Short Reads

"The doctor said I only had three days left to live.Acute liver failure.My only hope was an experimental clinical trial. It was extremely risky, but..."

"At our wedding, Toby Webb, the impoverished student my fiancee, Elvira Britton, has been sponsoring, barges into the venue while wailing at the top..."

"My husband was an air traffic controller. In our past lives, my daughter had a heart attack when the flight we were in faced a thunderstorm. I cont..."

"My girlfriend is an heiress from the upper class of Jetland, and she is worth tens of billions of dollars.In order to test me, she has never spent ..."

"Lily Thornton was the underprivileged student I'd sponsored for a full ten years.From middle school through college, I covered every penny of her t..."

"At the party, my son, Hughie Peters, deliberately raised his voice and said to my wife, Penelope Peters, "Mommy, you're pregnant with Darren's..."

"Amy Lacey and I were sworn enemies—stuck in a marriage neither of us wanted.She blamed me for ruining her last chance with her childhood sweetheart..."

"I was feeding my seven-year-old daughter, Lucy Langer, when Robert Langer crashed through the front door, reeking of alcohol.His shirt collar hung ..."

"For three years, Jared never touched Lucia. But late at night, he'd sneak off and get off to a photo of Alice—her so-called sister.Lucia didn't fin..."

"At a company party, Taylor Kennedy plays a game of mouth-to-mouth cookie biting with his female assistant as everyone watches.I blend into the crow..."

"My three older brothers, Marcus, Jeremy, and Andrew Graham love me to the moon and back.Marcus clumsily practices peeling apples for me when I lie ..."

"My husband's first love was scalded by boiling water. To punish me, he forced me into a customized steamer half my height, turned the heat to its h..."

"In my sixth year with Nathan Bennett."Nathan, I'm getting married," I said.He jolted, suddenly snapping back to reality, looking somewhat..."

"I've been in a coma for six months after a car accident.When I finally wake up, the first thing I hear is something sloppy in my hospital ward.My g..."

"I was the company's top sales performer, but I never clocked in or out, and I rarely showed my face at the office. Two-thirds of the employees had ..."

"I was six months pregnant when my husband, Michael Greene, shoved me off the edge of a yacht during a birthday party.Why? Because Lily Clement, his..."

"When my mother finally found the real heiress, she was on her knees selling shoes on the street. And to my surprise, I recognized her—she was none ..."

"My husband, Steve Malone, thinks of himself as a highly-educated person. Not only that, but he's also very uninterested in physical intimacy.When w..."

"In her third year of dating Jackson Hunter, the cool and proud Lumina Walker took out a secret loan of one million dollars to repay his debt. She e..."

"Just as my wealthy boyfriend and I were talking about getting married, his mother dismissed me as an unrefined girl and demanded I attend a finishi..."

"I was a soldier's wife. Less than two years into our marriage, I asked Lucian Summers for a divorce because I found a little handmade bracelet at h..."

"The day Jessica Smith and I went to pick out our wedding rings, her long-lost first love unexpectedly returned to town.When we went to pick him up ..."

"After my father passes away, my mother—now married into the wealthy Hawthorne family—brings me to live with them.Everyone laughs, saying I'm being ..."

"When a kidnapper forces my husband, Liam Waltz, to choose between saving me and our son, he sacrifices me without a second thought.I'm pushed off t..."