Before I Fall Novels & Stories

I didn't have a room. "Skylar!" Hearing his voice had my heart racing with fear, I walked down the stairs to meet him in the hallway. There was a door under the stairs, probably to the basement which is where they made me sleep last time. My step-father stood there with the door open. Suddenly he shoved me and I slipped, falling down each step. Rolo barked and growled at him, earning a kick for himself before he too got locked in the basement with me. I swear I heard him lock it with a key. There were three lights down here, they were fairly dim, the floor had been carpeted thankfully, a single mattress lay in one corner of the room no bedframe, a dog bed next to it with the dogs food and wa

Sebastian stumbled backward. One step. Then another. His gaze drifted toward Aurora. Toward the pendant. Toward the empire he had spent his entire life chasing. Then… His heel found empty air. The broken edge of the warehouse platform. His body tipped backward. For one impossible second… He seemed suspended between life and death. Then… He fell. The crash echoed through the warehouse. Silence followed. Nobody moved. Nobody spoke. Aurora slowly walked toward the edge. She looked down. Far below…

The new intern had a habit of calling my husband "Daddy." "Daddy, I am having the worst luck today. Could you please go buy me some feminine products?" "Daddy, I cannot get the zipper on my dress unstuck. Can you help me?" "Daddy, why do you not have my hair tie around your wrist? I think you deserve a punishment. Wear two. Pink ones, okay?" I frowned as irritation simmered beneath the surface. My husband waved it off with a casual smile. "She is just being playful. Do not take it seriously. She is young and enjoying the novelty. She will get over it soon enough." I said nothing. I waited until the night of the company’s annual gala. She suddenly stumbled in front of everyone and fe

Nathan Riley and I had been married for five years. Throughout those five years, whenever I asked him about his relationship with Rosie Cooper, he always gave me the same answer. "She's like a little sister to me." I believed him right up until the crash. That was the day I finally learned who Nathan would choose if his wife and his so-called little sister were both in danger. It happened during a chain-reaction collision on a mountain highway. The SUV I was in smashed through the guardrail, leaving half the vehicle hanging over a cliff. A jagged piece of metal tore through the window and sliced across my face. Blood poured into my eyes, turning everything around me into a blur of re

I nervously grabbed my phone and tried to unlock it as Ryker neared me but I realized that it was dead. Fuck no! This was a really bad time for my phone to die. Ryker finally reached me and stood in front of me, I ignored him and bobbed my head to an imaginary song playing in my head. "Hey, Grumps." I heard him say. Goosebumps rose on my skin. "You're toxic I'm slipping under, with the taste of a poison paradise, I'm addicted to you, don't you know that you're toxic." I sang Toxic by Britney Spears.

“Okay. You concentrate on calming your pup. I will see that we get through this shit safely.” Closing my eyes, I lean my forehead against his chest as I feel his touch against my skin, sizzling through my clothes. My heart leaps as it starts tingling, my grip increasing as I concentrate on talking to my pup about how we are safe, and Ace will make sure whatever is in those dirty waters won’t be able to hurt us. Suddenly, the ground below my feet gives in, and I fall into nothingness with an ear-shattering scream. Clenching my eyes closed, I brace myself for the fall, expecting to hit the hard floor as I wrap my arms around my belly.

"Besides, that was just an internal presentation, not the actual competition." A fire burned in my chest, and my blood boiled in my veins. I snapped, "What do you take me for?" My sharp tone startled him, and a flicker of unease crossed his face. "Come on. Yvette is just a girl fresh out of the irony tower. I'm doing this to help her grow." I turned around and left, unwilling to hear his excuses. He called after me, but I didn't turn back. ... The next morning, I avoided leaving at the same time as Elliot.

I should climb back up and get back into bed before they notice I am gone. But I do not. I cannot. I crouch on the narrow ledge and prepare for the final drop. The bushes below look soft enough to break my fall. I hope they are soft enough. What if I break something? What if I hurt myself worse and cannot get back? Stop thinking. Just do it. I let go. The impact jolts through my entire body and I have to bite down on my tongue hard to keep from crying out. The metallic taste of blood fills my mouth.

My body felt like it was falling. Falling into something endless. Cold. Empty. The last thing I heard before the world went completely dark— Was the voice saying: “She belongs to him.” And then— Nothing.

“Her choice begins now.” The floor under me cracked open. Light flooded the cracks. Blue. Burning. Alive. The ground shattered. And I fell. Straight into the light.