Wonderstruck Novel Novels & Stories

I replied calmly. Then I powered off my phone and tried to rest. However, I couldn’t stop thinking about everything I’d done for Jim over the past five years. Like that time at the auction, I bought up everything for him just to make sure no one dared look down on him. However the next day, I saw an ancient bracelet from the auction on Rowena’s wrist. Jim had brushed it off with a casual excuse. I wanted to believe him. When he asked me not to go, I even gave up my chance to study abroad.

The creatures weren't just destroying the walls; they were destroying everything, and they moved with purpose, with coordination, as if they weren't mindless beasts but something far more sinister. "Raina!" My mother again, more frantic now. And beneath it, I heard footsteps—my stepfather's heavy boots thundering up the stairs. The spell broke. I spuned away from the window and ran for the door, my mind suddenly flooding with survival instinct. The house lurched beneath my feet—an actual physical lurch, as if the ground itself was trembling. Dust rained down from the ceiling, and I heard the crack of wood splitting as the structure groaned under stress.

She wanted the pain in her head to be louder than the pain in her heart. She had lost everything. Her marriage. Her freedom. Her son. Her future. Her mother’s love. All of it was gone. *** At the other side, Washington D.C. felt different from Boston. Kelvin walked beside Clarita. He wore a well-fitting suit. He was clean, healed, and strong again. They entered a grand hotel for a private auction where billionaires traded in rare things: precious stones, gold bars, ancient art. Clarita guided Kelvin to a quiet corner. “See that man?” she whispered. “He owns diamond mines. That woman over there? She buys entire gold reserves from small countries.”

Chapter 80 – Gift journey Gift’s POV My knees buckled the second I turned the corner. The adrenaline that had carried me vanished like smoke, leaving only the tremble in my hands and the burning throb behind my eyes. I collapsed behind a dumpster and gagged, dry heaving into the night. My lungs felt like they were shrinking, the cold air slicing them into ribbons. What just happened? Who were those people? Why me? I hadn’t stopped running until I was three blocks from the warehouse. My wrists ached from the ropes. My arms bore angry red marks. I could still hear that man’s voice — soft but laced with threat. “They’ll kill you.”

It had cost her too much to get, and she would not let it slip away from her hands so easily. The sudden sound of footsteps climbing the stairs reached Anna’s ears, sending a wave of panic through her chest. Desperation surged, and with one final, forceful tug, Anna wrenched the blueprint book free of Camilla’s grasp. The sudden release threw Anna off balance, and she stumbled backward, hitting the floor hard with a heavy thud. The book slipped from Anna’s grasp, flying across the floor and sliding to the far end of the corridor until it came to a stop just beyond her bedroom door.

I wasn’t the girl chasing after a flash drive that carried the weight of my parents’ ghosts. I was just Nova, a twenty something girl, messy, alive, moving like maybe the world didn’t already have plans for me. A random guy came up behind me, pressing close like the music gave him permission. His breath grazed my ear, hot and heavy, the kind of move that was supposed to make me melt into him. Instead, it made my skin crawl. I shoved him off without even looking back. I wasn’t here for some stranger’s hands on me. I already had two men tangled up in my world, and that was more than enough. Tonight wasn’t about them or him. Tonight was mine

She'd lived that way for a while now and it had been great so far, nothing short of bliss, ecstasy and drunkenness that left her feeling wonderful. "I have to bring another man back" she told herself in front of the mirror, seemingly reaching a resolve. Ever since that stranger, she hadn't done the deed with anyone. Somehow, she felt attached to that strange man and it was exactly that sense of loyalty and commitment that she wanted to totally remove from her system and she was going to do so tonight. This was the new life she had chosen to live. Val turned to leave the room but suddenly, her head buzzed shortly and her view became hazy. She reached her hands to the sink for support but her

I I stretched before looking for a taxi back to the ramen house. When I saw a taxi coming, I was about to raise my right hand to stop it. But something grabbed me and pulled me in front of him. I didn't immediately process the incident; I just stared at the man who pulled me in. The man I didn't know. But he was the man sitting in the lounge earlier. I want to look away, but those eyes of his... He has those crescent-shaped shining eyes. This man in front of me was one of the most perfect creations of Him.

********** A week later, Maya fell into labor and was rushed to the hospital, she had her babies safely; two girls and a boy, it was a great joy in the Williams household, and a little party was made to welcome them home. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A year later, Maya wrote a book about her and Jayden and everyone involved in it and it was named " A NIGHT WITH A STRANGER". The story was published and sold all over the country and it became the top ten in the world, everyone who came across the story fell in love with it and wished to have an amazing story like her. She became the best story writer and won many awards and she was invited to different occasions. Her dream finally came to pass.

They even met the way we met. What the hell!! The author had uploaded around ten chapters of the book. It looked as if it was written keeping us in mind. Wow!! It was interesting... But how?? Was it some kind of rare coincidence? I slept off thinking about her. ****** It was morning, my doorbell chimed. I dragged myself out of my bed and opened the door. The moment the door was opened, the aroma of freshly cooked stuffed Parantha hit my olfactory senses. " Umm wow!!! I was going to get annoyed at you for making me get up so early. But this aroma is making me crazy. Parantha?? " I asked.