I Chose Novels & Stories

ONE MOMENT IT IS RAINING THE NEXT MOMENT THE SUN IS SHINING, SOME PEOPLE SAY CAPE TOWN WEATHER IS LIKE A WOMAN'S MOOD, ALWAYS CHANGING. SHE WENT TO SIT DOWN AND PLACED HER CUP ON A COASTER ON THE COFFEE TABLE. SHE TOOK A DEEP BREATH IN AND SLOWLY BREATHED IT OUT AGAIN. SHE WANTED TO CLEAR HER THOUGHTS. SHE NEEDED TO DECIDE WHAT SHE WAS GOING TO DO. SHE COULDN'T KEEP THIS SITUATION GOING. SHE NEEDED TO MAKE A CHOICE. SHE KNEW SHE LOVED BOTH AND SHE LOVED THEM IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THEY WERE BOTH SO DIFFERENT, SHE JUST COULDN'T BRING HERSELF TO CHOOSE.

"Not for the hall. For me. Just for this room." I looked at him for a moment and then I said it the way it needed to be said for just the two of us, in the voice that was not the ceremony voice but the one I used for the things that were true in the way that only the private versions of things were true. "I choose you," I said. "Thorian. You specifically. The Alpha and the man underneath the Alpha and every version in between and the ones I have not met yet. I choose all of it."

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“You are the chosen one! When everyone heard this word, they were stunned beyond doubt, Zenny shook her head vigorously to show her disapproval. “You are lying to me, you are lying! I can not be the chosen one! “I'm not the one you all are looking for ” “How can I be the chosen one? How? I'm not going to accept anything and everything you said, because you said so. If you are so desperate to get the chosen one and sacrifice her, then you can look else! I don't care, but don't come to me with the nonsense news if me being the chosen one”

Not of what comes next. Because I was no longer waiting to be chosen. I had chosen myself. And that kind of love—the fierce, quiet, unapologetic kind? It doesn’t shatter. It builds.

After I started college, my mother announced that she would be giving me my living expenses in installments. "Hank, you're grown up now. To teach you how to manage your money, I've decided to give you your living expenses in installments." At first, I assumed she meant she would send my allowance once a month. At worst, maybe once a week. But on the day I checked in, she walked around the cafeteria, then transferred $6.80 to my bank account. I stared at her in confusion. "Mom, you sent the wrong amount." She shook her head with a smile. "Silly boy, that's your lunch money for today. I already picked out the cheapest meal for you. Just get the set lunch from that place. From now on, you

It was such a huge coincidence that all the choices Chase made were exactly what I had once longed for. Once my veil was lowered, they positioned me at the church entrance. The doors were closed, so I couldn’t see the people inside. But after a moment, the doors slowly opened, and the song “I Choose You” began to play, performed live by one of the best singers in the country. THIRD POV

Because it wasn’t handed to me in a desperate letter or carved from guilt. It was chosen. And I will keep choosing it. Every single day.

“Farrah, no—” “I choose Roland,” I repeated, stronger this time. “Because he's the only one who didn’t beg.” I swallowed. “He gave me a real choice.”

And now, I was standing on the soil born from the choice I had made— and hopefully it was the right choice. I was in the North.