Avery's senior year is turned upside down when a kiss with her older brothers' best friend ignites a forbidden relationship tangled in danger, heartbreak, and family secrets that could destroy everything. *** "Aiden..." I shake my head, eyes fixed anywhere but the gorgeous man next to me. His hand grips my chin tightly, just enough to make me avert my eyes to his. "You know you want this as much as I fucking do. I want you to be mine. I want to be the one to hold you and kiss you the one you go to whenever you're happy or fucking sad. But let it be me, let me fucking show you that it should be me." He glares, jaw tensing. ...... ©hessaherophinelove

"Don't contact me if you're dying." When Keith Ingram utters those words, he doesn't know how much he'll come to regret them. For years, Ella Bryce has loved Keith from afar. When a fated contract marriage gives her one chance at happiness, she vows to make him see her. And just as her devotion begins breaking through his guarded heart, devastating lies shatter their fragile bond. Ella rebuilds her life from the ashes, determined to live on her own terms. Years later, fate brings Keith storming back into her life-colder, harder and determined to crush anyone that stands in his way. Fate is finally giving Keith a chance to see the truth he was denied from the beginning and win back the only woman he has ever loved. Will he make the same mistake twice... and lose his only chance at true love forever? A slow-burn, second-chance romance where a billionaire CEO must earn back the wife he so carelessly threw away. Trigger warning: This story contains emotional abuse, gaslighting, and family abuse.

Genre: Steamy Contemporary Romance Tagline: One night, one contract, and a twist of fate that binds them forever. Setting: A high-end Manhattan law firm and the luxurious, shadowy world of exclusive underground contracts, where power, control, and desire intertwine. Premise: When brilliant but struggling law associate Eleanor "Elle" Carter accidentally stumbles into an exclusive contract auction at a private club, she has no idea that one impulsive bid will change her life forever. The contract? A year-long, no-exit arrangement of complete devotion-signed, sealed, and sold to the highest bidder. The winner? Damien Sinclair-ruthless corporate lawyer, billionaire playboy, and the man she's spent the last three years trying to beat in the courtroom. Elle never intended to sign the contract, but a legal loophole and a drunken dare bind her to Damien in ways she never saw coming. Now, she's his-by law, by desire, by fate. But as she surrenders to his world of silk sheets, whispered confessions, and intoxicating dominance, she realizes that Damien is playing for far more than just pleasure. He wants her heart. And he never loses.

When Elena, a struggling artist, takes a job at an elite private club to pay off her brother's debts, she enters a world of masked desires, ruthless billionaires, and silk-bound secrets. There, she meets the club's most dangerous and powerful patron: Damien Wolfe. Cold. Dominant. Untouchable. But beneath his tailored suits and cruel smirks lies a man with a broken soul... and a past that ties them together in ways Elena never imagined. Let the games begin.

She loved him with everything she had. She gave him her heart... and her child. But when his first love came back, cruel and jealous, Elena was left bruised, broken, and betrayed-while Damian Alaric, the ruthless billionaire CEO, was too blind to see the truth. Now, Elena has run away with their baby, determined to protect her child from the toxic world Damian allowed into their lives. But Damian isn't a man who lets go easily. When he discovers the truth of what was done to the woman he loves, nothing will stop him from bringing her back-not his pride, not his empire, not even the past that threatens to destroy them both. 💔 Will Damian earn a second chance with the wife who no longer trusts him? 🔥 Or will his dangerous first love succeed in tearing them apart forever? A story of betrayal, revenge, passion, and redemption-where love must fight through fire to survive.

Elena Hart is drowning in debt after her brother's accident. When her cold and enigmatic CEO, Damian Kross, offers to erase it in exchange for a one-year marriage, she has no choice but to accept. The rules are clear: No love. No questions. No escape. But Damian's world is built on secrets, and his power is laced with danger. What starts as a business arrangement soon spirals into a twisted game of control, obsession, and forbidden desire. In a marriage forged by lies and consumed by passion, Elena must decide if loving him will be her salvation... or her downfall.

Selene Moreau never expected to find herself entangled in the world of Damien Voss-a world where love is laced with cruelty and passion is a game of power. When she crosses paths with him, she is drawn into a dangerous affair that threatens to consume her. Damien is a man of control, but something about Selene shakes his foundations. He wants her obedience, but she refuses to bow. As their desires clash, secrets unravel, and the darkness between them becomes impossible to ignore. But when Lucian Devereaux enters the picture, offering Selene an escape at a price, she is faced with an impossible choice: surrender to the man who owns her soul or risk everything for a freedom that may never come. As past demons resurface and deadly alliances form, one thing becomes clear-love in Damien's world is not soft. It is brutal. It is consuming. And it just might be her downfall.

WARNING: MATURE CONTENT. RATED 18+. 90% STEAMY Selene never expected the thick darkness her life was about to plunge into. A young, new-adult wolf raised under the strict expectations of her aging father and the proud legacy of her ancestors, she's lived by every rule-rules meant to keep her from losing to the rival dynasty threatening to claim the throne from her family, the prestigious Ravencrofts. But the one person she thought would protect her shatters her instead. Her father's cold, public humiliation cuts deeper than any enemy's blade, all because of the one flaw she can't control-her heat. It surges too often, too powerfully, even outside mating season... and now it's a curse she can't escape. Broken and burning for release, Selene seeks reckless oblivion in the city's most dangerous den of demons-a forbidden club dripping with sin and shadow. There, she collides with a sinfully irresistible stranger drawn to the wild, unrestrained heat she can't hide. One night is all it takes for him to brand himself into her body and soul-a night of decadent, breathless pleasure she'll never forget. But when the haze fades, Selene learns the devastating truth. The man who consumed her? Her older sister's Alpha husband. He's already tasted her. He wants more. And he'll stop at nothing-no law, no loyalty, no taboo-to claim her completely. Now Selene is caught in a storm of forbidden desire, torn between resisting the man who could ruin her and surrendering to the sinful pull that could destroy them both. Because the only thing more dangerous than his touch... is how much she wants it. AUTHOR'S NOTE: FOLLOW MY WATTPAD AND INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT PLEASE 🥺 And also do me a favor by commenting and voting for this novel. Share your thoughts on what you think of the story, I need your honest reviews please. 😭🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏼

Demetrius Andino Nikolaos is the notoriously cold CEO of Nikolaos Industries, unrivaled in the business world. Raised as the successor of his father's company, he poured his life into preparing to inherit the company and grew up with no other interests. No care for women, money, or life in general. For all 29 years of his life, he lived purely for the sake of carrying out his duty without divulging into a single frivolity. And yet, why couldn't he get his mind off of the bright violet eyes of a particular little lady who randomly entered his life one day? Why was there a fuzzy feeling in his chest at a mere glimpse of her? Why did it feel like his entire world was collapsing with only a single tear running down her cheek? Where were all these feelings coming from? Unfamiliar feelings that he had not once ever felt before in his entire life. Little did he know that those were the feelings of a king who finally found his queen, one who he would lay his entire empire down to stay by her side. **Completed**

Getting married to the love of your life is everyone's dream. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Drea Miles was in love with someone who didn't even know about her existence. But she was alright with it cause deep inside she had accepted he would never be hers. But when her father forces her into a marriage in order to save his company, never in a million years did Drea think she would get married to Sorin Zaveri himself, the billionaire and the love of her life. But the only problem...he was already in love with someone else. His girlfriend.