The cheating game and other steamy romances

Modern

The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener’s shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose—the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.

Romance

Steamy novels with handsome dominant movie stars and sexy women ... romances, naughtiness, passion and boundaries pushed. We have bets and teasing, woman trying to fight the animalistic pull and much more. Each story can be read on it's own.

Literature

One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances by Théophile Gautier

Literature

Life Is Nothing More Than a Never-Ending Duel"To be in continual ecstasies over nature shows poverty of imagination. In comparison with what my imagination can give me, all these streams and rocks are trash, and nothing else." - Anton Chekhov, The DuelUsing his keen spirit of observation, Anton Chek

Literature

The Preliminaries, and Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer

Literature

The Deserter, and Other Stories by Harold Frederic

Literature

The Mantle and Other Stories by Nicholas Gogol

Literature

The Torch and Other Tales by Eden Phillpotts

Literature

AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband’s name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity of the servants, the long intervals bet

Literature

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, 'Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales.' Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at th

Literature

Dramatic Romances by Robert Browning

Literature

The Ghetto, and Other Poems by Lola Ridge

Literature

The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by T. W. Rolleston

Literature

From the book:When you come to reflect that there are only a few planks between you and the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it makes you feel sort of pensive. "I beg your pardon?" The stranger, smoking his cigarette in the lee of the deck-cabins, turned his head sharply in the direction of t

Adventure

"Your wife is not pregnant, Mr. Javier," confirmed the doctor who looked at Amelie. He just clenched his fist. He didn't know what to feel first. Whether it's the pain that he probably doesn't have a child, that he won't really be a father, or the anger he feels for Amelie's cheating on him. It look

Romance

It is said that "The heart is a canvas, painted with the vibrant colors of love, but also scarred by the dark brushstrokes of betrayal." In the rarefied world of wealth and privilege, where the elite play by their own rules, one man stands tall - Julian Blackwood, the billionaire playboy with a rep

Fantasy

Badrika Shuura follows a virtual world game connected via android and other online devices. After joining, the game has levels according to the original world work. Badrika takes a bodyguard job where all the players hire her at different price levels. Only Badrika is the only player who has a maxim

Literature

Mansfield's Bliss, and Other Stories, published in 1920, secured the author's literary reputation. While readers and critics at the time generally lauded the short fiction collection, a few reviewers objected to its controversial subject matter - infidelities, discussions of sexuality, cruel and sup

Literature

Veronica And Other Friends by Johanna (Heusser) Spyri

Literature

Five short stories dealing with the escapades of society women in America and England. CONTENTS: I AFFINITIES II THE FAMILY FRIEND III CLARA'S LITTLE ESCAPADE IV THE BORROWED HOUSE V SAUCE FOR THE GANDER

Literature

Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman