I Was His Pawn, Now I’m His Prisoner

Feared as the governor’s ruthless daughter, I chose the city’s most dangerous prisoner as my plaything—Marcus, the wild prince chained and muzzled beneath city hall. My half-sister begs for mercy, but I only want to break the man who threatens my family’s power. When I force a kiss on the caged beast, I know I’m tempting fate—and when he escapes, his revenge will be as savage as his love.

I tricked a broken golden boy into a fake marriage, but now Caleb’s obsession is swallowing me whole. Every day he clings tighter—crying, stalking, begging for love, while the world watches and waits for him to snap. The system says he’ll turn dark and destroy me, but I can’t tell if I’m his captor… or already his prisoner.

I drugged Caleb to force a marriage, but he’d rather see me ruined than save me. When a coup turns me from governor’s daughter to prisoner, Caleb chains me to his bed and makes me pay for every sin—his words and silence cutting deeper than steel. After my suicide, I wake up on the day I doomed us both, given one last chance to undo the scandal that destroyed our lives.

I bought a broken man at the market, never knowing he was the governor’s son—and now the whole town wants him back. Every night, I wield the whip and the leash, but his silence cuts deeper than any blade. The real heroine is coming for him, and when she does, I’ll lose everything—unless I break him first.

I was his prisoner, then his obsession—and now, the mother of his child. After years locked away by Sebastian Whitmore’s power, I risk everything to flee with my daughter, only to be betrayed by the person I trusted most. My past is a secret, my future stolen by the man who holds all the keys—and the device that could send me home. But as the walls of the Whitmore estate close in, my own rebellion turns deadly. Each act of kindness, every hope for freedom, is used against me until escape seems impossible. When every ally becomes an enemy and love is just another weapon, how far will I go to reclaim my life? If I can’t run, will I dare to fight back—or will I lose myself forever in his golden cage?

I was sold as a child, branded a servant, and spent years kneeling in the shadows of power. Now, the King—haunted, violent, and beautiful—keeps me closer than anyone, even as the Regent plots, blood runs in the halls, and the line between mercy and cruelty blurs. In a palace ruled by secrets and betrayals, every kindness comes with a threat, every touch with a price. But when the King’s past collides with mine, and our old promises resurface amid ruin, I must decide: will I survive by keeping my head down, or risk everything for the boy I once believed in? When loyalty is fatal and love forbidden, can hope survive in the house of wolves—or am I just the next pawn to be broken?

Death was supposed to be the end—until I woke up in my own skin, staring down the man I’d once sworn to protect. I’m Mason: the mob boss’s right hand, the muscle who died for his loyalty, and now, somehow, I’ve got a second chance. But the city’s colder, my enemies sharper, and Jamie—the snake who betrayed us all—is closer to my boss than ever. Every step I take risks exposing the truth: I remember the betrayal, the blood, the night the boss shoved me onto a lifeboat to save my life. Now, I’ll do anything to keep him safe—even if it means seducing our deadliest rival, Marcus, or confessing feelings I never meant to share. But in a world where trust is a weapon and love is a liability, who will break first: the boss, the traitor, or me? If loyalty is fatal, can I survive loving him twice?

He bought me for a price, but I never belonged to him—not really. Once, I was the cherished daughter and loyal fixer for the city’s wealthiest families, but a single night’s betrayal shattered my world. Now, trapped in a glittering cage and sold to the Whitmores’ most dangerous son, I’m forced to survive by the skills I learned in shame and secrecy. Julian Whitmore is cold, lethal, and untouchable—yet in his eyes, I see the promise of power, pain, and a twisted kind of protection. Every day I wonder: is he my captor, my savior, or something far more dangerous? When a chance at freedom comes soaked in blood and betrayal, will I finally escape—or was I always meant to be his? What happens when the price of survival is your own heart?

For three years, I was forced to slip into the Callahan heir’s bed, a shadow of his fragile wife—my own identity erased in the darkness. When I begged for a place in his world, he offered only cold rejection and cruel truths: I was nothing but a servant, never worthy of love or status. Desperate to save my sister from a worse fate, I offered myself as a widow bride to a dying man—trading one gilded cage for another, as the man I secretly loved watched in stunned silence.

When a drunken predator shatters their family’s peace, I lose everything defending my wife—my freedom, our home, even my voice. Now, as we rebuild with a baby on the way, he comes back, hungry for revenge and humiliation, daring me to break my parole. Every moment is a razor’s edge: if I fight back, I lose my family forever—but if I don’t, I might lose them anyway.

I thought healing Savannah’s most dangerous man was my ticket home—until I vanished, leaving him with nothing but a lie and the taste of strawberries. Three years later, I’m dragged back to find Derek Stanton has become a ruthless kingpin, ruling the city with a single glance…and he still wants only me. Now, trapped in his golden cage with a system demanding I fix his broken heart, I have to survive his obsession—or be destroyed by it.

He was the heir I saved from the fire—the man who would become both my salvation and my undoing. When Gabriel Whitmore returned to claim his fortune, the town buzzed with secrets, but no one knew I’d lived this moment before. In another life, I asked for love and became a pawn in their games—betrayed, locked away, poisoned by the girl who wore white at his side. This time, I bow my head and ask only for safety, but the Whitmore estate is a maze of old grudges and new dangers. Judge Langley plots, Gabriel’s heart hardens, and I must decide if survival means giving up on hope forever. Can I break free of the cycle, or will history repeat itself—one heartbreak at a time?