Barely Tolerable Novels & Stories

Elena Rossi is the invisible wife. By day, she’s a surgical assistant at the Caine-Vitale Medical Institute, working under the cold, clinical gaze of her husband, renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Tristan Caine. By night, she’s bound by a contract marriage designed to save his reputation—a loveless arrangement with one lethal rule: No children. Ever. While Tristan yearns for Elena’s manipulative stepsister, Elena harbors a shattering secret. A failed contraceptive has left her carrying Tristan’s twins. In his world of steel and perfection, these babies are a violation of the contract that could cost Elena everything—her home, her career, and her heart. As Elena prepares to choose her children over a man who barely sees her, a high-risk pregnancy and a shadow from her past force a final reckoning. Can a heart made of ice melt before he loses the family he never knew he wanted?

it turned out he would never respect me for two years of marriage. He kept considering me as a servant even if I had taken care his life for whole days. Eve was his lover. She left Bima, the man marrying me and made a contract with me when I was barely breathe due to my mother to commite suicide. My mother was freaking me out when she kept to hold herself with my father side even if the man continously abused my mother and cheating as well. Anyway, my father's affair was also Eve. Eve was a beauty in every single man's desire. What else could I do if in the end I run my life like my mother did. Yet, one day I found a doctor offering me a contract. That was an opportunity made me think I would divorce Bima. I could do that, definitely divorce him and made Eve paid all pain my mother got this time.

“You sold your soul to me, Alicia. And I plan to enjoy every moment of owning you.” His fingers traced lower, pulling a gasp from her lips. She clawed at his shoulders. A dark, low laugh rumbled from him, thrilled by the sting. “Fight it all you want,” he murmured against her skin. “But we both know how this ends.” After losing her child, being betrayed by her husband, and barely surviving a brutal divorce, Alicia vowed to make everyone involved in her son's death burn to the ground. Now she returns as the soon-to-be wife of Theodor Winston—a ruthless CEO with secrets carved in his soul. Their marriage is nothing more than a one-month contract, signed in desperation to save her dying mother. But as the days tick by and buried secrets unravel, she finds herself torn between vengeance and an unexpected truth. When the contract ends, will she walk away from the only one who truly sees her… or return to the one who ruined her?

My husband, James Zeller, and I have established a common-law marriage. We did not have a formal wedding ceremony, nor do we have a marriage license. We also live separately, our lives barely intertwining, because he has a special profession. Therefore, despite being married to him for seven years, we've never met each other's friends and relatives. As his wife, I'm proud of being married to him despite how it pains me. I'm willing to give up the opportunity to study at the National Academy of Sciences to take care of things at home while he works. One day, my son, Jasper Chalder, comes home from elementary school crying. He sobs about not being a bastard child and requests to see James. Greatly distressed, I decide to take him to visit the military base over the new year for a family reunion. However, I don't expect this trip to turn my life completely upside down.

My little sister, Maya, got into a car crash. I put her in a high-end recovery center. Her injuries were bad. Progress crawled. They kept extending her treatment, one phase at a time. Early this morning, the manager called. Said the card wouldn't cover the next phase. That's when it hit me—peak season at the company. I'd been slammed, barely breathing. I hadn't topped it up in forever. I told her I'd transfer the money. She shut it down. Said I had to show up and sign in person before they'd extend anything. So after work, I rushed over. Straight into rush hour traffic. Then she called again. "Ms. Keyne, your balance hit zero three minutes ago. We're terminating services. This is a premium facility—we don't do free care. The patient tied to your account has been removed per policy."

Selena the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat fell in love with a poor migrant boy Chris. However, it would be over her father's dead body would he allow such a relationship to go on. Selena falls pregnant and her father did not hesitate to do what he thought was best for his daughter, unfortunately, he lost more than he bargained for. Caleb Thompson was given up for adoption because his grandfather wouldn't accept a mixed-race grandchild into his family. He grew up not knowing who his mother was, and spent his entire life at the home of his adoptive parents who barely had enough but gave up the little they had for him. Caleb enters into an arranged marriage with Sophie Fernandez the granddaughter of a wealthy family at a time he was accused of a crime he did not commit, they both needed each other help. Caleb's sudden inheritance gives him leverage but not after he was thrown into a world of revenge, romance, passion, love-triangle and restoration.

"I've been looking forward to this for so long..." Under the cloak of night, I had little choice but to suffer his advances. The advances of my husband. After a night of overindulgence, where I was barely in control of my senses, I slept with him, and things snowballed from there. I had no choice but to marry him and let this stone-broke man come and mooch off my wealth. I made sure to let him see my resentment; I insulted him, belittled him, took out each and every frustration on him. But he never lost his cool. He just sat there and took it, like a meek little lamb. That is, until I started to fall for him. That's when he said he wanted a divorce. Suddenly, my meek little lamb had turned into a snarling wolf. Overnight, my family fortune evaporated, while he had been secretly building his own. Out of nowhere, I was forced to rely on the very man I had looked down on with such contempt.

Katie Wright desperately needed money to treat her brother, so she took up her past alias as an assassin. She gets a job to kill the alpha of the Silver wolf pack, who is feared and revered as indomitable in the world of shifters, and messes up, all because she stared into his inhumanely wicked eyes, she barely escapes getting captured and that was the mark beginning of problems. Her past as an assassin began to haunt her, she's chased after by past enemies her sick brother gets kidnapped, and the alpha she failed to kill, captures her. Find out how she'd be able to save her brother, handle her past enemies, and how she'll deal with her ever-growing attraction for the silver-eyed werewolf Bryan Conner. "What do you want from me?" "I want you. The moment you shot at me, you were already mine." What kinda Alpha was this? her wolf for loving every bit of him.

Some debts burn. This one will ignite. A choice stands in front of her: the vengeance that has kept her alive, or the cursed boy collapsing under his family's crimes. She is bound to him by a strange magic neither can explain. And they are hunted... by a would-be bride who murdered her own flesh and blood to possess him. The only thread between them? Late-night rides and a frozen rink. She is the final ember of a slaughtered bloodline. For eleven years, she has buried her true nature, starved her gifts, and shaped herself into a blade. Her mission: slip into the enemy's fortress school and end the wolf-blood heir whose ancestors burned hers alive. But when a crash leaves her barely breathing, and he's the one who catches her, the boy she swore to destroy becomes the only warmth she's ever known. "I walked in to end him. Now I'm the only one who can keep him breathing."

Keisha, being an orphan lives with her uncle and his family at moonlight’s pack. She's an 18 year old girl has been maltreated, starved, tortured, beaten up raped and now traumatized. She was raped by her uncle and abused by his family. Her parents died in an attack when they traveled when she was just barely 10. Her Alpha and Luna have no idea of her pains and suffering. Her wolf due always keeps her company and has never left her. When she turned 18 years of age she was determined to run away but had nowhere to run to. On this faithful night, her Alpha and Luna had a ball and all the girls in all the different packs were to be in attendance to find their mates, but Keisha was beaten and locked up by her uncle. What do you feel would happen when Alpha Adrian and Beta Leo from the blood moon pack would come roaming around her cell?