Lila Morgan had once been Jackson "Deacon" Hayes's whole world. His best friend's little sister. The girl who trailed after them in summer with scraped knees, bookish eyes, and a heart too soft for the kind of world he came from. The girl he loved in silence until one reckless, perfect night changed everything. Then he disappeared without a word, convinced leaving was the only way to keep her safe. Years later, Deacon is back, harder than he used to be, shaped by old violence, the military, club life, and the weight of choices he can't undo. He returns to find Lila no longer the shy girl he left behind, but a guarded, graceful woman carrying wounds he never meant to give her. Then he sees Jade. His dark features. Lila's green eyes. And the truth he can't outrun. Now the past Deacon tried to bury is standing right in front of him, and the woman he never stopped loving is caught in the middle of secrets, danger, and betrayal far closer than either of them expects. As old enemies circle and buried truths come to light, Deacon will do whatever it takes to protect Lila and the daughter he never knew was his. He left once because he thought it was the only way to keep Lila safe. This time, he's staying.

He lives by rules. She breaks them just by existing. Atlas "Priest" Adams is the president of the Saints of Retribution MC-a brotherhood of former soldiers who hunt the worst monsters hiding in plain sight. He believes in control, silence, and distance. No titles. No promises. No babies. Attachments get people killed. Dr. Indigo "Blue" Thorne isn't looking for danger. After a brutal night in the ER, she finds solace in a bar-and in a man who promises nothing beyond one night. She agrees to his rules because she doesn't want forever. Neither of them is telling the truth. What starts as a no-strings arrangement turns into something deeper, even as Priest insists Blue is temporary. Then the past comes roaring back. When his brother's widow arrives at the clubhouse pregnant and desperate, Priest's silence and half-truths destroy everything Blue thought she understood. So she disappears. Months later, fate drags them back together in an ER bay-where Priest sees the woman he lost... and the child she's carrying. Now Priest must face the consequences of the rules he hid behind, the words he never said, and the woman he never claimed. As secrets unravel and danger closes in, he'll have to decide whether love is a weakness- -or the one thing worth bleeding for. PRIEST is a dark, emotional MC romance about control, miscommunication, and the cost of loving halfway-featuring a hardened hero, a strong heroine, betrayal, redemption, and a hard-won happily ever after.

He called her his. His ol' lady. His wife. Property of Clutch. Rebecca "Bex" Pierce never belonged to anyone. She chose him. She stood beside him. She wore his patch with pride. Until the night he chose wrong. When a lie tears through the Dawnbreakers MC, loyalty turns toxic and pride turns cruel. In front of his brothers, in front of the clubhouse, Clutch does the one thing Bex never thought he would. He doesn't hit her. He doesn't cheat. He just doesn't believe her. And if he doesn't believe her? Then the patch means nothing. So she takes it off herself. Throws it at his feet. And walks away from the only life she's ever known. No protection. No club. No husband. The fallout fractures the Dawnbreakers from the inside out. Secrets unravel. Brothers fall. The club reforms. But the woman he lost? She isn't waiting to be claimed again. If Clutch wants his wife back, he won't just have to apologize. He'll have to rebuild everything he broke. Publicly. Relentlessly. Without expecting forgiveness. Because this time, she isn't property of anyone. Not even him. This story was born inside the Grovel & Betrayal Facebook group during a live "build-a-book" day. You asked for: • Public humiliation • Believed-the-wrong-person betrayal • Nuclear heartbreak • A man who has to earn her back And as I was reading your comments, one character kept echoing in my head. Clutch. You met him in Unlawful Hearts. You saw the quiet weight he carried. You heard him whisper to Remi. You watched him stand in the fire with the Dawnbreakers. This is his story. Welcome back to the Redemption Road world, this is within the same timeline as Unlawful Hearts.

Leticia Lovelace believed in patience. She believed in promises. Most of all, she believed in the man who swore he would wait forever. For five years she endured miscarriages, IVF cycles, injections, and heartbreak-while her billionaire husband Victor Diaz held her hand in every waiting room and promised she wasn't broken. He lied. On their fifth anniversary, Leticia receives a message from the one person she trusted almost as much as her husband: her younger sister, Eva. The photo shows a newborn baby. Victor's baby. Leticia doesn't scream. She doesn't cause a scene. She walks away and erases her husband with surgical precision. Within days the scandal destroys Victor's reputation. But Leticia doesn't stay to watch him fall. She disappears. Months later, far from the wreckage of her old life, Leticia discovers something impossible-she's pregnant. The miracle she prayed for. And the one man who will never know about it... is the child's father. Until fate forces them into the same waiting room. Now the truth is unavoidable. But this isn't a love story about forgiveness. It's a story about consequences. Because some betrayals break more than hearts. They change who you become.

caught my husband cheating. Not with a stranger. Not with a friend. With my sister. I didn't scream. I didn't cry. I didn't expose them. I smiled... and started planning. Instead of leaving, I called the one person who deserved to know the truth just as much as I did- Her husband. Nikolai Volkov. We used to be best friends. Until she made sure we weren't. Now we're pretending. Pretending to be a little too close. Pretending to cross lines we shouldn't. Pretending to be exactly what they fear most. But the more we play the game... the less it feels like pretending. And the worst part? They think we're the ones betraying them. - A story of betrayal, revenge, and a love that should have never been lost.

Alessia had rules. She didn't do drama, didn't take nonsense from any man. Until him. For Cassian, she broke every one. A cliché, impossible mother in law? She handled it. Missed dinners because of work? She served herself double and waited anyway. Too tired to spend time together? She embraced the quiet hours alone. She forgot her limits, abandoned her rules. All for him. Until her. The one rule she couldn't break, the limit she couldn't cross. She saw him with her. Broken, she left and whispered a wish she never thought would come true: that she had never met him. The wish was granted. Alessia woke up and didn't remember him. But now Cassian is the one waiting. Running against time to be near her. Chasing every moment, following every rule, just so she might remember him again. And if she can't... Can he remember it all for both of them? © IcecreamSundae5. All rights reserved.

Alexander didn't cheat. He just gave someone else his attention, his laughter, and the smiles that used to belong to his wife. And she watched him drift - not to another woman's bed, but to her presence. Her laugh. The way she made him feel seen in a room full of people. Everything he found in someone else - Zara had been giving him all along. Eight years of marriage. One little boy who loved them both. And Zara standing in the middle of it all - wondering when she became the woman he stopped choosing. She warned him. Three times. The first - he dismissed her. The second - he called her jealous. The third - he called her insecure. So she stopped warning him altogether. And stopped waiting. Love wasn't enough... and now it might be too late.

She spent her life waiting for a father's love that never came. Now, after losing everything, he's the one trying to save her. Seventeen-year-old Ava Delaney thought she understood pain-until she learned the truth. Her mother trapped her father with a pregnancy he never wanted. Her father built a new family without her. And when Ava begged him to forget she existed, he did. Months later, bruised and broken in a hospital bed after a violent night, Ava opens her eyes to find him there-the man who left her behind. But love doesn't heal overnight. Moving in with her father's perfect new family only opens new wounds: a kind stepmother who doesn't know how to help, a sweet little sister who adores her, and a half brother who hates her on sight. As Ava struggles to rebuild her life, she finds solace in Liam, the school's notorious bad boy who sees the pain she hides. But forgiveness isn't easy-not for her father, not for her brother, and not for herself. When buried secrets resurface, Ava must decide whether to keep running from the past or face it head-on-and whether broken hearts can still learn how to love. A story of family, forgiveness, and first love-The Unwanted Daughter is a heart-wrenching emotional romance about what it means to be seen, to be chosen, and to finally belong.

"My 17-year-old but has seen better and worse days. It has been through ups and downs, through flat and flatter. But regardless of all the shit it had to endure, it still honours the earth by its presence." "That's an awful intro. Although it's not far from the truth." °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Noel Avalon Malcom. A teenager who had to grow up too fast. Abandoned by her family for a false accusation and left to fend for herself. What happens, when she ends up at the police station and has no choice but to call her father? And when she is forced to live there with her brothers and sister? She has her own demons and secrets, but even the family, which seems so perfect on the outside has its demons. Will Noel be able to forgive them for all the wrongdoings against her? Will the truth come out? And will they stand against their demons, or get defeated by them?

Genevieve Anderson, the girl that had been left behind and forgotten. In a town where everybody knows everybody, meaning that no one goes unnoticed. Nobody just grabs a bag and leaves in the middle of the night, without someone seeing something. Nobody changes identity over night, and is suddenly left with the care of their father in her hands. Forgotten over night, Genevieve changes the person that everyone thought they knew. Gone was the girl that would smile and wave to everyone, was replaced by a girl that had a need for stealing and getting by every day. She had been left with the responsibility of an old ranch that was no longer in operation and the care of her father, who had been to war, and was suffering from additions like there was no tomorrow. Gone was the girl that depended on her big brothers to open the gate, replaced with a girl that worked long hours at the ranch, before she was sneaking out after midnight, to drive whatever cars her brothers had left behind. Except, one day, something happens and everything takes a turn for the worse. "I left you here, for 20 minuets, and you have already let him relapse?! I trusted you, for a second, and you backstabbed me?! I can't believe any of you anymore, because you are made of lies!" Holding on by a string, Genevieve isn't sure how much more she can take, especially when people appear from the past she thought she left behind, when she was 5 years old. Time moves on for a reason, doesn't it? "I told you to forget about it. It's in the past, and nobody has ever asked me to do what you are asking me to do. You are asking me to put away my boots and hat, and stand in front of people in heels and a puffy dress. That's not who I am, if you had stuck around to find out who I really am. " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Started: 21.11.24 Finished: -