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After All

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(Dela Vega Series #1) Despite barely knowing each other, Dwight dela Vega thought that he had already found the one after knowing the gorgeous and elusive Keighla Kinsley. He didn't know how it happened or when it did. He didn't know where the shift occurred or what was responsible for it. One thing's for certain, he learned to chase hopelessly, prayed desperately, and hoped undauntedly. 

After the long chase and countless rejections, she finally said "I do." They got married. What more he could ask for? He got the prettiest and coolest wife in the world. 

But things as always are easier said than done. When things get messy, and you make mistakes and the world is less shiny, for Keighla, leaving is always better than staying. No, their love wasn't wrong. Maybe that wasn't just the right moment. Maybe they weren't just right to fit together. 

Sure he can forget. But no, he cannot forgive. She left him at his worst. He was shattered and broken-almost beyond repair. 

After five years of living through the pain of being abandoned, here she came back again-proud and beautiful. But what if not as someone he used to know before? 

Would after all still be possible for two hearts that beat the same person but bleeds for different reasons?All Rights Reserved

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WHO'S MY HUSBAND? by HartleyRoses

ILL-FATED SERIES #1: Lorcan Astor Vidalez (COMPLETED) Accepting my second life is the biggest mistake that I made. Opening my eyes with my lost memories, a man claimed that I was his wife, but after years I woke up, I never experienced what real life is. I always ask myself if this is really the man that I loved and married. After years locked on the island with him, I got out into the real world, lost again. I thought I'd be free once I got away from my husband... but I've already lost my life in the years I've been with him. Then suddenly, when I finally accepted death with a smile, I met another man claiming that I was his wife. He's not the man I first met. Why would I marry two men before I lost my memories? I compared my two husbands who claim that I am their wife. They have different personalities, but they have one thing in common, and that is... they both hate me. 🖇:: COMPLETE 🖇:: Photo that used in the book cover is not mine. Credits to the rightful owner.

CORDIVILLA: Breathless by latibulenz

Starved of any support from her family, Veil Cordivilla struggles to finish her degree in Architecture. After her very first heartbreak, she questioned herself whether she made the right choice. Now, she's trapped in a place where she has no option but to continue fighting even with a scarred heart - for her dreams. She doesn't want to stop because her dreams are what make her alive. And then she met Stan Verdejas, a CIA Agent materialized out of nowhere. She hated him for she believes that he's no different from her first love. However, as their cold and complicated relationship unfolds, she finds herself falling for him. The future is never ours they say. So when Veil thought that her life and heart is starting to get livelier, she was then again tested by her playful destiny and challenged by different choices. What will she choose now? -- UNDER MAJOR EDITING.

Last Tears by _caeruleus

"He is my prologue, but not my epilogue." Saige Anais is only rooting for a peaceful life and faultless love, but fate has other plans for her. Despite her young age, life didn't get easy on her. When she was young, the people whom she cherished and loved the most, died, leaving her in a state of pure sorrow and grief. When she recovered, she thought that everything would fall into its proper places as she had already met the man she thought she would spend the rest of her life with- but she was wrong. A situation occurred that forced her to make a foolish decision. She thought that the best way to fix her problem was to leave and escape reality. She walked away, convinced that it was the only solution to her problems. Days, weeks, months and years pass by. She returned with a shattered soul from the past. She wanted to fill in the missing pieces in her heart, and she believes that she'll only be able to do that if she can get the forgiveness of the people she'd left hanging in the past- especially the man that she loves. Will she be able to finish her task without tearing and breaking apart? Will she be able to find a peaceful life and faultless love before time runs out? And would that person be the same man from her past, or would it be a different man to fulfill the true love that she's looking for? WATTPADOLOGY WINNER SELF-PUBLISHED (2021)

Hate Me Now Love Me Later by nethzky05

HATE ME NOW LOVE ME LATER Knife Marquez x Aminah de Salva "I only agreed to this marriage because I made a promise to protect and to take care of you, not to love you, Aminah. You knew that very well from the start, yet here you are begging me to love you back. You know I can't and you already knew why. I'm in love with someone else." Aminah de Salva lived a sheltered life. She used to get everything that she wanted. Everyone around her treated her like a princess. Everybody loves her because despite her social status and family background, she acts like a normal average person. She doesn't think twice to mingle with the beggars on the street and help them to have a new life. She's a very down to earth woman who loves to make friends. She wore simple dresses. Loves to cook and most specially, God fearing. But that was four years ago. Everything's changed in an instant because of an accident who took her parents' lives and her memory along with her lovable personality. She became heartless even when her memories finally went back. And for the people around her, she's a ruthless businesswoman who doesn't care about other's feeling. Because of her b*tchy attitude, her life is in danger. And the only thing that can save and protect her from the bad guys is to marry Knife Marquez, the son of his father's best friend, a cold as ice ten out of ten alpha male and as ruthless as her. But she didn't expect to fall in love with the man who loves someone else. And for Knife, she's just a responsibility that needs to be taken care of. How long will she ever endure the pain of loving her husband? And how will Knife love her back if he hates her for ruining his relationship with her long time girlfriend? Is it true that love conquers all? Is it possible that hatred will eventually turn into love? Is he worth fighting for? Will Aminah can have her happy ending or will she end up broken and separated?

Calibrated Distance by shechoseherself

[COMPLETE] CALIBRATED DISTANCE Book 1 of "The Ones Who Were Watched" series Calibrated Distance isn't a love story dressed up as dystopia. It's a surveillance log of the unseen. A memory file buried in silence. A slow, aching trace of what it means to be watched... and still choose to feel. Mira and Gael aren't chasing fate. They're carrying ghosts. They glitch through memory, speak in half-truths, and love like it's a crime - quiet, calculated, and devastatingly human. This isn't about enemies-to-lovers. There are no cliché rescues. No loud confessions or perfect endings. Just two people tethered by the data that tried to erase them... and the one decision that rewrote their future: To remember. Calibrated Distance rewires the trope: No hero. No happily-ever-after. Just resilience in the face of erasure. Grief that doesn't ask for permission. And love that survives even the worst kind of surveillance - the one we do to ourselves. This isn't about being seen. It's about seeing yourself again - after the system said you shouldn't exist.

The Trophy Wife's Bittersweet Affinity by dilutedintogrey

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Maybe, Probably 2 by 4chlysm

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WHO'S MY HUSBAND? cover

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Last Tears cover

Hate Me Now Love Me Later cover

Calibrated Distance cover

The Trophy Wife's Bittersweet Affinity cover

Gabrielle Shaun Mujeriego (GSM SERIES #1) [Complete] cover

Falling Into an Empty Space cover

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WHO'S MY HUSBAND?

ILL-FATED SERIES #1: Lorcan Astor Vidalez (COMPLETED) Accepting my second life is the biggest mistake that I made. Opening my eyes with my lost memories, a man claimed that I was his wife, but after years I woke up, I never experienced what real life is. I always ask myself if this is really the man that I loved and married. After years locked on the island with him, I got out into the real world, lost again. I thought I'd be free once I got away from my husband... but I've already lost my life in the years I've been with him. Then suddenly, when I finally accepted death with a smile, I met another man claiming that I was his wife. He's not the man I first met. Why would I marry two men before I lost my memories? I compared my two husbands who claim that I am their wife. They have different personalities, but they have one thing in common, and that is... they both hate me. 🖇:: COMPLETE 🖇:: Photo that used in the book cover is not mine. Credits to the rightful owner.