Intelligent Romance のウェブ小説 & Second Chance ストーリー

For three years, Mara Croft played the perfect CEO's wife, graceful, patient, invisible. When Ethan slides the divorce papers across the desk without meeting her eyes, she doesn't fall apart. She names her price, one point eight billion dollars and watches the most powerful man in the city agree without blinking. To him, she was never the woman he wanted. Just the one he settled for, and settling has a price. What he doesn't know is that Mara isn't just leaving. She's disappearing with a secret that will destroy everything he thinks he knows about their marriage. But when a clinic receipt surfaces and his lawyers start making calls, the clean exit he paid for begins to unravel. The woman he dismissed as a quiet, lovesick wife has been three steps ahead of him the entire time. He let her go once, he won't make that mistake again. Some exits come with consequences neither of them saw coming.

When ambition meets desire, rules are meant to be broken. Elena Cruz has always played by the book — hardworking, disciplined, and determined to rise in the corporate world. But her new job as executive secretary to Alexander Drake, the powerful and dangerously magnetic CEO of Vanguard Industries, turns her world upside down. Alexander is everything she’s been warned about — ruthless in business, commanding in presence, and utterly in control. He doesn’t tolerate mistakes. He doesn’t repeat himself. And he definitely doesn’t get involved with employees. Until her. A clash of wills becomes a slow, burning attraction neither can resist. In the boardroom, they’re professional. Behind closed doors, the tension ignites into something forbidden — something that could destroy them both. But when secrets from their pasts threaten to unravel everything, Elena must decide: will she walk away from the man who taught her to fight for herself, or risk everything for the one thing even Alexander Drake can’t control — love? Power. Passion. Control. When two strong hearts collide, who will surrender first?

Growing up in an abusive home, Elena Carter found comfort only in Adrian Williams, the wealthy heir who became her stepbrother and the only person who ever protected her. After years of secretly loving him while believing he saw her only as family, Elena prepares to leave his world forever,until one drugged night brings them together in a way neither can undo. But when Adrian wakes up calling his childhood sweetheart’s name, will Elena finally walk away, or will the secret of that night change everything between them?

BLURB For two years, Suzan Roland Sterling was nothing more than the unwanted wife of New York's most powerful billionaire. Forced into a marriage she never chose, she endured cold indifference, endless humiliation, and a husband who believed every lie told about her. The cruelest part? The only night he ever held her, he whispered another woman's name. So she walked away. Five years later, Suzan is no longer the broken bride he discarded. She is a celebrated pharmaceutical scientist, a devoted single mother, and the brilliant mind behind a medical breakthrough that could save the Sterling empire from the biggest scandal in its history. Draven Alexander Sterling never expected the woman holding the antidote to his family's ruin to be the ex-wife he never truly knew. As they are forced to work side by side, he discovers shocking truths one after another: the little girl who once saved his life... the mysterious woman he fell for behind a masquerade mask... the mother of his daughter... and the woman he has spent years searching for... ...have always been the same person. But some betrayals leave scars that love alone cannot heal. Now Draven must prove that the antidote to his collapsing empire may also be his only chance at redemption, if the woman he destroyed is willing to risk her heart one final time.

Six years ago, Venice nearly died saving Soren Malcolm from a fire. She lost half her face, her promising career, and the future she had dreamed of. Soren repaid her by making her Mrs. Malcolm. But in six years of marriage, he has never touched her. Never introduced her as his wife or taken her out in public because her scars embarrass him. Never looked at her the way he still looks at Elizabeth, the woman he has never stopped loving. On their sixth wedding anniversary, Elizabeth returns and Venice finally sees the truth. He would never truly love her. Then an opportunity arrives to reclaim the career she abandoned years ago, and Venice makes a decision. Thirty days. Thirty days to quietly rebuild her life. Thirty days until she leaves Soren Malcolm behind forever. He doesn't believe she'll actually go. After all, Venice has always loved him. But when Day Thirty arrives and his obedient wife disappears, Soren finally discovers the one thing he never expected. He can't live without her. And now he'll do anything to get her back.

My husband left me bleeding on the floor, then ran to my pregnant stepsister. He called me barren. Worthless. But I built his cyber company. And I’m carrying his child. It took me 7 years to heal and build _Close Lips_ — an app for broken women like me. Now he’s back, obsessed, saying I belong to him. And the man who saved my baby is back too... hiding secrets. I’m Lavanda. One broke me. One put me back together. Who will ruin my heart?

She was off-limits. He was forbidden. A reckless bet ignited a love that defied family, secrets and social class. Adina Marisol Rivera had always lived by her carefully mapped plans until she collided with a popular and wealthy playboy,Giovanni Atticus Malvetti. What started as a game of revenge turned into a passion neither of them could resist, dragging them into a world of hidden secrets, family feuds and betrayal. Eight years later, their children and their past forced them back together, proving that some love can’t be broken, no matter the odds.

For three years, Ariella Xaviers loved her husband fiercely - even when billionaire tycoon Nathan Evans never gave her anything other than cold glances and distant words. Three years of silent agony. Three years of whispers about her inability to bare a child. Three years of pretending that all would be fine again. What Nathan didn't know is that his obedient, timid wife isn't the broke ordinary wife he thinks she is. While he is too busy with work and spending time with another woman, Ariella is counting down - 30 days, 29 days, 10 days..until she leaves her marriage. By the time he discovers the truth; her identity, her sacrifice, the divorce paper he'd unknowingly signed - his wife was already gone. And for the first time- the cold, untouchable billionaire tycoon is the one heartbroken. Five years later she returns, richer, colder, impossibly beautiful—with an adorable little boy who looks exactly like him. Now the ruthless billionaire who once ignored her is obsessed with winning her back. But Ariella is no longer alone. At her side stands Alan Black - a dangerously charming billionaire who adores both mother and son…and is ready to go lengths to keep them. As scandals explode, secrets unravel, and two powerful men fight to win her heart, Ariella must decide: Can the man who broke her ever deserve a second chance? Or will she choose the one who taught her how to love again?.

Ariana Brooks stopped believing in love the day it shattered her and she promised herself she’d never be fooled again. Jace Carter has spent his entire life fighting for a father who only sees failure where everyone else sees a star. When a fake dating arrangement throws the scholarship journalist and the university’s ice hockey captain together, it should be simple: three months, no feelings, no damage, no consequences. But every staged smile starts to feel real, every fake touch lingers too long and every line between pretending and truth begins to blur in ways neither of them can control. Until jealousy, buried secrets, and a betrayal neither expected explode into their carefully built lie forcing them apart just when they start to mean everything to each other. And when the ice finally cracks beneath everything they thought was real… what happens when the one person you were never supposed to love becomes the only one you can’t lose?

Evelyn Hart thought she had it all figured out. A dream job at a top marketing firm, a handsome fiancé, and a future that sparkled with promise. But dreams shatter in an instant. Walking into her apartment early from a business trip, she finds Anthony in bed with the last person she ever expected. Her own cousin, Sylvia. The betrayal cuts deeper than any knife, leaving her broken and gasping for air in a world that suddenly makes no sense. Desperate to forget, to feel anything other than the crushing pain, Evelyn finds herself at an exclusive lounge where LA's elite gather. One drink leads to another, and then she sees him. Richard Westwood. Powerful, magnetic, dangerous. He is everything she should avoid. At 42, he is nearly twice her age and her fiancé's mentor in the business world. But tonight, none of that matters. Tonight, she just wants to feel alive again. One night of passion changes everything. When morning comes, Evelyn discovers the mysterious stranger who made her forget her name is the one man she should never have touched. Richard Westwood does not do relationships. He does not get messy but something about Evelyn has awakened a hunger he thought long dead. Now, caught between revenge and desire, Evelyn must decide: walk away from the forbidden, or break every rule for a chance at real love?

Broke and desperate, Emma Clarke agrees to a one-year contract marriage with cold billionaire Alexander Cross for two million dollars. It's purely business, until it isn't. As fake kisses become real and walls crumble, Emma falls for the wounded man behind the fortune. But when betrayals surface and enemies close in, she discovers a shocking truth that makes her question everything. Was his love ever real, or was she just another deal to close?

Mai Carson was divorced the night her husband, Jordan Kelly, believed another woman’s lies. Branded a cheater and thrown out of her marriage, she left and never looked back, only to return later as someone unrecognizable: powerful, wealthy, and deadly calm. The woman they humiliated is now the force dismantling their empire from the shadows. Jordan Kelly’s best friend, Banky smith, steps into Mai’s life and offers Mai, protection, devotion, and a love that feels intoxicatingly safe. What Mai doesn’t see is the trap forming around her, because while she wants justice, Banky wants blood. But revenge gets complicated when Mai discovers she’s carrying her ex-husband’s child. Caught between regret and obsession, Mai must decide how far she’s willing to go, and who she’s willing to become, to survive a love that was never meant to be gentle.

When Mara Vale returns to the quiet coastal town of Bellweather to restore its abandoned lighthouse, she expects broken windows, old memories, and a fresh start—not Elena Reyes. Elena has spent years caring for her family and running their struggling bookstore, quietly putting her own dreams aside. Mara, meanwhile, has built a life around leaving before anyone can give her a reason to stay. Forced to work together on the lighthouse restoration, the two women begin as reluctant partners. But late-night conversations, shared laughter, unexpected kindness, and quiet moments by the sea slowly turn their friendship into something neither is prepared to name. As their feelings grow, both women must confront the lives they've built, the choices they've avoided, and the fear that loving someone might mean losing themselves. When Mara receives an opportunity that could take her away again, they face their biggest challenge yet: choosing between the lives they thought they wanted and the love they never expected to find. The Last Light Between Us is a heartfelt LGBTQ+ romance about second chances, courage, belonging, and discovering that sometimes, home isn't a place. Sometimes, it's a person.

At sixteen, Seraphina Thorne watched in silence as her father nearly beat to death the boy who loved her a servant’s son who dared to reach too high. Cast out into a raging storm, eighteen-year-old Elias disappeared that night him… along with her only chance at love. Ten years later, he returns as a ruthless billionaire. And this time, he owns everything. After quietly crushing the Thorne empire under a staggering 10-billion-dollar debt, Elias offers Seraphina one cruel choice: become his contracted surrogate… or watch her family fall. Trapped and humiliated, Seraphina endures his cold control until she discovers she’s carrying twins. But survival has a price. Threatened by his dangerous fiancée, Seraphina makes a devastating choice: she leaves her newborn daughter behind to fulfill the contract… and vanishes into the night with her hidden son. Years later, she returns as Madam S powerful, untouchable, and ready to destroy the man who once broke her. But revenge turns complicated when buried truths surface. Because Elias was never just her tormentor. He was the boy her family destroyed first. Now, with love, hatred, and two children caught between them… Who will break first?

Seven years ago, Selene Ocean was framed and forced out of the world of elite marine research. She lost her career, her future, and the man she once loved—Ethan North, the proud corporate heir who believed the lie that broke her. Now she returns, not as a victim, but as the brilliant founder of the global marine conservation initiative, Heart of the Deep. Armed with unmatched intuition and a mind sharp enough to read the ocean itself, Selene rebuilds reefs, exposes corruption, and rises to international recognition. When the truth is revealed, Ethan collapses under the weight of his regret—but Selene’s heart is no longer his to claim. With the dangerous and manipulative Veronica Shaw closing in, the storm around Selene only grows stronger. In this story of betrayal, resilience, and redemption, one truth stands firm: The past cannot drown a woman who has learned to rise from the depths.

I thought my biggest challenge was building a career. Then my father's company was hit by a financial scandal, clients began walking away, and the man who had always held our family together ended up in a hospital bed. With everything falling apart around me, I was forced to step into a world of boardrooms, secrets, and power plays I knew nothing about. That's when I met Damien Hart. A cold, powerful, and impossible to read man, he seemed to know more about my family's troubles than he should. The closer I got to the truth, the more I realized that nothing was as it seemed, and neither was he. Now I'm caught between saving my family, protecting my heart, and trusting the one man I probably shouldn't trust. Because some contracts are signed on paper, the most dangerous ones are signed with the heart.

Odessa Hart has been the perfect contract wife to Adrian Sterling for six years. She knows his business strategies, his deepest fears, and how to handle his cruel mother. She gave up her dream of becoming a world-renowned architect to be the silent, unappreciated pillar of the Sterling family. Then, Vivian Laurent returned Adrian’s first love who broke his heart years ago. Adrian did not just bring Vivian into their home; he brought her into their business, their bed, and their son’s heart. Her seven-year-old son, Callum, is arrogant, entitled, and completely blind to his mother’s love, falling hard for Vivian’s permissive ways in hopes she would replace Odessa. The most devastating blow came when Adrian coldly demanded that Odessa spend the last six months of their contract training Vivian to become the next Mrs. Sterling. Odessa could have fought. Instead, she smiled and agreed because something inside her had died, turning those six months into a 180-day countdown to her freedom. While Vivian was busy playing house, Odessa secretly resurrected her abandoned career under her maiden name. She submitted an architectural design for Sterling Holdings' biggest project and won. Suddenly, Adrian became obsessed with the brilliant mystery architect, entirely unaware it was the wife he was discarding. When the 180 days end, Odessa leaves her husband, her unborn child's memory, and her entitled son behind, taking down a massive conspiracy of corrupt board members, rival architects, and her vicious mother-in-law. Now, the cold CEO is on his knees in the rain, begging the woman he threw away to come back. And her son, having finally seen the truth of his fake stepmother, is crying at her door, begging for a second chance.

Once I begged for your love while our son drew his last breath. Now watch me take back everything you hold dear. The first time, I died on a rain-slicked road with my four-year-old's name on my lips and my husband's rejection still burning in my chest. Silas Vance took three years from me. Three years of existing like furniture in his mansion while he draped Clara over his arm at every gala, every interview, every moment that mattered. When our son needed him, really needed him he let my calls go to voicemail. Thirteen times. I counted. Our son didn't make it through the night. Neither did I. Then I opened my eyes. Two years earlier. Divorce papers on the nightstand. My son's laugh echoing from down the hall. This time, I won't beg. Won't wait. Won't shrink myself small enough to fit in the shadows he assigned me. This time, I'll become someone he doesn't recognize. Someone who smiles at his enemies, steals his deals, and dismantles his empire while he's still searching for his meek little wife. When he finally figures it out—when he's pounding on my door, begging for answers, desperate for a second chance? I'll hand him those signed papers and remind him: Some deaths are just the beginning.

He got me pregnant, stripped me of my virginity, abandoned me and still want me back... Ten years ago, Nadia Voss’s dreams of becoming an investigative journalist were shattered by a single night of passion and a devastating betrayal. Fired from her job as a maid for the powerful De Montclair family and ghosted by the man she loved, Leandro Cruz, Nadia was left pregnant, alone, and stripped of her Ivy League scholarship. Now, she is a fiercely protective mother to ten-year-old genius twins, working days as a lowly editorial assistant and nights as a masked stripper to fund their future. She has spent a decade hating the untouchable billionaire who ruined her life. Leandro De Montclair is a tech genius with psychosomatic condition. He has a violent, life-threatening aversion to human touch, triggered by a traumatic mobbing incident ten years ago. Isolated and locked in a bitter succession war with his ruthless half-brother, Julian, Leandro’s only goal is to secure his position as CEO of his late father’s biotechnology empire. When Julian orchestrates a cruel setup to trigger Leandro’s condition using a masked stripper, the plan backfires spectacularly. The stripper is Nadia. And in a shocking twist of fate, she is the only person in the world whose touch doesn't send Leandro into anaphylactic shock. Desperate to prove his stability to the board, Leandro offers Nadia a marriage of convenience. For Nadia, it’s a chance to secure her sons' futures; for Leandro, it’s a shield against his brother’s sabotage. But as the ink dries on their contract, the bitter enemies are forced to confront the explosive chemistry that never died, the lies that tore them apart, and a secret that will change the De Montclair legacy forever. Leandro is their legitimate father.

Alicia Fabian gave eighteen years of her life to a family that never truly loved her. The night they cast her aside for good, in front of everyone, she meets Roberto Alvarez, a billionaire who cannot bear to be touched by anyone at all. Except her. What starts as a cold bargain, marriage for money and revenge, slowly turns into something real. But their love collides with a dark family secret. Alicia's adoptive father built his empire on other people's pain, including her own mother's. As Alicia and Roberto dig for the truth, they find more people hurt by the same man, and more reasons to fight for each other. Now that man is on the run, and everyone who crossed him is in danger. Alicia and Roberto must fight to protect the people they love, and the love they never expected to find.