The Best Thing I Never Had

Modern

I lived as the "scarred ghost" of the Stephens penthouse, a wife kept in the shadows because my facial burns offended my billionaire husband's aesthetic. For years, I endured Kason's coldness and my family's abuse, a submissive puppet who believed she had nowhere else to go. The end came with a blue folder tossed onto my silk sheets. Kason's mistress was back, and he wanted me out by sunset, offering a five-million-dollar "silence fee" to go hide my face in the countryside. The betrayal cut deep when I discovered my father had already traded my divorce for a corporate bailout. My step-sister mocked my "trashy" appearance at a high-end boutique, while the sales staff treated me like a common thief. At home, my father threatened to cut off my mother's life-saving medicine unless I crawled back to Kason to beg for a better deal. I was the girl who took the blame for a fire she didn't start, the wife who worshipped a man who never looked her in the eye, and the daughter used as a human bargaining chip. I was supposed to be broken, penniless, and desperate. But the woman who stood up wasn't the weak Elease Finch anymore; she was Phoenix, a tactical predator with a $500 million secret. I signed the divorce papers without a single tear, walked past my stunned husband, and wiped the Finch family's bank accounts clean with a few taps on my phone. "Your money is dirty," I told Kason with a cold smile. "I prefer clean hands." The cage is open, the hunt has begun, and I'm starting with the people who thought a scar made me weak.

Romance

Victoria Lewis was twenty-one years old, kind-heated, smart, and beautiful, her father and her late mother promised her that they will never interfere in her love life. However, when Victoria found her father trying to commit suicide, she agreed to an arranged marriage to James Johnson to save her f

Romance

My name is Tiwalade Alade, a lady filled with regrets, remorsefulness, self-reproach and shame. I used to be a really easygoing lady, with a great reputation and prestige, but how did my life take a turn; you'll ask. Well, it all started with my life as a assistant university lecturer in the renown

Romance

In pursuit of love, miss Kyrah Bailey falls for the drop-dead handsome son of a tycoon, Blake Dawson. She later realizes that he has strings attached with his neighbor and her archenemy, Sabrina Johnson. In the midst of trying to dig out his past, she ends up getting too close to her best friend, Sc

Romance

Kylee Brooks knelt between Kenney Walsh's legs as she had done countless times before and awkwardly tried to satisfy him. At the moment of passion, Kenney abruptly pushed her away and wheeled himself into the bathroom. He murmured, "Ruth..." Kylee was long used to this and turned to fetch h

Billionaires

would marry someone whom you've just met? Liam and Ciara did, after a wild night of forgetting their problems they both decides to get married in their drunk state. Would they work on their married and learn to love each other or would they go their separate ways?.

Billionaires

My wife, Catalina, is a billionaire CEO. To me, she’s an angel. Three years ago, her stalker, Dixon Bright, shattered my hand with a hammer, ending my career as an architect. Catalina nursed me back from the brink, her love the only thing holding me together. On our fifth anniversary, I went to the

Romance

A beautiful yet highly sensitive young woman falls in love with Leonardo, an incredibly promiscuous and dominant college student. He's not only the son of a billionaire who oversees businesses in different countries but also someone who believed he would never fall in love, thinking he had all his e

LGBT+

Hakim was every girl's dream at Northwest High and every guy's role model. He was hot, smart, popular, romantic and all, and every girl's dream was to get laid by him. He was living the dream life, but he had one single problem; Dante. Dante was the complete vice versa of Hakim; soft, gentle, unnoti

Romance

Ethan Hale never thought desperation would drive him here. He was suffering from a failed engagement, rent was overdue and his pride was hanging by a thread when the discreet contract landed in his lap. A year of surrender to a man who can buy and break anyone? Insanity. Dominic Blackwell isn't ju

Romance

To save her father's company from bankruptcy, Melissa sold herself to Charles. In their marriage, she found humiliation, indifference, and love rivals awaiting for her. However, that was not all of it. Charle's adoration was the light at the end of the tunnel, which saved her from a life of despera

Romance

"No, I'm not. Morgan, I'm sure about you, I'm sure about us." She places a hand on the side of my face and brushes it with her thumb. "Being with you feels right, this feels right. It's so good to be true." "It is true," I say, and she lands her forehead on mine. I can hear her anxious breathing. I

Werewolf

Millie-Rose lost everything she'd worked for since the age of four in a single day; her career, her reputation, and the life she was about to marry into, when a test revealed she was pregnant... despite never being touched all her life. Scandal followed. Betrayal cut deep. And running became her onl

Young Adult

Anderson Simpson dreams of winning the upcoming inventory competition coming up in the ancient city of Portsmouth. In his quest to achieve this feat by building a robot, he meets old Mr. Hanson. Later on, his hardworks falls into thin air when his robot was stolen. Not letting this deter him, Ander

Romance

"You're my weakness" Jerald said, still aiming his gun at her, she yawned. "If all I am to you is a pawn that your enemies will use against you then, do as you wish" She said as she stepped towards him. He stepped back. “Don't come closer" he said, his hands jolting. “I'll shoot." “Jerald Carter

Romance

Narcia Daniels, an orphan. She lost her parents at a tender age, the sad part is that she was a witness to her parent’s murder. A few years down the lane, her best friend died from a hit and run accident to which she witnesses again. A witness to both incidents made her traumatised and the nightmare

Sci-fi

After a traumatic, virus infected, robot attack, Kyra has to live with her father's purchased android bodyguard. Her life long fear of robots does not make it any easier, as she have to spend all her time with this strange 'man'. He is perfect. Everyone seems to fall in love with him. But there is s

Romance

Sequel of the book 'His Personal Seductress' I strongly recommend to read the book before reading this one What will happen when a small girl was influenced to hate her parents? what will those parents do to bring their daughter back? what happens when 'an unexpected thing' happens to them

Literature

The present collection is intended to exemplify the spirit of the Czech race. It may perhaps be objected that folk-tale themes are part of a common stock belonging to all European races, and even to many primitive peoples: but though this is perfectly true, it is also no less certain that the spirit

Modern

It took only a second for a person's world to come crashing down. This was what happened in Hannah's case. For four years, she gave her husband her all, but one day, he said emotionlessly, "Let's get divorced." Hannah's heart broke into a million pieces as she signed the divorce papers, marking the

Literature

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land by Rosa Praed