Short Reads

"On the company's designated monthly day off, Gigi Lott, Donald Hoover's secretary, posted an Instagram story.The caption read, "So what if you..."

"After a team building event, my colleague, Matthew Wells, gives me a ride to the company so I can work overtime. That very night, his girlfriend th..."

"Scarlet blood trickled from my thigh as I clutched Arvin Owen's hand."My belly... It hurts so much..."He shook off my hand indifferently...."

"My husband sponsored a poor female college student.While I was being dragged into an alley by a criminal, he was helping her pick out lingerie. Whi..."

"The eighth time I proposed to Jason, he shut me down cold and indifferent, just like all the times before.He said he needed more time, and I was re..."

"I was a plus-size girl, weighing about 220 pounds. On graduation day, I finally gathered the courage to confess my feelings to Calvin Preston, the ..."

"It was my twentieth birthday. My father presented me with the photos of many rich heiresses across the nation. He wanted me to pick the one to have..."

"Everyone says Brandon Foster loves me to the bone. I'm the only one who knows he has a secret lover—a poor student I once sponsored.On our wedding ..."

"Chuck Bassett, heir to an Urbington East fortune in Nuvark City, has dated 42 girlfriends—all foreign, all in white dresses, every single one with ..."

"Three years ago, Samantha Jade and her parents were trapped in a raging fire. She watched with her own eyes as the flames devoured her mother and f..."

"How much did my wife love me?To marry me, she proposed ninety-nine times. I was not moved until the hundredth.On our wedding day, I gave her ninety..."

"When an earthquake strikes, I'm trapped under one end of a collapsed slab. On the other end is the student I've been sponsoring.My husband, Sebasti..."

"Of the five boys who'd been raised to marry me, Lance Riverford was the one who hated me the most. And yet, he was the one I loved the most.Three t..."

"Eight years after my boyfriend’s mom made us break up, that strong-willed, wealthy woman suddenly showed up again.“After you left, Nigel’s hair tur..."

"In the second year after marrying Zac Jacobs, he finally became a hotshot in the business world.He was decisive and swift in the market, and no wom..."

"Hadden's sister had merely choked on some water at the pool while she was swimming, and for that, he shoved me into the pool after tying me up. He ..."

"On the day of my wedding anniversary, I was cleaning my house when I found a picture album.As it turned out, my husband had been religiously taking..."

"My husband's beloved lover suffered from menstruation complications. A traveling doctor claimed that a fresh placenta was needed to cure her.His ga..."

"My daughter has a sudden allergic reaction, and my husband, an expert in these things, is the only one who can save her.I call him at this critical..."

"My husband used to love me so much.Back then, he proposed 99 times just to marry me. It wasn't until the 100th proposal that I was finally moved by..."

"At our Thanksgiving family dinner, my stepbrother brought his beautiful girlfriend to meet the family for the first time.She held up her wine glass..."

"Five years after my death, my daughter, Emma, dialed Xander Green’s number.She cautiously asked, "Do you like my mom?"She was trying to g..."

"Ian Tost was the prince of the notorious underworld. Everyone in Harbor City knew he spoiled me rotten. He even went so far as to hire ninety-nine ..."

"In the final year of my bond with vampire lord Saul, the curse of our pact struck, and I was overwhelmed by agony, but my lord was nowhere to be fo..."