Grumpysunshine Stories

[Complete] I was the Alpha of the Black Void, a man who lived in a world of shadows and silver laced pain. After a brutal betrayal left me broken and blind, I retreated into a cage of my own making, waiting for the darkness to finally swallow me whole. I was a monster in the dark, until I heard her voice. She arrived with the scent of jasmine and a power I didn't believe existed. Nini didn't fear my rage, and she didn't pity my scars. She was a healer from a world I had forgotten, a traveler with a light so bright it began to melt the ice around my heart. She was supposed to be just a guest. A temporary fix for a permanent problem. But as she pulls me back from the edge of madness, my wolf recognizes a truth I'm not ready to face. I've spent years fighting to survive the dark. Now, I have to find the courage to step into her light. Because the only thing more dangerous than the enemies at my gates is the woman currently mending my soul. Published 23.02.2026 Completed 17.04.2026

When Kait Havelock-a marine biologist-decides to take a ten-day cruise to study the reefs of Hawaii, little does she know what was about to go down. Not only did she not suspect to lose her initial spot on the cruise, leaving her to a shared cabin with the grumpy casino owner, but the loss of her grant that she desperately needed to continue her work. When she sees an opportunity to win enough funds to get her project back from a poker tournament on the cruise, she takes full advantage of the living situation with the poker professional: Malakai Dunn. However, things don't play out as easy as it seems when a former college friend brings back painful memories and a not-so-needed distraction to her winning the money. When she finds out he is going against her in the tournament, Kait takes everything a lot more seriously with her poker lessons she's been getting from Malakai. Worst comes to worst, when her memory begins to taunt her present as she tries to move on from her past by facing it head on. GOT #9 FOR #CRUISE on FIRST day of release

"Sanvi! Where are you? The utensils are still dirty!" her aunt screamed from the kitchen. "I'm coming, Chachi!" Sanvi replied quickly, rushing inside with a bucket of water. "Useless girl," her cousin Riya muttered, throwing her dupatta at Sanvi. "Iron this." The old village house stood proudly in the middle of green fields, but for eighteen-year-old Sanvi, it felt more like a prison. Whereas, there's Dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit, he stepped out of the car. His sharp jawline, intense grey eyes, and commanding presence made people nervous. "Good morning, sir." "Morning, sir." "Good morning, Mr. Rathore." He acknowledged them with a slight nod. Success had given him everything. Money. Power. Luxury. Respect. But not peace. Its adhiraj Will sanvi be his peace?? ,will he will become her safe place despite of his nature?? Note:this is my first time writing so please let me know how it is ?and also comment and vote for further updates.

Freya, a fragile and elusive girl, has been battling her inner demons for years, trapped in a spiral of anorexia that seems to consume her from within. When her father safety is threatened by a danger she cannot face alone, a mysterious and stoic bodyguard, Hunter, is sent by her dad to protect her. Between him, who lives by control and discipline, and her, who is trying to break free from her own chains, a complex bond forms-full of tension, anger, and a strange intimacy. In a world where every glance can wound and every gesture can save, Freya must learn that true strength lies not only in the body... but in the heart and the trust she dares to give.

Hera forgot her umbrella. Julian forgot how to not care. Miles forgot to stop livestreaming. Valkyrie forgot how to trust. Sylvie forgot that time exists. It was raining on St. Bumblebee when a washer, a jacket, a slice of pie, and negative 999 aura turned five strangers into each other's problem. Echelon House doesn't find students - it finds disasters. Low battery. High stakes. Zero umbrellas.

in which: minji choi is in love with jungwon yang. she believes that they're meant to be. the only problem, jungwon doesn't really know her. the quick solution, fake dating his best friend, nishimura riki. nishimura riki x oc girl "i guess our red strings connect." "you guess? i know."

William is a weapon-a man who has spent his entire life in the shadows of a city ruled by fear. He is cold, detached, and perfectly comfortable in the violence of the criminal underworld. Est is the light he never thought he would find. A kindergarten teacher defined by his stubborn kindness and chaotic warmth, Est sees past the monster William believes himself to be. In a world of predators, they find a fragile sanctuary in each other. But their love is a provocation to the shadows. When a calculated, unseen enemy decides to shatter the peace they've built, the life they fought for is torn apart. In the aftermath of a brutal tragedy, the roles shift: the protector must become a monster once more, and the survivor must learn how to exist in a world that no longer feels safe.

He doesn't hate people. He just stopped expecting anything from them. Soske has spent years observing the world from a careful distance - tracking patterns, reading people, and making himself impossible to reach. It works. Until a girl with a practiced smile and sad eyes sits beside him and sees straight through the performance. Airi Yukishiro chose this school deliberately. Reina Kisaragi has been watching him longer than he realized. And someone from his past is about to remind him why he stopped letting people close in the first place. Zero Emotional Range is a psychological slow-burn romance about a boy who understands everyone except himself - and the people who refuse to let that be the end of the story. Genres: Psychological Romance • Slow Burn • School Life • Mystery

They were born into wealth, charm, and the kind of success people envy - but behind every smile lies a secret someone would kill to protect. 💍 Murad & Zoya - He's cold, composed, and impossible to read. She's bold, defiant, and the only one who dares to challenge him. They're enemies bound by family and circumstance - until hate turns into something far more dangerous. 🌞 Maha & Faris - She's a spoiled, magnetic socialite who always gets what she wants. He's her brother's grumpy best friend, who swore she'd never be one of them. But rules mean nothing when attraction becomes chaos. 🚙 Aaris & Maira - The charming corporate heir and the fiercely ambitious middle-class woman who marries him in a contract deal. It was supposed to be business - not the kind of love that ruins careers. 🔥 Rayan & Aylin - A calculated arrangement between two people who call it a marriage of convenience. But convenience has a way of turning intimate when feelings refuse to stay out of it. 🕶 Ayaan & Laiba - Two souls drawn together by obsession and secrecy. Their connection is intoxicating, reckless, and powerful enough to destroy them both. They live in glass towers, run companies, and play by their own rules - but when one of them is found dead, the walls begin to crack. Lies surface. Loyalties collapse. And the truth they buried threatens to burn everything down. Buried Truth is a gripping modern romance-mystery about love, betrayal, and the cost of keeping secrets - because in this world, nothing stays buried forever.

Nari streams to 280,000 people who think they know her. None of them do. She's NariPlays - the comfort streamer, the sunshine, the girl who rates fictional bad boys on a scale of one to ten and makes loneliness look like a brand. Off camera, she's a people-pleaser who forgot how to stop. A house full of friends, and not one of them has met the real her. Then she starts driving to a 24-hour diner in the wrong part of Seattle at 3 AM. And the man in the booth by the wall - scarred, quiet, built like something that survives - doesn't respond to any of it. The sunshine, the charm, the thing that works on everyone. He just looks at her like he's waiting for whoever she actually is. Pusat sees through people the way she reads rooms: automatically, completely, and too fast to stop. He's got a little sister he'd burn the world for and a past that would break every fantasy she's ever rated from behind a screen. She has never met someone she couldn't manage. He has never met someone who came back. Wolves & Lilies is a dual-POV slow burn about two people whose masks were built to protect them - and what happens when someone sees through anyway. • New Adult Contemporary Romance • Drama, slice-of-life, and thriller elements • Dual POV • No explicit content •

Some people leave because staying would have required more than they had left to give. Some people let them go for the same reason. Three years is enough time to build something - a career, a life, a version of yourself that does not need what it used to need. Roux Calloway has done all three. Jeon Sewon has done none. When a development contract brings her back into his orbit - not by accident, though it will take her the better part of a year to understand the full architecture of the collision - Roux finds herself navigating a world that has never wanted her in it. Not the project. Not the professional table. The world behind his name: the family, the legacy, the machinery of expectation that a man like Sewon carries without always acknowledging how much of it he wears. This is not a love story that forgives easily or arrives without cost. It is built from what two people owe each other when they have already failed once - not absolution, not a clean return to something, but the harder work of deciding whether the thing between them is worth the fight it will take to protect it from the people who have already decided it is not. Roux does not disappear. Sewon does not hide. And the city of Chicago, cold and loud and indifferent, holds the space between them while they figure out what it means to choose each other for the first time - the right way.

One man is her family's dream. The other could be her undoing. Suraiya Rao has never quite belonged. She's not white enough for society, not brown enough for her family... not enough for anyone. She's spent her life walking a tightrope between British reality and Indian expectation, doing everything by the book, no matter the cost. Then one chance encounter changes everything. Haydn Ellis Clarke isn't part of the plan. He's rich, ridiculously handsome, and absolutely not the man her family has chosen for her. But he sees her - not the dutiful daughter or the girl buried beneath generations of pressure, but the version of herself she's never dared to be. Mendhi My Heart is a story of identity, belonging, and choosing love, even when it means breaking every rule. Because love doesn't always arrive in the "suitable" package. Sometimes, it wears torn jeans... and gives your grandmother a heart attack.

Aliya Aleem x Sadaan Daood [sequel of Marham e ishq] A short story! _______ "Aaj meri halat ke zimedar sirf tum ho..sirf tum!!" Woh rote rote cheekh pari thi. Takleef ki inteha thi use saans lena tak mushkil lagne laga tha. "Aur ab tum mujhe marne bhi nahi de rahe..? Chor do meri jaan marne do sakoon se mujhe..!" Uske samne khara shaks besakhta aage aaya aur use dono konion se mazbooti se thaama to woh rote hue bhi use dekhne pe majboor ho gayi thi. "Marke kya mile ga tumhe? Sakoon? Badla? Kuch nahi mile ga!" Woh uski ankho ki gehrayi me dekh raha tha. "Agar main zimedar hun tumhari takleef ka yo zinda raho aur mujhe tabah karo na ke kamzoron ki tarah khud ki jaan le lo" Woh un sard ankho se uske andar tak woh baat utaar gaya tha. Aur Aliya Aleem ko us din maloom hua ke jeena asaan nahi tha to marna bhi asaan nahi tha. To kyun na us shaks ki baat pe amal kiya jaata?

Et si vous preniez le train et qu'un inconnu avec qui vous êtes en train de discuter vous apprend que vous êtes dans le mauvais train, comment réagiriez-vous ? C'est ce qui arrive à Charlie, auteure indépendante de romance qui pense s'offrir un mois de vacances à Arcachon, ville symbolique pour elle, mais qui se retrouve finalement à Biarritz, là où elle ne connaît personne. A l'exception de cet intriguant jeune homme à côté de qui elle est assise: Joan. Joan, surfeur et développeur web insatisfait de sa vie, a du mettre de côté une de ses plus grande passion sous la contrainte de ses parents: le dessin. Quand il rencontre Charlie, perdue dans le mauvais train, il lui propose sur un coup de tête de venir chez lui pendant un mois. Comment deux âmes inconnues vont-elles parvenir à cohabiter durant un mois tout entier ? Et si c'était le destin qui les avait réunis ?

In the dark town of Pietranera, truth is buried under lies and blood. Luce is determined to uncover the town's suffocating secrets, an investigation that brings her dangerously close to Corvo, a feared and lethal outcast. But Corvo hides a massive secret: he is actually the missing heir of the powerful D'Alto family. He lives in the shadows to hunt down the ruthless Sect responsible for the murder of his brother Valerio and his cousin Gaia. As Luce's search for the truth makes her a target for the Sect, Corvo must make an impossible choice: stay hidden to get his revenge, or step into the light to save the only woman he has ever loved. #thrillerpsicologico #goticomoderno #vendetta #societasegreta #mistero #darkthriller #romancegotico --- 🔥 NUOVO CAPITOLO OGNI GIOVEDÌ 🔥 (Segui la storia e attiva le notifiche per non perdere l'aggiornamento!) This is the official English translation of my Italian novel, "L'Ombra sul Campanile".

Aaryan Malhotra stopped believing in love the day his heart broke. Siya Sharma never stopped believing - even when no one believed her. He's the nation's most eligible business tycoon - cold, composed, and emotionally retired since his first heartbreak. She's a pediatrician with a soft heart, loud laugh, and temper sharper than her eyeliner. One arranged meeting. One near fall. And two families who've already planned the wedding. When their families decide they're perfect for each other, what begins as a traditional "rishta meeting" turns into a rollercoaster of chai-fueled chaos, healing, and late-night texting. Because maybe love doesn't need fireworks - sometimes, it just needs one stubborn girl, one guarded man, and a home full of loud, meddling desi relatives. 💛 "Tera Mera Safar" - When Hearts Come Home: Rishton Ka Ghar.

They tell you that being a hero is about strength. They don't tell you that sometimes, the hardest thing to survive is the silence after the sirens stop. ​Y/N was the daughter of a Pro Hero, a girl with a Quirk that hummed like a live wire and a future that seemed written in the stars. But a chance encounter in a dark alley with a scarred stranger changed everything.

She's lived her whole life invisible. No one looks at Madison Louise Reyes. Not her classmates, not her professors - no one. She has learned to exist in silence, and she is fine with that. Until Axel Finn Javier decides she is his next target. He is the son of the school director. A bully. A manipulator. Someone who destroys people for fun. And for reasons Madison doesn't fully understand, she made him angry - angry enough to make her life hell. But here's what Axel doesn't know. He has IED - Intermittent Explosive Disorder. Certain people, certain things push him to a rage he cannot control. He destroys. He hurts. He breaks. Except when he's near her. The woman he hates most. The one he never should have noticed. She is his calm. His peace. His only safe space. And even if she keeps pushing him away- he won't stop. Not until she's his. - ⚠️ Contains depictions of anger disorder, emotional conflict, and an enemies-to-lovers dynamic. Not your typical bad boy story. Written by: Pinkymunchkin Started: April 2026 © All Rights Reserved.

She was never meant to catch an earl's eye. He was never meant to want her to. Cordelia Vane has mastered the art of being invisible in ballrooms-until Lord Frederick Ashby, the taciturn Earl of Hollowthorn, notices her across a crowded musicale and forgets to look away. Frederick needs a suitable wife to save his crumbling Yorkshire estate. Cordelia needs one Season to secure her father's medical legacy. Neither expected stolen glances in tropical glasshouses, letters that burn to be written, or a connection that defies every rule of the ton. But when a ruthless rival sets her sights on Frederick and society whispers about matches that should not happen, both must decide if love is worth the cost of being truly seen. Between scandal sheets tracking their every proximity, a godmother who delights in efficient matchmaking, and the excruciating etiquette of wanting someone in a world that catalogues every acceptable way to say nothing at all, Cordelia and Frederick must learn that some choices cannot be undone-and some hearts cannot be guarded forever. ©️ Relle H.

She transferred to a Korean high school at fifteen and made the mistake of noticing him. Han Taek-Min is brilliant, cold, and completely out of reach. He barely knows she exists. She knows she should leave it alone. She doesn't. What follows isn't a fairy tale. It's twenty years of the real thing - slow burn and silence and the kind of love that keeps getting tested until both people either break or get stronger. High school hierarchies, university breakups, career pressures, grief, loss, and the terrifying work of building something that actually lasts. He learned early that showing emotion was dangerous. She learned early to hold on longer than was probably smart. Neither of those lessons serves them well. It takes years, and honesty, and more than one moment where the whole thing nearly ends, before they figure out how to meet each other without the walls. This isn't a story where love solves everything. It's a story where love is the reason two people do the hard work of solving themselves. The ending is worth it. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.