For eighteen months, Samara has loved Luke wholeheartedly. She's ignored the uncomfortable feelings, swallowed her doubts, and convinced herself that Ari, Lukes sister's best friend was simply part of the package. Ari has always been there. Always taking up more space in Luke's life than any "friend" should. And every time Samara questioned it, Luke had an excuse ready. Ari was just blunt, Ari didn't mean anything by it. Ari was family. Ari had always been around. Then one recorded conversation is sent to Samara. TROPES: OWD Female Best Friend Sisters Best Friend Overheard (sent recording) TW: Body shaming - will be renaming this but needed to get this story out of my head

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

I was the woman he loved. She was the woman he could never refuse. I stopped competing with Veronica the day I understood the truth: Adrian hadn't just let her into our lives, he'd built her a home inside the spaces meant for me. For two years, I was Claire Monroe. The safe and steady one. The woman Adrian Cole never had to worry about because she never made a scene, raised her voice, or asked for more than he was willing to give. Understanding. Patient. Reliable. I wore those words like armor, never realizing they were the very reasons he felt free to look away. And while I stayed quiet, Veronica Steele, the grieving family friend, the woman who wielded her sorrow like a blade, quietly took everything that should have been mine. Not his heart. No. Something worse. His presence. His attention. Every late-night conversation, every cancelled dinner, every moment he chose to be somewhere I wasn't. I learned the cost of that choice on the kitchen floor of our apartment, my body folding in on itself, my appendix rupturing as I whispered his name into a voicemail he wouldn't hear until it was too late. Adrian. Please. I need you. He was with her. Of course he was with her. I survived the surgery. But lying in that hospital bed, staring at the empty chair beside me, I finally understood something I should have known all along: There was no reason left to stay. So I stopped waiting. And only then, only when the door had already closed, did Adrian finally see the truth. But seeing and losing never happen in the right order. "Unfaithful Promise" is the story of a man who realized what he had only after he had nothing left to hold, and a woman who finally decided she would never again be someone's second choice. Some people don't recognize love until they're standing in the ruins of it.

An incredibly shy librarian who finds it almost impossible to talk with people unless it's about books. A dominant who comes into the library and is captivated by the shy woman behind the circulation desk. The minute she says Yes, Sir to him, he knows she's his. He just needs to convince her of that.

Arabella thought she had the perfect life. A loving fiancé. A future she couldn't wait to begin. A man she trusted with her whole heart. But she felt the distance and tries to Bridge the gap. That's the night she walked into his office and found him kissing another woman. Heartbroken, Arabella flees, only to be struck by a car moments later. When she wakes up in the hospital, everyone believes she's lost her memory-including the man who shattered her world. Maverick is devastated, desperate to make things right, and willing to do anything to earn back the woman he loves. What he doesn't know is that Arabella remembers everything. The betrayal. The lies. The kiss. And she's not ready to forgive him. Pretending to have amnesia gives Arabella the perfect opportunity to watch the people around her reveal their true colours. But as Maverick fights to prove that one terrible mistake doesn't define his love for her, the line between revenge and forgiveness begins to blur. Because some wounds run too deep to heal. And some loves refuse to die. TROPES: - OWD - Cheating (kiss & inappropriate work relationship) - Fake amnesia - Grovel

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.

We were friends with benefits. Reed would stop by every time he was in Anchorage, and that was the extent of things, although I started to want more. Then he ended our arrangement, and I suspected there was another woman, but it wasn't until I overheard a conversation that I understood completely. He thought I was calling and texting because I couldn't take no for an answer. That wasn't my problem at all. Two blue lines were.

What happens when a FWB arrangement turns into something it shouldn't have? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .( Not Edited)

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 " 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥. 𝘕𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦. 𝘠𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵. " 𝗦𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘆𝗲𝘀 " 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯... 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵. "

Lady Eleanora, the dutiful eldest daughter of a duke, accepts a marriage of alliance to Crown Prince Anthony without protest. Graceful and admired, she is everything a future queen should be. But Anthony falls for her younger sister-the one who wants no crown, no court, no throne. Bound by an uneasy agreement, Duty and Desire bind them together while pulling them apart. When Duty and Desire collide, Eleanora must face whether her devotion will cost her the one thing she was never meant to want-love.