I Sold His Roses, Then He Noticed Me

He sold his house a month before our wedding—and didn’t even tell me until it was done. At first, I tried to brush off the unease, but a lawyer’s question made me wonder if I knew the man I was about to marry at all. Every text, every excuse, every strange suggestion—renting, investing, splitting everything fifty-fifty—only made things murkier. When I tested him with a lie of my own, his mask slipped, and what I found at his supposed house shocked me. Now, with the wedding looming, I have to decide: is Lucas hiding a harmless secret, or am I about to walk down the aisle with a stranger? What else has he been keeping from me?

I paid his rent, funded his dreams, and still, Sean gave his heart to someone else. Now, as a new, eager sugar baby tries to buy my affection with charm and ambition, I wonder if I’m just another transaction in this city of deals. When love is bought and loyalty is always for sale, who’s really using who?

He was my sun, my secret, and my undoing. As the Lane family’s loyal attendant, I grew up loving Ethan from the shadows—until the day he traded my trust for his own ambition, poisoning me and selling me to Magnolia House. Stripped of my voice and dignity, I become a silent prize in a world of velvet cruelty and whispered deals, caught between the ruthless Marquis Carter and the man who once swore to save me. Yet every humiliation is a test: how much pain can love survive, and how far will power go to bury the truth? When a forbidden night puts me back in Ethan’s sights, will I find freedom—or lose what’s left of my soul? What does a broken boy do when even hope becomes a weapon?

He loved her—just not me. On the night of our fourth anniversary, I watched Carter Langley slip further away, his heart claimed by another while our marriage became nothing but a headline. I was supposed to smile, play the perfect wife, and pretend not to notice the pitying looks or the silence that suffocated our home. But pain demands a witness. When betrayal cuts deeper than bone, how far will a woman go to make her absence felt? Carter’s indifference is legendary—until my final act leaves him with a haunting question and a secret he can never bury. If love is dead, what’s left for the living to regret?

For seven years, I loved America’s hottest pop star in silence—always his secret, always called by another woman’s name. On my birthday, he humiliated me in front of Hollywood’s elite, making it clear I was just a stand-in for his first love. But now, with my hearing restored and my heart shattered, I’m ready to expose every lie and take back the life—and the music—he stole from me.

Everyone in Maple Heights knew Caleb Hart never kept a girl for long—and I was no exception. I thought I was different, until I learned I was just a stand-in for his first love, the girl he never let go. When she returns, I have to decide: stay and be second best, or walk away before I lose myself completely.

I fell for Julian Pierce the summer I turned eighteen—and by the time he left me ruined on my front porch, my world was already crumbling. Ten years later, I’m no longer the golden girl of Maple Heights, but the secret nobody dares mention, forced to survive as a kept woman in a city where dignity costs more than rent. When Julian—now a war hero—returns and crosses my path at the Magnolia Club, old wounds flare in front of the powerful Hamilton family, and I become the target of their wrath. But humiliation is only the beginning. In a world ruled by secrets, betrayal, and debts that can never be repaid, how much must I lose to protect the one person I still love? When your name is only whispered in shame, is there any way to rewrite your story before the final page turns?

He tossed thirty million at me to end our marriage—then forgot I ever existed. When Adam’s accident wiped our years together clean, his first love swooped in, and I was left with nothing but a divorce check and a heart full of rage. But I’m not the woman he remembers—or the one he thinks he can erase. With secrets, stolen money, and betrayal piling up, I set out to reclaim my power, even if it means exposing the man I once loved. If he can’t remember our past, can he survive what I do next? The price of forgetting me may be more than either of us can afford.

He called me worthless, then sold me to save my brother. My name is Jessie, and my family traded me for a dowry—no love, no regret. Forced into a marriage with a cruel, dangerous man, I learned that survival means more than silence; it means fighting for every scrap of dignity they tried to take. In a town where girls are currency and justice is just a rumor, I turned secrets into power and betrayal into a weapon. But when exposing my husband's darkest crimes sets the whole town against me, I must decide: will I save the family that broke me, or let them drown in the world they made? If justice means standing alone, is it worth everything I’ve lost?

Five years of love—gone the moment my fiancée tasted money. Her family’s run-down trailer became a golden ticket, and suddenly I was just another bidder for her heart. When she demanded $150,000 or five condos to marry her, I realized: I was nothing but a price tag, and the girl I loved was already gone.

Eight years together, and Marcus erases me with a single word—'childhood friend.' At our friend’s wedding, I watch him give my favorite plush and his heart to another, while the crowd cheers for their new romance. Betrayed and humiliated, I open our hotel room door to hear him with her—and realize the man I loved is gone forever.

Three years of marriage, and Carter Whitman has never touched me—not once. I was always just the substitute, the shadow in his perfect life. But when the loneliness grows too heavy to bear, I hatch a reckless plan: a single, scandalous text and a photo meant to blow up everything. What I don’t expect is Carter’s reaction—his cold fury, his sudden return, and the dangerous, magnetic tension that erupts between us. Now, I’m trapped in a house where trust is a weapon and every glance could be a threat or a plea. He says he believes me—but why now, after all this time? When a single whispered word can tip our fragile balance, how far will I go to force him to let me go—or will I finally make him see me? If love was never part of the deal, why does my heart race every time he draws near? What happens when the woman who wanted out becomes the only thing he can’t let go?