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The Duke's Unwanted Second Wife

**Mature Content** Eilika Wolanski is the eldest daughter of one of Varos’ most respected merchants, but respect has never brought her kindness. A childhood accident left a scar across her cheek, and with it, a cruel label she can never escape. The “Unwanted Woman” of Varos. Mocked in public, pitied in private, and treated like a blemish to be hidden, Eilika grows up learning one painful truth: beauty matters more than character in high society. So when an unexpected marriage proposal arrives from the powerful House of Kingsley, no one believes it is real. The groom is Damian Van Kingsley, the widowed duke of Varos, feared for his cold temperament and admired for his unmatched looks and wealth. Rumors follow him like shadows. He has a secret mistress, a broken heart drowned in alcohol, and worst of all… A son he barely acknowledges. For Eilika, marrying Damian isn’t a dream. It’s the only option left for survival. Damian, once the kingdom’s most desirable nobleman, has been nothing but a hollow man since the death of his first wife. He has abandoned his responsibilities, pushed away his child, and lived with one vow burning in his chest. He will never replace his first wife. To force him back into duty, his mother arranges a second marriage, one he never asked for, and one he refuses to accept. Damian swears he will never touch her , will never look at her and will never treat her as his wife. But Eilika isn’t the greedy noblewoman he expected. She doesn’t ask for his affection. She doesn’t crave his title. She doesn’t even want his love. What Eilika wants… is something far more dangerous. A family. And perhaps that is the very thing Damian has been starving for all along. ~~~~ “This bed will remain cold until your last breath.” Damian’s voice boomed through the dark chamber. Eilika didn’t flinch at his words. Instead, she replied gracefully, “I don’t seek love, Duke. You can visit your secret mistress every night… Just don’t come near me.” This marriage was never meant to become real, until the Duke's heart begins to betray its own rules.
Kn_star8 · 1m Views

The Vampire Sorority: Dare to Defy

"Welcome to Delta Zeta Xi Sorority" Will you gamble everyone and everything in their present life in exchange for an unending future? To be a vampire? So, how submissive can you be, and how far can you sacrifice to be in the only sorority that can give you more perks than usual, most of all to be immortal and powerful? Will these five college girls survive and be a part of the most prestigious sisterhood in the University when in their last initiation, they are dared to do everything they are feared for and almost the total opposite of what they aim for. Dares that at the same time could ruin everything special about their present life and without knowing that the final pledge is to be an immortal. Would they choose to do the dare or defy? Nevertheless, do they have any choices at all? [WARNING: MATURED CONTENT] THE DARES : "We are training you not to love. Love is the reason why humans are weak." "But we are human!" Zara screamed in protest. "Not for long," she uttered under her breath. Being in the sisterhood means that you're strong enough to go against your emotions. *Be a seducer, be a heartbreaker, be a friend and help them see that the love they had was just their kryptonite. Let them open their eyes, how their lovers don’t deserve them. Sleep with each of your friend’s lovers, once or twice. Seduce them and take away the weakest link. The sooner as you can finish the dare The sooner you can become a pledge The sooner, for your dreams to achieve.
Gnaipafe · 286.3k Views

THE WORK OF DESTINY

Esther Besson is a brilliant, kind-hearted, and determined young woman, raised within a powerful yet deeply united family. The only daughter of Alex Besson, an influential businessman, and Asaël, a strong and loving woman, Esther has always grown up surrounded by love, strong values, and high expectations. Trained from a very young age to one day take over the family business, she moves through life with calmness, intelligence, and remarkable maturity. When her parents entrust her with leading a strategic meeting abroad, Esther has no idea that this journey will turn her entire life upside down. What was meant to be a simple business merger becomes a political and emotional trap: the family company must unite with that of the Arrisons, led by Jon Arrison, her father’s longtime best friend. But the real shock comes from Tony Arrison. Cold, distant, arrogant, and mysterious, Tony is the heir to the Arrison empire. Forced by his father to marry Esther in order to ensure the continuity and stability of the company, he accepts an arranged marriage he never chose. Esther, on her side, discovers that this engagement is the only way to protect her family and her future, after being betrayed by Malik, the man she thought she loved—manipulated by his father’s hatred and thirst for revenge. Trapped in an agreement that goes far beyond them, Esther and Tony find themselves bound by an imposed alliance filled with silence, tension, and confrontation. He shields himself behind a wall of ice. She responds with dignity, respect, and a quiet strength that gradually disarms every attack. In a world where business dictates feelings, where alliances are sealed through marriage, and where past grudges threaten the future, Esther must learn to make a choice: submit to her destiny or transform it. What if this forced marriage, born of constraint and conflict, were to slowly become a place of rebirth, healing… and perhaps an unexpected love?
Luméra_Cinma · 85.8k Views

Elementalist: Time Controllers

Is this one of your typical cultivation fantasy romance novels? Well try to read further if you think like that. There lived a girl who didn’t know her family nor her actual name. One thing she knew, she was weak and couldn’t advance her element bending ability. As a water elementalist, she sucks! When the twin brother asked her to join an academy to improve their mastery in element bending, she met ‘the one’. Unfortunately she had been claimed by one of the Elementalist Knight as his ‘inamorata’. She couldn’t run away nor change her fate. How in the world did she become someone’s inamorata when her heart belongs to someone else? As the adventure goes on she found out she was not really weak as she thought. She could freeze time! Was she the rumored extinct time-controller? What happened with other time-controllers until they became extinct? Why were they killed? 17 years old Niken braced herself together with her twin brother, Richard, made an appearance into an unfamiliar place to them. Shock after shock came to the girl but that’s not even the peak. It turned out Niken was not your ordinary time-controller! She was a princess of the Nishian Kingdom where all the time-controller lived. Moreover she was The Great Time Master! WHAT?! How could this be? More danger lurking around her as there was someone who hunted her for her power ever since her birth. Would she survive? Would she accept the unconditional love from the Elementalist Knight of the Beast? Or perhaps, will she die in the hand of a greedy man before she found out her real parent’s whereabouts? Let's find out only in 'Elementalist : Time Controller' Come to talk to me in https://discord.gg/a7ypnYw7TF *** The cover isn't mine, the credit belong to the rightful owner *** Support: paypal.me/vorstinstory
VorstinStory · 950.6k Views

I will be the perfect wife this time

​"Dear Father, you taught me how to be a monster. It is only fair that you are the one to taste my monstrosity." ​Olivia Luceron was the perfect tool for her father, the Duke of Tharon. For years, she played the role of the devoted daughter, acting as a spy within her own marriage to dismantle her husband’s power and surrender his secrets. Her reward for such loyalty? A cold dungeon, a mutilated body, and a walk of shame through the streets of the Imperial Capital. ​She died hating the man she once worshipped, and grieving for the husband she had systematically destroyed. Duke Matthias—the man she treated with nothing but icy indifference—was the only one who stayed faithful to her until his final breath. ​But death was not the end. ​When Olivia opens her eyes, she finds herself back in time, exactly one year before her tragic end. Her platinum hair is unblemished, her skin is free of scars, and the husband she betrayed stands before her once again—with those same cold eyes, devoid of any warmth. ​In this life, Olivia seeks neither forgiveness nor love; she has long since lost faith in both. She has only one purpose: to play the "Perfect Wife" to atone for her sins, while systematically annihilating the Tharon bloodline—the very lineage that turned her into a monster before discarding her. ​She will wear the mask of ice the world expects to hide a heart of fire. But as she navigates a world of lethal poisons and imperial intrigue, she realizes that the silent Duke she once ignored hides a truth far more deadly than the House of Tharon itself. ​The hunt has begun. And this time, Olivia is no longer the prey—she is the hunter.
Ines_kharfallah · 1.1m Views

XIAOxBAI: A Romance Tale in the Martial World

A/N: I am currently rewriting this novel... ^^^^^ After a millennium of strife between the Demonic Cult led by the Heavenly Demon, and the Righteous Faction led by the Heavenly Murim Alliance, something once thought impossible occurred. The newly appointed leader of the Demonic Cult, the Heavenly Demon, asked for peace. Now twenty years later, a generation of children on the Central Plains grew up only ever hearing of the bloody battles between the Demonic Cult and the Righteous Faction in scary bedtime stories told by their parents. .... Han Xiao Mo was known for being the good-for-nothing Third Young Master and son of the Heavenly Murim Alliance Leader. Nevertheless, he was content with living his life as carefree as he wanted regardless of what the outside world thinks of him, however, that all changed when his father and older brother suddenly informed him that he was going to get married. But what was worse for him was that his fiancée was the daughter of the Leader of the Demonic Cult, the Heavenly Murim Alliance's enemy! "So what if my marriage is for the greater good of the Central Plains? I still refuse!" Xiao Mo immediately refused to get married, even going on a hunger strike. But under his father and older brother's persistence, he suddenly agreed to the two's surprise. But, unbeknownst to the excited father and son, the youngest of the family was concocting a plot to avoid his marriage for good! However, in the midst of carrying out this grand plan, Xiao Mo stumbled upon an unexpected... bump? "Ah! What the... "This is... "You're actually a...!" *** Updates: Fridays 12pm EST/between 1-3 chapters
GuiltyDream · 97.5k Views