They Chose Her Novels & Stories

Melissa and I waited for Mom's response. The color drained from her face as she looked between both of us. In the end, she grit her teeth and approached me. She lowered her voice and asked pleadingly, "Can you go home for now, Ally? We can talk about this later. I'll definitely explain everything to you." Mom had made her choice. She chose to ask me to step back. She chose to ask me to leave—to continue being the daughter who never gave her any trouble.

Some tight faces. Dima looked like he wanted to be anywhere else and also like he wouldn’t have missed this for the world. “Today,” she said, “I choose you. Not because I’m bound. Not because I’m afraid. Not because anyone ordered it. I choose you knowing exactly what you’re capable of. Of all the ways you can break things. Including me.” Her chest tightened. “I choose you,” she said, softer now, “as my partner. In rebuilding. In fighting. In waking up when it would be easier not to. In being better than the people who sold us and used us.”

My daughter and my husband’s godson were diagnosed with acute leukemia at the same time. The doctors said a banked cord-blood unit could save a life. His foster sister, Rebecca Sloan, knelt in front of me with her son in her arms and begged until her voice gave out. “Claire, please, let Leo have the cord blood. His father died right after he was born and I never banked any of my own. Have some pity on the two of us. “Leo is the only child I have. I’m begging you. Save him.” I refused outright. I was not going to gamble with my daughter’s life. Then, on the morning of my daughter’s treatment, my husband, Ethan Hale hit me with his car and left me critically injured. The wheels went ove

I receive a message that a hotel booking has been made on the day that I achieve the Global Racing Grand Slam. I rush to the five-star hotel with a team of reporters and catch my wife, Rebecca Samson, and my apprentice, Hayden Erikson, red-handed in bed together. Rebecca looks panicked when I hysterically demand answers from her, but a few moments later, she steps forward and shields Hayden behind her. "I was the one who couldn't control my desires. This has nothing to do with Hayden." After Hayden broke my legs due to constant criticism from people online, I gave Rebecca two options: either she sent him to prison, or I would file for divorce. Rebecca's eyes are bloodshot as she gazes at

Firefighters aimed their hoses at the flames, trying to beat them back. From that moment on, Daisy, the Donna of the Marchetti family, no longer existed anywhere in this world. Who survived was the sole Principessa of the Moretti family from Misthaven, Daisy Moretti.

Eight months pregnant and gripped by severe contractions, I begged my husband to take me to the hospital. Instead, Emery Copeland told me to tough it out and hold the baby in, all because his widowed sister-in-law had gone into labor on the same day. Desperate to make sure my child wasn't born first and claim the Copeland family's legacy, Emery locked me inside a commercial walk-in freezer set below zero without a second thought. "The heir to the family has to be Mavis's baby," he declared coldly. "She has nothing left, while you already have all my love. It's only fair that my family's fortune goes to her child. The freezing temperature will slow your labor. You'll give birth when it's y

I was saving up to open a flagship bakery downtown, so I ran a half-price promotion on custom cakes for couples. My first customer was a young woman dressed to impress. "My boyfriend and I have been together for six months. Whenever my stomach hurts, he'll drop everything, even an important meeting, just to make me soup. When my depression and anxiety get bad, he'll stay on a video call with me all night. We're crazy about each other. He promised to propose once he gets his bonus this year." She couldn't stop smiling as she spoke to the camera. I reached for my sketchbook to start designing her cake when the door opened. A man walked in with an iced Americano and headed straight for her. I g

Baby, everything else waits until I'm back. Then he took her up in his arms and walked quickly out. Whatever hope was still left at the bottom of me broke apart completely. Warm liquid ran down the inside of my legs. I couldn't hold myself up any longer and went down hard on the floor. And what was left of my pride and my dignity shattered across it with me. I wasn't going to play this two-choice game one more time. Luciano came forward and gathered me into his arms. "Valeria, your request for a change of partner — I've approved it.

After we had asked all of them we kept them In separate places with guards around them to prevent them from going crazy and attempting to kill each other. We then met for thirty minutes and we had chosen someone, we had to vote on it and we decided to choose a female for she had won our hearts. Her name was Juliet! We sent all of them home but Juliet we held back we then called her to a round table. I then walked up to her and said, "Juliet! Out of a thousand people that showed interest in this, you are the chosen one, you are the one who would lead the village of Montul."

Not after he’d stood by and watched her break, choosing Camilla and the Alden name instead of her. He made his choice. And so had she. Her fingers moved across the screen slowly, deliberately. Vera: Yeah. I’m alright.