Shutline Novels & Stories

She had no special skills, no talents that would interest someone like him. Don Linus watched her in silence for a moment, his expression unreadable. Then, with a sigh, he took a step back. “I’ll give you some time to think about that,” he said, his voice clipped. “You’re too pretty for me to put a bullet through your head....”

Just yesterday, they were working hard on the pre-sales and discussing how they were going to celebrate the occasion when all the listings were sold out. But early this morning, as soon as they woke up, they found that the sky had fallen on them! "Matt, when is Austin coming? With such a huge emergency happening, what should we do?" "I think I'm losing it. I woke up just to find out that Wirtucon had suddenly announced that they would be shelving the project. Once they do that, when will they pick it up again?" "You're overthinking it. That's how the big companies usually talk. If they say that they're shelving the project, they actually mean that they're axing it. They just make it sound ni

"Ah! Don't shut me off don't shut me off don't shut me off!" "Shen Xiu Jin" and "shut up" these six words, enough to drive her crazy, "Please, I was wrong, I was wrong, don't shut me down, please, don't shut me down, I don't dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare to ever dare! "

Once they had their say, I ripped my hand away from Cecelia's grasp hard and said sternly, "Cecelia." Cecilia froze as she didn't expect that reaction. Lillian and Isabel quickly sensed something was wrong and exchanged glances. "Maddie, what's wrong?" Cecelia whimpered, squeezing a few drops of crocodile tears. "We will end up homeless if you insist on moving out," she cried. "I still have a huge number of installments in my Apple Pay Later and Klarna accounts to settle." I took out my phone, opened my WhatsApp, and tapped on the "Free Riders Club" group chat.

"Cassie, that's a new low, messing up this bad and then trying to pin it on Director Erin." "Honestly. How do you do something this reckless and then act surprised?" "You owe everyone here money. Pay us back!" Jason finally snapped out of it. He hauled himself up and roared at Tom. "Shut it down! Kill the servers, cut the connection, stop the bleeding!" Tom smiled grimly and shook his head. "It's too late, Jason." "The withdrawal function was set to instant. The money is already sitting in digital wallets across those bot accounts." "If we kill the servers now, we don't get the money back. We also trigger a unilateral termination clause with the platform."

I took a deep breath and said, "You ought to know that the shuttle service is an established initiative authorized by the board of directors. It will certainly not be modified simply because a single individual posted a bitter post online." Bianca's smile froze instantly. "You think I'm the only one?" She held up her phone, the screen showing the like count climbing steadily while the shares exploded. "You see these numbers, Serena? You ought to know that this stopped being about one person a long time ago. "It represents the shared voice of every single professional woman in this city who is fed up with being manipulated!" I pushed down my temper and tried to reason with her. "If you don't

"Lauren, shut the hell up and close the door." Damien hissed. "Not until you tell me who the hell this harlot is." Lauren shouted. Damien grumbled before standing up, closing the door. "I need you to keep your mouth shut and sit down." Damien hissed in her face. He sat beside Tierra who was now asleep, grabbing the cloth again and dabbing it against her forehead. Lauren rolled her blue eyes before sitting down.

I reply in my signature monotone. " And because of the contract you signed with Drew Collins, CEO of Stohlman, you cannot transfer or lay off any employee for the next two years. Except Hazel has plans of moving or volunteers to be transferred to one of the regional offices, it looks like you guys will just have to make things work." John says in his usual Mr-know- it- all kind of way. My look turns murderous instantly, and there's no way I'm forgiving her if that's what he is trying to imply. God damn it!

he asked. "Nah. I doubt it. They're all too confident that no one would dare to open this door. They wouldn't bother to lock it from the inside. And if they do, the lock is just too simple. This is how shitty this system is," Connor said. "Alright! The countdown is already set. You have 5 seconds to wait. I'm going to shut down all the servers for the mean time. Ready, boss?" Saint clenched his jaw. "Ready."

One thing I thought was interesting was that neither of Chris’ parents were here in this group. We headed into the restaurant where a clear line was drawn between the two sides. Jean, August, and Fallon were on one side. The rest of the family on the other. I didn’t take a side for now. Pulling a chair out from one of the tables, I sat in the line they had drawn and motioned to the seats around me. “Let’s sit and see what is going on. We can have a discussion and talk about the next steps.” Everyone started to sit when Jean pointed at the group. “They want to shut down the restaurant.”