** "Maximilian?" I blink at her silently. She just called my name. By my name. Instead of feeling repulsed and detested by that sound I instead can't feel anything anymore. All I can see is her. My breath stops for a moment again. Just like back in the tent. "Yes it's me." I say, quickly looking away from her side. "Why are you here?" She asks me coldly taking my hand away from her cheek. She then sits up straight in the sofa, far from me. I silently drop my hand back to my lap. I kind of felt disappointed. "Why can't I be here? Can't a husband visit his wife whenever he wants?" She shakes her head. "You're not like other husbands. And I'm not like other wives. You're a husband that's still hung up on their first love. And I'm a wife that wants nothing to do with you." She says with her tired eyes, after having slept only for 2 hours. _____________________________ Maximillian, the Emperor of the Kaisenarch Empire, who still love his first love. Elizabeth, the Empress that only wanted her husbands love She had taken years to realize, that maybe her marriage was always doomed, from the beginning. And her feelings will never be reciprocated. She falls first, he falls harder trope. ______________________________ This is a story I wanted to make from "A stepmother's marchen" or "The fantasy of a stepmother". With the characters Maximillian and Elizabeth. I so badly wanted to see their relationship Develop. None of this is my own

A story about a smart woman who loves her husband, her son and her life. When she learns that her husband isn't the man she thought he was, she works on giving her son the life he deserves. It's also about a lying and cheating man, who thought he was clever enough to avoid honesty and accountability in his life. Sometimes making a mistake and then sincerely apologizing, just might just not be enough. "Mommy, why is daddy and that lady nakey hugging?" My son innocently and loudly asks, while his father seems to be trying to locate his pants. Spoiler alert, they are on the floor under my feet, by the door, not anywhere near where he and his 'nakey' friend are sprawled on the couch. The woman shrieks, Kayley and I both fumble for the light switch just as River hits the button for daddy's 'magic office windows', which are now fully visible to the entire office floor, and all 127 employees are staring at and sharing my horror as my husband and his whatever she is are naked and trying to get dressed. Well damn, happy Wednesday to me.

What do you do when the man who promised forever keeps breaking you in private? When every "I love you" is a lie? When you find proof of not one affair but three? I stayed silent for six years. Then I left in the loudest silence he'd ever heard. One suitcase. All the evidence. My wedding ring is on top. Gone. This is the story of how I rebuilt myself-and how he watched me rise from the ashes of his betrayal.

She came home early. She shouldn't have. Noa Reevse is a therapist. She spends her days sitting across from people in the worst moments of their lives, holding their pain with both hands, and sending them home better. She is very good at it. She is also, it turns out, very good at not looking too closely at her own. Until the afternoon, she opens a door she was never supposed to open. Fifteen seconds. That's all she records. That's all she needs. And then, a week later, she puts on a burgundy dress, walks into her husband's televised political forum, and raises her hand. She has the video. She never has to play it. His silence does the work for her. "Hurricane Season" is about what happens after the worst imaginable betrayal, after the divorce papers are filed, after the woman who taught everyone else how to survive the unsurvivable has to figure out how to do it herself. For readers who need their protagonist to be the storm.

Lucas Bennett lived in boardrooms and balance sheets - a world of precision, strategy, and control. Emma was warmth, laughter, and every unpredictable thing he never planned for. Somehow, against all logic, they worked. Until Claire , his assistant & most trusted employee, destroyed everything they had. Emma had heard enough. Believed enough. And without a single raised voice or broken dish, she simply left. The silence she left behind was deafening. He had rebuilt failing companies. Recovered from losses that broke lesser men, but, for the first time in his life, Lucas Bennett didn't know how to fix something. He had lost Emma Now came the part nobody prepares you for. Becoming someone worth coming back to.

"I love you," she uttered in what seemed to be an unaudible whisper. "But I'm no competition to her." Her heart breaks even more knowing what they had would end the moment he wakes up. She continued to caress his face with her ever so delicate fingers. "Stay." Her heart raced more than it already is hearing one word out of his sleep. He looked so torn. She was debating to herself if she'd take heed to his unconscious plea when the most painful thing came next. "Veronica...I..." "Sshh," she hushed him not wanting to hear the words she longed him to say to her. "Sleep." Her voice crack as tears flow from the realization hitting her. She looked up to the portrait of the perfect couple just above his bed. They looked so happy, so carefree, so perfect with his arms around her, his chin resting on her left shoulder. Just that and it shattered her already broken heart. How she wished it was her. Unfortunately, her name is not Veronica, she couldn't be her and never will be. She was a very beautiful woman contrasting to her being an ordinary girl. She watched his torned face calmed, his tensed body limped, his labored breath evens, making sure he deeply succumbs to unconsciousness before stealing a peck on his dry lips. She let her lips linger a little longer before pulling herself up. "Goodbye, Xand," she whispered into the air before turning her heels out with an intention of not coming back into his life.

Married by arrangement. Loved in silence. Talia Scott was never meant to be seen-only tolerated. Bound to a man who never loved her, she endured pain quietly... until secrets, betrayal, and an unexpected life force her to choose herself. A dark romance where silence hurts louder than words.

-Completed- What would you do if the man you trust the most, brings you pain and anguish? Could you forgive him? A married woman hears from her beloved husband that he doesn't want to be married anymore, and after hearing this devastating news, she makes the decision to remain strong. And maybe her husband will discover that he didn't know what he was asking for. Tags: Grovel, regret, forgiveness, second chance, HEA, emotional cheating (off page). Main couple: Adam and Sophie No physical cheating. Talk with OW (off page). Celibate. Besotted hero. Besotted husband. Grovel. Happy ending for the main couple. Second chance. Married couple. Separation for week/months. Possessive. Mine. Strong language. Sex scenes. Chapters: 20-25 chapters with epilogues "I will not hate you. But be warned, at this moment, I am tempted to say, even now, I will not take you back. So, if you do it Adam, just forget you were married to me. Just forget about me. In case you are thinking of taking a sample in what seems like a delicious buffet, offered by your beloved friends, and then, after everything, if you feel like coming back here asking me for a second chance, Adam, darling, you are going in for a bad, very bad surprise! I will not take you back. Even loving you, I will not take you back!" I pause and continue Just read if you like HEA and forgiveness.

Emmy: I've always loved Graham since the moment we were kids. We've been through everything together. But since the birth of our son pat was born I feel like I'm drowning. Like I'm not me. Now Graham has hired his bosses 23 year old daughter who obviously likes my husband. And I think he also enjoys her attention. So after telling him for months how it makes me insecure and him ignoring me I finally find my voice. He knows about my past he knows about my insecurities due to my father and the religion I desperately needed to escape so will Graham choose me or her? Graham: Em has always been it, but now I'm feeling distant and then there is Lucy. Do I let her slide more? Yeah I don't enforce boundaries but she's the bosses daughter and not my wife I wouldn't cheat. Just sometimes work comes first and it's nice to be appreciated by a woman when your wife isn't. But now em is pushing me further away and my best friend Chance says I'm basically cheating can I win em back or will the past we've tried escaping wreck everything?

Amara & Matteo series - Book #1 Eight years ago, Amara Johnson fell in love with a boy who promised her forever. Then he left. Without a word. Without a goodbye. She rebuilt herself from nothing-stronger, colder, untouchable. Until the day he walks back into her life... Like he never broke it. Matteo Rodriguez isn't just her past. He's the reason she stopped believing in love. But what happens when the truth finally comes out? Secrets. Pain. A loss she never spoke about. And a love that never really died. Because some stories don't end when people walk away... They end when the truth finally catches up.