Story By lina_cloud
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lina_cloud

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I'm an Independent author crafting dark, atmospheric narratives focused on complex characters and fated encounters.
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Strangers in the Same Bed
Updated at Jun 11, 2026, 09:35
Sera and Dorian are playing a dangerous game. To the world, they are London’s ultimate power couple. In reality, their marriage is a beautifully orchestrated fraud.​Sera is a strategic violinist who married Dorian for one reason: to get close to his cousin, Cael, the man she has secretly loved for years. What she doesn’t realize is that Dorian is just as calculating. He married her to get to her stepsister, Lila.​By day, their chemistry is flawless. By night, they sleep three feet apart, facing opposite walls, completely oblivious to each other's schemes.​But a marriage built on parallel lies is a ticking time bomb.​When the secrets they are chasing finally catch up to them, a single anonymous midnight photograph blows their world apart. Yet, amidst the wreckage of their perfect plans, something entirely unplanned begins to grow over two quiet cups of morning tea. Watching it all unfold is Mrs. Obi, their sharp housekeeper, who orchestrates the truth with the patience of a master conductor.​Strangers in the Same Bed is a sharp, emotionally devastating romance about two people who entered a marriage looking for an exit, only to realize the person next to them was the actual destination.​What happens when the door you used to reach someone else becomes the only room you ever want to stay in?
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Velvet hunger
Updated at May 18, 2026, 02:59
A 23 year old woman with severe anxiety and lifelong abandonment issues falls in love with her 38 year old therapist, a charming and highly respected psychiatrist hiding monstrous appetites. What begins as emotional dependence slowly becomes manipulation, captivity, violence, and psychological ruin. By the end, the woman becomes the very thing she feared most.The story is not about “true love.”It is about how loneliness can make abuse feel like affection.
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