Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Protective Affair Stories

“Please,” Isabella whispered, her eyes lifting to his, and he paused. She wanted him—Alexander could see it burning in her gaze, in the hand that grasped his chest, pulling him closer. Damn it, she probably didn’t even know she was doing it. “Tell me, you don’t want me right now and I will stop.” His cock pressed painfully against his fly, against her, but he would back away—it would kill him, but he’d do it. “I… I—” She broke off, shaking her head as though she couldn’t believe her own mind, her tongue brushing nervously across her lower lip. “I can’t.” “Can’t?” he pressed, hope surging. “I want you.” It was hushed, it was uncertain, but it was there. A groan ripped through his restraint, and his lips crushed hers with every possessive ounce of his being. “Lex…” she moaned, raking a hand through his hair as her other hand clawed at him through his jacket. “This kind of fun is worth fighting for,” he rasped. —--------- Isabella Hawthorne wasn't looking for happily ever after—she just wanted to survive it. It was her brother and best friend's wedding, and happy as she was for them, Isabella couldn't help but feel lonely. Everyone around her seemed to have someone… Except her. One too many drinks later, she finds the perfect distraction: Alexander Bolton. He’s dark, dangerous, and looks like he knows exactly how to make a woman forget her own name. ​The plan was simple: No strings. No names. ​But when Isabella wakes up the next morning with the mother of all headaches and a ring on her left hand, she realizes "no strings" has turned into a legal binding. It had to be a nightmare… One she desperately needs to wake from.

Lila Harper's perfect life implodes when she catches her fiancé cheating four days before their wedding. Drunk, heartbroken, and craving escape, she stumbles into the wrong hotel room and straight into the arms of Lucian Kane: a ruthless, sinfully dominant 45-year-old billionaire who gives her the first real pleasure of her life. Come morning, he's gone until she discovers he's her new boss. What starts as filthy, forbidden office games spirals into obsession, possession, and a love that demands total surrender.

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Zara Cole comes home for her birthday weekend and finds her brother Marcus’s best friend, Damon, staying at the house. Nothing new. She’s always managed to keep her feelings buried. Then a blizzard hits. Marcus gets stranded away. Camille and Ryan can’t make it through. Three days. Just the two of them. Completely alone. What starts as tension slowly becomes something neither of them can control — honest conversations, stolen touches, and a connection that burns through every reason they have to stay away from each other. But the snow melts. Marcus comes back. Their partners return. And suddenly Zara and Daman are standing in the middle of something real, something undeniable, completely surrounded by everyone they’d hurt if the truth came out. The story follows what happens after, the guilt, the secrets, the obsession, the consequences. Marcus will eventually find out. Ryan will eventually see it. Camille already suspects more than she lets on. It’s a story about two people who know better, choose each other anyway, and have to live with every single thing that costs them.

Unholy Cravings is a dark, addictive collection where nothing is sacred and everything is on the edge. These aren't love stories. They're made for readers who crave what they shouldn't.

"I am sorry but I'm not interested in playing this game in disguise of a marriage, I think we should make our relationship open." He suggested, his voice firm and cold. Lilith was love struck, determined not to marry anyone else but him; but he had other plans in mind. After getting married and taking her property, he proposed an open relationship despite knowing of her feelings for him and after months of resistance, this time she agrees. She meets with her brother's best friends and forms a relationship with the two, but she doesn't know what was in store for her. Lilith is thrown into the world of the duo, filled with danger, affection and mysteries. She struggles to heal her self from her husband, at the same time plotting a revenge that would weaken him for life. How will Lilith get her revenge? And which turn would her relationship take? Stay tuned to find out.

Lyssa was adopted into Zeta’s family when she was a child. Zeta always protected her as an older brother, and over time, Lyssa fell deeply in love with him but never said it to anyone. Later, the grandfather arranged a marriage between them because he believes she’s fit to be Zeta’s wife. Lyssa agreed because she loved Zeta, but she pretended she didn’t so he wouldn’t feel pressured. They have been married for three years, and Lyssa thinks they are building a real life together. On her 25th birthday, she plans to finally tell Zeta she loves him. But when he comes home, he gives her divorce papers, saying his college girlfriend has returned after 5 years of studying abroad and he wants to be with her again. Lyssa realizes she was only a temporary replacement until Isabella came back. Zeta thinks Lyssa never loved him and he feels he was doing her a favour by ending the marriage so she can be free to be with any man of her dreams. This hurts her even more. To find out more, read Fifteen Years of Craving The Wrong Love

Cassie left her hometown for university four years ago, and now she's back. Her dream is to work in restaurant management and eventually open her own restaurant. Also... She has had a crush on her father's friend, Mathias, since her high school years. Does she still have feelings for him? And Mathias... Is he even aware of her presence? New episodes👇🏻 If you like the story, please leave a review! 💃🏻

Three years ago, I escaped the empire that raised me. I left behind my father’s world of blood, violence, and impossible choices, determined to become someone else. Someone ordinary. For three years, I believed I had succeeded. Then my father was murdered. One phone call drags me back to the compound I swore I’d never return to, where grief quickly gives way to betrayal. The man I planned to marry isn’t who he claimed to be, old enemies are hiding in plain sight, and everyone seems to want something my father left behind. Everyone has lied to me. Everyone… except Raze. He was my first sin. My greatest weakness. The only man I’ve never been able to forget. I walked away from him three years ago. He waited 1,095 days. Now he’s done waiting. The woman I buried has only one choice left. Become the weapon I was raised to be… or die pretending I was ever meant for a peaceful life.

Three years ago, Ivy Valmonte married Julian Blackwood to save her family from ruin. The night before the wedding, she let Sebastian ruin her instead, on the marble floor of the wine cellar while the rehearsal dinner carried on upstairs. It never stopped. Stolen nights in hotel suites, quick and brutal sex in the back of limousines, whispered threats and promises while Julian slept down the hall. They hated each other for it. They lived for it. Now Julian is dead, the will has been read, and the empire is split: 60% to Ivy. 40% to Sebastian. Only one of them can gain interest. Only one of them can destroy the other. They declare war in boardrooms by day, and tear each other apart in bed by night, because some addictions are stronger than hate, and some secrets are worth killing for. Love was never the problem. It was the price.

At seventeen, love feels infinite and endings feel impossible. Arielle never planned to fall in love during her final year of high school. Noah never planned to let his guard down. But when quiet glances turn into late conversations and unspoken feelings surface, they find themselves caught in a connection neither of them is ready to name or walk away from. Set against the fragile edge of senior year, Promises We Made at Seventeen is a slow-burn, dual-POV romance about first love, fear, and the weight of choices made too young to fully understand, yet too deep to ignore. As expectations, rumors, and the future press in, Arielle and Noah must decide whether honesty is worth the risk and whether promises made before adulthood can survive what comes after. Tender, dramatic, and emotionally raw, this story explores what it means to love someone while still learning who you are, and how some promises no matter how small can change the course of a lifetime.

“You cannot love me, Enora. I had told you that you couldn’t.” His brown eyes were almost popping out of their sockets, he yanked his hand away from mine and took a step backward, ruffling his brunette hair, he cursed. I love this man. “You cannot love me, I am your best friend’s father.” “But I can fuck my best friend’s father?” My voice cracked in disbelief, is this what my life is now? I had tears in my eyes, it’s always been like this since I met him, yet I love him. ~~ It was summer break and Enora had just gotten the job of filling in for the personal assistant of Mr Wright , her best friend's father. It was a thirty-day business trip that started with a kiss, then sex, and then love. Enora couldn’t help but fall head over heels for her best friend's father, he’s the first man to ever treat her like a princess, but Nathan has other intentions which didn’t include loving her.

After years of enduring an abusive marriage, Isabelle Rivers discovers a shocking truth: her husband has another family. Betrayed by the people she trusted most, she escapes only to find herself at the mercy of her past and the threats that follow. A fateful encounter with her childhood friend-turned-billionaire, Liam Anderson, sets her on a path of healing and rediscovery. But as old wounds resurface and dangerous secrets unravel, Isabelle must decide whether to trust a man again or walk away for good.

“You know what you have to do,” Blake said, his eyes bearing hatred into Cassandra, “You don’t like me.” “No,” Cassandra answered, she had been rehearsing how to sound nice while she rejected his proposal but it was impossible. “What?” He asked surprised “I said no, I am sorry, I can’t do that.” She muttered. “You don’t have any idea what you are signing up for, do you?” He asked, both his hands balled into fists on the table, while she watched him silently. “How much did my grandfather pay you?” He asked again and then she looked away from his magnetic gaze, feeling embarrassed. “I’m sorry, I told Mr. McKnight that I would marry you. I don’t think anything would change my mind.” She feigned confidence, holding onto her own hands to stop them from trembling. “We can just try to get along.” “Get along? What was I expecting from a gold-digger?” he asked with deep seething frustration. “You all are the same.” I wanted to ask what he meant by that but I couldn’t. “This wouldn’t be easy I assure you, princess, there would be a price to pay, a fucking expensive one.” He gets up and puts on his cap. “See you later, dear wife.” Unable to say a word she watched him storm away, her heart hammering painfully at his threat. Cassandra’s life took a total turn when her uncle forced her to get married to his partner’s grandson. Even though she was reluctant at first but then she didn’t have a choice but to agree, if there was a way she could escape her cousin, Lance. She would gladly marry even the devil because what has she got to lose?

Three years ago, Alicia Brown walked away from the only man who had ever made her feel undone. After a reckless one-night stand with a powerful stranger, she slipped out of his hotel suite, convinced that disappearing was the only way to protect her heart. No names or contact information were exchanged—only a connection so consuming it frightened her. She never imagined fate would bring her back to him. Until she steps into her best friend’s home for the holidays… and comes face-to-face with Rhys Connell. Her best friend’s father. The same man who gave her the most unforgettable night of her life. Wealthy. Controlled. Devastatingly composed. Rhys is a widowed billionaire with a reputation for discipline and emotional restraint, a man who would do anything to protect his daughter. The moment their eyes meet, the past ignites. He remembers the girl who trembled beneath his touch, the girl who vanished without a trace. And the only woman who has haunted him for three years. Now she is under his roof, laughing beside his daughter, and staying in the same house with him. Wanting her once was a secret. Wanting her now is betrayal. But Rhys has never been a man who forgets what belongs to him. And Alicia is about to learn that walking away from him once does not mean she was ever truly free.

BLURB Aira accepted one night for money. Four men. One room. Masks on. No names. It was meant to end when the door opened. The next morning, she discovers the men she shared that room with now share her home with two stepbrothers, her stepfather, and a man who knows them all too well. None of them know they touched the same woman. Yet. As memories resurface through scent, proximity, and fractured restraint, Aira is forced to live inside a secret that grows more dangerous by the day. Because the masks are gone. And the truth is getting closer.

Holly thought she had it all—a decade-long marriage to the love of her life, Michael, a cozy home, and a sense of stability. But when Michael starts pulling away and forming a suspiciously close bond with a charming coworker, Holly feels the familiar pangs of being invisible in her own love story. Determined not to jump to conclusions, she supports Michael through his stress, even as her own insecurities and loneliness deepen. But everything changes during his work trip. Faced with the slow unraveling of her marriage, Holly chooses herself for the first time in years. She throws herself into therapy, fitness, and healing—reconnecting with parts of herself she had long buried. By chance, she meets Finn, a magnetic bartender with a guarded past and a knack for listening. Their late-night conversations turn into something more… something safe, yet electric. Now caught between the ashes of a long-term love and the flicker of something new, Holly must answer the hardest question of all: Can love survive betrayal—or is it time to let go of what once was, to make room for what could be?

“Friends can become something more. Family can’t. Friends can go out, get drunk, be reckless, and kiss in the back of the car. Friends can be more, Siri. Accidents can happen in a friendship that might end up with both of us naked, and tangled together under the same sheet.” ~.~ Siri’s father had just married his fifth wife, and she already knew how it would end. But she didn't know how close she would get to her new family, or how tangled she would get with her stepbrother. Jackson was a man who made her mouth water. He made her attend every hockey game even though she didn't love the sport; she just enjoyed watching him be brutal on the ice. With his intense eyes and accent, she felt things she wasn't supposed to feel for someone who was supposed to be family. So she stayed away. Or tried to. There was no avoiding Jackson when he was everywhere, when his foot touched hers under the dining table, or his eyes never left hers even when their parents were watching. She was only a woman, and she no longer wanted to fight this fire between them, but every time they took a step forward, ghosts from the past threw them three steps back. A wound left to fester. A superstition born from trauma. A relationship that might ruin his career. An unhinged ex that flips both their worlds. They should have stayed family until this marriage ended and they had to go their separate ways, but kind attracts kind, and Siri and Jackson were broken, and everything kept going down to hell. They also kept fighting the devil as they went down there. They kept fighting for their love story despite all odds. Despite the world against them.

Pedro Marquez has built his life around control, power, and keeping his heart guarded. In his world, attachment is risky, and love is a weakness he cannot allow himself. When a betrayal within his organization pulls him back to Havana, he is forced to confront the life he walked away from, and the people who still consider him family. Dante greets him as if no time has passed. Cassie still makes him feel welcome. But it is Michelle, Dante’s daughter, who shakes his composure most. She is no longer the young girl he remembers. She has grown into a woman who stirs up feelings he cannot name. She is nineteen now. Bright, feeling deeply, and unguarded in the way she watches him. For Michelle, Pedro was a comfort from her childhood, her first hero, the person who once made her feel safe when the world felt lonely. His unexpected return revives feelings she thought she had left behind, emotions she was never supposed to harbor. What starts as a reunion soon simmers with unspoken tension neither of them can fully explain. Michelle’s fondness deepens into something more, while Pedro struggles with an internal conflict, caught between growing attraction, guilt, and loyalty to Dante, his closest friend. He knows he should keep his distance. She is still young, and Dante is like a brother to him. He also knows the dark world he belongs to tends to corrupt all that is good and unspoiled. Pedro has never been the type to open his heart or give in to soft affection. Michelle is far too gentle for the life he leads. And yet. She cannot bring herself to pull away.

Her husband loves her-but he's always busy, leaving her lonely in a life that feels more like a cage than a home. Craving passion and connection, she hires a mysterious bodyguard to protect her... and soon, desire sparks between them. Caught between loyalty and temptation, she finds herself tangled in a secret affair that could destroy everything she's built. In a world where love is complicated and trust is fragile, how far will she go to find the happiness she deserves?