After I Became Novels & Stories

Between Goodbye And Becoming Country: Aurivelle City: Auremont Alvara I woke up the next morning… but I couldn’t bring myself to get out of bed. Everything that had happened over the past six months pressed down on me all at once…too heavy, too loud to ignore. From being selected… to arriving at this institute… and now, leaving it. But most importantly… I wasn’t leaving as the same girl who had walked in. I was going back as someone else entirely.

You began picking apart everything I did wrong and mocking me for not being as good as him. I set the teapot down. "Clara, where does your confidence come from? What makes you think I would forgive all of this and get back together with you?" Her throat went dry, and she took a few quiet sips of tea. In the end, she let out a slow sigh. "I failed you, Bruce. I won't ask you that question again. I respect your choice and wish you happiness." Clara left. After she said that, she never appeared in my life again after that.

he said, grinning at me, “this is delicious!!” I laughed softly, my chest feeling lighter. Operation feed the children was successful. Now I had to protect them.

The transition was complete. I was the Ruined Bride no longer. I was the architect of my own destiny, and God help the man who tried to stand in my way.

I was good at this. I sat with that thought for a moment and examined it honestly, the way I tried to examine most things about myself even when the examination was not flattering. Eight months ago I had been a woman who loved someone and got left badly. Now I was a woman who built campaigns. I had become someone I would not have recognised a year ago. I did not entirely like who I had become.

“You became an incredible woman. My woman. I’m the luckiest man alive.” We drove away from the club hand in hand. I looked out the window at the city lights, feeling complete. Everything started here — in this nightclub. And now, everything felt right. I was no longer the scared, innocent 19-year-old waitress. I was Elara Voss — graduate, survivor, and loved deeply by the man who changed my life. The future looked bright. And I was finally ready for it.

As for me… With the money from the orchard redevelopment, I immigrated overseas and began my life anew. In a foreign land, I found an easy job and spent my free time traveling the world, walking under the sunlight toward a future filled with hope.

It took months. But I did it. And when I returned to the valley I was not the same woman who had left. I was stronger. I was wiser. I was ready.

For seven years, I've been dating Celeste Monroe, a CEO who never keeps her promises. Every time we make plans, she's either late or doesn't show up at all. The first time, her newly hired male assistant, Grady Keller, lost an important contract. I waited at the restaurant until closing, had my food reheated three times, and never heard a word from her. The second time, Grady called to say he was lost. Celeste was already downstairs when she got the call, but I sat through the entire movie without ever seeing her. After that, whenever Celeste and I had plans alone, Grady would suddenly have some kind of emergency. She would disappear without a word, then laugh it off afterward and promise

But, since it was inevitable, I forced myself out of the bed and into clothes that described how I was feeling. Over the weekend, I transformed from a sad, pathetic state into a f*ck it all, boss babe state. Don’t get me wrong, I was still sad and upset that I had screwed up my life and theirs, but I guess everyone eventually reached a point where they don’t have the energy to go on anymore. That was exactly where I was.