Tension Stories

Love Out Loud Reading Event 🌈 They fall hard. So will you. From messy crushes to emotional slow burns, read the LGBTQIA+ stories the Wattpad community can't stop recommending. And win Coins while you read. 📚 Read from the Love Out Loud Reading List 🏆 30 minutes → 30 Coins 🏆 90 minutes → 90 Coins 🏆 150 minutes → 150 Coins + 1 month of Wattpad Premium 📅 June 15-21 Come for the yearning. Stay for the rewards. *** This book may NOT be reproduced, reposted, copied, or translated in any way unless you receive permission directly from the author. Camille Rousseau is used to the pressure. As the daughter of a legendary figure skater, she's spent her entire life striving to be the best-pushing herself harder, faster, and farther. But when she's forced to share the ice with Aurora Bennett, Camille's world is turned upside down. Aurora doesn't just glide on the ice; she owns it. Confident, competitive, and effortlessly talented, Aurora is everything Camille hates-everything Camille fears she'll never be. The two are rivals, both driven by the weight of family expectations and their burning need to be the top athlete. But when fate and the rink force them into close quarters, the animosity between them begins to shift into something neither of them can control. Trapped together, their forced proximity ignites a firestorm of tension. Camille can't decide if she wants to throttle Aurora or kiss her. Aurora's confidence rattles Camille's composure, and every touch on the ice sends sparks flying. But as they push each other to new limits, they find that their rivalry is just the beginning of something much deeper, more complicated-and far more dangerous to their hearts.

When a night of partying ends in a one-night stand, Natalia thought that would be the last of it. That is, until her and, who she learned after their sexual encounter, Joe Jonas unknowingly become part of each other's game.

With Alyssa stuck behind enemy lines and the fate of the pack hanging, tensions are higher than ever in this final installment of the Fatal Trilogy. ***** Book 3 begins right where Book 2 left off, with Alyssa captured and brought to the top pack's lair in Montreal. Unsure of Daimon and the rest of the pack's fate, Aly has no choice but to start finding ways to free herself and her baby from the grasps of the top pack and their leader, Pablo. Meanwhile, what's left of Daimon's pack scrambles to come up with a plan to rescue their girl and take down the top pack for good. Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of violence and sexual activity, and mentions rape and sexual abuse, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren T

Some feelings are easy to ignore. Others settle in your chest and refuse to leave. For Billie Eilish, that feeling has a name. Sabrina Carpenter. As their worlds begin to overlap, quiet moments turn into lingering looks and unspoken tension builds into something neither of them is brave enough to acknowledge. But there's only so long you can pretend not to feel something this intense. "Do you have any idea the things I want to do every time I picture you?"

| ❝𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭.❞ - A 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 story . ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─── Y/n's little life in Stars Hollow seemed perfect for the longest time. A boyfriend, as troubled as he is, and a family that love her. But with her father's recent death now following her everywhere like an attached ghost, she can't help but feel herself slowly start to spiral into something she never thought even remotely resembles her. After Jess, her boyfriend, ends up kissing the infamous Rory Gilmore at a party, y/n's grip on life starts to slip. Stirring up trouble in town and watching her grades drop lower, she's changed - and she knows it. As she clings at straws and tries to keep herself afloat mentally, her biggest so-called "enemy's" - Dean Forester's - presence becomes increasingly clear in her life. Will he now be the one lifeline to bring her to surface again when she's drowning? ➳ [𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐱 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 ] - 𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗆𝗂𝖾𝗌 𝗍𝗈 𝖿𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖽𝗌 𝗍𝗈 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌 Only original characters are reader, her family and any other ocs.

Genre: | Medical Drama| Slow Burn | Workplace Romance| Marriage of convenience | contract marriage |Divorce| Setting: Harmony & Care Hospitals. Seattle,USA. --- Description: The hospital called him a genius. Patients called him a miracle. But behind the crisp scrubs, cold eyes, and perfect surgical record, Neil Morris was a man carrying secrets heavy enough to ruin lives. And then there was Eva Walter - the new resident with sunshine in her smile, chaos in her hands, and a habit of crashing straight through the walls Neil spent years building around himself. Being under Neil's strict supervision is tough, but what starts as tension slowly melts into something unexpected. Behind the sharp scalpel and sharper tongue, Eva glimpses a man carrying emotions. Because Neil and Eva were never meant to get close. Not with the tension between them. Not with the secrets hiding inside the Morris family. And definitely not with a marriage that was never supposed to become real. She's chaos. He's calm. She talks too much. He barely speaks. She's falling. And he doesn't even know what falling feels like-until her. Between late-night surgeries, rain-soaked confrontations, accidental touches in crowded"You're not what I expected, Dr. Morris," she said quietly, his gaze unreadable. "Neither are you, Dr. Eva," he whispered. "But I think I like the version that smiles... even if it's rare." he replied, taking a step closer. "Because the next thing I tell might change everything." So when he looks her dead in the eye and says, "I need a favor from you, Dr. Eva. Will you marry me? But on one condition..." Eva's world flips the line between hatred and love begins to disappear. But love is the least of their problems. Eva: Why do you always look angry at me? Neil: Because every time you appear, something goes wrong. Eva: That sounds like a you problem to me, Dr. Morris.

Livia Throne needed a job. She didn't expect it to come from her professor. Ronan Sterling is everything she should avoid, cold, disciplined, and completely untouchable. A man who lives by rules and never lets emotions get in the way. But when Livia steps into his home as his son's babysitter, distance becomes impossible. Because for the first time... Ronan Sterling is starting to feel something he can't control. And Livia might be the reason everything he's built begins to slip.

What happens when the CM of the state falls for the opposition party's president's daughter? A war. ** #1 political - 14 Jun 2026

--- Description He never asked for her attention. He took it. She never saw him coming. But he had always been there. Watching. Waiting. Wanting. What started as a feeling... turned into a presence she couldn't escape. And what felt like fear... slowly became something far more dangerous. Because some obsessions don't fade- they consume. And some cages... don't have locks. They have him. ---

❝𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞.. 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.❞ 𝐀 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐜𝐫𝐲.. 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 "𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐲.. 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬, 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧." 𝐈 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐰𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐤. 𝐌𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦. . . . Z'airee was a caretaker at a old people's home and he took care of many patients. The only thing was that it happened to be one of the few nursing in homes in NYC. So many patients wounded up from the hood where many of the patients were from different gangs. Z'airee wasn't supposed to have favorites but he always had this particular one.. Mr. Sinaloa. Heaven was a drug dealer who visited his grandpa, Tyreek Sinaloa everyday. His grandpa was everything that his parents wasn't to him. The trenches of New York was where he came from. All his mom cared about was drugs and his dad walked out on him. He grew up running the streets because his mom was too high one everything to care, with men coming in and out they house. He never had that support system so he was wit older kids for as long as he could remember. So as soon as his grandpa got custody he was good but he always knew he wanted to move out as soon as possible..Or so he thought. EXT

Her husband left her on the road. A truck finished the job. She woke up with nothing - no name, no memory, no baby she never knew she was carrying. And the man sitting at her bedside? A complete stranger. But sometimes strangers see you clearer than the people who were supposed to love you.

Viremont University was built for the elite - the powerful, the brilliant, and the dangerous. Tessa Vane arrives there wanting one thing only: freedom from the family name that has controlled her entire life. Quiet. Observant. Impossible to truly know, Tessa quickly realizes Viremont hides more than just privileged students and perfect reputations. Students disappear quietly there. Secrets are buried beneath polished hallways. And somewhere inside the university exists a society no one is supposed to find. Then there's Lucien Vale. The boy everyone fears. The boy who seems to know things before they happen. The boy who watches Tessa like he's trying to solve her. But the deeper Tessa gets pulled into Viremont's hidden world, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because some secrets were never meant to survive the light. And Lucien Vale might be one of them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A psychological dark academia story filled with mystery, obsession, secrets, and slow-burn tension. by velvetvoid 🖤

She didn't come to be seen. She came to survive the stage. Y/N has spent her entire life fighting for one thing-a chance. Not fame, not attention, just the opportunity to prove that every sleepless night, every bruised knee, every sacrifice meant something. That chance finally comes when she is selected as a backup dancer for BTS's Arirang World Tour. It should have been simple: dance, rehearse, perform, disappear into the background. But nothing about this world is simple. Because behind the rehearsals, the lights, and the perfect choreography... there are unspoken tensions, silent observations, and moments that were never meant to happen. And when boundaries begin to blur between professionalism and something far more dangerous- Y/N realizes the hardest part of being on Stage isn't performing. It's surviving what happens when the music stops.

"They were supposed to be friends. But somewhere along the way, they became everything." Jules Maybank has spent her whole life surviving-surviving a broken home, an abusive relationship, and the kind of pain that never fully leaves. She's mastered the art of pretending: perfect smiles, brushed-over bruises, and telling everyone she's fine when she's falling apart inside. She's the tough one. The quiet storm. The girl with sharp eyes and softer scars. John B. Routledge has always been her constant-ever since she ran into him in the third grade with juice box hands and wide-eyed wonder. He was her secret first love, her middle school boyfriend, the one who saw her before the world broke her. But that was then. And this is now. Now, she belongs to someone else. Now, she's the girl behind guarded eyes and walls too high to climb. And John B? He's just trying to keep his own world from falling apart. But as fate keeps pulling them back together-late-night conversations, unspoken glances, shared silence where words don't reach-John B starts to see what's been right in front of him this whole time. That maybe Jules Maybank isn't just his past. Maybe she's his future. And Jules? She starts to realize that love doesn't have to hurt. That maybe she doesn't have to shrink herself to be wanted. That maybe, just maybe, she can be loved like she's the only girl in the world-by the one boy who always saw her, even when she couldn't see herself. In a world that's torn them down, can they choose each other? Or will love slip away before either of them is brave enough to reach for it? He was the calm in her storm. She was the light he didn't know he needed. And together? They might just be everything.

How do you survive a marriage you never wanted-when the person you're married to is becoming the one person you can't let go? Everyone at the university knows Christian Luke Fernandez-the Student Council Secretary, campus celebrity, and the boy who's never hidden the fact that he likes men. Confident, sharp-tongued, and impossible to control, Luke has spent his whole life refusing to be anyone but himself. Then an agreement made by their grandparents forces him into an arranged marriage with Prencess Kaidence Fontanilla-the Student Council Treasurer, his biggest headache, and the girl who stole his first kiss. To save her family's company, they marry. Luke hates it. He hates the contract. He hates the expectations. And most of all, he hates how Kaidence slowly finds her way past every wall he's built around himself. What if the woman he was never supposed to love is the only one he can't live without? They agreed to the marriage. The feelings were never part of the deal.

What starts with five trial days inside a recording studio slowly turns into late-night phone calls, shy glances, hidden feelings, and a love neither of them expected in the middle of 1983. This story is a work of fiction, but Michael's personality is written as closely as possible to the way he was described by the people who truly knew him: gentle, shy, respectful, emotional, playful, and quietly romantic.

"Don't leave me again...please." "I won't, Michael. I promise." ••• all eras!michael jackson X fem!reader

Sarai Rossi was always the easy sister to love. Sasha Rossi was the difficult one. The intimidating one. The one who hid behind a helmet and left her competition in the dust. When Sasha Rossi becomes the first person to hand underground racing champion Jayden Steele a loss, she earns more than just a victory-she earns his attention. The problem? She's his girlfriend's twin sister. What starts as a fierce rivalry on the track quickly spirals into something neither of them expected. Every race becomes a challenge. Every argument feels too personal. And every glance lingers longer than it should. As lines blur and tensions rise, Jayden finds himself caught between the girl he's with and the girl he can't stop thinking about. Because losing a race is one thing. Losing your heart to the wrong twin is another.

When you transferred to Hogwarts for your sixth year, the last thing you expected was to end up in Slytherin, the house you heard a lot about before you gave Hogwarts a chance. The house filled with secrets, ambition, and people who are impossible to trust they said. Especially him. Draco Malfoy. The last name alone already says enough. He is cold, arrogant, and irritatingly impossible to avoid. He's the top student from Slytherin but he wasn't happy when you suddenly appeared one day and changed that. The moment you took one step into the school, the rivalry with him starts. You easily beated him in most things and that's what made you the biggest attention in school. But because you two were 'the golden students' of Slytherin, the professors begin pairing you together, late nights in the library and forced group assignments slowly revealed cracks beneath Draco's mean and cruel attitude. Behind the sharp comments and intimidating reputation is he a whole new person. A person he only showed to you. Set in the shadowed halls of Hogwarts, i hate you, but i love you is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance filled with rivalry, tension, stolen glances, jealousy, and the realization that the person you hate most may be the one who understands you best.

Hello. Welcome to my world-where hatred is inherited and competition is compulsory. Aayu and Samay have been rivals since childhood, thanks to a broken friendship between their parents that turned two families into enemies. Living next door only makes it worse-every exam, every achievement, every moment is a battle. When Samay chooses science, Aayu is forced to follow, leaving behind her own dreams just to prove she's better than him. But as their rivalry grows, so do the questions. What if the person she hates the most... is the only one who truly understands her? And what if winning against him isn't really winning at all? #3 Funniest