Contemporary Web Novels & Protective Betrayal Stories

Seraphina Harrington’s twenty-first birthday was supposed to be her escape from her greedy stepfamily. Instead, they drug her, planning to sell her to a disgusting investor to clear their debts. Running for her life in a heavy downpour, she has only one person left to call—Dominic Mercer, her cold, intimidating billionaire guardian who has always kept her at arm's length. When she collapses into his penthouse completely drenched and helpless, the rules change instantly. The raw, hidden tension between them explodes into a dark, addictive passion that neither can control. By morning, the ice-cold CEO is back, locking her away in his luxury apartment for her own protection while demanding her absolute obedience behind closed doors. Now, Seraphina is trapped between her intense craving for the man who saved her and her fear of being completely controlled. Dominic is ready to destroy anyone who tries to touch her, but his protection feels a lot like possession. Will his dark obsession be her ultimate salvation, or will her guardian end up ruining her completely?

Gianne Morgan dedicated everything to the man she trusted, only to be betrayed when Kayden Rowe gained fame alongside her cousin, Amara Pinkett. A single viral scandal, carefully edited and widely accepted, ruins her reputation and turns her into a public enemy overnight. Forced to go into hiding, Gianne starts anew in a different country, working as the personal assistant to Lucian Blackwood, a cold and influential CEO who commands his domain through discipline and control. Yet, beneath his ordered empire lies a tense, dangerous undercurrent neither of them can ignore. As Gianne secretly plots her revenge on her past, she becomes entangled in a conflict that threatens to destroy her and reveals a surprisingly deeper connection.

“Tell me what you want, Princess.” Kane’s breath brushed so close to my face. What I wanted was him to pin me down on this sailing boat’s floor and make me his. "Kiss me, Kane," I demanded, wrapping my arms around his neck. He kissed me as though there were no tomorrow. It wasn't soft or tender. It was a kiss born of years of pent-up desire, one that made my toes curl. I felt his big, strong hands caressing my waist. Delicious tingles travelled down my body with every touch. He was so tall, so strong, and so manly. He lifted me off the floor, cupping my ass, and I wrapped my legs around his waist. The undeniable bulge of his arousal made my core clench. Goddess, was he this big? I rubbed my core against his member, which made him stop kissing me. He grabbed my ponytail, making me look up and meet his eyes. They had turned orange yellow; his wolf had come forward. He was about to lose control... —————— Alison thought life was not that easy, but at least she had her mate, Alpha Reid, by her side. Until he kissed another woman in front of her. He said it was only a fake divorce to get another woman's power and support, but Alison knew too well that was not true. He gave the woman marriage, a child and public acknowledgement, which Alison never got before. Alison chose to walk away and restore her Princess identity. Reid desperately begged her to come back. But it was too late; she was already in the arms of another man —her father's best friend, the powerful Chairman, the only Lycan bloodline in this world, Kane.

Blurb Lyra's world shattered into a million pieces the night she found her destined mate, Alpha Kieran, locked in a passionate embrace with another woman at his birthday party. With cold finality, he rejected her as his mate and publicly chose the Beta's daughter instead. Broken and humiliated, Lyra crossed paths with a wounded Vampire being hunted by her own family and the pack's hunters. One reckless act of compassion changed everything. When the people she trusted abandoned her and left her to face death alone, the Vampire stepped out of the shadows, ready to break every rule for her sake. What began as a debt of gratitude quickly became something far more dangerous. The powerful Vampire Lord found himself inexplicably drawn to the werewolf girl who had saved him. His icy heart began to thaw. Their love is forbidden. Werewolves and Vampires have been sworn enemies for centuries. But Lyra's light cuts through the darkness surrounding him... and he is powerless to resist her.

They say the past shows you the truth. Mine lied. Two years of loving a man who couldn’t even say my name when it mattered. Two years of standing beside Marcus Voss while he climbed his way to the top—late nights, silent sacrifices, swallowing every doubt just so he could shine. And the night he finally did? He destroyed me. In front of five hundred people… and the entire world watching, he called another woman his future wife, it was not me…never me and then he served me the divorce papers on a cold platter. That should’ve been the end of me but it wasn’t. Because the man who found me that night… wasn’t a stranger. He was Damien Voss. Marcus’s father. Cold. Untouchable. I should have been afraid…Maybe I was. Now the world is watching again. Only this time, I’m not the woman being humiliated on stage. I am the one standing beside the man who owns it. I am the woman who seeks revenge in the most painful way ever. And when my ex-husband looks at me now—really looks—he finally sees what he threw away. Well, too late, loser. I’m not yours anymore. I’m becoming something far more dangerous. And this time? I won’t be the one who breaks.

He faked their divorce to save her life. Now the woman he can't touch is the only one he wants.

Shannon Rivers - The striking twenty-four-year-old with a heart of gold who’s running from trouble. Her main focus is surviving the life-or-death scenario she’s been unwittingly cast into the middle of. But when she meets Pete Jenkins, sparks fly despite the desperate circumstances that introduce them. Pete Jenkins – The twenty-eight-year-old U.S. Marshal living and working in Fort Worth, Texas. His routine pre-shift morning ritual is upended when he is assigned to hide and protect two young women - Shannon Rivers, the target of some very ill intentions, and her roommate. Smitten with Shannon at first sight, Pete resolves to keep her safe - at any cost.

Nia Whitaker built her reputation solving disasters for the powerful. As one of the most sought-after corporate crisis strategists in the country, she’s hired to clean up scandals that could destroy billion-dollar empires. But when a catastrophic data leak threatens SatoTech’s largest acquisition, Nia is pulled into a crisis unlike anything she’s handled before. Because the company’s heir isn’t just another client. Kenji Sato is brilliant, ruthless, and always three moves ahead. A tech empire rests on his shoulders, and he protects it with calculated precision. The deeper Nia digs into the breach threatening his company, the more she begins to suspect the impossible. The crisis may have been engineered. By Kenji himself. But corporate warfare is only the beginning. Rival companies move in the shadows. Government investigators begin asking dangerous questions. And someone inside Kenji’s world is willing to burn everything—including Nia—to seize control of the empire. Caught between enemies, betrayal, and a man whose obsession with her grows more dangerous by the day, Nia realizes she’s no longer just managing a crisis. She’s inside the war. And the man she’s supposed to expose may be the only one powerful enough to protect her. In a game where power is everything, and loyalty can cost you your life, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: Kenji Sato doesn’t just want Nia Whitaker to fix his empire. He wants her. And in his world, the things he wants… he claims.

Lilac Stone once wanted nothing more than being unnoticed. But everything changed the moment she met Adrian Cole, the new lecturer. He’s distant and completely off-limits. She’s quiet, guarded, and unprepared for the way he sees right through her. What begins as harmless conversations after class quickly turns into something far more dangerous—something neither of them can stop no matter how hard they try. But then they’re living in a world where rules are meant to be followed, and their connection is one line they were never supposed to cross. Whispers turn to accusations. Secrets are exposed. Their futures are at risk. They are merely two opposites—a lecturer and a student, a male and a female—but they are bound to destroy each other as long as they are huddled in one space at the same time. What then can they choose: forfeit their futures and embrace their happiness, or let the latter slip while keeping their careers intact?

MARRIED TO MY ENEMY’S BROTHER Eva Knight thought the hardest thing she would ever have to survive was losing the man she loved. She was wrong. The real nightmare begins when she discovers that her husband, Ryan, has been secretly sleeping with her cousin Sophia for years—and when Eva finally demands a divorce, Ryan refuses to let her walk away. Determined to leave the marriage with whatever dignity she has left, Eva returns to the home she once shared with Ryan to collect her belongings. Instead, she finds Sophia wearing nothing but a robe and realizes that the woman who helped destroy her marriage has no intention of disappearing. Ryan turns the divorce into a battle, manipulating the media, his family, and everyone around him to make Eva look like the villain while portraying himself as the betrayed husband. Then Damian Knight steps into the war. Damian is Ryan’s cousin, his greatest rival, and the man everyone knows better than to cross. He has no interest in Ryan’s excuses and even less patience for the family’s judgment of Eva. What begins with Damian standing between Eva and the man determined to control her soon becomes something far more dangerous. Their attraction grows with every confrontation, every stolen moment, and every time Damian reminds Eva that she doesn’t have to beg anyone to choose her. But falling for Damian comes with a price. Ryan refuses to sign the divorce papers, Sophia becomes increasingly threatened by Eva’s growing confidence, and Damian’s family sees Eva as the woman who betrayed one Knight brother for another. As the pressure intensifies, Eva realizes she isn’t only fighting for her freedom anymore. She’s fighting for her reputation, her future, and the right to decide whom she loves.

Ava Laurent died believing her husband betrayed her. As rain poured over twisted metal and shattered glass, she watched Adrian Laurent rush to her wrecked car. Then he took her hand and begged her not to leave him. When Ava wakes up one year before her death, she is determined to uncover the truth behind the crash—and the marriage she believes was built on lies. But the deeper she digs, the less her memories make sense. Her husband is secretly protecting her. Her sister is hiding dangerous secrets. And the man she trusts most may be the one who wants her dead. Because if Adrian never stopped loving her... Why was she so certain he abandoned her?

Synopsis Betrayed by the boy she loved and the girl she trusted most, Sienna Vale is burning for payback. Humiliated and furious, she drafts a secret letter to the school administration revealing everything about her ex, Lucas Kane. But right before she can drop it, her nerve fails. There’s one complication. Lucas’s fiercest competitor on the ice walks in on her. Instead of turning her in, Damian Rhodes forces her into a fake relationship with him. Why would the star forward and Lucas’s biggest enemy suddenly demand she date him? Perhaps he wants to ruin Lucas just as much as she does. Or perhaps Damian is playing a longer game of his own. Captain of the hockey team, campus idol, and heir to a powerful family fortune, Damian is known for being dangerous, charming, and completely uninterested in anything serious. Girls never last long with him. Trusting him is the last thing Sienna should ever do. Their deal has one strict condition: No catching feelings. It sounds simple. Sienna believes she can stick to it. Until every charged look and every deliberate touch starts proving her wrong. She’s already deeper than she realizes.

BLURB The night Seraphina Hart discovered she was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest night of her life. Instead, it became the night she died. Married to Ethan Knight in a billion-dollar arrangement, Seraphina spent years loving a man who never loved her back. While she dreamed of building a family with him, Ethan shared his heart—and his bed—with her twin sister, Selena. When Seraphina overhears their cruel plans to divorce her and take everything she has, her world shatters. Heartbroken and carrying their unborn child, she flees… only to fall down a staircase and die. But fate isn’t finished with her. When Seraphina opens her eyes, she finds herself three years in the past—one week before her engagement to Ethan. This time, she refuses to become the woman they destroyed. Instead of marrying her cheating fiancé, she shocks the entire elite circle by choosing the one man nobody expected: Alexander Knight, Ethan’s powerful billionaire uncle. Cold, feared, and untouchable, Alexander has spent years secretly loving her from afar. And unlike Ethan, he is willing to burn the world for her. As Seraphina begins her revenge, hidden secrets start coming to light. A shocking truth about her birth. A mysterious benefactor who protected her long before she knew his name. And a mother whose devastating secret could destroy everything. But when Ethan regains memories of the life they lost and realizes the true cost of his betrayal, will he stand by and watch Seraphina belong to another man? Or will he do anything to win back the woman he once threw away? In her second life, Seraphina isn’t choosing forgiveness. She’s choosing revenge, love, and the man who should have been hers all along.

After divorcing her cheating husband, Elvina only wants to raise her daughter in peace. Then one unforgettable night with a mysterious stranger changes everything. She never learns his name. Until weeks later, she walks into her ex-husband’s pack banquet and comes face-to-face with him. He’s Arthur Thornridge—the ruthless billionaire Alpha of the Ashbourne Pack. And she’s carrying his baby. Arthur wants his heir. Elvina wants nothing to do with another powerful man controlling her life. But when her ex-husband suddenly wants her back, Arthur makes one thing clear: He won’t let another man take what’s his. As old enemies resurface and strange things begin happening around her, Elvina realizes her past may not be as simple as she believed. There are secrets surrounding her that someone desperately wants to keep hidden. And the closer Elvina gets to Arthur, the more dangerous the truth becomes. She thought she was running from her past. She never imagined her past would come looking for her.

Aurelia Ashthorne thought having her boyfriend reject her before the annual Lycan Ball was the worst pain she would ever endure…until the feared Lycan King claimed her as his fated mate, and her own stepmother sold her to the crown for wealth and power. King Kael Draven Viremont refuses to let his destined mate escape, even as jealous rivals, ruthless enemies, and his ambitious younger brother close in, determined to use Aurelia to destroy his reign and steal the throne. But when Aurelia is forced to choose between the possessive king who swears she belongs by his side and the man promising her freedom, one wrong decision could cost her not only her heart, but the kingdom's future.

At twenty-one, Tessa Hale is tired of being betrayed. After catching her boyfriend, Blake Monroe, cheating yet again, she finally walks away from the relationship she once believed would last forever. But moving on becomes complicated when her father sends his longtime best friend, Daven Morgan, to bring her home during a storm. Daven is thirty-eight, successful, protective, and everything Blake never was. He is also the one man Tessa should never want—the best friend of her father and a man seventeen years older than her. What begins as an innocent ride home soon becomes a dangerous attraction neither of them can ignore. Lingering looks, unexpected jealousy, and stolen moments slowly blur the line between friendship and desire. Then Tessa meets Rose, Daven’s twenty-year-old daughter, and an unexpected friendship draws the two families even closer. But there is more beneath the surface than either family realizes. While Tessa struggles with her growing feelings for Daven, Blake refuses to accept that she has moved on. When he publicly humiliates her at their class reunion by revealing a deeply personal secret, Daven steps in to defend her—and Blake decides revenge is the only way to get her back. Jake Hayes, Tessa’s charming classmate, also enters the picture, offering her the genuine affection she deserves. Suddenly, Tessa is caught between the man from her past, the man who wants her future, and the man she was never supposed to love. As jealousy turns dangerous and hidden family secrets begin surfacing, Tessa must finally choose for herself. Will she return to the love that betrayed her, choose the safe path with Jake, or risk everything for Daven—the one man who could cost her family, her future, and her heart?

Three years ago, Elara walked away from her marriage to Lucien Vale, a powerful, arrogant businessman whose name carried weight throughout Ravenmere. She left with a broken heart and no intention of ever returning. Now she's back. But this time, she isn't alone. Engaged to Caspian, a successful banker whose long-awaited promotion brings them to Ravenmere, Elara believes she's finally found the peaceful future she deserves. Caspian is loving, protective, and determined to give her everything she's ever wanted. Then Lucien learns she's back. The woman he once let go of is no longer the same woman who left him. She's confident, engaged, and seemingly happy without him. Lucien should let her go. Instead, old desire, jealousy, regret, and unfinished feelings begin resurfacing. As Elara's wedding draws closer, the past she thought she'd buried begins threatening the future she's building. Because some marriages end on paper long before the love dies. And Lucien has no intention of watching his ex-wife become someone else's wife.

Evelyn Parker once had everything. A loving husband. A happy marriage. And dreams of becoming a mother. But after years of failed IVF treatments, heartbreaking miscarriages, and crushing medical bills, she loses more than her babies. She loses herself. As grief consumes her, Evelyn gains weight, her confidence shatters, and the husband who once promised to love her forever begins drifting into the arms of his beautiful secretary. Then fate brings Damien Cross back into her life, her childhood friend, now a renowned fertility specialist. Kind, patient, and unwavering, Damien sees the woman Evelyn has forgotten—the one still worthy of love, happiness, and a second chance. As Adrian pushes her away, Damien becomes the one person who never lets her face her pain alone. But when the husband who rejected her realizes another man is cherishing the wife he took for granted... he went berserk. Now, he just wanted his wife back... could it be too late?

Sienna moved to the city seeking freedom, passion, and a life far from the quiet predictability of her past. Bold, fearless, and unafraid to chase what she wants, she never expected the city to test her in ways she couldn’t imagine. Lucian is everything she should avoid: dangerous, magnetic, and untouchable. At twenty-six, he holds power over the city, a man who commands attention without asking for it. But when he crosses paths with Sienna, the rules that govern his world begin to crumble. Desire ignites between them, a tension neither can deny, and secrets begin to pull them closer into a web of obsession, lust, and power. Every glance, every brush of hands, feels electric. Every choice carries risk. And in a city where danger lurks in shadowed alleyways and luxury hides betrayal, Sienna and Lucian must navigate a fragile line between control and surrender, between passion and peril. As their connection deepens, Sienna realizes that surrendering to desire comes at a price — one that may consume them both. In a world fueled by power, obsession, and secrets, there is no turning back from what burns between them.

Her ex-husband married and tricked her to get to her inheritance. Then he betrayed her, kicked her out, and left her with nothing. But vengeance came to her in the form of Sebastian Voss, her ex-husband's greatest enemy. He offers to help her on one condition. His deal; marry him, join forces, and together they will bring Nicholas Blackwood to his knees. Now she's back, not as the broken wife that was discarded, but as the heiress who will reclaim everything that was taken away from her. And when it comes to revenge?