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Before You Go by NiningGay1978
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Adrian Cole asked his wife for a divorce on a Tuesday morning. He had his reasons - two years of gray, of going through motions, of convincing himself that what he felt was incompatibility and not just a man who forgot how to tend to the most important thing he had. Sera looked at him across the kitchen table. She said okay. She didn't cry. She didn't fight. She didn't ask him to stay. And that one quiet word - okay - turned out to be the thing that broke him completely. Because he had spent two years waiting to feel something. He just didn't know it was going to be this.
The Afterthought by RaynaEpisode
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Elara Scott believed love was something you built, steady, patient, earned. After a childhood defined by chaos, Jonah Sterling's calm attention feels like oxygen: the quiet check-ins, the small touches, the safety of being wanted. But Jonah, heir to an old money East Coast dynasty and CEO of a powerful tech and security empire, only ever loved one woman. Sofia is the ghost his family still worships, the future he never stopped craving. When the board demands a "settled" image, Jonah chooses Elara not with devotion, but with convenience. In the Sterling world, Elara is an outsider in every room, enduring polished cruelty, public humiliation, and a husband who watches in silence. Even when an unexpected pregnancy gives them a daughter, Isla, Elara remains the wife who was never truly chosen. When Sofia returns and Jonah's attention begins to slip, first from Elara, then from Isla, Elara makes a decision that shatters the perfect façade: she leaves. But divorce doesn't erase Jonah's past. It exposes it, and forces Jonah to face the damage he allowed, the family that enabled it, and the woman who learned to live without him. A devastating, angst-filled story of second choice love, quiet cruelty, and a father fighting to repair the bond he nearly destroyed, after it's too late to save the marriage.
Remember You by BernieCross
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He forgot their love. She never could. Now, she must fall in love with the man he has become. He must choose the woman he no longer remembers. Seth Sterling's life is a masterpiece of precision-until a surfing accident wipes his memory clean, erasing the last five years. Five years that taught him how to love her. He wakes believing he is still the man he used to be. Everyone else is grieving the man he became. The woman he remembers belongs to his past-the one he once swore he'd never leave. The woman standing in his kitchen, wearing his engagement ring and knowing every shadow in his soul, is a stranger. Jules Hagen loved Seth through every version of himself: the guarded man, the broken one, the architect who finally learned how to build a life worth staying for. Now, she shares a home with the only version of him she never prepared for: the man who doesn't remember choosing her at all. As Seth struggles to inhabit a future he doesn't remember building, Jules is left carrying a love story only she can recall-forced to decide whether to keep fighting for the man she lost or let him become a stranger for the second time. Because forgetting was never the hardest part. Choosing each other again is.
BROKEN VOWS  by EmmanuelCyline
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Sophia thought she married the perfect man. But on their wedding night, one message destroyed everything. Secrets, betrayal, heartbreak, and love collide in a story about broken trust, painful truths, forgiveness, and second chances. Can love survive after the truth destroys it?
A Foolish Infatuation by Canderpdx
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Emily Calloway runs the village surgery of Dr. Hartley and Dr. Hargrove with quiet, unfailing competence and asking for very little in return.'What would I do without you?' Dr. Hargrove says more than once. But when a beautiful blonde arrives at the surgery one afternoon with monogrammed luggage and every appearance of belonging at Dr. Hargrove's side, Emily discovers there are some heartbreaks no amount of discipline can keep neatly contained, and Dr. Hargrove will discover exactly what life without Emily Calloway is like. This is a vintage old school Mills & Boon-style inspired tale, but with a stronger heroine, and a little grovel thrown in.
Two Lies & a Truth by samena0220
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They had loved for thirty years, or so she thought. One night, that love was shattered; betrayed, humiliated, and tested beyond endurance. She endured silently, carrying her pain alone, shielding her children from the truth. And he... he begged for her forgiveness, only to realize too late the depth of what he had lost.
Twenty/Twenty  by BlueGranite
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She was his coworker. She was his close friend. She was his cousin. These were all things I knew. There were just a few crucial components to their connection of which I had been unaware. She had been his crush. And now he was hers.
Daffodil by pro_pro_casti_nator
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Daffodil was born into chaos - the unwanted daughter of a reckless biker and a bitter club girl. Cast aside, betrayed, and forced to survive a brutal childhood, Daffodil spent her early years fighting battles no child should face. Betrayed by the father she worshipped, humiliated by the boy she once loved, she learned early that love was a lie. When her only source of light, her baby brother Nate, comes into her life, Daffodil becomes both sister and protector. But one act of violence tears them apart from the only world they've known. Twelve years later, Daffodil has risen from the ashes. No longer the broken, lonely girl of the past, she has become a powerful, untouchable force - the head of a fashion empire, admired, feared, and envied. With Nate thriving under her fierce protection, Daffodil has built a life so dazzling that even her old enemies can only watch from afar. But when Blaze - the father who betrayed her - learns the devastating truth he was too blind to see, he comes searching for the children he abandoned. Torn between rage and the little brother who dreams of knowing his real father, Daffodil is forced back into the world that once destroyed her. A story of survival, vengeance, and healing, and most importantly about a woman who refused to stay broken - a woman who made the world bow to her strength, and who will never again let anyone decide her worth.
I Learned To Love You Right (Available On Amazon KU And Patreon) by Creesey1234
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Book 3 in the forever trilogy Lielle Ford has everything she once dreamed of-success, stability, and a life built on choices she fought hard to make. From the outside, it's perfect. Carefully curated. Untouchable. But perfection has cracks. Behind closed doors, boundaries blur, old tensions resurface, and the quiet weight of unmet expectations begins to settle into something harder to ignore. The life she chose starts to feel unfamiliar... and the love she believed in begins to shift in ways she can't quite explain. Then a tragedy changes everything. In the aftermath, Lielle is left navigating grief, pressure, and a future she never planned for, forced to rebuild not just her life, but herself. And just when she thinks she's found a way to stand on her own again, the past she buried walks back in... steady, changed, and no longer asking for forgiveness, but proving he's earned it. Luca Taylor once loved her the wrong way. This time, he's determined to do it right. But healing isn't linear. And love, no matter how deep, has never been simple between them. Not when history lingers. Not when timing has always been their greatest enemy. And not when choosing each other means risking everything all over again. Because some love stories don't end when they break. They wait... until you're strong enough to rebuild them. "Loving her was never the problem. Loving her right was." - Luca Taylor.