Short Reads

"Valentine's Day. I was stuck on ER duty at Brighton City Hospital.Theodore Madoff, who was supposed to be working late, strolled in carrying his st..."

"I was a mermaid from the deep sea. Out of curiosity and playfulness, I was caught by a fisherman and endured unbearable torment.Just when I was on ..."

"I'm Caleb Jennings. When I announce my early retirement, everyone in the city cheers. Only Nathan Sloan, my junior from the police academy, who cla..."

"On the day I tried on my wedding dress, a stranger burst into the VIP fitting room and slashed me with a knife.She tore my dress to shreds, her fac..."

"Maverick Lloyd finally agrees to marry me after five years of dating.We head to the hospital to tell my ill mother the good news. On the way there,..."

"Zachary Smithson was my uncle in name. When I was seventeen, I confessed to him, but he rejected me fiercely.He tore up my love letter and told me ..."

"I did three years in prison for my wife, Lilian Parson.The day I got out, she handed me an envelope for her company's grand opening. Inside was a s..."

"When I was injured, Alpha Kenny Havon had his arm around the newly arrived she-wolf, Leah Sterlace. He was flirting with her.All it took was Leah s..."

"My boyfriend, Drew Myers, has proposed to me 99 times. Meanwhile, his childhood sweetheart, Tammy Fowler, has relapsed into depression 99 times.Whe..."

"I spent five years by Casey Fusco's side, turning him from a beggar in the slums to a mafia Don.On the second day he put on the family ring, his fi..."

"My sister-in-law, Esmerelda Black, hates that her mother, Ruth Jennings, favors me. To make things worse, she has the ability to hear Ruth's though..."

"Niccolo Rossi, my five-year-old son, accidentally wanders into the location where an underground firearms transaction between mafia forces is being..."

"The night before our wedding, word spread like wildfire through high society that my fiancee had thrown herself a bachelorette party with ten virgi..."

"A year ago, I was a rising star in the legal world. But everything changed when I uncovered evidence that my fiance's first love had caused an acci..."

"Three years into my marriage with Shawn, I found out I was pregnant.I nervously but joyfully prepared to surprise him with the news.Yet what I rece..."

"When I turn 20, my grandfather's old friend—now the richest man in the country—lays out photos of his grandsons in front of me. He says, "Pick..."

"Billionaire Ethan Gibson, determined to break the family's curse of ending without an heir, spent a fortune recruiting ten "candidate mothers&..."

"My boyfriend's first love and I roll down the stairs at the same time. I'm unscathed, but she passes out.He's furious and orders people to break my..."

"Having been reborn, this time around, I look straight at Arthur Thorne and choose to break our mate bond.Lilian Wilder, the she-wolf he's been seei..."

"The day I found out I was dying, I ran into my ex-husband—yeah, the richest guy in the country—and his three-months-pregnant wife. He asked if I re..."

"Ever since she was two, Elara Vane became her twin sister's personal blood bank after the girl was diagnosed with a rare genetic defect.Doctors pre..."

"I get undressed and hide in my husband's dorm at work to surprise him. Yet it backfires on me—instead of my husband coming, his three colleagues ar..."

"My fiance, Henry Gordon, was two hours late to our vows on our wedding day.Just as he was catching his breath and about to say ‘I do’, he received ..."

"On the day of our engagement, just because Madison Calder wants to eat the ravioli my fiance Nicholas Olsen made, he decides to leave without hesit..."