A single choice, a fleeting moment-like the brush of a butterfly's wing can alter the course of destiny. He was meant to protect her. She was never supposed to need saving. But in a world where cause and effect entwine like fate and desire, their collision was inevitable. © 2025, thebshits

Madelyn Chung is one of the best clinical psychology PhD students Harvard has ever seen - the most controversial, too. After discovering a data fraud conducted by Harvard's star faculty, Dr. Charlotte Shelby, her future career seems uncertain as whispers accuse her of being a burdensome whistleblower. With a potential groundbreaking research project in the line, she is appointed to work with Dr. Alex Manning, Harvard's young neuroscientist and professor who revolutionized several research in his field. A life-changing opportunity for Maddie - but she must deal with the fact that Alex was one of Charlotte's past collaborators, and his career was at stake because of the scandal. Maddie has always been careful when trudging through the endless hours of clinical shifts and research. But when she doesn't know if the longing stares from Alex every time he tries to make her life harder are an indication of hatred, or if they mean something else, she starts to feel unprepared. Because Maddie knows she is a falling star, and if she holds onto the fragile trust between her and Alex too tightly, she will only fall harder.

Amelia Allen feels stuck. To an outsider, her life must look beautiful. She has a steady job, a relationship, and several years of her twenties left to figure out what more she wants out of life. But nothing is as shimmery as it appears from the surface, and her boyfriend's increasing hostility leaves her feeling trapped within the confines of her own life---too scared to stay where she is but even more scared to run. Everything changes when a stranger disappears. When Amelia finds out that a girl she went to school with has gone missing, she decides to show up at the search party, only expecting it to impact her life for a couple of hours. But there she meets Henry, who's sweet and charming and impossible to stay away from. And as she gets pulled deeper into his world and the mystery of his cousin's disappearance, the entangled truths about everything around her start to emerge. Hearts are broken, dark secrets are exposed, and people's true colors are revealed. But amidst all of the chaos, Amelia slowly starts to find something else: herself. »»-----　♡　-----«« ✧ Started: June 7th, 2020 ✧ Completed: October 11th, 2020 ✧ Rewrite Started: August 2022 ✧ Rewrite Completed: October 2022 »»-----　♡　-----«« ♡ previously featured in @Romance's Featured Romance Stories list ♡

❝Hello there, this is Teen Confessions Helpline, what's the problem? Feel free to confess anything you like and we'll be there to help you every step of the way!❞ ❝I know this is heavy but I've been feeling like I kind of...want to kill myself.❞ When Damien Carson, a depressed lonely teenager, calls a teen helpline to find one reason not to kill himself, he meets optimistic and bubbly Harry Potter fangirl Eva Adams. And in a series of phone calls, fangirl freakouts, promises, weird slash fanfictions, and bondings over Harry Potter puns, maybe he'll find a reason after all. a story about heartbreak, suicide, depression, love, friendship and two misfits that fits together like torn halves of a love letter.

Millennial immigrant Ingrid has quasi-settled in Berlin. She's got a place of her own, the beginning of a career and 'a conscience but not a heart,' according to her barkeep best friend with benefits, Remi. Dale is an awkward exchange student, abroad for the first time and powerless to resist Ingrid's charms when a mutual friend introduces them. He gets tangled up with her at the same time as his newfound mentor Oskar confronts Ingrid about the heartbreak she caused him way back when. Trapped between her conscience and her urge to sink her teeth into fresh prey, Ingrid must make a choice. Give the wishful-thinking fool what he wants and tear him to pieces, or let him go and hope for the best? *featured on the reading lists of official Wattpad profiles: @dangerouslove - 'Bad Girls' @WattpadUrban - 'Street Love' @BadassReads - 'The Badass Queen' @ChickLit - 'Adulthood' @Wattpad - 'Community Curator: @grendelthegood' Killer cover by @lxcksmith

After a year and a half of trying to move on from the what-ifs, the tides have pulled Alexandra Rivera and Zachariah Kim back together again. ***** In the heart of Hawai'i, Alex finds an instant connection when she meets her best friend Emmie's new boyfriend at a party. And even as the relationship becomes strained, their friendship continues to grow until Alex finds herself stuck between the two people she loves the most. Though she learns how hard it is to balance these two relationships, especially after Emmie and Zach's relationship ends, they dive deeper and deeper into the depths of their secrets until their lies pull them under. After everything falls apart and Zachariah moves away for a year and a half, he returns and Alexandra's life is shaken up because he's not the only one back in town. With Zachariah and Emmie both returning to O'ahu, Alex is forced to reconcile what she wants out of life, and who she wants to be. ***** 2021 & 2022 WATTYS SHORTLIST 2021 WATTPAD EDITORS PICK » featured on @ContemporaryLit @NewAdult @StoriesUndiscovered @Romance @WattpadAsianFiction @WattpadEmpowered @wattpad «

All the Feels Reading Event: Enter the spiral If "just one more chapter" sounds familiar... this is for you. From February 23-March 1, we're rewarding 15,000 readers with Coins simply for spiraling into romance. 📖 Read the stories from the All the Feels Reading List 📖 100 minutes → 100 Coins 💰 200 minutes → 200 Coins Whether you're here for butterflies, tension, drama, or full-blown obsession-the more you read, the better your chances. Go ahead. One more chapter won't hurt. The Dealer and His Roomie ❦ An enemy to lovers romance. For six months, they're stuck together: a reckless dealer and the girl who never stops talking. He wants her gone. She's not leaving. . . . I scoff. "Wow. You must be a hit at parties." "I am, actually." He tilts his head slightly, studying me. "You, though? I'm guessing you talk so much they don't even need music." . . . Warning- Suggestive Content Drama, Crime, Romance Not a single dull chapter, I swear ;) Ratings- #1 in Roommates (13.04.2025) #1 in Sweet (11.05.2025) #1 in Arrogant (13.05.2025)

TWO LONELY HEARTS CAUGHT IN THE RAIN-- Verona Wang doesn't believe in wishing on stars. She also doesn't believe in third chances. So why is she so inclined to give Roman Cavaliere all the stars and chances she can? [#1SS]

COLLETTE CHEUNG's plans for the summer are simple. Finally back in Hong Kong, she wants to grind her video games, watch her C-dramas and read just enough that she could still fool herself into looking productive. None of her plans include romantic entanglement (what was the point in getting a boyfriend right before university?), or Gray Tsang, the brother of her best friend that she has far too much in common with. But suddenly, they're playing her favourite games together night after night, and he's convincing her to go on runs when she'd rather stay in bed. Before long, Collette's questioning the rules she'd set for herself all her life. She knows she's an overthinker. She knows she makes things more difficult than it needs to be. She knows it's a self-defence mechanism, but for once in her life, this boy makes her want to throw caution to the wind. But he's her best friend's brother, and the timing's all wrong. Surely, it doesn't have to be complicated, right? (bobas & lattes #1)

SALOME LAM had pined after Orion Ip for as long as she could remember. It was a way of life, a habit ingrained into her routine that felt completely and utterly natural. He was the boy next door, two years older, someone who was always just out of reach. She could try all she wanted, but she could never fit into his life. She could never quite be anything in Orion's world. And because life is cruel (or perhaps it was kind, since she was at least always in close proximity to him), they met at place after place, school after school, city after city. University was meant to be different. A brand new start, finally forgetting the boy carved so deeply in her heart, who hadn't even a clue the extent of Salome's feelings for him. If it was pointless, why not end it now? Why waste more time playing this game that yielded no result? But they're at the same place again. St Lucia's College at Oxford, where Salome can't escape him or the way he makes her heart pound. Except this time was different. As if he was actually noticing her. As if she wasn't just the little girl who lived next door, not quite a nuisance but also beneath his notice. Now they're talking and spending time together and he's initiating those interactions too. Salome had promised herself she'd forget, but how could she when it felt like this time, she truly had a chance? Perhaps, there was still time for one last try. Before Salome truly, for once and for all, decided to cut Orion Ip and those years between them out of her life. (bobas & lattes #2) readable as standalone