นิยายเว็บแนว Contemporary และเรื่องราว Protective ในฉาก Love after Marriage

~ A Steamy Romance Novella ~ “I was afraid,” he whispered, hands sliding up her legs. “Afraid that with all this danger, I'd have to admit what I really want. Who I want.” “And?” She gasped under her breath as his fingers trailed into her inner thighs. “What do you want?” Under lidded eyes, his gaze never wavered. “You.”  … Cold, logical and determined to protect his legacy, Roman Ricci needs a respectable wife for six months to gain the remnants of his father's legacy. Following an assassination attempt, Wounded and hunted by his power-hungry uncle, he finds himself in the home of Eva, the feisty stranger and bookstore owner that saved his life. On discovering her desperate needs, he decides on her as a perfect candidate. She needs money, he needs a wife. Thus, she agrees to six months of pretending in return for ten million. It should be nothing more than a business arrangement, but as enemies close in and attraction flies high, neither is certain where the act stops and their real desires begin. As time ticks and obstacles loom, it's up to them to define if their feelings would end or if this contract marriage holds something more.

When Mia was seven years old, her world was torn apart. After her parents’ bitter divorce, she was forced to live with her father, while her identical twin sister, Nyla, stayed with their mother. From that moment on, Mia became the forgotten child—abandoned by her mother and sister who were supposed to love her too. Eighteen years later, when Mia is struggling through college while caring for her critically ill father, the mother and sister who ignored her existence suddenly return. But their return is far from heartfelt. Desperate to secure an alliance with the powerful Bowen family, Mia’s mother has promised Nyla’s hand in marriage to the enigmatic and cold young master, Adam Bowen. The problem? Nyla doesn’t want to settle down yet. So Mia is given an impossible choice. Her mother secretly hides her sick father and blackmails Mia into taking Nyla’s place at the altar. If Mia agrees to marry Adam Bowen while pretending to be her twin sister, she will be told where her father is being kept. With no way to refuse, Mia steps into a life that was never meant to be hers, playing a dangerous game. Now trapped in a marriage built on lies, Mia must play the role of Nyla flawlessly. One mistake could expose her deception—and Adam Bowen is not a man easily fooled. Cold, powerful, and dangerously perceptive, he begins to suspect that the woman he married is not who she claims to be. As Mia desperately searches for her missing father, the fragile web of lies around her begins to unravel. What will happen when Adam discovers that his bride is nothing more than a substitute? Will he destroy her for the betrayal… or will the truth reveal a bond neither of them expected?

"Take your bastard child and get out of my house!" She was his secret ingredient. He was her dangerous craving. Camila Torres spent a decade hiding her light to make her husband look bright. In return, he called her a "poor thing," mocked her cooking, and kicked her out for a younger woman.  But Jaxon Carter made one mistake: he underestimated the woman he married. When Billionaire Nico Romano finds Camila, he doesn’t see a "poor" divorcee. He sees a woman with a palate like a goddess and a tongue sharp enough to cut through his mystery. He gives her the keys to his kingdom, and suddenly, the ex-wife everyone mocked is the boss everyone fears.  The Carters want her back. Nico wants her forever. In this game of power and passion, revenge is a dish best served... scorched.

Olivia becomes the Luna of the Alpha who hates her. Alpha Luca Blackwood doesn’t forgive betrayal, he punishes it. Married for power, bound by blood, Olivia is dragged into a brutal pack where mercy doesn’t exist. But secrets lie beneath the rejection. And when the truth finally surfaces, the Alpha who broke her may be the only one willing to burn the world to protect her.

Ava was never wanted. Her mother died giving birth to her, and her father never forgave her for the cost. While her stepsiblings grew up wrapped in his love, Ava grew up invisible in her own home. When the pack's mating ceremony reveals her as the fated mate of Rowan, the pack's next beta, she lets herself hope, just once, that she finally matters. He rejects her in front of the entire pack instead. Weeks later, a powerful Alpha arrives seeking an alliance through marriage, one meant for her sister, not her. But when he catches her scent by chance in the woods, fate overrules every plan her family made. He refuses the engagement in front of the whole hall, uses his alpha command to find her, and claims her as his true mate before she's even had time to process what's happening. Suddenly Ava is a Luna, thrust into an alliance marriage with a man the entire region fears and respects. He's fiercely protective of her from day one, shielding her from a rising rogue threat and a family that never wanted her to have this. But he's also grieving a mate he lost long ago, and neither of them expected to find love this fast, or this hard. As they build a life together inside his territory, love grows in the space marriage was supposed to skip, slow and uncertain at first, then undeniable. Ava finally gets to be chosen, protected, and cherished, everything her first rejection convinced her she'd never have. Some wolves reject what they don't understand. This Alpha claimed her anyway.

Alice Brent walks away from her wedding after discovering her fiancé’s betrayal, leaving him humiliated at the altar. In a moment that shocks the entire city, she turns around and marries his biggest hockey rival, Devon Shaun. What begins as an act of revenge meant to reclaim her pride quickly shifts into something far more dangerous and calculated, as Alice slowly realizes Devon didn’t accept her by chance, he has been waiting for her and for reasons she doesn’t yet understand.

Emily Turner thought signing a contract marriage would save her life. One signature. One arrangement. One powerful man who promised protection in exchange for a perfect illusion. Ethan Reed is everything she shouldn’t trust cold, controlled, unreadable. A billionaire who doesn’t believe in love… only control. But Emily has a past she can’t outrun. Jason, the man who once called her “baby girl,” is watching. Waiting. And getting closer. Now every smile feels like a lie. Every silence feels like danger. And every step inside Ethan’s mansion feels like she is being watched… even when she is alone. Ethan says it’s just business. A contract. A role she must play. But the way he looks at her says something else entirely. Possession. And Jason isn’t the only one who refuses to let her go. Because in Ethan Reed’s world… A wife by contract is still a wife. And letting her walk away was never part of the agreement.

On the night of her engagement, Gianna Moretti’s world shatters—her fiancé tangled in bed with her best friend, her family ready to cast her aside, her future ripped away. But when she crosses paths with Dante Russo—the ruthless heir to New York’s most powerful fashion empire—one impulsive choice changes everything. In twenty minutes, Gianna goes from betrayed bride to Mrs. Russo. Their marriage is a deal. No love. No betrayal. Just survival. But the deeper Gianna is pulled into Dante’s world of wealth, secrets, and ruthless ambition, the more blurred the lines between revenge and desire become. As her step-sister plots murder, her ex-fiancé claws his way back from ruin, and long-buried family secrets claw their way to the surface, Gianna must decide: will she be a pawn in their game—or the queen who burns their empire to the ground?