Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Possessive Face-Slapping Stories

Rory Callahan never wanted to be a headline. She only wanted to play hockey. As the first woman signed to the professional Titans hockey team, she has spent two brutal seasons fighting for her place in a world determined to push her out. Her greatest obstacle is Jaxon Kane, the team’s arrogant captain, whose cold glares and cutting words make it clear that he believes she does not belong. But when a public scandal threatens Jaxon’s career and Rory is once again painted as angry and impossible to coach, management forces them into the perfect lie: a fake relationship. Now, the man who once humiliated her is holding her hand before cameras, sharing an apartment with her, defending her to the press and standing too close under the excuse of fixing her stance on the ice. Rory knows better than to trust him but the longer they pretend, the harder it becomes to tell where the act ends and the truth begins. Then she discovers the secret buried in Jaxon’s contract: a five-million-dollar bonus tied to her failure. Caught between betrayal, ambition, pregnancy and a love she no longer knows how to trust, Rory must decide whether to walk away quietly or expose the system that tried to destroy her. But when the man who was supposed to ruin her becomes the only one willing to burn everything down for her, can Rory risk trusting Jaxon Kane again?

“Don’t you ever resist me again,” he breathed, his words brushing my skin like fire. One hand held my wrists captive above my head; the other traced the line of my throat, caging me against the wall. I looked up at him. My tormentor, my weakness, and the man I craved like sin itself. --- A fire stole her childhood. A contract stole her freedom. Now, a man dressed in a suit that costs more than her life is about to steal her heart. And possibly destroy what’s left of her soul. Evie remembers nothing before the fire, only the smell of smoke, the sound of screams, and a name she can’t forget. Years later, her life is a cycle of debt, slavery, and forced silence. She works herself to the bone while living in the shadow of her perfect cousin, never realizing she was born into a secret far darker than her life. Until the night she’s traded — like property to repay an old family debt — to a man no one dares to speak about. A man whose reputation bleeds power, cruelty, and blood. But instead of chains, he offers her a deal. Marry him, obey him. And never ask questions. Just business. But every time he touches her, the line between fear and longing blurs. His presence unearths flashes of her past, and memories that burn her alive. Because her husband is not who he seems. And the fire that destroyed her life didn’t happen by accident. As their marriage turns into a war of control and desire, Evie finds herself caught between the man who owns her and the truth that could set her free. But freedom comes with a great price. And love is the priciest thing she's ever had.

Synopsis “You will do as told. After all, you pushed her down the stairs and she is in there because of you. Donating this bone is the price you have to pay.” “But why, Liam.” Her voice sounded broken. “Why did you never believe me? I didn't touch Sophia.” “And how is that my business?” He hissed and grabbed her arm. “For someone who stole another person’s life, you sure do have some mouth on you.” He pushed her roughly into the moving elevator. “Please Liam… believe me.” “Shut the fuck up!” He hissed. “You’re a filthy liar and I’ll never believe a word that comes out from you. Now, move!” Three years ago Charlotte Windsor was framed for a crime she didn’t commit. She was thrown into jail by her ex-husband and her entire life went down the drain. Now, three years later, she is freed but an even worse fate awaits her. Will she let her nemesis trample over her again? Or will she fight back? Let’s find out.

One week before her wedding, Brielle learns the truth. The man she loved never loved her back. Their relationship was a carefully crafted lie. With everything on the line and no one left to trust, Brielle makes a reckless decision. She goes to the one man she's avoided all along. "Mr. Callahan, I accept your confession. Please marry me." The man smiles mysteriously and says, "What's the catch, Miss Langford?" "It's a contract marriage. I need your power and protection. In return, you'll get the shares I own." And just like that, she marries him, not knowing that he'd been waiting for her all along, watching and planning.

For twelve years, Sophia Banner has worked tirelessly to keep her family's farm from foreclosure. Every payment is a small victory, until her sister, Daphne drains the money for a modeling opportunity that turns out to be a scam. Daphne isn't sorry. The bank doesn't care. And Sophia is out of time. Her solution arrives in tailored suits and effortless charm. Andrew Ashford—her witty, rich-as-hell employer, the man she delivers groceries to weekly. And… the man her sister, Daphne has been infatuated with for years. He's also the man whose eight-year-old nephew she tutors. When a medical diagnosis rattles Andrew's carefully managed life and sets his volatile family on edge, he decides appearances need fixing. What he needs is a fiancée. What he offers is one million dollars for one year. The money would save Sophia's farm outright. And the image of a diamond on her finger, of Daphne forced to watch—sharpens the temptation to a dangerous edge. Sophia agrees. She steps into Andrew's world of obscene wealth, jealous socialites, and an overbearing chaotic family that treats appearances like currency. Fake kisses are expected. Convincing smiles are mandatory. The problem is, Andrew plays his role too well—and the reasons behind this engagement begin to feel far from innocent. Because Andrew Ashford didn't choose Sophia at random. One year. One million dollars. And a lie that's starting to feel dangerously real.

She was humiliated at her own engagement party. Three hours later, she was wearing another man’s ring. Christian Ford was supposed to be her escape. A dangerously attractive billionaire offering her two million dollars to become his wife. One year. One marriage. One simple rule: Don’t fall in love. Everything is fake! But shit starts getting real quickly...

Discarded by her ungrateful husband after three years of devotion, Donna Walter quietly signs the divorce papers and walks away—right into a massive, hidden inheritance left by her late father. To unlock her fortune and avenge her past, she enters a contract marriage with Dwight Lawrence: her ex’s ruthless, deeply feared uncle and the true patriarch of the Lawrence Empire. Returning to high society not as a victim, but as the untouchable matriarch, Donna unleashes her genius for business, sending her ex-husband into a spiral of desperate regret. But as corporate wars break out and long-buried family secrets unravel, the line between fake marriage and real obsession blurs, forcing the ultimate power couple to conquer the business world together.

Pain. That was all I remembered after I lost my mom to a sudden death. I was seven when that happened. And after that, my father took over the house and the company, and married a week later to my mom's best friend, while stating it was for my own good. The world turned their backs on me, calling me trash and a jinx. But that wasn't the worst thing I had to endure. My father drugged and sold me as a replacement for the debts he could not repay. In return, I got stuck in the hands of a ruthless disfigured man, who always hid his face behind a mask. “I'll never let you go, Georgina. You're mine, and the sooner you accept that, the better”. His cold voice echoed in my ears as he grabbed my neck and made my legs become weak. I thought all hope was lost, but I miraculously escaped. … Ha. It's funny how fast time flies. It's been 8 years, and I finally returned to the city that broke me. But this time, I didn't return the same way I had left. I didn't return as the docile fool. Rather, I returned as someone they could not touch. A mother to my lovely twins. And the most sought after miraculous doctor. “My daughter, you're back home. Everyone, she is my daughter”. “My wife, I have finally found you. Return home with me”. They tried to control me again. How sick and irritating. Did they think I was the old Georgina they knew? They are wrong. The old Georgina had died, and this new Georgina had returned to make them pay. I will reclaim everything they took away. The company, the house. Including restoring my mother's honor! I'm Georgina, and you are welcome to my story…

El día de su compromiso, Mia Reeds descubrió que su prometido tenía otra mujer… y un hijo. Con el corazón roto, humillada y todavía intentando comprender cómo el hombre que amaba podía haberla engañado de una manera tan completa, Mia pensó que su vida no podía empeorar más, hasta que el hospital la llamó y se disculpó porque había habido un error médico, y que estaba embarazada de un desconocido cuyo esperma había sido preservado en un banco de fertilidad. Ahora entra en escena Ezra Grey—Frío, poderoso y conocido por su indiferencia hacia el amor, Ezra había jurado que nunca volvería a amar después de haber sido traicionado una vez por el amor, y mucho menos hablar de matrimonio, especialmente con una mujer que nunca había conocido. Pero cuando su abuela descubre que Mia lleva en su vientre al heredero de la familia Grey, no pierde tiempo en obligar a los dos desconocidos a casarse. Resulta que Ezra es el tío de su ex prometido. Ezra tiene condiciones. Pero Mia no tiene ninguna intención de vender a su bebé. Lo que Ezra no esperaba era a la mujer detrás del embarazo. Mia es pequeña, ingenua, de voz suave y demasiado amable para su propio bien. Le cuesta decir que no, incluso cuando la gente se aprovecha de ella. Ezra no podía soportarlo. Él le enseña a defenderse. Ella le enseña a abrir su corazón. Y en algún punto entre un matrimonio que ninguno de los dos quería y un hijo que ninguno de los dos había planeado… la línea entre un contrato y un matrimonio real comienza a desaparecer. Pero Ezra cometió un error.

What happens when the girl who has never been chosen makes a deal with the man who has everything to lose? For nineteen years, I waited for someone to take me home. Nobody did. Armed with a battered bag and painful memories, I walked out of the orphanage, hoping life beyond its gates would be kinder. But when my best friend disappeared, taking my last hope of belonging with her, I thought things couldn't get worse. Then I landed a job at the prestigious Pilara Hotel. Everything was finally falling into place until I ate Victor Vance's tiramisu. One spoonful landed me in humiliation and, somehow, face-to-face with the arrogant billionaire who seemed determined to make my life miserable. Then he made me an offer. Victor has spent years helping build the Vance Group, but his inheritance is threatened by his elder brother. To secure his place as successor, he must prove he can commit to a serious relationship. And he wants me to be his fake girlfriend. The rules are simple: no sex, no strings attached, and absolutely no feelings. Easy enough. The last thing I need is to fall for a man who thinks humiliating me is acceptable. But between the lies we tell his family and the moments we forget we're pretending, I begin to see the man beneath his arrogance. And he begins to see me—not the abandoned girl, but someone worth choosing. Can a heart abandoned too many times dare to love again? Will Victor choose me over his empire when the world believes I'm beneath him? And what happens when pretending becomes the one truth neither of us can escape? Some treats are simply impossible to forget.

For five years, I was the fool behind his fortune. I built my husband Julian’s company from a dusty garage into a million-dollar firm, surviving on sixteen-hour workdays and zero salary because I believed we were building our future. I even raised his seven-year-old "orphaned nephew" as my own son. Then I found the offshore bank statements. Julian wasn't just using me, he was secretly married to the boy’s real mother the entire time. I wasn't his partner, and I certainly wasn't his wife. I was just an unpaid, gullible caretaker funding his secret family's luxury lifestyle. So, I wiped my code from his servers, left his company an empty shell, and walked out. After hiding out in a cheap motel for days, trying to figure out my next move, I went to a high-end hotel bar to lose myself for one night. Then, I met a dangerous stranger who I let drag me into his luxury suite and fuck me senseless in ways my ex couldn't even touch in five years of marriage. I expected to slip away at dawn, but the stranger wasn't just anyone. He was Liam Blackwood: the city’s most feared billionaire, my ex’s worst corporate enemy, and a man who knew exactly who I was—the genius behind Apex media and apparently, the long-lost heiress to the multi-billion-dollar Montgomery empire. Before I could walk out the door, he made me an offer I couldn't refuse: a ring, a contract, and his entire empire to help me burn my ex to the ground. Now, my ex is on his knees begging for a second chance, completely unaware that behind closed doors, my possessive new husband takes, claims, and bends me over whenever he wants.

“You are my wife" he says, his voice thick with restrained anger. "Only on paper" I fire back, chest heaving and lips slightly parted staring at the man I am supposed to hate and yet my lips still sting from his kisses. — Anastasia inherits her father's company as it's falling apart and her fiancé just abandoned her for his secretary, Anastasia has no choice but to sign a marriage contract to her dead father's ruthless rival in order to save the company from bankruptcy. In public they are the perfect Blackwood couple, but when it's just the two of them, they argue, they clash and they constantly pretend they don't want each other. It's a marriage of convenience but his kisses linger and his touch makes her knees lock. While fighting against the harsh hierarchy of the rich society and against her feelings for the man she's supposed to hate. Now Anastasia has to choose, her pride, her hatred or the undeniable desire.

“You remember the instructions, right? You’re my mega-rich new fiancé. You’re going to help me destroy my evil ex. Deal?” He grinned like this was the most entertaining thing that had happened to him all year. “Deal.” ~~~~~ The worst thing that happened to Leah Byrne wasn’t catching her fiancé cheating with his stepsister the night before their wedding. It was being invited to their wedding as a “very special guest.” Humiliated and seething, Leah decides she’s done being the quiet, boring one. If Bryce wants to throw his new life in her face, she’ll throw something bigger right back. At her sister’s suggestion, she hires a high-end escort to pose as her very wealthy new fiancé for the event—someone who’ll make Bryce choke on his own arrogance. She doesn’t expect that the man who shows up is not an escort but actually Bryce’s uncle and the most powerful man in the country, Preston Royce. Amused by the mix-up and intrigued by the furious little woman who just mistook him for who she hired, Preston plays along. And he plays the part a little too well. After the wedding, what was supposed to be one night of revenge turns into something messier. When their very public appearance sparks backlash and family pressure, Preston makes Leah an offer… Keep pretending to be his fiancée. Just long enough to quiet the rumors and get his family off his back. Leah knows better than to agree. So she agrees anyway. As long as it gets under her ex's skin. What starts as a transaction slowly stops feeling like one… and neither of them is ready for how deep it goes.

Sarah dreamed of two things: conquering the fashion world and marrying her boyfriend, Jason. But her life shatters when she catches Jason in the arms of her cruel stepsister, Chloe and realizes they stole her late mother’s legendary design journals. To make matters worse, her abusive stepfamily treats her like currency, forcing her into an arranged marriage with Adrian Vance, the city’s most feared, reclusive tycoon, to clear a multi-million dollar debt. Resigned to a life of misery with a rumored "monstrous, crippled" husband, Sarah walks into the engagement gala. But when the leather wheelchair turns around, she freezes. The man looking at her with a predatory smirk isn’t an old monster. He is Adrian Vance, the all-powerful older brother Jason always spoke of in absolute terror. Jason and Chloe watch in horror as Adrian slides a diamond onto Sarah's finger, instantly turning his ex-girlfriend into his untouchable Aunt-in-Law. Adrian offers Sarah a literal contract: A fake marriage for one year. He gets a wife to secure his grandfather's inheritance; she gets the limitless resources of the Vance empire to systematically crush her betrayers on the runway. But as the fashion war escalates from New York to Paris, the lines of their contract blur dangerously. Sarah catches her "crippled" husband standing perfectly fine in the moonlight, guarding a lethal secret. And just as they expose the dark truth behind their mothers' pasts, a hostile market buyout flips the board: Sarah isn't a poor orphan. She is the biological daughter and sole heir to the House of Laurent, the ancient European dynasty that rules the global haute couture market. Now, trapped between a fiercely possessive billionaire husband who refuses to let her go and a global royal family demanding her return, Sarah must weave her own destiny.

HE KISSED ME IN THE DARK AND FORGOT ME BY MORNING Rebecca Hale has loved Christian Ashworth since she was fifteen years old, standing in the rain in his borrowed jacket, convinced for one perfect night that a boy like him could see a girl like her. He forgot. Or he pretended to. Six years later, they're partnered for a class project neither of them wanted, and Christian remembers everything: her name, her laugh, the rainy staircase she buried to survive without him. In the dark, he's everything she imagined. He notices what she doesn't say. He kisses her like she's the only girl at the party. He makes promises with his hands on her face and his voice low enough that only she can hear them. In the light, she doesn't exist. He denies her to his friends. He looks through her in the quad. He lets the girl everyone expects him to marry humiliate her in public and says nothing, does nothing, while Rebecca stands there and swallows it whole. Every stolen night makes her hope he'll finally choose her when someone's watching. Every public silence proves exactly what those promises are worth. She tells herself private love is better than no love at all. She's wrong. And somebody already knows their secret, sending warnings from a blocked number, threatening to drag every hidden thing they've built into the light. Before Christian can decide if she's worth the fall, Rebecca has to decide something harder: How long can a girl keep loving a boy who only has the courage to love her when nobody's watching? A dark, addictive New Adult romance about secrets, shame, and the terrifying cost of being chosen only in the dark.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. That was exactly what Bridgette did to Philip. She trapped him into believing that the child she was carrying was his, even though she knew it was terribly wrong. But when Philip discovered the truth, he was furious and filed for divorce. What would happen to her child? Who would the child grow up calling "Dad"? What if, one day, fate brought her face to face with her child's real father again? Would she finally tell him that their one unforgettable night had created a life? Or would she once again let another man bear the responsibility for her child? Enjoy reading! ^_^

Isabella Daniels married billionaire Zachery Perry to save her father’s company, hoping he would love her one day. Instead, her jealousy and obsession pushed him away and made her a laughingstock among the wealthy. When his former lover returned, Zachery demanded a divorce. But everything changed when a soul from another world woke up in Isabella’s body. Knowing she was a character in a novel destined for a tragic ending, the new Isabella refused to repeat the past. She accepted the divorce, left Zachery’s money behind, and walked away to build a new life. Zachery expected her to come crawling back, but Isabella surprised him by building her own business and acting as if he no longer mattered. For the first time, he was the one chasing, desperate to win the attention of the woman he once rejected. Things become more complicated when Julian Dominic, a charming shipping heir with hidden motives, enters Isabella’s life. As jealousy grows and old enemies threaten her future, Isabella must face the damage her former self caused and uncover the truth behind the people trying to ruin her. Now, Zachery wants her back, but Isabella is no longer the woman who begged for his love. Will he prove he deserves a place in her new life, or will she choose freedom over the man who broke her heart?

They say the Volkov Bratva doesn't forgive. And don't forget. Or let go. I didn't believe them. Not until I woke up in a stranger's bed with his teeth marks on my neck and a sticky note that read "Tell anyone, and I'll find you." The stranger turned out to be my ex-husband's uncle. The uncle turned out to be the most dangerous mafia don in Europe. And the one-night stand I thought would save me? It was a trap he'd been setting for two years. Now I'm locked in his compound, wearing his ring, carrying a baby that might be his — or might be the one thing he can never forgive. My ex-husband wants me destroyed. My sister wants my life. My husband's enemies want me dead. And Dimitri Volkov? He wants me on my knees. He says he'll protect me. He says he'll kill for me. He says he'll burn the world down and smile while it burns. But he never said he loved me. And I'm starting to realize that's the most dangerous thing of all. Because when a man like Dimitri Volkov doesn't say he loves you... It's because he's already decided you belong to him forever. And forever, in his world, is a very long time to be wanted.

After being publicly betrayed by her unfaithful ex-boyfriend and her two-faced best friend, Ariana is determined not to show up at their high-society wedding alone. In a moment of desperation, she heads to the Rosewood Hotel to hire a professional actor to play the part of her devoted, successful new boyfriend. However, a case of mistaken identity leads her to "hire" the wrong man. Enter Adrian Sterling: a cold, powerful billionaire who is actually at the hotel to close a multi-million dollar deal. Intrigued by Ariana’s fiery spirit and her ridiculous proposition, Adrian decides to play along, stepping into the role of a lifetime. As Mark and Lucia grow increasingly suspicious of Adrian’s impossible perfection, Ariana finds herself trapped in a web of lies with a man she can’t control. What started as a one-night play evolves into a high-stakes contract that takes Ariana from her modest life into the exclusive world of Ford City Heights. Between "fake" kisses that feel far too real and a billionaire who refuses to follow her script, Ariana must navigate a world of corporate sabotage and old-money secrets. She wanted a distraction to save face, but she ended up with a storm that is about to rewrite her entire life.

After losing both her parents at a tender age, Ciara experiences coldness despite having her best friend Carlista whose parents chose to raise her, she faces several oppositions from extended family and even outside pressure as a result of her inherited wealth; she falls in love with her best friend's brother who refuses to acknowledge their relationship to the public.