Two Stories With My Lecture

Modern

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.

Literature

The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse

Romance

Sonia, a talented yet struggling baker, is mocked by her step father after she was unsuccessful in finding a mate doing her 18th birthday. With her unreasonable step father making life unbearable for her fate takes an unexpected turn when she was mated with the enigmatic billionaire tycoon, Alexa

Romance

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Werewolf

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Werewolf

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Werewolf

Rejected and abandoned from birth, Kira has spent her life in the shadows-mocked, cast aside, and branded as the daughter of a lowly omega. What no one knows is that she harbors a dangerous secret-two wolves reside within her, a power unheard of in all of history. To survive, she's learned to keep

Young Adult

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Literature

Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories by William Charles Scully

Modern

On the way to the hospital, my husband Kody and I had a huge argument, which led to an unexpected accident. When I opened my eyes again, we went back to when we first met. In our previous life, we were married for ten years. Our marriage was more about mutual respect than passion. However,

Literature

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Literature

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Bird Stories by Edith M. Patch

Literature

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Literature

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Young Adult

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Billionaires

When the boss... unbuttons! Deep in the Brazilian rainforest, naive English rose Susan turns to lonely billionaire John Lair to save her company. With only a few minutes to convince him to help her - his only option left is to settle his debt in bed!

Billionaires

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