Romans & histoires Twice Short

“All of it. The Vale name won’t survive it. Neither will the contracts, the board, the old guard… but they need to see it. Otherwise everything Julien died for becomes just another secret.” Crane’s jaw flexed. “You do this, you don’t get to turn back.” “I haven’t been turning back since Paris,” she said. Cassian looked at Crane. “How long to prep it for a full release?” “If I strip the metadata and bounce it through six dead accounts first—twelve hours. If I want it to go nuclear? Thirty minutes.” “Make it thirty.” Crane stared at him, then gave a single nod and stepped outside, already on the phone. His voice carried low and sharp into the night.

Daniel nodded. “Then phase two begins now.” Lucas raised his glass of juice like champagne. “To making Damian Cross dance without even knowing the music has changed.” Aria lifted her chin, expression composed and powerful. “No,” she corrected softly. “To making him dance to our music.” The room went quiet. Then they all exchanged determined nods. Phase Two: Activated. Daniel had barely stepped out before the room went quiet again. The kind of quiet that only existed between two people with too much history.

"I made sure to make some noise. I didn't want to startle you like last time." Justin flew up and pressed himself against Ean, throwing his arms around his neck. "Are you crazy?" Ean laughed softly. "Obviously." "What are you doing here?" Justin asked, inhaling the already familiar scent of Ean's skin. "We were going to meet the night after tomorrow." "I know," Ean replied. "I just couldn't wait that long. I had to see you, if only for a few minutes." Kissing, they sat down on the bench, their tongues dancing desperately. Ean moved off Justin's lips and let his mouth play with Justin's earlobe. Justin gasped when he felt Ean's hands beginning to unbutton the fly on his jeans.

"I am Ying Xue. You can call me Xue or Snow." Both girls just smiled at each other. Ying Xue had short hair then and had less makeup on. Janny hadn't changed much from now. Come one year later, the girls were both twenty-three and had officially graduated with bachelors from their respective universities almost a year ago. Time had flown fast, and now, thinking back of all their encounters in their office and how they shared joy and sorrow, having no one but each other, Janny was devastated to learn that her friend had no recollection of those precious memories.

“I’ll kill them!” “No, it’ll never stop with them,” I said as I opened my locker to put my books inside and take out another. “Let’s just go to class.” As we leave the classroom I stayed behind to fix the shoelace that had somehow broken in half, as I walked out I bumped into the burly chest of Oliver. I instinctively dropped my things, and my head immediately looked up at the chiseled features of the twins standing on one side of one another. Their black curly hair had wisps of red and their green eyes like their sister's were bright. They were the tallest in school at 6’8 no one dared mess with them except their baby sister. I wasn’t tall I happen to come up to the bottom of their chest, a

“My name is Tunde. And I love you. You know, the Bible says, love is patient, love is kind…” She fell for him instantly. He gave her his number. They began seeing each other every day. For two months, he was perfect—always quoting Scripture, never asking for kisses, not even a touch. She believed he was a virgin, too. When he proposed just two months in, she was overjoyed. Finally, she was going to get married before 25. When she told Moturanyo, her friend warned her to slow down. “Get to know him for six months at least,” she said.

I didn't breathe as she began a slow, sensual strut up and down the runaway, and when her eyes eventually found me, a sea of green perusing me across that space, something moved in my chest. For a second, we stared at each other, and it was just us in this large hall. Then she looked away and continued wowing the crowd. The room exploded with deafening applause as she finished with an elegant twirl and left, without another glance at me. Laura Hayes stood there in her full, blinding light, looking exactly like she did five years ago. Only this time, she was bolder…more beautiful…and that was when I knew. My life had just taken a one-way ticket to fuck town.

Giving someone a second chance is like providing someone with a second bullet because they missed the first shot ~ Shaina Author's P. O. V. Shiana's eyes fell on him as her breath caught in her traot. she knew she has to face him but she did not know she had to do it this soon, Revan was standing right in front of her. his face was blank like always, there was a time when Shaina used to think she can read his eyes even with his blank face but she was wrong, always wrong!

They went back home. As the seconds turned to minutes, minutes to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, weeks to months and months to years, so was the bond between the twins and among the animals grew stronger and stronger. Many years in the jungle, the king and queen of the jungle had grown so much bigger and stronger than they ever imagined. As strong as the elephants were, a roar from Taiwo made them lay low and bow to him while keyinde fighting was no match to no one around except her brother. She has watched her brother fought big beasts that troubled the jungle with skills and strength that she couldn't defeat. As grown men and women, they had to get married and have kids so what happe

He is smaller and slower than me I see the twins behind dad and I kneel on the floor so I can be the same height as them. "Hello you two" - I say with a smile on my face "Alpha" - they both say "Come here" - I say opening my arms and they both run towards me and hug me. They were one year old when I left, I know they don't remember me from back then. Good thing Olivia would make video calls so they could see me every couple of months. "You are both so tall" - I tell them "I want to be as tall as you" - Anthony says and I smile