Blacktie Breaks Novels & Stories

EVELYN I make it to my car before I completely break down. The tears come hot and fast, blurring my vision until I have to pull over in a parking garage just to breathe. This cannot be happening. Not again. Not when I finally started to feel happy again. My phone rings. Tonia. I almost do not answer but I know she will just keep calling. "Hello?" "Evie? What's wrong? You sound terrible." "Everything is falling apart."

Her frustration boiled over, and she grabbed the wine glass, flinging it onto the ground, where it shattered with a deafening crash, startling the workers. Breathing heavily, Sapphire whispered to herself, “He won’t get away from me. Not ever.” Dominic leaned against the counter in the hotel lobby, staring at his cousin's number as he waited to check-in. He cradled his phone in one hand before hitting the call button, then pressed it to his ear, waiting for Miles to answer. When the familiar voice came through, Dominic felt a pang of comfort. “Dom! What’s up?” Miles said, his voice thick over the crackling connection.

I thought he was going to be furious by my words but he appeared to be calmer than I had thought. I went back to my room and my wolf won't stop talking about us being mates. " I hate to hear it" I yelled as I covered my ears. My eyes went to my wrist as I saw a silver line appeared there. I touched it and felt the connection with Alpha Kael, the ritual was already taking place.

There was one thing true about what my Dad told me once, "Life is like a piano. The white keys show happiness and the black keys show sadness, but as you venture on in life, remember that the black keys also make music." I still have a long fight ahead of me. And this time, I won't sit back and watch everyone turn their backs on me.

“Why did you have to do that, Naomi? Ian invited Mom and me to the engagement party to help patch things between us. We were supposed to be one big happy family. Why do you keep rejecting Mom and me?” When I ripped Roxy’s gown to shreds, she turned on the waterworks, her eyes welling up until Ian draped the jacket I had tailored for him over her, and then came tears. “You’ve been playing this game for years. Aren’t you sick of it? If you love acting so much, why don’t you go to drama school?” I hadn’t exactly cut ties with them in the past three years. Ever since my mother took the fatal leap from the hospital roof due to Rowena and Sebastian’s betrayal, I deleted and blocked all their conta

The news flickered on. Specials Break Peace The screen flashed below the anchor woman. Specials break peace I read to myself again. “Turn it up Micheal” I ordered. He rolled his eyes but obliged. “Peace has been held for 15 years and today an extremely dangerous special broke it. We are unaware what caused the incident to spark. Soldiers were deployed to Barker Street. Officials have not yet released the number of killed or injured, but we can tell from footage it is a large number. We are estimating at least 50”

But Jessica was too strong, and she only tightened her grip, her eyes burning with rage. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Brittany managed to gasp out the words that were at the back of her throat. She was going to tell Jessica how to break the mate bond between Zane and Bianca. Jessica released her grip on Brittany's throat, feeling triumphant. She had accomplished her mission, and she knew that she would finally be able to break the bond between Zane and Bianca. "Good," Jessica said, a vindictive smile spreading across her face. "Now, tell me everything you know."

"You don't mean that." "I do," he insists, but he won't meet my eyes when he says it. "We got caught up in something that was never going to work. Now it's over." "Just like that?" I ask, tears starting to blur my vision. "Two months together, and you can just turn it off like a switch?" "It's better this way," he says, finally looking at me. But his eyes are cold, distant, like he's looking at a stranger. "A Clean break, no more complications."

"Hey hey, it's okay Ells,I'm here." Ella sobbed some more and Robyn knew she was going to have the jacket cleaned into the morning. It did not matter though, her best friend needed her. She was making the list of people she had to murder for making Ella cry like this. Brett at the top of course of he was responsible for these tears. "Brett said we should take a break." Ella said between hiccups. "He what?!"

The buttons near her collar had come undone—revealing the faint outline of a black tattoo. Briella’s eyes narrowed. That tattoo… ***