Protective Finance Web Novels & Stories

She signed her freedom away with a trembling hand and a heart full of rage. Two years as Lucien Cross's contracted wife, playing the role of loving spouse while he remained her enemy behind closed doors. Mara Quinn made a deal with the devil to save her family. He married her to claim his inheritance. Their marriage is a battlefield, their home a cage gilded in wealth she never wanted. But hate burns hot—and somewhere between the fights and the forced proximity, between the public kisses that mean nothing and the private moments that mean everything, the line between enemies and lovers begins to blur. She promised herself she'd walk away when the contract expired. He promised himself he'd never care. They were both wrong.

INSATIABLE VOWS Some vows are never meant to be broken Chiara Vance gave her fiancé seven years of loyalty, her sharp legal mind, and the empire he built entirely on her back. He repaid her with her own sister, caught together an hour before their wedding. Heartbroken, she runs blindly into the storm with nothing left to lose. A stranger's car cuts across her path. By midnight, she has married him instead. Alessio isn't who he claims to be. He didn't stop for Chiara by accident — he found the one weapon capable of destroying his enemy, and he intends to use it without mercy. But within the first hour of their alliance, he says something that stops her cold: a truth about her own mother's inheritance that Chiara has never heard before in her life. As their marriage of convenience deepens into something neither can control, Chiara realizes the stranger she married knows more about her own family than she does — and every answer he gives her only raises more questions. Beneath both their pasts lies a stolen inheritance, a murder, and a secret that threatens their entire marriage. He came for revenge. She came for a way out. Neither expected the truth to matter more than either one.

Elena Hayes was just a night-shift cleaner until she accidentally saved billionaire Alexander Blackwood from a staged accident. Now, someone wants her silenced, and Alexander has only one way to keep her safe: make her his fake fiancée. Living under the same roof with a cold, dangerously handsome billionaire should be easy as long as Elena remembers their engagement is a lie. But stolen glances, unexpected tenderness, and undeniable chemistry are making that increasingly difficult. As enemies close in and betrayal emerges from within Alexander's inner circle, Elena discovers that saving his life was only the beginning. Their engagement is fake. The danger is real. But what happens when the feelings become real, too?

Sawyer Campair finds herself thrown into a world she never wanted to be a part of. After moving to be closer to her mother, she is forced to interact with the family of her mother's new husband. A family that is the richest and most powerful family in the entire city. And her stepfather is the head of it. Dimitri Drakos owns the massive company that is the major source of the family's wealth. But while her mother believes Sawyer has come to be with her, she has an ulterior motive for being in the city—to bring the company down. After getting a job in a critical department, she believes she is well on her way to achieving her goal. Until she meets someone who could derail her plans... and potentially steal her heart. Sylas Drakos was the prodigal son returning to the fold of the family that despised him. After fifteen years away, it was time to fulfill the last wish of his deceased father—root out corruption within Wyvern Capital. Sylas showed up prepared for a fight but he wasn't prepared to fall for the last person he ever would have expected—his brother's stepdaughter. With an animal attraction, the two find it impossible to stay away from each other. When they discover they are both working toward similar goals, they team up—in both the boardroom and the bedroom. But the task soon proves to be more dangerous than they both anticipated. Can Sylas keep Sawyer safe without losing her? Can Sawyer find vengeance without losing herself to the man of her dreams? Will either of them survive their forbidden relationship before the family finds out?

Freeda James steps into her wedding with her heart set on the man she trusts. But before the ceremony even gets going, she catches him whispering to another woman that marrying her is just a formality. So Freeda does the only thing that feels right. She leaves him standing at the altar. Word gets around fast. The embarrassment hits even harder. And Randy Owen? He doesn’t know how to lose. He figures she’ll come crawling back once she faces the mess she’s made. But, she doesn’t. Instead, people start spotting her with the last person Randy ever wanted her to see: his rival, Scott Baley. Sticking close to Scott means Freeda doesn’t have to put up with pity, or let anyone push her around, or fade into the background. But it also drags her into a fight she never asked for. She’s caught between a man who won’t let go and another who never planned on wanting her in the first place. Because leaving was just the start. And Randy Owen isn’t the type to let someone walk away.

She broke into the wrong man’s office. Now she belongs to the Ghost of Wall Street. Clara Sterling came to steal back her father’s empire. Instead, Julian Cross, the ruthless billionaire known as the Ghost of Wall Street, caught her red-handed. His offer was simple and merciless: “Marry me for one year… or watch everything you love burn.” Trapped in a contract soaked in blackmail and obsession, Clara must play the perfect wife while a shadowy enemy, the deadly Goddard Family, circles them with poison, betrayal, and blood. In a world of luxury honeymoons, deadly boardrooms, and lethal secrets, hate ignites into something far more dangerous. Every chapter title is a line he once said to her. And the only man who can save her… might be the one who destroyed her. Married to the Ghost of Wall Street: Twisted Vows

On their third wedding anniversary, Elena Riva cooked, lit the candles, and waited. The text arrived at midnight, from a number she didn't know: a photo of her husband, Matteo Sartori, fashion's newest billionaire, his arms around a woman younger and prettier. Five years of devotion. Night shifts at eighteen so he could chase his dream, married at twenty in a secondhand dress. In return, a husband who looked at her like a bill he was tired of paying. He came home the next evening with the other woman on his arm, and it was Chiara who slid the divorce papers across the table. "Sign. It's cleaner this way." Elena signed, then drank herself blind and woke alone in a hotel suite: ten bundles of cash, an unnamed business card, no memory of the night. Only a phone number. Two years later, broke, her mother dying for a surgery she can't afford and a child growing under her heart, Elena calls the number. The man who answers is Dante Moretti, her ex-husband's estranged uncle, a name that makes grown men in Milan check the exits. He offers a contract marriage: her mother's surgery, his name for her baby, all bills paid. The gunfire at her own wedding corrects her idea of what she married. Then Elena builds her own fashion house, and it doesn't compete with Sartori. It wins. At the partnership meeting, the woman heading the table smiles with his ex-wife's eyes.