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When forever turned to ruins by white-scar
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(completed) Some forevers don't end. They break you until nothing is left. Esther's forever did not shatter in an instant-it decayed. She watched cancer eat away at her husband until there was nothing left of the man she once loved. She held her child through endless nights of mourning, only to lose them too when grief proved heavier than life itself. Esther buried her world in two graves. After that, she moved through life like a shadow breathing out of habit, smiling out of obligation, existing without ever living. She told herself they were gone. She told herself forever was finished. But grief is merciless. It lies. And some husbands are never truly dead. Alaric's forever ended in fire and blood. His wife. His child. His soul. For ten years he hunted the men who stole them, drowning his hands in vengeance until the last body fell. But vengeance leaves only silence. It cannot fill an empty heart. It cannot bring back the dead. When Esther and Alaric's paths cross, it is not love. It is grief recognizing grief two souls carved open by loss, clinging to each other not out of hope, but because they have nothing else. Yet even in ruin, the past waits. And when it rises, Esther will face the cruelest truth: What she mourned was never gone. And what comes back is no longer hers.
The Last Show (Book Two) by lilafairchild
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*Book Two in the Gentleman's Proposal Series* Josephine's life has always been controlled by those around her. After her new husband leaves her bereft and alone, she decides to finally do something about her suffocating existence. On impulse, she flees to America and starts a new life, one filled with adventure and danger. When her sorry excuse of a husband shows up again, intending to take her back to England, she puts her foot down; she absolutely, unequivocally will not return. When Reginald Browning, Earl of Whitehall, goes to obtain his estranged wife from America, he does not find the young woman who left him years ago. Instead, he finds a new Josephine: the gunslinging star of a Wild West traveling show. He knows that he wrecked their marriage the first time around. But how can he hope to fix things when he can't even get his wife back onto English soil? Content Warning: Pregnancy Loss and Descriptions of Physical and Sexual Assault Against Women, Infidelity
Forgotten Pain by NadiaNevsky88
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Nina Reyes lost her job, her health insurance, and maybe her last shred of stability. She's barely scraping by when she's appointed roommate to her high-school tormentor: Lincoln Carter, golden boy graphic designer... turned amnesiac who thinks they're dating. She doesn't trust him. Not his charm, not his chiseled jaw, and definitely not his sudden need to make things right. Lincoln Carter doesn't remember much before the accident, except Nina's warm brown eyes. But she flinches when he gets too close and flattens him with one-liners and vagueness. He does know possession. Nina feels his. He also knows guilt. Sticking and sinking into his skin. Now he's on a mission: figure out what happened, fix it, and win her. Even if it means airing out a few secrets. Forgiveness is not enough, he wants forever. #3 Top USA Stories 09/01 #1 Overheard - 09/02 #11 FamilyDrama - 09/25 #27 ContemporaryRomance - 09/24 #1 amnesia-love-story - 09/26
He wants me bad by Sly_Gurl
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Everyone thought I was the sweet one. The quiet one. The safe choice. He wanted me because I was 'wife material.' And while he was out living a double life, my best friend, she was helping him hide it. One anonymous message shattered everything I thought I knew. But now that I know all their dirty little secrets... Maybe it's time I revealed one of my own. Because what no one knows is... I'm Ivan Petrov's daughter. And now I have a decision to make. Stay and be the vanilla wife he needed... Or walk away and become the bad girl he never deserved, but always wanted.
The Night That Broke Us by gigglylilshit
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She loved me when I didn't even know how to love myself. Sahiba walked into my life with eyes full of devotion and a heart foolish enough to believe I could give her the same in return. And what did I do? I crushed her. With my silence. With my indifference. With the walls I built so high she could never climb them. Worst of all? My fucking betrayal. She thinks it's over. That the divorce ended us. But the truth she doesn't know is brutal-she's still my wife. On paper, in law, in name... and in the marrow of my bones. I never let her go. I couldn't. I've spent years carrying the weight of her absence like a noose around my neck. Every day without her has been punishment. Every night, I see the girl I destroyed staring back at me in my dreams, reminding me that I turned her love into ashes. But this time, I won't let her slip through my fingers. I'll fight. I'll bleed. I'll burn the world if I have to. She might hate me, curse me, despise the ground I walk on-but I'll take it. Because losing her once broke me. Losing her again will kill me. I was her nightmare once. Now I'll be her damnation or her salvation. But I'll be hers.
Gracie & Gray by uxecila
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This isn't a story for the faint of heart. This is a story about a girl who loved a boy. A boy who couldn't love her back. This is a story about the bitter, the sweet, betrayals, second chances, and redemption. If your heart doesn't hurt by the end of this wreckage, then I haven't done my job properly.
The Woman Between Empires by HelveticaBlack
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He had the money, the charm, the world at his feet... But he didn't have her anymore. Michaela Ravens thought she had finally moved on. From the man who broke her heart. From the life she never chose. From the past that wouldn't stop following her. But she was wrong. They say love is sweeter the second time. But what if the second time comes with more pain, more secrets, and more reasons to walk away? Now, stuck between the ghosts of who they were and the ache of who they might still be, Mika must ask herself: Can she forgive him? Can she forgive herself? Can she move forward... or will she fall back into his arms all over again?
His story by LizLeo19
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A very short cheating story, exclusively from the cheaters POV. Unable to cope with his guilt after his wife's miscarriage due to a car accident in which he was driving, Noel Mello feels it easier to confide and forget himself with a stranger. This is their story, from his POV, consequences and all.
The Deathless and the Spare by RaeganSalander
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He was born to rule. His twin was born to obey. But fate doesn't care who came first. When the Alpha of the North brings his parents' killers to ruin, he demand one final prize-the enemy alpha's precious daughter. She's mute. To spare his tribe, the defeated father reluctantly agrees.The girl is marked for use. Nothing more. Until the eldest twin touches her skin and fate flares to life. She is his mate. But instead of accepting the bond, the alpha recoils in disgust. She is not the mate he wanted. Not the queen he envisioned. So he gives her to his twin instead. He is an identical copy, close enough to fool the bond. Meanwhile, the Alpha claims his brother's newly found mate for himself, the girl is cast aside with orders to suffer. Bound by a partial mark, used only in the dark, she toils in silence. But even silence has secrets. Scars that don't fade. Pain that doesn't end. And something inside her that refuses to die.But soon she realizes that death might be an escape from hell after all. Because she's not who they think she is. Soon the Deathless will come for her.
Ashes to Ashes- Nadia & Hadrian by RaeganSalander
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Centuries ago, she walked into the flames for a love she thought had died-only to realize, in her final moments, that she had been deceived. In 2020, Nadia is a successful lawyer who has clawed her way back from a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia. The visions she once feared are now quiet. That is, until a mysterious man enters her life and ignites memories of a burning pyre, a crown, and a betrayal too cruel to forget. Drawn to him but haunted by a raven's whisper that warns, Do not trust, Nadia pushes him away. But Hardian, the enigmatic entrepreneur who feels too familiar, won't be forgotten so easily. Their paths cross again and again, and when a rare manuscript triggers his own memories, the truth of their past life begins to unravel. But someone else has returned too-her old rival in a new form, hiding behind sweet smiles and whispered lies. Now, Nadia must confront the fire of the past to decide if this time, love is worth rising from the ashes.