One Step From Forever Novels & Stories

Those I had risked my life to protect, the family I had once cherished above all, all of them had betrayed me. This time, I would not make the same mistake. Richard stepped forward. Each stride was deliberate. His towering shadow fell over me, enveloping me. The air around us seemed to freeze. He did not say a word. He swung his hand with full force, slamming a harsh slap across my face. The slap sent me staggering, my lip tearing open, and blood flooding my mouth with a bitter, metallic taste.

“It's a truth. I promise to be there every step of the way. I can't exist as an entity anymore without you. It's no more my life, but ours. Always and forever.” “Always and forever.” The anger. The pain. The fear. The part where I let myself go and fall in love with who should've been the wrong person but turned out to be right...so right...was all behind us now. We were stepping into a new horizon. Together. Forever. In the end, it was worth it. Every small piece of what made us what we are today. In the end, we were one.

Unbreakable. Forever.

Together, Forever. The End

No more endings. Just forever.

Her body became static, and she was in a trance from which she could not escape. Out of Mia's field of vision, Esteban and his new girlfriend were approaching Ivan to celebrate the night's victory. It was the last race, and Esteban had won, which meant another semester at his university was secure. The boy was so happy that he didn't notice Mia's presence until Sara herself greeted him with a slap.

she had to close her eyes as she spoke because the look of desire on his face was too much for her aroused self. He took a step towards her, she quickly held up her hand partly in fear of him and partly in fear if herself. "Please..." her voice soft, "...this never happened...it was..." she struggled for words admist the deep ache in her that needed to be satisfied. "...Perfect" he completed for her making her raise her still dazed eyes to look at him. He took another step but stopped there as if to keep his body from reaching out for her. "It was perfect and you know it. I want you, you want me, stop fighting it"

he whispered, voice low and intimate, “I want you to know… I’m ready to do more than rebuild trust. I want to reconnect with you, fully. Emotionally… physically… in every way.” My chest tightened at his words. Part of me hesitated—the memory of betrayal was still raw—but another part of me, the part that had loved him fiercely before, recognized the sincerity in his voice. Slowly, I nodded, allowing myself to lean into him. “Step by step,” I whispered. “Everything at its own pace.” He smiled, brushing a loose strand of hair from my face. “I’ll follow your lead,” he said. His lips found mine gently, testing, cautious at first, a delicate dance of intimacy after weeks of distance.

Who knew that changing a passcode on an iPhone would be the beginning of forever? END OF VOLUME SEVEN: BEGINNING OF FOREVER