The Last Life Ring Novels & Stories

My chest burned from the cold as I secured the life ring properly around her body, trying to think of a way to alert the ship’s emergency team. “Delvin…” Aliana whispered shakily, fear clear in her voice. I followed her gaze immediately, and that was when I saw it. The rope attached to the life ring had somehow come loose from the ship. My heart almost stopped, and my eyes widened in pure shock. “oh, goodness…” I muttered, my voice filled with disbelief. The cruise ship kept moving forward. And we were drifting farther away from it. “Help!!” I shouted with every breath in me. “Help us!”

The chat in the livestream went wild in an instant. [Whoa! Is the host serious? That's a million-dollar diamond ring!] [She's so awesome for tossing it! It's about time!] [Is this just for show? Who'd actually throw away a ring that pricey?] "Nina, have you gone crazy?" Ethan Larsen scowled as he spoke. "Go get that ring back now, clean it, and put it on. Then we can act like this never happened."

Why did I only understand how I felt after I'd already lost her forever? *** Epilogue II Third-Person POV After Yara died, Shawn went after Johan's company. When two heavyweights went to war, everybody took a hit. Their friends set up a dinner to force a truce. Johan and Shawn showed up as a favor, but both looked ready to tear into each other. Johan was a wreck. Shawn had lost so much weight that his eyes looked huge in his gaunt face. "Don't think I'll ever forgive you." "Give me Blackie, and I'll help you finish this," Johan said.

Ricardo Tucci suffered from severe prosopagnosia, constantly mistaking me for my best friend, Ella Henderson. At an antique auction, he won the gem brooch I had coveted for years, only to hand the box to Ella. When I pointed out his mistake, he merely shrugged it off. "It's just a piece of jewelry. Since it suits her, she can keep it." At an exclusive gala, Ricardo walked down the red carpet with Ella on his arm, while I, his actual fiancée, was stopped at the doors, left to endure the humiliating stares of high society. Afterward, his excuse was as careless as ever. "My face blindness got in the way again. Sorry you had to deal with that." On my birthday, he promised to drive us to o

And Lila, holding plastic ring from Queens, holding Santa letter envelope that caused quintuplets, held it up to Jasmine who was lying with five heartbeats beeping stronger and BP up and mother from Lagos and dead-alive mother in black dress both reaching for bump, and Lila said: "Jazzy, Mommy, Daddy has ring! Grandma dead-alive has ring! Santa bring five and ring!" And Damian, holding Lila, holding Jasmine's cold hand, holding father's hand on stretcher, holding dead-alive mother's hand, holding Mummy Lagos Bible, looked at plastic ring from Queens that was worth $5 like NYU hoodie but worth more than $47,000 private wing and $235,000 per night for five, and he took it, and he knelt, again,

Mom always says that depression is nothing more than an illness born of idleness. People who are truly busy studying don't have time to be depressed. So, during my senior year of high school, I lie awake through countless nights, my hair falling out in clumps as I tremble over endless mock papers. Mom only slides another mock exam booklet in front of me. "Finish this booklet, and you won't have time to wallow in self-pity." At family gatherings, my relatives notice that I keep my head down and barely speak. They ask Mom, "Why has she gotten so quiet?" Mom's face darkens at once. "It's because she's guilty about something, duh. Go on. Tell everyone what you've done wrong this time." Late

He seized Noah in midair and vanished into the darkness. The last thing Gianna heard was the baby's cry. Then a voice echoed through the collapsing mountain. “Bring me the eighth daughter, and I will return your brother.” The darkness swallowed everything. Ryder grabbed Gianna as the ceiling began falling. Benjamin shouted for Elizabeth. Thomas disappeared beneath a wall of stone. When Gianna opened her eyes again, she lay outside the mountain beneath a blood-red sky. Ryder was beside her. Benjamin was dragging Elizabeth through the dirt.

Shen Long wasted no time and made his escape, leaving Ringo to his last moments and Michael in tears. Instead of feeling pain, all Ringo could feel was numbness and relief. Perhaps this was for the better. No more pain, no more unhappiness and he didn't have to continue fighting for the sake of his family. Michael held Ringo's limp body in one arm while he coughed up blood while the hand that was coated in Ringo's blood was caressing Ringo's face gently. "Don't cry, I'm human. I wasn't going to live long anyway but before I go... Thank you for defending me. My last wish is for you to take my blood, all of what remains... It's a pity too much is wasted on the floor now."

one of the girls from the group welcomed her warmly with a pretty smile on her teenage face while handing her the scissors, "you can go on to make open the celebration a Miss. Chelsea." Miss. Chelsea looked at the young girls in disbelief, she didn't imagine the cost they had incurred just to make all that for her, as she approached something that had been constructed like a gate it beamed with all sort colors displaying the message, 'IT HAS BEEN LONG SINCE YOU LEFT YOUR SCHOOL, BUT NOW YOU ARE BACK AND WE AS LIZ GROUP AND GORDON DIGITAL ACADEMY WELCOME YOU BACK WHOLEHEARTEDLY' The moment she cut a string that separated them from the statue, all the screens around turned on and displayed her

3 Maddox didn't like the ideas of Aurora fainting because of this as he tap her hand. She woke up immediately staring at the Ring and she couldn't find anybody. Let me tell you the truth princess before it's too late. Your mother and the adult supernatural being are trapped inside this ring. Joe has drain out their power and have use it to make the "created supernatural being* and today is the last day for your mother to stay in that ring because very soon, he will join the after life.