Sam needed a wife. I needed a stable for my horses. We agreed to a marriage of convenience, but it seemed to be more. For a while. Until my distant cousin, who was Sam's ex, showed up on our doorstep. And I was no longer convenient.

When Sophie's marriage implodes in her face, she has no choice but to start over with her infant daughter Lou. Betrayed and jaded, Sophie is struggling to establish a life with her young daughter, while still bound to the man that chose another woman over his wife and child. When she meets Linc, a new vision for her future begins to appear.... but can their relationship withstand the forces against them? Faced with Sophie's controlling ex-husband and his jealous new wife, Linc has to fight to protect the burgeoning relationship he is building with Sophie and her daughter. For Linc, Sophie is so much more than a pretty face. Second best? A place holder? No, for Linc, Sophie was his everything.

He thought betrayal ended his story. She's about to show him it's only the beginning. Canyon Kelly Built a billion-dollar tech empire from nothing. He survived abandonment, success, pressure-and thought he'd finally found stability in a ten-year relationship with the woman he was about to marry. Until he walked into his office late one night... and watched his fiancée in the throes of passion with his best friend and business partner. Weeks later, at what should've been their engagement brunch , Canyon exposes their affair in front of everyone. The world expects him to fall apart. Instead, he points to the one woman he never truly stopped missing: Lucía Navarro. His childhood best friend. The girl who once sketched him in secret. The light he didn't realize he'd lost until it was gone. Lucía wants nothing to do with Canyon's scandals-or his sudden need for a wife. Seven years ago, he stood by while the woman he loved humiliated her, shattering their friendship beyond repair. But when Canyon asks for one last favor, she agrees... because part of her heart never let him go. What starts as a marriage of convenience becomes something far more complicated. Canyon remembers every detail she never thought he noticed. Lucía begins to see the man she loved hidden beneath the one she left behind. But old wounds run deep-especially when Canyon drags her back to the place where everything fell apart. When Lucía's past pain crashes into Canyon's present regrets, their fragile connection shatters. She runs-again. This time all the way to Dublin, to the sister who helps rebuild her spark. Canyon crossed an ocean once to expose a lie. Now he'll cross it again to fight for the only truth that matters. She was always his light. This time, he's not leaving without her.

Blayke Barclay thought she had her future figured out. She's been with Micah Knowles since she was sixteen, first love, first kiss, first everything. Five years later, they share a small apartment near Northshore University, a familiar routine, and a quiet certainty that forever is already theirs. Micah is safe, and predictable. The kind of love you build a life around. Until he betrays her. In one devastating moment, Blayke's entire world fractures, her relationship, her sense of trust, and the future she thought was unshakable. Forced to confront the truth about the man she loved and the girl who smiled like a friend while stealing everything, Blayke is left wondering how something that felt so secure could collapse so completely. The only constant in the fallout is Asher Holden. Asher has always been there, he's her best friend, her late night coffee runs, her steady presence when life feels too heavy. He never crossed a line. Never asked for more. He just stayed, but as Blayke begins to pick up the pieces of her broken heart and chase a long buried dream that may take her all the way to Paris, the line between friendship and something deeper starts to blur. Because loving Asher feels nothing like loving Micah ever did. It's messier, braver, and scarier because it's real. And now Blayke must decide what kind of love she truly wants, one that feels safe, or one that feels true. Roses are red, but Violets Aren't Blue.

❗️NOT FOR KIDS OR SENSITIVE READERS❗️ 𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚉𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛'𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎, 𝙰𝚛𝚒 𝚒𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚕'𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚢 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢. 𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚉𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚜 𝚞𝚙 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚘𝚏𝚏 , 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚋𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚊 𝚋𝚒𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚘𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚢𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎... *I will be updating this story once a week!* ‼️WARNINGS 18+‼️ • Dark Romance • Unhealthy Obsession • Violence • Sex • Vulgar Language • Dominant Male Lead • Pregnancy

This is a story about what happens when love meets grief and neither of them wins. Before, there was laughter in the dark. Stolen touches. The thrill of wanting something we were never meant to have. He felt like rebellion and safety all at once - like if I chose him, the world might burn, but he would stand in the flames with me. I didn't understand that some fires don't keep you warm. They consume. There was a night - the kind people whisper about later. The kind that divides your life into before and after. When the dust settled, something precious was gone... and the boy I loved was left carrying the weight of it. He never said it out loud, but I saw it in his eyes. The guilt. The unraveling. The quiet way he began pulling away from me long before I realized I was losing him. Grief changes people. It turns love into something desperate. It turns promises into things that tremble. It makes you cling tighter... even when you should run. I told myself he was hurting. I told myself pain makes people do things they don't mean. I didn't realize some damage can't be undone. By the time the truth surfaced, it was already too late. Too ugly. Too sharp. The kind of truth that doesn't just break your heart - it rearranges it into something unrecognizable. He says he'll spend the rest of his life making it right. But love born in secrecy. Love baptized in tragedy. Love tested by something unforgivable- It doesn't come out untouched. And if you're waiting for me to tell you we survive this... You should know something first. Some nights don't end when the sun comes up. Some nights follow you forever. And ours was the kind that leaves a body behind.

Mahira had always admired her professor, a quiet crush she carried in her heart - never imagining that destiny would draw them closer than she could ever dare to dream. But the cost of that closeness? It was everything she had. One night, under the haze of spiked drinks and reckless passion, Mahira found herself bound to a truth she could not escape... she was carrying Ibzan's child. The reality is merciless. For her family, reputation is everything. To preserve their honor, Mahira is forced into marriage with the very man who spent the night with her - her professor. But no one knows the hidden truth. Ibzan's heart belongs to someone else. He respects Mahira, even cherishes her, yet his love remains locked away, leaving her a stranger in the marriage that fate has forced upon them. Mahira learns to live with the silence of a love she may never have, while Ibzan struggles under the weight of duty, torn between what is right and what he truly desires. But is love really absent? Or is destiny quietly weaving their hearts together, despite everything - family, shame, and the walls they've built between them?

𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒑𝒕. 𝑶𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒂𝒍, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕? Maya thought she had moved on. Seven years after the heartbreak that shattered her world, her best friend Elara returns home engaged to the one man Maya swore she'd never see again. A friendship built on love, but tied by betrayal. A past neither of them can escape. And one secret that could destroy the life they both fought to protect. And in their world, one lie didn't just hurt, it started a domino effect that changed everything. When truth and loyalty collide, the line between love and guilt begins to blur and sometimes, even the purest hearts can cause the deepest wounds. "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆." ...She did and neither of them was ever the same again....

❗️NOT FOR KIDS OR SENSITIVE READERS❗️ 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚊 𝚗𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚛𝚒'𝚜 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢, 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚌𝚌𝚞𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝, 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐... 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎. 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚛𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚍𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎, 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙰𝚛𝚒 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗, 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗. 𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚜𝚑𝚎'𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢 𝚒𝚝... This is a DARK and SPICY story! Read at your own risk!! (Accounts who post hateful paragraphs will be muted for all of my stories!) ❗️ONLY FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY❗️18+ - True War Crimes - Mentions of rape - Lots of Sex - Unhealthy obsession - Violence/Killing

~ She walked away to forget him. He broke when she wasn't there. Now she is back~ To heal a man she once loved and raise a child that's isn't hers. ; Because some heartbeats were always meant to meet again✨