Copyright Notice © Rosenthal, 2025. All rights reserved. This story is an original work of fiction by Rosenthal. Please do not copy, repost, translate, or adapt without my written permission. This story is published exclusively on Wattpad. If you find it anywhere else, it has been stolen. All characters, settings, and plot belong to the author (unless otherwise noted). Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Support original writers - thank you for reading legally here on Wattpad. 💕 ___________ Her boyfriend cheated. Her best friend hid the truth. Now Ella must decide: who's the enemy? and who holds her heart? Crossed Lines is a story about secrets, loyalty, and forbidden feelings.

My husband was playing happy families with another woman and her son, to honor a promise to his fallen friend. After I had emergency surgery that he missed because he was with her, it was a wake up call for both of us: I was done and he was sorry. But there was more to this story that I didn't know. I just wasn't sure it mattered.

For six and a half years, I'd been Orion's ol' lady. So I thought. When I went to tell him that I was, against all odds, pregnant, he informed me that I had been part of his cover for his undercover work. He didn't want me or our baby. Fine. He wasn't the only one with a secret life.

I'm married to a cover model/tattoo artist who swore his ex was history. She wasn't, as I was about to discover.

My husband missed our daughter's birth because he was too busy with work. Story of our lives. And the four other women in his life -- his ex-wife, his PA, his mother and his sister -- all hate me. So, I didn't think he'd care when I served him with divorce papers. Well, that got his attention.

At our gender reveal, my husband joked about getting my sister pregnant with a boy. Everybody thought that was hilarious. Except me.

Logan Marx is the man everyone admires... a successful businessman, devoted father, and loving husband to Valerie. With a beautiful family and a thriving consulting firm, his life looks perfect from the outside. But behind closed doors and late at night, Logan harbors a dangerous secret: an insatiable hunger for online connections with other women. What starts as harmless flirting and erotic chats slowly begins to bleed into his real life, testing his self-control and threatening everything he claims to love. As guilt battles desire, Logan must confront how long he can keep his two worlds from colliding - and how far he's willing to go before the good husband he pretends to be is gone forever. A psychological exploration of marriage, temptation, and the thin line between fantasy and betrayal. ‼️Warning‼️ This story is intended for mature audiences (18+). It contains explicit sexual content, infidelity, strong language, and intense psychological themes. It also includes references to childhood sexual abuse, child-on-child sexual abuse, trauma, and suicide. These topics are handled as part of the characters' backstories and emotional consequences, but may be distressing for some readers. Please read at your own discretion.

What happens when you divorce the person you still love? Leo Morgan has been Gwen's husband for seventeen years. Her first love. Her best friend. The father of her three children. The man she grew up with. And now? Her ex-husband. There was no affair. No betrayal. No villain. They simply reached a point where loving each other wasn't enough to make their marriage work. They had lost themselves somewhere between raising children, building careers, and trying to keep their family together. So they decided to let each other go. Except letting go is a lot harder when you're still family. Leo still calls Gwen when he's sick. Gwen still calls Leo when something breaks. They still have Sunday dinners, birthdays, school events, inside jokes-and three children who are absolutely convinced their parents are making the biggest mistake of their lives. Then Leo starts dating. Gwen does too. And suddenly, they have to learn how to watch the person they've loved for seventeen years fall for someone else. They promised each other they would be happy. They just never imagined how much it would hurt. Maybe divorce was the end of their marriage. But it might not be the end of their love story.

Minutes before Mariah gets married, her maid of honor shows her a viral video. In it, a woman tells the internet about the magical night she spent with a handsome stranger in Nashville-and asks for help finding the man she believes is her soulmate. Mariah happens to know exactly where he is. He's waiting at the end of the aisle for her. After creating a viral moment of her own, Mariah spends the next two months hiding from the unwanted fame that turned the worst day of her life into a public spectacle-and transformed her into the infamous Burn It All Bride. Then she meets a gruff, devastatingly handsome stranger on a flight who has absolutely no idea who she is. With him, she doesn't have to be the heartbroken bride millions of strangers think they know. She can just be Ivy. And the quiet Texan beside her becomes Tex. When an emergency landing strands them for one night in the city Mariah has cast as the villain in her story, she is determined to make the best of it with the man who is already making Nashville feel different. As the attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore, they agree on three rules. One night. No real names. No promises beyond morning. And no chance of ever forgetting each other. They walk away the next morning believing their perfect night will remain exactly that-a beautiful memory neither of them is allowed to chase. Mariah is still rebuilding the life her cheating fiancé destroyed. And Tex... Tex is trying to start over after betrayal cost him everything he worked years to create. Until fate brings them together again on Beaumont Ranch, and the stranger Mariah promised to leave behind becomes impossible to walk away from twice. Some nights break your heart. Some nights heal you. And some nights change you forever.

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.