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Never Us by Jedayo
Jedayo
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Maya Kingston has one rule this year: don't mess up. After a scandal nearly destroys her future, she transfers to Kimbell University determined to prove she's more than the reckless twin living in her brother's shadow. If she can raise her grades and keep her head down, her father might finally give her a place in the family empire. There's just one problem. Adam Lockhart. Brilliant. Isolated. An outcast. He's the rough among the diamonds and they always remind him. When the university assigns him as her tutor, Adam makes one thing clear: he doesn't tutor Kingstons. Maya quickly learns that at Kimbell, last names carry weight and some grudges run deeper than she ever imagined. Forced into each other's orbit, Maya and Adam collide in a war of pride, secrets, and dangerous attraction. Because the more she tries to prove she's changed, the more she realises that the past isn't done with her. And Adam might be the one person who won't let her forget it. He's broken in ways no one can see, and she's far too beautiful for him to scar Main Prompt: Prompt 46: We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than you. Other: Prompt 78: You begin to realise nothing is quite what it seems. *** Jedayo. Β©2026.
The Nanny Contact  by marellagab
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Nova Sinclair has always been the kind of woman who gives everything she has. Caring, hardworking, and determined, she spent years working as a nanny, believing that love and loyalty could fix almost anything. After leaving her longtime nanny position to start a new chapter and quietly pay off debts she's kept hidden from everyone, Nova is determined to never return to childcare again. Desperate for financial stability, she reluctantly accepts one last nanny job working for the elusive billionaire oil tycoon, Malek Makemi, a widowed father raising his two young children alone. Cold, emotionally distant, and still haunted by the death of his late wife, Malek has convinced himself that love died with her. The only thing either of them expected was a professional arrangement. When a family crisis, relentless media attention, and a high-stakes business deal force them into a fake engagement, they sign a contract with one simple rule: no feelings, no complications, and no breaking the terms. But as Nova becomes the heart of Malek's broken family, the lines between obligation and genuine affection begin to blur. The contract that was supposed to protect them may become the very thing that tears them apart. In a world of billion-dollar empires, painful secrets, and second chances, can two broken hearts rewrite the terms of a contract neither of them expected to change their lives?
Until the Red Roses Bloom by marellagab
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Isadora Carvalho is the brilliant and reserved daughter of ballet star Aurora Sinclair and MMA boxing heir Joshuan Carvalho. After losing her childhood best friend and first love, Luca, in a tragic car accident, Isadora buries herself in her studies, eventually graduating from Cambridge University. At her graduation, she meets Callum Vesti, United Kingdom's billionaire bachelor. But her world shifts when she learns she's been promised in an arranged marriage to him. What starts as a cold contract begins to thaw as Callum challenges everything she thought she buried-including her heart.
π‘Ίπ’Šπ’π’‚π’”'𝒔 π‘Άπ’ƒπ’”π’†π’”π’”π’Šπ’π’ by Luvelpepe
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π‘΅π’‚π’π’Žπ’Š π’˜π’‚π’π’•π’” π’…π’Šπ’”π’•π’‚π’π’„π’†. π‘Ίπ’Šπ’π’‚π’” π’˜π’‚π’π’•π’” 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑯𝒆'𝒔 π’’π’–π’Šπ’†π’•, π’„π’‰π’‚π’“π’Žπ’Šπ’π’ˆ, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π’‚π’π’“π’†π’‚π’…π’š π’Œπ’π’π’˜π’” 𝒕𝒐𝒐 π’Žπ’–π’„π’‰ 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒔 π’Šπ’“π’“π’Šπ’•π’‚π’•π’Šπ’π’ π’”π’π’π’˜π’π’š 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 π’Šπ’π’•π’ 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓, π’„π’–π’“π’Šπ’π’”π’Šπ’•π’š, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π’”π’π’Žπ’†π’•π’‰π’Šπ’π’ˆ 𝒇𝒂𝒓 π’Žπ’π’“π’† π’…π’‚π’π’ˆπ’†π’“π’π’–π’”-𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 π‘Ίπ’Šπ’π’‚π’” π’Šπ’”π’'𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 π’Šπ’ 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 π’˜π’Šπ’•π’‰ 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑯𝒆'𝒔 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅. "𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑 π’˜π’‚π’•π’„π’‰π’Šπ’π’ˆ π’Žπ’†," π‘΅π’‚π’π’Žπ’Š π’”π’‚π’Šπ’…. π‘Ίπ’Šπ’π’‚π’”'𝒔 π’—π’π’Šπ’„π’† 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 π’π’π’˜π’†π’“. "𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 π’ƒπ’†π’Šπ’π’ˆ 𝒔𝒐 π’†π’‚π’”π’š 𝒕𝒐 π’‡π’Šπ’π’…, π’‘π’“π’Šπ’π’„π’†π’”π’”π’‚."
SIGNED, SEALED, AND COMPLICATED | by _RelleLebby_
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Some arrangements began with a signature. Others began with survival. The dangerous ones began with both. Morgan Hartley had spent twenty-eight years becoming the most capable person in every room she entered, only to learn that competence did not guarantee peace. Baltimore had taught her resilience, and neither had prepared her for Annapolis's polished world of wealth and expectation. Rhys Ashbourne, thirty and British, had built his life around control. He belonged to glass towers, inherited expectations, old family wounds, and rooms where silence carried more authority than words. Their arrangement had looked practical on paper. In reality, it placed two guarded people in a space where performance, proximity, and perception began to blur. Between Baltimore's raw edges and Annapolis's polished cruelty, their story had explored race, class, family, reputation, power, and the exhaustion of always appearing unshaken. Morgan had known what it meant to enter spaces that questioned her competence before witnessing it. Rhys had never needed to question whether he belonged. Their connection had not arrived softly. It had grown through friction, mistrust, humor, vulnerability, restraint, and the slow recognition of being truly seen. This had been an interracial romance built on earned trust rather than instant devotion, surrounded by family pressure, social scrutiny, hidden hostility, and consequences that refused to disappear. It had been about two people who had survived differently, discovering that survival was not the same as living. Mature content. Extreme drama. Slow burn. Emotional destruction and reconstruction. You had been warned.
One Year in America  by katanya7804
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Lisa Brathwaite came to America for one year. Not because she was running from Barbados, but because at twenty-nine, she wanted to know what life looked like beyond the comfortable world she had always known. Within weeks, her warm personality, sharp tongue, and confidence have already made her popular at Whitmore Hospitality Group. Then there is Adrian Whitmore. Her white, wealthy, painfully reserved boss. Handsome? Absolutely. Available? Unfortunately not. Adrian is engaged, and Lisa has enough sense to respect that boundary. But as friendship turns into something neither of them expected, Lisa discovers that navigating a new country may be easier than navigating a man she was never supposed to fall for. With Caribbean friends, cultural differences, workplace rivalries, family drama, and more than a few unexpected complications, Lisa's one-year American adventure is about to become far more interesting than she planned. She came for the experience. Love was never part of the arrangement.
Forever Your Valentine (18+) by xxgxtxoxx
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Joelle Jordan is trying to survive a pregnancy she didn't plan for. Bryce Valentine is trying to secure his place in the NFL. He's not just a future franchise quarterback and one of the most watched athletes in the country. Now, he's also an expectant father. Joelle thought telling Bryce she was pregnant would be the hardest part. Wrong. Because the moment Bryce actually finds out she's carrying his child, he changes. The emotionally repressed, touch-starved boy who could barely leave her alone last semester somehow evolves into something excessive. More devoted. More protective. More possessive. More obsessed. She's not just Joelle to him anymore. She's the mother of his child. While Joelle tries to navigate pregnancy, university, their engagement, and an increasingly public life she never asked for, Bryce throws himself headfirst into securing their future. The NFL. The endorsements. The expectations. The schedules. The wedding. The pressure. He pushes himself harder than ever because suddenly making it to the NFL isn't only about football anymore. It's about creating the perfect life for his new family. The one he's always wanted. And while Bryce Valentine is determined to give Joelle and their child everything... Joelle is not allowed out of his sight.
π“π‘πž 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 πƒπžπ¬π’π«πž by caroltheway35
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Nestled between snow-capped mountains and icy seas, the Kingdom of Veligrad is one of Europe's oldest monarchies. Known for its breathtaking palaces, golden-domed cathedrals, and centuries-old traditions, the kingdom has remained devoted to its Orthodox Christian faith for over a thousand years. Although modern in technology, Veligrad's royal family still follows strict customs. Every king is expected to marry someone of noble or royal blood, making Nikolai's love for Naomi a scandal unlike any before.
Love In Colour by TeyanaMoon
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Thandi Langa is a 25-year-old nurse who is content with being single and firmly believes that she does not need a man in her life to make her happy. This is until she meets the breathtakingly handsome whirlwind that is Grayson King, who makes it his mission to show Thandi that he can make her much happier if she would just allow herself to be loved by him. Can Grayson be the one who breaks down Thandi's walls?