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"She's strong too. My very own wonder woman. In fact, she's way better than wonder woman." "Such high praise. I'm beginning to wonder whether you're still the same Vee I once knew." He nagged. "Ugh! I'll be outside." I stated as I walked away from Daniel. Thanks for checking out my books mi loves. It gets better with each chapter I promise. I'm learning so, your comments will help me Polish up were I mess up. Mean comments never really help so refrain from them. Thanks again for the reads and I hope you keep reading till the end. ~may😍

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I don't know how to go about this kidnapping seeing as it's my first time keeping someone held captive. Im not going to be an evil captor. I'm not gonna tie her up and make her do things she doesn't want to. I'll leave her alone for a week and go from there. There should be a book for kidnapping for dummies. But then everyone would do that and do unthinkable things. I'm not a cruel person, I may or may not have tied her up in the beginning but seeing her weak and dangling frame I didn't want to do that again.

My cousin, Zoe Parker, stood in the doorway of my apartment with her arms crossed. “I’m doing you a favor by staying here and giving you the chance to help me, so don’t stand there pretending to be generous when you’re actually being petty. Who are you trying to fool?” A month ago, she clung to my hand and swore that she would live here alone and study quietly for the college entrance exam. My heart softened. I did not charge her rent and did not even ask for a security deposit. I came home to pick up some documents today, only to discover that the locks had been changed. She had not just moved in. She had moved her entire family, and their dog, into my apartment. My handmade wool rug had been soaked in dog urine. The covers had been ripped off my out-of-print books. My silk pajama set worth nearly three thousand dollars had been used as a cleaning rag. I confronted them in the family group chat, demanding to know who had changed the locks and why my belongings had been ruined. My aunt was the first to fire back. “Do you have any idea how hard your cousin is working for the college entrance exam? What’s wrong with a family staying in your empty apartment?” One relative after another piled on, calling me stingy, heartless, and even saying that with an attitude like mine, I would never find a husband. However, that was not even the worst of it. They had barely been living there for a few days when they managed to break a water pipe. Water leaked into the apartment downstairs, soaking the neighbor’s balcony and causing thousands of dollars in damage. Somehow, they expected me to pay the five-thousand-dollar repair bill. I stared at the messages flooding across my screen, one cruel accusation after another. Then, I picked up my phone and called the property management office.

I laid back down on the couch, unable to sleep. The words echoed in my head like a heartbeat. I hate him… and I want him. I reached for the small journal I kept in my side bag. Flipped past old pages. Found a blank one. And wrote: “I’m not staying because there’s hope. I’m staying because there are still unspoken things.”

Everything else, the network, the rooms, the policies, all of it, was built on top of that single thing: someone staying, long enough, for someone else to understand that the staying was permanent. *I want to tell you something about staying that I did not understand at the beginning, when I first chose it on a bench in the rain with a woman who had not yet decided whether to trust me.* *Staying is not passive. I thought, at twenty-seven, that staying meant simply not leaving, being present, waiting for something to develop. I was wrong about that. Staying, properly done, is active. It is a continuous choice, made daily, sometimes hourly, to remain present for someone even when the staying is difficult, even when the person you are staying for is not yet certain they deserve the staying, even when everything in the world is pulling toward movement and urgency and the ten other things that require attention.*

Entirely itself. I stood in it and thought about what I was going to say. Not a speech. Not a version prepared in advance. Just the truth, the way she had always asked for it — the question underneath everything else, the one that did not require any documentation or legal record or trust clause. Will you stay? Not for a contract. Not for two years or fourteen months or any number that appeared on any page of anything they had ever signed. Just: stay. With me. Because I'm asking. Because I would like very much to spend a long time being someone who keeps showing up in your bookstore for no strategic reason.

The once-profligate heir of the Carter family had to rent a cramped studio apartment in a rough part of town for a few hundred dollars a month. I indifferently deleted the photo. Claire leaned over. “Who was it?” “Just spam,” I said. Not long after, my phone vibrated again.

This time, he drove the knife in himself. I let out a quiet, bitter laugh. Then I opened the email that had been sitting in my inbox for five days, just hours away from expiring. [Whitney agrees to transfer to headquarters.] So those words were not that hard to type after all. I looked up at the moon, half-hidden behind thin clouds. "Nolan, I'm not that easy to handle. And from now on, I won't need you to handle me at all," I told myself. I booked my ticket for the afternoon of the second, so I did not have much time left. The moment I got back to the apartment, I quickly cleaned myself up and started packing.

I had no choice but to kneel before Josie. “Look! Skyreach Group just issued a statement!” One of the coursemates sneered at me as he read it aloud. “After a thorough investigation, Skyreach Group has determined that Mr. Owen Xander’s conduct is incompatible with our corporate values. Effective immediately, his employment has been terminated. We also advise other companies to permanently blacklist Mr. Owen Xander.” I froze. Skyreach Group had fired me. I had thought I could avoid Josie’s trap this time. But she was not just trying to ruin my reputation; she wanted to destroy me completely.

But just before he stepped out, he turned again. "You're really okay?" I parted my lips. Suddenly, a thin thread of hope rose inside me. "If I weren't okay… would you stay with me?" He paused—only for a heartbeat—then smiled. "Cammy, don't be ridiculous. Rita's still waiting for me at the hospital. Go to bed early. I'm leaving." The door closed. And I finally broke. I cried for choosing the wrong man. I cried for how foolish I was—still holding out hope for someone who had already shown me the ending.

A stage. The café is useful, but it belongs to the first act. For the second, I want a room with corners and a reason to linger. Bookstores are perfect for this—civilized shelters where time softens. I text a friend who programs events for a small chain that believes in author talks and soft chairs. “Short notice,” I write, because for people like us it rarely is, “but I’ll underwrite the Thursday panel if you add a seat for a ‘narrative strategist’ to speak about building story for digital brands.” I don’t need her on the stage—yet—but I need the pretext. The invitation can arrive tomorrow, through the same agency channels as the inquiry, language calibrated to feel improbable and therefore irresistible.

The knot of resentment in my chest miraculously loosened, and a genuine smile spread across my face for the first time in days. "You're right. This wasn't my fault. I need to move on." Maybe it was the excitement of seeing an ex-classmate after so long, but Clara and I seemed to have endless things to talk about. When I learned she had just returned to the country and hadn't found a place to stay yet, I volunteered to help her look for an apartment. Since I'd soon be transferring to a branch office in another city, she only needed a place temporarily. Short-term rentals were hard to come by, and after several days of searching, we came up empty-handed.

i buried that name under forged papers and cold silence but as we know some names don’t stay dead for long. I spent the last week convincing myself that hiding was strategy, not surrender and that staying invisible was the same as staying alive but by the fourth night of staring at cracked ceilings while listening to my own heartbeat, I realized hiding was just another cage so I reached for the small burner phone under the mattress and typed three words that changed everything.”We need to meet.”

Harold finally caved to their relentless curiosity, "Okay, okay, no more questions. We're off to Lunaris Inn later for some stargazing." Out of nowhere, Selena piped up, "Lunaris Inn, that's the spot for lovers—pricey and oh-so-romantic. It's open just once a month, and our Alpha snagged the grandest suite. They say it's a glass palace that glows wild and beautiful in the moonlight... Talk about a couple goals for our alpha and his mate." My polite grin was on the verge of cracking. I was in the dark about such intimate plans, yet Selena was in the know before me.

“Especially then.” I lean my head against his arm, just for a second. “I’m not going anywhere,” I whisper. He turns slightly, his breath stirring my hair. “Good.” And for the first time, I’m not just staying because I need to or I am contracted to but I’m staying because against everything I planned.. I want to stay. I want to stay with Alex Bianchi.

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It was the perfect escape from the problems back at home, a refreshing place to wash their minds from all the baleful air and sticky sludge. Anna hummed, laying backward onto the bed, “This is like a little, hidden heaven…I feel like never leaving this place. How long are we staying?” Ella frowned at Anna and kicked the side of her head with her foot and Anna got offended, rolled onto her tummy and quickly worked her limbs until she was kneeling on the bed and grabbing at Ella’s legs.

Harmony I was trying to prevent myself from shaking while I was staring at my laptop. I don’t know what to feel about a post on Friendbook related to me. While I was trying to calm down, I continued to stare at a photo posted with a mocking caption. It was me, standing on a stage while in the midst of holding back my tears. The caption says, "Wow, look at your dumb rich girl stuttering through a debate. Is that all you can do? "

And fuck it because I’ve never even sent her a single damn message. I ran towards my car and drove off. If my love’s still in my hotel, I’d beg her to stay. I’ll make her stay with me no matter what. I’d fly with her to Chicago and ask her hand and make her my wife. Fuck. I’m that desperate, alright. I won’t even let her work. She only needs to be beside me to keep me sane. Stan called me and I immediately answered it. He was in the meeting, I know. I need to know if she has really left or she's still in her room.