Absolute Power Novels & Stories

He let me, taking in a deep breath. "Of course," he said, "but I don't think we will be well for long if we don't do something." "What do you mean?" I asked, suddenly realising that he had been driving somewhere by telling me all those names. "They have unprecedented power now," he started. "You know about that now, don't you?" "If they let people know about the information and dirt they have on them, then yes, they are going to be pretty powerful," I responded with a frown. "But that shouldn't be a problem now, should it?"

He had taken an urgent team-building order from a large company that afternoon, earning over 100 dollars just from the delivery fees and tips. Watching him drive away on his motorcycle, I smiled involuntarily. My "powerful words" used to be a knife hanging over others' heads, a jinx that only brought disaster, but after leaving that dark place full of suspicion and malice, the power had transformed into a blessing that could bring good fortune. The wind chimes jingled, and a beautiful woman in plain clothes walked in. She was the young police officer who, despite the Shaw family's pressure, had insisted on collecting evidence to uncover the truth in the emergency room corridor.

Marcus said, his voice dropping to a gravelly tone, "she will learn that her father was a man who tried to steal her future, and that her mother was a queen who protected her. You are trying to carry the morality of a saint, Jessica, but you are running a kingdom. You cannot bleed yourself dry to keep a corpse warm." I looked up into his handsome, ruthless face. He was right. He was always the pragmatist, the shield that kept the ugliness of the world from scratching my surface. But as I looked down at the legal tablet resting on the stone ledge, the flashing red notification of the hospital's final appeal, I realized that true power wasn't just the ability to destroy your enemies. It was th

Theodore invited me to meet him at a restaurant at seven on Saturday night. That was enough to shock the entire family, then they became worried. Theodore held enormous influence and power in Harbor City, and his temper was even harder to predict. Someone had once said the wrong thing in front of him and Theodore had bankrupted him for it. As for me, I was so oblivious that even if someone held a knife to my throat, I would still grin and say, "That knife looks so real!"

“You know everybody thinks their ideas are right. That's why the people you call terrorists call themselves freedom fighters. The fundamentalists think they are right, the capitalist think they are right, the communist think they are right, even Jace Norman thinks he's right. And no one will ever convince anyone of anything. And all these honourable men, lecturing the world from the floors of congresses and parliaments. Whose time has long since passed, refuse to admit, publicly at least, ideas don't determine who's right. Power determines who's right. He paused before walking slowly towards Jace, stopping at arms length as he continued. “And I have the power, so I am right.” “The strongest

Astrid’s POV Power is intoxicating. Not in the way people think.......loud, arrogant, reckless. No. Real power is quiet. Controlled. It sits in your hands like something delicate, something sharp… something that can build or destroy depending on how tightly you hold it. And this morning I held it perfectly. Or so I thought. I stood by the floor-to-ceiling window in my office, the city stretching endlessly beneath me. Cars moved like ants. People rushed through their lives, unaware of the decisions being made above them......decisions that could shift markets, break companies, ruin lives.

“If no one stops him, then yes.” “So, is a king needed in the vampire world?” Lance shook his head. “Leila, you must understand that the Vampire King became corrupt. One man should have so much absolute power.” He looked into my eyes. “That’s why the humans have a president in the United States and not a king. There’s a system of checks and balances now, and not one person holds all the power. The same is true in the supernatural world. When one person holds all the power, it’s intoxicating and can have lethal and catastrophic consequences.”

How could he not feel astonished? He fell silent for a moment before saying, “To my knowledge, the five strongest powerhouses in the world are Regicide Heofon’s Osiris, Sicut In Caelo’s Caelum, Nirvana Blest’s Bloodgod, one from Zeus Palace, and also Shiloh Shaw from the common world. As for who it is that abducted your wife, it’s hard to say.” Zayn’s eyes lit up upon hearing that and said, “There’s a super powerhouse in our world as well?

Power is always associated with trouble. Sometimes it is great enough to save us from trouble, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it is so great that trouble can't get close and sometimes its greatness is the reason why trouble comes. Sometimes it's not about how you use it, sometimes it's about the power itself. The mere existence of a certain power could stir up fear, awe, hatred and envy depending on who percieved it and how they do. "My power is supposed to kind that helps me escape trouble" Victor said to himself as he drove through an empty road with nothing but desert on both sides.

“Of course, the position as the Great Grandmaster. The power of being the leader of the ancient martial world is much greater than being the King of Sol. Although the King is the country's lord, he doesn’t have authority over the ancient martial artists. However, being the Great Grandmaster will give one the power to command all the martial artists in Sol. Wouldn’t it be easy to become the ruler of the world with countless martial artists under one’s command?” Thea laughed. “That simple? The ruler of the world? You’re overthinking it.” Maxine rolled her eyes at Thea and said, “You don’t understand the temptation of power. It’ll make one insane and possess one’s mind. Throughout the ages, cou