The Hardest Fall Novels & Stories

About training and family and childhood memories. The sun disappeared and stars filled the sky before we decided to climb down. "We should go before it gets too dark," I said standing. "Lead the way." I started down carefully. Darkness made everything harder and I had to feel for holds instead of seeing them. Halfway down my foot caught loose rock. It gave way and suddenly I was falling backwards into empty air. My reflexes kicked in but the angle was wrong. Nothing to grab. No way to twist and catch myself. I was going to hit the ground hard from a hundred feet up.

It felt eternal. The sun dipped low, casting long shadows across the campus. They walked hand in hand, hearts lighter, spirits soaring. Their journey hadn’t been easy, but it had been theirs. Every kiss, every tear, every heartbreak had led to this: a love built on trust, forgiveness, and the courage to begin again. And as they reached the corner where it had all started, Nora whispered, “I never imagined falling could feel like this.” Jaden smiled, brushing a stray curl from her face. “Neither did I,” he admitted. “But now I can’t imagine anything else.”

“You wouldn’t have heard of it. It’s strictly between heaven, hell and the fallen.” “What’s a fallen?” “It’s someone who used to be an angel in a past life. When they’re resurrected, they’re identified by a specific birth mark. You, my dear, are one of the fallen. You should have a birth mark that’s shaped like a star. It’s in different places for different individuals but your parents found yours on your hipbone.” What the hell. This is way too much information that I wasn’t expecting. I’m essentially in the middle of a holy war, if what she’s saying is the truth.

“Now you’ve fallen—you’ve lost everything you were meant to be—just because of me!” He pulled back just enough to look me in the eyes, his gaze full of love and quiet certainty. “Haven’t I fallen hard enough? Long before I lost my wings… I had already fallen completely for you. And that fall was far deeper, far more real, and far more permanent than anything else I could ever experience.”

He fell against Cale. SNAP. The sound was like a gunshot. High above, the steel cable sheared. The safety chain failed. The lighting rig dropped. It didn't flutter. It didn't sway. It fell like a stone, accelerating at 9.8 meters per second squared. Elion looked up. He saw the wall of lights coming down. He saw the glass lenses reflecting his own terrified face. He saw death. There was no time to run. No time to jump. He braced for impact. He closed his eyes.

We jumped. For a second, nothing. Just air. Just falling. Then metal. We hit the scaffolding. Hard. It buckled. My shoulder dislocated. Pain white-out. Antonio’s mask cracked. He screamed. The scaffolding held. For three seconds. Then it tore away from the building. We fell again. Twenty floors. Then nineteen. Then eighteen. We hit the 18th floor scaffolding. It held. We didn’t move. Above us, the 22nd floor was a mouth of fire. Black smoke poured out.

However, before I could comprehend what was happening, Jayden swiftly intervened, forcibly restraining me and pushed me to the ground with an unexpected intensity, Can you imagine? The impact with the hard floor sent a shockwave of pain through my body, and I instinctively cradled my stomach, silently praying for the safety of the tiny life growing within me. As the realization of the potential danger to my unborn child sank in, a profound sense of finality hit me. It was clear that staying in this toxic environment could jeopardize both my well-being and that of my baby. Jayden had revealed his true colors, I knew I had reached my limit In that harrowing moment, lying on the ground, I made

He'd previously claimed that he wouldn't press charges if the Campbells killed me, but he was now trying to stop Max's father from doing anything rash by using his power as a police officer. "Don't do anything stupid, or I'll be forced to arrest you all," he warned. Before he could say anything else, he was hit by a baseball bat. A couple of his teeth were even knocked out of his mouth. "What a great swing," I thought to myself. David fell to the floor and began to twitch from the pain. Upon seeing this, Nick didn't have the guts to stand up for Mia anymore. He was just about to claim that he had nothing to do with this when he was pinned to the ground. Then, the men began kicking him.

Was he really going to join me? "Ryker, Get out! Now!" I said, freaked out. "First time a guy has walked in on you, uh, Grumps?" He asked as he moved a step closer to the curtain. I panicked, terrified that he might really want to join me. I reached out my hands to grip the curtain but stepped on the soap and fell backwards. "Ugh!" I yelled in pain as my butt hit the wet floor with a loud thud. "Fuck! Are you okay?"

"You were the only one who wasn't gnawing or swooning over me like I was a piece of fresh meat and I really appreciated it even though I never told you." My confidence was growing with each word that I uttered. "And when Mr. Finn asked us to participate in the decathlon, I readily agreed because it was the only way for me to have alone time with you. The more time I spent with you, the more I fell hard and the more scared I got because I knew you were hiding something, something big and I didn't want to put myself through heartbreak once again." Tears were rolling down her face as I poured my heart to her and I didn't know if it was a good or bad thing but I continued talking nonetheless.