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Isabelle ( Bells ) Hann thought she had her life perfectly mapped out: a prestigious role at tech consultancy Larssens Ltd, an engagement to the generationally wealthy Theodore Watson, and a future built on safety and respectability.
But her carefully constructed world begins to unravel around one man: her predatory, dangerously handsome boss, Jude Larssen. Once dubbed "the British Steve Jobs in the making" by City AM, his razor-sharp mind and ruthless instincts have kept Bells orbiting him like a moth to a flame for three years.
When Jude manipulates a high-stakes dinner with the CEO of Japanese conglomerate Yamamoto Industries, claiming he and Bells are engaged (using Theo's ring as a prop, naturally) in order to win the deal of a lifetime, three years of simmering professional tension ignite into something far more volatile.
Drawn deeper into his web of corporate machinations, possible fraud and psychological games, Bells begins to discover that the line between manipulation and desire is thinner than she ever dared to admit.
Two people who use sex as a weapon, love as leverage, and each other as collateral damage. A story about obsession, predation, manipulation and desire.
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- Part 1 of Terms of Engagement
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Sometimes, your next mission beckons to you as a gorgeous blonde in a red dress.
Sometimes, it sneers at you, wearing the face of a friend turned enemy.
Sometimes, it hits you in the face with a folding chair.One month past Calamity's Fall, the new normal still hasn't settled in properly for David and the Reckoners. With Obliteration still on the loose and many cities descending into chaos as their epic rulers come to their senses, they've retreated back to the safety of Newcago - until a lorist approaches David with both a warning of an epic coming for them, and a plea for help.
As it turns out, the Reckoners are already much more deeply entangled in Willowwhisper's plans than they could have imagined. Now, they have no choice but to fight an epic with an insatiable thirst for vengeance, a two months' headstart on preparations, many allies, and even hostages.
And if that wasn't enough, in order to stand any chance at all, they need to turn Erlking to their side - an epic that has them struggling against their own subconscious minds... -
The House Always Wins (except when It doesn't) by Tlorasin_Mentah
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Superboy (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
02 May 2026
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One bullet. Six chambers.
Two dead men who decided, somewhere between the first shared dinner and everything they never got to say, that this was still worth it.
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yang pada pokok akhirnya by jtagani
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 May 2026
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katsuki sudah mengenal shōto lama, dan ia selalu mengharapkan kebahagiaannya. selamat hari rilis episode mha more!
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Love is something you do with your teeth.
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It's the 2010-20s, and Serenity Hamilton is trying to navigate life as an office worker in South Korea while moonlighting as an escort.
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- Part 1 of Serenity Hamilton
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I hang my poetry like laundry on strings.(So my neighbors can see) by HangMeLikeLaundry
Fandoms: Original Work
02 May 2026
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And you’ll clasp those fingers around, tight.
Hold your glaze over my pitiful demise
As I squirm under the sole of your shoe
Like the insect I amUndeserving.
----I think, when I die this will be all that's left of me.
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Originally taken from my OG fanfic Before the Epilogue on FF.net and a continuation of Book II: Cracks in the Facade.
August 1998
The war is over, and Hermione Granger finally has the chance to bring her parents into the world that shaped her. At the Burrow, Nigel and Martha find themselves swept into a whirlwind of magic, food, laughter, and friendship — meeting scars, stories, and chaos engines along the way.As reunions unfold and toasts are raised, Hermione discovers that bridging her two worlds is its own kind of adventure: one filled with warmth, humor, and the family she’s always belonged to.
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Incise by unintelligiblescreaming
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
02 May 2026
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“It is Kryn spellcraft. Evil stuff, I’m afraid,” Ikithon tells Bren’s parents, dripping with sympathy. “One of them must have bound your son’s soul to theirs. Injuries and other ailments are transmitted through the bond. But don’t worry. We know how to take care of cases like his, here at Soltryce.”
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Exposure to dunamis has unpredictable effects. Two people can become entangled across vast distances in space, their future connection echoing backwards through time. The elite of the Dynasty call this phenomenon the soulmate bond.
Trent Ikithon calls it an excellent strategic opportunity.
(In which Bren thinks he's cursed, Astrid and Wulf think he needs protection, and Essek has never met him, but he knows Bren is in danger.)
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When Marcus went to Copenhagen, he was expecting better. He was oceans away from home and the people who needed him. The person he loved most was dying, and here he was doing worse. He had a week to walk away from Denmark a better chef, and Carmy sent him to the best he knew to achieve that goal. Luca was pragmatic, persistent, and perceptive. There was a way he looked at Marcus that made him feel like he was holding his hand out to a flame he couldn't look away from. In a week, he was sure this fire for him would burn out, but he didn't know an open flame could scar like this.
-Spin off of my other fic, Acts of Service. Before and during that fic's timeline, but separate storylines.
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Take care of me by Eatpaper
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 May 2026
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after so long of being left alone to take care of yourself and having no one really to spend time with in your life, your bound to get lonely, even when your a stubborn middle schooler. well especially then. so what happens when you start viewing the kid you hate a bit differently after you discover how nice it feels to have someone care enough to even do small things like go out of their way to make food for you?
ahhh bkdk story lol sorry for the crappy description!
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WHY IS CARLOS IGNORING ME?
Or Charles's thoughts before the last race of the year.
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We have crossed paths once more, but it is not your soul in which I have fallen in love with this time.
A continuation of Gilded Lily, if you haven't read it I'd recommend reading it first, it helps make this story make more sense -
Pumpkin Soup by SentientBlob
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024)
01 May 2026
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Sephiroth was fourteen years old when he first killed a man.
He was sixteen when he made his first friend.
By twenty-five, he’d killed more men than he could keep track of, and all of his friends were gone.
They say that loneliness does strange things to the mind, but Sephiroth was sure that all the time he’d spent being roped into roleplaying Loveless scenes with Genesis and answering Zack’s pleas for dating advice (despite Sephiroth’s insistence he was really the wrong person to ask) had addled his brain far more than the years of solitude that followed.
Maybe that was why, at thirty years old, he’d burn down houses to get those memories back.[Or: The ups and downs of life in Shinra, from the moment Sephiroth meets Angeal and Genesis to the moment they leave him behind - and then a little more. Starts pre-Crisis Core and eventually joins up with the main events of FFVII, except everyone gets a happy ending this time. Heavy on the angst, but heavy on the happy times, too].
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“i’ll be nothing again, so what am i between now and then?”
one and basketball consider the obvious.
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Ein Gedicht am Tag für wie auch immer lang ich durchhalte. Alle auf deutsch.
Wichtig: lyrisches Ich ist nicht der Autor. Ich schreibe gerne Melancholisch auch wenn es mir super geht.
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"you were the one I'd have starved with"
will is an eater and has never really known how to understand life and his environment; after his father's death, he decides to hit the road, meeting a much more experienced man he decides to follow.
(this fic can be read without having seen Bones And All, there is no spoilers or any characters from the movie!)
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Bella n'arrive pas à dire "Je T'aime" à Paul. Pourtant, elle le ressent. Elle décide, pour tenter de retrouver sa confiance en elle et s'ouvrir à cet homme qui est le sien, d'organiser un Calendrier de l'Avent personnalisé pour son loup-garou.
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- Part 24 of Calendrier de l'Avent 2024
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The Knight Of Uva Academy - Missing Chapters And Other Hijinks by SirRieux999
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions, Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures, Pokemon Horizons: The Series (Anime 2023), Pokemon Legends: Z-A (Video Game)
01 May 2026
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The Knight Of Uva Academy was written quickly and with only a rough outline in mind, which was often changed with little planning. Consequently, there are some scenes which I wish I had included in the story, but did not. This fic contains those missing scenes. The chapters in Part 1 of this fic are not required reading for The Knight Of Uva Academy, but they may add some context to certain parts of the fic. Each chapter title in Part 1 lists the corresponding chapter in The Knight Of Uva Academy around which the scene(s) in the chapter occur. You should not read the chapter in this fic until you've gotten to the corresponding chapter in The Knight Of Uva Academy.
Part 2 explores some of Violet's and Eri's hijinks in Kalos, which take place shortly before the events of Pokemon: Legends Z-A. If I decide to write an official sequel to The Knight Of Uva Academy, Part 2 will be serve as a kind of prequel to it.
Part 1: Missing Chapters: Chapters 1-14
Part 2: Hijinks In Lumiose: Chapters 15-?Series
- Part 4 of The Knight Of Uva Academy
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The end is not as scary as we make us believe, wanna read what I believe?
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