Time Pause

Modern

The heavy thud of the release stamp was the only goodbye I got from the warden after five years in federal prison. I stepped out into the blinding sun, expecting the same flash of paparazzi bulbs that had seen me dragged away in handcuffs, but there was only a single black limousine idling on the shoulder of the road. Inside sat my mother and sister, clutching champagne and looking at my frayed coat with pure disgust. They didn't offer a welcome home; instead, they tossed a thick legal document onto the table and told me I was dead to the city. "Gavin and I are getting engaged," my sister Mia sneered, flicking a credit card at me like I was a stray dog. "He doesn't need a convict ex-fiancée hanging around." Even after I saved their lives from an armed kidnapping attempt by ramming the attackers off the road, they rewarded me by leaving me stranded in the dirt. When I finally ran into Gavin, the man who had framed me, he pinned me against a wall and threatened to send me back to a cell if I ever dared to show my face at their wedding. They had stolen my biotech research, ruined my name, and let me rot for half a decade while they lived off my brilliance. They thought they had broken me, leaving me with nothing but an expired chapstick and a few old photos in a plastic bag. What they didn't know was that I had spent those five years becoming "Dr. X," a shadow consultant with five hundred million dollars in crypto and a secret that would bring the city to its knees. I wasn't just a victim anymore; I was a weapon, and I was pregnant with the heir they thought they had erased. I walked into the Melton estate and made an offer to the most powerful man in New York. "I'll save your grandfather's life," I told Horatio Melton, staring him down. "But the price is your last name. I'm taking back what's mine, and I'm starting with the man who thinks he's marrying my sister."

Romance

During their past life, they already know that will come to an end, this two soldier didn't confess or yet express their feelings with each other even it seems that the love is in the air, even though they fallen in love, due to some rules of being a soldier it became impossible. a bad luck they end

Werewolf

"There's something so fascinating about your innocence," he breathes, so close I can feel the warmth of his breath against my lips. "It's a shame my own darkness is going to destroy it. However, I think I might enjoy the act of doing so." Being reborn as an immortal isn't particularly easy. For Ros

Romance

What will you do if you only have three months to live? How will you spend your last ninety days? Kati Sullivan is young and still innocent to the world. On one fateful visit to her Doctor, she is given the news that will change the rest of her life. Sebastian Caine is strong-willed and has been

Literature

Once Upon A Time by Richard Harding Davis

Romance

Will Kate ever be able to forgive the man who made her lose her virginity for a one-night stand and caused her to become pregnant? After losing her memory, Kate fell in love with the same man, but when she was able to regain it, the bitterness and hatred she had for him returned. Ken was discovere

Romance

The first time for Kelvin to leave the watchful eyes of his parents to an unknown destination he had always sought to be. Kelvin was raised from a strong religious background. His ambition to attain tertiary education was no doubt the beginning of his sojourn with beautiful damsels. The excitement o

Sci-fi

Mia Lawson, a graphic designer leading a routine life, unexpectedly becomes roommates with Liam Carter, an enigmatic stranger who reveals himself as a time traveler from the future. What begins as an ordinary apartment-sharing arrangement swiftly turns into an extraordinary adventure through va

Billionaires

Rita Devilroke loved Leandro Riquel with everything she had. He swore to give her the world, but when love wasn't enough, he left. No warning. No goodbye. Just gone. Three years later, he returns as a billionaire, ruthless and untouchable. Rita, still clawing her way through life, refuses to be a

Billionaires

Chase Turner, a private technology tycoon with the determination to overcome death after losing his father to a terminal illness, gets inadvertently trapped in a 24‑hour time loop after his game‑changing "Time Resonator"-a quantum machine which promises to forever alter the aging process is destabil

Literature

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Literature

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Short stories

"What if you could wake up in your dreams and live out your wildest fantasies, every night? What would you do?" Catherine wishes all her dreams were just like those that everyone has. Yet her dream was different. Her dreams weren't rainbows and sunshine however, her dreams became her reality. Aft

Short stories

Miraculous life, unexpected things... Stella is a girl lives in Los angles who wants to see the outer space since her childhood.She never liked her reality and always wanted to escape from it.But one day she met a mysterious boy named Chris who is hiding nothing but many secrets.she don't know hi

Literature

Ashe Gordon and Ross Murdock, angry about the loss of their fellow agent Travis Fox on the planet Topaz, have travelled to the planet Hawaikan, a warm ocean planet, where they intend to set up a time gate. The world is so different from what they expected that they decide on a risky experiment: trav

Fantasy

My engagement party was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. My fiancé, Ethan, announced he had a $100,000 down payment for our dream house, all real cash. Then, his mother dramatically collapsed, feigning a heart attack, and Ethan immediately demanded my $50,000 paramedic bonus for her eme

Romance

I’m in love with you”. Leila whispered lovingly in the rain, her salty tears mixed with the relentless downpour. Ethan Cruise gazed at her, impassive at her state. “That was your mistake” At the tender age of twenty two, Leila Kart walked down the aisle, believing she had found her happily ever a

Romance

I told you to stay in your room what are you doing here? my stepmother asked me why do you tolerate this shit if I were you I would show her her place. Easy for you to say I said join Lina in her world full of problems

Literature

At the Time Appointed by A. Maynard Barbour

Adventure

Unconsciously, Dorothy moved a little further away. Even though the female lead in the novel was depicted as warm-hearted and gentle like a little sun, who never harmed the original host (it was usually the original host who persecuted her), from her many years of reading experience, Dorothy knew th

Romance

Not all marriages are about love. Not all choices are either right or wrong. This story of me and Robbie began with an ugly plot, directed and acted by none other than my mother herself. She mercilessly drugged me and put me on his bed, but in the end, I married his brother. That moment, I hadn't