Dirty Little Secrets
BadgirlHidden IdentitySurvival GameGirl PowerMysteryPossessiveCampusBetrayalRevenge
"Why are you so damn gullible and stupid?!" I screamed, the harsh words tearing from my throat before I could even attempt to filter them. I stepped right into his space, poking a trembling finger hard against his chest. "Are you completely brain-dead, Kingsley? What part of stay out of my business do you not understand?"
"I was only trying to help out," he whispered, the sheer venom in his quiet tone cutting deeper than any scream. He took a step forward, towering over me, his eyes flashing with a dangerous blend of hurt and irritation. "But I guess someone is very independent. Too independent to realize when they're drowning."
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In the shadows of New York, Summer Walker trades her dreams of music for survival - dancing as the infamous "Dark Bird" to protect her younger brother after her parents' brutal murder.
When wealthy, brooding Kingsley Robert saves her one fateful night, their worlds collide in a dangerous spark. But Kingsley is tied to the monster who destroyed her life, and someone is watching her every move.
As blackmail, betrayal, and a deadly family secret threaten everything she loves, Summer must choose:
Embrace the darkness to survive... or risk it all for a love that could shatter them both.
Dirty Little Secret - Where passion meets vengeance.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 40.KINGSLEY'S POV.Since George decided it was time for an healthy talk and everything that Summer had said, tonight made me highly furious."The video." I said, clenching my jaws in anger."What video?" Summer asked me leaning forward."While I went to the building. I saw a video playing in the screen in the third room." I slowly said. "It was you. All of the club activities that you did." I brought out my phone I played the ones I was able to record."I also received the same thing." I heard Clyde's hoarse voice. We all slowly looked up to him. He was standing at the door entrance, looking so tired."What are you doing here?" Summer questioned him, concern evident in her voice. "You need to rest, go back." She urged him."I'm fine now, Summer." He told her, walked in and sat down. "I also received the video, while I was at Gabrielle's house." His attention shifted to me. "That's was why I was at the building.""What did you see there?" George ask him."Just a clear warning written on t
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Chapter: CHAPTER 39.SUMMER'S POV."What do you mean by that?" George said as he brought the drive to a sudden halt."Can we not do this now?" I said nervously."Do not say that!" George said, already getting irritated. "When were you going to tell us about it?"Kingsley just sat down, hand akimbo, not caring about the fire he just started."I promise you, but it is more complicated than you think." I told them."Complicated, huh? It is really really complicated." Kingsley said sarcastically."It's one in the morning," Felix mumbled from the back seat, barely awake. "Can we please have this conversation when we're actually home?""This conversation is not close to being over." George said, turned back and begin to drive again. I just sighed in partial relief. This was definitely not over.----The drive to my home was full of silence. Not one said anything to another. We finally arrived at my house. "I would go in, now. Thanks for the drive and the concern." I said and walked in."I'll follow you." Geor
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Chapter: CHAPTER 38.SUMMER'S POV."Summer!! We've found it. His location." Felix screamed. It was his voice that jolted me out of my thoughts. I hurriedly returned back to the living room."Where is he?" I asked impatiently. George just stared at me, stared at Kingsley, but did not say anything."The same IP address we got from before." He turned the computer towards me."The same building?" Kingsley asked, finally. "The same one I went to?" He moved forward t9 check the computer. He stared at me for a little while but did not say anything."There isn't any time to waste. Let go!" George said as we prepare to set."I would suggest that Summer stays behind." Kingsley spoke again."What do you mean by that?" I stopped at my tracks and slowly turned to look at him."This isn't the right time for that. Let's all go." George cooed us. I gave Kingsley the 'God - saved - you' kind of stare and walked. We were set and Kingsley drove us there, since he has been there once.It was exactly 11pm when we arrived at
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Chapter: CHAPTER 37.SUMMER'S POVThe drive back to George's house was silent the entire way. Felix had stayed behind to take Eleanor home and would meet us later. Nobody spoke. Nobody seemed to know how to. Everyone was lost in their own different worlds.I stared out the window, watching the streetlights blur past, my mind spinning through every version of what might have happened to Clyde. My hands wouldn't stop shaking."It's going to be fine, Summer." Kingsley's hand found mine, steady despite everything simmering between us since the rooftop. "We're going to find him.""How?" My voice cracked, and I hated how small it sounded. "He texted me. He said he was going to some welcome thing with Gabrielle and he'd be back the next day. That's it. That's all I have.""We'll find him," Kingsley said again, his grip tightening around my fingers. "I promise you."I wanted to believe him. I wasn't sure if I could. I fought the tears from falling, because how do you explain this situation.By the time we got to
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Chapter: CHAPTER 36.SUMMER'S POVThe hospital hallway had gone quiet in that particular way hospitals do in the evening; machines humming somewhere behind closed doors, the occasional squeak of shoes on tile, everyone's voices dropping automatically like the building itself demanded it."Discharge papers should be ready in twenty minutes," the nurse said, glancing between George and me. "We'll need her son to sign for her.""He was right here," George said, frowning, scanning the waiting area like Kingsley might materialize out of the plastic chairs. "Kingsley?"No answer. No Kingsley."I'll find him," I said, already moving before George could offer. Some part of me needed the walk, needed a minute away from the fluorescent lights and the smell of antiseptic and Felix's restless leg bouncing against the chair beside me.I checked the cafeteria first. Then the little chapel near the east wing, which felt like a strange guess even as I made it. Then, finally, I found the stairwell door propped open with a
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Chapter: CHAPTER 35.CLYDE'S POVI got Gabrielle home in one piece, though "in one piece" felt generous. She hadn't said a word the entire drive. She just stared out the window with her arms crossed like she was holding herself together by force."Keys," I said outside her door, holding out my hand.She dug them out of her bag without looking at me and let me unlock it, let me steer her inside with a hand hovering near her back, not quite touching. I got her a glass of water. She didn't drink it. I got her a blanket. She didn't need it, but she pulled it around her shoulders anyway, like the weight of it helped."You don't have to babysit me," she said eventually, curled into the corner of her couch."I'm not babysitting. I'm making sure you're not about to fall apart the second I walk out the door." I sat on the edge of the coffee table across from her. "There's a difference.""I'm fine.""You keep saying that word like it means something." I studied her face - still pale, still tight around the eyes. "Y
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Between Two Brothers
Dark RomanceMysterySteamyCEOSecretaryPossessiveForbidden LoveRevengeRegret
Isla Harlow was the maid’s daughter who dared to love the Blackthorne heir. Dare promised her forever—then disappeared without a trace.
Six years later, Isla is desperate, jobless, and on the verge of accepting a proposal from Dare’s cousin, Julian—the man who swore Dare never loved her.
But Dare Blackthorne is back. Colder, more powerful, and dangerously convinced that Isla betrayed him.
Now the ruthless CEO of the Blackthorne Group, Dare forces Isla into the role of his personal assistant, determined to make her pay for the heart she supposedly shattered.
Until the truth unravels:
What begins as revenge quickly twists into raw obsession.
To protect Isla from his venomous family—and to keep her permanently in his world—Dare offers her a dangerous deal: A chance to rise above her past. All she has to do is pretend to love the man who once destroyed her.
But Julian refuses to lose.
Now caught between two Blackthorne men and a lifetime of lies, Isla must decide:
Stay with the boy who broke her heart… or become the woman powerful enough to break them all.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 24.DARE'S POVI hadn't slept. Not because of the deal, not because of Voss's signature still hanging in the balance, but because of the sound of Isla's voice through a bathroom door, quiet and wrecked, telling me she didn't know what to do with me. I didn't know either. That was the problem with mornings after nights like that — the truth didn't go anywhere. It just sat there, waiting to be dealt with in daylight."You're quiet," Finn said, falling into step beside me as we crossed the marble lobby of Voss Industries. He'd flown in overnight, summoned the moment I realized Camille's appearance hadn't been a coincidence I could afford to ignore. "Which usually means something's wrong.""Nothing's wrong.""Right." Finn glanced past me to where Isla walked a few paces back, composed, professional, giving nothing away except the faint shadow under her eyes that told me she'd slept about as well as I had. "You two look like you both survived a car crash.""Focus on the deal, Finn.""I am." He
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Chapter: CHAPTER 23.ISLA'S POVHe didn't stop walking until we were three floors up, inside the suite, the door shut against the sound of a dinner party that had probably already moved on to gossiping about us. The wine had dried stiff against my dress, sticky and cold, and my hands hadn't stopped shaking since Camille's laugh had chased us out."Who is she?" I asked, before he'd even set down his jacket.Dare didn't answer straightaway. He crossed to the window, back to me, shoulders drawn tight like he was holding something in by sheer will. "No one you need to worry about.""That's not an answer, that's a dismissal." I pulled at the ruined fabric clinging to my stomach, half out of discomfort, half because I needed something to do with my hands that wasn't reaching for him. "She grabbed me, Dare. In front of everyone. And you looked at her like—" I stopped, because I didn't have a word for how he'd looked at her. It was something underneath anger."Like what?""Like you knew exactly what she was capab
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Chapter: CHAPTER 22.ISLA'S POVThe hotel suite Dare had booked was the kind of beautiful that made you feel poor just standing in it. Marble floors, floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a coastline turning gold with evening light, a walk-in wardrobe someone had already filled with clothes in my size. I hadn't asked how. I'd stopped asking how anything worked in Dare's world.I was still staring at the view when his voice came from the doorway."There's a dinner tonight. Voss and her board. You'll come as my date."I turned to him. He'd changed into a charcoal suit that made him look carved rather than dressed, and he said it the way he said everything now — not a request, an instruction with my name attached."No," I said."It wasn't a question.""Then ask me a real one sometime and see what I say." I crossed my arms. "I'm not a prop for your business dinners, Dare.""You're my assistant." His eyes didn't move off mine. "This is work.""Work doesn't require me on your arm in front of people who'll assume
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Chapter: CHAPTER 21.ISLA'S POVMonday morning arrived grey and reluctant. I stood in my room, staring at the suitcase yawning open on my bed, half-packed with the business attire Dare had commanded me to wear and the single black dress I'd added out of spite—not for him, I told myself. But for me. Because I refused to walk into his world looking like I needed his approval.My phone buzzed. It was Thea."Are you actually doing this? Spain? With him?"I typed back with shaking fingers. "It's business. I'll be fine.""Isla. You've never been fine where Dare Blackthorne is concerned. Not once."She wasn't wrong, but I didn't have the energy to admit it. I zipped the suitcase shut and dragged it to the door, the wheels catching on the threadbare carpet I'd meant to replace for months. Everything in this flat was held together with good intentions and not enough money. Spain, at least, would be a different kind of cage—gilded, cold, but not mine to maintain.Mum called just as I reached for my coat. "You'll ri
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Chapter: CHAPTER 20.ISLA'S POVThe weekend had been my sanctuary in the chaos. After the whirlwind of the gala, the explosive confrontation at Mum’s restaurant, I’d carved out quiet plans: a Saturday morning at the farmer’s market with Mum, afternoon tea with Thea to catch up on things we missed about each other and a peaceful Sunday buried in a book with no Blackthornes in sight. A fragile thread of control in a life that felt increasingly like a chessboard.My phone buzzed twice in quick succession as I curled up on the couch, a cup of chamomile tea cooling on the side table. There were two messages, from two different worlds colliding."Julian: Isla, I’ve missed you. Prepare something beautiful for Saturday evening. I’ll pick you up at 7.""Dare: Spain trip confirmed. Official meetings on the Voss restructuring, for one week. Prepare accordingly—business attire and evening wear. Car will collect you Monday morning. This is non-negotiable, Isla"Anger flared in me, hot and immediate. I stared at the s
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Chapter: CHAPTER 19.DARE'S POVThe rain hammered the windshield as my driver navigated the winding roads toward Finn’s secluded townhouse on the outskirts of London. My blood still boiled from the confrontation in my father’s study. Victor’s threats echoed like a death knell— send her away—and Julian’s smug face haunted every shadow. I needed clarity, strategy, and someone who understood the machine I was trapped in without being another cog in Victor’s wheel.Finn Carlisle had been that someone since Spain. My right hand. My brother in arms through the darkest deals and sleepless nights. He opened the door before I could knock, his sharp eyes reading my expression instantly.“Dare. You look like you just walked out of a war zone. Get in here.”I shrugged off my damp coat and followed him into the warmly lit study. Books lined the walls, a fire crackled in the hearth, and a half-empty glass of whiskey waited on the side table—Finn always seemed prepared for my storms. I poured myself a generous measure a
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