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Mr. Casual: A Dark Cheating Romance

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In this bite-sized dark and toxic cheating romance, there's no nice guy who comes in and rescues her. . .

When powerful Mayor Ellis Christianson gets engaged, his in-love and overlooked secretary Maggie Collins finally calls it quits on their casual, no-strings-attached relationship.

But she wasn't expecting her hard, brutal boss to refuse to let her go. . .

This is a novelette/short-story length 'villain gets the girl' unrepentant cheater romance with dark content. Please check the Author's Note at the back of the book.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 20, 2024

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Profile Image for Jen ♥.
1,834 reviews1,127 followers
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February 26, 2025
I don't even know what's gotten into me or why I even bothered reading this. But it was a good thing that I read spoilers beforehand; at least I had an idea of what to expect. 😅

All I know is that this novella will teach you how to become a pathetic lovesick fool and how to lose your self-respect. I mean, only if that's what you're aiming for in life. 😂

Anyway, yuuuup, read it, hated it, not going through this sh*t ever again. HAHAHAHA. 🤣


PS. It would've been nice if the Author's Note was at the start instead of at the end. 🤷‍♀️
Profile Image for Jac K.
2,564 reviews519 followers
October 6, 2024
I picked this up by accident (wrong book). It’s a quick smut read where technically the h is the OW, but she was with the H first. Maggie has been having a boss/secretary affair with the Mayor Ellis for years. They aren’t exclusive, but he hasn’t dated anyone seriously until recently when he started dating Avery.

The book opens with Ellis proposing to Avery after doing Maggie in the limo. The rest is really OTT alpha caveman, dub-con, stalker, BBS, smut.

Bottom Line- It’s short, no feels, nothing serious, nothing super-hot, but entertaining. Ellis makes a great anti-H.
Profile Image for Lidia's Romance.
671 reviews344 followers
March 16, 2025
2.5 Stars - It was okay-ish

The mayor & the secretary

Felt too short (rushed) and unrealistic. I mean, the hero--the mayor--chasing his secretary in the streets so he can abduct her and f*ck her, come on. Also, I'm supposed to believe he loved her after he treated her like complete crap for 2 years (and four months)? He showed her zero respect and total disregard, and had an entire relationship with someone else the last 12 months. The h was just his plaything. I'm generously rounding up because at least I managed to finish it. I'm on a reading slump and haven't been able to finish anything lately...can barely START.

I don't know why the Author's note was at THE END of the book. It's not a problem for me because I don't shy away from reading these themes. I came for the cheating.

Author’s Note:
This book is a dark/toxic romance where an unrepentant villain gets the girl. Not recommended if cheating, lack of proper consent, pregnancy, birth control tampering, or lactation is distressing to read about.

(I don't consider this "dark" or the hero as a villain.)
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1,379 reviews37 followers
June 30, 2025
Like other GR reviewers have noted, this could have been longer. It could have been at least 150 pages! I don't read cheating romances, or at least romances where the cheating is on-page and the main conflict. I may have read romances where the hero sleeps with other women after meeting the heroine or pretends to/or does sleep with other women to make the heroine jealous, but I don't consider those cheating romances, as it's often throwaway incidents that the heroine and the plot don't tend to fixate on. I'm ok with angst tho like when the hero is engaged with another woman or vice versa that kind of thing. Anyways!

So, this is billed as dark cheating. It didn't upset me, as my limit with cheating is if it's off-page and never described, and we only see him interacting with the heroine. Hero is with another woman but he is with the heroine more, where she rides in the same limos as him to public events that they are both attending together.

There was so much of this that reminded me of Kate Raven, where the hero is an unapologetic dub-con hero and literally breeding the heroine so she doesn't think to run away. AND the humour. However, if we look at the romance itself, it is quite basic but it gives us enough. They are both sexually compatible and while they may not have much in common, they do like to be with each other. There is one short scene where he tries to get them to do activities together like play board games or chess, only to exclaim that let's just go back to me working and you reading your Kindle or playing your Switch.

There are little breadcrumbs like this to give it a veneer of romance over the smut. Good enough for me!
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876 reviews37 followers
June 6, 2025
Woah Baby on a Hammercy Sandwich

Cheating is in the title, so yay!

The FMC is the "OW". In love with her boss longer than he's been with his GF. His reaction to the FMC wising up & quitting is "just shut up, you can't quit because I'm putting a baby in you." 😄 sooo if you want....

🤰🏾quick read available on KU
🤰🏾 some d♡bcon, I don't care what you want-style smex scenes
🤰🏾 c♡m stuffing
🤰🏾 you better keep those legs up, I need you pregnant
🤰🏾"what do you want to stay and have my baby"-style riveting dialogue
🤰🏾an unh!nged MMC putting a note @ the pharmacy
🤰🏾Possessive MMC who doesn't mind drinking your expressed milk 🍼...from the source...😳
🤰🏾 sweet FMC, she's just hopelessly in love with the wrong man
🤰🏾OTT Possessive unhinged MMC who doesn't believe in no

Then go on ahead and have a blast reading.
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631 reviews26 followers
March 21, 2025


just the right amount of dark and kinky
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1,313 reviews98 followers
June 28, 2025
Heck I’m gonna 4 star this because it made me laugh so much. It’s too short so there’s no skimming.
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689 reviews28 followers
January 9, 2026
4 star

Awfully short but pretty fun. Reminds me of Kate Raven stories with the unhinged MMC. He relented a bit too quickly but all in all, I enjoyed it. I liked the FMC's narrative.
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1,141 reviews
October 9, 2024
- a quick read.
- an office romance of sorts - mayor + assistant
- cheating
- dub-con
- breeding
- brief milking at the end
- only the heroine's POV

When the "hero" (who is a mayor in his 30's) proposes to his girlfriend (more for political alliances than for love), the heroine ("OW") quits her job. The hero doesn't take no for an answer and continues to f*ck her (dub con). She hides at her friend's house. When the hero can't find her, he leaves a note for her pharmacist to contact him when she picks up her birth control pills. Unhinged, much? As I read this story, I kept saying to the heroine (as if she could hear me, lol), "Girl, you are making the right decision to leave him. Don't give in to him!"

The hero's turnaround occurred in the blink of an eye, most likely because we don't get his POV. I wanted to read his feelings about why he can't let his mistress/assistant go.
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110 reviews8 followers
March 15, 2025
I enjoyed this book, I wish it was longer!
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April 17, 2025
If you’re a self deprecating masochist with no self worth then this books is for you. It has the most important tropes. A spineless FMC and a grapist MMC that is proud to admit he doesn’t have a problem fucking other women. Periodttt!!! 🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾
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1,674 reviews11 followers
October 17, 2024
Funny, but he’s awful…

I didn’t get the cheating part because they didn’t have a relationship. She’s the secretary and that’s it. He uses her every single chance he gets and then he proposes marriage to another woman 15 minutes after they’ve just been together. He’s awful.

So not really cheating except he’s still with her while he’s engaged to someone else. I didn’t like him at all, and that’s why this is just an average read. He’s terrible and way too casual about marriage.

And she was just as awful in some ways. I can’t stand it when the FMC turns into a brainless joke when the guy is around. It’s degrading to women. Another reason why this is just average, because lots of stories use that trope.

KU read. Quick read but not a keeper.
865 reviews9 followers
September 21, 2025
Well the author does provide a warning. There really isn't much of a story. Just an Alpha male abusing someone he's supposed to love. Makes you wonder what kind of mayor a man who doesn't seem to have any empathy or morals would be. No indication of what characteristics the h and H would cause them to love each other. Yuck.
168 reviews
October 8, 2024
I would've liked to.

This book was short enough for me to read, but I couldn't finish it. I got to 30% and I couldn't continue read. It isn't my cup of tea when a man treats a woman like trash, and then " oh look " all's right in the world. Just a No and a 1 ⭐ from me.
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40 reviews48 followers
March 19, 2025
How I wish this story would’ve been longer!!
Loved it and been recommending it to all my friends!
52 reviews1 follower
May 31, 2025
trash

Absolute trash, a waste of a half an hour - a half an hour I will not get back -trash
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1,559 reviews502 followers
October 2, 2024
Mr. Causal was WILD.

𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝑰 𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 😻.

⚠️Please do not read if you do not like cheating. ⚠️

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒄--𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒚.

Ellis is the mayor, and Maggie has been his secretary for two years. They've been going at it like rabbits ever since. Ellis has a girlfriend and only sees and uses Maggie privately, making her the side chick.
Maggie is a sweet lady who is OBSESSED with her boss (IDK WHY), and he can treat her like crap; & she is okay with it until Ellis announces that he is engaged, and Maggie loses her 💩 and quits. Ellis isn't happy about that because he still wants Maggie.

Ellis is unhinged when he realizes he is about to lose Maggie for good he does some crazy 💩. Like offering to knock her up and put her and the baby in an apartment and have them set for life. He even contacts the pharmacy and puts a note on her account to ensure they don't refill her BC. When she runs away from her house because he keeps calling and showing up, he stalks her and tries to get her to come back to him.
LOL, this guy was crazy as 💩

𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒊𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖.

I love novellas. It was a quick, entertaining read; I would read more from this author.
Profile Image for Shannon Lee.
486 reviews58 followers
August 22, 2025
Summary: Dark, cheating romance novelette. Spoilers/trigger warnings (if any) and final thoughts can be found below.

Maggie is our FMC and has been working for the MMC for several years, and that entire time they’ve been engaging in a sexual relationship, which he made clear from the beginning, they would be nothing more than that. When he announces his engagement to another woman, she is decidedly done, but he is not ready to let her go and is intent on making her stay by any means necessary.

Ultimately he ends his engagement agreeing to whatever the FMC wants as he knows he can’t live without her.

⚠️SPOILERS/DETAILED TRIGGERS⚠️

*BDSM themes, breeding, lactation kink.
🌶️: 4/5: The spice starts on page one and continues all 5 chapters of the story.

Final thoughts: Listen, I had no idea what I was expecting after reading the blurb and seeing how many pages the book was. It took all of about 20 minutes to read, and actually it left me wishing that it had been changed up slightly to be bigger. There is absolutely no plot here. The story is about a man and a powerful position who uses that to his advantage to bring the woman that he loves to her knees, literally and figuratively. And I’m really not mad at it, lol.
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Profile Image for Hey Lin.
754 reviews
September 29, 2024
This would have been GREAT if the H wasn't such a dick.😂😂😂😳

It has so many things I loved: obsession, breeding, OTT over the top jpness (j penis) and smut 😂😂😂

But man.....is this guy a douche bag! She's been working as his secretary for over 2 years and they've been fuckimg the whole time. Then for a year, he was in a relationship and then proposes to his gf at some event while having the h suck him off in the car before the event. That same night, she asks if he fucked his newly minted fiance and he goes "of course I did. I do what I want". 😬😬😬

She tries to quit her job and moves in with her friend so he can't find her. Ahe eventually needs to go out for birth control pills and the pharmacy tells her to wait since there's a note in the script not to give it to her and call the H. He comes when the pharmacy calls him and won't let her go 😂😂

He eventually breaks up with his fiance (while fuckimg the h next to a wall/fence? And shes pregnant and they get married.

All this within 36 pages 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍💃💃💃
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750 reviews89 followers
September 28, 2024
Very short read - the H is not a "hero"....he's a villain and it's great.

Cheating = H is the mayor and h is his admin (for 2 years and 4 months). H has had a girlfriend, OW, for the last year. H blatantly tells h that OW doesn't f him the way the h does and he will be with others as much as he wants. Technically the h is the OW, but she has been with the H longer than the girlfriend.

h sees H with OW = h has to constantly be on the sidelines watching the H interact with the OW: sees H kissing OW, has to watch H smile at OW, get engaged!! to the OW, etc.

OW drama = see above

F-preg = when h has enough, she leaves, but H refuses to let her go and tells her he will be putting a baby in her. H tells her she will have his kid and refuses to use condoms as well as denying the h birth control.

H is the guy who will sacrifice the world for the h...he's crazy OTT for the h and lets his crazy out to claim the h.
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324 reviews2 followers
April 13, 2026
🤭🤭🤭🤭 i like this Author's style... I hope she writes more books like this 🥲.

Like always check the trigger warnings ⚠️!! Author's note: This book is a dark/toxic romance where an unrepentant villain gets the girl. Not recommend if cheating, lack of proper consent, pregnancy, birth control tampering, or location is distressing to read about.

1. heroine is the OW/ mistress
2.Hero does double dip his pickle. On page w/ heroine and off page w/ his Fianceé. It's unclear if he uses protection with his Fianceé... doesn't however with heroine.
3. He breaks up with his Fiancée around 90%(end of chapter 5) when she fines Hero fucking/ fingerings heroine.
4. Ends w/ HEA ... Them married w/ a son.
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45 reviews
October 31, 2024
The Toxic possessive Alpha of my dreams

The MMC was such a horrible person the first part of the book but I wouldn't change a thing!! Loved the FMC and the way the story unraveled.
I have to admit the cheating was bad of course, but the way the author develop the story made it work out at the end. While I wouldn't want to be in the FMC's shoes I'm real life, this is fiction and it was an overall enjoyable read 💕
336 reviews1 follower
May 1, 2025
This is a super quick read. Wish it was a bit more angsty but it was entertaining
Hannah and Ellis
Hannah has been Ellis’s secretary for 2 years. Giving him morning blow jobs and fucking him whenever he wants. For one year he has been dating OW. He sleeps with both women.
The book starts off with Hannah giving Ellis BJ on the way to a party, where he later announces his engagement to OW. This is the last straw and Hannah’s had enough. She quits and hide. He chases..
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January 17, 2025
Sooooo I don’t know what to say. H is a jerk who sleeps with h and other women. She knows this and loves that he treats her like crap. Once she finally leaves and gives him an ultimatum about sleeping with others then he marries her. Honestly don’t know how to rate this. Story was very short and only the h’s POV.
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