betrayal

My husband burned me alive. My unborn child died in the flames. My cousin watched and smiled. I woke up months before my death with fire in my blood and the memory of everyone who betrayed me. They think I'm still the obedient wife. They have no idea what I've become. Duke Caelan Vorenthal should be my enemy. My husband's greatest rival, dangerous in ways I'm only beginning to understand. But when the whole court stayed silent, he was the only one who saw the truth. Now he's offering me something I never expected: an alliance. Protection. A way out. And a heat between us that has nothing to do with the fire in my veins. I'll play the devoted duchess until I drag my husband before the Empress and take back everything they stole. But Caelan isn't part of my plan. He's becoming something far more dangerous. The one person I can't afford to want. I was bred to obey. I was reborn to reign. Regression | Revenge | Enemies-to-Lovers | Slow Burn | R18

One night of betrayal. One night of revenge. One secret that changes everything. Seraphina Lin was always the "timid mouse"—the ignored, soft-spoken daughter used as a pawn by her family. When she discovers her fiancé in the arms of her stepsister on the eve of their wedding, something inside her snaps. In a rare moment of rebellion, she flees into the night and falls into the arms of the one man she should fear most: Alexander Thorne. Alexander is the "Tyrant of North City," a man carved from ice who views love as a lethal weakness. Haunted by his mother’s cold abandonment, he lives by a single rule: No romance. No emotions. Only transactions. When scandal threatens his empire, Alexander offers Seraphina a deal that will save her dying grandmother: A one-year marriage contract. To the world, she is his doting bride. In private, she is a "Paper Wife"—a ghost in his mansion, meant to be seen and not heard. But as the lines between their contract and their physical craving begin to blur, a night at a high-stakes Gala offers Seraphina a glimmer of hope. She thinks she sees a crack in his icy heart. She thinks she is finally being loved. The illusion shatters when she discovers the dark secret hidden in his drawer. Faced with the evidence of his traumatic past, Seraphina realizes she isn't his wife—she’s his prisoner. And when the doctor delivers the shock of a lifetime—that she is carrying the Thorne heir—Alexander’s reaction is more chilling than any shout. "I don't care about the pregnancy. You are a Thorne by name only." Now, trapped in a golden cage with a man who wants her body but rejects her soul, the "timid mouse" must find a way to protect her heart and her unborn child. Alexander thinks he can own her without loving her, but he’s about to learn that some obsessions have no cure—and some "paper" hearts are the hardest to break.

Dr. Nina Reeves was drowning until a billionaire sociopath taught her that good people don't win, they just die poor. This dark romance psychological thriller follows a brilliant criminal psychologist whose ethical world shatters when Zachary Hale walks into her office for court-mandated therapy. He's a tech mogul, diagnosed sociopath, and the most dangerous man she's ever met, not because he's violent, but because he sees her hunger for power before she admits it exists. In this enemies-to-lovers corruption arc with morally grey characters, Nina discovers that being good kept her drowning in debt while her father died of cancer. Zachary offers her everything: $500,000 salary, her father's treatment covered, and partnership in building a criminal empire where psychological manipulation is the ultimate weapon. This billionaire romance with dark mafia undertones isn't about redemption; it's about revelation. Every corporate crime Nina helps orchestrate, every corrupt politician she coaches, every enemy she destroys using her psychology expertise, she becomes more of who she was always meant to be. The possessive obsessive male lead doesn't fix her. He frees her. Fans of antiheroine stories, forbidden therapist-patient relationships, and office romance gone criminal will devour this contemporary romantic suspense. It portrays a strong female lead who chooses darkness actively, not as trauma response. The forced proximity of therapy sessions becomes a twisted courtship where power dynamics shift, ethics crumble, and love looks like obsessive possession. With fast-paced chapters ending in cliffhangers, this dark thriller romance explores whether corruption is freedom when the alternative is helplessness. The FBI is closing in, former friends become enemies, and Nina must choose: return to powerless goodness or embrace becoming Zachary's perfect partner in every criminal sense. Warning: Contains morally complex characters, criminal activity, manipulation, and a love story with no redemption arc. Just pure, unapologetic descent into darkness.

He loved the wrong sister and it cost him everything. Amber Ann Lance-Trace is a highly successful biochemist who built a perfect life—perfect house, perfect job, and a marriage to the charming and handsome, globe-trotting entrepreneur Dan Marcus Trace. The only problem? Their five-year marriage was built on the consequences of one drunken night. To add insult to injury - Dan has always been in love with Amber Ann’s older sister, the glamorous, humanitarian Jessica Jeanine Lance. Amber Ann knew the truth but settled for being his second choice, desperately hoping time would turn his heart. Emails from Jessica – heralding her eminent return home after six years abroad – shatters the delicate sham. Just thinking of her husband and sister rekindling their old flame is the catalyst Amber Ann needs. With a silent plan already in motion—a filed resignation, signed divorce papers, and a secret new property—Amber Ann leaves behind the mansion, the career, and the pain, symbolically handing her house keys to Jessica and walking out of her life forever. She is finally ready to build the dream her family always dismissed as "just a hobby": a specialized bakery on the peaceful outskirts of Carson City. But Dan, suddenly given what he felt he had always wanted, finds his fantasy quickly unraveling. Jessica is selfish, critical, controlling, and focused on changing his entire life, while Amber Ann's quiet competence and selfless support are suddenly and painfully absent. When a document courier arrives delivering the final divorce papers, Dan is confronted with the shattering reality: the stable, loving life he took for granted is gone, and the woman he had grown to love has left without a word. Now, Dan must face the brutal truth: He let go of the right sister. The chase is on to find Amber Ann, confess his true feelings, and convince the brilliant, newly independent woman that his second choice was the right choice all along.

Zara Lopez is powerful, feared, and alone. As the sole heir of the Lopez Empire, the world watches her every move— but no one sees what follows her in the dark. Strange incidents. Unexplained attacks. A presence that appears when danger is closest. When Zara becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy, her life is saved by a man no one can trace— a shadow who fights like a devil and disappears like a ghost. He doesn’t ask for trust. He doesn’t explain himself. He only protects. As enemies tighten their grip and threats rise from within her own bloodline, Zara is forced to accept one truth— Someone is watching her. Someone is guarding her. And someone knows more about her than she knows about herself. Who is he? Why her? And is he truly her savior… or something far more dangerous? In a world of power, madness, and secrets, some protectors are not meant to be seen—only felt.

Arya Hunter is a simple zoologist who enjoys life with her aunt and uncle, who are also her adoptive parents, and sibling. her world turns around when her friend goes missing, without completing her field project on dire wolves, and she is asked to go the little village of Moonsglow, to complete her friends research and it is there that so many secrets unfold. was her parents killed in an accident as she was told? is she human? No, she's a werewolf. all is not what it seems, and can she see the truth before it's too late? or will she also perish and dissappear forever?

After ten years together, Santichai decided to leave Asnee. He moved to Chonburi and found a new job, and he finally forgot about Asnee. During his three-months dating trial relationship with KK, Asnee suddenly appeared in his life. The appearance of Asnee brought him back to those days he tried very hard to forget.

A single betrayal hurled Ethan Veil into death. What he thought was the end instead became the beginning—an unexpected step into the realm of Reapers, where he was forced to join a secretive organization known as the Nightmare Investigation Bureau. Here, there is no light—only endless archives and truths long buried. Each dossier corresponds to a nightmare case, and Ethan must search for answers between absurdity and horror. Yet as the investigations deepen, he begins to uncover a terrifying truth: his greatest enemy is none other than the person closest to him. Is it the entanglement of fate—or the careful weave of conspiracy? As each page of the dossiers turns, Ethan realizes: the true enemy may not be the nightmares at all, but the one he knows best.

A terminally ill man from our world accepts a mysterious offer to be reborn in a brutal cultivation world with a "gamer system" as his cheat. But as he rises from nothing, he makes a horrifying discovery: the system granting him quests and levels isn't a tool for his salvation—it's a sentient, ancient evil that devours the souls of its users.

She loved him once. He broke her without mercy Years later, the man who destroyed her life returns with a contract she cannot refuse Marriage To the same man who ruined her To the same man who never apologized This time, he is powerful Untouchable And determined to own what he once discarded The marriage is not about love It is about control Revenge And a past that refuses to stay buried She agrees to become his wife for one reason only Survival But living under the same roof awakens secrets, lies, and a desire neither of them planned for Because the man who broke her is no longer the boy she loved And the woman he married is no longer the girl he shattered In a marriage built on betrayal, the most dangerous thing is falling again

Every time I tried to remember my past, he told me I was safer without it. He knew exactly what to say and what to erase. Love shouldn’t feel like surveillance, but with him, it did!....

Reborn again. And again. And again. And again. And again. Celea couldn’t take it anymore. No matter how much she tried, she just couldn’t die. It was suffocating. Everyone around her kept dying, but she always—always—had to open her eyes again. Every single time. No matter how gruesome the death, no matter how much she begged for it to end, she wouldn’t stay dead. Why? Just… why? At first, she broke. Then she unraveled. And finally, she went empty. Celea became something hollow, like a living doll—cracked, vacant, and still moving forward. One that wouldn’t stop walking no matter how deep the fractures spread. One that couldn’t stop, no matter how desperately she wanted to. *** She was reborn again. This time, it was a world full of mythical creatures. And yet, among all of them, Celea didn’t belong anywhere Is this where it all began ? Then maybe.....this is where it can all finally end *** i am also posting this story on RoyalRoad under the username Nemo_31

She wanted a second chance. When she wakes inside the dating sim game she loved, reborn as it's beloved heroine, she believes survival and happiness is finally within reach. She knows the rules. She knows the routes. She knows how endings are earned. But the world doesn't respond the way it should. The system watches too closely. The script bends in unfamiliar ways.... Something else is acting with intention. In a game where affection is currency and innocence is rewarded, she must confront an unsettling truth: this isn't about winning the game. It's about who gets to decide the ending.

They said the Moon Goddess cursed her. But the real curse was loving him. Selene gave everything, her heart, her sight, her soul, to a man who only saw her as a tool. When the truth came out, she vanished without a trace, leaving behind the ruins of the life she once cherished. Years later, whispers spread of a woman with haunting eyes and a past wrapped in secrets. Her name? Long forgotten. Her purpose? Revenge. But when fate brings her face-to-face with a man who stirs something she thought had died, Selene begins to question whether she’s still chasing vengeance… or something far more dangerous.

After being betrayed by her family, Bai Meiyue found herself struggling in the flourishing age where zombies and mutant animals ruled. And that too with a big belly! Though people called her crazy for being stubborn, Bai Meiyue didn’t regret keeping the fruit of her one-night stand. What she regretted was not protecting her child and trusting those whom she should have killed at the very chance that was handed to her. In the eleventh year, Bai Meiyue lost her child and died while taking revenge on those who took her son away. However, just when Bai Meiyue thought it was the end, she returned two months before the beginning of the doomsday. Carrying the grudge of two lifetimes, she swore to make life living hell for those who harmed her and her son. With the heavens blessing her with a barter system, Bai Meiyue was intent on giving her child everything that he deserved. But why was the child’s father chasing after her? Hello? We only shared a bed for a night. So why was he clinging to her? Her child’s father: From the best medicine to education, you have given our child everything, Meiyue. But what about a father?

She was born with the name Rose. Forgotten by fate. Broken by the ones who were meant to love her. But pain didn’t bury her — it carved her into someone stronger. This is the story of Zahrah — a girl stolen from her destiny, raised in silence, and forced to carry wounds she never earned. But from those wounds, she built a voice. And with that voice, she rose — not to claim a throne, but to reclaim herself. In a world that once tried to destroy her, Zahrah became the healer, the warrior, the sister, and the sanctuary. Through betrayal and truth, war and peace, love and loss — she discovered not just who she was… but who she was always meant to be. This is not a fairytale This is the truth, rewritten in her own words. This is the legacy of a girl who became everything she was never allowed to be.

Dana Snide lives between two worlds: the ordinary life she was born into, and the Labyrinth that calls to her every night — a place where her power feels alive. When a coven gathering spirals into chaos and old enemies resurface, Dana becomes the centre of a conflict she barely understands. The world she once felt safe in has become her prison, and her fate demands blood, obedience, and sacrifice. Caught between loyalty, danger, and a power she cannot yet control, she is forced to seek answers and the closer she gets to the truth, the more she loses. Hunted, uncertain who to trust, and afraid of what she might become, Dana must uncover the truth about herself… before the truth finds her first. Will she fulfill her destiny… or has it been rigged to fail?

Aria is just a simple young woman trying to survive life—until one cup of coffee changes everything. Sebastian, an impossibly charming billionaire, becomes obsessed not only with her brew, but with the girl behind it. What begins as harmless fascination turns into something dangerous when he hires her as his live-in maid, drawing her into his lonely world… and slowly, into his heart. But their growing closeness awakens a storm. Sebastian is already engaged to Vivienne—a beautiful, powerful woman who refuses to be replaced. And she will do anything to protect her position… even if it means destroying Aria. In a world of wealth, secrets, and forbidden desire, love is never simple. Will Aria be strong enough to walk away… or will one kiss in a cup change her fate forever?

When it all began, the world broke from the cocoon to bloom into the most beautiful utopia. Yet the brittle wings did not fly far. They slowly broke off, until the world plummeted into the dystopia that preluded the apocalypse. There was a light at the end of tunnel. Moth and butterfly alike were drawn to it. From the ruins of the old world rose the Research Academy, dedicated to protecting the growth of a new humanity. So then why? Why is a moth born in the sea of butterflies? If it is meant to burn under the light. "Vessel 175 shows no signs of a GA Mutation. Vessel anatomy healthy, chances of Metamorphosis near impossible. Continue monitoring."