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At Ravencrest Academy, names, money, and secrets mean everything. Zoey Holloway never belonged in places like this. Not in the polished hallways filled with expensive perfume and whispered rumors. Not in a world where people smile like they have never been afraid of anything. And definitely not in a house that feels too warm, too safe, too good to be real. After years of surviving a life no one was supposed to see, Zoey is sent to a foster family in Bryn Mawr and transferred to one of the most elite private schools in the country. Everything around her feels wrong in the worst possible way - the quiet mornings, the soft voices, the people who knock before entering her room. Especially Noah Bennett. Calm. Patient. Dangerous in the way kindness always is when you've spent your whole life waiting for it to disappear. But Ravencrest hides more than privilege behind its perfect walls. There are rumors about a boy untouchable enough to get away with anything. Secrets that everyone pretends not to see. And a darkness Zoey recognizes far too easily. Because healing was never supposed to feel this terrifying. And for the first time in her life, Zoey starts wondering what hurts more: being abandoned... or finally being loved.

"They forced you to work with me because I saved you, didn't they?" He stared at her. For a second, he genuinely had no idea what she was talking about. "What?" "It doesn't make sense otherwise," she said, already shaking her head too quickly, words unraveling faster the longer she spoke. "Why they would choose me. Why you would agree to this. You clearly didn't want me in your laboratory and I..." Her voice broke off sharply. "I keep proving you right." Silence. Then, quieter... "I'll talk to the dean. You shouldn't be trapped in this because of me." "Wait."

When Pravit Khankaew was twenty-three years old, he drove too fast on a wet road in Chiang Mai and killed a seven year old boy named Korn. He never forgot it. Neither did Korn's family. Twenty years later, Pravit walks into his eldest daughter's London flat on her twentieth birthday with a bakery bag and a confession that rewires her entire life. His debt to the Pornprasert family is due. And the payment, whether Namtan likes it or not, is her. Namtan Khankaew is broad-shouldered, brilliant, and completely blindsided. She is an architecture student who builds things carefully and trusts almost nobody. She did not ask to be handed to a stranger as settlement for an accident she wasn't alive for. Film Pornprasert is soft-faced, devastating, and furiously against every part of this arrangement. She is a medical student who fixes broken things for a living. She did not ask to be handed to a stranger either. She was already in love with someone else quietly, privately, in the way that costs everything when it ends. They are twenty years old. They are strangers. They are now, legally, each other's problem. What follows is not a fairytale. It is something messier and more honest than that two girls navigating a marriage built from guilt, learning each other in the spaces between resentment and reluctant admiration, falling apart and toward each other in the specific way of people who were handed the wrong inheritance and somehow made it into a home. Narrated by Airwin Buakaew Pornprasert household maid, fifty-three years old, employed since 1994, and absolutely nobody's fool.

Some people leave because staying would have required more than they had left to give. Some people let them go for the same reason. Three years is enough time to build something - a career, a life, a version of yourself that does not need what it used to need. Roux Calloway has done all three. Jeon Sewon has done none. When a development contract brings her back into his orbit - not by accident, though it will take her the better part of a year to understand the full architecture of the collision - Roux finds herself navigating a world that has never wanted her in it. Not the project. Not the professional table. The world behind his name: the family, the legacy, the machinery of expectation that a man like Sewon carries without always acknowledging how much of it he wears. This is not a love story that forgives easily or arrives without cost. It is built from what two people owe each other when they have already failed once - not absolution, not a clean return to something, but the harder work of deciding whether the thing between them is worth the fight it will take to protect it from the people who have already decided it is not. Roux does not disappear. Sewon does not hide. And the city of Chicago, cold and loud and indifferent, holds the space between them while they figure out what it means to choose each other for the first time - the right way.

"ℋℯ𝒶𝒹𝓁𝒾𝓃ℯ𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝒹ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓂 𝓅𝓊𝒷𝓁𝒾𝒸. 𝒮𝒾𝑔𝓃𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇ℯ𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝒹ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓂 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓃ℯ𝓃𝓉." He handed her divorce papers on their wedding night. She accepted them without flinching. ↳Kyraan Pratap Chauhan didn't do marriages. He did contracts. with an expiry date already signed. ⤿Rahee Advani didn't do vulnerability. She did silence. The kind that made people uncomfortable enough to look away. One arrangement. One year. One contract that was supposed to fix everything - except the two people inside it. He was cold because grief had made him that way. She was composed because life had left her no other choice. Neither of them was looking for something real. But some things don't wait to be looked for. ╰┈➤Amid Headlines and Signatures is a slow burn, gut wrenching story about two people who were never meant to stay - and everything that unraveled before they had to leave. Arranged marriage · Secret marriage · Grumpy x Grumpy · CEO x Brand Ambassador · Haters to Lovers · He Falls First and Harder · She Leaves. He Follows. Volume One: The Beginning of the End જ⁀➴ started on : 17 April 2026

Serena Voss has never questioned the life she's been given-quiet, controlled, and carefully contained. Adrian Cole has spent years carrying something he was never meant to forget. When they meet by chance in a secluded botanical garden, it feels like nothing. Just a conversation. Just a moment. But some meetings are not accidents. And some connections were never meant to happen. As their paths begin to cross again, truths buried deep in the past start to surface-truths that could change everything. Because not every love story is meant to last. And some things... are better left kept. A slow-burn psychological romance with underlying mystery and thriller elements. ⚠️ Copyright & Disclaimer © 2026 Ishita Iyyer. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. No part of this story may be reproduced, distributed, translated, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the author.

This story is not told in order. And it is not told in its entirety. A girl who doesn't believe in second chances. A boy who doesn't believe in endings. And a game built on memory, obsession, and quiet power. Some moments feel romantic. Some feel cruel. Some don't make sense yet. That's intentional. The Delusion Game is a jigsaw puzzle. You're only reading the first pieces. Author's Note: This is not the complete story. Some answers arrive later.

"I don't need a lawyer. Especially not a child who's still waiting for permission to speak." *** "There's just a man who has decided to go back to prison. You're not his lawyer; you're his audience" *** "She looked scared?" He asked "Terribly terrified." "So she is sane, then." He nodded to himself. *** "If you move again," he whispered, low and unshaken, "you'll be dead in five seconds." *** "I'm the only reason you're still breathing." *** "Because I can't afford to lose the only damn fool willing to believe I might be worth saving!"

"Who are you?" she asked me exasperated. Her breath uneven, features frustrated. You know me I want to say, I don't reply. I watch her. "Where the hell did you come from?" she staggers in her steps. Tilting sideways, going off balance. I catch her in my arms. Breaking her fall, steadying her. A faraway land of another time, I want to say. Her frustration builds up and my silence only fuels it. With angry tears in her heavenly eyes, she grasps on my shirt. "You haunt me. I close my eyes, I see you. You are always there, but never quite in reach. I can't stop thinking about you. Look at what have you done to me? You made me insane" "Laura" is all I say and she collapses. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Never in all these years, she thought she would see her again. But the beautiful thing about history is, it repeats. And when it does, it is so hauntingly perfect. Then it plays the cards. Same people, Same setting A tale long lost, repeating

Look, this book? It's a love letter to the township - but don't get it twisted; you don't have to be from here to get it. Whether you're chilling in a fancy villa in Spain or hustling somewhere else, these stories speak to you because love and struggle? They don't check your address. This is a free zone. If you don't vibe with it, no worries, the township will still be here, doing its thing, surviving and thriving, with or without you. And me? I give thanks to the same streets that raised me. Even when I'm sitting in my office, switching between languages like a pro, deep down, I'm still that township boy - sharp, stubborn, and full of stories to tell. Each chapter is a day in the life of people who refuse to be boxed in by their pasts. It's messy, real, and sometimes raw - but always honest. So, pull up a chair, open your mind, and maybe, just maybe, you'll see yourself in these pages.

In a world where medicine has been surrendered to soulless machines and profit-driven algorithms, one underground hospital dares to fight back. Beneath the crumbling bones of his family manor, Dr. Derek Delflower-the last heir to a legendary line of surgeons-runs a hidden trauma ward for those abandoned by the system. Haunted by legacy, burdened by secrets, and driven by a need to save what little humanity remains, Derek operates on the edge of exhaustion and obsession. At his side stands Finn Aprimin-his most brilliant surgeon and closest friend-sharp-tongued, unmatched in skill, and unraveling just enough to remind Derek what's at stake. But everything shifts when Derek saves the life of a rugged, street-hardened man tied to dangerous people. A man who-despite his own damage-arrives at just the right time to help the cause... and maybe something more. As the manor's walls close in, ghosts stir, and enemies inch closer, Derek must navigate loyalty, loss, and love in a war where every heartbeat counts. This isn't just medicine. It's defiance. And it's only just begun.

She wasn't supposed to matter. In Monaco's elite world, everything is controlled-power, loyalty, even people. Nothing exists without purpose, and nothing escapes the system once it's inside. Mercedes was never meant to become part of it. But the moment she steps into a world of quiet influence and dangerous perfection, she finds herself caught between two forces that were never meant to collide. Emris-cold, precise, and untouchable. A man who controls everything he allows himself to feel. Ishaan-unpredictable, sharp, and impossible to read. A man who turns control into something unstable. Between them lies a past no one speaks about. And now-her. As tension builds beneath polished smiles and silent rooms, Mercedes begins to realize that this world isn't just watching her. It's shaping her. Because in a system built on control and chaos, the most dangerous thing she can be- is something neither of them can define.

Will Graham wakes after four months in a coma-and nothing is where he left it. Not the case. Not the people. Not himself. And whatever he's starting to understand... he may not survive knowing it Music is highly encouraged to enhance the experience. Some scenes were written with this playing in the background. Book One of The Silence Series. A fan-created continuation inspired by Hannibal. I do not own the original characters.

'Some love survives time. Ours survived death.' But Leo doesn't speak. Leo doesn't love. Leo, the princely dumb doll, is the town's quiet. And when Maya arrived in the town as the school's temporary teacher, the quiet gains heat. Leo doesn't know why, but he remembers Maya from somewhere. Maya feels a pull, but doesn't know towards what. So when the rain arrives, memories knock. Clothes come off, and lives in. 10-chapters of finding why his eyes make her feel seen, and her eyes make him want rain. --- The cover used for the novel is AI-generated.

"She wore the skin of a good girl perfectly."

THE THINGS WE NEVER NAME Some things are never said out loud. Not because they don't matter... but because they matter too much. Lena Carter notices everything. The pauses in conversations, the lies people tell with their eyes, the emotions they try to hide behind perfect smiles. But when Noah Hayes enters her life, she meets someone she can't fully read. He's smart. Too smart to be just the "popular guy." And he looks at her like he already knows what she's thinking. At first, it's just competition. A battle of minds in a psychology class, neither of them takes lightly. But the more they challenge each other, the harder it becomes to ignore what's building underneath. Because some connections don't start with words. And some feelings are too dangerous to name. Especially when both of them are trying not to fall first. He sees everything, and she notices everything that might destroy them both.

In a world where words are left unspoken and feelings are buried too deep, three hearts slowly begin to fracture under the weight of silence. Kei appears strong and untouchable, hiding her fragile emotions behind confidence. Seojun, quiet and guarded, carries a storm of guilt and love he never dares to confess. And Jinhon - charming, observant, and emotionally unpredictable - sees more than either of them realizes. What starts as an intense, complicated bond soon turns into a battlefield of misunderstandings, jealousy, and suppressed truths. No one lies outright - but no one speaks honestly either. And in that silence, love begins to decay. "Silently Killing U" is a psychological romantic drama about how unspoken pain, pride, and fear can slowly destroy relationships from the inside. It explores emotional vulnerability, toxic attachment, inner battles, and the heartbreaking realization that sometimes, the deepest wounds are the ones we never talk about. Because sometimes... it's not hatred that destroys love. It's silence.

Ethan Wright rules boardrooms with quiet control. Ava Reynolds challenges the world with fearless questions. When a billionaire tech founder and an outspoken MBA student collide during a university lecture, their clash of ideals ignites a battle of intellect, pride, and undeniable tension. Ava sees Ethan as everything wrong with power. Ethan sees Ava as the one voice he can't ignore. Forced proximity blurs the line between rivalry and attraction, while misunderstandings and unspoken sacrifices threaten to keep them apart. As families intertwine and walls begin to crack, both must confront a truth no business case can prepare them for- Love doesn't follow logic. And the heart is the riskiest investment of all.

I know that the word 'Asylum' is no longer used in modern society. Please do not leave any hate comments as you do not know who it may be affecting. To everyone who is or has been in a mental health hospital, or has had some sort of psychological support you deserve to be heard and you are worth all that you have received. ⚠️TW: Abuse - Physical and emotional abuse. Trauma - Psychological trauma and its impact, Infantilism - Depictions of characters being treated as infants, Mental Health Issues - Exploration of various mental health conditions, Sadistic Behavior - Depictions of sadistic actions and psychological manipulation, Violence - Scenes involving violence or aggressive behaviour, Kidnapping - Abduction and captivity scenarios, Self-Harm - Mention of self-harm or self-destructive behaviour, Disturbing Content - General disturbing and intense themes. Do not like, do not read.⚠️ Follow Dr. Mills as she delves into the darkest corners of Green Valley Asylum, where each case presents a unique and harrowing challenge. From a teenager who believes he's still an infant, to a sadistic patient with disturbing tendencies, and a young boy haunted by his traumatic past, Dr. Mills must navigate a labyrinth of psychological trauma and complex personalities. As she works to unravel their twisted beliefs and guide them towards recovery, she confronts her own limits and the disturbing realities of the human mind. Dive into a world where the lines between sanity and madness blur, and where every breakthrough comes with a price. Are you ready to explore the shadows within?

This story is slowburn. Heavy. Emotional. Psychological. There won't be instant confessions. There won't be dramatic love at first sight. There will be silence, tension, misunderstandings, and emotional shifts. Aurora is not perfect. Ian is not expressive. They will hurt each other without meaning to. And love here won't look loud - it will look restrained. If you're here for soft romance, this might frustrate you. If you're here for quiet intensity, stay. Let's see what grows in the quiet between them.