Dark Romance Web Novels & Badgirl Second Chance Stories

Never in a million years would I have imagined this would ever happen to me. What was I supposed to expect as a girl who has always been neglected by her own family. Feeling like an outsider. Bullied. Abused. Insulted. Constantly looked down at by people. All my life, I've asked myself. Why me? Have I offended anyone? Or was I just born unlucky? All this changed until a complete stranger decided that he was going to change my life forever. Why? Because..... He already had my approval. A marriage contract with My signature, that I had no memory of. Are his intentions good or bad?

For five years, Sophia Hart loved her billionaire husband with unwavering devotion, even when his heart seemed to belong to another woman. At Alexander Kingston's lavish birthday gala, Sophia is publicly accused of pushing the beautiful and fragile Eleanor Sterling from her wheelchair. Without asking for an explanation, Alexander believes Eleanor, shattering the last hope Sophia had for their marriage. Minutes later, a mysterious message promises to reveal the truth. Following the message to an abandoned warehouse, Sophia meets a frightened former security technician who possesses the original surveillance footage proving her innocence. Before he can expose the mastermind behind the plot, he is murdered, the warehouse is set ablaze, and Sophia barely escapes with the only remaining evidence. By sunrise, she is dead. Alexander believes his wife died guilty. He could not be more wrong. As hidden evidence begins to surface, Alexander discovers that Sophia had spent years quietly protecting him, sacrificing for him, and uncovering a dangerous conspiracy that reaches far beyond Eleanor. Someone within the powerful Kingston family has been manipulating events from the shadows, eliminating witnesses and burying the truth at any cost. Consumed by guilt, Alexander begins a relentless search for the people responsible. But every answer leads to another secret, every truth comes with a price, and every step forward draws him deeper into a deadly game. When the woman he loved too late becomes the key to exposing a conspiracy that could destroy his family, Alexander must face the one truth he can never escape. He believed the wrong woman. Now, the only person who deserved his trust is gone.

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.

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. Raven 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 Raven 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 Raven 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 Raven discovered the man she had sacrificed everything to save had betrayed her.