Contemporary Web Novels & Badgirl Contract Marriage Stories

Bianca Salvatore has spent her entire life learning one thing: never trust anyone. Raised in foster homes and shaped by a childhood she would rather forget, Bianca had built herself into what had become the nightmare of even the most powerful men in the underworld —a highly skilled, cold-blooded assassin with a reputation for never failing a contract. Then she is given the contract of a lifetime: kill Luca Vincenzo, the ruthless and untouchable leader of the most powerful mafia cartel in Boston. Luca is everything Bianca has been trained to kill—dangerous, calculating, wealthy, and seemingly impossible to kill. When Bianca's assassination attempt goes wrong, she finds herself at Luca's mercy. Instead of killing her, Luca offers her a deal, one that changes everything. A temporary alliance between an assassin and the man she was hired to kill. But living together under the same roof changes everything. Luca discovers that the woman sent to murder him is far more complicated than the ruthless killer she pretends to be, with wounds, secrets, and a desperate longing for something she has never allowed herself to want: a home. And Bianca begins to discover that the monster she was sent to kill may not be the monster she believed him to be. As their attraction grows, the lines between captor and captive, enemy and ally, slowly begin to disappear. But love is dangerous in the mafia world. And someone is willing to destroy both of them to get what they want. Bianca must decide what is more important to her: the freedom she has spent her entire life fighting for, or the man she was supposed to kill. When an assassin falls in love with her target, the dangerous question is not who will die? But who will betray whom first?

She signed a contract to save her dying mother: $2M for 1 year as a billionaire’s fake wife. No feelings. No touching. No problems. Until *George Herbert* started amending the terms. Move into my penthouse. Come to the board dinner. Sleep in my bed. Now his ex and his rival have proof of their fake marriage. 24 hours to betray him... or lose everything. George caught her meeting them. His punishment? She doesn’t get the guest room anymore. "From now on, you sleep in my bed. If we’re going to lie, we’re going to sell it." Elena wanted money. She didn’t expect the devil to look at her like she was the only thing that mattered. He wanted a contract. He got a woman he can’t live without.

Aaron Wylder had never been blackmailed in his life. Until a biker chick secretly made a sex tape with him and demanded a wedding ring. Scarlett Vance doesn’t want his money. She wants his name. Her father is forcing her to marry another man and has threatened to destroy the boyfriend she loves if she refuses. So Scarlett does the one thing no one would dare to do. She traps Aaron Wylder—the ruthless billionaire CEO and her father’s sworn enemy and blackmails him into marriage. Her plan is simple: Use his power to protect her boyfriend. Use his empire to destroy her family. Then walk away. But Aaron has no intention of becoming anyone’s puppet. He hates Scarlett for trapping him. She hates him for making her deal with the devil. It was supposed to be a marriage built on blackmail, revenge, and mutual hatred. Until Scarlett discovered the man she had sacrificed everything to save had betrayed her.

I was sold to an alpha who never wanted me. For three years, Raynard Lightsky has ignored me, rejected me and never touched me until my twenty-eighth birthday, when I collapsed. Now my wolf is dying. The healer gave me two weeks to live unless my mate knots me, fills me, and claims me. But my mate still refuses. I’m done begging. If he won’t save me willingly, then I’ll make him feel it…every glance, every touch, every moment he’s denied me. I’ll make him jealous. I’ll make him obsessed. I’ll make him lose control. Two weeks… my last heat. And before it’s over, I’ll make my cold, untouchable alpha burn for me… —even if it destroys us both.

I’m Maya Klein, and five years ago, Kaelnino Nathaniel de Cruz made one thing painfully clear. I was good enough to sleep with. Just not good enough to stand beside him. According to Kael, women like me didn’t simply step into families like his. I didn’t have the money, the name, or the pedigree to become his girlfriend, much less anything more. I could stay his secret. His mistress. Just never his choice. Romantic, right? A few weeks after he humiliated me, I found out I was pregnant with his child. So I left. Kael never found out. And I intended to keep it that way. Five years later, I’m a divorce attorney in Manhattan, which feels appropriately poetic considering my history with terrible men and mistakes. Then one afternoon, a woman walks into my office asking me to end her marriage. Beautiful. Polished. Miserable. And well very familiar. Mrs. Kaelnino Nathaniel de Cruz. Yes. His wife. Somewhere, the universe is laughing its ass off. Now I’m supposed to sit across conference tables from the man who once treated me like a dirty little secret and professionally dismantle his marriage without letting him dismantle me first. That would already be complicated enough. Except Kael still doesn’t know my real life includes a four-year-old boy named Rafael Klein. A boy with his eyes, his frown, and far too much de Cruz stubbornness. I’ve kept Rafael hidden for five years. All I have to do is survive one divorce without Kael looking too closely at my life. Keeping my ex at a professional distance should be easy. Keeping him from discovering he has a four-year-old son? Not so much.