The Hard Way Novels & Stories

Because Celia had always treated the maids harshly, no one helped her after she fell down the stairs. She missed the best window for treatment, and was left permanently disabled. A week later, on the wedding day, Cadmus came to the manor to pick up his bride. He handed each bridesmaid a gift and smiled as he carried Lumina downstairs. Not far away, Jackson sat in the driver's seat of a white Range Rover. Watching the joyful wedding procession, his dark eyes were full of hatred. In the next instant, he slammed on the gas, driving straight at Cadmus and Lumina.

I walked up to the drawer in my room and pulled out one of my freshly washed handkerchiefs, before passing one it to Trinity. “Thank you,” she said lightly. Watching her wipe her scarlet and swollen face. Trinity took a deep breath before turning to me. “And I feel sorry for Hardy. Because he’s Hardly has time for women. Ever since his father died he took over the family business alongside his. It has given him less time to actually associate, and I feel very sorry that the first woman he actually learned to love was the one who never had any intention of showing him what love was actually like”

But she left him like a sheep about to be slaughtered. "For about a month now sir" Anthony replied, trying to be as calm as possible. "What do you do for a living." Mrs Badmus asked, she didn't make any attempt to sound nice, she looked at him in a condescending manner "I'm a computer programmer ma'am." "What part of Lagos do you live in?" "That is not necessary, Vera." Mr. Badmus chided his wife. He knew what must be going on in her mind. "Let me be Desmond, this is my child we are talking about. Do you want her to end up with someone who can barely feed himself?"

My daughter, Lily, was hit and dragged for two whole miles by a drunk driver. I rushed her blood-drenched body into the emergency room. While the doctors saved her, I collapsed onto the floor in the hallway. With the last ounce of strength left in my body, I sent a text to my husband, Howard. [Lily is in critical condition. Get to the hospital now!] A few seconds later, my phone chimed with a reply. [Stay safe. I’ll be over as soon as I wrap things up here.]

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

Hazel shook her head. " Remember Cyrus I once told you there are two ways for everything. The easy way or a hard way.” His hands slowly started dropping from her cheeks. “When there is the easy way then why are you choosing this hard way? You can earn my forgiveness and you already know how!” She said making him drop his head down in defeat.

The day the university released the family placement positions for doctoral graduates, I went straight to the Human Resources Office to register. But the staff member barely looked up before rolling their eyes. "Mr. Slater, everyone at this university knows you cheated on your wife and are about to leave the marriage with nothing. How do you still have the nerve to ask about the placement position?" I thought there had been some kind of misunderstanding. I rushed home, hoping to explain everything to my wife, only for my mother to slap me across the face. "I don't have a shameless son like you. Get out of Natalie's house!" I was driven back to the rural school where I had spent the past

Another interesting fact. "Come on, Calvin, we were just having fun" Wait. Calvin??? Calvin was my mate. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my shit, shit, shit. What the hell!? I was mated to a slimy, arrogant, hot, jerky, asshole? Why did the moon goddess keep being so cruel to me? Did she think it was fun to toy with my life!? "Back off" Calvin growled out. "Dad gave me orders to deal with the slave" Dwayne said.

"I'm fine, I just ate too much." I had taken Stellan in because I wanted him to live a good life. Instead, he had spent every day since then dragging a blind girl behind him without a single good day of his own. I would not budge, and Stellan threw a fit, but he would not budge either. I sighed to myself. He was just a stubborn idiot. Then I called Thea. "Please, try talking to him again..." Thea called on the same day I had just come back from another eye exam. The doctor had let out a long breath before delivering the news.

' 'Which is why we are to collect all the grotty small ones, which would normally go for jam, put them in posh punnets and sell them, via Fennella, for a fiver a punnet? 'That my girl is illegal. I won’t do it.' 'You don’t have to. Fennella is doing the lying.' There was a deep sigh, broken by me crashing the gears. I was still a very inexperienced driver and Vera’s motor was an automatic. I hadn’t had much practice on old vans with a knackered synchromesh. My father ignored the complaints from the gear box. 'Before you started working with that lot, they wouldn’t have given the likes of us the time of day, never mind some swanky orders for wild strawberries. What have you done to them?'