Romans Drama & Histoires Protective Age Gap

Leaving behind everything she had built, friends family loved ones and a bond to hard to break. But it was easy for her because she had forgotten it all. But the past always comes knocking back. And this past was very traumatising "how could you Jackson" Addison muttered with gritted stare at the man whom she had spent six good years with...

A love like theirs was never loud. It didn’t arrive with fireworks or declarations that split the sky. It came quietly—through shared mornings, unfinished conversations, and the kind of presence that lingers even when words fail. The Weight of Staying follows two people who find each other not at their best, but at their most uncertain. As life presses in with expectations, past wounds, and choices that refuse to stay simple, they are faced with a question that feels heavier each day: is love something you fight for, or something you release? Staying begins to feel like both an act of courage and a quiet form of sacrifice. Between moments of tenderness and fractures that cut deeper than either expected, they learn that love is not just about holding on—it’s about what holding on costs. And sometimes, the hardest thing is not leaving, but choosing to remain when everything inside you trembles. A story of devotion, restraint, and the silent battles no one sees, this novel explores what it means to stay when staying is the heaviest choice of all.

Lauren Lionel married her childhood sweetheart, believing love would be enough. Then Jack's mother, Beatrice, convinced him that Lauren's secret hospital visits were an affair, using photographs and messages that turned an innocent doctor-patient relationship into proof of betrayal. While Lauren silently battled cancer, Jack found comfort in her best friend, Georgina. Caught between her husband's cruelty and her friend's knife, Lauren was divorced and thrown out with nothing. Then an accident revealed she was carrying Jack's twins and that the aggressive treatment her life depended on could endanger them. Enters William Roland: Jack's father, the man who raised him, and the last person Lauren should trust. William investigates the wreckage of his son's marriage and uncovers the truth: the affair was fabricated, and someone close to Lauren has been tampering with her medical care. As he shields her from the family that discarded her, protection becomes a forbidden love neither of them can name. When the lies finally collapse, Jack wants his wife back. But Lauren is no longer the woman he threw away, and the only man she chooses is the one who never tried to own her.

Stephanie Hale’s final year was supposed to begin with celebration. Instead, it became the night her life started to fall apart. After being dumped for another girl by her boyfriend, Stephanie became the center of a shocking scandal where everyone believed she tried to kill the girl out of jealousy when in truth, it was nothing like that. Criticized, humiliated and suspended from school, Stephanie is sent away for the summer to stay with her best friend's father at the edge of the city. Mayor Killian Ashley. Powerful. Untouchable. An alpha whose voice alone is enough to bring people to their knees. Stephanie never expected the mate bond to awaken between them. She never expected one forbidden night to leave them tangled in a secret the world would never smile upon. But when the forbidden has happened, there’s no turning back. When the truth finally comes out, it threatens to destroy not only Stephanie, but both of them. Will they succeed in keeping their secret hidden from the world? Or will they be exposed even before they could hide it?