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Weekly Updates Ten years ago, Simon Bennett was the nerd everyone laughed at - especially her. Now he's a successful tech CEO, armed with confidence. When a delayed flight forces him face-to-face with the cheer captain who made his teenage years unbearable, he's ready for closure... not chemistry. She doesn't even recognise him. But as old memories unravel and hidden grief comes to light, a hilarious, awkward, slow-burn romance begins - proving that sometimes love shows up long after the final bell rings. A romantic comedy about second chances, healing, and falling for the last person you expected.

"They broke her. Now, she's the one controlling the narrative." ​Ten years ago, Elena Coleman was the girl who believed in forever friendships. Then came the party, the betrayal, and the viral nightmare that stripped her of her dignity and her future. ​Now, Elena is the face of the evening news-calm, controlled, and untouchable. She has a perfect life and a perfect fiancé. But when an invitation to a private reunion arrives, the polished glass of her new life begins to crack. ​Vanessa is still playing games. Tamara is still hiding secrets. And Noah? He's still the boy who watched her drown and didn't reach out a hand. ​They think they're meeting for drinks and memories. They don't realize Elena isn't the victim anymore. She's the lead story-and she's about to expose them all.

[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.

Ashes Under Vermillion Some love stories don't burn bright. They smolder... quietly... until everything turns to ash. Ira Sen, a fearless investigative journalist, is forced into a marriage with Ahaan Malhotra-the heir of a powerful business empire built on secrets. What begins as a reluctant union slowly transforms into something deeper, as Ira finds herself drawn to the man behind the arrogance. But just when trust begins to bloom, truth intervenes. While uncovering a decades-old conspiracy tied to Ahaan's father, Ira chooses silence to protect the man she loves-only to be met with betrayal. In a moment of rage and blind faith in his family, Ahaan shatters everything between them, leaving Ira to walk away... carrying more than just heartbreak. Years later, fate forces them to stand face to face again-no longer as lovers, but as strangers bound by a past that refuses to stay buried. Ira has rebuilt her life, her strength, and her identity, while Ahaan has risen from the ruins of his fallen empire, now a man shaped by regret. But when the truth finally surfaces-and with it, a child that connects them in ways words cannot undo-their worlds collide once more. This is not a story of easy forgiveness. Not a tale where love alone is enough. It is a story about: Trust that was never honored Love that came too late And the unbearable weight of realization Because sometimes... you don't lose someone when they leave. You lose them- when you fail to stand beside them when it mattered most.

Tender, bittersweet, and full of slow-burning emotional tension, this novel follows Sophia as the cracks in her long-term relationship begin to widen just as Anthony-her future stepbrother and a gifted cross-country skiing athlete-enters her life more fully. What begins as familiarity turns into something harder to ignore: a quiet, unsettling connection that feels both forbidden and deeply natural. Set between snowy training days, family closeness, and emotional upheaval, this is a romance about the loves that end us, the ones that remake us, and the lines we never thought we would cross.

The story follows Aarohi rathore, a formidable gamer who becomes the first female professional player in the Indian online platform (based on the game Onmyoji Arena). She is recruited by trf, a top-tier team, to replace a legendary player who is retiring due to injury.

Misty Hollis is used to being alone. After years of working from home, keeping careful routines, and watching everyone else move forward, Misty has convinced herself that quiet is safer than wanting too much. Safer than being compared. Safer than being seen. Then her newly adopted cat, Eliot, starts escaping every day at exactly 3:30. Following him leads Misty to an overgrown garden, a sharp-eyed grandmother named Jenny, and Alastair Ward. Reserved, protective, and impossible to read, Alastair has built his own walls around duty and loss. Jenny sees something in Misty that Misty can barely admit to herself, and suddenly Misty is pulled into a world of family expectations, old grief, awkward parties, and a man whose attention feels both terrifying and impossible to ignore. Alastair doesn't do easy. Misty doesn't do vulnerable. But the more their lives tangle together, the harder it becomes to pretend that comfort is enough, or that being alone is the same as being safe. Because Eliot may have led Misty to Alastair's door. But staying will have to be her choice. A slow-burn romance about loneliness, found family, healing, and the terrifying sweetness of finally being seen. ============ #ONC2026 Prompt 5 =========== AI-assisted: The blurb for this story was developed with AI tools. The story itself is entirely written by the author with AI grammar assist only. =========== © 2026 Deborah Valtierra. All rights reserved. Following Eliot is published exclusively on Wattpad. If you see it anywhere else, it has been shared without permission.

She came to Tokyo for a fresh start. What she found was him. Amari Brooks left Atlanta carrying wounds she never talks about. Sakura International Academy was supposed to be the place where none of that history could follow her. Then she sees the group that runs this school like royalty, and the one at the center of them who looks right through her with eyes that carry their own damage she hasn't learned to read yet. Haruto Tanaka is not who he appears to be. The coldness is not arrogance. It is penance. The silence is not strength. It is the distance a person keeps when they know exactly what they are capable of breaking. They are wrong for each other in every visible way. Different worlds, different languages, different kinds of hurt. And something between them that neither can name or outrun. What begins as friction slowly becomes the most honest thing either of them has ever felt. But the academy has enemies. His family has plans. And both of them are carrying secrets that, when they surface, will demand a reckoning. Tokyo is beautiful and relentless and it will not let them hide from each other. Neither will the truth. A slow burn interracial romance set in Tokyo. Dark, tender, explicit in the way of stories that take their time to earn it. For readers who want the full journey. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Lily Morgan never meant to hear what she did. Working backstage as a stylist in Shanghai's high-pressure showbiz world, she's used to staying invisible. But one wrong turn leads her into a conversation that was never meant for her ears - and straight into the path of Jason Lee, one of the biggest idols in the industry. He has everything to lose. She knows too much. What starts as a dangerous secret turns into something neither of them planned... and definitely shouldn't want. Because some lines aren't meant to be crossed - especially off stage.

When a sharp but frustrated detective stumbles across a dangerous criminal network, he doesn't expect his investigation to be complicated by a fiery red headed farmer. Shes stubborn, witty and impossible to ignore - delivering muffins one moment and challenging his every move the next. Between flirtatious banter and moments of vulnerability, he's forced to confont not just the criminals he hunts but the growing love for the woman he can't seem to resist.

Chelsea Callahan moved from New York to Los Angeles for a fresh start, not to fall for anyone. Especially not a slightly rumpled journalist one floor down in her office building. Nick Garcia knows better than to go after the hot girl from level seven. Girls like Chelsea don't look at men like him twice. Anyway, he's only nursing a harmless crush from afar. Then a building evacuation throws them into each other's arms. What starts with stairwells, coffee run-ins and not-quite-dates turns into something far messier: intense attraction, public humiliation, class snobbery, old heartbreak and the kind of love that feels wonderful right up until it starts ruining your life. Because Nick isn't Chelsea's first great love. And Connor - the beautiful paramedic she left behind in New York - is not as far in the past as he should be.

He couldn't see her face. But he knew the sound of her footsteps, the warmth of her voice, and exactly how she sighed when he was being difficult. Zoey Blight needed a job. Isaac needed a nanny. Simple enough - until it wasn't. A story about a girl who was felt before she was seen, and a boy who learned to love before he learned to look.

Their story began long before either of them understood love. Before they became husband and wife, they were two children who never got a proper goodbye. Years later, an arranged marriage brings them back together, stirring unfamiliar emotions and fragments of forgotten memories. While Divya struggles to understand why his presence feels strangely familiar, Aadhvik hides a truth that could change everything between them. After all, some goodbyes are only pauses between two beginnings. And this time, he doesn't plan on leaving her behind.

"She was his favorite student. Now, she's his greatest obsession." To Professor Nathan Kim, Maisie was a study in perfection, a splash of colour in a hall of charcoal and dust. He's spent the semester documenting her from the back of the lecture hall, a silent collector of her habits and her smiles. Then came the message. A single, illicit photo meant for someone else. Now that Nathan has seen the girl behind the "A" student, the distance is over. He's no longer content to observe. He's ready to use her mistake to bring her exactly where she belongs: under his thumb.

Love, Laughs & Lone Star Trouble. When Miami doctor Simone Castillo trades her city life for a small Texas town, she expects a fresh start and a clinic that needs saving. What she doesn't expect is Lone Star Ridge itself - a town full of opinions, a diner owner who already knows her name, and a widowed rancher with three kids and walls built so high she can practically see them from Main Street. Simone didn't come to Lone Star Ridge to fall for anyone. She came to rebuild. But small towns have a way of getting under your skin before you realize what's happening - and so do the people in them. New town. Fresh start. A whole lot of everything.

She's the CFO of a 75-year-old family brewery. He's the private equity shark trying to dismantle it. When Julian Vance launches a $400M hostile bid on Marchetti & Sons, Sloane Marchetti has six months to save her father's legacy - by working inside Vance Holdings as Julian's "transition consultant." She came to outsmart him. She didn't expect him to read her grandfather's 1989 essays on oak trees. Or to find out a billionaire just like him destroyed his own father's company when Julian was fourteen. Or to walk in on a document that makes her think the past four months were a long con. There's just one thing she's wrong about. And Julian is going to let her find out herself. A long-form dual-POV enemies-to-lovers slow burn. Corporate thriller meets quiet aching. 17 chapters. One kiss. HEA guaranteed. *Complete story. *

Title: Thinking Out Loud (Inspired by Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran) --- Novel Description Some love stories begin with a spark. Others begin with a song. *Thinking Out Loud* follows the journey of **Adrian Reyes** and **Elena Cruz**, two souls brought together by music, late-night conversations, and the kind of connection that feels effortless-until life begins to pull them in different directions. What starts as a quiet, beautiful love in their youth slowly unravels under the weight of ambition, fear, and unspoken words. Years pass. Paths change. Hearts try to forget. But some love never truly leaves. As Adrian and Elena build separate lives, they discover that time doesn't erase what was real-it only reshapes it. When fate brings them face to face again, they must confront the memories they buried, the mistakes they made, and the question they never truly answered: *Can love survive not just distance... but time itself?* Spanning decades, *Thinking Out Loud* is a deeply emotional story about growing up, breaking apart, and finding your way back-not to who you were, but to who you've become. From the intensity of first love to the quiet strength of lasting commitment, this novel captures what it truly means to love someone-not just in the moment, but for a lifetime. Because in the end, love isn't about never changing. It's about choosing each other-again and again-even when everything else does.

Lily has spent eighteen years playing the "safe" little sister, tucked away in the shadows of her brother and his dangerously bossy best friend, Jacob. While Lily plays it cool, her unfiltered inner voice, Liby, is busy cataloging every lingering stare and charged silence that proves they are anything but platonic. When the boundaries of childhood finally crumble, the secrets hidden in a leather-bound notebook and the heat of a single night change the rules of the game forever. Now, Lily must choose between the comfort of the past and a high-stakes future where all she wants-finally-is to be seen.