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Modern

Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

Romance

Love is in small attitudes. Look, smile, understand and care. Davi Blanc's future position as CEO is threatened by his own father and the partners of Fábrica Blanc, because he is single. With no intention of getting married until he takes over the family business, as he couldn't bear the idea of ​​

Romance

Anvitha, Kumar and Naina only daughter who is their life. Her smile is everything they ask for. She has the capacity to lit up the entire room with her smile. She has a brother Karan who is very protective of her but never let a chance to annoy her. She is simple yet beautiful girl with confidence a

Romance

Prologue: Dara's eyes fluttered open, her mind foggy from the haze of the previous night. The memories came flooding back - the desperation, the seduction, the surrender. She felt a wave of regret wash over her, mixed with a hint of shame. As she quickly dressed and made her escape, the cheque i

Romance

A story based on the tale of two lives that intertwine by mere chance, a woman whose personality and feelings towards life give her the impulse to protect herself and be more astute and intelligent than others, but what characterizes her also makes her lose herself in her loneliness and darkness, th

Romance

"Having a hopeless crush on Siddharth for more than a year Roshini couldn't handle this unrequited love anymore, either she wanted to forget him or to get close to him. Ended up with only these two options Roshini believed that forgetting him will be easier but that's the wrong assumption she ever m

Billionaires

The police said Liam' s death was an accident, a car crash on an icy road. Simple. Final. But I knew better. Liam, the man I was going to marry, was murdered. And I knew who did it: his father, the tech titan Mr. Davis. Liam was a threat to his perfect legacy, so he erased him. My grief hardened i

Billionaires

"OCEANIC BLUE EYES FILLED WITH DARK BUT A GLIMPSE OF HER HAZEL EYES BROUGHT THE SPARK " Blue sky, huge sandy mountains, and a huge manor surrounded by mountains cold breeze entering the room touching their faces "Isn't it weird the man you never wanted to see again became your Husband just

Billionaires

“Do you have a boyfriend?” Asher's voice resounded in Olivia's ear as she looked up at his face. Her lips parted and she gently nodded her head. “Yes, I do.” She said softly. “Now we will have to find him a new girlfriend.” His voice was deep and it made her blink. “Because I want you.” Betrayed

Literature

Over the course of an amazingly prolific literary career during which she penned hundreds of short stories, novels, essays, and screenplays, author Nina Wilcox Putnam developed a knack for creating indelibly unique characters. In the novel It Pays to Smile, patrician spinster Freedom Talbot is force

Romance

Even the single past can change people's life. We didn't expect this to happen when we thought we could be fully happy and content. Our curiosity will always lead us to the truth. And past memories can make a person better or worse. It's up to them to take the path they want, the life they wanted to

Modern

The morning sun streamed into my penthouse, just like any other day. My fiancé, Liam, walked in with coffee and a croissant, his perfect smile radiating devotion. But the world had been dark just moments before, stained with the taste of blood and the memory of his smiling face as I lay dying on t

Fantasy

The new penthouse apartment, meant to be a monument to our future, felt like a tomb. In my hand, a medical report confirmed my fiancée Chloe' s secret lover, Liam O' Connell, was dying from a highly contagious, deadly illness. A brutal memory tore through me: In my last life, my fury over this sam

Romance

What can a smile show? Joy, contentment, love, peace... What can a smile hide? Anguish, loneliness, disillusionment and suffering. A smile can be a sign of life. Or a mask for unhappiness. As much as she spent years of her life telling herself that "everything was fine", she knew that behind her smi

Others

She was set up by her childhood sweetheart/ boyfriend together with her stepsister and stepmother to sleep with a stranger. Few months later,she discovered she was three months pregnant. Her stepmother,stepsister and her boyfriend plan to kill her so they could get rid of the baby in her womb but s

Billionaires

My life was a monument, built brick by brick on my mother' s legacy, dedicated to a name that meant integrity, quality, and family. Then, in a sterile hospital room, it all ended. The man I married, Mark, took everything: my company, my home, my inheritance, and the future of my unborn child. I h

Modern

Noura was a young girl full of dreams, and in love, in love with her boss's only son, she who is only a mixed-race bastard whose father we don't know. Daniel took advantage of Noura's innocence, after having had what he wanted, he and his parents kicked her out, without knowingthat she wasn't leav

Modern

After a long trip, I arrived in an unfamiliar city, hoping to celebrate my birthday with my husband and daughter. Instead, they didn't remember the occasion at all. Worse, the two of them were busy preparing a surprise for my half-sister. Throughout our seven years of marriage, I lived far away f

Romance

Bonnie Galvan woke up to the suffocating scent of lilies, staring at the mirror in the exact same seven-figure wedding dress she had worn seven years ago. In the doorway stood her so-called best friend Itzel and her secret lover Erwin, desperately urging her to elope. They warned her that her soon

Short stories

Alexandra Yang was simple but a terrible woman. Timothy Huang was also a terrible man. They fated to meet but will Timothy fall for her when he knew that Alexandra Yang was a more terrible than him? She is a leader of underground organization, a lawyer and a CEO too?

Billionaires

Seraphina, a broke single mother of triplets, snuck into a billionaire's charity gala just for the free food, desperate to fund her daughter's urgent heart surgery. But her genius five-year-old son secretly hacked the gala's raffle system, thrusting them directly under the spotlight. The untouchabl