Without Merit Novels & Stories

She said with disgust "Yeah, I'm not worth anything, not even a dog's compassion. More reason why you should stay out if my business. My father doesn't care then who are you to?" /////////////////////////////////////////////////////// So at this point, I think I have to ask you guys, team Pearl or team Greg?? Do you think Pearl overreacted?? Check out my other books; The CEO’s secret and beautiful faults

“Merit, my sweetheart, Mrs Morgan and I had been friends before I gave birth to you. Please go home. Please.” Merit moved her head slightly left, slightly right and then, tears came out of her tears. This was when her mother couldn’t take it again and she left her daughter and walked up to Mrs Morgan and said without sitting down. “Merit took you like her own mother. Same respect she gives me, that’s the same honor she always gives you. I never expected this from you. It shouldn’t have come from you. You disappointed me.” When Mrs Morgan saw how angry she was, she stood up and wanted to embrace her, but she shifted backward, avoiding her embrace.

A dog slips free of its leash and darts toward the street, only to pause at the curb, distracted by a scent, missing the wheels by inches. Small mercies. Not miracles. Just softness. As if the world has decided it is allowed to be kind when she is near. That is not how fate works. That is not how the system works. Mercy is not a default state. Mercy is an anomaly. And Nora carries it without force, without prophecy, without demanding a rewrite. She simply stays, and the world behaves differently around her. The weave still does not react. Fate is not here. That is the other wrongness.

It clarified. Alicia had voted on merit. Not love. Not mercy. Merit. For the first time, I understood what that required of me. Not protection. Not legacy. Proof. The thought didn’t hurt. It just felt true.

You needed at least twenty years, and she hadn’t reached that mark, which meant she didn’t deserve the promotion today. She had brought it up to me several times before, but I ignored it. Now she had gone behind my back to get her way and expected favoritism. The twist with the cards this time was that receiving one did not guarantee a promotion. Some of the people holding cards had actually been shortlisted for demotion. The moderator called me forward to begin the rank award ceremony. “Candidates will be called according to merit, service, and recommendation,” he announced. I spotted Aunt Elizabeth. She was smiling widely and nodding at me from her seat, completely unaware of what was comi

"He told the board we should be certain the offer was based entirely on merit before approaching you. He said if there was any doubt we should wait until there was none." The room was quiet. "He was protecting your integrity," the board member said. "His words." I sat in the boardroom. I thought about Daniel in a board meeting I was not in. Arguing against an offer being made to his wife. Not because he did not want her to have it. Because he knew her well enough to understand that she would need to know it was entirely hers before she could accept it. That the how of the offer mattered as much as the offer itself. That being given something by the room that contained her husband was not the

At this point, another outrageous step would surely taint the entire family. Again the other man's voice penetrated his deep thoughts. "Yes, I made a mistake. Trust me, I never stopped paying for that mistake ever since, and I deserve every bit of it. But your aunt and your cousin don't deserve to be hurt for my sin, much as your mother doesn't deserve to be disgraced for misdeeds of which she was blameless. Promise me this has to stay between you and me, and you'll never repeat it to anyone." "There's one thing."

" I also gave it some thought, I will go through this pregnancy, and you will let me go after that?" I watched disbelief flicker in his eyes, he probably didn't believe I would be this compliant. "This baby is innocent regardless of everything, even though I still hate you, it's still my child after all, I can't hurt it." I nearly bit my tongue as I spoke. I've interacted with enough men in my life to know this was what most wanted to hear, why were they so against abortion when it was not even their bodies? They strongly believed that a woman should always love her baby, even though it was born from r*pe.

Willow said worriedly, "That's why it doesn't matter whether we made it on our own merit. There will be people who'll think that you gave us special treatment. When the rumors fly, it won't look good for you." "So? Are you going to give up?" "Of course not." Willow raised her eyebrow. "I said we made it on our own merit. Joywell had the highest scores for the first evaluation from the expert group. This is the result of all our employees' efforts. We play fair and square. Why should we back out because of the rumors?" "Are you so confident that you'll win?" Theodore gave a reminder. "You need to be prepared. If someone plays the price war against you, the committee won't only consider the f

he said, “and you will choose them from those who have done harm and learned from it. Weak hearts are a liability. The men who have failed and returned tougher are ours. We do not want the sentimental. We want the necessary.” He flicked a shard of iron across the table; it clinked against the map. “I do not ask blind loyalty. I ask competency. Any who cannot perform will be bench-tested and, if failing, relieved with an example. Mercy has no place here for utility is not mercy’s cousin.” A murmur of acceptance moved like a wind through the room. Men filed forward to volunteer or to refuse in whispered tones. Theodore’s shadow lengthened over them like an edict.