Married By Mistake Novel Madeline Crawford Novels & Stories

"And to think that you call me the one who's always with harebrained ideas." "This isn't harebrained. I called you so that you can be my best man, just like we promised each other in middle school." Aiden dug his hands into his hair and tugged it up. "This is not funny, Drew. What do you know about this Madeline?" "She was kicked out of the house because she refused to give her father money — money that she worked for — to buy booze." "So we are marrying everyone kicked out into the streets now, are we?"

“Oh my God.” “That was actually Callista Madden.” “Why didn’t you shut the hell up?!” “I didn’t recognize her…I should have noticed the bag earlier!” “Well congratulations, you just insulted a billionaire to her face!” “My life is fucking ruined.” The noise of the wedding hall crashed over me like waves, the entire place smelled like money. Crystal chandeliers glowed above a massive ballroom, white roses decorating every damn corner like the place had been dipped in a florist’s fantasy. Photographers moved around like hungry flies, cameras flashing. And right there stood the bride and groom on a raised platform.

"This is a mistake. This is a serious mistake." But Ethan moved. Not aggressively. Not with any urgency. Just enough, and precisely enough, to make the space around me feel suddenly smaller. He stepped forward by barely half a step, and somehow that was all it took. "There is no mistake," he said. The certainty in his voice did something to my stomach that I did not have a name for. "What do you mean there is no mistake?" My voice climbed despite my effort to control it. "I was supposed to marry Daniel. That was the arrangement. That was what I agreed to."

Cecily merely smiled faintly, while Edwin seemed to act as if everything had nothing to do with him. Indeed, the next day, the entire situation in A City took an unexpected turn. The Sunlight Morning Post issued a personal apology regarding the tabloid scandal involving Edwin, stating that they had been misled by false information and expressed deep condemnation of the individual responsible on behalf of the media. Cecily woke up early and had breakfast while reading the newspaper. She occasionally glanced at Edwin, who was sitting across from her. She wasn't sure how Edwin had managed to achieve this, but it all seemed too contrived. That girl had indeed had a miscarriage; Jenny had told he

Her parents exchanged a glance, one of those silent conversations married couples have when deciding whether to push or let the conversation rest. What Lucy didn’t tell them, what she couldn’t tell them, was that their “love story” existed mostly on paper. That the vows had been a business transaction disguised as romance. She held that truth close, deep in the locked vault of her mind. On paper, she was Mrs. Austin DiMarco. But in reality, the marriage had started as nothing more than a calculated arrangement… one that was becoming far more complicated than she’d ever imagined.

"I don't know, I think I want to file for a divorce." Her eyes widened and she looked at me. She quickly stopped what she was doing and held my hands. "What's wrong? You can't possibly file for a divorce." She said. I caught my breath. "Mom," I called out in a whisper. "We were not supposed to fall in love and even get married. We're married by mistake, his family planned the wedding without informing us and....." She interrupted with a question. "Are you in love with him?" I raised my eyebrows slightly, and I softened my eyes a bit. "I can't do without him but I'm trying, I don't want to develop feelings for him."

One signature saved his life. One drop of blood made her his wife. ER nurse Deena Williams only wanted to save the unidentified man dying on her trauma table. But when she signs the emergency authorization form with his blood on her hand, she unknowingly triggers an ancient werewolf law. The stranger is Xavier Evers, the feared Alpha King—and now, by life-claim, Deena is his wife. Dragged into a hidden world of ruthless packs, old enemies, and dangerous secrets, Deena becomes the one weakness Xavier never planned for. He wants the bond broken. She wants her life back. Neither of them expects the attraction growing between them. But when Xavier’s enemies discover Deena may carry a

Lena found it on her break at the pharmacy, sent to her by her colleague Mara with a string of question marks and no other context. The column was titled *The Billionaire's Mystery Wife* and ran to four paragraphs that managed to say nothing factually incorrect while implying everything damaging. It described Caiden Black's sudden marriage to an unnamed woman with two service-industry jobs and no social media presence. It noted the speed of the union. It quoted an unnamed source close to the couple who described the relationship as *unconventional from the start.* It ended with a question about whether the Black family's flagship company would be affected by its CEO's private life becoming p

If someone had told me a week ago that I’d fly to Miami for a quiet holiday and end up accidentally marrying a woman I met after she spilled coffee on me, I’d have laughed them straight out of the room. But here we are. All I wanted was a break from my family's responsibilities — the suffocating expectations that came with being Eric Macmillan, heir to Macmillan Holdings. My father, Richard Macmillan, is the kind of man who cares more about net profit and handshakes with the royal family than anything else. But his recent arrangement is one that I'm not consenting to no matter the consequences. I hailed a cab, and we slid into the backseat. She sat stiffly beside me, clutching the marriage c