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Hearts Across the Skyline ✨

In the bustling heart of New York City, Isabella “Bella” Hartley is the youngest CEO in corporate America, a woman admired for her intelligence, beauty, and ambition. Yet behind the polished exterior lies a lonely heart, trapped by wealth, family expectations, and a world that rarely allows her to trust anyone. She has everything… except love. Across the country, in a quiet small town in America, Ethan Miller struggles to make ends meet. Hardworking, kind-hearted, and fiercely independent, he dreams of a better life but constantly faces the harsh realities of money, status, and opportunity. Love, for him, has always seemed out of reach—until fate intervenes. Their worlds collide unexpectedly when Ethan saves Bella from a minor accident during a charity event. Sparks fly instantly, but the chasm between their lives seems impossible to bridge. Ethan admires Bella’s warmth beneath her powerful persona, while Bella is drawn to Ethan’s honesty, humility, and resilience. But wealth, pride, and societal expectations stand as obstacles, threatening to keep them apart. As Bella and Ethan are repeatedly thrown together—through chance encounters, corporate projects, and social events—they begin to understand and cherish each other in ways neither expected. Yet jealousy, family pressure, and ruthless rivals constantly test their bond. Ethan must overcome his self-doubt and prove he belongs in Bella’s world, while Bella learns to trust her heart and defy the cage of expectations built around her. From stolen glances in bustling streets to late-night confessions under starlit skies, “Hearts Across the Skyline” is a story of love that defies class, circumstances, and fear. It is about courage, vulnerability, and the power of connection, showing that true love can blossom anywhere—even between a rich girl CEO and a poor boy with nothing but dreams in his pocket. Will Bella and Ethan let society, pride, and fear keep them apart, or will their hearts find a way across the skyline?
Shyamal_1 · 238 Views

SHATTERED VEIL: THE DEBT COLLECTOR'S OBSESSION

Octavia Brennan thought her biggest problem was student loans and a dying mother. Then she came home to blood on the walls and a stranger's hand over her mouth. "Your parents sold you for drug money. You belong to me now." Dante Corsaro is the most feared debt collector in the criminal underworld—beautiful, brutal, and completely untouchable. He's supposed to deliver her to his boss Konstantin Voss, the Russian kingpin who owns her parents' debt. Instead, he makes a split-second decision that will destroy everything: he keeps her for himself. Octavia becomes his contracted "companion"—living in his penthouse prison, learning his world of violence and power, discovering the monster has unexpected rules: he'll never force her, but he'll make her beg. The BDSM contract he offers is clinical, consensual, devastating. She signs because she has no choice. She stays because she's starting to crave his darkness. But Dante is hiding lethal secrets. He's not just a debt collector—he's undercover FBI, and Konstantin Voss murdered his sister three years ago. Octavia is bait in a revenge plan five years in the making. When she discovers the compound where her parents are imprisoned, tortured, kept alive as leverage against her obedience, she realizes the man she's falling for orchestrated her entire nightmare. They wanted to use each other and discard the pieces. They ignited something neither can control. Now Konstantin knows Dante's real identity. The FBI is closing in. And Octavia must choose: escape the captor she's falling for, or stand beside the monster and become one herself.
talatudogara5 · 599 Views

I Became a Kindergarten Teacher for Monster Babies!

She applied for a simple teaching job but she ended up raising a classroom full of supernatural toddlers and accidentally becoming the Demon Lord’s obsession. -`♡´- Struggling to pay rent and drowning in rejection emails, Alina Hart, 24, is desperate for a stable job. When she stumbles across a strange flyer offering a "live-in teaching position at a private academy," she signs the contract without reading the fine print. Big mistake. On her first day, she learns three things: 1...Her students are not human. 2...One breathes fire. Another howls at the moon. One floats through walls and another eats chalk like candy. 3...The school’s principal is Dante Nightshade, a seven-foot-tall Demon Lord with blood-red eyes and zero patience for mortals. And Alina? She just accidentally scolded the Demon Prince, Dante’s only son. Now, the students are clinging to her. The royal parents are demanding "private meetings." And the Demon Lord keeps appearing in her classroom with a gaze that’s far too intense for a casual visit. -`♡´- Alina: “Please stop throwing fireballs in the classroom!” Baby Dragon: “But Teacher! That’s how we play catch!” -`♡´- Alina: “Luna, you can’t bite people just because they sit next to me.” Luna (growling): “He was breathing near you. That’s MY air!” Alina: “…Please don’t make this a crime scene.” -`♡´- Sable (whispering from her shadow): “I bit the crayon... and it betrayed me.” Alina: “Sable… crayons are not food.” Sable: “…Then why are they so colorful?” -`♡´- Vlad Jr.: “Miss Alina, I have written my will.” Alina: “You’re four.” Vlad Jr.: “And yet, I have already loved and lost.” Alina: “…You lost a cookie.” •••• She wanted a quiet job with crayons and nap time. What she got was magical chaos, clingy monster cubs, and a demon principal who doesn’t understand why her smile affects him more than any weapon ever has... Tags: Fantasy | Comedy | Slow Burn Romance | Monster Babies | Found Family | Overpowered Male Lead | Soft Female Lead | Slice of Life [ Complete Goals to Unlock Bonus Chapters: 1,000 Power Stones = +1 Bonus Chapter 500 Golden Tickets = +1 Bonus Chapter 1 Magic Castle = +2 Bonus Chapters ]
dYdairy_002 · 1.2m Views

Clumsy Beast, Keep Your Paws Off

Su Qinglan sat cross-legged on the grass, holding the chubbiest tiger cub she’d ever seen. “Aww… Look at you,” she whispered, booping its tiny nose. “So cute I could eat you up...” A sudden shadow loomed over her. “What’s so good about this stinky cub?” a deep, amused voice asked. She blinked up… and froze. Towering above her was a tall tiger beast man, his golden eyes narrowed in a lazy, predatory smile. “Let’s have ours,” he said. Su Qinglan’s brain short-circuited. … Ours? OURS?! Before she could process, in the next moment she was hoisted up onto his broad shoulder like a sack of grain and carried straight toward the cave. Su Qinglan was so choked by the suddenness of it all… she forgot to even complain. *** Su Qinglan’s knees knocked together as she stared up at the enormous serpent. Its cold, red eyes narrowed, the flick of its tongue tasting the air between them. “D-Don’t eat me,” she stammered, hugging herself. “I...I’m not tasty… really, I’m stringy and full of… uh… bad cholesterol.” The snake’s head lowered until it was mere inches from her face. Her fox ears twitched wildly. And then, before she could blink...its massive body shimmered, scales turning into bronzed skin and lean muscle. Standing before her was a man so breathtakingly handsome that Su Qinglan’s poor fox eyes watered just looking at him. Su Qinglan swallowed hard, her tail fluffing up in panic. “I… I…” Her voice cracked. Okay, new problem… the snake is hot. She squeezed her eyes shut. “If you… if you really want…” She blurted, her face burning, “…y-you can… take me.” *** One moment Su Qinglan was fighting with the zombie king with all her might. Boom! The next, she woke up in a bizarre beast world… inside the body of a lazy, pampered, fat local tyrant everyone hated. The “original” Su Qinglan had been an arrogant, scheming villainess who spent her days bullying weaker beast women, chasing after handsome males, and terrorizing the tribe kids. Now, thanks to fate’s twisted sense of humor, Qinglan had inherited the body and the bad reputation. But honestly? Being fat in a beast world was still better than starving in the apocalypse. At least here, she could eat. The only problem? In this world, men weren’t just men, they were beastmen. Tall, strong, dangerous… And apparently, every beast woman was expected to have several husbands. The catch? The “original” Qinglan’s antics had scared away every decent male within a ten-mile radius. Armed with her apocalyptic survival instincts, a sharp tongue, and a mysterious system that suddenly activated... "Binding with host…" "Congratulations, host, for successfully arriving in the beast world." Qinglan decided she wasn’t going to cry about fate. If she had to live here, then she’d live big, literally.
Violet_Melody99 · 1.5m Views