She was nineteen. He was twenty-four. She had no business being at that party. She knew it the moment she walked in , the marble floors, the lake glittering outside, the people who wore money like a second skin. But she stayed. And he noticed her. Rafael Don Vitelli, with his dark eyes and his easy smile, found her standing alone at the edge of the water and decided she was interesting. For seven days he made her feel like she was the only person in the world. On the seventh night she gave him everything she had never given anyone, her heart and her virginity . On the eighth morning, he was gone. No message. No explanation. No goodbye. Just an empty pillow and a silence that would follow her for the next five years. She cried. She broke. And then she got up. She built a life so beautiful and full that, eventually, Rafael Don Vitelli became nothing more than a memory she refused to revisit. But she built something else too. A little boy with dark hair, her eyes, and a laugh that reminded her of a night she had spent years trying to forget. His name was Matteo. He was four years old. And he was the one secret Rafael had never known. Until now. Because after five years, fate was bringing Rafael Don Vitelli back into her life. No

[Mature content, 17+. Contains dark themes and spice.] "I thought I was bullying a servant. Turns out, I was ordering around the Emperor." Yasmin is a genius perfumer from the Red Lantern District with a dangerous gift. She sees scents as colors. She can smell a lie, taste fear on someone's skin, and track a poison straight back to the hand that poured it. Then she's dragged to the Golden Palace and ordered to do the impossible: brew a love potion for the terrifying, faceless Sultan Iskandar. To survive, she strikes a deal with Nadir, a grumpy, soot stained coal servant. She teases him. She bosses him around. She uses him to steal ingredients from the royal stores. In a palace full of vipers, he's the only person who feels safe. There's just one problem. Nadir doesn't exist. The man she's been poking in the chest, ordering around, falling for, is Sultan Iskandar himself. And he isn't angry about the deception at all. He's amused. Now Yasmin is trapped. The Sultan is being consumed by a madness that only her scent can quiet, and the closer she gets, the more he refuses to let her go. "You treated me like a slave, Little Mouse. Now you can pay your debts as my Queen." [Author's note: The world of The Tyrant is Addicted to My Scent is high fantasy. The aesthetics, clothing, and architecture draw inspiration from the Ottoman, Persian, and Mughal empires, but this is a fictional world with its own geography, culture, and laws. It is not meant to be a historical depiction of the Middle East.]

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My eyes flashed to his chest briefly, but unfortunately not briefly enough. Thank God for giving the six-foot-something manchild with daddy issues a six-pack and dimples. A grin tugged at Seb's lips as he moved closer. "You have to be crazy, or else you were serious about the four grand." "I was," he said. "I have a proposition." I laughed once. "No." "No? It's four grand. Hear me out." I didn't reply. I just looked at him. Sebastian King continued anyway. "You pretend to date me this summer, I pay you four thousand dollars cash." ── ⋆⋅𖤓⋅⋆ ── Liana Burke takes a summer counsellor job at Camp Kingatoa because UBC is expensive, and being poor doesn't come with a grace period. She expects mosquitoes, sticky kids, minimum wage, and eight weeks of keeping other people's children alive. Instead, she gets trapped in the woods with: › Carter Wright - the golden boy she's loved since they were kids sharing free school lunches. › Sienna Monroe - her former best friend, who learned years ago exactly how to turn Liana's poverty into a punchline. › Sebastian King - spoiled, reckless, ridiculously rich, and the boy who once proved in one casual sentence that no matter how close they grew up, Liana still belonged beneath him. Then Sienna cheats on Sebastian. With Carter. Suddenly, Sebastian wants revenge. And Liana needs money. So Seb offers her a deal: Fake-date him for the summer. Make their exes jealous. Get paid four thousand dollars cash. Liana knows better than to trust Sebastian King. Unfortunately, tuition costs considerably more than her dignity. And at Camp Hustler, everybody learns the same lesson eventually: Everyone has a price. The problem? The longer Liana pretends to be Sebastian King's girlfriend, the harder it becomes to remember which parts are fake. ── ⋆⋅𖤓⋅⋆ ──

​𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰. ​"I just walked away from four million dollars and a penthouse, but I didn't care. All I needed was my baby." ​[🏆#1 ᴍᴇʟʙᴏᴜʀɴᴇ, #1 ɪᴠꜰ, #1 ᴋᴅʀᴀᴍᴀ, #1 ᴘʀᴇɢɴᴀɴᴛ] 🗓️ Updates TUESDAY + FRIDAY ✅️ ​𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗦 ​🤰 Accidental + High-Risk Pregnancy (IVF error) 🏰 Strict bed rest ➔ Forced move to his Toorak mansion 💍 Fake engagement ➔ Marriage of convenience 🤫 Bitter, vindictive ex-wife out for revenge 🔥 Enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn, eventual spice (He falls first/harder) 🎭 Grumpy x Sunshine (Annoyed, independent heroine x desperate, pushy billionaire) ​𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 ​Self-made and fiercely independent, Ivy Thorne expects a quiet journey into single motherhood via IVF. Instead, a catastrophic clinic mix-up shatters her plans: the wrong embryo was implanted. ​Suddenly, Ivy is pregnant with the biological heir to Tae-Jun Park-a powerful Korean-Australian media chaebol. Tae-Jun is desperate to claim his child, but Ivy refuses to let his billions control her. She doesn't need his money, and she definitely doesn't want him disrupting her life. ​But when a sudden medical crisis forces Ivy onto strict, high-risk bed rest, her independence hits a brick wall. Unwilling to risk the baby, she has no choice but to move into Tae-Jun's high-security Toorak mansion for around-the-clock care. ​Just as she adjusts to a truce, a new storm hits. Tae-Jun's vindictive ex-wife discovers the pregnancy and unleashes a vicious media circus to destroy them both. ​To shield the high-risk pregnancy from the press, a contract is drawn up: 📝 1️⃣ A public, glittering fake engagement. 2️⃣ Separate wings

In Regency-era England, Lottie disguises herself as her reclusive brother to fight for social reform in Parliament, only to find a rival in the infuriatingly clever, proper, and attractive Duke of Warwick. Their battle of wits sparks an undeniable attraction--but when the duke grows suspicious, Lottie risks not only exposure of her secret identity but the ruination of her reputation and everything she's worked so hard for. *** In London, 1806, Miss Charlotte (Lottie) Langley is a young woman with ambition far beyond what society allows. Women are expected to embroider, pour tea, marry well, and leave politics to the men. Determined to have a say in her country's future, Lottie assumes the identity of her reclusive brother and infiltrates the all-male world of Parliament to fight for abolition and factory reform. But politics proves far more dangerous when she catches the attention and suspicion of the maddening Duke of Warwick. What begins as a battle of ideologies and wits soon turns into something far more complicated: a mutual fascination and attraction that neither of them can ignore. The duke seems determined to uncover the secret identity that Lottie has worked so hard to conceal. However, as the danger surrounding her deception grows and others become suspicious, even her disguise may not protect her from the frustratingly observant duke who could ruin everything... or from falling for him.

The Onslaught Saga introduced one of the most powerful ideas in X-Men history and lost it to scale, spectacle, and editorial mandate. This reimagining restores the original concept of the 1990's Marvel event, rebuilding the story as a single, cohesive narrative centered on the psionic entity Xavier and Magneto created and could not control. Born from the combined, suppressed negative emotions of Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto, Onslaught is a powerful sentient psionic entity. Pushed to his breaking point, the entity was created when Xavier used his telepathic powers to shut down Magneto's mind after he ripped the Adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton. Magneto's anger, grief, and vengeance-fueled psyche merged with the dark, repressed frustrations Xavier had held for years, resulting in a new, malevolent personality growing within Xavier's mind. Instead of the colossal, armor-clad machismo warlord of the original saga, this fanfiction presents Onslaught as a young girl who adopts the name "Sara" Onslaught, an identity based on the memory of Jean Grey's deceased sister.

Credit goes to J.K Rowling for making some of these amazing characters and places in this story. Aparna and Aarnav were best friends since birth, literally. They got separated at the ages of 6 and 7 and coincidentally, six years later, they met at their new secondary school, Hogwarts. They soon grew closer than they were before. But, what they and their friendship group didn't know, was what would be coming up for them this coming year, now that both Potters were in Hogwarts... Many many many thanks to @amelia_sophia1 who designed my cover 💞. (Would recommend her highly- she's really kind and cheap!). (Sorry the first few chapters are so cheesy😬!)

Everyone knows Dominic Blackwood. The 25-year-old billionaire CEO. Cold. Ruthless. A man who never smiles. He has a four-year-old child. Then Amelia Carter appears ,a naive girl looking for a job. She wasn't supposed to get involved. She wasn't supposed to stay. But the moment she steps into the Blackwood mansion, everything begins to change. A man who trusts no one. A girl who sees the world differently. A child who only wants love. And suddenly, the coldest heart in London may not be as untouchable as everyone thinks. Most Impressive Ranking #1 slowburn out of 79.2K stories #1 ceo out of 26.2K stories Rankings #1 billionaireromance out of 1.2K stories #1 funnyromance out of 938 stories

They had been married for seven years, and Seraphina believed their love was strong enough to survive anything. Until she walked into Dominic's office and found him with Natalia, his assistant. Natalia stepped closer, and Dominic's hand settled around her waist. He didn't move away. Instead, he pulled her closer, allowing their lips to meet in a slow, deliberate kiss. But the kiss wasn't what broke Seraphina. It was the moment before it, when Dominic could have stepped back but chose not to. The way his hand tightened around Natalia's waist made Seraphina realise that he hadn't simply let the moment happen. He had allowed it. Dominic pulled away only when he noticed his wife standing silently in the doorway. Seraphina said nothing. She simply walked away, leaving behind the marriage she had trusted and the man she had loved. Now Dominic must face the consequences of his choice, while Seraphina must decide whether a love built over seven years deserves a second chance-or whether some betrayals are too deep to forgive.