a crack in trust

TRUST IN LOVE — Volume 1 (Completed) TOTAL CHAPTERS: 238 (All Free) SYNOPSIS: See below To live a quiet life away from high society, 14-year old Alex left home and created a new identity. She changed her name as well as her gender.  The catch? She'd lose it all if anyone found out. To prevent exposure, Alex stayed in the side lines and avoided unnecessary interactions. Her cold demeanor drove the other students away. They eventually learned to leave her alone. It didn't take long for two years to pass by as she spent her days in blissful peace. Her secluded life had kept her safe.  Until… That shattered when Logan Parker caught her with extensions in her hair, make-up on her face, heels on her feet and boobs in her dress. Not one to give up, Alex needed to fool him. But how? How will she keep this web of lies afloat? Will her true identity stay as a secret? Or will her borrowed time be over?  Take a peek and discover the biggest secret in this fiction world! ============== BELIEVE IN LOVE — Volume 2 (Ongoing) TOTAL CHAPTERS: 21 (240-281, Free) SYNOPSIS: Chapter 239 ============== Chapter Update: Daily Mass Release: Monthly Bonus Chapter: Per Milestone Trivia: Each Volume = One book Caution: Grammar errors have not been edited because the paragraph comments would be erased if done so. To keep with the consistency, any recurring error has remained. (@insert_nice_usrn: yeah, grammar nazis, I don't want my dear thoughtful comments erased from existence) ============== DISCORD SERVER: https://discord.gg/nU2ErQwFEq All Rights for the final cover belong to WN users, CailinMatthews, CookieJiyen & insert_nice_usrn for the exclusive use of the novel "Trust and Believe in Love" > Credit for the cover's design goes to WN user, CookieJiyen, in collaboration with WN user, insert_nice_usrn. > Font for the cover's text is from www.online-image-editor.com If you have a very kind soul and want to boost my Cai-ffeine spirit, you can go here: https://ko-fi.com/cailinmatthews

Summary of the Story: The Price of Misplaced Trust The story follows Rina, a kind and intelligent girl whose life takes a tragic turn after she rescues her long-lost friend, Leva. While Rina offers Leva loyalty and a home, Leva—hardened by a troubled past—responds with envy and betrayal. Through manipulation and lies, Leva poisons the mind of Rina’s mother, causing her to turn against her own daughter and embrace Leva instead. Feeling abandoned and broken, Rina finds a brief moment of solace in caring for a stray kitten, but its eventual death plunges her back into despair. In a cruel twist of fate, Rina is accidentally struck and killed by a car driven by her own mother, who was searching for her in a state of distress. Upon realizing she has killed her daughter due to her blind trust in Leva’s lies, the mother loses her mind. The story serves as a haunting warning about the dangers of hasty judgments and the devastating consequences of misplaced trust.

The stone went out from under his foot. No sound, no dust, only a hollow where the step had been, and a cold behind his breastbone that never left. Wick Tanner is eleven and small for his age, and his hands are already going brown from the tan-pits. He was born in the Reek, the tannery slums at the bottom of the hill, and he was never meant to be anything more than his father. A tanner. Downwind of the city and downstream of it, beneath the notice of the grey academy tower that has stood over his whole life. Then he carries a load of hides up to Karthal. Four academy boys corner him on a stair in the dark, and the world stops being there under his foot. He falls. The boys look once at the hole that nothing could have made, and they run. It is not magic. Magic shapes the world. Whatever woke in Wick unmakes it. The scholars of Karthal spend their lives pulling the world apart to learn how it was built, and they would pull him apart the same way to learn how he is broken. They are not the only ones who would come looking. Older things have been waiting a long time for a power like his. So a tanner's boy who cannot control what he is and cannot hide it begins the one climb that keeps him alive. He goes up, out of the Reek, staying a step ahead of everyone who wants to cage him or cut him open. He does not know what woke in him on that stair. By the time he understands it, putting it back will no longer be a choice he has. A slow-burn progression fantasy. A weak-to-strong underdog in a grounded world where power is licensed, ranked, and rationed, and the lowborn get none of it. Magic that has to be earned, not handed over on a system screen. Close third person, and a mystery that widens with every arc.

Decorated Baltimore police officer Cameron Andrews played "rogue cop" so she could legally be sent to prison to work undercover to solve a case the DEA hadn't been able to crack. Now that she's out, she's assigned to investigate a designer drug on the streets of Baltimore. It’s already taken the lives of nine young people and no one knows where it's coming from or who's making it.<br><br>After fighting to protect a young woman in an alley, Cam is hired to work for one of the men her superior thinks may be close to the drug ring. But a very alluring woman is determined to seduce Cam, and she just may hold the key to it all.<br><br>Can Cam elude the woman’s advances and find the drug manufacturer before her cover is blown? Or will her life end before she can report her findings?

"Urgghhh…" Francis suddenly fell on his knees and vomiting blood. His face turned really pale and he look so weak. I, who had just entered his office, hurriedly took a handkerchief and approached him. "What happened? This is not your first time vomiting blood!" I asked, pretending to panic. I knew the reason why he was in this state, it was because I poisoned him. "Cough… cough…" he coughed as he was vomiting blood. "I'm fine. As you said this is not my first time vomiting blood so I can handle it." He said after he stopped vomiting blood. "But I guess you have to stop pretending." He paused and moved his body closer to me. "Charlize," he whispered right to my ears. He still looked so weak due to the poison but he seemed like already used to it. "I know it is you who make me in this state." ------------- Hi everyone!!!  Thank you for supporting me this far, and sorry for not continuing this work. Somehow I lost my pace and mood regarding this work, so I just can't continue. This story actually ended with Francis and Olivia living happily ever after as the crown prince and princess, with their supporter still working with them. Once again, I'm sorry about this, and thank you for your support. I will be back with a new and fresh story see you

The bittersweet tale of Bear and his Boy -- a BDSM Dom and his fledgling Sub -- who live “the life” in west central New Jersey, just north of Trenton.<br><br>Donald K. Drummond is the Master of all he surveys -- a legend in commercial real estate in New Jersey by day and by night a Master Dom at the gay BDSM club, Indiscreet.<br><br>What he couldn't find was a boy to call his own. That all changed when a nerd with taped glasses and worn Dockers barged into his office spilling his bottle of 1985 Bourdeau over his priceless Persian carpet.<br><br>Brian Murphy came with a host of troubles, the least of which was his grasping aunt, his invalid mother, and his rather tenuous position in Donald's mail room.<br><br>Can a Dom with issues of his own come to train and trust a needy boy from his own mailroom? It's all <em>A Matter of Trust</em>.

"I don't believe in promises but when you came into my life, I gambled. Eventually, natauhan akong mali pala na itinaya ko nang buong-buo ang tiwala ko sa iyo." -Jamilla Pagdating sa mga lalaki, may trust issues si Jamilla Mae Aravello dahil sa pag-iwan ng tatay niya sa kanilang pamilya noon. But when Oliver Ethan Lee came into her life, isinugal niya ang tiwala niya dahil sa pag-aakala niyang matinong lalaki si Oliver base sa isang sikat na istoryang binasa niya na isinulat nito, which entitled of I Catch Your Heart. Oliver is a famous mysterious author in the Philippines, at ang istoryang isinulat niya ay ang kinaadikan ni Jamilla. Isang istoryang totoong nangyari kay Oliver with his past girlfriend, named Angel. Naputol lang iyon dahil sa hindi inaasahan pangyayari na dahilan ng pagkamatay ng girlfriend niya. Masakit at nahirapan si Oliver para tanggapin iyon. However, when he met Jamilla. Ang kasiyahang hinahanap niya katulad noon sa past-girlfriend niya ay sa dalaga niya natagpuan. Pipilitin niyang magmahal muli at kalimutan si Angel. Bagong istorya ang isusulat niya kasama si Jamilla pero mabilis din natapos ito dahil sa maling nagawa niyang hindi niya ginustong mangyari. Dahil sa maling nagawa niya, puno ng pagsisisi ang dala-dala niya sa huli. - Follow me on Wattpad: Nick_Black02 Mas active po ako doon kaysa dito. Doon naka-published lahat ng stories ko po. :)))))

For fifteen long years, she abandoned her only son after the tragic loss of her fiancé. Accused by her family of causing his death, they drove her out of the house. Overwhelmed with grief and frustration, she descended into madness for a time. In her despair, she left her son in a dustbin outside an elderly woman’s house. The old woman found the child and raised him as her own. Despite her circumstances, the mother would return to the house to fetch water and clean, just to catch glimpses of her son from afar. Years later, the boy was discovered by a girl named Sweet Baby, who introduced him to a caring group. They embraced him, recognizing his focus and potential, and showered him with the love he had long been denied. # Family Drama #Love Triangle # Wealth and Secrets # second chance # Adoption Story # Court Battle # Betrayer # Love and Loyalty

For a thousand years, humanity believed the heavens were sealed. The ancient war between mankind and the celestial races had long become nothing more than myth. Until the night the sky cracked. Arka, a boy from a forgotten town, loses everything when monsters emerge from a crimson fracture in the heavens. Hunted by masked figures and haunted by powers he cannot understand, he discovers a terrifying truth: The world beneath the sky is only the beginning. Beyond the clouds lies Celestia, a realm abandoned by history. A world of ancient kingdoms, fallen gods, sealed gates, and a war that was never truly over. And somewhere beyond the cracks in the heavens… something is waiting for him. As the boundary between worlds begins to collapse, Arka must uncover the secret behind the mysterious Fragment within him before the coming catastrophe consumes both heaven and earth. Because when the heavens crack… the world will never be the same again.

[Irresistible MC + Farming & Entrepreneurship + Strong Female Lead + Cute Baby + Love Rivalry + Farming System + Male Competition] Deng Yuyuan wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a period novel about a "pampered group darling" — as the biological mother of the vicious female villain. The female villain has a biased grandmother, a mooching uncle and his family, a blindly filial father, and a spineless mother. She was a small-time thief as a child. As an adult, she committed every kind of evil — constantly framing the female lead — and ultimately met a miserable end. The female lead is the only daughter in another family, doted on by her older brothers. The villain targeted her out of pure jealousy. And now, Deng Yuyuan has become that villain's cowardly mother — and the villain herself is currently just an ugly, wrinkly-faced infant. The blindly filial father loves his wife, but gives all the good things to his own mother. He says to his starving wife and daughter: "Xiao Yuan, come drink some water. I specially heated it for you." Deng Yuyuan looks at her own bony frame and her tiny child — and decides to get a divorce. Goodbye, useless husband. She's going to raise this little cub with an abundance of money and love. No way she'll go astray this time. Lost one husband, gained a crowd of suitors. A beautiful sent-down youth coveted by many — she knows some self-defense and burns the midnight oil studying. With the reinstatement of the college entrance exams, she takes her child toward a much wider world. Riding the wave of the times, Deng Yuyuan works her way up to become a gaming tycoon and a cutting-edge scientist... Except — why are so many men fighting to be her cub's stepfather?