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Claimed By My Boyfriend's Father  - Romance novels & stories
Jovial chirpy
"We can't do this," I whispered, even as Jamie's fingers traced my jaw. "Tell me to stop," he commanded, his grey eyes darkening with desire. I should have. But instead: "I can't." His hand slid beneath my shirt. "This is wrong." "Then stop touching me." "I can't." His voice was raw. "Every night I think about you. About this." When his mouth finally claimed mine, it tasted like sin and salvation. His hands gripped my waist, lifting me onto the counter. I wrapped my legs around him, and reality dissolved. "Right now, you're mine," he growled against my neck. "Even knowing what it costs?" I gasped. "Even then." What happened in that kitchen was unforgivable. Beautiful and terrible and absolutely devastating. But our secret didn't stay buried. When a mysterious text arrives—*"I saw what you did"*—followed by photos taken through my window, I realize someone was watching. Someone knows. And they're not just threatening to tell Aiden. They're playing a twisted game where we're all pieces on the board. As paranoia turns to obsession and obsession bleeds into violence, I face an impossible truth: the person I should fear most might be the one I thought I knew best. **Some secrets refuse to stay buried. Some desires demand everything. And some love stories end in blood.**
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Married To My Husband’s Father  - Romance novels & stories
Ifywrites
In her first life, he took everything from her. Now, in this life, she demands her revenge. Evelyn King was the perfect pawn in high society, a demure, devoted fiancée to billionaire heir Julian Vance, blissfully unaware of the corruption lurking behind his charming smile. But everything changes after a deadly, rigged car crash and the agonizing discovery of Julian’s affair with her childhood best friend, Chloe. Evelyn sees the brutal truth: her marriage was a setup, her wealth a target, and her death orchestrated for profit. Instead of fading into oblivion, she wakes up ten years in the past, on the morning of the Vance Summer Gala, the night Julian plans to announce their engagement and trap her forever. Refusing to play the pawn, Evelyn makes a bold, deadly choice. She leaves behind the boy dressed in pretenses and walks straight to Arthur Vance Julian's estranged and ruthless father, a formidable financial titan ruling high society with an iron fist. Armed with secrets from her previous life, including a dark ledger revealing that Julian isn't even Arthur’s biological son, Evelyn proposes a scandalous marriage of convenience. By uniting her family's voting power with Arthur's, they aim to strip Julian of his inheritance before he even realizes the war has begun. The society is appalled. Julian’s fury spirals into madness, a psychotic rage convinced Evelyn is a greedy viper who stole his birthright. Yet, what Julian and the media fail to see is that Evelyn’s alliance with Arthur is more than a scheme for money; she’s stepping into a den of wolves. As they delve into a decades-old family conspiracy, the icy contract between them begins to ignite with a dangerous, possessive passion.
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To save her sister, she married the Devil. - Romance novels & stories
Confi28
Three years ago, billionaire Damian Veyron buried his brother and vowed revenge on the man who destroyed his life. Now, the man is dead, but his daughter still breathes. Aria Chen has already lost everything, her parents, her dreams, and now her dying sister who needs a treatment she can’t afford. When a stranger in a black car offers her a lifeline, she takes it… until she realizes the price isn’t money. It’s her freedom. He wants her name. Her body. Her submission. A marriage bound not by love, but by vengeance. To save her sister, Aria signs the contract and becomes the bride of the man who swore to destroy her. But the devil in the tailored suit has secrets of his own, and the deeper she’s dragged into his world, the harder it becomes to tell which of them is truly trapped. A gripping dark romance of revenge, obsession, and forbidden desire, where love isn’t the cure, it’s the punishment..
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Lust Under Lies. she want more  - Romance novels & stories
Jovial chirpy
At the moment, my dick was gracefully ready start working with her pussy, she felt a little be shy, but when I rubbed onto her and dipped two fingers in it, my shyness was replaced with intense pleasure, fuck it felt too good to ignore. “Ahhh,” she moaned, as i slipped the third finger into her pussy. “I will ensure you come for me six times before calling it a day,” I said, huskily. came to my front, while he kept fingering her pussy, mercilessly. I forcefully pushed my hard cock into her mouth, till it touched the back of my throat. “Suck it,” i instructed and without thinking, she started sucking my cock, while I fingered from behind. The pleasure was intense, her legs began to shake, and she couldn't suck any further, she just wanted to moan, but my cock prevented her. When i noticed she couldn't suck my cock any further, I started fucking her mouth, while my fingers fucked her asshole. “You have a fucking nice ass, and I would enjoy fucking it,” I grunted, pressing his fingers in my pussy. Soon, she was coming all over the place, and my eyes had already rolled back, but that didn't make me stop fingering or mouth fucking me. I fucked her mouth till my come fills them. “Drink it,” I instructed and in one swallow my cum was down her throat and to be honest…. She want more? As she shakes with pleasure, her moan turns deep, and she whispers, “She wants more”—a need that will break everything apart. will this forbidden ecstasy unravel their secrets or seal their fate?
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The Surgeon’s Revenge Deal - Romance novels & stories
Dimmo’s Pen
When a terminal diagnosis gives her three months to live and her husband’s new decision crushes her already fragile mind, Gwen’s perfect world collapses.Left with nothing, she signs the divorce papers and risks everything on a last ditch surgery. But fate has other plans, she survives but this time, she’s sworn off love for good. Determined to start over, she goes after the one career she had secretly admired since she was a child. Dr. Alex Thorne— sexy, brilliant and a notorious sex addict— is the one man who shatters Gwen’s peaceful new life. The city’s most brilliant surgeon yet its most notorious playboy wants a deal, pretend to be her boyfriend to spite her ex-husband in exchange for her being his little plaything.She agreed, thinking she could handle it but she was wrong!Not when he demands her total submission and is obsessed with branding her as his. He’s showing her how to feel everything every wicked sensation, every evil pleasure. And the most dangerous part? She is starting to love his punishments.
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His Hidden Devotion.  - Romance novels & stories
Aurora.
"I didn't marry you because I loved you." His smile was cold. "I married you because my brother wanted you first." Teresa Grimhollow thought divorcing Asher, her husband would finally end the nightmare. Instead, it started a deadlier one. Asher still controls her life with lies, power, and the one thing she can't afford to lose—her daughter. Then Lucas, the older brother comes back. The silent witness. The man Teresa despises for watching her suffer... without ever stepping in. Until she discovers his silence wasn't indifference. It was devotion. A dangerous secret buried beneath years of guilt, forbidden love, and evidence powerful enough to destroy the Grimhollow family forever. Now long-buried secrets are clawing their way to the surface, and every truth Teresa uncovers makes one question impossible to ignore: Who has been protecting her all along... and who has been planning her downfall? Because Teresa was never the love story between two brothers. She was the reason they went to war.
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BOUND BY LIGHT AND FLESH - Romance novels & stories
Awise
This story follows Clara Carroll, a hardworking woman raised in poverty by her single mother in Maryland, and Shomer, the guardian angel quietly assigned to watch over her. From her last days at the University of Maryland to her first steps into the corporate world, Clara’s life is shaped by help she never sees. Shomer protects her from failure, illness, and emotional breakdown, drawing strength from her happiness. But when jealousy and betrayal cost Clara her job, the pain hits her hard and leaves Shomer too weak to keep going. With his powers fading and Clara’s life at risk, Shomer breaks the rules. He comes down to Earth as a man named Alex Thompson so he can stay close to her. As Alex helps Clara rebuild her life, they grow closer, and what starts as care turns into love. But their relationship is forbidden by the angelic council known as the Pathwardens. When heaven finds out what Alex has done, he is called back to face judgment. What follows is a conflict that could affect both heaven and Earth. Alex must choose between his duty and the woman he loves, while Clara is forced to face the truth about him and find strength she didn’t know she had.
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Falling For The Wrong Twin - Romance novels & stories
Bashir Taiwo
Ava thought Adrian Carter was everything she ever wanted charming, attentive, and the kind of boyfriend who made love feel effortless. To the outside world, he is perfect. To her, he is addictive. But perfection has a shadow. The night she meets his twin brother, Ashton, everything begins to fracture. Unlike Adrian, Ashton is quiet, intense, and unsettlingly aware of things he shouldn’t know. He speaks less but every word feels like it carries weight. Every glance feels like a warning. Then the messages begin. Late at night, an unknown number sends her cryptic warnings about Adrian. Small inconsistencies in Adrian’s behavior start piling up things he says that don’t match, moments that don’t feel real, and a version of him that feels different when Ashton is near. Ava is forced into a reality she never asked for: one of the twins is hiding something, and the other might be the only reason she’s still safe. But the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes because love, lies, and identity are bleeding into each other, and Ava can no longer tell where Adrian ends… and Ashton begins. And in a game where two brothers share the same face but not the same truth, falling for the wrong twin might not just break her heart. It might destroy everything.
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Eternal Embers - Romance novels & stories
Mercytayo
Illustrator Isabelle Montrose arrives in Valmont’s rain-soaked quarter, sketchbook in hand but ideas elusive beneath the amber glow of Café de Minuit. One evening, architect Alexander Vale seeks shelter under the same streetlamp, crimson umbrella in hand. His measured gaze meets her restless creativity, and a silent bond forms as raindrops dance on cobblestones. As Isabelle’s graphic-novel deadline approaches, self-doubt claws at her confidence; Alexander, torn between family expectations and his passion for design, struggles in silence. A misread glance threatens to sever their fragile connection, forcing both to confront fear and longing. In lavender-tinted twilight and beneath flickering lanterns, Isabelle and Alexander choose vulnerability over solitude. Together, they discover that true art—and true love—arises when two hearts light each other’s darkest moments.
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Falling for the CEO'S brother  - Romance novels & stories
Abby Gale
“But listen to me.” His voice lower, filled with hunger. “When those six months are over, if he doesn’t choose you—if you realize he can’t love you the way I do—you’re mine. I won’t hold back anymore. I won’t watch you waste yourself on him. I’ll come for you with everything I have. Every weapon. Every ounce of desire. Every piece of me that already belongs to you.” My chest tightened. “And when that time comes,” he growled, his face so close I felt his breath on my lips, “I won’t let you run. I will never let you go because you’ll be mine, wholly down to your soul. There will be no escape. Six months, sweetheart. That’s all the freedom you get. After that—” His lips brushed my ear. “—you’re mine. Whether you like it or not.” **** Elise thought her life was finally falling into place. She turned down her father’s company to work as executive assistant to Marcus Grey—the boy she’s loved since childhood, now the powerful CEO she’s devoted her life to. But when Marcus proposes to another woman, Elise’s world crumbles. Then comes Sebastian Deluca, Marcus’s tattooed, ruthless, long-estranged brother. He’s everything Marcus isn’t: dangerous, magnetic, and determined to take back his place in New York. But, there's something odd about him. Something changed since he arrived. Tied by secrets and mutual desire to expose Marcus’s fiancée, Elise and Sebastian form an alliance. But as sparks ignite between them, Elise must choose: remain loyal to the boy she thought she loved, or risk everything for the man who sees her as more than a shadow. Some loves are safe. Others are consuming. Which one will she survive?
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OFF-LIMITS  - Romance novels & stories
Gabby
After my father passed away three years ago, my mother drifted through relationships, never staying with one man for long. When we moved in with Professor Williams, I was surprised to discover his two adult sons still lived at home. Phoenix seems decent, but Jack? He despises me. He’s convinced my mother is after his father’s money, and that I’m just her useless shadow, dragged along for the ride. Their judgment hangs thick in the air—every glance feels like a scalding brand. And trapped under the same roof, there’s nowhere to hide.
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 CEO's Forbidden Love - Romance novels & stories
Jule
She sold her heart to save her brother’s life… but the price was far more than she ever imagined. Angelie Smith never planned to marry the wrong brother. But when her twin falls critically ill, and medical bills rise beyond reach, she turns to the only man she’s ever loved, Jeffrey Lu. Only he’s gone on a business trip… and his cunning half-brother, Lucas, steps in with an offer: become his wife, and he’ll foot the bills. Desperate, Angelie agrees, only to fall into a cruel trap. On their wedding night, Lucas drugs them both, and what follows leads to an unexpected pregnancy. Now, Jeffrey is back. And the woman he’s loved from afar is married to his brother. What happens when the truth unravels? And will Jeffrey ever find out... he’s the father of twin girls?
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Love Sick - Romance novels & stories
Robert J. Atticus
Stephanie has had the life that many girls have dreamt of. The money, the popularity, the looks, the boyfriend…you name it. Growing up with a silver spoon in her mouth has made her to be a very snobby and egotistical person which was perfect for the football star of a boyfriend she carries around with her on her arms; that is until, one day, Stephanie and her boyfriend has a huge argument which makes her rethink their entire relationship. It is then she has an epiphany that her once adored relationship is not genuine at all. This made her realize that maybe she does not know much about love as she once thought. That is, until she met a geeky student by the name of Luca Hawthorne. You have heard about the nerdy girl softening the bad boy’s heart before, but would the story be more interesting if it were to be the geeky boy teaching the cheerleader how to love? And it is so…The two immediately strike a deal so that they can both benefit from the unlikely relationship. Luca will teach Stephanie how to love and Stephanie will pretend to date Luca so that he can get his crush’s attention. I mean, this plan is not bound to crash and burn…right?
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Reborn: Bound to the Biker Billionaire - Romance novels & stories
CatherineWrites
She died the first time trusting the wrong love. Rosalind Vane spent her whole life hidden, the illegitimate daughter of a fallen MC president, until the night she finally understood the truth: the man she'd fallen for built his empire on her father's ashes, and the brother her father trusted most had been rotting the club from the inside for twenty years. She tried to speak the truth. A bullet answered instead. The last thing she saw was Kade Ashworth on his knees beside her, too late, always too late. Then her eyes open again. Fifteen years earlier. Her father is alive. Silas Cade hasn't betrayed anyone yet. Kade Ashworth is a stranger who doesn't know her name. This time, Rosalind remembers everything. Every lie. Every warning she missed. Every second that led to her death. She isn't running from her second chance. She's coming for the men who took her first life.
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Black Ties and White Lies: A Billionaire Fake Engagement - Romance novels & stories
Kat Singleton
Life is never black and white. One minute you’re a struggling graphic designer in LA that's finally coming to terms with being single forever, and the next you're flying to New York in a private jet to get engaged to your ex-boyfriend’s older brother. At least...that’s what everyone thinks. Forced to clean up his playboy image in order to protect his company, Beckham Sinclair, the city’s most eligible billionaire bachelor, wants me to be his fake fiancée and personal assistant. Now I'm spending every spare second with a man I thought I’d never see again. My freshly mended heart has barely recovered from the first time a Sinclair broke it. But with each passing day, Beck’s dirty mouth and lingering stares make me question his motives—and mine. As the line blurs between real and pretend, only one thing is certain: there are secrets hiding in this city full of black ties and white lies.
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Seducing my Ex's StepFather - Romance novels & stories
Ebun Orange
When Isla Virelle is betrayed by the man she once loved, she doesn't cry. Instead she plots. Her path for revenge is daring and dangerous. She has only one goal in mind, to seduce the one man Crest could never measure up to-his powerful, and enigmatic stepfather, Alaric.
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Daddy by deception - My ex husband's fake heirs - Romance novels & stories
abundance ke
For eight years, Cathrene Ashford loved one man with everything she had. She sacrificed her dreams, endured endless fertility treatments, and quietly carried the financial burden of her husband's entire family—all while being blamed for failing to produce an heir. What no one knows is that Cathrene was never the infertile one. Certain his wealthy wife could never give him children, Gregory Thornton finds comfort in another woman and proudly raises the two boys she claims are his. When she announces she's pregnant with a baby girl, Gregory believes fate has finally given him the family he always wanted. So he divorces the woman who stood by him through everything. Cathrene leaves without a fight. Without revealing the truth. Without exposing the medical report that could destroy his pride. Two years later, she's happily married to a man who loves her unconditionally—and together they welcome beautiful twins. Gregory's world shatters. The children he sacrificed his marriage for aren't his. The mistress he trusted has been using him to support the man she truly loves. And the secret he buried for years can no longer stay hidden... He was never capable of fathering them.
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The Billionaire’s 30-Day Debt. - Romance novels & stories
KING TEEMHY
$1M for 30 days. One rule: Don’t fall in love. Avery is drowning in debt. Dominic Thorne, the "Ice King" of Wall Street, needs a fake fiancée to save a merger. She’s his perfect asset, until the line between business and pleasure burns away. In this game of cold silk, who will break first?
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THE CONTRACT OF MARRIAGE: TWO YEARS - Romance novels & stories
Caca
She only wanted to save her future. Instead, she found herself trapped in a marriage with a man who hated her. Aria Thorne accepts a contract marriage with Lucas Sterling to pay off her father’s debt and save her dream of building her own architecture firm. Two years. Just two years, and then they will go back to being strangers. But what if the man who saw her as nothing more than a pawn from the very beginning starts to see Aria differently? What if the woman Lucas loves, Chloe, is hiding a secret capable of destroying the Sterling family? And most dangerously, can Aria survive a marriage that was built without love from the start when the line between pretending and real feelings begins to disappear? Two years. One contract. One loveless marriage. But what if their hearts have plans of their own?
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