The Unkept Promise Novel Novels & Stories

We all knew that despite the love and unions within our individual couples, we’d need to unite as one to take on the future. Thank you for reading BOUND BY A PROMISE. If you haven't read NOW AND FOREVER, Dario and Catalina's story, or TILL DEATH DO US PART, Alejandro and Mia's story, I hope you will. The next book in the Brutal Vows series is QUEENS AND MONSTERS, Rei and Jasmine's story.

I reached for him, but he'd already turned away. The door slammed shut, leaving me alone among scattered petals. I crossed to the fireplace and fed the ruined white roses to the flames. The petals curled, blackened, and turned to ash, like our love. I thought Ryder would let it go after my outright refusal, that he might reconsider. After all, we'd been unshakable until then. We were fated mates, blessed by the Moon Goddess. But two days later, a courier delivered an unmarked package. I opened it to find the pregnancy test results from the infirmary.

No one understood better than he did that when a person became utterly heartbroken, the weight of accumulated disappointment could crush everything. He had already wasted five days. Delaying any longer would reduce the already slim chances of reconciliation even further. So, despite everyone’s advice, he boarded the plane. After landing in Tarvos, his assistant sent over the address they had managed to track down. Dominic and Samson headed straight there. They knocked on the door several times without getting any response. It seemed she wasn’t home. The two men stood at the apartment entrance, waiting from noon until sunset. Just as the sky turned golden with the approach of evening, they fi

(COMPLETED)For five years, Lyka Forth was the invisible force behind billionaire Hollywood icon Sean McGregor. She scheduled his life, anticipated his needs, and quietly hid a hopeless, unrequited love for her boss. She never expected him to look her way, especially not after the tragic car accident that claimed his wife’s life and left his four-year-old son traumatized and mute. But Sean is drowning. Running on empty from a brutal case of insomnia, he discovers a bizarre secret: the only time his mind quiets is when he’s near Lyka. Desperate to give his son a stable guardian and eager to keep his only source of peace close, Sean offers Lyka a ruthless deal: a contract marriage. Only on pap

If I listen to her, Clara will kill me. after accepting him in my life. My life started to change drastically. I came out of my thoughts. " See, I kept my promise till now. " He wrapped my neck with his hand and placed his head in the crook of my neck. " As I said I came back to you. " he continued" you made me a promise. Now it's your turn. " what I promised him. I didn't know what I promised. I asked him " what I have promised you? "

“I told you I wanted to know everything about you, remember? I think I told you I meant every word I said. I meant every promise I made you.” “Promises are meant to be broken, Zachary,” I said acidly. “I waited fourteen years for you to keep your promise of ever coming back.” It was true. A big part of me was hurt that it took him long enough to come back into my life. That part stopped believing he ever would. “I am one guy who would die first before I break a promise, baby girl,” he said. He took a deep, labored breath. “You don’t know how difficult my life had been, so don’t judge me.”

The family was not just surviving, it was thriving, healed. A new arrival added to the warmth. Kunle Balogun walked onto the lawn, his hand entwined with that of his wife, Amina. Amina was elegance personified, with a calm, observant intelligence that matched Kunle’s. She was a renowned conservationist from Nairobi, a woman who found the world of high finance amusing but loved the man who navigated it. Their marriage was a quiet, happy counterpoint to the epic drama of the Williams’ story, a partnership of equals built on choice, not crisis.

he asked. "No. I'm... resting." He sat beside me. "I ran once too. From a bad place. But I stopped. I wanted to grow up, not run forever." I smiled. "What made you stop?" "Someone gave me a promise. That life could be better. So, I stayed." Promise. That word stuck with me. Back in my motel, I opened the notebook again and flipped to a blank page. I wrote: Make one promise and keep it. I picked up Eliza’s prepaid phone.

As far as he knew, this was the first time that Zenios had broken his promise! Another first in his life for Charlotte! “Second Uncle, I know what you’re thinking. You think I’m not a person who goes back on his words, you can make fun of me and even look down on me, but it doesn’t matter. I just want to take it back this time. I’m sorry, but I won’t keep this promise of mine!” ‘It’s because I can’t afford to keep it! If a person can’t even keep his beloved woman by his side, what’s the point of keeping all the other promises in life?’

The determination burned within me, a steady flame that fueled my every move, a reminder that some promises to myself were non-negotiable. Definitely, she wouldn’t keep the promise – no one ever did. A bitter truth I'd learned the hard way, through broken words and shattered trust, making it hard for me to believe in anyone's sincerity anymore. Especially her. “What made you leave your former pack?” I asked, looking straight into her eyes. She promised to tell me the truth. I want to see if she would really keep to it. I was certain she wouldn’t.