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THE MAN WHO BROUGHT SPRING TO MY HEART

The drums were beating. The zurnas cried out into the night. People laughed, danced, and happily enjoyed the food being served. Joy filled the courtyard like a festival. In short… everyone was happy. Everyone except me. Especially my father. He drank and laughed with the satisfaction of a man who had just made a great deal. Selling his own daughter had filled him with a strange pride. He smiled at people, joked with them—perhaps more than he had ever smiled in his entire life. And me? What was my crime? What sin had I committed to deserve this? Was it my fate to be sold to a man older than me before I had even turned eighteen? A man who had barely a shred of humanity left in him. A twisted, useless man. But he had money. He had power. He had influence. And because of that, everyone bowed their heads before him. So this was life. This was the destiny written for me. Was I supposed to accept it without fighting? Without begging? Without even trying to escape? To live as the second wife of a man in his thirties who didn’t know the meaning of kindness? Before I even reached my mid-twenties, I would probably have three children. During the day, I would work in the fields, vineyards, and gardens. And at night… I would be expected to please the man they called my “husband.” I would serve his parents like a slave. And worse… I would probably end up serving his first wife as well—the woman he had already beaten half to death. Was this really my fate? My youth… My life… My body… My womanhood…
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The House of Queens

They call them queens. Not because they wear crowns. Because no one dares tell them no. Celeste and Claire were raised in a world where power belongs to the people willing to take it. One is ruthless with a knife. The other can smile across a room while quietly deciding how to ruin the man sitting opposite her. Together, they are almost untouchable. Until a raid on a human-trafficking operation leaves them with two unexpected complications. Two men. Alec and Jace were never supposed to become part of their lives. They were supposed to be loose ends, dangerous only because a powerful man named Dario Kade wants them found. One carries a secret left behind by his dead father. The other is hiding an entire life behind the quiet face of a driver. Neither man asked to be taken. Neither expected to stay. And neither expected the women holding them captive to become the people they could no longer imagine living without. But there is more behind their kidnapping than either sister realizes. Kade has been searching for something for years. Something recorded in a ledger. Something connected to a dead man, a buried secret, and the people he has already killed to keep it buried. Now the Queens have it within reach. Revenge was supposed to be simple. Love was never part of the plan. And in their world, caring about someone is perhaps the most dangerous weakness of all. Because when the people you love become your greatest vulnerability, you have to decide what you are willing to destroy to keep them. Some women wait for someone to save them. These women became the ones everyone else needed saving from.
Bunnnyy · 5.3k Views

(BL)Forced To Marry My Highschool Bully

Synopsis Avery was badly bullied all through high school. It left him feeling broken and full of self-doubt. Years later, he’s slowly putting his life back together. But just as things start to get better, his father becomes seriously ill and needs a life-saving surgery. Avery’s stepmother says there’s only one way to pay for it: an arranged marriage. At first, she planned to marry off her own daughter to a rich man from a powerful family. But when they find out the man is in a coma after a car accident, she changes her mind. She refuses to let her daughter marry someone who may never wake up. Instead, she forces Avery into it—tricking him, threatening him, and reminding him that this is the only way to save his father’s life. Avery agrees, even though it breaks his heart. He goes through with the wedding without even seeing the groom’s face. On the night of the wedding, in his new home, Avery notices something strange. The man lying unconscious looks oddly familiar. He finds some old photos in the house…. The man he just married is Lucien—his high school bully. The same person who made him feel worthless for years. Old memories flood back, and Avery wants nothing more than to walk away. He calls his stepmother, ready to leave. But she gives him an awful choice: either divorce Lucien and let his father die, or stay married, save his father’s life, and gain wealth and power. With no way out, Avery stays. As time goes on, he watches Lucien’s quiet, sleeping face. And something feels off. The Lucien lying there doesn’t look like the cruel person Avery remembers. He wonders—was there more to Lucien than he ever knew? He tells himself it doesn’t matter. Lucien got what he deserved. But one night, Avery trips and falls on top of him… and at that exact moment, Lucien wakes up. After two years in a coma, Lucien opens his eyes—and finds out he’s married. To the same boy he used to bully. Now Avery doesn’t know what to feel. The past still hurts, but he starts to see a different side of Lucien. They were enemies. Strangers thrown together by fate. But maybe… just maybe, they’re meant to be something more.
BLossom · 219k Views