Short Reads

"I stared at the photos attached to an email.My Alpha mate, Marcus Hale, was supposed to be negotiating a partnership with another pack. But the pho..."

"On the way to the airport, a Valterra tried to cut me off. After overtaking, he kept blocking my way. Since I was running late and did not want tro..."

"At the annual company raffle, I had barely stepped onto the stage when my supervisor, Lily Smith, pressed a crumpled slip of paper into my palm.&qu..."

"In the first year I was brought home, the phony heiress Viola Baker suggested a trip to Gold Island to build a sisterly connection with me.My fianc..."

"When my four sons were finally old enough for preschool, I arrived at the school office with my marriage certificate and their birth certificates, ..."

"On the 99th time we fall into a frosty standoff, my girlfriend, Christina Davenport, does something she's never done before—she caves and breaks th..."

"My husband, Clement Norman, promised to make up for our missed honeymoon. It was five years late, but I was still excited.I got ready and really lo..."

"Stanley Hamilton and I were basically Southport's favorite hate-watch couple.For Elodie—my oh-so-perfect adopted sister—he wrecked my company and h..."

"My childhood friend called, saying he was trapped in a fire.He wanted to hear my voice one last time, and I rushed to the scene as fast as I could...."

"When my CEO wife, Nina Wynn, learned I voluntarily handed a multimillion-dollar project to her favorite assistant, Zach Channing, she thought her t..."

"During a typhoon alert, Joyce Lane calls me and tells me to pick her up from her company.On the way there, I receive a text from her. "You don..."

"The night I got back from my work trip, the drugstore called—said my rewards card got declined that afternoon. I needed to reload it.Adrian was in ..."

"I tried to die a hundred times to make him notice me.For two years, I was Shawn Scott’s wife in name only—an unwanted bride bound by a scandal, lef..."

"In my previous life, on the day my sister and I attended the Witch Covenant's mating ceremony, I saved a fallen vampire prince.To repay my debt, th..."

"When my mother won a million dollars from a lottery ticket, she prepared an envelope for each of her three children.After we opened them, my younge..."

"When Alexander Smith stands in front of me and says he's going to marry someone else, that's when I realize he's been reborn too.I remember our 20 ..."

"At my engagement banquet, a student sponsored by my fiancé sneaked drugs into a wine glass.To save my meticulously planned event, I quietly had a s..."

"An earthquake struck suddenly during our honeymoon. I suggested that we flee immediately.My husband’s former lover mocked me for being cowardly and..."

"George Quinn brought his childhood sweetheart and their illegitimate son home.He said it was just a drunken mistake from seven years ago, and now h..."

"On the tenth year of my marriage with Adrian Sutton as a replacement, my older sister, Vivian Cavendish, suddenly returns to our lives.The entire f..."

"The mother of Mr. Burr, the hospital director, was critically ill and needed emergency surgery. My wife, wanting to help her beloved crush, Cedric ..."

"Jim Charleston is my foster brother. He and I have been dating in secret for 10 years.On the day we decide to go public, Jim receives an undercover..."

"My sister wanted to make a quick buck selling herself on a cruise ship.I tried desperately to stop her, but my entire family held me down and drown..."

"I secretly invite my in-laws over for the New Year, hoping to surprise my husband, Huxley Carlson.But the moment my father-in-law steps through the..."