In Name Only Novels & Stories

Our company had just brought in a new boss. He kept us working late every single day. As his secretary, I could not leave until he did, so I always stayed back later than the rest of the office. I bought a brand new keyboard and mouse set to cheer myself up. They were both limited editions! I gently ran my fingers over them before starting to type like crazy. I was going to pound all my frustration into those keys! I wanted to beat the keys into submission! Out of nowhere, a message popped up on my screen from my boss, Shane Lawson.

the man replied flatly. Fair. Xander stepped slightly in front of Zade—not aggressively, but protectively. “We disabled their trackers,” he said evenly. “If we were still theirs, you’d already be surrounded.” The trio exchanged glances. One of the women—short hair, scar across her cheek—narrowed her eyes. “Names,” she demanded. Xander hesitated. Zade answered first. “Zade.” A beat. “Xander.” The man frowned. “Ironclad cadets.”

The other woman, almost the same height, had long, sleek black hair and a reserved posture, observing silently. “Hi, sorry to bother you,” the first woman said, still smiling. “I’m Anneliese, and this is my friend Pietra. We’re looking for a gift for a baby and, well, we noticed you’re pregnant... Would you mind helping us with an opinion?”

"Mr. Estrada, I just returned from studying abroad and haven't started my career yet." Byron looked like a peacock flaunting its feathers, and I covered my face. It was so embarrassing. Truly, so embarrassing. We still needed to go through some paperwork for the share transfer. Byron eagerly delivered the contract for me to sign. "Dana, this is a store under my name, and this too, and all of this... it's all yours. Oh, and these are new designs from the company. I wasn't sure what you like, so I brought everything."

I had told Nina to hold my nine o'clock specifically so I would have time. I sat down and opened it. The company was called Nicolas Enterprise. I had seen the name in the subject line of Nina's briefing email three days ago and I had sat very still for approximately thirty seconds before I continued reading. It was not an uncommon name. Nicolas was not a rare word. I had finished the email, requested the full proposal, and said nothing to anyone.

"You — please — I belong to you—" "And will you let anyone else touch you?" "No." She shook her head desperately. "No, Damien. Never. I won't — I promise — please—" "Who," he said softly, his lips brushing her jaw, "is the only one who gets to have you?" "You." The word came out like a prayer. "Only you. You and no one else — Damien—" The vibrator roared back to life. His fingers began to move. Hard. Deep. Relentless. His pace climbed and she stopped forming words entirely — there was nothing left but sensation and his name and the headboard rattling above her and the coil inside her pulling so tight she couldn't breathe—

That thought unsettled me more than I wanted to admit. "See?" he said. "Not so difficult." "Don't get excited. It's one picture." "One very good picture." "Your confidence is honestly impressive." "Thank you." "That wasn't a compliment." "I'll take it anyway." I pulled out my phone and studied the photo again. "What caption are you using?" he asked. I shrugged. "Something simple." "Like?" "Unexpected company." He nodded slowly. "Not bad." "And you?" He typed, then turned his screen toward me.

She yelled as she stared at his message for over ten minutes. ‘hey’ Jeff eventually replied on collecting the phone and she fell to the bed. “What kind of name is Regenade?” Amy said as Jeff fell right beside her. “You used AmaP101 as yours. So dont even talk” He said to her as they both chuckled till he felt a buzz in his hands. Solomon: So who’s AmaP101? :) Amy had snatched the phone turning to her side- AmaP101: Who’s Solomon? And it was then she turned to Jeff. “Cruise” She said, having no idea that she will only soon begin to fall for whom she thought was a guy.

"Whatever you say, miss, now, please kindly pick up your keys, you dropped them." I picked up the keys and said, "This is not mine." "Then it probably belongs to the boy earlier, kindly give it to him." I looked at the key properly and noticed a name tag there, "It has a name tag...Dylan... WHAT?! DYLAN ASHTON?!!" I shouted with glee, "This must be destiny! I knew it, he's my one true love!" "You do know there's quite a lot of boy who has that name. It's a pretty common nam-"

He said with a small smile. “What do you mean?” Anita asked with a frown. “If you browse through the internet, you will never find her pictures, let alone her personal information. People know her as MJ Billings, they don’t know her full name, and they don’t even know her birthday. All they know is that her name is MJ Billings and she is a multi-billionaire and the CEO of Billings Corporation. And the only pictures they have connected to her are my pictures and the company buildings.” He explained, not taking his eyes off the paper.