Blossom Brooks expects a proposal from her boyfriend of three years, Henry Harrington, any day now. They've talked about it for a year. He kisses her and tells her "soon." He smirks and calls her Mrs. Harrington. And then one night, on a romantic date, Henry drops the ball. He tells her he never wants to get married. Never. 🍭 Second Chance Romance 🍭 HEA Original Couple 🍭 Betrayal and Grovel 🍭 Sweet FMC x Sour MMC 🍭 Miscommunication

On the night of her twentieth birthday, Hanna plans to do the one thing no wolf has ever willingly done. Accept rejection from her fated mate. As an orphan, Hanna has spent years in the fringes of the packs- a spectator, never a participant. And over the last few weeks, she has watched Alphason Leif pretend she doesn't exist. The bond between them is real but Leif has made his choice. And Hanna refuses to spend the rest of her life with that target on her back. Sometimes even a rejection has to be owned with pride. She has six weeks before her life was going to change forever. Anyone else would just wait for the inevitable...but not Hanna. Leif does not know that everything he has planned was about to explode leaving only regrets. Both Leif and Hanna are both are just two cards on a deck. But noone expected Hanna to be a wildcard.

What are you doing here all alone? I was going crazy looking for you for the last fifteen minutes. What the hell, Ella? You know I hate it when you disappear on me like that." Jerking me towards him, he caught me in a very tight hug, almost cutting off my air. "Hey, did you just sniff me?" I gasped. "I did. Your smell calms me," Mason husked. Pushing him away, I looked up at him. "Your heart is racing," I rasped as I placed my hand on his chest, feeling the hard plane of his chest under the smooth fabric of his shirt. "Were you really panicked?" I smiled mischievously. "What if one day I leave you?" Before I could finish the sentence, he had me pinned against the wall, his head buried in my hair. "I would find you even if I had to go to the pit of hell," he said. "And what if you can't find me?" I asked. "I will kill myself because I can't imagine a world without you by my side," he replied without hesitation. My husband loves me. Even when his family pressured him to choose. He chose me, he chose us. After 10 years of marriage, when I couldn't give him the family we had dreamed of under the starry sky, with his head resting on my lap, he never once made me feel inadequate or less. We were enough for each other until her. The evidence was devastating: late-night "work" calls that lingered too long, hotel receipts, photos that made my stomach drop. When did he let go of my hand? When did he break the promises he made with me? He hasn't changed; he still can't keep his hands to himself, he still looks at me with the same intensity, same passion, same love. So why? Why did he do it? I always believed our love was different-untouchable, forged in the kind of devotion that poets write about and time cannot erode. But I guess I was wrong. #Strongfemale #Owdrama #Cheating #Marriageintrouble #Affair #Betrayal #Possessive #Jealoushero

In December 1995, Catherine Brennan lost a daughter. Three months later, she walked out on her husband and two small sons and disappeared. This is the eight months nobody knew. Told from the inside. Literary fiction. Mature. - Content warning: stillbirth and infant loss, grief and dissociation, suicidal ideation, distressing content involving children, sexual content. Not for younger readers. If any of this is close to home, take care of yourself. Talk to someone you trust, or find a crisis line at findahelpline.com if you need one.

I was eighteen. He was thirty-one. He was my first. And whether he knew it yet or not, I was going to be his last. After losing the only person who ever felt like home, Trinity is sent from the Bronx to a quiet farm in rural Georgia to live with relatives she barely knows. Everyone tells her it's a chance to heal. She isn't looking for healing. She's just trying to make it through tomorrow. Then she meets Arthur Brandreth. Thirty-one. Her aunt's brother. The man who worked in the farm with his own hands. Quiet. Disciplined. Impossible to read. Arthur keeps everyone at arm's length. Except somehow, not her. He never treats Trinity like she's broken. He never treats her like she's a child. And every stolen glance, every accidental touch, every moment spent alone blurs the line between comfort and temptation. She knows better than to want him. He knows better than to want her. But grief has a way of making people reach for the one thing they should never have. In a town where everyone believes they're saving Trinity, no one notices she's falling for the one man she can never have. Because some kinds of love heal you. And some ruin you so quietly, you mistake them for fate.

For ten years, Amélie Dubois has loved exactly one man-her best friend. Blaise Prescott knows every version of her. Every smile. Every scar. Every dream she refuses to say out loud. As captain of one of Paris's biggest football clubs, the billionaire athlete can face roaring stadiums without fear. But telling his best friend he's been in love with her for years? That's the one battle he can't win. When the line between friendship and something far more dangerous begins to blur, every shared glance, every touch, and every unspoken promise threatens to destroy the only relationship either of them has ever truly depended on. Because falling in love is easy. Risking your best friend is not.

Danny Verdago - recruited straight from the Military and trained to become a highly specialised undercover operative. For eight years, he's devoted his life to a single case- one that has demanded everything and cost him more than he ever imagined. What Danny never planned for was Tia. For the past four years, she's been his wife, his rock, and the one constant in a life built on secrets. She's the reason every sacrifice has been worth it and the reason he's ready to walk away from his career. Now, one final undercover deployment, the climax of everything he's worked for stands between Danny and the desk job that promises a future beyond the secrets and the double life. But as the operation hurtles toward its end, Danny is dragged deeper into the life he's spent years trying to keep separate. With the case closing in and the stakes higher than ever, he faces an impossible choice. How far is he willing to go to finish the mission he's sacrificed so much for? This time, the price of success won't be measured in years, careers, or half truths. It could cost him Tia, the family they've dreamed of, and everything that truly matters to him.

After many years of trying...and the pain of loss, I was finally pregnant. The night my sister got married, my husband drunkenly confessed to me that he had been in love with my sister for two years. I divorced him without talking to him. Now, two years later, I'm ready to listen.

In emergency medicine, the golden hour is the crucial sixty-minute window after a traumatic injury-the brief span of time when the right care can mean the difference between survival and loss. Dr. Mason Carpenter lives for that hour. At St. Mary's Trauma Center, he is the golden boy of the Emergency Department. He's brilliant and calm under pressure. He's addicted to the adrenaline, the thrill, the absolute rush of saving patients knocking on death's door. At home, he's a devoted husband to his high school sweetheart - the love of his life - Honey. Or, he used to be. Honey Carpenter has loved Mason since they were fourteen, since he was the gangly boy with hearts in his eyes who stumbled through asking her out for ice cream. She stood beside him through medical school, residency, crushing debt, sleepless nights, and every sacrifice it took to build the life they dreamed about. Now she is pregnant with their first child. And Mason is married to his work. He's missing ultrasound appointments, the gender reveal, the baby shower, and, most importantly, he's not there to support Honey - who's having an incredibly difficult first pregnancy. Honey feels her husband is drifting farther and farther away into the ED, and no matter how many times she tries to tell him she is lonely, exhausted, and afraid, Mason gives her the same answer. "They need me." But Honey needs him too. As her pregnancy progresses, her loneliness twists into something darker, but her doctor dismisses her symptoms as "first-time mom jitters." And her husband is too busy saving strangers to see his own wife fading away. Until Honey collapses at home and is rushed into Mason's emergency room, fighting for her life and their daughter's. Now Mason has to reckon with what he was chasing, what he ignored, and what it may cost him - the woman he loves more than anything. And he can't lose Honey. He won't survive it. 💛 Second Chance 💛 Marriage In Trouble 💛 No Cheating