Secondchancelove Stories

Once, there was a boy who loved with all his heart. A love so simple, so pure - the kind that blooms in school corridors and ends with promises written in notebooks. He was a boy who longed for the love he lost - a father gone too soon, a heart half-empty. And when she came, he finally felt safe. But safety turned into fear... Fear of losing her, fear that his love itself was a curse. His love grew possessive - and her wings broke beneath it. One day, she left forever... And with her, she took the last piece of him. Years later, he married - not for love, but for duty. A woman who deserved the world... but was tied to a man whose heart belonged to a grave. Now, two souls live under one roof - one haunted by the past, and the other punished for a love she never received. This isn't a tale of love found - it's a story of love surviving - in silence, in distance, in pain and the art of letting go. "Having the person you love beside you isn't the only form of love. Sometimes... letting them go is. And I hope one day you'll understand, Aishwarya - I'm not walking away because I don't love you. I'm walking away because I can't bear to lose another person I love."

My full name is Zamantungwa Agnes Khumalo, don't mind my middle name, my dad's mother gave it to me before she passed I was told. Even if she was the sweetest grandmother in the area, the name though. Yoh guys! Lols One thing about me is that I am an accounting fanatic! To know about my background story, you have to read further... it was lovely meeting you. **** "MaKhumalo breathe please. Yes, just like that. Slowly does it", he kept rubbing my back in a soothing manner as he said this. We sat there while I tried to regain my senses, and him murmuring softly to me. The tears have seized now atleast. The tight grip he maintained with his other hand didn't go unnoticed. It was a reassurance-kind-of-grip, filled with care and concern. His heartbeat has gone back to normal now. Listening to it was slowly making me sleepy. "You can't sleep sitting on the floor like this, love. Come on let's go to bed", he tried making me get up but I shook my head slightly. He sighed, picked me up and carried me effortlessly to a bedroom. "Please don't leave me alone", I said with a dead grip on his hand. "But I'm just next door. Look I'll even leave the door open incase you need me. Uhm... you know what, let me get you some tea to help you sleep", he removed my hand with ease. "I'll be back just now, I promise MaKhumalo", he kissed my forehead before rushing out the door. I stayed alone for 5 seconds before I got up like I was stung, made my way to the room next to where I was. Took of my dress, got under the covers quickly, his scent filled my nose as I snuggled on his pillow. Before I knew it, it was lights out. What happened must have drained me more than I thought. #southafrican RANKINGS: [26.09.25 #3 convict] [10.07.25] #8 crazypeople [07.07.25] #2 convict [29.07.25] #1 convict

Valerie Watson sold nine months of her life for one hundred million dollars-and lost everything. Forced by her cruel stepmother to carry a stranger's child, Valerie was stripped of her innocence, abandoned by the man she loved, and cast out of the only home she ever knew. The baby she carried was taken from her arms the moment she gave birth. As if that wasn't enough, her scheming stepsister stole what little remained of her shattered life-including her boyfriend. Broken and betrayed, Valerie disappeared. Six years later, she resurfaces in Northridge, no longer the helpless girl she once was, but a woman determined to survive. Her new job? A nanny at the lavish residence of billionaire CEO Davison. Her task is simple-care for his bold, sharp-tongued little daughter. Yet from the very first day, something feels dangerously familiar. Why does the child cling to her so fiercely? Why does her heart ache every time the little girl smiles? And why does the cold, untouchable CEO watch her like she's a secret he's forgotten... but his soul remembers? What happens when the past comes knocking- and the child she once carried is no longer just a memory? Some contracts end after nine months. Others rewrite your entire destiny.

A single flash. A thousand headlines. One unexpected love story. When a split-second photo turns rising soloist Faith Monroe and idol leader Kang Minseok into a "professional couple," they sign a contract to protect their careers. What begins as stage-managed dates and PR smiles becomes late‑night ramen talks, a real confession, and a love too fragile for the spotlight. Then come the storms: a scripted engagement, a cold wedding, twins born early, postpartum shadows, and a public divorce that should have ended everything. Years later-older, softer, and braver-they find their way back. Not to the fairy tale, but to something truer: boundaries, therapy, family dinners at 6:30, and a second chance they choose out loud. Set against 2009-2020 K‑pop, this slow-burn romance tracks the era's real tech and media-from flip phones, me2day, and DC Inside to V Live, Reels, and Beyond LIVE-while exploring fame, racism/colorism, and healing. Faith (a biracial Black/Korean artist) and Minseok (an exhausted, loyal leader) learn the difference between optics and honesty... and how to build a home in a world that profits from breaking them. Tropes: fake dating → real, enemies-to-allies, forced proximity, slow burn, divorce and remarriage, co‑parenting, found family, second chance Content notes: racism/colorism, postpartum depression, NICU/prematurity, media harassment (handled with care) Updates: weekly For readers who love K‑drama heart, industry realism, and romances that fight for the happy ending-and earn it. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R.L.

When Denise Frost left Sinclair Bay, she thought she'd buried her past - and the boy who swore he'd wait for her. But Connor Sinclair is no longer the boy she remembers. He's a Navy officer now, colder than the tides that raised him, feared by everyone who dares to say his name. Once, she promised him forever. Now, forever looks a lot like ruin. As secrets rise with the tide and the Sinclair legacy pulls her back into his world, Denise must decide if she's come to expose him - or to remember why she never truly escaped him. Because when you promise the devil, the sea always collects its debt. Warnings: Smut Abuse(Handful) Toxic Gaslighting Angst Sad lore Best 1-Grape 1-Thesea

Where Klarity Bryce from, love ain't never come clean-it always come with scars. She done built herself up from nothing, turned pain into paper, and made a promise to herself: no more street niggas, no more heartbreak, no more playing the fool for love. Her beauty business popping, her money right, and her guard higher than ever. Then Cashmere "Cash" Kingdom step back into her life. Quiet. Heavy. Dangerous in that calm way that make grown men move out the way. Cash ain't just a man-he a presence. A king still tied to a past soaked in blood, loyalty, and street rules you don't break if you tryna live. Cash see Klarity and already know-that's his. Not in a controlling way... in a I'll bleed behind you way. But loving a man like Cash ain't sweet. It's late nights, loaded guns, whispered threats, and the constant fear that one wrong move could turn her into a memory. Klarity gotta decide if she strong enough to love a man who come with enemies-or if walking away the only way she survive. Because in Cash's world, protection come before promises... and once he claim you, ain't no letting go.

Book One in the Heartbeats of... Series (Standalone) In the heart of Belgium's chocolate capital, two young and ambitious chocolatiers share a dream - and a bond that began in childhood. Elise Van den Berg and Lukas De Smet have grown up in Bruges, neighbors and best friends, united by one goal: to create a grand chocolate paradise, where every cocoa creation can make hearts melt. But fate has other plans. A cruel misunderstanding tears them apart, sending them on separate paths across Belgium. A year later, destiny reunites them at the prestigious Chocolate Academy in Brussels. Will their childhood friendship survive rivalry, competition, and lingering heartbreak? Or will the sweetest dreams come with the bitterest price?

"In a world ruled by blood, love was their only rebellion." "Hindi lahat ng 'forever' natatapos sa altar. Minsan, nagsisimula ulit sa pagkikita." Sa mundong puno ng lihim, kapangyarihan, at dugo, isang kasunduan ang naglatag ng kanilang tadhana. Si Celestine "Celine" Amara Dela Vega, anak ng isang makapangyarihang rival mafia family, ay napilitang pakasalan si Luca Adrien Moretti, isang lalaking kilala sa kanyang kalupitan at tahimik na pananalakay sa mundo ng mafia. Ang kanilang kasal ay hindi bunga ng pagmamahal kundi ng obligasyon, kapangyarihan, at pangakong magpapatigil sa alitan ng kanilang mga pamilya. Sa umpisa, lamig at galit ang namayani sa kanilang pagsasama. Walang halakhak, walang lambing - tanging kasunduan at katahimikan lamang. Ngunit sa gitna ng takot at galit, may mga damdaming unti-unting sumibol - damdaming pareho nilang pilit itinanggi. Isang lihim ang kanilang dala: isang anak na itinago sa mundo, si Valerie Zryne Moretti, ang batang bunga ng kanilang pagmamahalan bago pa man maghiwalay. Siya ang tanging koneksyon sa pagitan ng dalawang pusong nasaktan, ngunit hindi nila alam kung paano haharapin ang damdaming bumabalik sa kanila. Paglipas ng limang taon, muling nagtagpo ang kanilang landas - hindi bilang mag-asawa, kundi bilang dalawang taong nasaktan at nagbago. Si Celine, ngayon isang matagumpay at matatag na babae, ay nagtatago ng kanyang anak at ng lihim na minahal niya noon. Si Luca, lalaking noon ay masungit at mapang-api, ay nakaharap siya muli bilang isa nang mas malakas at mas mapanganib na pinuno ng kanyang imperyo. Sa mundong puno ng panganib, pagtataksil, at lihim, isang tanong ang mananatiling bumabagabag sa kanilang mga puso: Puwede pa bang bumalik ang pag-ibig na minsang nawasak?

Two idols. One stage. A love hidden beneath the spotlight. ✨

She was just a girl in 9th grade when she fell in love-pure, real, and all-consuming. But one cruel misunderstanding, planted by a third person, tore their beautiful bond apart. That heartbreak didn't break her... it transformed her. Into an author-one who hides her scars in her stories. And then there's him-the cold, powerful Asian Mafia King who rose to the top at a shockingly young age. Love never touched him. Emotions never moved him. Until one day, he picked up a story. Her story. And became obsessed-not with the plot, but with the woman behind those bleeding words. He wasn't broken. But for her... he became the healer she never knew she needed. Two lives. One past. One story that changed everything. What happens when her pen meets his world of power and darkness?

Addison Portman had become Belmont High's brand-new public enemy. A confrontation, a screaming match, and broken school property. One moment, she was walking through her senior year with everything she wanted, and the next, she had walked right in on her best friend and boyfriend kissing. With her social life in ashes and her love life dead on arrival, Addison's last surviving hope was her spotless academic record. But even that starts slipping when her long-term rival, Trevor James Garcia, decides to end their silent competition and turn it into a full-blown war. He's infuriating, unpredictable, and impossibly composed; the kind of person who makes losing feel personal. And as the rivalry gets messier, it's clear how people you hate the most are the ones who truly see you, Even if they hate you right back.

A hopeless romance 26 year old Dinselo kuniti who is an intern at the house of mhlongo designs who spends her day being clumsy in the office and having chats with her friends Richard and Tyla .she's always late for work and chasing for the bus one day after rushing for the bus she meets with Chris an old highschool mate will she fall for Chris or stay hopeless in love and will she finally find her way to success ?

They met when love wasn't even a thought-just two people colliding in the middle of messy lives. What started as banter turned into long conversations, small glances turned into stolen moments, and somewhere between the chaos of shared rooms and shared silences, they fell-hard. It was imperfect, impulsive, intense. The kind of love that doesn't ask for permission. But what no one saw coming was the breaking point. Not all love stories are broken by infidelity or distance-sometimes, it's pain, trauma, unhealed wounds, and the inability to choose each other when it matters most. So, they shattered. Loudly. Brutally. Beautifully. Time passed. Hearts stayed heavy. But fate, cruel and kind, pulled them back together-this time in unfamiliar places, with familiar feelings and the same storm between them. Now, it's no longer about falling in love. It's about choosing to stay, choosing to heal, and learning to hold each other in the fire rather than run from it. And maybe... just maybe... home isn't a place. It's a person.

"Some fires never go out. They just learn to glow quietly."

When fate traps them in the same café, the same school play, and the same family dinner, everything blurs. Enemies. Almost siblings. Almost lovers. One viral photo. One forbidden kiss. One mistake they can't take back. Some lines aren't crossed. Until they are.

In a world where magic is inherited, controlled, and claimed, Elira was born with nothing. Marked as giftless, orphaned young, and taught that survival meant staying unseen, she learned to live quietly - to work, to endure, to expect nothing from the world. But when desperation leads her to accept a position in the coldest noble house in the realm, Elira's life crosses paths with a man bound by grief, duty, and an oath he swore never to break. Lord Caelreth Valebryn does not believe in mercy for himself - only order. He has already loved once. He has already paid the price. As Elira's hidden magic awakens - a healing power long thought impossible - she becomes everything the world fears: a Gift that cannot be owned, regulated, or controlled. The nobles want her claimed. The laws demand her obedience. And Caelreth is forced to choose between the system that shaped him and the woman who is quietly changing it. Their bond is slow, forbidden, and undeniable - forged in silence, sacrifice, and moonlit moments where truth is safer than daylight. But when power is treated as property, love becomes rebellion. And Elira must decide whether healing one life at a time is enough... or whether the world itself must be remade.

She ruled the business world with ice in her veins. I entered her life by mistake-and warmed the heart she buried long ago. A drunken night. A secret marriage. A contract built on lies. When love grows in silence and jealousy hides behind power, how long can a fragile bond survive? Her Cold World, My Warm Embrace is a story of fate, love, and the price of choosing the heart over reason.

Some bonds are written not in promises, but in the quiet beating of two hearts that once knew the same rhythm. Ruhaani and Advait - childhood friends, inseparable dreamers - believed their story would last forever. Until one day, forever broke. Years later, when fate decides to cross their paths again, everything has changed... yet nothing truly has. He hides behind walls of silence, she carries the weight of unanswered questions - and between them lies a love that never really left, only lost its way. But sometimes, destiny whispers for a second chance - a chance to heal, to forgive, to love again. And as old memories bloom into new emotions, Ruhaani and Advait must face the truth buried in their hearts before time slips away once more. A story of misunderstood goodbyes, rediscovered love, and the magic of finding your way back home - not to a place, but to a person. Because some hearts never stop waiting. Some stories are meant to find their forever. "He was fire wrapped in ice." "She was chaos wrapped in tenderness."

Eleanor Ashbourne only wanted to come home. But when she returns to Mystic Falls-just in time for Miss Mystic Falls-nothing feels the same. Caroline is drowning under expectations, Bonnie is grieving, Elena is cracking under the pressure of her own secrets... and the Salvatores stare at Eleanor like she's a ghost from a life she doesn't remember. Because she is. Her journals whisper of other centuries. Her magic wakes the moment she steps onto town soil. And far away, Elijah Mikaelson feels her return like the echo of a promise he once made. Eleanor died for the Originals once. She has returned for them again. Now, with fate tightening around Mystic Falls, Eleanor must rediscover who she was-and decide who she wants to be in this life-before history repeats itself. A slow-burn Elijah/OC tale filled with reincarnation, ancient bonds, supernatural threats, and the girl determined to rewrite the ending.

Nartica Ama Sam never planned on falling in love-especially not with a man like Damion Davies. She was supposed to keep her head down: Work. Study. Graduate. Leave love alone. But one wrong turn in a foreign city collides her quiet world with his: Damion-half Jamaican, half British, fully unreadable. Toxic, nonchalant, sweet in the most dangerous ways. It starts with a favor. Then a secret friendship. Then one night she can't undo. Soon, they're tangled in a web of passion, betrayal, and blurred lines-spiraling from strangers to lovers to something far worse. Marriage comes fast. Kids follow. But Damion's love comes with a price: Lies. Cheating. Manipulation. And a heartbreak she swore she'd never repeat. Still, she stays-longer than she should. Until she finally leaves... Only to fall into the arms of Jules Gustavo-a younger, wilder man who offers her something Damion never could: freedom. But freedom doesn't come easy in this world. And some love stories? They don't end. They only repeat. "I don't want phase one," Damion says, calm and cruel. "I want another ten years with you... maybe forever." In this raw, unflinching, painfully honest novel about love, betrayal, and impossible choices, Nartica must decide: Does she break the cycle... or surrender to it-one last time?