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An Unwise Attachment by Canderpdx
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Jane Sinclair runs the family bookshop, lives above it in contented independence, and has spent the past year building a careful conviction: that the newly arrived village doctor - starchy and correct with everyone else - is entirely different with her, and that the difference means something. Dr. Thomas Langley likes Jane enormously. He simply hasn't worked out yet what enormously actually means. She's warm, outgoing, and likes to argue - nothing at all like the composed, correct sort of woman he's always assumed he was meant to end up with. So when a beautiful, well-connected socialite arrives in the village for the summer, looking like everything he supposedly wants, Thomas is intrigued -- and Jane begins to think she may have misjudged her handsome village doctor.
    The Wife He Forgot to Love by PrncssMlynJy
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Five years ago, Marco lost the woman he thought he would spend the rest of his life with. A week after being forced apart by her family, Camille married another man abroad-leaving Marco drowning in heartbreak, bitterness, and anger. In one reckless night, he found comfort in Ashley, the complete opposite of the woman he lost: loud where Camille was reserved, warm where Camille was distant, alive in ways that made him forget his pain for just a moment. The next morning, still shattered and drunk on grief, Marco asked Ashley to marry him. She said yes, well, eventually. What began as a marriage built from spite slowly became a life. A home. A family. Ashley gave him a son, gave up her career, and loved him with a devotion so quiet that Marco mistook it for permanence. But even after five years of marriage, part of him remained trapped in the past-haunted by the woman he never truly let go. Then Camille returns. Old feelings resurface. One mistake turns into an affair, and the fragile foundation of Marco and Ashley's marriage begins to collapse. When the truth finally comes out, Marco is forced to confront the cruelest realization of all: the woman he loved first was not the woman he could not bear to lose. Now, with his wife turning colder by the day and another man slowly stepping into the spaces he once took for granted, Marco must fight for the family he nearly destroyed-or risk losing Ashley forever. Because sometimes, love does not arrive at the beginning. Sometimes, it comes years too late. (The plots of my stories are originally mine, but I had help with AI in writing the prose. This is just experimental and for fun. I have another account where I actually do it traditionally)
    She Took More Than Just a Room by leilaqadr
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It started with a key. A simple, harmless gesture or so he said. Christina was just his childhood best friend. The girl who "had always been there." The one he trusted. The one he couldn't turn away. And I tried. I tried to be understanding. I tried to be secure. I tried to believe that love meant trust. But how do you trust when another woman walks into your home like she belongs there? When she knows his silences better than you do? I'm not losing him in loud, obvious ways. I'm losing him in glances. In quiet moments. In the space where I used to exist. Now, we live under the same roof. Him. Me. And the girl who was "never supposed to be a problem." But the worst part? He still calls her his best friend. And I'm starting to feel like the other woman in my own marriage.
The Girl He Never Saw by LushAlly
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For years, I loved my best friend, Liam. While he chased every beautiful girl who crossed his path, I stood quietly in the background, invisible to the one person who mattered most. Then, one drunken night, everything changed. Surrounded by our friends, Liam laughed as he declared he couldn't picture me with any man. According to him, I was so boring, so sexless, that I'd probably end up becoming a nun. Everyone laughed. I didn't. That humiliation was the final blow. I walked away from our friendship, transferred to another school, and erased Liam from my life. Years later, I've built the life I always dreamed of. I'm engaged to the man who truly sees me-Rahim-and I've finally left my feelings for Liam in the past. Until fate brings us together again. Now Liam is dating Rahim's sister, and for the first time, he's the one watching from the sidelines. The girl he never wanted has become the woman he can't stop thinking about. The only problem? He's years too late.
Wilting Roses (Formerly known as Arranged) by Romara_Novels
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Heart broken and mistreated by her arranged husband, Scarlett Heart seeks refuge in a massive garden hidden in the center of a labyrinth. When Dathan falls prey to an accident in his very home, Scarlett is blamed for the incident and forced to care for him. Without trying or realizing it she slowly begins to unfold the metaphorical blind fold around his eyes. Will Dathan allow his confused and troubled feelings to go unnoticed, or will he fight to keep the woman he now realized he loves.
Where You Ruined Me by MarieMiria
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Where You Ruined Me 🏒 🏒Can be read as a standalone College romance. D1 hockey. Pre-law rivals. He falls first. She doesn't even notice. They have history. Just not the kind he wanted. She's been immune to his charm since she was fourteen. Wolfe Novak-Donovan - junior, pre-law, D1 hockey, biggest fuckboy on campus - has met the one girl the Wolfe Novak-Donovan effect doesn't work on. And now she's on his campus. Frankie Lowe - freshman, scholarship kid, couldn't care less - doesn't do hockey players. Doesn't do Donovans. And she's currently got her eyes on the one guy on campus who hates Wolfe most. Enemies to lovers. Except she doesn't think about him enough for them to be enemies. That's the whole problem. The Donovan men don't just fall. They fall stupid. It's genetic. 🖤 📖 Complete standalone - no prior reading needed. ⚠️ Explicit sexual content between consenting adults (18+), crude language, underage drinking, and one fuckboy's entire operating system being dismantled by a girl who could not care less. MM x
The Romano Woman by Gunj40
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She was nineteen. He was twenty-four. She had no business being at that party. She knew it the moment she walked in , the marble floors, the lake glittering outside, the people who wore money like a second skin. But she stayed. And he noticed her. Rafael Don Vitelli, with his dark eyes and his easy smile, found her standing alone at the edge of the water and decided she was interesting. For seven days he made her feel like she was the only person in the world. On the seventh night she gave him everything she had never given anyone, her heart and her virginity . On the eighth morning, he was gone. No message. No explanation. No goodbye. Just an empty pillow and a silence that would follow her for the next five years. She cried. She broke. And then she got up. She built a life so beautiful and full that, eventually, Rafael Don Vitelli became nothing more than a memory she refused to revisit. But she built something else too. A little boy with dark hair, her eyes, and a laugh that reminded her of a night she had spent years trying to forget. His name was Matteo. He was four years old. And he was the one secret Rafael had never known. Until now. Because after five years, fate was bringing Rafael Don Vitelli back into her life. No
The Art Of Loving You Quietly by AisharyaMukherjee
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Maya fell for Ethan the moment he walked into her bookshop. Ethan was kind, loyal, and completely in love with someone else. When a marriage of convenience forces them together, Maya decides to win his heart-with warmth, laughter, and a thousand small kindnesses he never notices. She makes his coffee, learns his mother's recipes, and fills their glass house by the sea with hope. But Ethan's eyes are fixed elsewhere. Day by day, her light dims. Until one day, he finally looks up-and the woman who tried so hard is already gone. Now, winning her back will take more than a grand gesture. It will take a fight. A slow-burn romance about unrequited love, quiet heartbreak, and the long road to redemption.
To Fix A Broken Marriage by Sariena_Writes
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After cheating, lies, and betrayal destroyed their marriage, Emma and Liam are trapped together in a deadly snowstorm. To survive, they'll have to trust the one person who broke them most...each other.
Best Friend by FatesBetween
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Charlotte has been best friends with Harrison for as long as she could remember, when Harrison leaves to pursue a career in acting, they eventually become long lost friends, that was until Harrison comes back 10 years, with a score to settle. With a secret online life, Charlotte has finally overcome the shadow that was her childhood best friend, Harrison, who is now a world-famous actor. When Harrison shows up and tells her he knows her secret, they both are faced with overcoming the past and focusing on their future, as old feelings brew once again while overcoming new feeling that will either make, or break them for good. 18+ MATURE