Seven Perfect Things Novels & Stories

After Heath Renwick abandons me and our daughter for Celeste Worthing's dog for the seventh time, we finally learn our lesson. He parades around with Celeste and the dog, trending online, landing magazine features, and I don't say a word. He even tears up our daughter Maisie's favorite sketchbook to line the dog's bed, and she doesn't cry or make a fuss. Then the dog chases Maisie down a flight of stairs. She hits her head and ends up in the ER with a concussion, and only then does Heath bother to show up. "Raven! Why didn't you tell me? I'm Maisie's father too!" I spend the whole night sitting outside the emergency room. I look at him, my voice perfectly calm. "It's nothing serious,

The tenth time my parents flew more than six thousand miles to meet their future son-in-law, Nathaniel Prescott refused to show up. He ignored my calls and never replied to any messages. After God knew how many cups of coffee, I received an update from my best friend, Isla Monroe. Eight photos of snowy scenery surrounded a picture of two intertwined hands. The caption read: “Check-in number ten. He's perfect in every way.” My fingers curled into tight fists. It took twenty-seven calls before Nathaniel finally answered. “Where are you?” Howling wind rushed through the phone, followed by his distracted voice. “Out. What’s up?” “What’s up? This is the tenth time! My parents flew all

"Seven is the absolute sweet spot. A different flavor for every night of the week. It keeps their stamina up, keeps me dripping in attention, and ensures I never, ever get bored." The heavy, intoxicating scent of her raw pheromones rolls across the room. Half the freshmen at the neighboring tables are practically panting, staring at her with glazed, violently aroused eyes. Arlo violently chokes on a piece of dry chicken. He coughs, his face turning bright red at the sheer, unapologetic degeneracy of the conversation. I, on the other hand, am completely unfazed. In fact, I respect the hustle. Why choose one when you can successfully manage a schedule of seven?

He ran to me, panting heavily, but his eyes were shining with an unusually bright light. It was a light I hadn't seen in his eyes for a very long time. A light mixed with nervousness, anticipation, and even a bit of boyish anxiety. He pulled the velvet box from his sea-sprayed jacket and snapped it open. Then, he dropped to one knee. "Chloe." "It's been seven years. Thank you for walking these seven years with me." "I know I haven't been good enough, that I've put you through a lot. But please believe me, from this day forward—"

The guard studied me for a long moment. Then he reached for his radio. I stood at those gates and I did not fidget and I did not look away and my wolf stood straight inside me for the first time in seven years. The radio crackled. The guard looked up. Alpha Rhys says to bring her in, he said. He did not sound surprised. And that was the part that should have reassured me. It did not.

Marching up to Zachary, I slapped him hard across the face. "I'm a living, breathing person, Zachary. I'm not some toy you can buy and sell as you like! The worst mistake of my life is giving up on my dream and my career for a scumbag like you! "You have no clue about what I want in life. Whenever you upset me, all you do is buy me a gift. When you hurt me, all you know how to do is transfer some money to me. Even when I made up my mind to leave, you tried to use money to threaten me! But that was never what I wanted!"

He did not trust me after seven years together. The clock on the wall struck three. It was the last day of my bet with Bailey. It was also the date that Jeremy had planned to propose to me.

I switch it on then looking for entertainment news or show then suddenly a news caught my attention. ‘Breaking news one of the hottest supermodel now in America Miss Shane Sandoval is in a relationship now with her co-model Alexa Gray.’ My tears ran down to my face immediately watching Shane’s interview together with her new partner. They’re so sweet together, like a perfect couple of the century. I stand up but my legs are shaking and my body is trembling in anger. I'm lost now. I lost the woman that I love so dearly with all of my heart because of that one stupid mistake.

"Come to me if you need money. Don't lower yourself like this." Quinn drove me back herself. Because I was being very apologetic about it, her tone softened. " I bought you an apartment with a river view. Move in tomorrow. Once this all blows over, I'll arrange for you to join the company. We won't need to have a long-distance relationship anymore." I did not respond as I only counted the money in my hands. When I got out of the car, Quinn suddenly hugged me. She kissed my face, her eyes full of pity. "Conrad, I'm sorry you have suffered so much these past seven years. I promise, I'll give you whatever you want from now on.

And no girl would want to have anything romantic to do with a boy who is passionate about how aliens have taken over the minds of the world leaders and leading a world of synchronized zombies into mass destruction. So, Seven was very much involuntarily unavailable. That was until the day his world collided with hers. People were arguing on one of Seven’s F******k friend’s controversial posts. Talking about the usefulness of the notches on the recently released smartphones. Seven was on the opposing side. He believed the notches psychologically brought the smartphone users more discomfort than comfort, stripping the fact that it gives the smartphones more depth in aesthetics. However, it was