For eighteen months, Samara has loved Luke wholeheartedly. She's ignored the uncomfortable feelings, swallowed her doubts, and convinced herself that Ari, Lukes sister's best friend was simply part of the package. Ari has always been there. Always taking up more space in Luke's life than any "friend" should. And every time Samara questioned it, Luke had an excuse ready. Ari was just blunt, Ari didn't mean anything by it. Ari was family. Ari had always been around. Then one recorded conversation is sent to Samara. TROPES: OWD Female Best Friend Sisters Best Friend Overheard (sent recording) TW: Body shaming - will be renaming this but needed to get this story out of my head

Arabella thought she had the perfect life. A loving fiancé. A future she couldn't wait to begin. A man she trusted with her whole heart. But she felt the distance and tries to Bridge the gap. That's the night she walked into his office and found him kissing another woman. Heartbroken, Arabella flees, only to be struck by a car moments later. When she wakes up in the hospital, everyone believes she's lost her memory-including the man who shattered her world. Maverick is devastated, desperate to make things right, and willing to do anything to earn back the woman he loves. What he doesn't know is that Arabella remembers everything. The betrayal. The lies. The kiss. And she's not ready to forgive him. Pretending to have amnesia gives Arabella the perfect opportunity to watch the people around her reveal their true colours. But as Maverick fights to prove that one terrible mistake doesn't define his love for her, the line between revenge and forgiveness begins to blur. Because some wounds run too deep to heal. And some loves refuse to die. TROPES: - OWD - Cheating (kiss & inappropriate work relationship) - Fake amnesia - Grovel

On her wedding day, Emily Carter learned three things. Her fiancé loved her sister. Her mother had known all along. And she was the only fool left in the dark. Hours later, she died. When Emily opens her eyes three years in the past, she gets a second chance at the life they stole from her. This time, she won't be the obedient daughter. She won't be the understanding sister. And she won't waste another three years loving a man who never chose her. Armed with an extraordinary memory, Emily sets out to build a future of her own. Then she meets Ethan Blackwood. Cold. Brilliant. Untouchable. A man who has no interest in anyone. Until her. And the more Ethan notices Emily, the less willing he becomes to let her go. Updates: One chapter daily.

She loved him loudly. He loved her quietly-only when it was convenient. Leah believed two years of love meant security, a future, a place she could finally call hers. Yet, every time it mattered, he chose someone else. A best friend. A familiar comfort. A silence that hurts more than betrayal. This is a story about emotional neglect, unspoken loyalties, and the slow realization that love without priority is a form of loss. It asks a difficult question: How long can you stay where you are never fully chosen?

When Layla discovers a message meant for someone else - a confession wrapped in perfume and betrayal - her world shatters. The man she loved gave his heart to another. As the lies unravel, so does the version of love she thought was real. A story of secrets, heartbreak, and the painful question that lingers: Was I not enough?

I've been married to Jared for 6 years. We have a beautiful life, with two young boys Roscoe and Robin aged 4 and 2. Our life is beautiful, filled with love and happiness. We are that couple everyone is jealous of, the couple that seems to have it all. Still madly inlove and none of it is a performance. Or so I thought..I really believed it was all real. That was until Jared and I got into an accident, an accident that kept us hospitalised for days. It turns out he has an emergency contact I didn't know about. A whole other family I didn't know about. And what makes matters even worse, the secret family was not them, no. It was mine.

Every werewolf is promised a soulmate by their sixteenth birthday, a bond that brings purpose, family and belonging. But at twenty four Ophelia stands alone and unmated, an outcast until one day she feels the pull of her fated mate. Her heart leaps with joy only for it to be shattered at the realization that he is already bonded with someone else. Rejected and exiled from her pack, she stumbles into the path of Ares an enigmatic and powerful vampyre who seems to see past her broken spirit. Fate ties the two of them in unexpected ways and Ophelia must decide whether to remain bound by the heartbreak of a love she could have had or risk everything for a second chance rewritten in the shadows.

"Treat her like an object, Julian, and don't be surprised when someone else treats her like a queen." To the world, tycoon Julian Sterling is a ruthless god of stone and steel. Believing his quiet new bride, master archivist Maeve Thorne, is a calculating social climber who snared his inheritance, he vows to punish her with total emotional isolation. He thought she deserved his ice-cold cruelty. He was wrong. When the dark truth of their contract is exposed, the arrogant billionaire is dropped violently to his knees. Desperate to rebuild her trust under one roof, Julian falls into a frenzy of unhinged groveling. He throws his multi-billion-dollar empire at her feet-buying priceless portfolios, rare historical assets, and every archival treasure she ever admired just to see a single spark in her eyes. He hovers outside her door, hollowed out by tears, begging to heal the scars of his words. But nothing works. Her devastating detachment slides off an unbreakable armor. He taught her how to live without him, and she learned the lesson perfectly. Will his desperate wreckage ever be enough to spark a fresh bloom in her heart, or has her soul moved on to someone else entirely?

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.

"Let's get a divorce." The words should have broken her. Instead, she felt nothing. Claire Bennett thought she had built a quiet, ordinary marriage with Ethan Miller until the day he asked to leave for his first love, Vanessa Reed. Without tears or arguments, Claire signs the papers and walks away, determined to return her life to the way it was before Ethan. But cutting contact completely is never simple. Vanessa's envy runs deep, and Ethan's certainty begins to crumble as the woman he left behind starts to shine without him. When a mysterious artist named Ryan Carter steps into Claire's life, he challenges everything she thought she knew about love, loyalty, and self-worth. In a world where appearances mean everything, Claire learns that the greatest revenge is peace, and that the right love never asks her to wait.