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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]]

[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]]

The QB, Summer and Me is a new story in The QB and Me universe. Dallas and Drayton spend their summer after high school together. Eleven weeks before they go their separate ways for college. She's heading to California. He's staying in Texas. From lakehouse getaways to midnight rides, it's a summer full of love, uncertainty, and a secret that could change everything. Set during their final summer before college, this standalone novella exists outside the events of the film franchise and offers a fresh, romantic glimpse into Dallas and Drayton's story.

Bella's life was simple, safe... predictable. Until Grayson, her husband's younger brother, showed up. He's dangerous, irresistible, and everything Damian isn't. Every glance makes her pulse race, every touch sets her skin on fire. They're not supposed to want each other-but desire doesn't care about rules. One stolen kiss. One secret touch. One night that changes everything. Safe marriage or forbidden obsession... which will she choose?

Angelique Sevilla is a 25-year-old receptionist at Casa Villa, the modest hotel owned by her gambling-addicted father. Her days are spent juggling work and hospital visits to care for her critically ill mother. To Angelique, life is dull, exhausting, and painfully predictable-until her father's recklessness shatters it completely. After losing a massive sum of money to a powerful business tycoon, Angelique's father makes an unforgivable decision: he offers his own daughter as payment for his debt. Geovan Beaumont is power in human form. At twenty-eight, he stands at the peak of the business world, owner of Eovan Companies, ruler of hotels and malls across the country and beyond. Wealth, influence, and control are second nature to him. Marriage, love, and emotions are weaknesses he has long discarded. But when a man indebted to him offers his daughter as a payment, he needed to make a decision. A debt. A daughter. A contract disguised as marriage. Join Angelique and Geovan's journey as they enter a loveless marriage. Their marriage is built on rules-no feelings, no expectations, no love. Angelique is meant to be nothing more than a name beside his, a debt settled. But as they're forced to share a life neither of them chose, lines begin to blur and walls start to crumble.

Lina never expected her life to change in a single moment. Working as a housekeeper at the Alpine Crown Hotel in the quiet mountains, Lina spends her days cleaning rooms and dreaming of a better future. Life has never been easy, but she believes that someday something good will happen. Then one ordinary morning, she accidentally spills coffee on a mysterious hotel guest. Adrian is calm, charming, and surprisingly kind. What begins as an embarrassing accident slowly turns into an unexpected friendship. Late-night conversations, quiet walks by the frozen lake, and shared dreams begin to bring them closer together. But Lina soon discovers a truth that shatters everything she thought she knew. Adrian isn't just a guest. He is the new owner of the hotel. Feeling betrayed, Lina tries to keep her distance, but fate keeps pulling them back together. As the hotel faces serious problems and outside pressures threaten to tear everything apart, Lina and Adrian must decide whether they can trust each other again. Sometimes love appears in the most unexpected places. And sometimes, the place you work... becomes the place your heart finally finds home. A heartfelt story about dreams, forgiveness, and discovering that love can grow even in the most unexpected moments.

Emma has one goal: become Creative Director at NovaTech. She's spent three years pouring her heart into every design, surviving terrible managers, and proving herself again and again. Project Zenith is *her* project-the one that's supposed to finally get her the promotion she deserves. Then *he* walks in. Liam is corporate, cold, and annoyingly handsome. He's also the new project manager with a fancy resume and a mandate to "optimize everything." The company says they have to work *together* on Zenith. The truth? Only one of them will get the promotion-and they both know it. But late nights in the office lead to stolen glances across the conference table. Arguments start feeling an awful lot like flirting. And when they accidentally get locked in the glass conference room at midnight with nothing but stale coffee and a whiteboard between them, the deadline dare becomes something else entirely... **A workplace romance where the only rule is: don't fall for your rival.** --- *"Enemies to lovers. Forced proximity. One promotion, two hearts, and a deadline that changes everything."* **Perfect for fans of:** The Hating Game, office romance, slow burn, competitive tension, and coffee dates that start as "work meetings."

They murdered his family. They buried his sister. They stole his life. Vincenzo Del Fierro lost everything the night the powerful Provenzano family decided his bloodline was disposable. His pregnant sister was executed. His parents slaughtered. And he was framed, imprisoned, and condemned to years of brutal labor. But Vincenzo survived. Now he's back in Italy, fueled by vengeance and sharpened by pain. Destroying the Provenzanos through the law would be mercy and mercy was a language he no longer speaks- so he chooses a far crueler punishment. Their daughter. Hidden. Cherished. Protected from the darkness of her father's world. Infiltrating her life is easy. Winning her trust is effortless. Ruining her is supposed to be inevitable. Because revenge is not justice. It is destruction. And he intends to leave nothing standing.

One was a master of words. The other, a master of motion. Ishanvi and Shayan were just two strangers in a crowded engagement group, hidden behind usernames and the relentless hustle of the algorithm. She lived in the worlds she wrote; he lived in the music he moved to. They were never meant to speak. Until a single reel, a fusion of her words and his dance, blurred the line between professional support and personal obsession. What happens when the person who understands your silence best is the one you've never actually met? And what happens when the digital sanctuary you've built begins to crumble under the weight of the real world? In the world of pixels, they were infinite. In the world of reality, they were a secret about to be told.

In the chaotic halls of Toronto Memorial, Dr. Liam Vance lives for the adrenaline of the ER. He heals what he can see: bleeding wounds and broken bones. But when a trauma case brings him face-to-face with Dr. Elara Sterling, the hospital's most enigmatic psychiatrist, he realizes some wounds don't bleed. He races against time; she masters the art of waiting. He saves lives; she saves souls. Between late-night shifts under the Canadian snow and the high-stakes tension of the trauma ward, two worlds collide. Can a man who fears losing control fall for a woman who reads every thought he tries to hide?

marriage never meant to happen. A husband who refuses to accept it. When a wedding collapses at the mandap, Ishita Khanna is forced to replace her runaway sister and marry Aarav Malhotra-a strict university professor bound by family pride and political pressure. For Aarav, the marriage is a secret, a burden he wants erased from his life. For Ishita, it becomes a silent prison. Living under one roof yet worlds apart, Ishita must hide her identity while Aarav ensures no one ever knows she is his wife. In classrooms, he is her professor. At home, a stranger she is bound to. In a world ruled by control, silence, and unspoken rules, what happens when a forced marriage begins to crack the walls of power, ego, and denial? Because some relationships aren't born out of love- they are survived.

Alexandra, a french girl suddenly finds herself in a foreign country named USA. She starts her new school and ends up become the centre of attraction of two of the most odd boys in school, one a quirky gay guy and the other golden retriever boy who has a way with girls except from her. Separately the two boys try to help her act like a normal teenager through her highschool years. But does she even consider herself a normal teenager?

"He tests her patience. She ruins his calm." She crossed countries for the man she loved. He broke her heart the first day. And now the neighbour upstairs has his face. But Yuvan Mehra is nothing like Avi. So why does falling for him feel like falling for the wrong person all over again?

Skye "Regulus" Walker is a diva rockstar. She's wildly talented, fiercely proud, and hell-bent on having her own way. She has a voice that thunders arenas and guitar skills sharp enough to rival the greats. But she has one weakness: she hates her bodyguards. Ethan Clark is the newest hired gun after a long line of casualties. Patient, steady, and annoyingly unreadable, he tolerates absolutely none of her antics, or her attempts at seduction. When a violent stalker threatens to harm Regulus, she has to do what she hates the most: listen to her bodyguard's instructions. Unstoppable force collides into an immovable object. Sparks fly, tempers flare, and chaos is guaranteed... with the possibility of something more dangerous.

He has no face in her dreams. Yet he knows her better than anyone. When Elara meets a stranger who feels painfully familiar - and speaks the words she has only ever heard in sleep - her world begins to shift. Some people enter your life like a season. And some feel like they've always been there. Spring in My Heart - a story about awakening, recognition, and the quiet magic of becoming. ONC 2026 |Exclusively on Wattpad Prompt 21: You wake from a dream about a faceless soulmate, only to meet someone in real life who feels exactly like them and somehow knows the things you've never told anyone.

Every day at exactly 3:30 p.m., Misty Hollis's newly adopted cat sits at the door and meows. Misty is a telehealth psychologist who prefers structure over surprises and solitude over small talk. After the world shut down, she built a life that feels safe. Predictable. Contained. No risks. No comparisons. No one looking too closely. But Eliot keeps slipping out. And eventually, Misty follows. He leads her to a quiet street. To an overgrown garden. To a sharp-eyed grandmother who seems to know more than she should. And to Alastair Ward. Protective. Guarded. Devoted to the woman who raised him. A man who has already lost too much and refuses to lose anything else. Including control. Misty was never meant to become part of their world. She's just following a cat. Just passing through. But 3:30 keeps coming. What begins as curiosity becomes routine. Forced proximity turns into lingering conversations. Suspicion softens into slow-burn tension. And the more Alastair sees her, the harder it is for Misty to retreat into the quiet life she built to protect herself. Because falling for someone means being seen. And Misty has spent her whole life trying not to be compared. When old insecurities whisper that she doesn't belong in his world, she does what she has always done. She steps back before anyone else can. But Eliot still waits at the door at 3:30. The question is whether Misty will keep following him when it leads somewhere she cannot schedule, control, or quietly escape. ============ #ONC2026 Prompt 5 =========== AI-assisted: The blurb for this story was developed with AI tools. The story itself is entirely written by the author. =========== © 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.

One month. One city boy. And the one girl who refuses to play by his rules. ​Ruhaan's life has always been about the next big thing-the next deal, the next party, the next flight out of Mumbai. But when his journey takes him to the peaks of Manali, he finds himself standing still for the first time. ​The reason? Ishani. ​Ishani is a mystery wrapped in layers of wool and silence. She doesn't seek attention, and she certainly doesn't seek him. She treats Ruhaan like a passing tourist-someone who will be gone soon. ​Ruhaan was supposed to be a temporary guest in her world. But a temporary stay isn't enough to understand the girl who looks at the mountains with more warmth than she looks at him. ​With a single text to Veer-"Staying in Manali for the full month"-Ruhaan deletes his exit strategy. ​The flight back to Mumbai can wait. The city can wait. For the next thirty days, Ruhaan has only one goal: to stop being a stranger and start being the person she finally lets in.

(Unedited version) In Atlanta, heartbreak is big business-and Mr. Valentine is its most discreet solution. By day, he's a wildly successful image and rebrand consultant, hired to help people step into their next era. By night, he's a carefully kept secret on a women's platform for the jilted: a hired rebound man who helps women glow back up, reclaim their presence, and remind cheating exes exactly what they lost. It works every time. The women are seen again. The exes come crawling back. And Mr. Valentine disappears-paid, praised, and alone. He calls it professionalism. He never calls it loneliness. Then he meets her. Recently divorced from a cruel, controlling husband, she isn't looking for revenge-just clarity. As Mr. Valentine prepares to play his usual role, he starts uncovering truths about her marriage she never fully saw...and truths about himself he's spent years avoiding. The more she finds her voice, the harder it becomes for him to perform. For the first time, the glow-up isn't about being seen by an ex. It's about being seen by each other. And when the contract ends, Mr. Valentine has to decide if he'll do what he's always done-vanish-or finally stay long enough to be chosen. Because sometimes the greatest comeback isn't making someone jealous... it's realizing who was wrong for you all along.

I once told someone, in my best Devdas voice and with the utmost seriousness, "One day I'll write a book for you before I die." She looked at me, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Write it in a language I can read. Otherwise, I'll come kick your grave. Kameene, yeh kya likh ke mar gaya? Mujhe bhi padhni thi." (You scoundrel, what is this nonsense you wrote and then went and died? I wanted to read it too!) That should give you an idea about the heart of this story. Set in the 2010s Canada, between chai and snow, this is the story of Alizey and Zayan. Zayan didn't believe in marriage. Alizey believed it was sacred. He thought love was like mist, meant to be felt, not seen. She thought he sounded like an overdramatic Victorian novel. They didn't marry for romance. They married for a plan. The arrangement was simple. The feelings were not. What began as a practical agreement, two adults negotiating boundaries, rent, and kitchen duties, slowly turned into something far more unstoppable. Because love, when it finally arrives, doesn't knock politely. It walks in silently and stays. This is a story about marriage before love. Trust before desire. Surrender before confession. And the confounding realisation that sometimes, you don't choose your life partner. You just discover you already have.

Jasmine-a young woman who moves through life around her, yet feels strangely disconnected from her own. Unable to ignore the questions stirring within her, she longs for the freedom and authenticity that have always felt just out of reach-awakening emotions she has long buried. Her journey carries her through growth, faith, and love, testing the walls around her heart and reshaping how she experiences life in the present. Along the way, she comes to understand the identity she has carried for years without realising-the "crying girl"-and must decide how to embrace a life of genuine peace, love, and joy.