For two years, Lia has built a life she never thought she'd have: quiet mornings, a man who feels like safety, and a love that doesn't hurt. Xavier Steel is everything she was never meant to trust, yet somehow, he becomes the only place she feels at home. But the past does not disappear just because she escaped it. When the truth of who she is comes to light, the man she loves stops seeing her as his future and starts seeing her as a threat. And when he sends her back to the man she escaped, he has no idea he has just delivered her to the one person who will use her to destroy him.

I stayed when I shouldn't have. I stayed through half-listened conversations and promises that disappeared the moment someone else needed him more. I told myself I was overthinking. That things would change eventually. So I learned how to swallow my discomfort. My loneliness. My doubts. Until everything fell apart. Now I can't stop wondering why it took almost losing my life to finally understand what I already knew all along: I should've left him long ago. ............. Warning: This story uses mature language and scenes. © IcecreamSundae5. All rights reserved.

[Mature Content] What do you do when everything is taken from you? After being arrested for her involvement in drugs, Jaanvi's life seemed to reach the dead end. Her ex-fiancé, Arjun had called off the wedding and her parents had disowned her. The people whom she truly loved, gave up and she saw no possibilities of happiness in her life. Her true love was gone. Moving on from her first love was something she never thought could be possible. But getting trapped in the devil's possession, was a bigger challenge. Wrapped in his arms, she had no escape from his cell of love. Forcefully, she was trapped without a choice in the web of deceit. Sinfully crafted by the hands of the devil, Vikram was one of them who the devil was scared to mess with. But Jaanvi, managed to touch his darkest side. --------------- "You touched the wrong nerve inside me, Jaanvi." He gripped her throat and pushed her into the bed. He stared right into her eyes and unbuttoned his shirt hastily. His eyes were bloodshot, searing fires inside her soul. Jaanvi never imagined that she would see a day like this in her life. "I a-am sorry... Please don't do this." she cried. "I swear.... From this day onwards, you will regret every single second of your life. This is my promise." his words were like a lava burning into a bouquet of roses. Harsh to see and heavy to bear. Like a photographic image, his words managed to carve a spell on her life. Betrayal, affair, cheating and heartbreaks.... Crushed by every negative force in the world, Jaanvi had nothing but bitterness to offer. The love she saw in her life had led to nothing, but destruction. Will she ever succeed? What happens when a strong man meets a strong woman? Book 3 of the Jewel series. Can be read as a stand-alone. Warning: Mature Content - Harsh Language, Violence, force and sexual content. People below eighteen are advised to avoid this book.

Story about yug and ehaana, yug was in love with idha elder sister of ehaana . They were a perfect couple, but circumstances forced yug to marry, ehaana. Yug couldn't move on from idha , ehaana silently gave up on their marriage. They were like roommates who living together, without any love , obligation towards each other. Will yug ever be able to forget idha and love ehaana? This story is about the emotional struggle of yug who can't forget his first love and ehaana who died everyday in this relationship. His lost love ***

A ruthless mafia heir. A girl he forgot... carrying the child he never wanted. When betrayal forces Meera into Aarav's world, she brings two secrets: - One, she's pregnant. - Two, it's his. He doesn't want her. He doesn't want the baby. But when the world comes to harm them- He becomes the monster that protects what he never meant to love. > He married her out of duty. He stayed because of blood. He falls-because of her. Trope :- 👑 Forced Marriage × 🍼 Secret Pregnancy × 🔫 Indian Mafia × ❤️‍🔥 Enemies to Lovers

Sophie Allen is a Pre-Med student, a hard worker, and head over heels in love with her long-time boyfriend, Bryce Harrison. Bryce Harrison is a baseball jock, a lover of the movie Hairspray, and head over heels in love with his long-tie girlfriend, Sophie Allen. That is, until Bryce's world is turned upside down with the big-C. A cancer diagnosis. What does it mean to love someone unconditionally? And just how far would you go for the person that you love? Sophie is about to find out.

Love is a fragile thing. It can be nurtured, like a delicate flower in spring, blossoming under warmth and care. Or it can be neglected, left to wither under the weight of indifference until nothing remains but dust and regret. This is the story of a love that was once whole, then broken, then lost entirely. A love that burned brightly in the heart of a Queen-so deeply, so fiercely, that it consumed her. And a love that the Emperor never recognized until it was too late. She loved him. More than she should have. More than he deserved. She had given him her loyalty, her devotion, her very soul. And in return, he had given her nothing. Not his trust. Not his protection. Not even his mercy. Her love for him had died long before her body did. If fate ever gave her another chance, she would never love him again. But fate is cruel. Death was not the end. She would return, reborn from the ashes of her suffering. Not as the woman who once waited for his love. Not as the Queen who had begged for his favor. But as someone who would never waste another moment longing for him. This time, it would be his turn to burn.

Zaya Khurana had learned to be content-or at least to pretend. She was the wife of a millionaire, the mother of three, and the quiet shadow that held their world together. Somewhere between school runs, business dinners, and keeping a home that never seemed to rest, she had stopped noticing herself. There was no joy anymore. No hope. Not even the echo of the marriage she once believed in. Aadhrit Dev Khurana, her husband, no longer looked at her the way he used to-no hunger, no warmth, not even the cold intensity he once wielded so fiercely. He loved control, loved their children, loved his empire... but her? She wasn't sure anymore. He was always busy, always somewhere else. Office. Meetings. The children. Everyone got pieces of him except her. Years of distance had turned their marriage into a silent battlefield-no fights, no words, just a slow, suffocating erosion. He had once been obsessed with her; now he barely noticed she was drowning. And maybe she was no longer the woman he had chosen... but perhaps the cruel truth was that he was no longer the man she had loved.

"You Never Saw Me" From the very beginning, I think I always knew. There was something in the way your eyes drifted when she walked into the room- something in the way your smile found her so effortlessly. I felt it. That quiet, aching pull in my chest. The kind that warns you... you're going to lose something you never even had. The words "I love you" danced on the edge of my lips for so long. So many times, I almost said it. So many nights, I clutched my chest, wondering if maybe-just maybe-you felt it too. But deep down, I already knew the truth. You were never mine to begin with. Even with everything- Money. Status. Fame. Everything people envy. None of it mattered to you. Because still... Still, you chose her. Not me. Not the one who stood by your side all this time, who memorized your favorite songs, who stayed up just to make sure you got home safe. I watched you fall for her. Piece by piece, you gave yourself away. And I-I was just a shadow lingering in the corners of your life, hoping you'd finally turn around and see me. "Please, Woo Seok-ah," I whisper now, my voice cracking beneath the weight of everything I've buried. "I love you. I really... love you." But you'll never say it back, will you? You'll never look at me the way you look at her. It hurts. God, it hurts in ways I can't even explain. I thought if I waited long enough, if I loved you hard enough, if I gave everything I had... You'd finally choose me. But all I got in return was silence. And now, as tears slip down my cheeks, I find myself asking the same question over and over again: "Why can't you see how much I'm hurting?" But you never look back. You never do.

"Treat her like an object, Julian, and don't be surprised when someone else treats her like a queen." To the world, tycoon Julian Sterling is a ruthless god of stone and steel. Believing his quiet new bride, master archivist Maeve Thorne, is a calculating social climber who snared his inheritance, he vows to punish her with total emotional isolation. He thought she deserved his ice-cold cruelty. He was wrong. When the dark truth of their contract is exposed, the arrogant billionaire is dropped violently to his knees. Desperate to rebuild her trust under one roof, Julian falls into a frenzy of unhinged groveling. He throws his multi-billion-dollar empire at her feet-buying priceless portfolios, rare historical assets, and every archival treasure she ever admired just to see a single spark in her eyes. He hovers outside her door, hollowed out by tears, begging to heal the scars of his words. But nothing works. Her devastating detachment slides off an unbreakable armor. He taught her how to live without him, and she learned the lesson perfectly. Will his desperate wreckage ever be enough to spark a fresh bloom in her heart, or has her soul moved on to someone else entirely?