betrayal

Lilian Aeren Vale, daughter of the disgraced House of Vale, has known nothing but ruin. After her father's execution for a crime she believes he never committed, and the destruction of her home, she is forced to live under her uncle's roof, where she is treated as a burden, and a reminder of the shame no one wishes to claim. But when the Northern Duke threatens to ignite a civil war along the southern borders, the crown offers Lilian as tribute to secure peace between both borders. Her fate is sealed; she must become the wife of the very House that condemned her father to death. Two souls shaped by opposing truth, bound together by a political marriage meant to prevent bloodshed. As old wounds collide with buried secrets, Lilian and the Duke must unlearn a lifetime of hatred and uncover the truth hidden beneath generations of lies, betrayal and manipulation. Their marriage may save a kingdom… But only the truth can save them from each other.

"Act like I'm the only one, Yuki." Trapped within the walls of a brothel that sells both her bodies and dreams, Yuki clings to a hope that one day, someone will take her away from that place. So when Ivanovich—a dangerous man more accustomed to killing someone than showing tenderness—begins to hire her privately, Yuki thought there was still hope for her to escape from that hellhole. Despite the danger of loving someone as important as Ivanovich, Yuki couldn't help but get drawn deeper into his life.

*WPC #139 FL-modern werewolf Silver Tier ******************** Too much for being a werewolf. A werewolf that can never shift. But that's the least of her concerns. For she had a pack to hunt, a family to avenge, and a life to survive. Melisca Lorwey is a half-blood wolf and human. Exiled by her father's clan and hated by her mother's side. When both of her parents died, she had no one else but herself alone. Witnessing how her parents had been murdered, she decided to hunt the killers as her life mission. Though she couldn't shift, she still had the abilities of a wolf. Then someone added to her life complications. Ezekiel Rawson Stavrus made her mission even harder to accomplish. She doesn't want anyone to distract or, worse, stop her plans. The very last thing she needed was the most powerful and possessive alpha chasing after her. So the moment she heard him say, “Mine." She fled away like her life's on the line. --------------------------- AN: This is not your typical romance. This is not your lovey-dovey werewolf troupe. THIS IS BLOODY, VENGEFUL, AND ANGRY. It focuses in bloody revenge, duties, and responsibilities first. Love isn't everything for the characters. It could be all or nothing in their wicked world of greed, power, and darkness. Shared universe with... > SYSTEM MISSION: TAME THE MAFIA BOSS - Military General FL and Mafia Boss ML Please check this out as well. Thank you. Love in Hate in Love - Artist/Musician FL and CEO ML

The continuation journey of Alter in the virtual world. Takes place after The World of Fractured Realms. But this time, Gaia took her frustrations out on Alter and accidently unleashed something that should not have.

"I love you, okay?" ... her voice broke as she stared up at Nur's face. His eyes widened, chest tightening as he stared back at her, at the magnitude of her words. Tears clung to Ayse's lashes, his wife who he supposedly contract married. From the very first day they locked eyes, he loved her but not even for a second, he would have thought she would fall for him. This was Deniz Nur Hakan--The sole heir to the multibillion-dollar company, he who built empires with his bare hands. Who had ice in his veins and ruled with an iron fist. Men trembled under his gaze; women drove to him. A man whose ears were deaf to the pleadings of many. Some called him a bastard, and for some he was just their "son" His father, Emre Yunus Hakan, handed him the keys to the Hakan estate. Well pleased and trusted that his son will continue his reign. After the funeral ceremony, his mother had come to him. Conversing to him on state matters and the "future" "How his job wasn't only proceeding his father's company but to also produce an heir" Nur stared at his mother's unreadable face; he shook his head and sternly rejected even a thought on such matters as he recalled past events. Months passed. One fateful night, he received the news. "Mr. Hakan, your mother has passed away" Nur was left heartbroken; he fled from U.K and quickly arrived at Istanbul via his private jet. The car clicked opened as he made his way in the magnificent Hakan estate. Where he would find his "relatives" people who he had lost connection to the day his parents married. They weren't well off back then yet lived happily. He paid them no mind and walked towards the center where his mom's coffin was. Clutching around the coffin, tears sprung out. His mother, the only one who he could rest his head on the shoulders, lazily talk about his day. She had left him. The funeral has ended. Meanwhile Nur sat at his study, blue eyes flickering under the warm glow. Hands stopping as he clicked at a profile. There in the screen showed the picture of a woman, she was a beauty, and he had known it. Sharing their numbers he agreed on meeting her. It was a Sunday. Nur walked around the streets of Istanbul. Phone in hand, talking to the woman on the other end. "I will see you, bye" he abruptly mumbled as he cut the Call. He then made his way in one of the shops. Just as he stepped in--Thud* oh god... a feminine voice came out as he stared at her. The woman mumbled a sorry as she quickly retreated a bouquet that laid on the ground. Her eyes then went up to him, warm, honey like orbs locking with a piercing pair of blues. They stared at each other. As Nur's eyes unraveled her, she was even prettier than the girl he was supposed to meet. I-I'm sorry... (affet beni...) she said again and slid past him. Nur snapped his head, watching her go. Then turned to the front. On the ground was embroidered purse. He then crouched down, hands grazing against it, he clutched at the purse. Inside was an ID: Ayse Yildiz there was the picture of her. Ayse Yildiz... he practiced the name as if he has an obligation to remember it for eternity. Perhaps... his lips twitched, perhaps, he will have to... remember it for eternity...

Esmeralda Augustine has spent her whole life fighting battles no one sees—painful sickle-cell crises, silent fears, and a world that constantly measures her worth by an illness she didn’t choose. All she wants is a chance to love and be loved without being treated like a burden. When Ethan Maxwell, the heir to a powerful family, chooses her as the woman he wants to marry, Esmeralda believes she has finally found peace. But that peace shatters the moment she meets his mother—an influential woman who sees her as nothing more than a “risk,” an “object,” and a mistake her son cannot afford. Torn between love and reality, Esmeralda begins to question her own place in Ethan’s world. A sudden health crisis pushes her deeper into doubt, and every whisper of judgment reminds her of a painful question she can’t escape: Do people like me even have a place in marriage? As Esmeralda recovers, a new twist enters her life—a billionaire widower with a gentle heart, a lonely child, and a proposal that could change everything. Her stepmother urges her to choose the safer path, the one free from rejection, free from fighting for love that might never be accepted. Now, Esmeralda must decide: Will she stand and fight for the love that sees her, even when the world refuses to? Or will she walk into a new life with a man who wants her—but whose world may demand a completely different kind of strength? The Sickled Heart is a gripping, emotional journey of resilience, identity, and the courage to choose yourself—even when your heart is pulled in two directions.

"I loved them both... but only one could ruin me". She thought she understood love-until she met the man she was never meant to want. Seventeen-year-old Janine Flores, a high school student in her senior year is blissfully in love with her best friend-turned-boyfriend, Alexander Gabriel. Their love is young, soft, and safe... until Alex's father comes home after years away. Lucas Gabriel ... thirty-two-years old business tycoon- is everything danger should look like: powerful, quiet and devastatingly magnetic. The moment his eyes lock with hers, Janine's world tilts-blurring the lines between right and wrong, loyalty and desire. As forbidden feelings deepen and buried secrets claw their way to the surface, Janine is torn between two hearts-one she vowed to choose, and one she can't seem to escape. Now, love is no longer just a choice. It's temptation. It's betrayal. It's a sin. And someone will pay the price... Because in the end- Some whispers refuse to be silenced.

Berlin Hooke is a young, talented fashion designer with big dreams. When she gets a job at Voss Couture, one of New York’s most powerful fashion houses, she feels like her life is finally starting. Working under the famous billionaire, Vicar Voss. The “not easy to please” boss: he is strict and too focused on success to care about anyone’s feelings. But as Berlin’s designs catch his attention, something unexpected happens between them. Behind Vicar's attitude is a man who is lonely and secretly drawn to her honesty and creativity. In a cruel act of betrayal, Arica, Berlin's best friend tricks Berlin at a company event: drugging her drink and setting her up to spend the night with Alexander. The next morning, Berlin wakes up in his hotel suite in a confused and ashamed state. Vicar, believing she planned it to climb the ladder, accuses her of seducing him. Berlin was broken and quit her job and disappeared from New York. Weeks later, she finds out she’s pregnant. She decides to raise the baby alone, far away from the man who would never believe her truth. Three years have passed. Berlin builds her own small fashion brand, determined to give her son, Ethan, a good life. But destiny has other plans. During a fashion expo, she meets Vicar again. He’s still as powerful and intimidating as ever and when he sees her little boy, he freezes. Ethan’s eyes are exactly like his. Vicar begins to suspect the truth. After running a secret DNA test, his world shatters, Ethan is his son. He becomes furious and feels betrayed, Vicar confronts Berlin demanding answers. When she finally tells him about that night and Aria's trap, he breaks down pleading for a chance to take responsibility as a father. He wants to be a father to Ethan and maybe something more to Berlin. But old wounds are not easily healed. When Arica returns, she tries to ruin Berlin’s reputation again, forcing both Vicar and Berlin to face the truth of their past. Arica had recorded Berlin and Vicar that night and planned to leak the video to ruin them both. Vicar realizes the face depth of Arica’s betrayal and how much Berlin had suffered because of it. Vicar exposes Arica publicly. He declares his love for Berlin and takes full responsibility, risking his empire and image. He proposes to Berlin and marries her in a private ceremony. Berlin becomes the head designer of Voss couture while Arica faces charges and is blacklisted from the fashion industry.

A man sits in prison, haunted by the twisted fate that brought him there: the funeral of the very chef who murdered his parents. His tale begins decades earlier, when a world‑renowned Italian chef opened a restaurant in his quiet town, dazzling crowds with food said to taste like magic. But one scorching summer night, the restaurant erupted in flames. The chef’s wife and daughter perished, and the chef himself fell into a coma, while whispers of sabotage by rivals swirled through the streets. The police dismissed it as a mere kitchen accident, and the town moved on. Yet for the narrator, that fire was only the spark of a darker story — one that would end behind iron bars.

On the night of her engagement party, Alayna Sandra discovers her future contract husband is cheating on her with her own sister. She's shattered, broken, and furious all at once. So when she finds his stepbrother, Dafa Halton, she marries him instead. But now, why is her ex fiance the one begging her to come back? And who would have thought that his useless stepbrother would turn out to be the best man she's ever met. -Love Reclamation: Escaping My Contract Husband, Finding His Stepbrother By Yuliaresi Anjelina

Berry had fallen because the fear had made her knees weak. She crawled towards the phone and dialled Nathan's number. It didn't go through. She tried again and again until she felt a sharp pain on her scalp. The beautiful guy had caught her by the hair. 'how long will you keep pretending you don't know me?'

His mouth was on mine before I could think. "This is a mistake," I gasped against his lips. "The best ones always are," Bryan growled, backing me against his office door. His hand slid up my thigh, lifting my gown slowly. "Sign the contract, Alice. Give me six months. Let me use you the way they used you." "And then what?" I asked. "Then we destroy them together." His thumb traced my bottom lip. "Every single one.” Alice Morgan thought the worst betrayal was catching her husband in bed with her best friend, but she was wrong. The real betrayal was discovering they were both part of a corporate conspiracy that destroyed her career, her reputation, and nearly her life. Three years later, she's rebuilding in a new city when she walks into Bryan Hale's office, the ruthless billionaire CEO who's been hunting the same people who ruined her. He has the power and resources, and she has the evidence they've been trying to bury. Together, they make a perfect team. But their alliance comes with a binding contract that ties their fates together legally and financially. If one falls, they both do. Trust isn't optional; it's survival. As they plot revenge by day and battle their explosive attraction by night, the lines blur between partnership and obsession, because when you make a deal with a man like Bryan Hale, you don't just risk your fortune. You risk your heart, and Alice already lost that once.

Semi-Rock Bottom isn't so bad.  Meet Kris Knight, a multi-year veteran in the pro wrestling business, traveling across the world to hone his craft. Now in the latter half of his twenties, he seeks another opportunity at stardom and championships after a disastrous first run in his early days. See Kris as he navigates love and bumps through the pandemic year, meeting the freaks and geeks of wrestling in the heart of Oakland.

Rahul Kumar fails the police exam and loses everything—his future, his girlfriend Ananya, and his faith in the system. When Ananya is found brutally murdered, her organs stitched into a grotesque puppet doll, Rahul becomes the prime suspect. Framed by his rival Niraj and hunted by corrupt police, Rahul escapes custody and becomes a fugitive in 2006 Bhopal. With a city-wide manhunt closing in, he must investigate the case himself to find the real "Puppet Dancer" serial killer.

Natalia, also known as Great Eden, was sucked into a world unknown to her. Everything was set up to look like it was a game, but it was far from the truth. While trying to become strong for her alliance, the brutal truth of how weak she was cost her a near death experience. Erza, a mystery of her own, protected Eden on multiple occasions. Aside from trying to discover the truth and help others return home, a betrayal was brewing in each corner.  Great Eden and her friends uncovered secrets of the game that was jaw-dropping.

He engineered every detail of a perfect marriage — except his true identity. The most dangerous secret is hidden within the most flawless marriage. Who is this man who loved her by a script?

Ella Martins, a 23-year-old kindergarten teacher, thought she had enough on her plate—until her brother dies, leaving behind a debt she could never imagine. $2 million owed to the most feared mafia boss in the city. Dante Russo, the ruthless and enigmatic Alpha Male known as “The Devil,” gives her a choice she can’t refuse: marry him for one year under a strict contract, or face consequences she cannot survive. One rule: don’t fall in love. But as danger and desire collide, Ella discovers that some hearts cannot be controlled—and some bonds cannot be broken. A dark, thrilling romance full of tension, forbidden desire, and a love that defies every rule.

“That child is mine. And so are you,” he commanded, his viper-green eyes pinning her in place. Grace couldn’t believe that he—Carlos Benjamin, her new CEO and eight years her junior—was the father of her unborn baby. “You can go back to that deadbeat you call a husband, or you can come with me and have everything.” ===== For the last five years of her marriage, Grace Preston, 32, believed she was broken. She couldn’t have a child, and her deadbeat husband, Charles, never let her forget it, calling her useless while she worked tirelessly to fund his failed acting career. He didn’t just break her spirit; he shattered her trust by cheating on her with her own sister. Heartbroken, Grace fled to her office late one night, seeking solace at the bottom of a bottle. She wasn’t alone. A beautiful, blond-haired man was there, nursing his own wounds. He never told her his name, but he offered her a night of oblivion. Fueled by whiskey and a desperate need for revenge, she gave in to her darkest desires, pulling the willing stranger into her web. In her drunken haze, she thought, “If my husband can have his fun, then so can I.” She never worried about protection, convinced she was barren. Until a month later, when a positive pregnancy test trembled in her hands. Grace Preston, the ‘barren’ wife, was pregnant. In a single night, the stranger gave her what Charles couldn’t in five years. Now Carlos has made his claim, pulling her into a world of immense power and lethal secrets. Will Grace escape her toxic marriage only to be trapped in this captivating young billionaire’s golden cage? Or is trading one prison for another a mistake that will cost her more than just her heart?

Synopsis: In the autumn of 1810, four-year-old August Everhart’s world is shattered when he witnesses the brutal murder of his noble parents within the walls of their family estate. Once a boy filled with dreams of knights and fairy tales, August is left hollow, his childhood stolen in an instant. Taken in by distant relatives who see him more as a duty than a child, he grows in silence and shadow haunted by a past he cannot forget, and a truth no one dares to speak. In a world ruled by class, expectation, and silence, can love survive when it must remain unseen? The Quiet Flame is a tender, tragic, and emotionally rich tale of hidden wounds, quiet longing, and the courage it takes to love in a world that won’t allow it

At the age of eleven, the youth Ye Xuan's soul traveled through time to the distant Mythical Era, becoming an Undying monster emerging from the Emperor's Burial Ground, influencing one era after another. Yet behind Ye Xuan, an invisible force manipulated everything. Struggling to take control of his fate, Ye Xuan exhausted all means, but just as he was on the brink of success, he was betrayed by his disciple and wife, causing his soul to slumber for ninety thousand years. When Ye Xuan awoke, he found himself back in his own body and had become the son-in-law of the Emperor Immortal Sect, treated by others as a fool. The story begins from here. Eternal Emperor Soul, returned overnight. From then on, an emperor rose as a son-in-law, ushering in an invincible myth that dominated through the ages! Simplified version: The foolish son-in-law, soul returned, rose in one morning, invincible through all ages. Show-off version: "I am invincible; do as you please." — Ye Xuan. Meme version: That year, my hands in my pockets, I knew no rivals.