A Lifetime To Settle The Score Novels & Stories

"This is not going to be happening to me forever?" "No. This happening to you forever implies you have lives to fill out that forever but you don't." "What does that mean?" she asked and began to shake. "One day the chasen is going to kill you and you won't come back." "Oh my gosh." "Which is why I said what I said to you that day. You can run all you can but it will catch you . . . The chasen will always catch you because it has a score to settle with you and it will not stop until that score is settled," Vera said.

“I never thought it would end this clean. In my first life, they won everything.” Roman sat beside me, arm around my shoulders. “This life is different. You made it different.” We ate dinner together. Simple steak and sides. Conversation stayed easy. Delia teased Carter about his obvious interest. He didn’t deny it. I watched them and felt grateful. Real friends had pulled me through. Later, Roman and I went to the bedroom. He closed the door and looked at me. “You’ve been quiet since the signing.” “Just processing,” I said. “I spent so long planning revenge. Now it’s over and I get to live.”

"Vivienne, I know you hate me, but I was a victim too. I had to leave my real parents—why can't you forgive me?" I shook her off, disgusted. She let out a cry and stumbled backward, crashing into the champagne tower before hitting the floor in a heap. "Elodie!" Stanley's eyes went wild. He stripped off his jacket, draped it over her, and scooped her up like some knight in shining armor. As he passed, his glare was pure venom. "Vivienne, for everything you've ever done to Elodie, I'll pay you back—one by one." I almost fired back, but all the memories from my last life—every fight, every loss—shut me up.

“You wanted to please me, so you went and took her exam ticket! “Now that you see she got Early Admission to Harvard, now that she’s better than me, you want to dump me and go back to being her devoted childhood friend? “Jason, you’re disgusting!” “Shut up!” Jason yelled, flustered. Taking advantage of his distraction, I snatched the ID from his hand. Looking at them, a faint smirk curved my lips. “One of you is selfish and hypocritical, the other is vain. Don’t break up. Lock each other down.” With that, I turned and walked out of the café. After that day, I never saw Jason or Summer again. They had a huge fight in the café that day and completely cut ties.

I'll work hard, make more money than he ever could for you. "Please. Let's start over. Let's go back to how we were, okay?" Luke suddenly laughed, hand to his stomach. "Haha—wow. Get some self-awareness. In this lifetime, you're never making more than me." Philip shot him a glare. "Stella, rich guys like him won't cherish you. He's just messing around with you—"

"Sa'ada and I are going to spend the rest of our lives together happily. We don't need some- baggage from several years ago to show up suddenly and try to ruin our happily ever after. I've worked too hard to win her heart, and I am not about to let some spoilt Abuja boy come up and destroy what I've been planning for several months now. You either stay away from her, or you'll have to answer to me. And believe me when I say you don't want to cross a man like me, Adnan." "Good luck with your happily ever after," Adnan said before punching him right on the nose. Tahir staggered backwards, collapsing against the wall as blood began to spurt from his nostrils. "Good talk," Adnan said before he s

Chapter: Cracks in the Foundation Spencer leaned against the kitchen counter, sipping his coffee as he replayed his conversation with Yash in his mind. The tension between them was palpable, and Spencer wasn’t naive—he knew this wasn’t just about Yash’s feelings for Shelly. It was deeper, messier, a blend of jealousy and betrayal that could shatter their friendship if not handled delicately.

"'End of year?” Dave, who heard that, had a look of horror. He really didn't know what to say in this kind of situation, but he could feel his heart beating wildly. The end of the year is only a few months away, can he even do it? Not to mention Aini, who will soon be done with her apprenticeship. All he needs is time. Could he even increase his chances of winning? “Get out of here, or I will call campus security!” threatened Arjuna. He could feel Dave, whose breath was gasping with anger. However, before Leo could leave, Dave had already lunged at and choked Leo, still giving him a chance to breathe a little.

As for Tina, she could not fight back her rage and grief as she remembered how tragic Sophie's life was, and how Sophie had died young on top of that. Tina's eyes were red even as she cried, "Sophie had suffered from her illness for so long, and she was this close to becoming healthy… But Linda is so vile that she had to cut off Sophie's lifeline! Don't I have the right to take a life for a life?!" Henry could not answer as he was still caught in terrible shock, suddenly profoundly terrified that the kidney he had stolen for Linda was the same one meant for Sophie. But in Tina's eyes, his silence was further proof of him doubting her, leaving her clenching her knuckles in agony, her nails di

After that incident, I desperately chased an imaginary ideal of perfection, only to realize at the end that I had been deceiving myself all along. "Back then, I was young and thought I needed to cling to some idea of love to make life meaningful. I later realized that what I felt couldn't really be called love." Sophia and I agreed on a three-year arrangement. If we felt we weren't compatible after three years, we would set each other free. As for why she had agreed to my proposal, she still hadn't told me. But in this lifetime, I had forever to find out. With our engagement settled, we scheduled the engagement party for next month. Both patriarchs wanted to follow proper protocol, so over t