd fallen for someone else. This really was the last time we'd ever see each other.
I...

Darius Blackthorn, my mate and the Alpha of the Silverpine Pack, had told me more than once that I was too domineering.
My parents thought I wasn't understanding enough. Even my own daughter, Lyra, had openly admitted that she liked Selene Vey more than me.
If everyone believed Selene deserved everything I had more than I did, then I would give her everything during the final three days of my life...

I was Richard's sidekick.
When he skipped class to race cars, I covered for him.
When he chased a bankrupt heiress, I delivered his love letter.
After graduation, the heiress went to Oxford, and I followed him all the way to Harvard.
In a foreign country, I made my move and had him, every last bit of him.
Until the heiress came over for grad school too.
When Richard stayed out all night for her ag...

My father and brother had always favored my half-sister, Maren. Sometimes, I felt they hated me simply for being born.
At a Moon Festival, Maren and her friends shoved me into a freezing ceremonial pool and held me underwater.
I would have drowned if Viktor, Alpha of the RedEmber Pack, hadn't rescued me.
He wrapped me in his cloak and declared that I was under his protection.
He built me a castle,...

Three times, he postponed our wedding for her.
For five years, I worked for Ethan Hale without a salary, loved him without a complaint, and never once told him who I really was.
On our fifth anniversary, the chapel was finally booked. Then I walked into the airport and saw him checking in his childhood friend, Chloe, on my ticket to our wedding.
“It’s just one trip,” he said. “The wedding isn’t go...

Halfway through the family's celebration dinner, the big screen started looping a video nobody was meant to see.

A man and a woman half undressed on the bed. She kept her face turned from the camera.

He didn't — it was Kai Voss, the Don's most trusted capo, caught clean on film.

The ballroom went silent. At the head table, the Don's face turned to stone.

Her face stayed turned away the whole t...

For eighteen years, no one had my trust the way Adrian Walker did.

Then, on the very night meant to honor my future, he pressed another woman"s hotel key into my hand and asked me to guard her reputation.

I offered him one last chance: meet me at the airport and pick the trip we had promised each other. Instead, he lied about a car accident, and I watched him wind a matching scarf around Sienna ...

My boyfriend, Jasper Lennox, swore he'd make Tallulah Rowley pay for humiliating me.
His plan: build her up, then tear her down. Give her my VP title, a sports car, a condo—so the fall would hurt more. "Be patient, babe. It's all part of the game."
So I was patient. Even when Tallulah whispered that my five-year-old sister, Marnie, was secretly my illegitimate kid, and Jasper stopped asking about ...

My boyfriend of three years, Blake, had promised to propose at my twentieth birthday party.

But that night, he walked right past me with the ring and got down on one knee in front of my stepsister, Chelsea.

The whole room clapped. I just stood there, frozen, in the white dress I'd picked out for my engagement.

Everyone was just waiting to watch me fall apart.

Then Grayson, heir to the Hale fam...

Two years ago, a car crash took my sight. The day it finally came back, I couldn't wait to share the news with my husband, Grant.

But outside the door, I overheard Grant talking with his assistant, Owen.

"Mr. Holloway, Mrs. Holloway has been blind for two years. Just so you could be with your first love, you had Mr. Callahan wear your cologne and copy your voice, and lie beside her every night.....

When the people who wanted revenge finally came after us, my husband, who loved me more than anything, threw himself in front of me to protect me.
He was stabbed eighteen times and died right there.
I didn't call the police. Instead, I cleaned up every trace the killer had left behind.
Later, my mother-in-law grabbed my hands and cried, "You were there when my son died. Please, tell everyone who k...

My fiancé, Arthur Sterling, has face blindness.
The moment I step out of his sight, my face fades from his memory.
At our wedding, my bridesmaids came up with a last-minute game.
They led Arthur to the center of the ceremony, blindfolded him, and challenged him to describe the woman he loved most.
"Name three of the bride's features, and we'll let you through."
Arthur fell silent for a moment befo...

"My family's company went bankrupt, and my father was critically ill.

I dropped out of school and worked multiple jobs every day.

Debt collectors beat me and broke my ribs, but I couldn't afford painkillers.

Every penny I earned went to expensive medicine, all to save my father.

Until I saw my father, who should have been bedridden on oxygen, holding a champagne glass at a hotel banquet hall.
...

The hurricane made landfall in New York just as I got off work.
I was standing outside the office with a coworker, waiting for a ride, while my boyfriend's texts came in one after another.
"It's pouring. Don't forget your umbrella."
"Don't cut through the parking garage on the way home. The water's freezing and the floor's slippery."
"Take a hot shower when you get in, and make yourself some tea. ...

Stella’s car knocked me off my bicycle and sent me sprawling on the ground.
When Ethan hurried over, his first love let out a long breath of relief. “Darling, you’re here. His assistant can work out the compensation with you.”
The man took off his made-to-measure suit jacket and wrapped it around her, but his gaze had landed on my injured leg, and stayed there.
“You two know each other?” she asked...

"Are you really going to mark Lyra?" his Beta asked.

Alpha Cole laughed. "I have to. The Alpha King wants an excuse to wipe us out. Marking his precious daughter buys us immunity."

"What if she finds out Thea is carrying your pup?"

"Lyra?" Cole sneered. "She's pathetic. She's so obsessed with me, she'll swallow her pride and share my bed just to keep the Luna title. She'll protect Thea just to ...

"You're pathetic." My husband Julian Julian glared at me.
"I thought marrying into the Moretti family would at least bring me some leverage, but you? You're completely useless. Unlike you, your sister has just been named the sole heir."
With a sharp jerk, he ripped our wedding ring from my finger and smashed it against the floor.
"I should have picked her from the start. Marrying you was the bigge...

Jaxson Rourke, head of the Rourke family, had one unbreakable rule: at 9:00 PM every night, he stopped taking calls.

Even in the early days of our relationship, his 9 PM blackout was absolute.

I only broke that rule once. Followed by a rival crew late one night, I called him in a panic.

His voice was ice-cold. "Handle it yourself, Soraya. You know my hours."

I spent the entire night alone at t...

I’m the lowest of the low in the palace beneath the sea: a half-blood maid who cleans the mermaid prince’s chambers.
Then his Blood Tide hit, and the prince I’d quietly loved for five years lost control.
He doesn’t remember that night. He doesn’t remember me.
But I’m pregnant with his child.
When I finally work up the courage to tell him, he’s polishing his trident and swearing to find whoever “se...

For eight years, I loved the boy next door. When my parents died, his family took me in. And on my twenty-first birthday, Grayson Hale finally kissed me.
That same night, I heard him laughing with his frat brothers.
“Easiest five hundred bucks I’ve ever made.”
I was just a bet.
When his ex came back, he took her side and humiliated me in front of everyone. So while he got ready to propose to her, ...

I donated a kidney to my adopted sister.

Seven days later, I lay on the cold hospital bed, listening to my fiancé and family laughing down the hall.

They were popping champagne to celebrate my adopted sister's discharge.

No one remembered I had just had surgery. No one remembered my nut allergy.

When someone handed me a plate of almonds, I smiled.

I shoved them into my mouth, handful after ha...

My phone screen lit up the dark nursery.

It was Lily's fifth birthday. I lay next to my sleeping daughter and stared at Chloe Harrington's latest Instagram post.

The caption read:

[Bedtime is so hard without a dad. Thank God he dropped everything to be here tonight.]

The photo showed a man lying on a bed, reading a story to Chloe's son. That man was my husband, Arthur Sterling.

I swiped dow...

In the seventh year of my father's affair, my mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Her first reaction was to get down on her knees and beg the doctor not to tell my father.
Dr. Eleanor was so angry she cried.
"Rosa, who are you trying to be, some kind of saint?"
"You think this will make that bastard break down sobbing and see the light?"
"Punishing someone else by dying? Have you lost al...

A year ago, I stood at the altar in my wedding dress, about to marry into the Vitale family.

We were halfway through the vows when my fiancé, Theo, turned and ran out of the church.

His adopted sister, Bianca, had climbed onto the roof of the estate and sworn she'd jump if he didn't come back.

The pews were packed with people from all the major families, and every one of them was waiting to wat...

I knew my "clinically asexual" husband was obsessed with his young apprentice the night I caught him touching himself to her photo.

When her reckless surgical stunt left my mother paralyzed, I gave him a ruthless ultimatum: put her in prison, or I file for divorce.

He handed over the evidence, and for three years, he played the perfect, devoted husband.

Until tonight. I sneaked into his elit...

Liza Cooper has spent her entire life dreaming of one thing: a home she can share with the two girls who have always been her family. When an unusual program offers her £50,000 in exchange for spending eight weeks with a dangerous prisoner, she sees it as her chance to finally change their lives.

She never expects to be locked inside Blackridge Correctional Facility with Justin Moretti.

Tattooed...

We were never fated mates. Our marriage was a political deal between two pureblood packs, and I was foolish enough to fall in love with my husband anyway.
For five years, Kieran Blackwood told me his wolf couldn’t read emotion. So I forgave him. The missed dinners. The nights he never came home. I even took a silver bullet for him, and all he said was, “Don’t get blood on the carpet.”
Then I went ...

"Want to get married? Get over here. Now."
On Christmas Eve, Lucas texted me the address of a dive bar.
By the time I showed up in a wedding gown, gasping for breath, he and his gang were howling with laughter.
In front of everyone, he dropped to one knee in front of Mia, let his boys humiliate me to their heart's content, and even threatened to have me thrown into a police cell.
Until my real hus...

Four years ago, I gave birth to my son, Leo, at a private hospital.
But when I woke up from the anesthesia, there was no baby waiting for me.
Instead, there was a bank card loaded with an enormous amount of money.
I stared blankly at Adrian Moretti, who was standing by the hospital room door.
"Why are you giving me money? Where's Leo?"
He avoided my gaze.
Meanwhile, Serena Vale, who was sitting co...

I can smell emotions.
 
Love is sweet. Grief is bitter. Anger burns like cracked pepper.
 
For ten years, my fiancé, Jasper, smelled like pure sugar.
 
The only exception was the day my older sister, Maren, moved to Europe three years ago. He came home reeking of bitter ash.
 
Back then, I was too naive to connect the dots.
 
Until today. Maren's wedding day.
 
When Jasper brushed past me at the r...

His hand hovered close to my jaw, held back until I said yes. I hauled him down hard to me, the mating bond burning sharp between our bones.
“You know what this means.” Darian’s growl rumbled against my cheek.
“I know exactly what I want,” I breathed. “Kiss me. Don’t make me beg for it.”

I arrive at the Royal Pack’s wolf-royal court carrying only a bitter memory and quiet rage for my sister. Clai...

Everyone in the East Coast outfit agreed: my husband, Draven Rook, had more money than sense.

At restaurants, he mistook the song list for the menu and requested the same pianist's set dozens of times.

When I tried to cancel, my best friend, Bryndis, stopped me. "Let the man have his fun."

His shipments kept going to the wrong address. When I tried to recover one, my mother-in-law, Elowen held ...

The day I buried my husband, I almost didn’t survive it.
His best friend, Lucas, pulled me back from the edge—and for five years, he never let go. I thought I’d finally found safety.
Then a positive pregnancy test led me to his desk drawer, and to a marriage certificate from Sydney. The groom: my “dead” husband, Ethan. The bride: my best friend, Sophie.
Ethan isn’t dead. And the people I trusted m...

On Nora Bennett’s thirtieth birthday, she learns that she is not even listed as her six-year-old daughter’s emergency contact.

Her husband, billionaire CEO Ethan Caldwell, is already at the hospital—with Nora’s half-sister by his side. And while Nora waits for someone to remember her birthday, she watches the three people she once called family celebrate without her.

That night, Nora stops waiti...

The day our family went out on the water, my husband took his first love, Maeve Hayes, jet-skiing in a restricted maritime zone.
After half a bottle of wine, Maeve insisted on riding to the island across the bay to draw a heart for him.
The moment she climbed onto the jet ski, she twisted the throttle all the way.
The machine shot forward and slammed straight into my younger brother's yacht.
Inste...

The eighth time I caught Matteo with another woman, I had an ultrasound photo in my purse.
Sixteen weeks. A tiny curled shape, and a heartbeat the technician had let me listen to twice because I couldn’t stop crying the first time. On the way home I’d bought a silver frame for it. I was going to leave it on his pillow.
Instead, I opened the door of our bedroom in the Falcone penthouse and found a ...

I lived on peanut butter sandwiches for three months to buy my boyfriend the sneakers he wanted for Valentine’s Day.
Then I found them in a trash can.
While I waited alone at our dinner reservation, Cole was across town throwing a party for his “best bro,” Sienna. He fastened a sapphire necklace around her neck, laughed about the night his friends left me stranded on a mountain, and bet that I’d n...

For three years, I chased the ghost of my missing husband.

When I finally found him, my hysterical tears were met with chilling indifference.

"I'm not the billionaire heir you're looking for," Jaxson said coolly. "Stop stalking me. Mirelle is going to make me sleep on the couch again."

His devotion to another woman shredded my heart. I was ready to walk away forever.

Until I overheard him ...

On our fifth wedding anniversary, I walked into the penthouse suite at the Plaza with twelve bodyguards at my back.
The room was thick with smoke, and the music was loud enough to make the floor shake. Seven or eight of New York's most well-connected heirs were sprawled across the sofas. When I came in, their champagne glasses stopped halfway to their mouths.
Dante Moretti sat right in the middle....

After my fiance died in a car accident, I spent five years living alone. I never remarried.
My family and friends urged me to move on. Even my therapist told me I shouldn't spend the rest of my life punishing myself. In my dreams, Adrian begged me again and again to stop blaming myself and let him go.
Eventually, I agreed to go on a blind date.
On the Easter that followed, I went to the cemetery t...

On the day of my final interview for the Yale scholarship, my childhood best friend, Carter, handed me a carton of chocolate milk.
I drank every drop, touched that he’d remembered. When I woke up, the hair I’d been growing for ten years was scattered all over the floor.
The prettiest girl in school twirled her scissors and smiled at him. “Your mom’s sleeping pills work great. I practically shaved ...

Everyone in Grey Harbor said Julian Ashford was a hopeless romantic.

He had spoiled me into the most envied woman in town: Mrs. Ashford.

Only I knew what life inside that house was really like.

Every day I watched him bring women home, one after another.

Then he brought home Sienna, and introduced her as the household's new "lifestyle manager."

Her first week, all my cards were frozen, half m...