Reluctantly Yours Novels & Stories

"You did nothing." "I tolerate you," his friend retorted. "That drains all my energy." James rolled his eyes at their bickering.

Thank you to all my wonderful readers, I really hope you enjoyed the book, without your support I wouldn't have had the motivation to continue writing this series, so thankyou all from the bottom of my heart. So that's book 1, "MINE" and book 2, "YOURS" both completed so now I'm going to make a start on the third and final book "OURS" and hope you all stick around to see what happens with the final war and comment to let me know what you think as I love hearing your thoughts and feeling about what you think will happen or how you feel about the characters.

A L Y S S A “This is a gesture of faith,” Mr Valentino says, his voice smooth and assured, like he’s explaining an investment opportunity instead of handing me a sum of money that could alter the course of my life. “A retainer, if you will. Consider it a taste of what we’re offering. Spend it on your mother. Or don’t. It’s yours.”

"How about you usе this to pay for thе thrее yеars' worth of еxpеnsеs?" Nathan's patiеncе was wеaring thin, and hе couldn't bеar thе arrogancе of thе dеmand. With a calm but rеsolutе tonе, hе rеtortеd, "I'm afraid you'll havе to rеturn this to mе soon."

Our SAT results came back, and our parents booked a private room at a Michelin-starred steakhouse to celebrate. Over dinner, they began discussing how we should apply to the same university so we could keep looking out for each other. I looked across the table at Derek and asked politely, “Derek, which university are you planning to apply to?” The moment the words left my mouth, comments suddenly flashed across my vision. [Here she goes again. Is this desperate side character going to apply to the same university as the male lead?] [I feel so bad for him. Just to keep the close ties between the families, he has to be okay with her clinging to him for three whole years!] [Don’t worry. H

After I rejected her dinner invitation. Guilt crashes into me hard. “This is too much,” I say quietly. I start packing everything back. “I can’t accept this,” I say quietly. “I'm returning this back.”

My chest felt tight, each breath coming with a searing weight. “You don’t have to,” I muttered. “You’ve done enough already. Please... Just leave.” I didn’t raise my voice much, but each syllable was coated with ice. I saw the way his jaw tightened, the flicker of resistance across his face. He hesitated, clearly torn, clearly wanting to push back. But then, with visible reluctance, he inclined his head ever so slightly. “If that’s truly what you want,” he said at last, the words dragging from him like they hurt to say.

"𝘐𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘕𝘪𝘤. 𝘐𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭." "𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘥. 𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸?"

Ehan entered my cabin after few moments and forwarded the file of contract towards me as he got uttering, “Hope you are ready to sign now.” I tried to speak up otherwise, “Ehan, please stop it. We can’t do this.” Then we heard a knock on the door again and Ira entered only to get me paused..... ☘☘☘

he stretched a car key to me "I'm sorry sir but can't accept this" I refused immediately "You've offered to help my daughter already, do you want to back out now?" he asked sadly "It's not that sir! I'm going to fulfill my promise but I can't take this. You've done a lot for me already so accepting this won't be right" I insisted "If my parents discover you're a pauper, they won't let you be with Mitchell for even a second. Please just accept this okay? I promise not to do any other thing apart from this" he said pleadingly