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🖤 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒚 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒓 🖤 "He was the man everyone feared... and the husband I was never allowed to claim." Kushi Singh was born into a world of luxury, power, and expectations. A brilliant postgraduate student from one of the richest families in the city, she had everything-except the freedom to choose her own future. Then came the marriage arrangement. Her husband? Dr. Armaan Rathore. A billionaire heir. A renowned physics professor. A man with a cold heart, a sharp tongue, and a reputation that made even his students fear him. Everyone knew Armaan Rathore as a ruthless perfectionist who never showed emotions. But no one knew his biggest secret... He was already married. To her. Their arranged marriage was supposed to be a simple agreement between two powerful families. A relationship built on respect, not love. But when Kushi joins his university as a student, everything changes. Because now she has to call him "Professor Rathore" in public... while hiding the fact that he is the man she shares a home with. Between stolen glances, endless arguments, and a marriage full of unsaid feelings, Kushi discovers something that breaks her heart- Armaan has always been close to another woman. The rumors are everywhere. The late-night meetings. The secret conversations. The undeniable chemistry. Everyone believes his heart belongs to someone else. And Armaan? He does nothing to stop them. But behind his arrogant attitude and emotionless mask lies a truth Kushi never expected. A truth that could destroy their marriage. A truth that will make her question everything... Was she just a responsibility? Or was she the only woman who could break the walls around the cold professor's heart? One secret marriage. Two powerful families. Three hearts trapped in a dangerous game of love, trust, and betrayal. Welcome to the world of Dr. Armaan Rathore and Kushi Singh. Where love isn't sweet

Hannah and Ryan once believed love meant being everything to each other. But somewhere between unanswered calls, quiet dinners, and promises that became too heavy to carry, their relationship began to change. Ryan has spent years trying to protect Hannah from every fear, every mistake, and every moment of pain. Hannah has spent just as long pretending she is fine so he will stop trying to save her. They still love each other, but love has become tangled with guilt, dependence, and the fear of who they might be apart. When one broken promise brings everything they have avoided to the surface, they are forced to confront the question neither of them is ready to answer: What if losing the person you love does not make you nothing? A bittersweet story about love, identity, letting go, and learning that sometimes two people must fall apart before they can become whole.

Aurora X Ayan Bound By Rivalry They were never meant to fall in love. Aurora Bellini and Aayan Oberoi grew up as childhood rivals, bound by family expectations, endless competition, and years of unspoken hatred. From stolen victories to sharp arguments, their lives were a battlefield where losing was never an option. But behind Aayan's cold stares and arrogant smirks hides a dangerous obsession he has carried since childhood. To the world, Aayan Oberoi is the flawless CEO of the Oberoi empire-powerful, untouchable, and feared. But beneath expensive suits and billion-dollar deals lies a darker side connected to a world Aurora was never supposed to enter. Aurora refuses to bow before him. Aayan refuses to let her go. When rivalry turns into forced proximity, hidden truths begin to surface, family secrets threaten to destroy everything, and the line between hate and love slowly disappears. Because some rivalries were never about winning. They were about possession. And Aayan Oberoi has always believed Aurora Bellini belonged to him. ━━━ Tropes:- Childhood Rivals ✦ Obsessive Male Lead ✦ CEO/Mafia Heir ✦ slow brur ✦ He Fell First ✦ Emotional Tension ✦ Family Rivalry ✦ Possessive Love Dont copy my work I won't spare You😤

Jay Ahn has been watching Malik Tate from across the street since they were ten years old, and he has been loving him almost as long. Not the simple kind of love. The kind that folds itself small enough to fit inside a friendship and lives there quietly for years, patient and heavy and unnamed. Malik Tate is magnetic, loyal, and building himself from the ground up in a world that wants to own every piece of him it can reach. He knows exactly who Jay is. What he does not yet know is what to do with everything he feels when he looks at him. Set in Richmond, Virginia, this is their story. A decade of shared summers, cracked sidewalks, late nights, near-confessions, wrong moments, and the slow, relentless pull of two people moving toward each other against every force designed to keep them still. It is not a fast story. It is not meant to be. The slow burn here is not a device. It is the whole point. Because some loves do not arrive. They are built, quietly, over years, out of ordinary moments that reveal themselves to have mattered all along. When they finally reach for each other, everything they survived to get there becomes the architecture of something neither the industry, nor the fathers, nor the world's noise can dismantle. This is Richmond. This is a decade. This is a love story that refused to be rushed. Come in. Stay a while. © Relle H.

beep..... Four people. Four different definitions of love, and every one of them wrong. Zoya has a plan for her life, and it doesn't involve loving anyone back. Kabir has a company, a temper, and a talent for wanting things he isn't allowed to keep. Tara has a secret she flew three thousand miles to outrun, and it caught up anyway. Armaan has spent four years remembering everything about a girl who left - and he's decided that's the same thing as never letting her go again. Hakeeqat isn't a love story. It's what's left after four people stop performing love and start telling the truth - about what they did, what was done to them, and what they're willing to burn down to make it even. Updates in real time. No one in this book is a good person. Read anyway.

She sent one message. He wasn't supposed to notice. With 500,000 followers and thousands of comments flooding his page every day, Paulo had no reason to reply to a stranger. But he did. Because sometimes... the message you almost ignore becomes the one you can never forget. What starts as a simple exchange of messages soon becomes part of Dana's daily life. The good mornings. The late-night conversations. The unexpected connection she never saw coming. As a successful lawyer and divorced mother of four, Dana knows better than to fall for a man she has never met...especially a famous influencer with 500,000 followers, whose world lives through screens, reels, and constant attention, while she prefers the privacy of her quiet life. But some connections refuse to stay behind a screen. Messages became habits. Habits became feelings. And feelings became dangerous. In a world full of followers, reels, and hidden truths, Dana and Paulo never expected a simple reply to become the most dangerous part of their lives. ROMANCE • MODERN ROMANCE • ROMANTIC SUSPENSE *AGE GAP ROMANCE * Slow Burn Romance * Age Gap Romance * Single Mom Romance * Influencer × Lawyer * Online Love * Long-Distance Romance * Fame vs. Privacy * Emotional Drama * Hidden Secrets & Unexpected Twists * Psychological Manipulation * Mystery & Suspense Publish Chapters: Tuesday and Friday © 2026 Lunakyliedreams

The night Maelys was born, a storm made a decision for her. A desperate woman, a coerced midwife, and a courtyard where someone died in the rain conspired to place one infant in a palace and erase another from the record entirely. Twenty-two years later, someone has come to unmake it, and she has twenty-two years of righteous fury, a powerful patron, and the specific weapon of a truth that supports multiple stories at once. Raised in the painted corridors and orange-blossom courtyards of Solenir Palace, Maelys knows how to read a room before she enters it, how to wear humor like armor over something more serious underneath, and how to survive in a court that admires her with one hand and doubts her with the other. She has been exceptional here her entire life. She knows what exceptions are for. When the girl she unknowingly replaced arrives with documents, damage, and the kind of righteous anger that is the most dangerous kind because it is not entirely wrong, nothing careful is enough anymore. With a conspiracy threading through the court's most elegant rooms, a bodyguard who has been keeping a report in a locked box for eight years waiting for the right person to receive it, and a crown prince who asks before he touches and is not without fault and is learning the difference between those two facts, Maelys must fight for her name, her life, and the identity she has spent twenty-two years choosing rather than receiving. This is a slow burn interracial historical romance with explicit intimacy, graphic violence, and a world that does not soften its edges for the comfort of anyone in it. It is a story about what is owed and what is chosen, about love as a continuous practice rather than a destination, about darkness that stays and is carried rather than resolved, and about a woman who refuses, repeatedly, in every room that tries to define her, to let anyone else decide who she is. Dark. Tender. Permanent. Earned. ©️ _RelleLebby_ // R. L.

Kira Thompson doesn't trust easily-not after the ambush in East Africa that killed her teammates and ended her military career. Betrayed by her commanding officer and lover, she disappeared into the ruthless world of private security, where emotions are liabilities and trust gets you killed. Liang Jun has everything: wealth, status, and the reckless confidence of a man who's never faced real consequences. As the son of China's ambassador to the UN, he's more interested in Shanghai's nightlife than the credible assassination threats against his life. Bodyguards are inconveniences. Rules are suggestions. And the scarred American woman assigned to protect him? Just another obstacle to ignore. But when the Qing Triad makes their move, Jun realizes Kira isn't just a bodyguard-she's the only thing standing between him and a brutal death. Forced into proximity, their explosive clash of wills ignites into something neither can control. She sees past his careless facade to the man beneath. He sees past her armor to the wounds she hides. As betrayal circles closer and old enemies resurface, Kira must decide: keep her walls up and do her job, or risk everything for a man who's already claiming her shattered heart. In a deadly game where love is the ultimate weakness, survival might cost them everything they never knew they needed. ©️ Relle H

Seeking solace at the Han River after a difficult day, Ese encounters Youngho again. What begins as a simple conversation opens into a shared understanding between two people shaped by migration, distance, and lives lived between worlds. As their connection deepens, they begin to wonder whether the safest place they've known is something they might build together. -Rominaj♡

She never expected a delayed elevator in Seoul to change her life. He never expected a stranger to become the person he called when the world felt too heavy. One is a global celebrity carrying the weight of millions of expectations. The other is an ordinary professional woman from Jakarta, quietly building a life of her own. What begins as an unexpected conversation becomes midnight phone calls, airport reunions, shared silences, and a love that grows slowly across thousands of miles. But love is rarely simple when one person belongs to the spotlight and the other values a life away from it. Between Seoul and Jakarta, between headlines and ordinary mornings, they discover that home is not always a place. Sometimes, home is a person. A slow-burn romance about distance, healing, trust, and finding love when neither of them was looking for it.

Rainaa Srivastava and Vaarin Mathur marry out of timing, pressure, and a shared sense of maturity, not love. Both are cautious, shaped by the marriages they've watched unravel, wary of how easily hurt can change people. The trauma runs far too deep to not live with it everyday, if not every second. A man who questions marriage, but chooses to stay. A woman who has seen its wreckage, yet still believes in its possibility. The marriage they enter is not built on certainty or passion, but on honesty, restraint, and the willingness to sit with discomfort. What unfolds is not a promise of forever, but the slow unearthing of trust, vulnerability, and a kind of love that is not demanded, only discovered.

One of my clients, whose ex-girlfriend recently broke up with him, asked me the following question: "I think I still love her, but is this love or just emotional dependency? Many times I ask myself if falling in love comes from the wounded self because (for me at least) it feels as if I can't live without the other person. When I give love from the heart I don't expect anything back, but when I fall in love I think this is a different energy."

All Robin Silvestre wanted was to save her sister's life, but through the manipulation of Don Pagano she's plunged into the deep end of organized crime. All Daewon wants is to keep Robin safe but when he becomes tangled in Salvador Gianni's web of deceit, he transforms into the very thing he swore to protect her against. Secrets unravel, past lives are discovered, and honesty means nothing in the face of fear. Loyalty is a concept, after all. #18 realisticfiction #12 loverstoenemies First word: Nov 25th 2020 Last word goal: Nov 25th 2022 This is a very slow-burn book & I already plan on a sequel.

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Eshal Qadri spent her entire life becoming the perfect daughter - quiet, graceful, obedient, and incapable of choosing herself over her family. A literature student by day and an anonymous Urdu writer by night, she hides her emotions behind poetry nobody knows belongs to her. Her future seems certain when her family arranges her marriage to Rameez Aafaq, one of the city's most respected cardiac surgeons. Gentle, patient, and impossibly kind, Rameez loves Eshal in the softest ways possible. He never forces her to speak, never demands affection, and never makes her feel like she has to earn his love. Around him, Eshal finds something unfamiliar - peace. But peace was never meant to survive men like Zaryan Valeed. Cold, powerful, and feared by everyone around him, Zaryan is a businessman with a dangerous reputation and a heart hardened by betrayal, power, and loneliness. He trusts nobody, keeps the world at a distance, and destroys anything that dares challenge him. Except Eshal. Because somewhere between stolen glances, silent protection, and emotions neither of them understand, Eshal becomes the only person capable of calming the chaos inside him. With her, his voice softens. His anger fades. His control breaks. While Rameez loves her patiently like something sacred, Zaryan loves her like a man willing to burn the world down just to keep her close. Caught between comfort and obsession, duty and desire, Eshal finds herself trapped in a love triangle that slowly begins destroying all three hearts. As hidden truths surface and jealousy turns dangerous, she realizes love is no longer the beautiful thing poetry once promised her. Because some men love gently. And some love like a war. But the cruelest part of all? The man feared by everyone had only one weakness. Her.

They hadn't spoken in years-not since college, not since the night everything changed. But some things don't fade. Not love. Not anger. Not the ache of what could've been. 𝐗𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 is at the top of his game-fast, focused, and untouchable on the field. The world sees a star. But when an injury threatens to sideline him mid-season, the last person he expects to see walking into the recovery room is 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐫-the team's new rehabilitation specialist. The same girl who used to wear his hoodie and swear she'd never let him break her heart. The same woman he never truly stopped thinking about. 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 built her career by staying professional, keeping boundaries, and never letting the past mess with her future. But working side by side with the man who once made her feel everything? That boundary's about to blur. As therapy sessions turn into stolen moments and buried feelings resurface, they're forced to face the truth: the love they had didn't end. It paused. And now, with pain, pride, and passion all in play, they'll have to decide-can they heal what time never could?

A princess long forgotten due to being the bastard child of the king is given new hope when she meets a mysterious man. He brings warmth back into her every day life and changes up the monotony of her everyday life. There is only one question, who is he really? Can he save the princess to a life filled with misery? Only time can tell

They call him Snake. Ruthless. Untouchable. Addictive. Detective Aria Vega has one mission: bring down the city's most dangerous crime lord. But when her undercover hack goes wrong, she finds herself face-to-face with the man she's been chasing in the shadows. He should be her enemy. Instead, every encounter leaves her breathless. He's the criminal she swore to destroy. She's the cop he should never touch. But the closer Aria gets to Snake, the harder it becomes to tell who's really hunting who... and who will be the first to break.

BUY NOW ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/2z4P2Lz They thought love was something you prove. He discovered it was something you survive. When Noah comes home early and walks into a fight between the two women who claim to know him best-his fiancée and his closest friend-something inside him fractures. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Quietly. Irrevocably. What follows isn't a love triangle fueled by passion, but a slow, unsettling unraveling of how devotion turns into entitlement, how care becomes control, and how silence is mistaken for consent. As the women rewrite him in competing versions of who he's supposed to be, Noah begins a private reckoning-one that leads him not toward another romance, but toward himself. The Door I Closed First is a psychologically intimate romantic novel about emotional manipulation disguised as love, the courage it takes to step out of roles others assign you, and the quiet power of choosing freedom over being chosen. This is not a story about who wins his heart. It's about what happens when he stops offering it as proof.