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His Purchased Bride by sleepytinker__
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"Hey husband." He glared. "Since you married me out of so much love, princess treatment is mandatory." "You've been testing my patience since morning." Devin said flatly. "Oh, have you given up already? Bad. Don't give up so easily, husband. You have to bear with me all your life." He held my arms and pulled me closer. "I'm not good at taking tantrums." Our faces were inches apart. I whispered "Don't worry, I'll make you a pro." "Samantha, I'm not Davide who is madly in love with you and is willing to tolerate this bullshit." "Tantrums in front of Davide? Nope. Never." I smiled. His eyes flicked, just for a second to my lips before returning to my face. "It's only for you, husband." "Stop calling me that." "What? Husband? But you are my husband. Lawful husband." A slow smirk tugged at his lips. "You know... it'll be fun taming you. Now I'm here like you wanted, so let's go." "But-" I started. I am not going with you so easily. "Now what?" "My legs are hurting." I pouted. .... She was chaos. He was calm. She was a pure soul. He was a murderer. She was sold. He was the buyer. Samantha Jones, an innocent lively soul. She has a dream to open her own cafe. Devin Volkov, a CEO billionaire and mafia leader who is here to destroy Samantha's family. She started living with Devin's family 8 years ago, she was scared of him and he hated her for one mistake. He bought her for millions of dollars from her own father. Why did he? What did he have to do with her? Why did he marry her even after hating her? Tropes : grumpy x sunshine age-gap slow-burn forced marriage possessive she fell first, he fell harder
The Indebted CEO by UCLume
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"I ruined her." This realization brings Marcus Holden to his knees, but it might already be too late. Thirteen years ago, Marcus walked away from Celeste, convinced she betrayed him. She didn't. Celeste let him believe the lie, thinking she owed him. It destroyed her. Now, fate has put them in each other's crosshairs-and neither is willing to back off. Marcus is harder, sharper, and still holding on to old grudges. Celeste is determined to rebuild her life, tenaciously guarding her secrets. She could stay away. She should stay away. Still, Celeste is many things, but a coward she is NOT. So when Marcus issues a challenge, she accepts. A job offer: Succeed, and reclaim the life she lost. Fail, and lose everything again. Working together pushes them closer. Buried beneath years of anger, lies and silence... the spark between them ignites again. This time, the stakes are higher. Marcus's family is ready to tear them apart. A dangerous enemy is back-this time, out for blood. And the skeletons in Celeste's closet? They refuse to stay hidden. Every thread of deception unravels until the indebted CEO stands on the precipice of disaster: Save Celeste, repay his debt to her-and lose everything. Protect his empire... and lose Celeste-forever. The past is coming to collect what is owed. And this time, it might just claim...everything. THE MENDED HEARTS SERIES Book 1: The Unseen Bride (Keith & Ella) Book 2: The Indebted CEO (Marcus & Celeste) Each book is a complete standalone with guaranteed HEA.
The Unseen Bride by UCLume
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"Don't contact me if you're dying." When Keith Ingram utters those cruel words to his new wife, he doesn't know how much he'll come to regret them. For years, Ella Bryce has loved Keith from afar. When a contract marriage gives her one chance at happiness, she vows to make him see her-even though the scars of her past make her efforts fraught with pain. But just as her devotion begins breaking through his guarded heart, devastating lies shatter their fragile bond. Broken and discarded, Ella rebuilds her life from the ashes, determined to live on her own terms. She is no longer the unseen girl he left behind. Years later, Keith storms back into her life-colder, harder, and more ruthless than ever. He thinks he knows the truth about their past. He is wrong. Now, Keith must face the reality of what he destroyed. Fate has given him a second chance to see the woman he was blind to, but the road to redemption is paved with secrets. Will he make the same mistake twice... or can he win back the wife he so carelessly threw away? ----------------------------------------- THE MENDED HEARTS SERIES Book 1: The Unseen Bride (Keith & Ella) ← You are here Book 2: The Debts We Don't See (Marcus & Celeste) Each book is a complete standalone with guaranteed HEA. Read in any order, but connect for the full family saga. Trigger warning: This story contains emotional abuse, gaslighting, and family abuse.
Marriage Of Convulsion  | COMPLETED ✓ by autumn_touched_
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This isn't your typical revenge story. Here, Ekansh isn't interested in seeking his revenge from Faria. He's just a broken soul, the man belonging to middle class with a nine to five job who's well aware that even if it's about justice, he can't compete with the ones who belong to the top section of the society. While, Faria was born into that top section of the society with all the riches and comfort. She's kind and pretty, something that Ekansh never expected from her. Two different people under one roof. What exactly can go wrong? Everything. Because love knows no bound.
Sienna by anya_jayvyn
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Sienna Cooper, a seemingly carefree college girl, masks her deep loneliness behind her bright smile. Will she finally find the love she's been waiting for, or remain the girl no guy ever chooses? ***** © Anya Jayvyn. All Rights Reserved.
Stay With Me (Come Back to Me #2) by reannekennedy17
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UNEDITED Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path. Those are the words that Justin McCallister has been repeating in his mind since the day he was diagnosed with a non-cancerous brain tumour that's been causing partial seizures for the past five years of his life. Partial seizures that can't seem to be controlled by every epileptic medication he takes. It's caused him to push everyone away. He refuses to become friends with anyone because he knows, from personal experience, that they're eventually going to leave him behind due to his circumstances. He knows that no matter where someone stands in your life, be it family members or friends, they will find a way to stab you in the back. And after experiencing the divorce and complicated situation his parents went through, he's determined to avoid girls because he believes love is foolish and volatile. Bring Adelaide "Addie" Levesque into the picture. She's a smart, beautiful girl that has a strong sense of direction, knows where she belongs, and wishes that she could have an epic love story like the one her parents share. But beneath her confidence, she's scared. She doesn't know what she wants to do after high school and it scares her. On top of that, none of the boys can't seem to understand her for who she is. Everything changes when they meet. Addie finds the situation to be painfully cliche, but she can't help but be curious about the new boy in her class. She wants to know why he keeps his hood up and earbuds in during lectures. Justin knows he should stay away from her, but there's something about her that begs for his attention. She's sweet and charming, but the problem is, he doesn't want to delve deep into his past with her. He doesn't want to reveal the ugly truth about who he is beneath the act. As Justin and Addie go through their final year of high school, the realize you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
Loving Maya by KatherineKeyz
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"You expect me to forget everything?" His voice comes out as a whisper. "To act like it doesn't hurt me to see you with him or that I'm still not crazy in love with you?" "Mason." I gulp nervously and fold my arms. "I can't do that. I can't. I love you, Maya." I look up at him and softly gasp. He still loves me? Tears fill my eyes but I blink them back. I shake off every doubting thought I had in my mind and run to him. *** Two years should be enough to get over someone, right? It's already difficult for Maya Banks and Mason Wilder to forget each other even after all that time apart. When fate plays a cruel joke on them and brings them into each other's lives for the second time, they're forced to explore old emotions. Will their traumatic past come in the way of their love or will love triangles and guilt do the trick? Sequel to A Kiss for Maya.
Expecting The Unexpected by sleepytinker__
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"I AM NOT MARRYING YOU MR. KNIGHT AND THAT'S IT" I yelled. From where did you get this much courage that too in front of him? My my someone is trying to be savage today. My conscience said. I was heading for the door but he held my wrist and within seconds I was sitting on the table with him standing between my legs. Oh God this is so awkward. He glared at me. This doesn't feel good he looks really angry. "Eveline don't you dare raise your voice at me. This was the first and the last time you did it. IS IT CLEAR?" I nodded. "Words Eveline Carter. Is it clear?" "Y-yes." ************************************* Alexander Knight, 26 year old arrogant billionaire who doesn't believe in love and marriage. The only thing that matters to him is his company "KNIGHT INDUSTRIES". Eveline Carter, 24 year old simple girl who works as the head of the marketing department in her company, has a crush on Alexander Knight, the CEO of her rival company. What will happen when she will finally meet him? Let's find out in the story.
The Seat Exchange | Complete by LuisaDituri
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Book 2 of the Fenton Falcon Series Charlie Webber has gone through life living in the welcomed shadow of her identical twin, that is until she desires to be seen. Completely smitten, and fearing she won't get another chance with the boy she fell for, Charlie takes matters into her own hands. When he shows up in her sister's French tutorial, Charlie decides to take her place-posing as her fluent and much more extraverted sibling. Everything seemed to be falling into place. What she wasn't accounting for was her arrogant hockey-star neighbour, Booker Gauthier, attending the same class. Not wanting to blow her cover, Charlie is forced to keep up the charade, which means playing nice with the jerk next-door. Booker is a hockey protégé on a full-ride scholarship from Toronto, Ontario. His father, a well established business tycoon, has invested a hefty sum to ensure Booker is a household name. Hockey is his passion but when he and Charlie are paired up for a semester-long assignment, his interest slowly starts drifting to the girl next door who always has paint under her nails. So what happens when Charlie's left trying to decide between the boy she's liked since freshman year and the Fenton Falcon's starting centerman? CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Copyright of Luisa Dituri © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. ONLY AVAILABLE ON WATTPAD, INKITT AND REAM!