Nemo Ex Machina

Even before marriage, Silvia knew Ryan had eyes for someone else; she insisted on marrying him regardless as she had eyes for him.One day, the man’s past lover returned. Despite that, Silvia thought their child was enough to maintain the marriage. How foolish she was! Their marriage couldn’t withstand the intense love story that her husband and his past lover once had.And so, Silvia chose to file for divorce. For years, she had loved the man, sacrificing her youth and her entire being for his sake. To think she even gave birth to his child! This time, she refused to lose the last bit of her dignity.After divorcing, Silvia didn’t pay much attention to Ryan, as they would argue every single time they met. The man was always quite frustrated with her, and protested against her cruelty towards him. She merely smiled coldly and said, “Ryan Pierce, why do you expect me to maintain a bright personality right after my divorce? You should be glad I haven't gone insane.”Despite everything, Ryan somehow found himself falling for her even more; so much so that he wished to win her heart back.

I was in love with Ethan Black, a brilliant man with big dreams. I gave him my twenties, my body, my loyalty. I worked three jobs while he chased his startup dreams. And when he finally made it, he became a stranger. Then I found out he got another woman pregnant, the same woman who dumped him in college when his family lost everything. That nearly destroyed me. But I stayed. I told myself love was worth it. But nothing could prepare me for the day he left our four-year-old daughter home alone… to go see her. And our little girl died. I buried my child and with her, the woman I used to be. Now, I live for one thing only: Revenge. He took everything from me. Now I’ll take everything from him. He doesn’t know it yet… but I’m not the same woman he left behind. And by the time I’m done, he’ll wish he never met me.

Addison’s heart was trampled over by her cold hearted father and her step-mother. Now years later, she has found the man of her dreams, or so she thought as Addison finds herself heartbroken at the discovery of her boyfriend in bed with her step sister. Not wanting to be the bitter ex, Addison tries to forget her pains by drinking away at a club one Friday night where she falls into a handsome stranger’s arms. Was this her chance at happiness? Addison soon finds out who the stranger actually is and just when she thought falling for her ex shattered her heart completely.... will falling for his daddy fix it? And will it be wrong to move on with her ex’s divorcée father... —

I've always lived in the shadow of my husband's ex because he is still in love with her. Things get to a head when he divorces me without warning not long after she comes back into his life and he gets her pregnant. Heartbroken, I decide to put myself first for once in my life, but not long after I make that decision, I find that I'm pregnant with his child as well. Five years later, our paths cross again, and this time around, the tables have turned. Not long after, secrets from five years ago begin to unravel themselves and I find out that things are not what they seemed back then after all.

Ethan married Claire out of obligation to secure his father's company, never truly loving her. When his unpredictable ex, Samantha, reappears, he eagerly divorces Claire, only to discover Samantha's dark side. Meanwhile, Claire, now pregnant, finds solace and love with Lucas, a handsome billionaire. As Ethan's new relationship unravels, he begs Claire for forgiveness. Torn between rekindling a fractured past with Ethan or embracing a hopeful future with Lucas who worships the ground Claire walks on. Claire must make a life-altering decision.

“What! The groom has changed!” The crowd started murmuring, as they looked at the couple walking down the aisle. ‘The groom should be changed, if needed’ I mulled in my head as I walked down the aisle with my Ex's uncle. *********** Michelle prepared for her upcoming wedding, she was happy to leave the bondage of her family, and she wanted to get married to the man she loved, but her hope of survival was a trap. She caught her husband-to-be cheating on her with her stepsister the night before her wedding, but she refused to stop the wedding. She made a contract to marry his fiance's uncle, and changed the groom on the wedding morning. But Michelle has no idea about the contract clauses, neither did she about the man she signed the contract with. Did you think Michelle can survive in the same household?

“You FUCKING WHORE! That’s what you are. Got pregnant for him and now trying to pin it on me. Sign the divorce papers, that bastard isn’t mine!”   His words cut deeper than the wounds on my skin as I lay out in the cold. What happens when the man you love becomes your punishment? When your husband’s fists replace his vows, And the cousin you grew up calling sister takes your place in his bed? You don’t break. You survive. They left you for dead. But when you rise again, you’re not the same broken woman they buried You’re the storm they can’t escape.   Now there’s another man, one who’d burn the city to protect you. And when your ex crawls back, whispering, “Forgive me, Emily … I made a mistake,” You just smile and say, “You’re right. You were, now you’re just a memory from my past.

She once called him her husband. Now, she calls him a devil. After catching her husband in his ex’s house one too many times, she walked away, pregnant, broken, and done. Four years later, fate laughs when she runs into him again more powerful, colder, and dangerously obsessed. He wants her back, but not for love. For revenge. For reasons buried beneath his arrogance and her silence. But as she fights the pull between hate and desire, she learns something terrifying. The devil she runs into might not be the same man she divorced. He’s darker, hungrier… and this time, he’s not letting her go.

It has been three years since Hailey and Knox signed a marriage agreement. It was an impromptu agreement where everyone got their share of the deal. Knox got a beautiful wife to please his grandmother. However for Hailey... Her father's crumbling family business was revived. The only reward she was getting out of the deal was the clause where it was stated that none of them was obligated to perform sexual marital rites towards the other. But, Knox's grandmother died and the contract was no longer valid. However after the divorce, the man was beginning to feel the void left of her presence in his life. He began to notice her more. Until eventually, he found himself falling in love with his ex wife.

Patience left her position as the top Gamma to be a Luna for a small wolf pack. But all she got from him was this: "Patience, how can you compare to Hazel?" He said, "Hazel’s the Alpha’s daughter. She didn’t just sit back and enjoy the perks. She became a pilot. You’re just a secretary." His friends and the other wolves looked down on her too. They made fun of her. But they had no idea that she used to be the strongest werewolf warrior in the Lycan Legion. She used to fly fighter jets and was once the best in the country. The day she went to the royal legion to collect her parents' belongings, he was at the hospital with Hazel’s mom for a minor injury. Patience was heartbroken. She decided to divorce him. It was then that Kelsey found out that his ex-partner was once the strongest werewolf warrior in the Lycan Legion. Later, Sylus, the Alpha of the Mandrake wolf pack and the son of the Lycan King, stood by her side. His eyes were red. Alpha Sylus wrapped his arm around Patience’s waist. "Patience, you’re mine. If you go back to your ex, I’ll kill him on the spot."