The Outside Novels & Stories

My husband, Steven Garrett, was always "busy" overseas. So I thought I'd surprise him with a visit. Instead, I found him shacked up with my best friend, Peggy Shane. That day, my heart snapped—I filed for divorce and let my family set me up with someone new. Two years later, I bumped into Steven outside the hospital. He ripped the prenatal report from my hands. "How dare you cheat on me! You think you can play me?"

I was checking out our own hotel. Got hungry, so I snagged a tiny bread roll before my order came out. Then the lobby manager strutted over and slapped me with a fine. "Hi, miss. No outside food. You stayed eight minutes and thirty seconds, spent $150, and your fine's $128,000." I stared at the ticket like, What the hell? Snapped a pic and sent it to the board, tagging my lovely brother: [Getting fined at our own hotel—so THIS is how you're boosting revenue?]

In my last life, my mother, Lydia Hudson, gave me a pair of earrings worth millions at my coming-of-age ceremony. The moment I wear them, I go from being a rising beauty in the entertainment industry to looking like an old woman in her 80s. Mom stays completely calm. She locks me in the basement and cuts off all contact with the outside world. It isn't until my brother's girlfriend, Stephanie Meyer, kindly rescues me that I finally see the outside world again. But before I can even thank her, I'm stabbed to death by a mob of obsessed fans. "When I visited the first time, your mom only gave me a one-million-dollar gift. It's only your birthday, yet you get earrings worth tens of millions? The Quinton family fortune is mine. If you dare to fight me for it, this is what'll happen to you," she told me. It's only after my death that I learn that she was furious about Lydia giving me the earrings. She spread rumors online that I was a gold-digging opportunist and incited her followers to kill me. When I open my eyes again, I am back on the day of my coming-of-age ceremony. Without hesitation, I hand the earrings to Stephanie. If she wants the Soul-Sworn Earrings, I will give them to her.

My mate, Kane Blackwood, was the most feared Alpha in the Northlands. For three years, he treated me like something that belonged to him. He would drag me into his arms on the stone steps after moon rituals, pin me against the wall in Blackthorn Keep’s long corridors, and bite the mark on the back of my neck beside the patrol trails in the border woods, as if he needed everyone to remember exactly whose Luna I was. I used to think that was his way of loving me. Rough. Possessive. Lacking tenderness. But love, all the same. Until one night, I stopped outside the council hall and heard an elder say in a furious voice, “Those charcoal sketches on the black market were released by your people, weren’t they? Every one of them is of you and Elena in bed. She has become a joke across the pack. Do you even understand what you’ve done?” There was a brief silence. Then Kane said, coldly, “She is the Luna the council chose for me. She is not the woman I wanted.” I stood frozen outside the door. All those years, I thought his roughness meant he loved me too fiercely to be gentle. But it was never love. It was humiliation. Punishment for taking the place of the woman he actually wanted. I lowered my eyes to the moonstone bracelet on my wrist, the one he had clasped there the day our mating contract was sealed. If that was all I had ever been to him, then I would leave.

For as long as I can remember, my family and I have been living in an underground basement that's completely shut off from the outside world. My parents have told me that the zombie apocalypse is terrorizing the outside world. The air is completely plagued with the zombie virus, and we'll die if we ever leave the basement. In order to save the supplies—which are already dwindling, to begin with—I've starved myself to the point I'm all skin and bones despite being only 18 years old. When I realize that there's only one last can of food left, I leave behind a suicide note. "Mom, Dad, now there's one less mouth to feed. You'll last a few more days." After that, I slit my wrist right away. Once I'm dead, my soul phases through the thick and heavy metal door. Bright sunlight illuminates the entire world. It's a beautiful, peaceful world filled with greenery. I can even hear birds chirping in the distance. Mom, Dad, and a bunch of people are throwing a barbecue party on the lawn. The mouth-watering smell of food being grilled permeates the air. So, it turns out that the zombie apocalypse is just a lie that's designated to trap me inside the fortress. I'm the only one who has died in this sunny, peaceful world.

Warning: mature readers only, it contains violence and explicit content. Leah has spent her entire life trapped inside the Sanctuary, a secret cult ruled by a man its followers call The Master. Raised to obey without question, taught to fear the outside world, and forbidden from thinking for herself, Leah knows only one future awaits girls like her, marriage and submission. She is forced to become the newest wife of the man who controls the cult with fear, manipulation, and bloodshed. But before the ceremony night ends, gunfire tears through the Sanctuary and Leah is kidnapped. Taken by Santos De Luca, a ruthless mafia don feared across the criminal underworld, Leah is thrown into a world she doesn’t understand — luxury, violence, freedom, and danger. Santos believes Leah holds secrets connected to the Master’s criminal empire and the powerful people protecting it, but the trembling girl he kidnaps is nothing like he expected. Leah is painfully naive, terrified of the outside world, frightened even by her own reflection, and haunted by years of control inside the cult. Yet beneath her fear hides a dangerous secret powerful enough to destroy empires. As enemies close in and dark truths begin unraveling, Leah finds herself caught between two monsters, the man who owned her and the man who stole her. But Santos soon realizes something even more dangerous than war, protecting Leah is becoming an obsession.

Going for gardening outside the school compound; Sapphire Blac, an elementary school teacher saves a strange old man from the hands if death. Not knowing he was her fairy godfather. Being grateful, he repaid her with something unique. His arrogant grandson, Jade Alejandro. The CEO of Blue Birds Hotel, charming but with his clumsy nature, no one dares to relate with him. Jade is the definition of bad luck but, would Sapphire be able to handle the short-tempered CEO? Would he be a blessing or curse to our Sapphire? Read to confirm what drama unfolds next.

Vianna Shina, she didn't really have any goals in mind as she moved through life. An orphan she learned to live her life alone and was an independent person. She was an artist and most of her day was consumed by charcoal and due dates for work she needed to complete. She thought the most dangerous thing in her life was forgetting to eat and passing out on top of one of her canvas and ruining her work. That was until one night while in her studio a loud crash came from outside and what she found changed her life.

She felt like a caged bird. A bird that was meant to fly the high, blue skies, but was trapped like a prized possession for her master to impress others with. Ava is the daughter of a very powerful man in the underworld. Her blood, her family name makes her a tool for others to gain more power. Greedy men want her for her name, not for who she is. Being locked up all her life in her father's house makes her naïve and ignorant of the outside world. Meaning the greedy men have an easy game to play.

Diego Salvaje is a hitman and his target is the sole heir of Morales clan that has extensive connections when it comes to large businesses either inside or outside the country. Dahil sa palpak na assassination, nag-isip nang panibagong paraan si Diego para mailigpit si Drian Morales. Ngunit paano kung ang taong target mo ay ang siyang taong magpapanginig sa kalamnan at mga tuhod mo? Handa niya pa kayang ituloy ang misyon? O hahayaan ang puso na magpalunod sa nakababaliw na pag-ibig?