betrayal

She was never meant to wear the crown. But when a blood oath is invoked— her fate is sealed. Bound to a woman she barely knows. Cold. Untouchable. Dangerous. The future queen of Kazunaga. In a world where love is forbidden… even within marriage— why does her heart keep choosing her? And if loving her means destroying kingdoms— will she still choose the crown… or her? #lesbian #Royalty #PoliticalIntrigue #GL #StrongFemaleLead

When Allegra Di Sante’s father is murdered, she inherits the throne of the most dangerous crime family in Las Vegas. Power comes easily to her. Trust does not. Especially not with Aiden Kane — the quiet, lethal bodyguard who seems to know too much about her world. As enemies close in and betrayal spreads through her own family, Allegra and Aiden are forced into a dangerous alliance. But Aiden is hiding a secret that could destroy everything between them. Because he didn’t come to protect the queen of Vegas. He came to bring her empire down.

Have you ever loved someone enough to let them ruin you? Lines blur until neither knows where revenge ends and devotion begins. This is not a love story. It’s a descent. A dark romance of power, cruelty, obsession, and the kind of attachment that doesn’t ask to be healthy—only eternal.

Veda Raj Kumar, a former soldier in his forties, has spent thirteen years as a contract killer for a crime syndicate, driven by revenge after his pregnant wife was murdered. Haunted by the memory of his unborn daughter and the 588 people he killed, he finally chooses death jumping from a building as police close in. Instead of dying, he wakes in a strange room, in a young man’s body, with blood on his clothes and cryptic symbols covering the walls. A disembodied voice speaks to him, claiming to be a younger version of himself a soul that shares his memories and possesses the power of omniscience. This younger Veda explains they are now one being in two souls: a “Vessel” capable of transferring consciousness across bodies and dimensions. He reveals that a hidden world exists beyond the one humans know a realm of ancient powers, parallel universes, and a forgotten war between light and dark. Their goal is to reach a place called the NEW WORLD, but to do so they must unlock the secrets of the symbols, master their shared abilities, and confront the forces that have been watching humanity for millennia. As Veda struggles to accept his new reality and the voice in his head, he must decide whether this second chance is a curse or the ultimate gamble one that will let him challenge the very beings who shaped his fate.

[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION: You have died a violent death.] [CURRENT LOCATION: Floor 0 (The Lobby)] [GOAL: Reach Floor 100.] [REWARD: One Wish. One Life.] She died screaming. The man she trusted most left her bleeding in the dark, her last moments filled with betrayal, regret, and one unanswered question: "Why?" Then she woke up. Not in heaven. Not in hell. Somewhere worse. Welcome to the Backrooms: an endless maze of humming fluorescent lights and damp, yellowed wallpaper. In this liminal purgatory, the dead don’t rest, and the broken don’t stay human for long. One hundred floors. One chance to come back. Fail, and she’s gone forever. She doesn't want peace. She doesn't want a second chance. She's given up on answers. She has one wish, and it's a death sentence for the man who sent her here.

Just a quick heads-up — I update new chapters every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. (〃^ー^〃)" [Trigger Warning: This semi dark fantasy romance contains few mature themes.] --- SYNOPSIS: •A WORLD BUILT ON LIES• Long ago, humans lived unaware of the supernatural beings hidden among them—werewolves with their primal instincts, witches whispering spells in the dark, and elves with their ancient, watchful eyes. For centuries, they coexisted in fragile silence. Then, everything shattered. Near the shadow-drenced woods of the Shadow pack kingdom, human traveler stumbled upon a gruesome scene: an old woman’s lifeless body, her skin ashen, her wounds gaping like accusations. A few paces away lay a dead werewolf, its throat ripped open, its muzzle still flecked with blood. The truth was undeniable—monsters walked among them. Fear ignited war. Humans, armed with fire and steel, hunted the supernatural races. Witches and elves were dragged into the slaughter, their homes burned, their people butchered. The bloodshed raged until King Alfred V of the Amethyst Kingdom stood before the four Werewolf Kings—Silverhowl, Crimsonheart, Shadow, and Atlassian —and offered a deal drenched in poison. A sacrifice for peace. Every twenty years, each human family would surrender a daughter to the werewolves. And in return, the future Alpha Kings must wed a human—or the war would reignite. The werewolves agreed. The witches and elves retreated, their hatred festering like an open wound. The world remained fractured, its peace a fragile lie. --- •THE PROPHECY OF FIRE• In the hidden Blaze Tribe, where crimson eyes burned like embers, the seer Prophetia foresaw annihilation. "Our people will fall," she rasped, her voice trembling. "But from the ashes, a girl will rise—the one who will bring true peace… and the one they will slaughter for it." The tribe made a desperate pact. They would cast a spell—a curse of forgotten memory—erasing their existence from the world’s mind. Their souls would be the price, but their legacy would live on in Ovelia, the child of prophecy. The night the Blaze Tribe fell, Ovelia’s parents hid her in the whispering forest, their hands shaking as they sealed a goddess—Firera—inside her infant body. Then, they turned to face their doom. --- •FATE’S CRUEL WHISPER• Ace Draven—half-werewolf, half-witch prince of Silverhowl—had never believed in destiny. Until he found a crying infant in the forest. His wolf, Fenrir, howled in recognition. A crimson thread shimmered between them—mates. But Firera, watching from within Ovelia’s soul, snarled. "She’s a child. This is too soon." With a flick of her wrist and spell, she tore the memory from Ace’s mind, leaving only an empty ache in his chest. --- •TWENTY YEARS LATER: A SACRIFICE IGNITES• Ovelia has spent her life as a slave, raised by the cruel mayor of Timberline Village—a man who would gladly sacrifice her to spare his own daughter. The night of the sacrifice, the air reeks of damp earth and iron. Torches flicker as the werewolves emerge from the shadows. And then—Ace Draven steps forward. Their eyes meet. Fenrir *howls*. Ace’s claws unsheathe, his breath ragged. He doesn’t understand why his wolf is clawing at his ribs, why his pulse hammers at the sight of this stranger. But the bond between them burns hotter than vengeance. Ovelia doesn’t know him. He doesn’t recognize her. And yet, their souls scream in unison.

The Ninth Abandoned One "They abandoned me nine times. The tenth time, I abandoned the universe." --- Abandoned at birth. Abandoned by his foster parents. Abandoned by his first love. By age twenty, Gu Chen has been cast aside eight more times—by masters, sects, blood, lovers, and finally his own children. But each abandonment unlocks something within him. A past-life memory. A cultivation breakthrough. A fragment of the hidden Ninth Law: Return—the power to bring back what was lost. Now, with eight voices living inside his head—an orphan, a beggar, a soldier, a monk, a king, a god, a demon, and a dying universe—Gu Chen must descend into the Void itself to reclaim his original self. And waiting in the shadows: Su Wan, the woman who loved him in his first life. She has watched him suffer for ten thousand years, bound by a deal she made with the eight immortal clans. She can never interfere. She can only watch. But when Gu Chen emerges from the Void, holding the power to Return anything—or destroy everything—she will finally have to choose. What do you Return? And what do you destroy? --- A 60-year cultivation epic across two worlds, eight past lives, nine abandonments, and one impossible choice.

“I gave you my soul in my last life. In this one, I’ll settle for your crown.” ~ In my first life, I was the devoted Queen. I waited two months for my husband, King Lauren, to return from the front lines—only for him to walk through the palace gates with a beautiful young maiden by his side and a decree in his hand: ‘She would be the new Queen’. And because of that evil beauty he brought to our kingdom, I died a discarded "nobody," executed for a crime I didn't commit. But death didn't take me. It sent me back. I woke up on the morning of his return. The crowds are cheering, the flowers are blooming, and my husband is about to humiliate me in front of the entire kingdom. But he doesn't know I've changed. He doesn't know I've returned with a special skill that makes me the most dangerous woman in the room. Before he can introduce his "New Queen," I hand him the one thing no one in this kingdom has ever dared to ask for: Divorce papers. In our land, a Queen asking for divorce is an abomination punishable by stoning. But Lauren thinks I’m bluffing. He looks me in the eye, tears my petition to shreds, and growls, “You are my wife. I will never stamp those papers.” He thinks he is keeping me trapped. He doesn't realize he has trapped himself in a palace with a woman who knows every one of his secrets—and is prepared to burn his kingdom to the ground just to see him sign his name. My goal is simple; I will make him fall... not in love, but to his knees. Since he spent my first life making me cry. I’ll spend my second making him bleed.

Give the first three chapters a try. "You’re fat, ugly, and a burden. Did you really think I’d marry a charity case like you?" With those words, Clara’s world shatters. Just weeks before their wedding, her fiancé Julian doesn't just betray her with another woman—he tears down her soul, leaving the orphaned Clara with nowhere to run and no family to turn to. Broken and desperate, Clara seeks refuge with the only man Julian truly fears: his father, the cold and powerful Arthur Sterling. Expecting a lecture, Clara finds a sanctuary instead. While Julian saw "flaws," Arthur sees a diamond in the rough. As Clara embarks on a journey to reinvent herself, she realizes her greatest transformation isn't physical—it's learning that she was never the problem. As the tension between the heartbroken girl and the protective patriarch reaches a breaking point, Julian realizes his mistake and tries to reclaim his bride. But Arthur isn't just protecting Clara anymore—he’s claiming her. He called her a mistake. His father calls her mine.

He threw money on the bed after our one-night stand. I threw it back in his face at his own inauguration. By sundown, we were engaged. By the week's end — married. Franklin Flemington needed a wife to secure his empire. I needed a miracle to save my family. For two years, we played our parts flawlessly — the golden couple the whole city envied. Behind closed doors, I was invisible to him. When the two years were up, I handed him divorce papers without blinking. He stared at me like I'd lost my mind. "I've given you everything a husband should. What more do you want from me, Octavia?" I smiled, signed my name, and walked out. I thought that was the end. I thought I'd finally won. I forgot one thing — Franklin Flemington has never lost anything in his life. And he has no intention of starting with me. Game on.

She didn't plan to summon a demon. She planned to survive the night. When Lyra Voss watches her own fiancé marry her sister at an altar she was supposed to stand at — then gets arrested for a crime her uncle spent months building against her — survival stops being a figure of speech. Framed, abandoned, and locked out of everything she ever called home, she finds the only thing left in her possession: her grandmother's journal, a summoning ritual, and the desperate kind of courage that doesn't feel like courage at all. What answers her blood isn't what she expected. Kael is ancient, impossibly still, and bound to her side for one year by a contract written in her own blood. He speaks like a lawyer and moves like something that has never needed to hurry because it has always been the most dangerous thing in the room. He promises her two things: her name cleared, and everyone who touched her life made to regret it. In exchange, he wants only one thing from her. The truth. Always. What neither of them anticipates is what a year under the same roof does to indifference. How pretending becomes practicing. How practicing becomes real. How a woman who stopped trusting her own heart learns to read his — and discovers that a creature who has lived three thousand years in perfect, ruthless control has never once in all that time felt anything like this. The contract has an expiration date. Their feelings don't. The Devil I Called Husband is a slow-burn paranormal romance about the bargains we make when we're broken, the people who stay even when nothing requires them to, and what happens when the fine print of a blood contract turns out to be the least binding thing between two people who were never supposed to fall in love. Some deals change everything. This one changes both of them.

Stephanie never imagined that searching for the truth would drag her into a dangerous world of secrets, power, and silence. Alongside Maya and Adrian, she uncovers hidden horrors—but in a world where the weak are silenced, she refuses to stay quiet. This is a story of pain, courage, and becoming strong.

Emilia's life turned after that she accidentally killed her brother. As a punishment for her crimes, her wolf ability became bound. She is now living a life of slavery as she is forced to live that way by her brother. At age nineteen, she saw no way of getting out of such a situation and she had finally given up on trying a way of getting out of it. Her only hope now was just getting through each day. But as fate would have its way, a contract between packs brought the arrival of the powerful crimson-eyed Alpha Anker, a wolf that men feared so greatly, yet Emilia couldn't help but had to be fascinated by him. Alpha Anker never planned on adding Emilia to his contract. Something about her strange scent which he perceived when he visited Jesse's office lured him in and he knew he couldn't just leave her behind, especially not when he heard the lies coming out from her brother's mouth. But, meeting Emilia was just the beginning as per say. If she wasn't challenging Alpha Anker, then it was her old pack that was trying to make it difficult for him by keeping secrets buried.

She was trained to trust no one. But she never expected the enemy to feel like home. When Lara (Agent Nova) is sent undercover to a prestigious high school to investigate a series of mysterious student disappearances, everything seems like a routine mission—blend in, gather intel, and get out. Until she meets Vesper. Cold. Calculated. Unreadable. A man who sees through lies… and straight into her. As secrets unravel and lines blur, Nova realizes something far more terrifying than the mission itself: Someone on the inside is leaking information. Someone close. Someone she trusts. And when the truth finally surfaces— It won’t just break the mission. It might break her.

Rule #1: Never lust after your father’s best friend. Rule #2: Especially if he’s the most powerful Alpha in the territory. Ava is unmated and desperate for a connection. When Alpha Xavier arrives for her birthday, the atmosphere shifts from celebratory to electric. He’s always been a distant figure of respect, but tonight, he’s a temptation Ava can’t escape. After a literal "eye-opening" encounter that leaves Ava swooning—quite literally—she realizes that the man her father calls a brother is the only man she wants in her bed. The scent of his skin is a drug, and his touch is a wildfire. When the house goes quiet and the doors are closed, the forbidden tension finally snaps. Ava is about to learn that some bonds are forged by the Moon, but the best ones are stolen in the dark.

‘How cliché. I’ve read countless novels where the Hero is betrayed by their companions… but was I wrong to trust those who fought beside me for nearly six decades?’ ----- Betrayal. A word many live in fear of. A word some never expect… until it happens. A word that completely shatters one’s view of life. Just like any other heroic tale, Simon was the Hero of Earth, the one who defeated the Demon King and was about to end the war between races with his companions. Yet, in the end, he was betrayed by his own companions for reasons he never understood. Instead of finding death, Simon found rebirth. To his horror, he reincarnated as the very race he had devoted his entire life to exterminating… a race he despised, feared, and was disgusted by. Reborn as a demon infant within one of the most impoverished demon tribes, Simon found himself at the very bottom of a world he once sought to destroy. Fortunately, he was not entirely abandoned. His unique Seven Star Blessing, bestowed by his patron God, followed him through reincarnation. Armed with this Blessing and the Demonic Magic of his new race, Simon now harbors an ambition greater than ever before… to rise higher than he ever did as the Hero of Earth. To become a God. But the path forward is far from simple. Betrayals from those he would never expect. Endless trials and tribulations. And the lingering question of identity… Should he cling to his past as a human hero, or embrace his nature as a demon to survive? Can Simon abandon his hatred and live among demons? Will he erase his past entirely and fully embrace his demonic nature? Will his thirst for revenge drag him deeper into darkness… Or will he rise above it? In the end… Will he be devoured… or will he devour all?

Hazel has spent her entire life sacrificing for her younger sister, working tirelessly to give her the future she never had. To Hazel, family is everything and she believes loyalty between sisters should never be broken. But when love, ambition, and hidden desires enter their lives, the bond they once shared begins to crack. What starts as devotion slowly turns into jealousy, secrets, and a betrayal Hazel never saw coming… all because of a man who walks into their world and changes everything. When love, betrayal, and ambition collide, lives become tangled in a web of lies. In a world where trust is fragile and every choice has consequences, one decision could destroy everything… or reveal a truth more dangerous than anyone expected. In the end, Hazel will be forced to learn a painful truth.. “Sometimes the people you sacrifice the most for are the ones who destroy you”.

"New rule," he growls, rubbing the tip of his cock against my pussy. "From now on, you call me Daddy no matter what. You understand me?" I nod as much as his grip around my neck will allow, my pulse hammering against his palm. "Yes, Daddy." I obey. °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Valentino, Raffaele, and Angelo, are the princes of Le Vipere Nere—the most feared Mafia family in Italy. I was just a stripper when Valentino first laid eyes on me. To him, I was supposed to be a fleeting distraction meant for nothing more than a night of passion and sin. But we became so much more. At first I was tangled only in his sheets until his brothers wanted a taste of me. Once they decided I was theirs, there was no escaping. Now I’m trapped between three Mafia heirs who don’t know how to share. They claim me. Worship me. And fuck me until I forget my own name. They make me crave the pain as much as the pleasure. They make me theirs—body, mind, and soul. But the truth is I’m living a lie, and when they discover my secret, this game of lust and obsession might end in blood. Welcome to a story of sin, power, and forbidden desire—where love and hate are separated by nothing more than a single heartbeat.

At thirty, Alexander Venn is the untouchable CEO of Venn Global Holdings. He is known to be brilliant and powerful.To the world, he seems perfect, but when it rains, the memories of his past come flooding back. The storm that took his mother away left more than grief; it left guilt, trauma, and a crack in the empire he built. Within his own cooperation, His stepmother plots, his half-brother waits for his downfall. And his father still has the power to take everything away from him. But then, on a rainy night, a stranger saves him. Maya Bennett, who is only twenty-three years old and struggling to keep her family together, never thought that she would find herself in a billionaire’s world when she saved a shaken man in the rain. As their lives become emotionally attached, past crimes begins to resurface of which Maya’s Father’s death was found to be connected to Venn empire. Will she break off her relationship with the Billionaire? Or will Alexander sacrifice his empire for the only woman who makes him feel human again? Let’s find out!!!