Surviving As A Genius On Borrowed Time Novel Novels & Stories

Cutting on the food meant getting thinner, thus attracting more clients. But should everything fail, madame Bianca didn't provide a single crumb of bread. To make things even worse, if a girl fell so low that she couldn't get back on her feet, madame Bianca would either mercilessly kick them out even in mid winter or would sell her to the big city up north. Even though Luke was giving in to low desires, he didn't let go of his heroic fantasy, making him stumble on Ironwoods darkest secret by sheer luck. But luck is also an important feature for a hero

“Time reveals a person’s true character. “One day you will help manage the family’s assets. There is nothing wrong with being extra cautious about a new family member.” So Derrick postponed it. Another six months. Then another. Another. The test that had originally been planned for one month eventually stretched into three years. When he handed me that bank card, he genuinely believed he was being generous. There was far more money on that card than I could have earned through three years of exhausting work. It was enough to make up for all the medicine he had thrown away, and it was enough for me to live comfortably for the rest of my life. He had even planned out my future.

Independence was my armour. And yet, here I was: dodging payments, buying time, scrambling to keep everything afloat. It stung, knowing how much my dad boasted about me to everyone, painting me as this unstoppable success. If only he knew how tight things had gotten. But that was the thing about pride, it didn't pay the bills. So when the Rutherford family, fabulously wealthy and even more fabulously dramatic, called me after I'd planned their younger son's wedding, I knew exactly what they wanted.

After multiple calls to the police, she was committed to a psychiatric hospital. As for Jamie, I heard from one of Elias' old classmates that his college buddy had scammed her out of everything. He used her identity to take out massive loans from loan sharks, then disappeared with all her money. He left her drowning in debt. Debt collectors showed up at her door constantly. She was frequently beaten and chased into the streets. When she couldn't pay, they made her work it off in other ways. Her life became utterly miserable. Meanwhile, Adrian and I continued traveling the world in an RV. With his help, I relaunched my design studio online.

She could take control of the company and cut them all out. But she needed to be smart about this. In her past life, she'd been impulsive and emotional. That had made her easy to manipulate. This time would be different. "I need allies," she murmured to herself. "People I can trust." But who? Her family had never really been on her side. Her grandfather was gone. In her past life, she'd been so isolated, so alone. A horn blared, jerking Helena from her thoughts. She looked up and felt a wave of panic as she realised she had walked into the street. A car was zooming toward her, speeding too quickly to stop.

As I worked on the last math problem, Giselle mocked, "Choice matters more than effort. Even if you ace this problem or have the top score nationwide, it won't matter. I wouldn't be surprised if the exam doesn't happen at all." I feigned surprise, covering my mouth. "Giselle, what are you talking about? The exam is less than a month away. How could it not happen?" She scoffed coldly, looking at me with a mixture of pity and disdain. Before her rebirth, Giselle had been an ordinary survivor, and even after being reborn, she hadn't accomplished anything remarkable. Her apocalypse was never going to come. That weekend, I staked out the entrance of the military academy and successfully found Sha

Accidental Surrogate For The Ruthless Billionaire Written By Okwuma Esther (Esther~Writes) Chapter One. (ELOISE POV) "Congratulations, Mrs. Laurent. The procedure for the sperm insemination was successful." Those exact words echoed in my mind as I stepped out of my car, barely bothering to slam the door shut behind me. A cool gust of wind brushed against my skin, carrying the sharp bite of an impending downpour. Above me, the sky darkened, the clouds shifting into a heavy shade of blue as distant rumbles signaled the storm’s approach but I didn’t give a damn.

I mean, if i were a criminal, it would take much more than that for me to start spilling. “I swear it was never my intention to betray you. Charlie…he…he…I had a lot of gambling debt. They were threatening to take everything away and I…I just didn’t know what to do. Charlie showed up like a God sent angel, promising to pay off all my debt if I could give him a copy of the document that spoke about your contracted marriage to Elisa. He knew how much you trusted which was why he decided to use me so that when I hacked into your laptop, you would never even suspect. I am so very sorry that I did that to you, I really had no choice.”