Sweet Love Web Novels & Possessive Age Gap Stories

Thirty-one days. Seven pages. One rule: don't lie to each other. Elodie Marchetti built her father's chocolate empire with her own hands — 312 shops, doubled revenue, her mother's legacy in every box. Now her father says she'll only inherit the chair if she brings someone to the family table by Christmas. Julian Hale is called the Iceberg for a reason. 44 ships, no wife, no time. His grandmother's trust says he must present a fiancée at Hollin Hall by Christmas Eve, or his family's company will be split and sold. They have known each other for nine minutes total. His solution? A contract. 31 days from December 1st to 31st. Separate bedrooms. No touching unless an audience requires it. In January, they part quietly. No feelings. Just signatures. Elodie adds one rule of her own: Section Twelve: Neither party will lie to the other about anything that is not in this contract. It's easy — until they reach Hollin Hall, Vermont. Until his beautiful ex-fiancée arrives in a cream coat and says "Hello, Jules." Until his 81-year-old grandmother starts testing her with cinnamon rolls at 2 a.m. Until the man who never sleeps starts following her into the kitchen to learn how to knead dough. A fake engagement. A real family. A secret about the night his parents died on the Meridian Star. And a contract that said not to lie — but said nothing about falling in love. Slow-burn | Fake Engagement to Real Love | Billionaire Grumpy x Sunshine Baker | Found Family | Cinnamon Rolls & Second Chances For readers 21 and over.

Aveline Rousseau arrives at the Delacroix estate in Quebec City, set to marry Esmond to save her father’s failing firm. On the morning of the wedding, Esmond abandons the ceremony, leaving behind a cryptic note. To avert total scandal and financial collapse, Zephyrin Delacroix, Edmonds feared, estranged older brother,steps up to marry Aveline.

Athena De Vera, a twenty-two-year-old cheerful and simple young woman, has always believed that the right person will come at the right time. But she never expected that the man who would make her heart race would be the one she should never fall in love with—Leonardo Del Castillo, the handsome, successful, and respected father of her best friend. At first, Athena saw Leonardo as nothing more than a kind and responsible father. However, the more often she visited her best friend's house, the more she got to know the man. Little by little, she discovered his kindness, compassion, and genuine personality hidden beneath the cold and serious image he showed to everyone else. With every conversation and every moment they spent together, an unexpected feeling began to grow between them. It was a love they desperately tried to resist because they knew the truth would hurt many people. Yet no matter how hard they tried to suppress their feelings, they only fell deeper in love with each other. Fearing the judgment of others and the possibility of ruining their relationships, they chose to keep their romance a secret. To everyone else, Athena was simply the best friend of Adrian's daughter. But behind closed doors and during their secret meetings, a love that grew stronger with each passing day quietly blossomed. But no secret can remain hidden forever. What if her best friend discovers their relationship? What if their families refuse to accept it? And what if the day comes when they must choose between the love they share and the people who matter most in their lives? How far are they willing to fight for a love that fate seemed to deny, yet one their hearts freely chose?

For eleven years, Saya has chased a stranger through a forest in her dreams, always seeing his back but never his face, and every night he vanishes before she can reach him, leaving her grieving over someone she never met. Then, on her twenty-first birthday, the stranger does something he has never done before—he turns around, and for the first time in eleven years, Saya sees the face of the man who has haunted her dreams. The next day, she sees that face again, only this time he is standing before her, real and breathing, with the grey eyes she has spent years dreaming of. His name is Cassian. What she doesn't know is that Cassian has been waiting for her far longer than she could imagine. He is a man who remembers things Saya doesn't—lives she has forgotten, promises she never made, and a love that ended in tragedy. Saya is not simply his mate. She is the woman he has found across lifetimes, and every time he finds her, he loses her. This time, Cassian refuses to fall in love with her, keeping his distance even when every instinct pulls him toward her. But Saya has never been good at walking away, especially when her wolf recognizes him as her mate. As their connection grows Saya uncovers a truth threatening everything she believes about mates, destiny, and choice, realizing the meeting may not be the beginning of their story. It may be a chance to change its ending. But if every lifetime has ended with Saya dying, can she break the fate that has always found them? And this time, if loving Cassian means losing her life all over again, will she accept the fate written for them—or finally choose a future of her own?

Three years. That’s how long Zarielle loved Kael — faithfully, completely, believing they were building forever together. Until the night she heard the truth: he never loved her. He stayed only out of duty, while his heart belonged to her best friend, Elara. Broken but proud, Zarielle walks away. She leaves behind the man who gave her scraps instead of love and the friend who betrayed her trust. But moving on isn’t easy. Everywhere she turns, people speak of Kael and Elara — their engagement, their happiness, the perfect life that was meant to be hers. Then Kael realizes his mistake. He sees that the peace and loyalty he found with Zarielle was worth more than the fleeting spark he chased. He comes back, begging for another chance, admitting he traded his home for a moment. But Zarielle has learned: she will never again settle for being someone’s second choice, someone’s regret, someone’s backup plan. Elara reaches out too, and in one quiet meeting, they both face the truth: Kael doesn’t know how to love anyone fully — only himself. Now free from both, Zarielle rebuilds. She finds her worth not in being chosen, but in choosing herself. She knows that one day, someone will love her with no hesitation, no comparison, no looking back. Until then, she is enough — whole, strong, and finally free.

My father has no idea. He thinks Andrel Black is just his best friend for 20 years. He doesn't know Andrel is my mother's first love. He doesn't know my mother still loves him secretly. And he definitely doesn't know his 20-year-old daughter has been silently wishing for him since she was 16. Andrel Black — 34, possessive billionaire CEO, sinfully handsome, and completely forbidden to me "Your lips taste sweet, little Mila," he whispers against my lips. "Do you know how long I've wanted to do that?" I should push him away. This man is my father's best friend. He is the scar my mother never healed from. If he broke her heart, will he break mine too? But I can't. Now we have two secrets. My dad can never know that Mom and Andrel have a past. And he can never know that I and Andrel have a present. How long can we keep lying before one secret destroys our whole family?

Older, wiser and furious that she still wants him this badly. Captain Rory Vance built her entire career on never needing anyone, least of all an Ashcroft. Then Kian showed up soaked to the skin, reckless, and ten years too young, she’s 32, he’s 22 and every rule she had went straight to the bottom of the ocean with him. She called him a kid. He pinned her down and proved her wrong with his mouth, his hands, and the way he refused to stop until she broke. Now his brother is circling, her past is clawing its way back, and one secret is about to decide how far she’ll go to keep the only man who’s ever made her forget she was supposed to be in charge.

For twenty years, Nyx Jackson was the perfect Luna. She sold her parents’ home to save her husband and his struggling pack. Endured miscarriages, failed fertility treatments, and years of heartbreak—all for the man she loved. Then she finally became pregnant. Only to discover the child she carried wasn’t her husband’s. Before she could reveal the truth, Nyx caught her husband in bed with her maid. He divorced her, replaced her with his pregnant mistress, and cast her out with nothing. Determined to move on, Nyx tracks down the biological father of her unborn child. The problem? He’s Crux Matteo. The most feared Alpha in the werewolf world. A cutthroat billionaire in the human world. A man cursed to die before his thirtieth birthday. What begins as a cruel mistake soon becomes something neither of them can escape. Because Nyx’s presence calms the monster inside him. And the child she carries may be the key to breaking a centuries-old curse. A cursed Alpha. A broken Luna. A child born from fate’s cruelest mistake. And a love that was never supposed to exist.