Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Badboy Contract Marriage Stories

Lucy Bennett is about to marry Adrian Vale as church doors close. The groom at the altar isn’t Adrian. It’s his estranged twin brother, Alexander. The Vale family reveals Adrian vanished after uncovering a conspiracy buried within their empire. If his disappearance becomes public before the wedding, the inheritance controlling the company will fall into the hands of those Adrian was trying to expose. Walking away would destroy Lucy’s father’s company, cost employees their jobs, and erase the evidence Adrian risked everything to uncover. So Lucy makes the choice. She marries the wrong brother. But Lucy refuses to become a bride. While the world celebrates their marriage, she investigates Adrian’s disappearance. Every clue leads into the Vale empire and closer to Alexander. Guarded and impossible to read, Alexander protects Lucy from dangers he refuses to explain. As they uncover the truth together, an attraction neither wanted begins to grow. Then Lucy discovers the truth. Alexander found Adrian after his disappearance. Adrian wasn’t hiding from Lucy. He was hiding from people enough to kill anyone who knew where he was including her. Before disappearing to gather evidence, Adrian forced Alexander to promise: keep Lucy alive, even if she hates him. Alexander kept his promise. Until protection became love. Now Adrian is back with proof that someone inside the Vale empire orchestrated his disappearance and is hunting Lucy for something she unknowingly possesses. Lucy isn’t choosing between two brothers. She’s choosing who to trust before the conspiracy claims another life. Because in the Vale family, every promise has a price and the lie Lucy ever believed was that she was the bride.

Stephanie Blunt has little to no luck in the love department. When she finally starts to believe in love again, she catches her new boyfriend balls-deep in her sister. Heartbroken and shattered, she swears off love for the thousandth time. But when her mom announces that she's dying and arranges a family reunion to meet her daughters' boyfriends, Stephanie is determined not to let her down. She hires badboy Rolland as her fiancé for a week with no strings attached. Confused, Stephanie tries to navigate life with her family for a week with her supposed fiancé and his shenanigans. What's the worst that can happen?

He's the devil I made a deal with. Now I'm paying the price—in his bed. 🔥 I thought I knew what I was getting into. A fake fiancé. Six months. Break the engagement. Survive. I didn't know he'd look at me like that. Like he wants to devour me whole. The first time he pinned me against the wall, his breath hot on my neck, I forgot every reason this was supposed to be pretend. "Say my name," he growled. I couldn't. My brain short-circuited. So he made me. Now I'm in his bed, sheets tangled around my ankles, his hands everywhere. He touches me like I'm the only thing keeping him alive. "You're mine, Paige," he whispers against my skin. "Say it." And God help me—I do. 😩 There's a kingdom out there. Jealous women. Hidden enemies. A villain pulling strings. I don't care. Not when he's looking at me like this. Not when his lips are on my throat, and my back is arching, and I can't remember my own name. He's supposed to be the cold Duke. The unfeeling Prince. But underneath me? Above me? Inside me? He's everything. I came to him for protection. 🔥 I'm staying for the pleasure. 🥵 And if anyone tries to take this from me? They'll learn what happens when you wake a sleeping dragon. ...Because this girl? She's done playing the side character. 💋 She's claiming her man. And she's not letting go. “Reborn to die again? Hell no!”— here, survival meets sin. 😈 P.S. — You're going to need a cold shower after this one. You're welcome. ❄️

I’m Maya Klein, and five years ago, Kaelnino Nathaniel de Cruz made one thing painfully clear. I was good enough to sleep with. Just not good enough to stand beside him. According to Kael, women like me didn’t simply step into families like his. I didn’t have the money, the name, or the pedigree to become his girlfriend, much less anything more. I could stay his secret. His mistress. Just never his choice. Romantic, right? A few weeks after he humiliated me, I found out I was pregnant with his child. So I left. Kael never found out. And I intended to keep it that way. Five years later, I’m a divorce attorney in Manhattan, which feels appropriately poetic considering my history with terrible men and mistakes. Then one afternoon, a woman walks into my office asking me to end her marriage. Beautiful. Polished. Miserable. And well very familiar. Mrs. Kaelnino Nathaniel de Cruz. Yes. His wife. Somewhere, the universe is laughing its ass off. Now I’m supposed to sit across conference tables from the man who once treated me like a dirty little secret and professionally dismantle his marriage without letting him dismantle me first. That would already be complicated enough. Except Kael still doesn’t know my real life includes a four-year-old boy named Rafael Klein. A boy with his eyes, his frown, and far too much de Cruz stubbornness. I’ve kept Rafael hidden for five years. All I have to do is survive one divorce without Kael looking too closely at my life. Keeping my ex at a professional distance should be easy. Keeping him from discovering he has a four-year-old son? Not so much.

You know those tropes you love? Fake dating. Forbidden romance. One-night stand that comes back to bite you. Yeah. That's my life now. My ex cheated. I got drunk. I found the most beautiful man in the bar and asked him to erase my memory with his dick. One night. No names. No strings. Then I walked into my first class. And guess who's standing at the front of the room? My professor. Cold. Untouchable. The man who fucked me until I forgot my own name. Now he's pretending I don't exist. Until he shows up with a contract. Ten million dollars. A year of playing his fake fiancée. Separate rooms, he says. Professional, he says. Living together. Attending galas with his hand on my lower back. Playing the perfect couple while the tension between us is thick enough to choke on. We're supposed to keep our hands to ourselves. We're not very good at following rules. His family wants me gone. Everyone thinks I'm a gold digger. But when they try to buy me off, I don't take the money. Because he looks at his father and says, "I'll walk away from everything. I don't want your company. I want her." That's when I knew. This isn't just a contract anymore. This is real. This is reckless. This is ours. So if you want to watch a cold, controlled man burn his entire world down for the woman he never expected to love... Flip the page. I dare you to resist him. I couldn't.