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Merrick and Kinley
Can a man who has committed the ultimate betrayal against his wife win her back?
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Published June 10, 2022
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April 18, 2025Nope. Nope. I can’t. I caaaaan’t
Just reading what he would do makes my blood boil!!! 🤬🤬
Whyyyy didn’t she move on!!?! Ugh. I caaaan’t!!!!
Trust (and your dignity) is like a broken mirror. Once it breaks, it’s hard to not ever see the cracks no matter how much glue you use 🤷♀️
Secondhand STDs better not ever be a thing!!!
Just reading what he would do makes my blood boil!!! 🤬🤬
Whyyyy didn’t she move on!!?! Ugh. I caaaan’t!!!!
Trust (and your dignity) is like a broken mirror. Once it breaks, it’s hard to not ever see the cracks no matter how much glue you use 🤷♀️
Secondhand STDs better not ever be a thing!!!
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December 24, 2023Trigger warnings:
Note: The author who has added the books to Goodreads is not the author who has written these books (the account is not theirs, this has been verified by the author on Wattpad). Out of respect for the author, I won’t be posting detailed reviews for these books. I’ll add trigger warnings for those who wanna check them out as well as the link to where to read them. I’ll have personal ratings for me but I won’t be posting them either. I have already read a lot of their books and might have to copy and paste this portion on other "reviews" since I do wanna add these books to my shelves. But their books are freely available on Wattpad, they are kind enough to let their stories be free for us all to read. Unfortunately, a lot of people have plagiarized from this author and have tried to add their books to pay-per-chapter apps. If you can help and report this when you see it, that would help a ton.
Link to book: https://www.wattpad.com/story/3046431...
This is about an afterschool coordinator Kinley, who gets with a single-parent dad named Merrick, who happens to be the President of the Uncaged Beasts (a motorcycle club). After Kinley catches Merrick’s attention, he never wants to let her go. He notices how she treats his son Nix and knows she is the one. They get married and love each other but she finds out he’s been cheating for their whole relationship. I was surprised I loved the grovel in this, Merrick did everything possible to get back with Kinley. Realistically I would never get back with a cheater and HATE cheating but I found the grovel to be so good in this.
Happy reading folks. I love GroveltoHEA and they have surprised me by making MMCs do TERRIBLE things and have me forgive them with grovel. And y’all know how much I love grovel. There are so many things I’m against but they somehow manage to make it work. And even if I don’t forgive the MMC entirely in the end, the stories are so well-written.
Note: The author who has added the books to Goodreads is not the author who has written these books (the account is not theirs, this has been verified by the author on Wattpad). Out of respect for the author, I won’t be posting detailed reviews for these books. I’ll add trigger warnings for those who wanna check them out as well as the link to where to read them. I’ll have personal ratings for me but I won’t be posting them either. I have already read a lot of their books and might have to copy and paste this portion on other "reviews" since I do wanna add these books to my shelves. But their books are freely available on Wattpad, they are kind enough to let their stories be free for us all to read. Unfortunately, a lot of people have plagiarized from this author and have tried to add their books to pay-per-chapter apps. If you can help and report this when you see it, that would help a ton.
Link to book: https://www.wattpad.com/story/3046431...
This is about an afterschool coordinator Kinley, who gets with a single-parent dad named Merrick, who happens to be the President of the Uncaged Beasts (a motorcycle club). After Kinley catches Merrick’s attention, he never wants to let her go. He notices how she treats his son Nix and knows she is the one. They get married and love each other but she finds out he’s been cheating for their whole relationship. I was surprised I loved the grovel in this, Merrick did everything possible to get back with Kinley. Realistically I would never get back with a cheater and HATE cheating but I found the grovel to be so good in this.
Happy reading folks. I love GroveltoHEA and they have surprised me by making MMCs do TERRIBLE things and have me forgive them with grovel. And y’all know how much I love grovel. There are so many things I’m against but they somehow manage to make it work. And even if I don’t forgive the MMC entirely in the end, the stories are so well-written.
October 25, 2025
This is the cheating book to end all cheating books!
This author is a great find because she writes plots that I really like - Hs' cheating/effing up and finding out. The hs are strong and strike back immediately and effectively!
I'm unsure how to rate this one's grovel though.
What he did is truly unforgivable by any and all standards - his idea of love and loyalty is so effed up, so gross that he needs a brain transplant.
The author gives us a grovel that's unmatched in length(wow!) and (maybe) depth.
And all this time he remains in a repentant mode - although a human brain/heart doesn't really work in that constant manner imo. There has to be times when he'd feel angry, self-righteous or frustrated with her implacability.
And here, he's turned into this goody two shoes, amiable neighbor.
So, my mind wasn't buying it and my heart wasn't happy happy at the end. Hmmm.
Still deserves all these stars for the shock factor!
This author is a great find because she writes plots that I really like - Hs' cheating/effing up and finding out. The hs are strong and strike back immediately and effectively!
I'm unsure how to rate this one's grovel though.
What he did is truly unforgivable by any and all standards - his idea of love and loyalty is so effed up, so gross that he needs a brain transplant.
The author gives us a grovel that's unmatched in length(wow!) and (maybe) depth.
And all this time he remains in a repentant mode - although a human brain/heart doesn't really work in that constant manner imo. There has to be times when he'd feel angry, self-righteous or frustrated with her implacability.
And here, he's turned into this goody two shoes, amiable neighbor.
So, my mind wasn't buying it and my heart wasn't happy happy at the end. Hmmm.
Still deserves all these stars for the shock factor!
January 1, 2024
4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked it!
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Our hero has been cheating on her since the beginning of their relationship.
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Our hero has been cheating on her since the beginning of their relationship.
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April 26, 2024I saw the cover of the book and thought it was beautiful and thought: oh let's see what the synopsis and comments are about...
I don't read cheating books because it's something I abhor just the thought of it makes me shudder and disgust. I'm not going to lie, I was curious for the first time to the point of being tempted, but not enough to understand why h came back with the clown.
But even if he licked the ground she walked on, he didn't deserve forgiveness, if he could have changed the rules because he didn't do it before he lost his wife?! He would then have sex with these girls and come home and have sex with his wife and live without guilt... Do you see what I'm getting at?! I haven't even read the book and I'm already like that, anyway...
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Ps:The book is from the Wattapad platform
I don't read cheating books because it's something I abhor just the thought of it makes me shudder and disgust. I'm not going to lie, I was curious for the first time to the point of being tempted, but not enough to understand why h came back with the clown.
But even if he licked the ground she walked on, he didn't deserve forgiveness, if he could have changed the rules because he didn't do it before he lost his wife?! He would then have sex with these girls and come home and have sex with his wife and live without guilt... Do you see what I'm getting at?! I haven't even read the book and I'm already like that, anyway...
next.
Ps:The book is from the Wattapad platform
January 23, 2024
I really dislike the h's who still want to be in touch with the H after divorce. Not even gonna start on the H because I pretty much just despise them all. But the h, goddddd.
She started dating, great but then after each date she goes back to the H and cries on his shoulder. Real strong. Your ex who's been cheating on you for so long, who destroyed your marriage, hurt his kid all for that stupid biker lifestyle and saw nothing wrong with it. FirstlyFirstly, lemme just say his reason for cheating makes no sense. And ik there's not a specific reason someone cheats blah blah blah. But the H in the other books cheated because they wanted smn new, spur of the moment thing, they don't continue cheating for YEARS in their marriage. He was such a disgusting character, how is the h even touching him??? Idk the I think they went to marriage counseling. I'm just gonna say it, people who give second chances to people like H are WEAK. No matter how much you say "staying takes courage" No it doesn't, it takes desperation. You stayed because you don't have the enough self respect to walk away.
I read Tanner and Esme and I liked it. So it's not cheating I had an issue with, it's this book. Also we weren't really shown how their marriage counseling went which was a huge bummer because we were just supposed to believe that they're both now feeling love for each other again. I reread this author's book from time to time. This is one I'll never read again because it makes me mad.
She started dating, great but then after each date she goes back to the H and cries on his shoulder. Real strong. Your ex who's been cheating on you for so long, who destroyed your marriage, hurt his kid all for that stupid biker lifestyle and saw nothing wrong with it. FirstlyFirstly, lemme just say his reason for cheating makes no sense. And ik there's not a specific reason someone cheats blah blah blah. But the H in the other books cheated because they wanted smn new, spur of the moment thing, they don't continue cheating for YEARS in their marriage. He was such a disgusting character, how is the h even touching him??? Idk the I think they went to marriage counseling. I'm just gonna say it, people who give second chances to people like H are WEAK. No matter how much you say "staying takes courage" No it doesn't, it takes desperation. You stayed because you don't have the enough self respect to walk away.
I read Tanner and Esme and I liked it. So it's not cheating I had an issue with, it's this book. Also we weren't really shown how their marriage counseling went which was a huge bummer because we were just supposed to believe that they're both now feeling love for each other again. I reread this author's book from time to time. This is one I'll never read again because it makes me mad.
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December 29, 2024
4.5 stars 🌟
Wow a cheating story I didn't hate. The grovel was long........ and I liked how the h took her time 👌
Wow a cheating story I didn't hate. The grovel was long........ and I liked how the h took her time 👌
November 16, 2023
My rating: 4 stars
What I loved: The grovel <3!!! I liked how Kinley(h) knew her worth and made Merrick(H) work for her forgiveness.
What I didn’t like: I wished it had some more spicy scenes.
***Major Spoilers/ Details/Triggers: Cheating. H meets h when picking up his son from after school care. H is the president of a MC club and h is an after school coordinator. As soon as the H sees the h he wants her. He asks her out and we get a 16 month jump with them married and the h just found out she is pregnant. h goes to the club to surprise the H. When she gets there she hears the others saying about how the Prez always has to audition the new ones first. h goes in a sees the H having sex on the couch with a new club chick. He makes one of the brothers take the h to his room. H goes crazy and goes to talk to the h. h tells H that they are done. h files for divorce and when H’s mom sees her pregnant, she tells the H. Again the H apologizes and wants things to work out but h doesn’t want anything to do with him. h has the baby and the H starts to change the way things are done. He divorces the h and becomes a new man, making new rules for the club. He even buys a new clubhouse, selling the old one, all the while earning the h’s trust back. They finally get their HEA
Final thoughts: This author definitely knows how to write a grovel! I absolutely love a gut punch moment followed by an epic grovel and this book gives you this <3 Definitely will read more of her books.
What I loved: The grovel <3!!! I liked how Kinley(h) knew her worth and made Merrick(H) work for her forgiveness.
What I didn’t like: I wished it had some more spicy scenes.
***Major Spoilers/ Details/Triggers: Cheating. H meets h when picking up his son from after school care. H is the president of a MC club and h is an after school coordinator. As soon as the H sees the h he wants her. He asks her out and we get a 16 month jump with them married and the h just found out she is pregnant. h goes to the club to surprise the H. When she gets there she hears the others saying about how the Prez always has to audition the new ones first. h goes in a sees the H having sex on the couch with a new club chick. He makes one of the brothers take the h to his room. H goes crazy and goes to talk to the h. h tells H that they are done. h files for divorce and when H’s mom sees her pregnant, she tells the H. Again the H apologizes and wants things to work out but h doesn’t want anything to do with him. h has the baby and the H starts to change the way things are done. He divorces the h and becomes a new man, making new rules for the club. He even buys a new clubhouse, selling the old one, all the while earning the h’s trust back. They finally get their HEA
Final thoughts: This author definitely knows how to write a grovel! I absolutely love a gut punch moment followed by an epic grovel and this book gives you this <3 Definitely will read more of her books.
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November 30, 2023
Omg this is such a cute cheating story, LOL. I hope she makes this into a paperback.
May 31, 2024
Wattpad read.
If you've read this author before, this is more of the same.
But this is one of her books where the H really does cheat all the way.
Kinley the Mary-sue southern bell is swept off her feet and marries biker royalty.
Then walks in on him with the newest club ho bouncing on his lap sans clothes. Of course Kinley is pregnant...
The rest of the book is Merrick getting a clue and cleaning up his act.
The grovel is sincere and takes many years.
Too much? maybe. But still fun to read.
Safety is as above.
If you've read this author before, this is more of the same.
But this is one of her books where the H really does cheat all the way.
Kinley the Mary-sue southern bell is swept off her feet and marries biker royalty.
Then walks in on him with the newest club ho bouncing on his lap sans clothes. Of course Kinley is pregnant...
The rest of the book is Merrick getting a clue and cleaning up his act.
The grovel is sincere and takes many years.
Too much? maybe. But still fun to read.
Safety is as above.
April 28, 2024
This story is the authors earlier works and it shows bc it’s not very good at all in terms of a grovel the chemistry is weak as well as the heroine this is imo her worst story
November 7, 2025
As a woman, how do you live with yourself knowing you punish your female characters like this? Internal misogyny? Are you a boy mum? Like I’d genuinely love to know because this is disgusting. To have a man do this to the woman he’s married to and the mother of his children? Willingly? I wouldn’t ever allow any young, impressionable woman to read this shit.
November 6, 2023
4 angst stars... not deep meaningful stars.
These short little books that start in the middle are extremely well written. They start when the cheating/misjudgement/betrayal happens, and purely portray the hero realizing his fuckup and trying to win the heroine back. You get the hero's perspective when he realizes how badly he screwed up. You get the heroine's awful feelings of betrayal. What you don't get is the beginning of them getting together and falling in love, there is no meet-cute or any of that. It really is like jumping in halfway through, right to the black moment.
And... they are so addictive. Some are very similar. As my review for each will be!
Thanks Nikki for finding these gems!
These short little books that start in the middle are extremely well written. They start when the cheating/misjudgement/betrayal happens, and purely portray the hero realizing his fuckup and trying to win the heroine back. You get the hero's perspective when he realizes how badly he screwed up. You get the heroine's awful feelings of betrayal. What you don't get is the beginning of them getting together and falling in love, there is no meet-cute or any of that. It really is like jumping in halfway through, right to the black moment.
And... they are so addictive. Some are very similar. As my review for each will be!
Thanks Nikki for finding these gems!
January 28, 2024
I read this for the groveling part! And in the end, it somehow delivered!
He was persistent in the idea of either being only with her or single for the rest of his life if she could not forgive him. He was really remorseful and changed his ways 100% in order to show her how much he regrets his stupidity (and he was very, very stupid *rolling eyes*).
By the end of the book, I still maintained my initial idea that she deserved better 😌!!
I was in the mood for something quick and angsty, and this free read on Wattpad was just perfect.
Beware: This one contains physical cheating! 90% of the book is him groveling and wanting to win her forgiveness and love again.
He was persistent in the idea of either being only with her or single for the rest of his life if she could not forgive him. He was really remorseful and changed his ways 100% in order to show her how much he regrets his stupidity (and he was very, very stupid *rolling eyes*).
By the end of the book, I still maintained my initial idea that she deserved better 😌!!
I was in the mood for something quick and angsty, and this free read on Wattpad was just perfect.
Beware: This one contains physical cheating! 90% of the book is him groveling and wanting to win her forgiveness and love again.
April 10, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️•5
June 16, 2025
Well written, but I still hate Merrick. I don’t care that he “groveled” for years, he was irredeemable in my eyes. The man was cheating just to cheat while acting like a dedicated husband. He never would have stopped if he hadn’t been caught. He felt no guilt or remorse till he was caught. Obviously he never told her what was happening at the club because she wouldn’t like it, so he knew what he was doing all along. No way he’d be ok if he walked into their clubhouse and she was riding another dude.
And her being unable to move and be with someone else was giving me “bound to you” series vibes. Yeah no.
And her being unable to move and be with someone else was giving me “bound to you” series vibes. Yeah no.
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June 1, 2024This is pretty notorious for having a wild premise (he cheats on her throughout their entire relationship). So I decided to pick it up — I was interested to see how the author redeems the relationship. While the grovel was fine on paper (his entire life was in grovel mode for YEARS - I don't think this is even close to realistic at all), I'm not sure if I was emotionally satisfied. This didn't feel like a fully-fleshed out story. Instead, it was a bunch of vignettes into the couple's overall story. There are lots of time skips.
October 29, 2024
Nope. Not going to do it for me. Even by the end of the book Merrick still wasn't redeemable enough for me to be honest. I felt even if he cut his hair and got therapy which all these male characters do wasn't really cutting it for me. Definitely a situation for co-parenting and then moving on. A year and a half of constant cheating without his wife knowing because he was separating the biker from the husband in his mind. Not buying it. Saying exactly the same lines he says to his wife to club whores. Damn purple condoms. Also, I didn't like this FMC here. She was acting like a cat in heat and it was pathetic. I was surprised GroveltoHea wrote such an FMC to be honest.
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December 20, 2024
Wow, this one was hard to rate. As usual we got plenty of grovel, but the crime was... weird. Even though it's harped on throughout the book, Merrick's cheating felt glossed over (bare with me here, I'll explain).
Merrick was a special kind of asshole. You're gonna tell me he thought it was fine to sleep with other women while he was with the love of his life, but it didn't occur to him that it wasn't cool until she caught him? Huh-uh. Make it make sense. That's why this felt glossed over. I guess I needed more page time of him being an asshole to understand the logic, because that just didn't work for me. And yeah, as usual, this author brought the grovel, but since I never understood how he made cheating okay in his own head (even Daire from Daire and Aspen knew it was wrong and he might have been the worst hero by this author I've read until Merrick), I needed something more than what I got. What, you ask? I can't tell you. I just know I needed more than what I got on-page because despite the fact that it was a constant topic of conversation the cheating still somehow felt glossed over.
Merrick was a special kind of asshole. You're gonna tell me he thought it was fine to sleep with other women while he was with the love of his life, but it didn't occur to him that it wasn't cool until she caught him? Huh-uh. Make it make sense. That's why this felt glossed over. I guess I needed more page time of him being an asshole to understand the logic, because that just didn't work for me. And yeah, as usual, this author brought the grovel, but since I never understood how he made cheating okay in his own head (even Daire from Daire and Aspen knew it was wrong and he might have been the worst hero by this author I've read until Merrick), I needed something more than what I got. What, you ask? I can't tell you. I just know I needed more than what I got on-page because despite the fact that it was a constant topic of conversation the cheating still somehow felt glossed over.
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June 12, 2024
Cheating: H is a motorcycle club president and he feels peer-pressured into boning all the club girls. h literally catches him in the act of bouncing one on his dick. 5/5 top marks.
Groveling: H makes big changes to his life and the club. However, he does roll over way too easy with the divorce. 3/5 we don’t like quitters.
Story: this one was also very enjoyable, particularly the first 20-30%. The best part is when h calls the doctor and orders an STD test in front of H. Heheh. 3/5
Groveling: H makes big changes to his life and the club. However, he does roll over way too easy with the divorce. 3/5 we don’t like quitters.
Story: this one was also very enjoyable, particularly the first 20-30%. The best part is when h calls the doctor and orders an STD test in front of H. Heheh. 3/5
February 1, 2024
I can't believe I read this but I was in the mood for a super angsty story and this one delivered... it was painful to read bc I hate cheating with all my being but I love this author's writing and they always write good groveling scenes so I said why not?
3.5✯
-2nd chance
-dual POV
-the first few chapters show Merrick and Kinley meeting and falling in love
-when they meet she's 23 and he's 31
-Merrick is a single father, he has a 5 y/o boy, his mother is in prison
-they'd been together for 16 months (married for a year) when she caught him cheating 😫, she had just found out she was pregnant, she went to the clubhouse bc she couldn't wait to tell him (they'd been trying to get pregnant for months) and that's when she saw a club whore riding him, the scene was explicit 😖
-he'd been cheating on her since they were dating 😔 he said fucking club whores was expected of him as the president of the MC (he had to "audition" them first), he said it didn't mean anything to him or his brothers when they fucked them, that there were no feelings involved, it was just something that was part of the biker lifestyle (he always wore condoms with the club whores even when they gave him bjs and he never went down on them)
-Kinley obviously broke up with him after she caught him with the OW, she stopped talking to him but kept spending time with his son (he'd just begun calling her "mummy"), around 3 months later she served him with divorce papers
-Merrick finally found out that he was going to be a father again when Kinley was 6 months pregnant (she banned him from the delivery room when she gave birth)
-after she had the baby he agreed to sign the divorce papers (he wanted 'Kinley to have time to herself, to adjust to no longer being married to him, to not be faced with his existence for a while, kind of like cleansing the old'.)
-in all the time they were apart he made many changes in his life, he demolished and burned down the clubhouse and bought another building for the MC, there were no whores allowed in the new clubhouse and they'd all been warned to stay away from him, if the brothers wanted to fuck, party or get wasted they had to do it somewhere else, he started focusing more on the business side of club, he even changed his physical appearance
-some time later after selling their old house he bought a townhome, he lived on one side and offered Kinley to live on the other rent free since she refused alimony, she didn't accept at first because she didn't want to see women going in and out of his place, when she told him this he assured her that even if she never forgave him he would never be with another woman ever again... eventually she agreed because it would be easier to co-parent
-over the next few months Merrick saw Kinley going out on dates with 22 men 😁 he started having symptoms of a heart attack every time she went out with a man, he also started puking after her dates followed her home and into her house 🤣, on one particular occasion a man stayed for 3 hours and he puked 4 times 😆 (I love when heroes feel so much emotional pain that they puke 🤭)
-every time after her failed dates were over she would text him to tell him that she hated him, sometimes she would go to see him and wouldn't stop crying... she really wanted to move on but she couldn't because she couldn't stop loving him (she never slept with any of the guys)
-after date #22 he knew the vicious cycle had to stop, it was killing both of them so he suggested they go to counseling... so for the next few years they went to counseling, on their 4th year of therapy (5 years after their break up) they started dating each other again, he never pressure her to forgive him but he also never stopped trying to win back her heart and trust
-good epilogue 10 years later - they got married again and had 3 more kids (they still go to counseling once a month) (I'm going to sound like a broken record but I really like that this author's heroes still feel remorse for their actions years and years after they were forgiven, I loved when Merrick said that the regret he feels for hurting Kinley is something that has lived with him every single day of his life for the last 15 years and that he's come to terms with the fact that it will always be a part of him)
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December 31, 2023
This story is posted on Wattpad and can be read free there.
Please be aware in all these books the Hero messes up in varying degrees from saying something very disloyal to full out cheating, each story is different.
Just to clarify in this story the Hero definitely cheats while he has a relationship with the heroine.
https://www.wattpad.com/user/GroveltoHEA
Note from the author.
Here's what you'll get with my stories:
A strong h.
An H who messes up (never the h!) with either cheating (and I consider kissing OW cheating) or some other betrayal.
An H who gets his a$$ handed to him for said mess up.
An H doing the grovel to HEA! (Always, always, always have to have an HEA between the H and h, but the H has to really work for it.)
And, in cases of nasty OW...karma will be stopping by to say hello.
What you'll never get:
An h moving on to another man in a serious way.
The h having revenge s3x (it's just not going to happen).
The h and OW becoming friends (that is also never going to happen).
This is a difficult one....The book starts with the couple meeting. The heroine is told by a fellow worker hes a 'one and done' so the heroine clarifies with the Hero she won't be that. She also defines a gentleman as someone kind to her, who treats her right.
At chapter 5, we skip to 16 months later, i think it is, they are married she is on her way to tell him she's pregnant, they've been trying for a while.
She turns up unexpectedly at the club house and he is having sex with a random woman, apparently she's informed he likes to 'try out the new talent'.
This is the end of the relationship and begins the grovel.
I had a few issues with this premise. There wasn't much about club-life but apparently the men regularly cheat on their wives, which is common in MC books but why didn't the heroine ask or clarify this before they got involved. There is no on page or off page discussion about being exclusive or club-life and what happens about club girls.
The kicker is she asks him how long he's been doing this and he says 'since we started dating' so the whole relationship he's been having sex with other women and his 'brothers' knew.
Although this is an MC book there isn't much about the club and in fact he gets rid of the common room and encourages the clubhouse to be only for business and if they want to socialise they should go to a local bar with a paid tab for them.
I did feel in making the Hero change, his clothes, hair, clubhouse it did change who he actually was when she met him so I wasn't this was an actual solution.
He realises it wasn't a faceless crime that didn't hurt anyone because he kills his marriage.
She doesn't forgive him for a long time and they divorce, eventually remarry years later.
He misses out on the pregnancy as she doesn't tell him until 5 months and refuses to have him with her during labor.
He isn't with anyone else since the cheating discovery moment and there is no guarantee she will ever have him back.
They go for counselling and she dates, he is aware of it and is physically sick at what he has caused.
HEA. Eventually.
Please be aware in all these books the Hero messes up in varying degrees from saying something very disloyal to full out cheating, each story is different.
Just to clarify in this story the Hero definitely cheats while he has a relationship with the heroine.
https://www.wattpad.com/user/GroveltoHEA
Note from the author.
Here's what you'll get with my stories:
A strong h.
An H who messes up (never the h!) with either cheating (and I consider kissing OW cheating) or some other betrayal.
An H who gets his a$$ handed to him for said mess up.
An H doing the grovel to HEA! (Always, always, always have to have an HEA between the H and h, but the H has to really work for it.)
And, in cases of nasty OW...karma will be stopping by to say hello.
What you'll never get:
An h moving on to another man in a serious way.
The h having revenge s3x (it's just not going to happen).
The h and OW becoming friends (that is also never going to happen).
This is a difficult one....The book starts with the couple meeting. The heroine is told by a fellow worker hes a 'one and done' so the heroine clarifies with the Hero she won't be that. She also defines a gentleman as someone kind to her, who treats her right.
At chapter 5, we skip to 16 months later, i think it is, they are married she is on her way to tell him she's pregnant, they've been trying for a while.
She turns up unexpectedly at the club house and he is having sex with a random woman, apparently she's informed he likes to 'try out the new talent'.
This is the end of the relationship and begins the grovel.
I had a few issues with this premise. There wasn't much about club-life but apparently the men regularly cheat on their wives, which is common in MC books but why didn't the heroine ask or clarify this before they got involved. There is no on page or off page discussion about being exclusive or club-life and what happens about club girls.
The kicker is she asks him how long he's been doing this and he says 'since we started dating' so the whole relationship he's been having sex with other women and his 'brothers' knew.
Although this is an MC book there isn't much about the club and in fact he gets rid of the common room and encourages the clubhouse to be only for business and if they want to socialise they should go to a local bar with a paid tab for them.
I did feel in making the Hero change, his clothes, hair, clubhouse it did change who he actually was when she met him so I wasn't this was an actual solution.
He realises it wasn't a faceless crime that didn't hurt anyone because he kills his marriage.
She doesn't forgive him for a long time and they divorce, eventually remarry years later.
He misses out on the pregnancy as she doesn't tell him until 5 months and refuses to have him with her during labor.
He isn't with anyone else since the cheating discovery moment and there is no guarantee she will ever have him back.
They go for counselling and she dates, he is aware of it and is physically sick at what he has caused.
HEA. Eventually.
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November 24, 2024
Tags: biker-mc-club, catches-him-in-the-act, cheating-hero, grovel-remorseful, hero-hurts-heroine, hero-married-to-heroine, heroine-leaves, manwhore-philanderer, read, second-chance, strong-fmc-heroine, troubled-marriage, wattpad-mania
December 30, 2023
Five years? Just no. Then completely changing the hero to some whipped pretend MC President.
If you’ve read Bessa, she’s a Bessa. You’ll understand why I didn’t like this one.
If you’ve read Bessa, she’s a Bessa. You’ll understand why I didn’t like this one.
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May 6, 2025he actually ruined her life, this book made me sick to my stomach
August 23, 2025
So I read this... and yeah, Merrick is really the worst.
This is my second book by this author and I genuinely don’t think it could get any worse than this. I was just unable to forgive him. I think what he did was simply unforgivable.
And I know, the author did write the warning at the beginning, and I was fully aware of what I was getting myself into, and I still read it, so I shouldn’t complain about it. But I genuinely did not think it was going to be that bad. I love good grovel romances, in my opinion, there are far too few of them published, that’s why I decided to give Wattpad a chance. This author seems to specialize in them, and I’m definitely going to give her other books a try. This one just wasn’t for me. I think I might have picked her most controversial male lead for an introduction, and that’s just not fair😅 The reason I disregarded the author’s warning is because I had never read a grovel romance with cheating, and I just wanted to figure out how I felt about it. Suffice to say, I did not feel great.
It was probably the worst cheating situation I could have imagined. It would be one thing (not a great thing, mind you) if he cheated with one girl, once, in private, and the female lead just happened to walk in on them. But no! He cheated right from the very beginning of their relationship. With multiple women. And everybody knew. She walked in on him doing it in the middle of the club with all of the club’s brothers watching him like it was some sick circus show! And he was moaning to the OW to come on his dick🤢🤮🤮 I swear I almost threw up... I couldn’t forget about that for the rest of the book.
Apparently, it was some bullshit club tradition that the Prez has to try out all the club girls before anybody else can sleep with them🥲 So he’d been doing that the entire time Kinley and he were in a relationship and MARRIED. Also, it’s apparently NORMAL for club members to cheat on their girlfriends and wives because men are just “wired differently” and the MC clubs don’t conform to societal norms... they’re just cool like that 😎... lovely.
And this type of guy is apparently our sexy hot male lead! Waaa😍
To be fair, he did change drastically after that incident, like he literally made himself a different person, even changed the club to the point that I didn’t even know if it should be considered an MC anymore. It seemed more like a regular business office to me🤷🏻♀️ Honestly, I don’t even know what an MC is! This is my second book about MCs and I still can’t figure it out. What do they even do apart from riding motorcycles and sleeping with club girls? Where does the money come from? What is this ominous “business” they do? At first, I thought they were like the mafia but rugged, and then I read in this book that they participate in some sort of poker run for the benefit of a women’s shelter and I just don’t think the mafia would be so generous, so I’m confused😵💫
But anyway, he did change, and even though I couldn’t forgive him myself, I couldn’t blame the female lead for doing so either, because I was never in her place.
One thing I don’t understand is how the f was Merrick able to stay celibate for FIVE YEARS after the betrayal AND was willing to do it for the rest of his life, yet somehow he couldn’t stay loyal for a year when he was happily married to his wife. It might have made a little more sense (not better, just more believable) if he had a sex addiction or something, but he didn’t! Like he KNEW he was doing the wrong thing. Every other brother’s wife knew about their shitty lifestyle, but he didn’t tell her! He knew she wouldn’t be okay with it and he still did it.
I couldn’t forgive him because even though he was genuinely sorry afterwards and suffered a lot, I just couldn’t get over how he could do something so heinous to somebody he supposedly loved. Maybe I would have liked him a little more if the author had explored his character and his inner feelings and motivations more, but the simple excuse of “I never felt anything for them and I always separated you from them in my head” just didn’t do it for me.
Anyway, I don’t think cheating romances are for me, at least not to this extent. I’m still going to read the author’s other books since I heard that this is her worst ML, so I’m hopeful for the others.
That’s all I have to say. Thanks for reading my long rambling♥️
This is my second book by this author and I genuinely don’t think it could get any worse than this. I was just unable to forgive him. I think what he did was simply unforgivable.
And I know, the author did write the warning at the beginning, and I was fully aware of what I was getting myself into, and I still read it, so I shouldn’t complain about it. But I genuinely did not think it was going to be that bad. I love good grovel romances, in my opinion, there are far too few of them published, that’s why I decided to give Wattpad a chance. This author seems to specialize in them, and I’m definitely going to give her other books a try. This one just wasn’t for me. I think I might have picked her most controversial male lead for an introduction, and that’s just not fair😅 The reason I disregarded the author’s warning is because I had never read a grovel romance with cheating, and I just wanted to figure out how I felt about it. Suffice to say, I did not feel great.
It was probably the worst cheating situation I could have imagined. It would be one thing (not a great thing, mind you) if he cheated with one girl, once, in private, and the female lead just happened to walk in on them. But no! He cheated right from the very beginning of their relationship. With multiple women. And everybody knew. She walked in on him doing it in the middle of the club with all of the club’s brothers watching him like it was some sick circus show! And he was moaning to the OW to come on his dick🤢🤮🤮 I swear I almost threw up... I couldn’t forget about that for the rest of the book.
Apparently, it was some bullshit club tradition that the Prez has to try out all the club girls before anybody else can sleep with them🥲 So he’d been doing that the entire time Kinley and he were in a relationship and MARRIED. Also, it’s apparently NORMAL for club members to cheat on their girlfriends and wives because men are just “wired differently” and the MC clubs don’t conform to societal norms... they’re just cool like that 😎... lovely.
And this type of guy is apparently our sexy hot male lead! Waaa😍
To be fair, he did change drastically after that incident, like he literally made himself a different person, even changed the club to the point that I didn’t even know if it should be considered an MC anymore. It seemed more like a regular business office to me🤷🏻♀️ Honestly, I don’t even know what an MC is! This is my second book about MCs and I still can’t figure it out. What do they even do apart from riding motorcycles and sleeping with club girls? Where does the money come from? What is this ominous “business” they do? At first, I thought they were like the mafia but rugged, and then I read in this book that they participate in some sort of poker run for the benefit of a women’s shelter and I just don’t think the mafia would be so generous, so I’m confused😵💫
But anyway, he did change, and even though I couldn’t forgive him myself, I couldn’t blame the female lead for doing so either, because I was never in her place.
One thing I don’t understand is how the f was Merrick able to stay celibate for FIVE YEARS after the betrayal AND was willing to do it for the rest of his life, yet somehow he couldn’t stay loyal for a year when he was happily married to his wife. It might have made a little more sense (not better, just more believable) if he had a sex addiction or something, but he didn’t! Like he KNEW he was doing the wrong thing. Every other brother’s wife knew about their shitty lifestyle, but he didn’t tell her! He knew she wouldn’t be okay with it and he still did it.
I couldn’t forgive him because even though he was genuinely sorry afterwards and suffered a lot, I just couldn’t get over how he could do something so heinous to somebody he supposedly loved. Maybe I would have liked him a little more if the author had explored his character and his inner feelings and motivations more, but the simple excuse of “I never felt anything for them and I always separated you from them in my head” just didn’t do it for me.
Anyway, I don’t think cheating romances are for me, at least not to this extent. I’m still going to read the author’s other books since I heard that this is her worst ML, so I’m hopeful for the others.
That’s all I have to say. Thanks for reading my long rambling♥️
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April 14, 2025
Quick easy wattpad read. MC club. He cheats and is caught, grovel. second chance. Kids,
Recap:
Kinley is a southern bell running an after school program then the MC president, Merrick, instantly falls for his son’s teacher. Things progress quickly and they are married after like 8 months, then after them trying for a while Kinley find out she’s finally pregnant she rushes to the club house to tell her husband when she walks in on him fucking a new club ho. Then she finds out he has been doing this to her with wed tone n owing their whole relationship. Kinley can’t believe how nieve she has been this whole time and believed Merrick wasn’t about that life style. She wants a divorce, and for the sake of their unborn child and Nix who had just started to call her mum visitation, she loved him after all and helped raise him. He must grovel and fight to win her back but she won’t make it easy, he fucked up royally. She doesn’t let him in the room for their daughter’s birth. He is doing everything to make it up to her but it is slow. He eventually buys 2 townhouses next to each other and she moves in next door. She even had him sign a contract to no women she can see or around the kids or she’s gone. He even has to watch her go out eight many many guys to try and move on. Each time she texts him after I hate you and he invites her over to talk
And let her cry/process. Eventually she agrees to them working things out bc they love one another but need intense therapy. Over time he works hard to win back her trust and love and the therapy is the best for them. They eventually get married and have more kids and their trust is back. Relationships are work but love concours all. HEA
Recap:
Kinley is a southern bell running an after school program then the MC president, Merrick, instantly falls for his son’s teacher. Things progress quickly and they are married after like 8 months, then after them trying for a while Kinley find out she’s finally pregnant she rushes to the club house to tell her husband when she walks in on him fucking a new club ho. Then she finds out he has been doing this to her with wed tone n owing their whole relationship. Kinley can’t believe how nieve she has been this whole time and believed Merrick wasn’t about that life style. She wants a divorce, and for the sake of their unborn child and Nix who had just started to call her mum visitation, she loved him after all and helped raise him. He must grovel and fight to win her back but she won’t make it easy, he fucked up royally. She doesn’t let him in the room for their daughter’s birth. He is doing everything to make it up to her but it is slow. He eventually buys 2 townhouses next to each other and she moves in next door. She even had him sign a contract to no women she can see or around the kids or she’s gone. He even has to watch her go out eight many many guys to try and move on. Each time she texts him after I hate you and he invites her over to talk
And let her cry/process. Eventually she agrees to them working things out bc they love one another but need intense therapy. Over time he works hard to win back her trust and love and the therapy is the best for them. They eventually get married and have more kids and their trust is back. Relationships are work but love concours all. HEA
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December 29, 2023
⭐️ 3.8
Not as good as some of the others. The grovel was long and gruelling. No easy road back to her, that’s for sure, although that aspect is a plus.
Interesting that the author changed a person instead of having us accept him as he is (which is the usual in books), and tbh I’d usually say you should love someone as they are, however I have also seen that people legitimately can change in big ways if they feel like doing so. And aren’t we all improving day by day to be better anyway? So…yeah, not what I expected but also a welcome change from the usual, having him change himself because he wants to be better.
I always like the addition of children in these stories. It gives that tiny more bit of depth, especially with stories that are so short. It must be hard to pack meaning into so few pages.
Overall there was so much work here. I expected the stuff up from him early in the story. I expected a child at some point. I expected a legitimate reason for heartbreak. I also expected to feel that love regrow, to me to be seized again with all the feels and glow of love renewed. There wasn’t much of that. I could see their struggles and feel their struggles, but didn’t feel much of their budding love, and I think that was where I felt let down, just the tiniest bit, in this story.
Thank goodness for the epilogues because I wasn’t close to satisfied before then.
Here’s my ranking so far:
1. Burr & Daisy (freakin fantastic!)
2. The Warrior & Calissande
3. Santo & Fiorella
4. Case & Gemma
5. Leo & Ivy
6. Tenn & Lark
7. Merrick & Kinley
8. Night & Neera
Not as good as some of the others. The grovel was long and gruelling. No easy road back to her, that’s for sure, although that aspect is a plus.
Interesting that the author changed a person instead of having us accept him as he is (which is the usual in books), and tbh I’d usually say you should love someone as they are, however I have also seen that people legitimately can change in big ways if they feel like doing so. And aren’t we all improving day by day to be better anyway? So…yeah, not what I expected but also a welcome change from the usual, having him change himself because he wants to be better.
I always like the addition of children in these stories. It gives that tiny more bit of depth, especially with stories that are so short. It must be hard to pack meaning into so few pages.
Overall there was so much work here. I expected the stuff up from him early in the story. I expected a child at some point. I expected a legitimate reason for heartbreak. I also expected to feel that love regrow, to me to be seized again with all the feels and glow of love renewed. There wasn’t much of that. I could see their struggles and feel their struggles, but didn’t feel much of their budding love, and I think that was where I felt let down, just the tiniest bit, in this story.
Thank goodness for the epilogues because I wasn’t close to satisfied before then.
Here’s my ranking so far:
1. Burr & Daisy (freakin fantastic!)
2. The Warrior & Calissande
3. Santo & Fiorella
4. Case & Gemma
5. Leo & Ivy
6. Tenn & Lark
7. Merrick & Kinley
8. Night & Neera
April 23, 2024
I read this book on one of those ‘per-chapter’ apps.
This is the first book I read where the ML cheats on the FL and they work through it and get back together. You are warned in the preface that there is cheating and they get back together. As much as I was all ‘don’t go back girlfriend’ it was done really well. The book is only about 17 chapters long but it is not rushed, you get the pre marriage, marriage with cheating, divorce and remarriage in the epilogues. FL makes the ML understand exactly what he has done to her, and makes him work through it, for years. It’s not an instant fix. And he puts in the work. And let’s be honest she was hurting too and wasn’t able to be without him so for these characters reconnecting made sense. It was done really well.
This is the first book I read where the ML cheats on the FL and they work through it and get back together. You are warned in the preface that there is cheating and they get back together. As much as I was all ‘don’t go back girlfriend’ it was done really well. The book is only about 17 chapters long but it is not rushed, you get the pre marriage, marriage with cheating, divorce and remarriage in the epilogues. FL makes the ML understand exactly what he has done to her, and makes him work through it, for years. It’s not an instant fix. And he puts in the work. And let’s be honest she was hurting too and wasn’t able to be without him so for these characters reconnecting made sense. It was done really well.
July 15, 2024
I marked this as read in my dreams, oops 😭
These are the only reasons why I didn't rate this as 1 star:
a. I have a bias toward the author and no work would be marked as one star because of it 💀
b. The grovel actually took a while, but it didn't feel like long because of the time skips
c. There was no over-the-top OW drama
d. Dude actually changed
Another reason might be because this is one of their earlier works, and since I read from their first (the Redhead) until their last which is currently in progress (Nico and Cosi), I have seen many, many improvements. Could be the pacing, the grovel, I don't know, but things have definitely improved and I can't bring myself to give one star to a work that shows the author's growth
These are the only reasons why I didn't rate this as 1 star:
a. I have a bias toward the author and no work would be marked as one star because of it 💀
b. The grovel actually took a while, but it didn't feel like long because of the time skips
c. There was no over-the-top OW drama
d. Dude actually changed
Another reason might be because this is one of their earlier works, and since I read from their first (the Redhead) until their last which is currently in progress (Nico and Cosi), I have seen many, many improvements. Could be the pacing, the grovel, I don't know, but things have definitely improved and I can't bring myself to give one star to a work that shows the author's growth
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