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For the Record by esardeel
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Eight years of love. One engagement. A betrayal that shattered everything. Sofia Reyes thought she had finally escaped the ghost of Jake Sanders - the man she loved through college, med school, and heartbreak. The man whose mother forced her out of his life, one cruel threat at a time. But fate isn't finished. When Sofia, now a trauma surgeon, finds Jake on her operating table after a high-profile accident, the past she buried starts bleeding through every wound. Jake doesn't remember why she left. Sofia won't tell him. And the daughter she raised in secret? She's about to ask questions no one's ready to answer. He's a medical celebrity. She's the woman who disappeared. What happens when closure knocks in a tuxedo - and asks to be a father? - 💔 A slow-burn, second-chance romance about the love we let go, the truths we hide, and the wounds that still remember. #secondchance #secretbaby #slowburn #heartbreak #hospitalromance #FilipinoRomance
A SECOND CHANCE? by Taetankook69
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"A Love Lost, A Love Reborn" Elwin and Eleneor's perfect life is shattered when betrayal and tragedy strike. After Elwin's affair and Eleneor's heartbreaking loss, their relationship begins to fall apart. Eleneor struggles with the pain, while Elwin is consumed by guilt and regret. But when fate gives him a second chance, he's determined to make things right. know about the insight by reading it, i promise it wont disappoint you. This is a heartfelt story of love, loss, and redemption-a journey that will break your heart and put it back together. 🌸💔✨
Where it Hurts to Stay by MarieMiria
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💔 Where It Hurts to Stay (Wren Callahan & Leo Montgomery - Book Four in The Hurt Series) She met him before she knew who he was. Then she sat down in his classroom. And everything changed. Wren Callahan doesn't believe in happy endings. Not after her mom spiraled-again. Not after she left L.A. for Denver to live with her brother Dean, trying to finish her senior year without falling apart. She's sharp-tongued, political, impossible to cage- a girl made of wildfire learning how to survive her own sparks. Then there's Leo Montgomery- twenty-one, brilliant, too passionate for his own good. A first-year teacher who still looks more like a heartbreak in denim than authority in a tie. Too young to be cynical. Too idealistic to see the danger coming. When they meet, he's just the stranger who challenges her beliefs, matches her bite for bite, and makes her pulse forget how to behave. She doesn't know he teaches. He doesn't know she's still a student. Their spark is instant. Their chemistry-disaster dressed up as destiny. And when Wren walks into her new classroom and finds him standing there-sleeves rolled, eyes locked on hers every rule that's supposed to save them starts to burn. He's her teacher. She's the revolution he never saw coming. A forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance about crossing lines, defying expectations, and falling for the one person you were never meant to love. 🔥 18+ Mature Content Warning 🔥 Contains explicit scenes, underage drinking, and a forbidden teacher-student romance between consenting characters (legal age of consent observed).
Loud and Unclear by WhispersOfRiley
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She gave him six years. He gave her promises, dreams, and betrayal - in that order. When Riley fell in love with her best friend, she thought she found her forever. From stolen glances to late-night calls, from fairytale moments to whispered vows of a future together - it all felt real. Until it wasn't. In 2023, just days before her birthday, he disappeared. Two months later, he was married. By the end of the year, he was back in her life, swearing he had changed. This is not a love story. This is the unfiltered truth of what it's like to love someone who breaks you twice - and still have to find the strength to walk away the third time. It's about silence after loud lies, betrayal after blind faith, and the quiet power of choosing yourself. Loud and Unclear is a deeply personal memoir of heartbreak, healing, and the brutal beauty of finally hearing your own voice after drowning in someone else's noise. For every woman who has stayed too long, loved too hard, and left too late - This is your story, too.
Echoes of Shadows by KatherineLvd
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Beneath the Shadows - Part 3 Some people say that marriage changes everything-that it tames a man, softens a woman, turns fire into quiet embers. But they didn't know us. Caleb and I had been through too much to let anything turn to ash. If anything, marriage made us stronger, sharper, more dangerous. We weren't just lovers. We were a team. A force of nature. Together, we rebuilt Caleb's empire piece by piece until it became something no one could touch. More powerful than ever. Untouchable. Unshakable. At least, that's what I thought. It had been nearly a year since Caleb slid that emerald ring onto my finger, a promise that felt like a declaration of war against the rest of the world. And even now, with everything we'd achieved, I still carried shadows inside me. The trauma of the past-the betrayal, the pain, Ben-had left scars I couldn't erase. But I'd learned to use them. To let those shadows make me stronger instead of weaker. If there was one thing Caleb taught me, it was how to survive in a world built on blood and lies. And I was thriving. The woman I used to be-the one who doubted herself, who let others decide her worth-was gone. In her place stood someone new. Someone who could stand next to Caleb and not just survive, but rule. But life has a funny way of testing you just when you think you've won. I didn't know it yet, but the peace we'd fought so hard to build was about to crack. And this time, the betrayal wouldn't come from the outside. This time, it was hiding in plain sight.
Auld Lang Sigh by EmptyNestWriter
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On Christmas Eve, Elowen Foster tries to save her long-term relationship with a grand romantic gesture-only to walk straight into betrayal, champagne shattering on tile as her high school sweetheart is caught cheating over his desk. A week later, still raw and humiliated, she's dragged to a New Year's Eve party hosted by her best friend and her husband... who has invited the cheating ex and his shiny new replacement. Cornered, hurting, and trying not to cry into a plastic flute of prosecco, she's rescued by the one man she never expected to want her comfort- Rowan Hale Her best friend's older brother. The Viking. The one who used to tease her relentlessly. The one she secretly crushed on for years. What begins as a strategic distraction turns into one unforgettable night that changes everything.
Where would I go? by IcecreamSundae5
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Nora never wanted much. Just a steady home. Simple days. A life that held its shape. She didn't crave excitement or change. She only needed predictability. Her routines, her quiet, her small world. It was enough. She believed that if she kept everything perfectly still, the life she had built would hold. And for a long time, it did. But when the ground finally shifted under her feet, Nora didn't move with it. She froze in place, the way people do when they have no other direction to turn. Because where does a person go when they have nowhere to go? Warning: This story uses mature language and scenes. © IcecreamSundae5. All rights reserved.
Treat Me Right - By Mella by Mellawrites
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He says he loves me... but I know he still loves her. Every word, every touch, every glance-it's like she's still there, haunting us both. Am I just a bandage for his broken heart? Or am I the next mistake he'll regret? Treat Me Right is a story about love, heartbreak, and learning when to stay-and when to let go. If you've with someone.who's still love is ex, This one for you ever loved someone who couldn't love you fully... this one's for you.
Butchered Beasts 1: Darren & EJ by EJKnight90
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Falling out of love with someone is one thing. Falling out because of a midlife crisis where you discover he's cheating and has been for months? Months that he's been lying about where and who he's with, and leaving you to be a married single mother. That's a whole different thing! And EJ is done. She packs up her kids and moves home. When sparks fly in the initial meeting of her and the contactor, they both feel it. Until others who want them for themselves try to pull them apart. Follow along on this journey of self-discovery, friendship, and love.
All the Love She Stopped Giving ✓ by silkypink
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She gave him her heart. He gave his time to someone else. But in the end, she found love where it didn't hurt to care.