The Beginningaftertheend Novels & Stories

"Fran, midnight has arrived. You just need to die in this world, and you can go back." I picked up a sharp piece of glass and raised my hand, dragging the jagged edge across my artery. Finally, I was leaving this world where no one loved me. Everything was finally going to end.

And deep inside, something whispered This wasn’t the end of the truth. It was only the beginning. If you want, I can proceed immediately to:

And she whispered four words that sliced Lucian open: “I don’t know you.” Lucian flinched A silent wound. A quiet devastation. “Elara…please…” She backed into the SUV and shut the door. Lucian stood in the snow, eyes hollowed with something sharper than pain. Damien smirked. “See? Easy.” Lucian turned toward him slowly. And the look in his eyes promised that Damien Hale would not leave this city alive. The SUV sped away. Elara’s hand slid to her stomach. Her baby kicked gently, as if sensing her heartbreak.

she’d collected, and James and I stood in the kitchen with our arms around each other and didn’t say anything for a long time because sometimes peace doesn’t need words, it just needs presence, and we had that, we had so much of that it overflowed. Later that night I opened my sketchbook and wrote three words at the top of a new page, not “Freedom” this time, not “Home,” just “After After,” because that’s where we are now, after the survival, after the healing, after the fear, living in the part of the story where the good things happen and keep happening and you stop waiting for them to end.

she’d collected, and James and I stood in the kitchen with our arms around each other and didn’t say anything for a long time because sometimes peace doesn’t need words, it just needs presence, and we had that, we had so much of that it overflowed. Later that night I opened my sketchbook and wrote three words at the top of a new page, not “Freedom” this time, not “Home,” just “After After,” because that’s where we are now, after the survival, after the healing, after the fear, living in the part of the story where the good things happen and keep happening and you stop waiting for them to end.

Hugh had taken a bullet to the heart, and all his lies had finally caught up with him. It all seemed like it was meant to be. This was where it ended. No matter what came next, no matter who came for me, I was still Tasmin Sheargold. [The End.]

I turned. What happened? He pointed upward. The End has awakened. I stared at the cracks. The Beginning said the universe would continue. Kael shook his head. That doesn't mean it will survive. Cassian stepped forward. Explain. Kael looked at all of us. The Beginning and the End are opposites. The Beginning creates possibilities. The End removes them. Then why was the End asleep? Because there was nothing for it to end. I looked at my daughter. Until she was created.

It took Daisy ten years to transform from a humble street vendor into a star investor in the corporate world. I stood by her side for every single one of those ten years. During our darkest year, I threw away every last drop of my self-respect and begged my estranged mother just for twenty dollars to buy us a decent meal. Looking back into Daisy’s heartbroken, tear-filled eyes, I gave her a soft smile and asked just one thing: "On the day the company finally goes public on Nasdaq, will you bring me with you?" She held me close and promised she would. Years later, when her company’s empire was soaring at its absolute peak, I gently brought up my old request once more. She didn't even bot

Chapter 6: The Training Begins The morning sun streamed through my bedroom window, and I was already awake before my alarm rang, my body buzzing with a nervous energy that made sleep impossible. Today was the day we started training. Today was the day I finally began to become the woman who survives the apocalypse instead of the one who dies in it. I dressed quickly in the workout clothes I'd bought yesterday, simple black leggings and a loose grey shirt that wouldn't restrict my movement, and pulled my hair back into a tight ponytail. I didn't want anything distracting me from what I was about to learn.

They began to move, celebrating the force that had pulled the two of them into a single space and made them, finally and for all time, one. ------------ THE END ------------- Please check out my other books SILENT DESIRES HAPPY FOREVER AFTER ALWAYS BEEN YOU HER BODYGUARD