The Commitments Novels & Stories

he relented lamely. "And, I want you to think again about delivering 50% of the resources in three months. This will all be on you. Remember that." "You mean, I have to retract my answer?" "No, I'm not saying that, and you shouldn't retract what you have committed. That won't bode well for our business with them. I'm saying that you must stand by and own your commitment, whatever it is. You can't say I have agreed to it. Because I haven't."

“Proof that you are not going to abandon him. Proof that you wouldn't try to take him away from me. If you're going to be in his life then you'll have to be there for as long as he wants you to and for as long as he requires." "I wasn't..." He paused then shook his head as if ridding himself of the thought he had just now. "Alright," he said to me. "But we'll put it in writing too." I nodded. His lawyer lifted a folder. “A commitment clause,” he explained. “Mr. Carter is willing to sign legally binding documentation regarding consistency, financial responsibility, emotional involvement, and safety protocols.” I stared. Jace? Agreeing to conditions? Agreeing to let someone else draw boundarie

I can already be free from this and the most important thing is that, I will be going home with my ten million! Witwiw. By that time you will already be mine Babe! “And it will take commitment, to hold true to the journey you both have pledged today.” Father, If what we are doing is a having a real wedding, I would have cried a lot. Now I know what priests used to say, this is what they called commitment. This word is so powerful. It is indeed. Are you not being bothered Joeff? Father I do promise you, this is just good for five months. I really swear.

Across from her, which felt right — the correct distance for two people who were learning to see each other clearly. "What did you tell the board chair?" she asked. "That I'd be there at seven." He paused. "And that whatever they decided, the employee commitments stand." She looked at him. "They stand," he said again, quietly but without question. "That's not negotiable regardless of what happens to me." She nodded. They sat in the rain-grey quiet of the suite while the city outside carried on its evening, and the news cycle turned over, and somewhere in the building below them Marcus was managing the immediate aftermath of a day that had changed several things permanently.

"You promise to keep your hands to yourself?" "You're a tough customer," he said with a groan. "Joel!" The exasperating man. "I promise not to lay hands on your breasts- today." "What the hell does that mean?" "We don't know what the future holds." He sounded so reasonable. I needed to set the record straight. "This is just a friendship, remember?" "Friends, I agree." I made sure my sigh was long and loud. "Roll over and don't peek." "Tell me when I can look." His voice had grown husky and I was sure this was a bad idea.

Dad is turning with me because he loves me and he knows how much I need him. “Umm.. do you think there is room for one more tonight?” I turn to give Camden an incredulous look. “Really? Are you serious?” “As a heart attack.” He tells me. “I want to turn with you. I want commitment with you. I know that you said that you aren't ready for marriage yet and I get that. Maybe after we complete college. But I do want a commitment with you, to let you know that I am serious about us. I'm all in. So I am following you to college in Alabama, I want to turn with you and have the promise for forever to look forward to. I want to be with you all the time, helping you meet your goals and achieve your dre

"Please take a grip on yourself I'm here for you, I know you've hurt me but I won't turn a blind eye to you. Before we became lovers we were friends and consider it a commitment to you not a promise" "A commitment?" he inquired as he pulled his eyebrows together in confusion "Promises can be broken but it's different when it comes to commitment" I explianed as I placed my hand on his back and I gently stroked him then he held my two hands and kissed it gently. "I should get going now at least I'm relieved you've forgiven me" Kylian bounded to his feet then he tripped but I held onto his hand tightly as I pulled him towards me and he landed hard on my body then we layed huddled together and f

They learned each other’s habits not as strategies, but as preferences. Alexander cooked breakfast on Sundays. Evelyn handled dinners during the week. They argued occasionally, mildly, about music or travel plans, and resolved those disagreements without escalation. Conflict without collapse. One night, as they sat on the balcony watching the city wind down, Alexander spoke thoughtfully. “I used to believe commitment meant narrowing the future,” he said. “That it closed doors.” Evelyn turned to him. “And now.” “Now it feels like it gives the future shape,” he replied. “Like drawing a horizon instead of a wall.”

She's understanding that true commitment means vulnerability and true vulnerability means risk and true risk means being willing to be hurt and true willingness to be hurt means actually trusting in love. She's asking her lawyer to witness her signature and she's taking the pen and she's pausing for just a moment before she signs because once she signs there's no going back and once she signs she's making a choice and once she signs everything changes. She's thinking about Dominic and about the choice he made when he signed these documents and about the courage it took for him to voluntarily surrender power and she's understanding that she needs to match that courage with her own courage and

"That's an enormous commitment. Considerably bigger than what we're discussing in there right now." "I know that too. I'm going to propose it anyway." Something almost like relief crossed his face, the particular lightness of a man finally articulating a plan that had been forming, unspoken, for weeks. "I think that's actually the answer to Aldric's objection. Not a smaller number today. A permanent, standing commitment to keep looking, so that whatever precedent we set here isn't an exception, but the beginning of an actual practice."