Guide To Freedom Novels & Stories

How can they really believe all this crap? "This is crazy," I say again to convince them not to listen, and Ms. Cummings has the audacity to sigh at me like I am the crazy one. "Signing these papers saves you. Believe it or don't believe it. You should sign and find out if I am lying. You won't lose anything if I am lying," she says and my mouth snaps shut. She is right. What do I have to lose? The only thing waiting for me is a lonely death back at the hospital. If this is real... and that is a hard if, I will be liberated from my loneliness. I will be saved and given a new life.

“I won't warn you twice. Follow me and you live.” Freedom sat in the air like a rumor and stabbed at me. Of course I wanted to leave. Every time I closed my eyes I saw the same images—the basement, the way his men watched me like I was property, the taste of humiliation, the sharp sting of being used—and my stomach clenched. Freedom was the only thing I had ever pictured in bright, warm colors since the day I realized the world had more than one option.

After three years together, my boyfriend, Walker Ashford, proposed. But right after that, he got cold feet. At our wedding photo shoot, Walker buried his face against my best friend Anna Benedict's shoulder. "The way Valentina looks at me freaks me out," he said. At the jewelry shop, he grabbed Anna's hand and refused to let go. None of it made sense. But my future mother-in-law, Judith Ashford, pulled me aside. "Valentina, why not let Anna take your place in the photos? We can put you in later." Walker's sister, Emma Ashford, pushed Anna forward. "She has better taste. Let her pick the ring for you." I swallowed my hurt and watched in silence as they took my wedding photos and picked out my

Not defined by what was done to me but by what I’d built despite it. That was freedom. Real freedom. And it felt exactly right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

"Shhh—don't mention that again. Now tell me: how to be free?" "The only way to get rid of that curse isn't by risking your own life but the lives of other people. You will need to risk the lives of a hundred people in order to get rid of that curse. Now tell me if you're really sure you can risk a hundred lives just to get the thing you solely hope for."

Martin came in person to explain everything on my behalf. Wendy, Jacob was the man you wanted. I let you have him. Everything I had, I earned myself. Every step forward was carved out with my own effort. I'd walked a clean path, so I had no fears. I'd led teams in major national projects—raising skyscrapers from the ground up—and I helped train a new generation, connecting them with opportunities to study abroad and bringing back the most cutting-edge knowledge. Our country's progress depended on fresh blood and new minds, and I was still learning too. I couldn't fall behind.

A new fire ignites in my chest, burning through the exhaustion and the pain. "What's the rest of the message?" I whisper. Lorenzo’s shadow moves as he stands up. “La libertad es para los que sangran por ella." Freedom is for this who bleed for it

"Saved your life?" Jamie nodded and opened the car door. "I'll take you to the clerk's office. I'll tell you on the way."

"You're the one who made the first move. Ever since Sean left me, I wished you would die every single day! You still don't know about this, do you? When your loving mother heard you were trafficked across to the Northern Barrens, a vein in her brain popped, and it started bleeding! She's still in the ICU right now! No one in this world is coming to save you!" My heart went cold. I went through every humiliation one could imagine in the Northern Barrens. They broke all ten of my fingers and shattered the bones in my legs. In the end, I died because of all their torture. Everything was thanks to Flora. I died with my eyes wide open, filled with nothing but hate! Now that I had regressed and wa

I looked up at the sky and let out everything that had been inside me for all these years. Sometimes we need to run away from what is bad for us, what only takes us down, because we deserve much more than we think. Because we are much stronger than we look and we have no idea what awaits us out there. All it takes is a little courage to find out. It doesn't matter if you've tried once, twice, three, thousands of times or not at all. Freedom is something you have to fight for. She can often be in the midst of chaos, but always, know this, there is always a light to guide you out. And find everything you want. If there was anyone happier than me, I didn't know. And I couldn't wish for anything