Career Stories

"Bridget Jones with a lot more wine! This story is hilarious, feel-good and relatable in all the best ways!" - Grace K @ HQ. She's just quit her high-flying job, and her marriage is coasting on fumes. Can Alice find a sense of purpose in the wreckage? ***** Alice's life isn't going to plan. She's tied to her phone, pointlessly managing PR for a sinking corporate megalith. She's become a bit player in her kids' lives, and her marriage is coasting on fumes. Forcing herself into action with a rash resignation, Alice sets out to make a positive impact on the world around her. But how? Meditation leads to napping, and her attempts to get closer to her teenage daughter result in the discovery of a secret that leaves her at a loss. As the months tick by and a sense of purpose continues to elude her, Alice finds herself forming bonds with the most unlikely characters: the young woman who panhandles outside her old office; the homeless boy who sits cross-legged outside the liquor store with his ginger cat; her own dog walker who, it turns out, knows a thing or two about developing a good crema. Testing the limits of marriage, motherhood and the Toronto subway system -- can Alice find her way into a purpose-driven life? Or will it all be one giant hangover? [*Wattpad Editor's Pick 2018*] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] Readers say: "This had me laughing so loud that my sister came to check up on me to see if I'm OK!!!" "...the new Bridget Jones, a working woman's take on the digital age." About the Author: Working mother and red wine enthusiast, Renee lives in Toronto with her flawed but wonderful family (seriously, who left socks on the kitchen counter?) in a flawed but wonderful house (what *is* that smell in the basement?) where she writes flawed but wonderful stories about what it is to be a woman today.

"My advice is always ruin the friendship, better that than regret it for all time..." Haymitch narrows his eyes, "You've trained for this." She smirks a little, "I'm from District One, obviously I've trained." "No," he shakes his head, "You're different - you're not arrogant, you're confident." It's her turn to roll her eyes as she redirects her gaze to the sunset, "Yeah, well, I'm a Blessing. I was practically raised for this. My brothers set the bar pretty high." His eyebrows raise at that, he'd heard of her family. God, practically everyone in Panem had heard of her family. Because every time a Blessing child had volunteered for the Hunger Games, they didn't just win - they entertained.

Marina dreams of being a P-pop star. She works hard, attending auditions and chasing her goals. But there's a catch-her best friend, Skye, is always by her side. Skye is Marina's biggest supporter, but Marina has deeper feelings for her. As Marina's career begins to soar, she finds herself torn between her ambition and her feelings for Skye. Their friendship is strong, but each shared moment complicates her emotions. Skye is there for Marina before auditions and celebrates her wins, yet Marina struggles to acknowledge her true feelings. The conflict intensifies as Marina's fame grows. She must decide if she can pursue her dream without losing the friendship she values so much. Can she balance her aspirations with her heart? Or will she have to choose between love and her rising stardom?

She never dreamed of falling in love with her boss's best friend. He never imagined the woman who would change his life would belong to another company. Six years ago, two ambitious engineering students from a small Tier-3 college took a chance on two unknown startups that had barely a dozen employees. While everyone chased famous companies, they chose belief over brand names. Years later, those startups became unicorns. They became the founding Product Managers who helped build them from the ground up. Then came one collaboration. One project. Four lives. They planned their careers. They planned their futures. Love was never part of the plan. A slow-burn corporate romance about dreams, startups, friendship, ambition, and finding love where you least expect it

A daughter is given a wedding worth millions - but no education, no property, no way to stand on her own. When her marriage turns toxic, she has nowhere to go. Years later, she makes sure her own daughter never faces the same fate. A story about what parents should really be saving for.

My first flight gave me wings. My past was waiting for me at the boarding gate. Years after walking away from my first love, I thought I'd left that chapter behind. I was wrong. As old memories begin resurfacing, so do the dreams, promises, and heartbreak that once shaped who I was-and the people who shaped me. This is a story about first love and forever love. About being remembered in the smallest ways. About choosing yourself without stopping yourself from loving. About family, ambition, healing, impossible choices, and the lives we build after goodbye. Because sometimes... gravity isn't strong enough to keep two souls together. And sometimes, letting go is the only way to finally fly.

Some stories are never meant to end. Somehow, they always find their way back. Years after life tore them apart, Ashutosh finds Ahana again. She's no longer the carefree girl he once knew, and he's no longer willing to let fate decide their story. As old memories resurface and hidden wounds begin to heal, Ashutosh must decide whether to risk everything for the girl he's loved for years-or watch her slip away for the second time. A story about first love, second chances, and finding home in the people you never truly stopped loving. Book Two of the Lost series. Can be read as a standalone.

Some people lose everything in a single day. Others lose it so slowly that they don't realize it's happening until they're standing in the ruins of the life they once loved. Reyansh Suri is twenty-nine, living an ordinary life in Mumbai. A steady job. A growing career. A relationship. A sketchbook full of dreams. Friends who make Mondays bearable. And a colleague named Aanya, who has no idea she's about to become the most important chapter of his life. Then, one ordinary Tuesday, life begins to change. A promotion that never comes. A job that disappears. Months of unemployment. A love that slips away. Debt. Shame. Loneliness. And countless nights where the clock always seems to read 02:17. But this isn't a story about failure. It's about what happens after life strips away everything you thought defined you. It's about rebuilding when no one is watching. It's about finding purpose in the darkest hours. And it's about discovering that sometimes God delays your victory because He's preparing you for a life greater than the one you imagined. A deeply emotional novel about ambition, love, heartbreak, resilience, faith, and the quiet strength it takes to begin again. Because some nights don't end at sunrise. They end the moment you decide not to give up.

Aris always kept a reserved character.. Polite, unspoken and somehow mysterious, he had someone whom he trusted forever - Zayn, his best friend, who was a brother for him, a part of him.. Yet everything changed... In a single night.. A night supposed to be fun, but it ended in consequences.... Forever... Still... Some things linger forever, no matter how much we try, right? Welcome to the ACUverse series, through this 1st novel 𝗜𝗳 𝗪𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻... " Being part of the ACU trilogy, 𝗜𝗳 𝗪𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻... focuses on the thriller yet heartbreaking journey of Aris along Zayn, his bestfriend. But trust me.. This is never a normal story as you think..... ____________________________________________________ This is my first ever novel and I don't know it's good Warning: Trauma alert! 𝗗𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁! Of course you may see one more story with same content with a few chapters but it's too mine. It's currently dead because I have lost access to that account so I am reposting the same novel here. This work is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are product of author's imagination. Any resemblance to real life events, locales or persons, living or dead, is coincidental All rights reserved© Scanning, uploading and distribution of this novel without my permission is a theft of my intelectual property. If you would like permission to use material from this book( other than review purposes) please contact me through my email ( in my profile) or through comments If We Ever Met Again...©2025

After graduating from Middleton High School Kim and Ron were both thrilled and excited about starting their new chapter of their lives together and attending Upperton University. Kim studied journalism and technology science to work at Global Justice Headquarters. Ron studied Mathematics and Architecture to become a real estate agent. They moved in together five months before graduation and have been loving it ever since. One year after graduating from college Kim's Grandmother passed away it was a very difficult time for the whole family. Ron felt so heartbroken for Kim. Three weeks later it was the funeral and Kim's whole family and some of Ron's family went to pay respects for Kim's grandmother. Several months later Kim was uplifting her spirits in a new light she can now be her normal self with her family and friends that she loves and be proud and able to focus on moving forward. Six months later Ron was planning on proposing to Kim but with a little help from his best friend Felix and his dad it was all worth it. Kim said yes she was thrilled to spend the rest of her life with Ron. One year and two months later Kim and Ron were married and for their honeymoon they went to Fiji and had an amazing time together. After the honeymoon they were both very pleased to be alone as a married couple and can support each other through anything. Kim and Ron have discussed that they have always wanted kids one day and wanted to start a family but the timing wasn't perfect because of both of their careers playing a role due to small promotions and steps ahead. Kim soon finds out that she is pregnant with her first child and Ron was so excited but nervous to be a dad for the first time. Six months later they find out the gender of the baby and it was a girl they told both of their family and friends about the news and can't wait to see their new baby girl. On March 10th Kim goes in labor and went to the hospital. The baby was born and named Stella Gabrielle Stoppable

Each chapter is a chapter of Quick's life after high school / mostly what we didn't get to see in the show. I'll add more chapters wherever they fit as I think of them. (Some chapters will be short and others will be longer and more detailed). I also might go back in and add in between chapters so always check to see if you missed anything new. *Please note that most of the chapter titles outline the theme of the chapter so if something is triggering to you, you can hopefully avoid it - read at your own risk, nothing too raunchy or explicit though* DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN GLEE OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS. ALL RIGHTS GO TO RYAN MURPHY, IAN BRENNAN, BRAD FALCHUK, AND FOX.

At BLACKLINE Entertainment, there are rules no one writes down. Don't get too close. Don't give people something to talk about. And whatever you do- don't fall in love. Chesi enters the industry determined to survive it. As the youngest member of a rookie girl group, every mistake becomes a headline, every expression is misread, and every rumor spreads faster than the truth. While the world calls her cold, arrogant, and impossible to like, no one bothers to ask how much she's carrying behind the cameras. No one... except Justin. A senior idol who quietly notices everything everyone else misses. The exhaustion hidden behind perfect performances. The smallest details she never realizes someone is remembering. What begins as quiet concern slowly becomes something neither of them planned for. Stolen glances turn into silent comfort. Professional conversations become the safest part of their days. And somewhere between rehearsals, music, and impossible schedules, two people begin falling in love in a place where love is the one thing they're never supposed to have. But the industry is unforgiving. Dreams demand sacrifices. And sometimes, the hardest distance to cross isn't measured in miles- it's the space between two people who desperately want to stay, but may have to let each other go. A devastatingly slow-burn K-pop romance filled with quiet longing, impossible choices, healing, heartbreak, and the kind of love that speaks loudest in silence.

She has spent twenty years building a composed life in New York: a design firm, a curated boutique, an apartment as deliberate as her interiors. Her philosophy - a space, like a life, should be composed, not copied - has served her perfectly. Then her sister's death leaves her the guardian of a fourteen-year-old boy who trusts no adult's promises and a two-year-old girl who still calls for her mother in the night - and while she is offline for five days on the Nova Scotia coast, a buried contract clause hands her biggest client the excuse to destroy the firm she spent twenty years building. With her old life collapsing behind her, the people around her come into focus: a best friend holding a marriage together by choosing not to know; a university friend who raised a daughter alone and never told the father she existed; a man on the coast who withdrew from love believing his distance protected people. Each of them, like her, has built something careful in the place where something living should be - and each is nearing the moment when the architecture stops holding. By the novel's end, she makes the first purely felt decision of her adult life: a year on the coast with the children, building - deliberately, without guarantees - the family that grief left in her hands. The novel follows how people arrive at the decisions that shape their lives - and how those decisions change when their understanding of themselves, of others, and of the world begins to change.

Two pure heart combined together on a journey on an arranged marriage. Let's see how their individual uniqueness spreads through each other's life and changes everything for them.

The raw emotion of love, sketched against the backdrop of life's pressures. A promise whispered, a future questioned. This is a story that explores the delicate balance between personal desires and the expectations that threaten to tear them apart. Can love truly conquer all?

Sumaiya, a 27-year-old astrophysics professor, is used to finding answers in the stars, not in matters of the heart. Pressured by her family to settle down, she meets Adil, a 24-year-old event manager with a cold demeanor that softens over time, revealing a caring side that begins to break down her walls. Complicating matters is Charun, her 20-year-old student who, despite his immaturity, is honest and deeply smitten with her. As she navigates the steady devotion of Charun and the evolving connection with Adil, Sumaiya must confront the traumas that have kept her from intimacy and love. Torn between two very different men, Sumaiya's journey is one of self-discovery, healing, and learning to open her heart. Will she overcome her fears and choose a path that leads to love, or will she retreat to the safety of solitude?

Ethan Mercer is eighteen, frighteningly talented, and one bad decision away from losing the only future he has. In a cramped Lisbon apartment, his father Daniel works himself to the bone to keep Ethan's football dream alive, betting everything on a son the world barely sees. At Benfica's academy, Ethan starts as an outsider-targeted by jealous teammates, tested by brutal challenges, and dismissed by anyone who thinks he doesn't belong. Then he gets his chance. A substitute appearance becomes a statement. A single goal becomes a flood. Match after match, Ethan turns limited minutes into impossible numbers, forcing coaches, reporters, and senior players to take notice. But talent alone isn't enough. The higher Ethan climbs, the uglier the pressure becomes. On the pitch, every defender wants to stop him. Off the pitch, old power games and corrupt interests begin closing in, threatening his registration, his future, and everything Daniel has sacrificed to protect. And behind Ethan's relentless rise, something stranger is waking-an icy, precise system that seems determined to push him beyond the limits of any normal player. To survive, Ethan will have to do more than score. He'll have to become too undeniable to bury.

Ahaana Rao spent years fighting for a place in the fashion industry. Rejected, underestimated, and constantly told to choose a "real career," she worked her way from unpaid internships to the doors of the country's most prestigious fashion house. Her plan was simple: survive her internship, impress the boss, and build the career she'd sacrificed everything for. Falling for a celebrity was never part of the plan. Especially not for Aarav Malhotra. Aarav is one of the biggest singers in the country-loved by millions, chased by cameras, and admired by everyone except himself. Beneath the fame, sold-out concerts, and chart-topping songs is a man exhausted by an industry where every smile feels rehearsed and every relationship comes with conditions. When a last-minute emergency makes Ahaana his replacement stylist, neither of them expects their lives to change. She's chaotic, stubborn, and incapable of staying quiet. He's calm, reserved, and far too good at hiding what he feels. What starts as an unexpected partnership soon turns into friendship, stolen moments backstage, late-night conversations, and feelings neither of them planned for. But dreams come with a price. And when Ahaana is offered the opportunity of a lifetime-one capable of changing her future forever-she must choose between the career she's fought her whole life for and the man who finally feels like home. In a world full of flashing cameras, viral rumors, and impossible choices, can love survive when ambition demands everything?

**🪻"Love was never supposed to be part of the agreement."🪻** 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐚 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 has spent years planning perfect weddings while secretly believing that love stories only exist for other people. Focused on her career and determined to protect her heart, marriage is the last thing on her mind. 𝐊𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐲𝐚 is a free-spirited travel photographer who lives for adventure and refuses to be tied down by commitments. Love, marriage, and forever have never been part of his plans. But when circumstances push them into a contract marriage, they agree to one simple condition: keep emotions out of it. What starts as a temporary arrangement soon turns into something far more complicated as stolen glances, late-night conversations, and unexpected moments begin to blur the lines between pretense and reality. Because sometimes, the person you never wanted becomes the one you can't imagine losing. Har Har Mahadev💙✨🔱

[Book 3 of the Mia Series] The journey of love, ambition, and family continues in 'Future!!' Picking up right where 'Bri' left off, Mia Nova and Cambria Jones are ready to turn their dreams into reality. With unwavering determination and the support of those who love them, Mia is on a mission to plan the perfect wedding and begin building a family with the woman of her dreams. But love, as always, comes with its challenges. Between demanding careers, close-knit friendships, family dynamics, wedding planning, potential moves, and navigating adoption, Mia and Cambria find themselves balancing it all. The question remains: Can their love stand the test of time and overcome every obstacle in their way? Dive into the third installment of the Mia Series to witness this beautiful, heartfelt, and sometimes turbulent chapter of their love one-of-a-kind story. Important Note: This is the third book in the series, so be sure to read Mia and Bri first to fully immerse yourself in Mia and Cambria's journey. ____________________________________________ ⚠️ Warning: ⚠️ This story contains strong language, mature themes, emotional moments, and explicit content. It also celebrates LGBTQ+ love and representation-Homophobic remarks will NOT be tolerated. Read with an open heart and enjoy responsibly.