Forgiveness Stories

A Dying Villainess

Riley doesn't remember the last time someone asked if she was okay. Not really asked. Not in the way that meant they were going to stay for the answer. She is seventeen years old and she has already learned the most important lesson this town has to offer - that people leave. They leave with promises folded neatly in their pockets, with good intentions they fully mean at the time, with duffel bags and bus tickets and fifteen days that turn into three years without a single word. They leave, and the ones left behind learn to stop waiting by the window. They learn to stop setting an extra plate. They learn to breathe around the absence until the absence just becomes the air. Riley works the late shift. She carries drinks to tables without being asked twice. She doesn't flinch at loud voices anymore. She doesn't cry at things that used to make her cry. She has become very good at being invisible in a room full of people - and even better at being invisible to herself. This is not the life she imagined. But it is the life she has. And she has made her peace with it, quietly, the way you make peace with things you never had a choice about. She is not waiting for anyone anymore. She stopped doing that a long time ago. Until the night a familiar face walks through the door - and three brothers who left her behind must now face what their absence built. Because blood doesn't forget. And neither does Riley.

My Last Rites My Brother Performed My Last Rites While I Was Still Alive. At fifteen, I was called a monster for a crime I never committed. My family performed my last rites and declared me dead while I was still alive. I begged them to stop. No one listened. I begged them to believe me. No one did. At sixteen, I watched the same ritual with numb detachment. At seventeen, I stopped caring. At eighteen, I watched it with amusement. Because I knew... It would be the last of my last rites I would ever witness. I laughed. Because I knew the next funeral would be real.

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.

When Liz Charleston's ex-best friend suddenly returns with a plan to take revenge on her, drama seems inevitable - but who knew revenge could be so handsome? ***** Two years ago Liz Charleston made the biggest mistake of her life by rejecting her best friend, the only guy she has ever cared about. Desperate to become popular and join the junior varsity cheerleading team, she breaks his heart. Two years later, Frank is back, transformed into Taylor Blackstone, the new kid from New York who has it all. He's taller, stronger and hotter than ever, with a long line of girls that have no idea who he really is - except Liz, the girl who betrayed him two years ago. And he is determined to make her regret ever pushing him away. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

𝑲𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒌𝒂 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑼𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒑𝒖𝒓. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚. 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅, 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆. 𝑻𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅-𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉-𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒐𝒐.

For centuries, the Fire Kingdom prospered beneath the Great Phoenix of Wisdom, whose sacred flames protected the realm. To defend the kingdom, the Phoenix chose four legendary protectors known as the Archons: Azar, leader of the Crimson Flame; Helios, wielder of the Golden Flame; Seraphina, mistress of the Azure Flame; and Edana, the youngest bearer of the forbidden Black Flame. While Azar, Helios, and Seraphina were celebrated as heroes, Edana was feared because of the ancient legends surrounding her power. Though she remained loyal, she was constantly overlooked, treated like the youngest of the team, and never truly accepted as an equal. Broken by years of rejection, Edana left the Fire Kingdom and built her own empire, taking the title Queen Black Fire. When the Archons found her, they discovered that her Black Flame had grown stronger than all three of their sacred flames combined. After their defeat, the Great Phoenix revealed a truth hidden for centuries: the Black Flame was never a curse. It was the kingdom's greatest safeguard and the most important of all the sacred flames. But the revelation came too late. The Fire Kingdom had already lost the one protector it needed most. Archons of Fury is a tale of friendship, betrayal, and heartbreak, where the world's greatest hero becomes its greatest loss-not because she chose darkness, but because no one chose her.

Maggie, a 22 year old is almost done with college, and with summer approaching she can't wait to spend it with her friends. That is until a Mystery Man decided to just help her get something off the top shelf at the grocery store and soon everything seems to crumble around her. But could this actually be good? If you want to see their world collide, read me and I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed. Author's Note: I'll be posting as much as possible and at least once a week. 🥰 (No smut) With that said enjoy "The M in Mafia" ♡ Rankings🤍 #1 in dark romance - 29/08/2023 🥹 #1 in adulthood - 09/11/2023 #86 in books - 27/03/2024 #1 in fake friends - 27/07/2024 + 15/05/2025 #1 in dark - 18/08/2024 #1 in crush - 04/09/2024 #2 in boss - 07/09/2024 #4 in rich - 11/09/2024 #5 in mafia - 25/02/2025 😭🖤 #1 in boss - 25/02/2025 #1 in don - 13/03/2025 🥹 #1 in relationship - 11/11/2025 🤍🥹 #2 in book - 12/02/2026 🫶🏻 #1 in mafia romance - 13/02/2026 #1 in capo - 16/02/2026 #4 in danger - 15/05/2026

Meera has always found comfort in books, quiet evenings, and the small joys of life. But after an unexpected marriage to Aarav, a man whose heart belongs to someone else, she finds herself living beside someone who cannot yet see the love she quietly offers him. Their marriage begins with distance, resentment, and words that leave wounds neither can easily forget. Yet slowly, through ordinary moments-shared books, rainy evenings, laughter, and countless little acts of kindness-Aarav begins to discover the woman he had failed to notice. A story about regret, forgiveness, second chances, and the quiet kind of love that remains forever.🥹🤍📖🌸☺️

After returning from Rome to the San Fernando Valley. Stevon and Johnny Lawrence decide the Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai students need a break. They surprise everyone with a massive Carnival Cruise vacation. Master Kenji Vance, a seemingly polite martial arts instructor who secretly orchestrates a plot to destroy the Valley dojos from international waters.

Like sitting in the opticians chair - "Better 1 ... or 2?"- my life has become a series of new lenses, each correcting, enhancing, removing the distortions, enabling me to see who I was always intended to be. Come, tag along with me on my journey of discovery as step by excruciating step, I find the real me hidden inside the skewed images the world has reflected back to me. Perhaps you'll discover something new about yourself, as well. This is the story of my life, told through my eyes at the time it happened. Actual journal entries and poems I wrote in those moments are mixed with story-telling and exploring my own inner world as I walk you through the journey that has been my life. I don't ask you to like me. But perhaps there is something in my story that will encourage you to be all that you are supposed to be. I hope so.

Goodbye was never the end of us-it was only the beginning of forever.

SMUT: ⯋ (implied) He'll give him everything. He was never meant to keep it. - - - - - - - - - Lee Felix, the poor son of the Lee family, lost his heart to the stranger who stepped into the convenience store. Hwang Hyunjin, son of a man who values power over people, was sent to steal the Lee family's secret. No matter what. Boys raised as weapons don't get second chances. Love is just another weapon. And still, he'll reach for the Sun. Even if they're on opposite sides. Some people only love you when you're-- Necessary.

He was a game for her. She was his saviour. Dhruv, a quiet, grounded soul with a painful past, never believed in love until Mishti stormed into his life fiery, bold,extrovet and full of secrets. She pulled him out of the darkness, made him believe in happiness again. To him, she was everything his light, his saviour. But what happens when the truth shatters his world? Dhruv discovers he was just a part of a cruel game Mishti played a pawn in her twisted plan for revenge. The girl he loved with every heartbeat had betrayed him in the most unimaginable way. Will his love be strong enough to forgive her? Will she be able to prove that somewhere along the line, the game turned into something real? Or will the pain tear them apart forever? In a tale of betrayal, redemption, and fate will destiny make them or destroy them? will their story get happy ending or tragic ending...

From the shadows of yesterday, a quiet garden blooms.

Funny how people say, "You'll find your true love in the end." But what if it's true love for you... and nothing for them? One-sided love sounds thrilling - until it drowns you. The pain is unbearable. The survivors? Hollow, breathing, pretending. You wanna know the depths? Dive in.

What if you are unknowingly best friends with your biggest hater? Olive James is a popular content creator on a video platform, MyTube. When her father left the family. Her mom becomes depressed and neglects her and her disabled sister, Evie. Olive takes over as her sister's main caretaker. She also has to help pay some of the bills. Olive tries to make extra money by streaming. Fortunately for her, she is successful with a million followers. Going by the online name SlickChic, Olive streams gaming and other fun content. To keep her identity hidden, Olive wears a wig and heavy make up. Zachary Easton is her biggest hater. He has his own MyTube channel, a commentary channel. Going by the name No_name. His main target on his page is his distain for SlickChic. This leads his followers into hating her as well. However, he never reveals his identity online. Zach is transferred to a new school. Zach gets quickly popular amongst the other student. He then is drawn to Olive, the girl whom everyone from school seems to hate. Zach slowly befriends her. The more time he is with her, the stronger the connection he has towards her. Little does he realize that she is the very content creator he despises. __ A TEGSA 2026 entry. Prompt info is at the end of each chapter. Each chapter will have more than 500 words. Frequent updates and editing.

Fifteen years ago, Elara and Zayn were everything to each other. It began the way the best love stories do-with teasing and stolen glances, late-night conversations that stretched into dawn, a friendship that turned into something neither of them saw coming. They grew up together. They loved together. They dreamed of a life together. Until they didn't. Somewhere between first love and forever, things started to unravel-jealousy crept in, misunderstandings piled up, and two people who once knew each other's hearts by heart started speaking a language of hurt instead. They made mistakes they didn't know how to fix. And eventually, love-the thing that was supposed to be enough-wasn't. So they let go. Nine years passed. Elara rebuilt herself, piece by piece. She became a teacher, chased new horizons, collected new memories, and told herself, again and again, that Zayn was simply a chapter she'd already closed. Then, on an ordinary day, her phone lights up with five words that undo nine years in an instant: "Hi, Elara. Can we meet?" And just like that, the past she buried comes knocking. The boy she remembers is gone. In his place is a man shaped by everything that came after her. And the girl he left behind? She's gone too-rebuilt into someone stronger, wiser, harder to reach. But when two people who once loved each other are given a second chance to look at one another again, one question refuses to stay buried: What if they still love each other? What if the problem was never the love itself-but the people they were when they held it? And what if, after everything, they're finally ready to hold it differently? Maybe some love stories don't end. Maybe they just wait-for both people to grow into who they needed to be to finally get it right. What if we are ready now?

Ava's childhood love for Wyatt was pure- until he destroyed it. When her deepest feelings were exposed and mocked, Wyatt didn't just reject her. He humiliated her. Made sure she knew she was nothing to him. Years later, fate forces them back into each other's lives. Wyatt doesn't remember her at first. But the girl who once looked at him with devotion now stares at him with ice in her eyes. And the more she pushes him away, the harder he falls. The tables have turned. Now, he's the one desperate for her attention. Now, she's the one with all the power. Ava swore she'd never forgive him. But as Wyatt tries to prove he's changed, she's torn between the past that broke her and the boy who might finally deserve her. Will hatred win? Or is love stronger than memory?

Myra has never believed in spirits. She certainly doesn't believe in Eya, the mysterious FirstHeart said to have given life to all living beings. Nor does she believe in Guardians, wandering spirits, or the Silent Door waiting at the end of every life. Not anymore. After losing both of her parents without the promised farewell of the Parting Light, Myra has learned to trust only what she can see, what she can understand, and what she can control. Then, one ordinary day, she sees someone who should not be there. Adrian. A man she remembers from years ago. A man who insists he may be dead. Except Adrian isn't dead. As Myra is reluctantly drawn into a world of lingering spirits, unfinished farewells, and secrets hidden behind an ancient belief she once abandoned, she begins to discover that death is not always the end-and staying is not always an act of love. Some souls remain because they cannot let go. Some remain because someone else cannot. And somewhere beyond the Silent Door lies a truth Myra has spent years refusing to hear: Sometimes, loving someone means holding on. Sometimes, it means letting them go.