THE LONG GAME is for every woman who has ever been someone's not yet. No clean ending. Real one. 25 chapters. First person. Dana's voice - sharp, honest, and done apologizing for what she needed. ⚠️ Content note: emotional manipulation, grief, gaslighting patterns, and the kind of pain that doesn't announce itself. Mature themes throughout. For women who waited too long. And women who are still waiting. Put the book down and call your therapist. ❤️

"How can you know in less than a day of being with me, that I am the woman you were looking for?" Riya asked Naksh. "It takes less than a second to fall in love with someone,Riya"Naksh replied with a sincerity that healed something in her . An introverted Riya's life gets tangled with Naksh Raj Singh , a business tycoon unexpectedly. Naksh who was set to marry Riya's sister Myra for a secret business deal ends up marrying Riya , who because of her misunderstood past is banished by her own family. Naksh, who thinks that family comes before all but has lost all hopes of finding a love like his parents, finds a companion in Riya.But for how long? What will happen when Myra who ran away from her own wedding with her ex , finds about Naksh and Riya's marriage and decides to come back? Will Naksh and Riya's marriage survive the tests of time , families, lies and enemies or crumble under the weight of misunderstanding? Will Naksh be able to save Riya from her past? Will Riya let Naksh into her heart ? DISCLAIMER AND TRIGGER WARNINGS This is purely a figment of my imagination and any resemblance to any person (living/dead) , place , organisation , community, names are purely coincidental and not intended . It contains severe family neglect, death of a family member (not mentioned in detail) , childhood trauma, bullying , eating disorder . Reader discretion is advised.

Claire Bennett spent eighteen years being everything everyone needed. The dependable wife. The patient mother. The sister who always understood. She built a peaceful home and carried everyone's burdens without complaint, believing loyalty and sacrifice would keep her family together. She was wrong. When Claire discovers her husband has been sleeping with her younger sister, the betrayal destroys more than her marriage. It tears through her home, her family, and her daughter's sense of safety. But the affair is only the beginning. As rumors spread and loyalties crack, Claire realizes the people around her have spent years depending on her strength while expecting her silence. Now, with divorce looming and her world collapsing in public, she faces the one choice she has avoided her entire life: Continue protecting everyone else... or finally choose herself.

Stefan never cheated. He never came home late. Never gave her a reason to doubt him. He gave her everything except the one thing she needed. Safety. Nadia loved him for twelve years. She left him anyway. This is the story of both those things being true at the same time.

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.

I loved her first. She married him anyway. Ten years later, she showed up at my door, broken, betrayed, begging for help to leave the husband who threw her away. She thinks I'm being kind. Helping an old friend. She doesn't know I've been waiting. She never knew how I loved her. Never knew I watched her wedding from the back of the church. Never knew she was the reason I buried my heart so deep even I forgot where. Now she's back. Vulnerable. Trusting. Asking the one man who never stopped wanting her to help her walk away from someone else. This time? I'm not letting her go.

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.

I stayed when I shouldn't have. I stayed through half-listened conversations and promises that disappeared the moment someone else needed him more. I told myself I was overthinking. That things would change eventually. So I learned how to swallow my discomfort. My loneliness. My doubts. Until everything fell apart. Now I can't stop wondering why it took almost losing my life to finally understand what I already knew all along: I should've left him long ago. ............. Warning: This story uses mature language and scenes. © IcecreamSundae5. All rights reserved.

Two unlikely souls collided - Dr. Connor Reid, a cardiothoracic surgeon whose scalpel danced with precision, and Dr. Alaya Grey, an introspective physician whose quiet wisdom touched lives. What began as glances and professional courtesies evolved into an unexpected passion that defied the unwritten rules. A proof that even the most guarded hearts could find themselves caught in love's gravity.

Sadie Parker was raped and killed. Ten years old Winslet saw the life leave her mother's eyes on a hotel room floor. Sixteen years later, she's back for revenge. And she will be the perfect bride of the very family that tormented her mother.