First Modern Olympics

It was a national holiday and we decided to drive back to my husband's hometown to spend the holidays. One day before we left, my husband's childhood crush came crying to him that she had not managed to buy train tickets home. My husband immediately decided to let her have my seat in the car and insisted that I take the train instead. I looked at him in disbelief. There was shock in my eyes. Even my son insisted I take the train. "Mommy, Aunt Rosie is so pretty. How could you make her take the train?" I did not argue. I booked my train ticket right in front of them. However, it was to my own hometown. I no longer wanted a biased husband and a disloyal son.

My fiancé's first love was taking photos on a cliff before the landslide. To save her, he actually left me behind on the crumbling edge. I pleaded with him to save me. "Lucy isn't physically strong—she can't handle this alone. You've always been resilient. I'll get Lucy to safety first, then come back for you." Their silhouettes vanished over the ridge. After a brief commotion, everything went silent. Including me, with my freshly sprained ankle. When he saw the news of my death, he completely fell apart.

When the yacht was sinking, and only one spot was left on the lifeboat, Hendrix Zuckerman chose me. I was rescued, but Yana Bridgeton didn’t make it. She couldn’t wait for the second lifeboat and drowned in the ocean, her body lost forever. Hendrix pretended not to care and went through with our wedding as planned. For five years after our marriage, he trampled me into the dirt, blaming me for Yana's death. When I couldn't take it any longer and wanted a divorce, he decided to die with me. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day the yacht accident happened. This time, I’ve decided to give the chance to survive to the one he loves most.

When I had only three months left to live after taking the cursed blade meant for my husband Lucian, his first love Lily returned. When I endured the pain and prepared a dinner to commemorate our anniversary, he did not come back, he was having a steamy car session with Lily. When I went to the hospital alone to buy medicine, he was accompanying Lili for her pregnancy check-up. I pretended not to have noticed, I just silently played the role of a perfect wife, and wrote him four letters as a gift for our anniversary. After I die, he saw the gifts I left behind and went completely insane.

The emergency center I worked in went haywire as the typhoon closed in on our town. That night, my husband’s first love made seven emergency calls in a row to me. However, she did not say anything when I picked up. By the eighth call, I thought it was a prank caller, so I gave them a piece of my mind. Then, I heard my husband’s angry voice. “Melinda! This is the eighth time Sadie's called you for help! Haven’t you made her suffer enough?!” After that fiasco, he decided to avenge Sadie by taping my mouth, tying my wrists and legs up, and throwing me into our basement for three whole days, despite it being flooded with seawater, I begged for mercy, but it was to no avail. “You knew Sadie couldn’t talk because she hurt her throat, yet you still hung up on her! I'm going to make sure you feel the same hopelessness she felt!" Those three days left me with a collection of severe infections. I ended up having to remove my kidney. Even after all that, that man still had the gall to kneel by my bed and beg me to give him another chance.

My husband, Mark Thompson, and I went hiking. After eating some wild berries I picked, he was poisoned and died. When I got home, a woman named Sarah Miller and her son, Tommy Miller, showed up at my door. It turned out Mark had given them our house and car. On top of that, he owed them a huge amount of money. I ended up giving them all the savings I had. To care for my sick mother-in-law, Judith Thompson, I worked three jobs. I was surviving on basic meals like bread and butter. After years of exhausting work, I collapsed in the hospital. Judith told the doctors to stop my treatment. Just as I was about to die, Mark walked into the ward with Sarah and Tommy in his arms. He tossed five dollars at me. “Thanks for taking care of my mom all these years.” That was when I realized Mark had faked his death just to be with Sarah and their love child. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day we went hiking together.

Toutes celles qui ont lu la Sélection se sont sûrement imaginées à la place d'Amercia. Malgré ses protestations, Juliette aura la chance de faire partie d'une sélection organisée pour le Prince de la Suisse. Accompagnée de sa meilleure amie, elle se rendra vite compte que le grand méchant du château est plus complexe que cela. Qu'est-ce qui la retient au château?

Twenty-three-year-old Samantha Peters has been a good girl her entire life. She's never broken the rules, never did anything crazy, and never stood out in any way. When her best friend conveniences her to go to New York for the weekend, she has her first one nightstand. No big deal, right? No one back home will ever know and she'll never see him again.

Ich war seit vier Jahren mit Sebastian Hoffmann verheiratet und wünschte mir sehnlichst, ein Kind von ihm zu bekommen. Doch leider wollte er nie mit mir schlafen. Ich dachte schon, er wäre asexuell oder hätte einfach kein Interesse an Sex. Der Arzt jedoch erzählte, Sebastian sei so wild gewesen, dass er einer Frau beim Sex den After zerrissen habe. Da durchfuhr mich ein eiskalter Schauder, denn diese Frau war keine Unbekannte.​ Es war seine Schwester – nicht blutsverwandt, aber für ihn die „einzige Wahre“.

Einst dachte Marie Weber, dass es das größte Glück ihres Lebens wäre, mit Felix Schneider von der Schulzeit an zusammen zu sein und ihn irgendwann zu heiraten. Doch als Felix sie betrog, wurde ihr klar, dass es selten die ewige Liebe gibt. Es gibt keine Garantien für „bis ans Lebensende“, sondern oft nur bittersüße Erinnerungen und ein Ende, das niemand kommen sah. Nach der Scheidung schwor sie sich, ihr Herz nie wieder jemandem anzuvertrauen. Aber Lukas Schneider, Felix’ Onkel, trat mit Nachdruck in ihr Leben und ließ ihr keine Möglichkeit, ihm zu entkommen. Sie versuchte verzweifelt, sich aus allem, was mit der Familie Schneider zu tun hatte, herauszuhalten. Doch Lukas ließ nicht locker und setzte alles daran, sie an sich zu binden. „Lukas, du bist der Onkel meines Ex-Mannes. Das geht einfach nicht.“ Lukas grinste und hob ihr Kinn leicht an, sodass sie ihm direkt in die Augen sehen musste. „Du bist doch schon lange nicht mehr mit Felix zusammen. Bin ich da wirklich noch sein Onkel für dich?“ „Und außerdem – woher willst du wissen, dass wir nicht zusammenpassen, wenn du es noch nie ausprobiert hast?“ Marie: „Ich habe es ausprobiert.“ Lukas: „Dann probiere es halt nochmal – bis es passt.“ Marie: „…“