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Married To My Ex-Fiancé's Silent Uncle
Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he’d dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family’s land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell—the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I’ve suspended Hugh’s executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I’m just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.
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My SAT prep book felt heavy as I approached Jake Peterson' s front porch for our usual Tuesday session.
Tutoring was my reliable income, essential for my college fund.
The front door stood ajar, and a muffled thumping from upstairs hinted at something unexpected.
Suddenly, my vision warped, inundated with glowing, intrusive text: `[Live-Chat Commentary]`.
Remarks like `User_DramaQueen77: OMG, is the nerdy girl gonna bust in on them?!` and `User_JashleyFan01: Nooo, don' t ruin the Jashley moment! They' re endgame!` flashed across my sight.
My life, apparently, was now a live broadcast for anonymous strangers on the internet.
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More Than Just A Tutor
My SAT prep book felt heavy as I approached Jake Peterson' s front porch for our usual Tuesday session. Tutoring was my reliable income, essential for my college fund. The front door stood ajar, and a muffled thumping from upstairs hinted at something unexpected. Suddenly, my vision warped, inund
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More Than Just Paper: The Degrees That Fought Back
I stood on the polished stage of "Startup Goldrush," a triple-major Ivy League prodigy, ready to pitch myself and make my working-class family proud. Then, Victoria Sterling, the lead judge, unleashed her attack: dismissing my credentials as "just paper," demanding I decode her vague tech jargon, a
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I was more than pretty
They said I was beautiful - but not real. That my smile was perfect - but my past made me broken. I spent years trying to prove I was more than the girl who changed her face to survive the world's cruelty. I married Julian Vale, believing love would finally see me. I called Serena Blake my sister, t
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I JUST WANT A CEO
At the age of 23, Adriana wasn't interested in marriage because of her obsession with fictional characters. But her step-mom wanted to get rid of her, so she set Adriana up with a random stranger she met on a highway. Unknown to her step-mom, Harold turned out to be a different person, he was
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The Scavenger's Secret: More Than Just Junk
In the Iron Vultures biker club, I was Jennifer Johns, the resident weirdo, the perpetually broke scavenger who couldn't even ride a bike. They called me useless, a charity case. But then came the Sturgis Gauntlet, a brutal, mandatory rally that threatened to bankrupt us. Suddenly, the club charter
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More Than Love
"We're getting married." Those simple but meaningful words slipped lightly from Oh Yoonki. Who would have thought that those words came out not because Yoonki wanted to marry Lim Airin, a poor girl trapped in a situation and required to make a quick decision? Lim Airin was forced to become a surrog
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More than Roses
Vanessa had always dreamt of pursuing a career in music, but her father had different plans for her. During her first year studying the course her father had chosen, she encountered Marvin. He wasn't just handsome; his smile had the power to melt Vanessa's heart. She fell in love with him and became
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More Than Friends
They said they're only friends but they kissed a lot. They cuddled together. They take glance at each other. They sit down next to each other even they have their 'first time' together. And no one of them want to be separate from each other. Then what is this friendship called? Friends with benefits
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More Than Ashes
The smell of smoke woke me up, a thick, acrid scent clinging to my throat. My heart pounded as sirens pierced the night, a chilling prelude. Three missed calls from Marco, my dad's sous chef. "It' s the restaurant. It' s… there was a fire." I ran, the air growing thick with the smell of burning
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More Than Secretary
When Katrina started working as Lucas's secretary she never envisioned falling for the handsome and arrogant CEO but as she worked alongside him, she discovered that there is more to him than he lets the outside world see and her heart couldn't help but fall for him. But Lucas only saw her as his s
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More Than Desire
Chase Ward believed in only two things: power and desire. When he met The Lady in Red through an anonymous chat, he became almost obsessed with the influence it had on him. So, he made only one offer: 3 weeks to have her. Little did he know that the person for whom he felt this irresistible attracti
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More Than Worthless
I married into the Sterling family, only to find myself alone on my wedding night, my husband, Mark Sterling, nowhere to be found. When he finally returned, he looked at me with disdain, sneering that I was "all ambition and no class," and admitted he was forced to marry me. My empire, built from no
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More than a Surrogate
Sara Carr was just another lowly omega, until the day she was forced to carry the child of the Viking Alpha, Raylor Kane. What was meant to be a duty turned into a curse and then destiny. Confused between hating the man who fathered her son and the flickers of humanity she sees beneath his hardene
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More Than a Hillbilly Girl
My name is Gabrielle Johns, and I have a "knack" -a gut feeling that always comes true-and a secret curse: anyone who hurts me gets their comeuppance, disastrously proportional. My prediction of a 100-to-1 long shot winning the Kentucky Derby made me famous, and when Wesley Fowler, owner of a faili
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No More Than Extra Love
Su Yu's name is very special, the second word is redundant, the combination of these two words looks ugly, she also feels ugly when her name is said, and many people who know her for the first time think she is a boy when they see her name. So Su Yu hated her name very much, as if this name had brou
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More Than A Business Deal
"This marriage is nothing more than a business deal so don't expect anything from me" Those were the words he uttered as soon as we were married. How do you make your arranged marriage work when your husband has a mistress threatening to kick you out just few weeks into your wedding? Hazel Reye
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Nothing More Than A Bully
A simple girl, Sofia Black didn't expect to collide with the biggest bully on the very first day of her school. She couldn't realize that her whole life was about to take a different turn. A turn that was both pleasant and unpleasant at the same time.
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More than meets the eyes
When Clarissa Dawne meets Damon Smith, the most feared and ruthless alpha of all, sparks fly, but what follows is far from love at first sight. For Clarissa is the daughter of a hunter who tracks down werewolves, vampires, witches, and wizards for experiments. For Damon and Derek Smith, twin alphas
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Every Kiss Is Timeless
Manson's life had been saved by a girl. The only thing he could remember about her was her smell. Her fragrance lingered in his memory for the past two years, a sweet and unforgettable impression that came back to him whenever he closed his eyes. He had been trying to find her for a very long time.
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Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage
After being fired from her job as a reporter, Eva Langston returns to San Francisco, only to find her family on the brink of financial ruin. Her once-thriving father now drowns in debt, and his last hope lies in a man she never wanted to see again, Lucian Thorne, her cold, calculating billionaire ex
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