Contemporaryromance Stories

Two rivals. One office. Ninety days to save - or destroy - everything they've built. Jemima is the heart of Apex Urban Solutions, a strategist who believes cities should serve people, not profit. Eleazar is its steel skeleton, a technical genius who trusts numbers over vision and calls emotion inefficient. For three years, they've disagreed on everything. Now their Managing Director locks them in the same office and hands them the most important project of their careers. Late nights. Competing blueprints. Professional warfare slowly becoming something far more dangerous. Then a devastating accident shatters Jemima's world. The woman who holds everyone else together begins to fall apart, and the last person she expected is the one who stays. At 10 PM, one phone call moves the line. Because some foundations aren't built with concrete and steel. They're built when you finally let someone carry the load with you. A slow-burn office romance about rivalry, vulnerability, and the fragile bridges built between two guarded hearts.

[This story will become free on June 15th 2022] In the sequel to When Best Friends Kiss, Liam is faced with the life Alex has built without him. Can their love survive when they've become so different? ***** Fresh out of university and settled into a new apartment, Liam and Alex are ready to start their life together. While Alex finds passion in journalism and has more friends than he can count, Liam is frustrated with his photography and awkward around Alex's LGBTQ friends. Seeing the life Alex has built without him, and how different they've become, Liam finds his insecurities resurfacing and mental health spiraling downwards. After the time they've spent apart, do Liam and Alex really belong together? Or will their love story end before it starts its next chapter? (Sequel to When Best Friends Kiss.) [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

Ella is falling apart trying to live a "perfect" high school life. Then she meets Ren, who can see past her scars. Suddenly perfection isn't her only option. ***** Ella Volkov is a gifted music student, but she's depressed and starting to crack under the pressure of high school. Her overbearing father won't even let her choose what instrument she plays. Then she finds herself alone at a party with Ren, her best friend's crush. She'd always thought he was rude, but after that night he's all Ella can think about. Now she's trapped. If Ella dates Ren, it will ruin her friendship with Jenny. But if she stays true to Jenny, she's losing the one person who can see past her scars. It's up to Ella to decide if she will forge her own path, or stay in the "perfect" box designed for her... Content and/or Trigger Warning: depression, anxiety, self-harm, violence, sexual assault. [[word count: 50,000-100,000 words]]

Alexander didn't cheat. He just gave someone else his attention, his laughter, and the smiles that used to belong to his wife. And she watched him drift, not to another woman's bed, but to her presence. Her laugh. The way she made him feel seen in a room full of people. Everything he found in someone else - Zara had been giving him all along. Eight years of marriage. One little boy who loved them both. And Zara standing in the middle of it all - wondering when she became the woman he stopped choosing. She warned him. Three times. The first - he dismissed her. The second - he called her jealous. The third - he called her insecure. So she stopped warning him altogether. And stopped waiting. Love wasn't enough... and now it might be too late.

Sidelined 3 is officially in production! Revisit where Dayton and Dallas' story began before the final chapter arrives. Get ready to head back on the field! The Sidelined: QB and Me sequel is coming soon to Tubi. Started here but has taken over the world! Wattpad's First Published book to now a Movie. Watch Sidelined: The QB and Me based on The QB Bad Boy and Me for free only on Tubi. Prepare to catch feelings for your favorite QB Bad Boy story in any format you like. ---- This is Wattpad Books Published version of Original story. The funny, steal your heart breakout story about a cheerleader, a sexy football player, and the chaos of trying not to fall in love.

He didn't ask for her heart. He studied it... then took it like it already belonged to him😈😈.... Ziya Foyce doesn't chase men. She paints, she hides, and she protects her peace like it's sacred. In a town full of loud cousins, nosy neighbors, and old drama that refuses to die, she minds her business and lets the world spin without her. Then Nahlej Cordeaux steps in. He isn't ordinary. He's pressure in human form-a hood philosopher with a past carved into his skin and a stare that makes you forget every promise you made to yourself. From the moment he sees Ziya, it's done. He doesn't flirt; he studies. He circles. He claims. And once he locks in, he doesn't let go. Ziya promised herself she'd never fall for a man who could break her. Nahlej promised that if he touched her once, she'd never leave. What starts as a glance turns into a pull she can't shake. Between sharp-tongued best friends, family chaos, and chemistry that refuses to quiet down, their story unfolds reckless, obsessive, and addictive. He isn't the villain. He's just unhinged enough to make love feel dangerous in all the right ways. This isn't a fairytale. It's grown, messy, Southern hood love. The kind that lingers. The kind that claims. The kind you don't forget. 🔥 Only If You Stay is a Southern Black romance about a love that doesn't ask-it takes and restores.

--- Chained Desires She never believed in love - not the kind that stayed, not the kind that healed. To her, life was a game of hearts, and she always knew how to win. But then he came - quiet, confident, and impossibly sure of himself. The kind of man who didn't chase, yet somehow made her want to be caught. He wasn't looking for love either, but something about her drew him in - her fire, her laughter, her truths. She made him feel alive again, even as she drove him insane. What started as a daring attraction soon became something neither of them could control - a love so fierce it blurred the line between devotion and surrender. Now, bound by emotions they never meant to feel, they must decide if love can truly set them free... or if some desires are meant to keep us chained forever Ranking - #2nd place Nigerian fiction

Gianna Vale's new babysitting job was supposed to be easy until she met Kai Mercer. Smug, infuriating, and impossible to ignore. She had no feelings for him whatsoever. I mean, that's what she thought right?

And now I had become a madman. Even if released, I would be forever branded on the forehand with the word "madman", or perhaps, "reject." Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being. -Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." -Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning ─────────────────────────── [Disclaimer: Heavy analytical narrative ahead] Stella Maris: a prestige, multi-government-funded high school. You'd expect sharpened smiles and academic bloodsport-but instead, it's just... a school. It teaches, it shelters, it tries to nurture young souls the best way it can. Among the many young souls there is a boy. Like many, he looks average. Like many, he aims for an uneventful high school life. Like many, he's mid-puberty, mid-confusion, mid-everything. Like many, he entertains small, harmless fantasies and overanalysis. And yet-he is not always the many. Unlike many, he's a boy who sometimes feels... slightly out of frame. Unlike many, he does what's necessary. Unlike many, he recognizes emotions the way one recognizes a language they can't quite speak. Unlike many, he appears Very unremarkable that, by some standards, he mIght as well be "disqualified." Still, if you treat him not as a statistic but as an idea-one that slips past neat cateGories and tidy values-thEn he becomes maNy things at once. A boy. A quEstion. A quiet contradiction. And like countless souls-young and old-he who longs for the ordinaRy- -Searches for mEaning. ─────────────────────────── km zyxed jjpmqg taum tsiy mzhq pw viowa mqqvhtx. xy wsw na xkh jdqwk vqso. eqg mnulyzvj qw wk

Two strangers. One experimental app. A connection that changes everything. Luna remembers too much. Ollie wants to forget everything. She lost her father in an accident two years ago. The guilt, the silence, the memories that won't stop playing in her head-she's drowning. When she joins Reverie, an experimental app that lets users share memories with strangers, she hopes to finally process the night that broke her. He found his brother after a suicide attempt. The image is burned into his mind. He joined Reverie to suppress his worst memories, one by one, until they're nothing but echoes. The app pairs them as "complementary profiles." Neither expects to find anything more than a tool for healing. But Luna draws what Ollie can't say. And Ollie composes the music Luna is afraid to hear. The more they share, the deeper they fall. Their memories intertwine. Their silences speak louder than words. And for the first time in years, both of them feel seen. But Reverie isn't just an app. It's a business. And their most intimate moments are being collected for purposes no one agreed to. Now they must choose: expose the system that brought them together, or lose not just their memories... but each other. How far would you go to heal? And what if the cure is more dangerous than the pain?

Keira Ashbourne percaya pada tiga hal: uang, bertahan hidup, dan jangan mudah percaya pada orang kaya yang datang terlalu tepat waktu. Lalu Evander Sinclair masuk ke hidupnya. Pria itu terlalu tenang, terlalu tampan, terlalu kaya, dan terlalu sering membuat hidup Keira jadi lebih mudah. Keira tentu curiga. Sayangnya, curiga tidak membayar tagihan, gaji tutor sangat masuk akal, dan adik kecil Evander sudah telanjur memutuskan bahwa Keira adalah bagian dari rumah Sinclair. Awalnya hanya pekerjaan tutor. Lalu berubah menjadi pacar bayaran, drama keluarga elite, perjalanan hadiah yang terlalu sempurna, dan romansa yang mati-matian Keira tolak untuk disalahpahami. Tapi Evander tidak sedang jatuh cinta untuk pertama kalinya. Di balik ingatan masa kecilnya yang pecah, ada seorang gadis berambut gelap, suara keras kepala, dan kalimat yang pernah menyelamatkannya: Lari. Jangan lihat belakang! Namun saat kebenaran akhirnya kembali, mampukah Keira percaya bahwa ia dipilih karena dirinya sendiri, atau justru ia akan lari sebelum Evander sempat mencintai gadis yang dulu pernah ia lupakan?

🌊 One destination wedding. 🏝 One luxury villa. 💍 One month before the wedding. ❤️ Two idiots secretly in love. 📢 And then... A lockdown. What was supposed to be a short wedding trip quickly turns into months of living together under one roof. Now Aakriti has to survive: chaotic friends endless teasing midnight beach talks accidental jealousy wedding madness And worst of all... Kian. The childhood crush she definitely, absolutely, completely does NOT still like. (Or so she claims.) When Aakriti arrives in Lakshadweep for her best friend's destination wedding, the last person she expects to see is Kian-the boy she once shared science projects, childhood memories, and an almost-forgotten crush with. Years have passed. Lives have changed. Yet some feelings refuse to stay buried. What begins as a month-long wedding celebration soon turns into something none of them expected when a nationwide lockdown leaves a group of friends stranded together inside a luxurious beachside villa. Between midnight conversations by the shore, endless teasing, wedding chaos, unexpected heartbreaks, and friendships that feel like family, Aakriti and Kian find themselves facing a question they never dared ask: What happens when the person you never truly forgot suddenly becomes part of your everyday life again? Heartwarming, chaotic, emotional, and filled with laughter, The Lockdown Love is a story about second chances, loyalty, found family, and a love that survived distance, time, and everything life threw between them. ✨ UPLOAD SCHEDULE ✨ 📅 New Chapters every TUESDAY (7:30 PM), FRIDAY (8:00 PM), and SUNDAY (9:00 AM)! (And keep an eye out for secret mid-week surprise drops... 🤫👀) 🏝️ Ongoing | 100% Will Be Completed!

When Dani Madrigal passed the UPCAT, she thought the hardest part of UP life would be surviving deadlines, terror profs, and never-ending readings. Then she met Jacob Allister Dimaasahan. Campus crush. Walking red flag. Annoyingly good-looking. The kind of guy who always looked calm, composed, and completely unaffected-while casually ruining Dani's peace of mind. What starts as accidental encounters, sarcastic banter, and unresolved tension slowly turns into something far more dangerous: familiarity. And in a place where everyone is trying to figure out who they are, Dani begins to realize that falling for someone might be easier than admitting what she truly wants for herself. A UP campus romance about late-night walks, stolen glances across AS, coffee-fueled breakdowns, friendship, ambition, and the terrifying possibility of being loved back.

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At twenty years old, Aisling Lunet finally feels like her life is moving in the right direction. After months of job applications, interviews, and unanswered emails, she lands a position in the Human Resources department at Summit Stock & Supply. Determined to prove herself, Aisling is ready to work hard, build the career she's always dreamed of, and show everyone-including herself-that she belongs there. Matthew Sulien is starting over, too. After working as a stock clerk, he earns the opportunity to join the company's Loss Prevention team. It's a chance to grow, take on new responsibilities, and finally begin building a future of his own. Neither of them expects their lives to become so intertwined. As they navigate new responsibilities, unexpected challenges, and all the chaos that comes with adulthood, Aisling and Matthew quickly discover that growing up rarely goes according to plan. Goals change. Priorities shift. And sometimes the people who have the greatest impact on our lives are the ones we never saw coming. Heartwarming, funny, and full of unforgettable moments, Fourty-three Days is a romantic comedy about new beginnings, first opportunities, and how forty-three days can be enough to change everything.

Italian levels of drama. Scandinavian levels of emotional repression. Somehow, that's a romance. _____________ Nunzia Spadafora has a blueprint for her life, and it definitely doesn't involve spending the rest of her days smelling like garlic and tomato sauce at her grandmother's traditional Italian restaurant. A passionate, sharp-witted indie game developer, she's ready to build entire virtual worlds from scratch. All she needs is a foot in the door. Enter Sebastian Henrik Guttorm. As a notoriously brilliant, ice-cold, and socially catastrophic indie game producer, Sebastian is the ultimate industry gatekeeper. Arrogant, impossibly rigid, and possessing the emotional warmth of a frozen Nordic fjord. When Nunzia finally forces him to look at her passion project, his critique doesn't just sting-it makes her want to shove him headfirst into her nonna's pizza oven. But when a twist of fate forces them to collaborate, their clashing worlds collide in a spectacular glitch of banter and sparks. Nunzia is determined to prove that her vibrant, chaotic vision is exactly what his sterile corporate gaming world needs. Meanwhile, Sebastian is about to learn that no amount of clean coding can protect his carefully structured heart from a girl who refuses to follow his script. Can a proud, awkward genius and a fiercely independent tech-rebel patch their bugs, or is their story destined for an epic crash? --- Enemies-to-Lovers / Slow Burn : dynamic wrapped in sharp, snappy modern dialogue. The Fire & Ice Dynamic:A heroine with zero filter and a hero who is completely out of his depth when it comes to human emotions. Geek Culture Meets Italian Famiglia:A hilarious contrast between the high-stakes, corporate gaming industry and the chaotic warmth of a bustling family restaurant.

A dream. That's all Ji-ah and Min-ah had. One dreamed of becoming a writer. The other dreamed of bringing stories to life through art. Years later, they're still chasing that dream. While struggling to gain readers and recognition, Ji-ah refuses to give up on the stories she loves to write. But when a nationwide comic competition hosted by StoryWave Publishing opens its doors, everything begins to change. At the same time, Park Seo-jun, the chairman's son, returns to South Korea. Determined to succeed on his own, he secretly joins the company without revealing his true identity. As fate brings their worlds together, Ji-ah finds herself drawn to Leon Park, a loyal secretary who always seems to be by Seo-jun's side. Dreams. Friendship. Hidden identities. Unexpected feelings. In a world where every story has an ending, what happens when two people become a part of the same story? The Pages Between Us

When the universe writes your story, you just have to believe in the timing.

Mira Arumi likes certainty. Schedules. Deadlines. Silence. Then she meets Prama Jenggala-a cultural curator, dalang, and Kanjeng Pangeran Arya from Yogyakarta whose life seems to move to a different rhythm entirely. In the Netherlands, what begins as a conversation slowly unfolds into something neither of them intends: shared coffees, long walks beneath Dutch skies, wayang performances accompanied by contemporary music, and a growing collection of ordinary moments that refuse to remain ordinary. As Javanese culture quietly survives far from home-not through grand ceremonies but through habits, stories, rituals, and memory-Mira finds herself drawn into a world she never expected to enter. Semilir of Last Tenderness is a slow-burning literary novel about friendship, culture, belonging, and the rare people who change our lives simply by remaining beside us. Some relationships arrive with fireworks. Others arrive like a gentle breeze.

Two powerful families. Two chaotic pairs. One tangled web of love, hatred, and pride. Zayan & Ayat: A criminal defense lawyer with a dangerous possessive streak and his runway-queen fiancée, fighting a war against a traditional household that demands she give up her crown. Zaid & Meher: A dramatic billionaire CEO determined to crush his competitor, and the calm, brilliant businesswoman who takes pride in destroying his composure. When the courtrooms, the runways, and the boardrooms collide, lines will be crossed, tempers will flare, and secrets will be exposed. Welcome to the chaotic world of the Shahs and the Khans.