Story By Frick Dalton
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Frick Dalton

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I'm a author of stary writing writing a novel titeld the lonely king
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Contracted to love you twice
Updated at Aug 14, 2026, 06:34
Contracted to Love You TwiceBillionaire Damian Cole never does anything without a signature — including his marriage. Two years, one contract, zero feelings: that was the deal that saved his empire and her father's failing clinic. No one was supposed to fall in love.Then Amara Bello vanished without a word, leaving nothing behind but an empty closet and a wedding ring on the nightstand.Eighteen months later, a photograph lands on Damian's desk: Amara, back in Lagos, visibly pregnant — and a rival shareholder is threatening to use their unfinished annulment to steal his company out from under him.Damian tells himself he's chasing her for the business. He's lying, and he knows it.But Amara has secrets sharper than heartbreak. The baby isn't the only thing she's hidden from him — and someone from her past is determined to make sure Damian never finds out the truth, no matter what it costs her.As old contracts collide with new danger, Damian and Amara are forced back into each other's orbit — and back into a love neither of them ever stopped signing for.Some contracts expire. Theirs is just getting started.
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THE LONELY KING.
Updated at Aug 3, 2026, 23:22
King Adex Vaurin has spent twelve lonely years wearing a crown that was never his. His brother Kael, the true heir, drowned at sea — leaving Adex, the forgotten second son, to rule a kingdom he never wanted and never felt worthy of.Then everything breaks. A twelve-year-old boy surfaces in a fishing village, carrying the royal birthmark and a locket holding Kael's face. He isn't a distant claim to the throne. He's Kael's son. The true king.Before Adex can even process it, the boy's guardian is murdered and the child is gone — dragged into a war bigger than either of them understands. Adex rides through the night to save him, and finds a beach, a blade, and a boy who thinks the king wants him dead.He doesn't. But someone does.Duke Halveth looks like the obvious enemy — until Adex learns Halveth is bait. The real hunter is closer: Cassian Vale, the king's own First Sword, the man sworn to protect him. Betrayal doesn't stop there. Adex's most trusted Chancellor falls under suspicion. A fierce ally bleeds out saving the boy's life. Forged letters turn friend against friend in the space of one brutal night.Chased through burning towers, ambushed on lonely roads, and hunted at every turn, Adex has three days to reach the capital, expose a conspiracy years in the making, and decide what kind of king he's willing to become — even if the crown was never rightfully his to keep.He makes it home with proof enough to end it all.He's too late.The capital already belongs to someone else — foreign banners flying over his own gates, an enemy that hasn't crossed this border in two hundred years. The fight for the throne was never the only war coming for him.
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