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Smut Warning: This story contains explicit sexual content, obsession, stalking, power play, and dark themes. He was supposed to destroy her. Instead, he built his entire world around her. Drisana Varma has spent her life being controlled and traded like a pawn. So she learned early: manipulate before you get manipulated. She’s never met a man she couldn’t read, use, or stay one step ahead of. Until Armani. He’s too quiet. Too watchful. Too dangerous. When he casually mentions a small habit only her faceless stalker has ever noticed, Drisana starts digging. What she uncovers unravels her entire life. She should run. Instead, she signs his contract and moves into his apartment. What begins as a calculated game of leverage quickly spirals into something darker and far more addictive. Behind the obsession, the power plays, and the rules they both stopped pretending to follow, raw hunger takes over. Nights blurred by rough hands, whispered threats, and filthy need. But beneath the lust and possession lies a buried secret that connects them both, a dead woman whose shadow stretches back long before either of them was born. A truth deep enough to destroy them. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And when this one rises, it will burn everything they’ve built… including each other.

Noah Hayes was supposed to be starting over. A full scholarship and a future built on talent, not survival. As one of the university’s rising ice hockey stars, everything in his life should finally be falling into place, instead, it starts falling apart on day one when Chase Voss notices him. Beautiful. Cruel. Dangerous in a way that doesn’t need to be hidden. But Noah had bigger problems than a campus king’s grudge. Drowning in debt and desperation, Noah takes a job he knows will cost him, but the man he stole from isn’t just powerful, he’s dangerous. Adrian Voss. Now Noah belongs to him, trapped in a world he never wanted. By day, he’s the university’s ice hockey star, by night, he moves product for a man who owns his life. What started as hatred between Chase and Noah turns into obsession. What should be a rivalry turns into something neither of them can control. Chase falls hard and reckless, but Noah knows better than to trust something that feels like a weakness. And if Chase Voss wants him, then Noah will use him. Play him. Survive him. But the deeper they get, the harder it becomes to tell what’s real and what’s manipulation. And in a world built on power and blood, love is the most dangerous mistake of all, because loving the wrong person could destroy everything, but walking away might be even worse.

Kyle Parker, a handsome, young ,and rich billionaire walks into the path of love. He's a well built, masculine guy who's every woman's dream, Kyle and love are of two worlds but when he meets Nicole Alison, one of his new employees,his PA, Kyle defines and sees love on a different angle, the love journey is not as smooth as Kyle expected it to be,he's smitten with her beauty and is willing to do anything to win her over,will their bitter sweet love finally win? Are they meant to be together?

He wanted vengeance. She became his weakness. Damien Rossi built an empire on blood, lies, and control, until he captured the daughter of the man who betrayed his family. Amara Vale was supposed to be his punishment… but she turned into the one thing he could never let go. In a world where loyalty kills and love is a weapon, their passion becomes the ultimate war. And the deeper they fall, the more dangerous it gets. He’s her captor. She’s his salvation. Together, they’ll burn the world to ashes.

The city sleeps under his dominion. He stands at the top of his tower, watching the skyline he built on corpses and contracts. A power play gone wrong leaves blood on his hands and a name on his conscience—the woman he was never meant to see again. Below, she moves through the city unseen, carrying evidence that ties him to a crime buried a decade deep. Their collision begins not with love, but exposure. She’s the variable that can end him—or save him from what he’s become.

“I hate that man, I hate that man, I hate him but oh!! How I love him”. Valentina Berkeley got married to a man she knew nothing about, a man who hated and did nothing to get close to her. At the altar he looked like someone reciting his death sentence and when they got married, he isolated himself from her. He loved another woman and made it obvious to her that he hated her because of their arranged marriage, yet she loved him. She loved his brooding look and read into the littlest things he did for her but when it became too much, she gathered what little pride she had left and divorced him. Fast forward to few years later, they meet again and they have to work together. Feelings develop and the man that was filled with hatred for her seems nowhere to be found. It does not help that she had his child and she would do anything to keep him a secret. Will she be able to keep the hatred she had for him or will he slowly eat away at the walls she built to protect herself? Will the love she once had for him overcome the hatred that built up and festered over the years or will secrets and untold truths doom their relationship to the same end? Will she give in to her son's demands for a father? Will he be able to redeem himself in her eyes or would he be the same man that hurt her time and time again?

I loved Adriano Ferraro—yeah, that Don—for five freaking years. He wasn't just my fiancé; he was my anchor in a world where loyalty got tested, and weakness got you killed. We had it all mapped out—dreams, plans, a future we actually thought we owned. Until I lost our baby. I reached for him, shaking, desperate for anything. But comfort never came. Instead, it was her. His stepsister, propped up. "Don't buy her act. She's just fishing for attention—again." That snake smiled like she just won a prize for emotional torture, dripping venom while fanning the flames. And Adriano? He bought it. He turned away. In that moment, it hit me—I wasn't just grieving. I was completely alone. The kid I carried, the future I built in my head? Gone. And so was I. I walked out. On him. On the Ferraro Family I was stupid enough to think I could belong to. All I left behind was silence. Empty space where we used to be. Now Adriano's drowning in regret, but it's too damn late. The life we should've had, the love we should've built? Dust. And her? The stepsister who ruined it all? She's paying for every lie.

Ruby had built resentment toward her ex-billionaire husband, Wyatt Logan, for cheating on her. But fate once again struck her down when she found out she was pregnant with his child on the same night he destroyed her life. How cruel it was! However, life must go on. She decided to leave the bitter marriage with no one knowing the truth. She lived happily with her only son under the radar for years, until destiny brought them back together. "Will you marry me again, Ruby?" Would she say yes to it?

A ruined promise. A reckless threat. And a proposal that turns vengeance into a dangerous game. Desperate to restore her shattered dignity, Raellyn confronts Arnav, the powerful director who holds the key to her ruined past. Driven by pride she offer him marriage instead of money. For Arnav, she’s the perfect solution. For Raellyn, he’s the only path left. But what begins as a cold transaction spirals into a storm of passion, power, and dangerous emotions. Because in a deal built on vengeance and desire… who will end up surrendering first. Raellyn’s heart, or Arnav’s control?

Clarissa has spent seven years being humiliated, slapped, cheated on, and spoken to like she’s disposable—but the moment she walks in on her husband and his mistress mocking her existence, something inside her finally snaps. What rises in that quiet, beaten-down woman isn’t fear anymore—it’s anger sharp enough to gut an empire. By the time Nicho realizes the wife he thought he owned is about to destroy everything he built, it’s already too damn late. Why don't you read on and see the uprising of Clarissa Monroe...