Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Police Regret Stories

I was sold for only five hundred thousand dollars. In a single night, I lost my home, my freedom and the man I thought I loved. I never imagined the stepmother who raised me would betray me so cruelly—or that my life would be handed over to the coldest, most dangerous man in New York. Damien Hawthorne. Former special forces commander. Billionaire. A man carved from scars and darkness. His presence alone terrifies people. His heart is colder than ice. Broken. Damaged. Cruel to the world around him… and seemingly to me most of all. A contract marriage. An unbreakable agreement. One shared bedroom. And rules that cannot be broken. Every day, I endure his suffocating coldness. Every night, I catch glimpses of the scars he hides… and the pain he refuses to confess. I hated him. Resented him. Tried to escape him. But no matter how hard I fought it, my heart began betraying me for the man I was forced to marry. What I never expected… was for him to start feeling the same way. Slowly. Reluctantly. Dangerously. So can a marriage built on a transaction turn into the deepest kind of love? Or will falling for the beast become the greatest mistake of my life?

They took her baby and drained her blood. Now she’s marrying the one man they can’t touch. Dorcas Starling believed she was giving birth to her own child. She was wrong. In one hospital room, within minutes, she learns that her fiancé, Isaiah, and her best friend, Emily, planned every part of it. The baby was never hers. The illness she kept bleeding for was never real. She was a body they used and a donor they drained, and now that the baby is born, they are finished with her. When she dares to accuse Isaiah of cheating, he answers with a slap that sends her crashing to the floor. Stripped of her child, her fiancé, her friend and a family that cares only about money, Dorcas has nowhere left to go, until Desmond Allen offers her a way out. The grieving billionaire must marry quickly or lose his empire. She needs protection. The deal is simple: six months, public smiles, separate lives, no feelings. But the Allen name has enemies who smile across the boardroom table, and Dorcas begins to suspect that her mother’s death was no accident. Someone wants the Allen family destroyed, and that someone may be closer to Dorcas than she knows. They betrayed the wrong woman. Now Dorcas is about to become Mrs. Allen.

He was about to lean in when I put my fingers on his lips to stop him. He looked at me surprised. I too was surprised over my own actions, not only was I turning down something that I wanted, but I was turning the man that I loved down. I knew that it maybe was a once in a lifetime opportunity. He could regain back his past memory and hate me for loving him. On the other hand, it would be a beginning of a great romance, either ways it felt so wrong to do anything with him in his current condition. "We need to bath okay," I said in a whisper. He took a step backward, his eyes slowly roaming all over my body making me uncomfortable. "You don't remember how to do anything right? I asked stupidly trying to strike a conversation with him. "This is crazy," I whispered to myself hopelessly.

When Elizabeth takes a new job as a nanny, she assumes she's going to work for a wealthy couple who hired her. But instead of pulling up to their million-dollar estate, she finds herself on the front porch of a humble farmhouse, looking into the eyes of dark and brooding single dad, Jonathan. It's bad enough that Jon doesn't have a fortune to charm out of him, but he's also a police officer. After marrying his college girlfriend only to have her leave months after their baby was born, Jon has sworn off girls for life. All that matters now is taking care of his child. If anyone can break down the tough exterior of the former soldier, it's her. But just when she's close to getting exactly what she wants, she's faced with a whole new challenge. That is to pretend she does not love him.