Cold Chord Novels & Stories

Framed for a massive financial scandal by her ruthless ex-fiancé, Emaline Gonzalez is left with a sixty-million dollar debt and her family's future in ruins. Desperate to save her father and clear her name, she answers a mysterious offer from Blackwood Tower only to discover her potential savior is Aiden Blackwood, the cold, feared billionaire and her ex’s biggest rival. ​Aiden is ruthless, emotionless, and demands absolute control. He offers Emaline a deal: sign a 24/7 personal assistant contract, serve as his public pawn to humiliate her ex, and he will clear her family's debt. ​Forging a bond built on revenge, Emaline enters Aiden's world of corporate warfare and high-society games. But

Ice cold water hit Kade the moment he pressed the old rusty lever, thousands of droplets raining down on him like needles, slicing into his flesh. The moment the brutal shower hit his bruised and bloodied skin, he gritted his teeth, shuddering as the cold sank painfully into his bones. Blood quickly turned the water a pinkish red colour as it swirled around the dirty plug hole and the sound of his breath ricocheted off the tiles like bullets. The early spring night was frigid, winter still clinging to the dark to drop the temperatures to a crisp sharp bite that was only amplified by the frigid water.

The air became warm. Not hot. Comfortably warm. Like standing beneath early morning sunlight. Then... Something stepped out of the mist. Not fully. Just enough for Grayson to see movement. A massive paw. Silver fur. Claws larger than daggers. The ground cracked beneath its weight. Another step. The hooded followers lowered their heads even further. One of them began quietly weeping. The Prophet whispered a single sentence. "Welcome home..." Inside the Temple... The heartbeat suddenly stopped. Complete silence followed.

Rushing down to check the cause of his death, she misplaced her feet. Before she could grab hold of herself, she was already sliding into the spring. With a splash, she falls into the hot spring. She immediately rises from the water, wiping her face off the water. Turning around to step out, only to find a pair of cold, black eyes in the mist looking at her….

Four soft tones. Like a heartbeat. Like a countdown. Like the sound of something trying to remember its name.

Frost flowers began forming on the windshield—visible to the naked eye. [Region Announcement: Attention, all players in Zone C-996—Cold Front Incoming!] [Current ambient temperature has dropped to 14°F and will continue falling.] [Warning: Low temperatures cause body heat loss, slowed reflexes, and a minor decrease in Sanity.] [Survivors, seek heat sources or warm shelter immediately!] 'Damn, can't catch a break with this game!' Jake rubbed his stiffening fingers and pressed on the blinking red [Regional Chat] button. Even someone with his iron nerves felt his pupils contract at what he saw.

“Hey Darrion, what does this Cold Drink do again?” Jai asked. Darrion, who was busy cutting up the fern, stopped for a while to tell his friend. But he frowned when he saw what Jai was doing. “You’re reading it.” Jai then read the recipe in his hands. “Cold Drink is used to cool down your high temperature body. It can also be sued to treat first degree burn. If you mix it with honey and red herb, you can treat a second degree burn. The recipes. Blue-tip Fern, Herb, Salt, Fall Four Seasons leaves, Barley Tea leaves, Blue Slime essence, and water. Wait, slime? Is this real? People are drinking this?”

“Purewater! Come now, don’t you want to sell me purewater, I want everything.” He said to her and she frowned before she walked slowly to his store, business was slow that day and she had not even sold much since morning and the cold sachet water was no longer cold. “It is not cold ooo.” She said to him.

Prakash and he is more than happy for that as the both company’s names will get free publicity. The show is actually on outskirts of the city and Nikki decided to spend that week too with her parents. Next day is the last main rituals before the wedding. First is ‘Haldi Chadvane’ and in this the mango leaves that have been immersed in haldi paste are applied on the bride and groom. After it is applied Arthi asked me to help her in standing up and which I did. But in the process I saw some of that haldi paste from her face got on my hands.

By morning, the blizzard had sealed the estate in silence. Snow pressed thickly against every window, muting the world into something distant and unreachable. Even sound felt swallowed, softened, as though the house itself had decided nothing from outside mattered anymore. Chloe, as usual, was immune to atmosphere. “There’s an après-ski thing happening at one of the lodges,” she announced, hopping into a neon pink puffer jacket. “Spiked cocoa. Fire pits. Hot guys pretending they know how to ski.”Emphasis on the hot guys,she giggled.