Their Chance
Ahana has everything. A fine boyfriend, a good job,a helpful community and a normal work environment. But Aput her boyfriend, wants to relocate and Ahana even if she's not keen on it will have to take a stance soon because she neither has time nor is a conventional head turner
Ahana, wanting to take no chance, sits for a scholarship exam and aces it. She will be relocating too. She will be with her boyfriend, have a good education and will have everything in control. Or so she thought. The new country isn't giving soft landing even while she thought she had all grounds covered and she's thrown into survival mode. Then she meets Chris, a father and her boss who will do anything to protect his daughter.
They tolerate each other and finally let their guards down but Chris has a secret that will reopen old wounds.
Now Ahana will have to choose to run back to familiar grounds even if it's painful or take a terrifying step and choose something new, something real and might even last.
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Chapter: Dreams do come true CHAPTER FOUR AhanaI curse as the WiFi acts crazy. Sitting in front of my personal laptop with my earphones plugged in, with less than a minute before the commencement of the Bankit Zoom call, this is the worst possible time for me not to have Internet access. I cast a desperate look at my office environment and will the noise stop, but of course that will be impossible.At 4pm, it is peak time at the bank and, even though I have only one more week left there, the last thing I need is an audience for this call with the executives of the organization giving me the scholarship and, indeed, the chance of a lifetime. Making the last minute decision I grab my personal laptop and dash into the small meeting room adjacent to my desk, locking the door behind me for good measure. By the time I log in using the earlier shared credentials, it is already two minutes past 4pm.My heart races as I stare at the boxes of each of the 28 attendees, many of whom have their cameras switched off and mic
Last Updated: 2025-07-21
Chapter: Why we should stay hidden ChrisI look at the brunette sitting in front of me, the Au Pair the agency has sent, Greta, is a young Danish girl who has been in London less than a year. Her English isn’t great, and it is an initial worry for me, especially with Muna just becoming conversational. But demure and diminutive, she is nothing like the buxom Astrid, which could be a good thing as there’s a lower chance of me stumbling on any strange people in my house.Or is there?Last minute, I decide that is a risk I can’t take.“It’s not a live-in position,” I tell her. “Will that be a problem?”“I live Belsize Park,” she beams as she raises a finger. “Only one bus.”Perfect.We finalise plans for her to come in the mornings, early enough to prepare and take Muna to day care, and leave when I get back from the hospital at 9pm. On nights I have social events, she’ll sleep in, but only on those.Everything is sorted.She starts work the next day, arriving nice and early at 7:30am. She is effective enough, except her cu
Last Updated: 2025-07-07
Chapter: Breaking the newsAhana“You were successful?!”I smile, smug from the good news I have just given him. I am pleased not only to have proved his theory about Bankit wrong, but that he can admit how much he underestimated me.“I sure did! I told you it wasn't any fraud.”“And they’re paying your full tuition?”“Full tuition and living expenses for the entire year! The same offer as last year.”“This is unbelievable. Send me the letter so I can see for myself.”I frown, his doubt making my excitement wane. Does he think I’m lying or what? Deciding I lose nothing by sending him the letter, especially as he’ll see it eventually anyway, I do just that.“Unbelievable!” he exclaims, when he reads it. “The full £20,000 tuition and another £8,000 for living expenses? Unbelievable!”“Believeable!” I chuckle. “It takes into account the ten months of the academic year, from September this year to June next year.”“Are they going to give you the cash?”I frown. “Not the tuition, I don't think. And I’d much rather t
Last Updated: 2025-07-07
Chapter: New beginnings AhanaI refresh the Bankit website for what might just be the hundredth time that day. Scratch that. Thousandth. It is Monday, the day the results of the scholarship exam are to be published. I click my tongue with my rising impatience. It is already 2pm. Would publishing the results earlier in the day have been so hard?. It has taken forever because their process involves not just scoring candidates on their exam but also running paperwork with their partner universities, we have already had a two-month wait to get to this point.“What’s up Ahana?” Valerie, a friend who also wrote the exam, calls me on the phone yet again. “Have you seen yours?” I retort.“But why's it taking forever?” Valerie grumbles.I sigh as I refresh the page yet again. Nothing. It starts to dawn on me that this might just be a precursor to the real bad news. What if neither of us is successful?“I will check on you later, don't stop checking!” Valerie pleads. “I’ll be doing the same here. If you get the firs
Last Updated: 2025-07-06
Chapter: Staking Claims Chris I jolt myself awake just in time not to miss my stop on Monday morning. I buy myself a cup of coffee and walk to the hospital knowing I need every ounce of caffeine I can get. Muna’s sniffles manifested into a full-on cold this past weekend, so neither of us got much rest. But after dropping all my weekend shifts, dropping another one today isn’t even an option. Surely a beautiful way to start the week.“You look totally wasted!” my friend, Josie exclaims when I walk out of the elevator on to the outpatient floor where I have consultations that morning. “Let me guess; another tough weekend?”“You called it,” I answer with a shrug.“Why don't you just get a live-in Au Pair? After Brexit, the European ones are even cheaper than they were before. Kavya keeps threatening to get one and send her mother back to India.”“Weren’t Kavya’s parents born here in England?”He chuckles. “Yeah, but it still feels good seeing the look on my mother-in-law’s face when she hears it.”I shake my
Last Updated: 2025-07-06
Chapter: The UsualChris I am out of the northbound train as soon as the doors slide open, shoving my way past the unruly commuters who don't have enough travel decorum to wait for people to alight before they board. I run all the way up the escalators and make a mad dash out of the station onto Avenue Road.At 8pm, I am two clear hours later than when I should have picked Muna up from her day care centre. As much as I have tried to limit my hours at the hospital to a maximum of five, there are days like this when it is out of my control. Thankfully, the owner of the childcare facility, Hazel lives close to home, which is the main reason I chose it over other less expensive and easier accessible options. But as I half walk and half run down the street, the hefty penalty makes me which I had noise cancelling headphones.The frown on Hazel's face when she opens the door does very little to conceal her disapproval."I'm so sorry about this," I say, as she hands over my sleeping daughter. "It got crazy at
Last Updated: 2025-07-04
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