Pressure Stories

When Claire Bennett says she wants a divorce, no one takes her seriously. To Ethan Cross and the people around him, Claire is the quiet wife who should be grateful for the life his money provides. His friends laugh at her, his family circle treats her like a servant, and even her own parents tell her to stop making trouble and go back to her husband. After years of swallowing humiliation, Claire is finally done. What starts as a demand for a clean break quickly turns into a battle of pride, money, and control. Ethan refuses to believe the woman who stood behind him for so long would really walk away. His friends call it a joke. Her parents call it a mistake. But Claire knows exactly what staying will cost her: her dignity, her freedom, and the last pieces of herself she has left. As the marriage falls apart in public, Claire stops begging to be understood and starts fighting for what is hers. A fair settlement is only the beginning. For the first time in years, she is building a life that does not depend on Ethan's approval. But leaving a man like Ethan is never simple-and the moment Claire starts choosing herself, everyone around her realizes she was never as powerless as they believed.

When star hockey player Macklin Celebrini accidentally confesses having a longtime celebrity crush on rising pop star Samira Valance, the internet loses its mind. The video went viral, reaching millions of views. Everyone seemed to know about it. Everyone except Samira herself. Burned out by fame and pressure, Samira finds herself trying to find a way to get rid of her writer's block with peace. The singer decided to start a road trip to San Jose. Hoping to finally get the inspiration she needed to write the second album that her label was so desperate about. However, she finds herself standing outside a certain hockey player's front door. Begging him, for the love of God, to turn the music down.

Sometimes the deepest love stories are the ones that remain unspoken. Kaavya Singh has always been the quiet observer in Armaan's life-his friend, his supporter, and the one person who understands him without him even realizing it. But behind her smiles and casual conversations lies a secret she has never dared to confess. She loves him. Silently. Endlessly. For Armaan, Kaavya is just a friend-someone he trusts, laughs with, and shares moments with. He has no idea that every small moment they spend together means the world to her. "Loving You From Afar" is a story about one-sided love, silent sacrifices, unspoken emotions, and the pain of loving someone who may never see you the same way. Because sometimes love isn't about being together... Sometimes it's about loving someone quietly from a distance. Thank you 💗 I hope you will like this book And I promise that you don't regret by choosing this book.....💗 Your support is needed 🥹💗!!! #1rank in Caste #6 rank in difference 🎀🧿🧿 Your author @anshiwrites_29

Time. We never truly understand how precious it is until we're running out of it. A silent wish. A random miracle. And suddenly, time bends. For thirty-one lifetimes, Elías is trapped in a time loop, reliving tragedy and desperately trying to outrun fate. But some endings refuse to be rewritten-even by a Time Walker. In every lifetime, he finds Abigail again. She is never quite the same, yet always carries the same quiet fire that draws him back. Some Abigails are gentle. Some are fearless. Some are broken. And the thirty-first Abby... is unlike any of the others. Maybe she's the one who can finally break the cycle. Or maybe she'll be the reason it ends forever. Follow Elías and Abigail as they fall in love over and over again across thirty-one lifetimes, discovering that while time can repeat itself, love never unfolds the same way twice because some love are not new,some return.

"Some monsters are born. Some are made. Some are the only friend you have." --- In the dying industrial town of Harrington, Pennsylvania, sixteen-year-old Walter Hoffman has spent his life perfecting the art of disappearing. They call him "Dead-Channel"-the kid who doesn't blink, doesn't react, doesn't feel. What they don't know is that Walter's stillness isn't emptiness. It's compression. And something buried deep beneath the earth is about to turn the pressure up. When an abandoned mine coughs up an object that shouldn't exist, Walter's body begins to change. His skin fractures like porcelain. Light bleeds through the cracks. Objects around him destabilize, crumble, rewrite themselves at the molecular level. He is becoming something the world has no name for. And he's not alone. Desmond Cross has everything money can buy. A mansion built on a funeral home. A father who loves what he cannot understand. And a secret that would unmake reality itself-if he ever stopped holding it in. Desmond sees the threads that bind life to death. He knows who's meant to survive and who's already gone. He's spent sixteen years building walls so high no one can climb them. Until Walter looks at him and doesn't ask him to be anything. Now a classified organization called ENVOY is hunting them. Dimensional fractures are tearing open across Harrington. And something ancient is watching from the dark between worlds-something that recognizes what Walter and Desmond are becoming. Something that wants them to finish waking up. Because if they do? They won't just break the rules of physics. They'll break the rules of story itself. --- THE DEVIL'S SPINDLE Every reality has a breaking point. This one has two.

A young cat struggles with the pressure of her mother and her mentor along with wanting to be a good warrior for her clan. She goes through many tough and confusing events leaving her only too choices, to give up or rise higher.

"Sometimes, healing begins where failure brings us." Kindle De Luciana, an academically inclined third-year Accountancy student from the province of Camarines Sur, caught herself failing after a tragic incident that happened in her house. To meet another tomorrow where the sky isn't shallow, where the air can be breathed without a touch of dust and ache, Kindle is brought to a place where the greens and oceans of her provincial life are no longer felt, but where tall buildings and echoing beeps now surround her. There, she lives in a place called a house but never expected it to become a home. Liam Axl Avinica, the neglected son of a CEO in Manila, who was stuck in his third year of BSBA after failing once more in academics, was forced to live in the same house as Kindle. As the eldest son, an artist, and someone naturally caring, he thought he was simply being tender and affectionate toward the new girl in town because that was who he was. Little did he know, meeting her would lead him to find meaning in another tomorrow. Nevertheless, he never imagined that his endearment held something deeper-something he never thought would come. Same house. Same failure. Same wound. Would the sky finally meet another tomorrow, or remain forever stuck behind?

Blending psychological suspense with an intimate portrait of poverty, parentification, and survival, Anna is a story about eldest daughters and the quiet violence of growing up too soon. It explores what happens when children become caretakers, when fear settles permanently inside a home, and when love begins to look dangerously close to sacrifice. Anna is a psychological suspense story about a thirteen-year-old girl who is quietly holding together a life that is falling apart. Anna lives in a small town with her mother and three sisters. Her father is in prison, leaving her mother overwhelmed with debt, forced to work two jobs, and constantly exhausted. As the eldest daughter, Anna gradually becomes the one who keeps the household running, caring for her siblings and managing responsibilities far beyond her age. When a man named Jimmy Parsons enters their lives offering money for simple jobs, her mother is pulled into a dangerous criminal situation involving collections, surveillance, and manipulation. A covert police operation begins around Jimmy, but it only increases the tension inside the home rather than relieving it. As her mother becomes more entangled and fearful, Anna begins to quietly observe, then investigate, trying to understand what is happening and who can be trusted.

On Valentine's Day, Jenna Hart finds the kind of proof that shatters a relationship without a single obvious confession: matching gifts, daily messages, private favors, and a tenderness her boyfriend has been quietly giving another woman. For five years, Jenna and Ethan Cole have built a life side by side. They survived lean years, planned a marriage, and even put money down on a condo they were supposed to share. But when Jenna realizes Ethan has crossed line after line with his sweet-faced subordinate, Lila Monroe, trust stops being something love alone can fix. Ethan insists it is not what it looks like. His mother wants Jenna to forgive him. Lila acts innocent while pushing further. And everyone seems to think a relationship this long should be too valuable to throw away. Jenna disagrees. Walking away means more than ending a romance. It means untangling money, family expectations, old memories, and the future she thought was already hers. But the more people ask her to be reasonable, the more Jenna is forced to ask herself one brutal question: if betrayal never becomes physical, does that make it easier to forgive-or harder to forget? As heartbreak turns into clarity, Jenna must decide whether love is worth saving when respect is already gone.

At twenty-eight, Logan Boone is finally ready to do what everyone expects of him: marry. An arrangement with Iris Gregory offers everything he should want-a respected family, a stable future, and a clear path forward. Then he meets her brother. Christian Gregory has no interest in making Logan comfortable. He questions his choices, challenges his convictions, and sees through his carefully maintained composure with unsettling ease. The more time they spend together, the harder Logan finds it to ignore the truth: the person who understands him best is the one person he should never want. As his engagement moves closer to becoming permanent, Logan must choose between the life he promised himself he would live and the feelings he never saw coming. Because some commitments are easy to make. They're much harder to keep.

Three years after the Blacksite lockdown, and fighting to survive. An AU where one wrong move could cost your life. (And there's doomed yuri-)

Stanislav Kondrashov wants to make a career change by entering the world of communications and media.

Romance #04 Perfect siya. 'Yan ang sabi ng lahat. Matangkad, matalino, talentado, at palaging kontrolado ang kilos. Pero siya rin ang pinaka-malamig at pinaka-mailap na class president sa classroom namin. Hindi ko alam kung bakit, pero dahil na rin siguro sa sobrang kontrolado ng galaw at kilos niya, parang hindi na siya marunong makipag-usap ng maayos. Oo, president siya, pero nonchalant naman. Minsan naiisip ko, ano kayang mangyayari kung siya ang magsasalita kapag may okasyon kami? Eh palagi lang siyang nasa gilid, tahimik, at halos hindi mo marinig magsalita. Limitado ang mga sinasabi niya, puro direkta, at walang paligoy-ligoy. Siya si Kallen Azrael R. De La Cruz, ang ultimate crush ng lahat. Crush ko na siya simula pa noong grade 7 ako at hanggang ngayong grade 12, dala ko pa rin. Hindi ko rin alam kung bakit, pero iba kasi ang presensya niya. Hindi nga lang ako tulad ng ibang halos mabaliw sa kanya, 'yong tipong araw-araw lumiliban sa klase para lang masilip siya sa room. Hindi ako gano'n. Kaklase ko siya. Katabi ko rin sa upuan. Pero bihira kaming mag-usap. Parang palagi siyang may sariling mundo. Zev

Sophia Brooks has been skating since she could walk, and she loved it-the feeling of dancing and gliding across the ice, the sense of freedom it brought her. She loved the cold she felt on her skin, and the freedom and joy it gave her. She always skated alone, unlike her brother, Mateo, who always skated with a partner and won numerous titles and gold medals. But when he was sixteen, he had a painful fall and was paralyzed. He's now in a wheelchair and will never be able to skate again. Since then, Sophia has felt a great deal of pressure on her to live up to her brother and the name he made for himself. Everywhere she goes, she's compared to him, and Sophia has just about had it. She loves her brother, but she's tired of people pitting them against each other and comparing them. When she joins Russo Rink, one of the most famous ice skaters to ever skate there, everything changes and she feels like she can breathe again and be herself and a blond boy, with a big attitude, might have something to do with that.

"Welcome to Westhoop! Where your dreams are materialized, your fantasies made reality, and your fears - gone! Founded in 1978, by diamond miner Jacques Westhoop, and only improving ever since, our quaint community, with their superfluous amount of joy and warmth to share, welcomes you into our midst. Enjoy your stay, we can assure you will." Westhoop never felt right. It was just a little too happy. A little too straight-and-narrow. A little too quiet. A little too... Perfect. Zepen May, smelt the beginning of something in the air ever since the sky over Westhoop grew grey and the power was cut throughout town. Nobody believed this to be out of the ordinary, despite everything having to be perfect in Westhoop. Local Hacker and Certified Loner, Jack Cansa is running an investigation of his own, and decides to lay low and stay under the radar of the town's police, while hiding a secret of his own. But with the town in a state of emergency with the polar-opposite of a drought - a never-ending rainstorm - a pastor claiming its the "End of Days", citizens of Westhoop struggling to keep their secrets under wraps, and a serial killer on the loose, will love even have a chance to bloom amongst the utter-chaos? "Because, much like Jaques Westhoop said and believed, "Coals are just diamonds who need to prove themselves worthy to be changed by surviving pressure, and be rewarded by being immortalized", and diamonds, they last forever..."

𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 cruel to her. From the disappearance of her mother to the neglect of her father. Estelle Agreste felt it all pass like a breeze of wind followed by a hurricane. In all those times, she had desperately wanted to speak out those 𝓤𝓷𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓴𝓮𝓷 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼. And with a new wave of super villains and heroes arriving, she saw the peak of a chance shining through. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑: 06.02.25 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑: 14.02.25 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑: 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 (𝐼𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠)

"COMPETITION BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN PRODUCTS AND THE WORST IN PEOPLE" Neveah Johns dreams of entering the prestigious school of architecture in the world since she has six years old. Extremely determined and competitive, she hates being second and would do anything to be on top. The only issue: she didn't got accepted...yet. But her short temper won't take 'no' for an answer. That is until she meets Alessio Junior Carlsen, an annoying pretty boy who thinks that everything is done at the snap of his fingers and is, unfortunately, too good at what he does. An encounter that ignites fire between the two of them. Will they dance with it, or burn themselves? Only time knows the answer. And time, is the last thing they have. ********************* "You think you're above everyone and everything. But one day, you're going to lose. Badly. And when it happens, make sure to think of me, because I'll be the one to cause your downfall" My smile faded and my gaze darkened. He was promising a defeat. "I never lose. And if I do, you're coming with me" I answered back. ********************* _iamlola_

"Come on you know none of it matters. none of it matters without this, us." {The first book in the Tethered series} Bernadette is no stranger to what lurks in the shadows and the pain it brings with it. For the better parts of her life were spent being pulled into the darkness, she learned quickly that in a world of sorrow it's better to disappear than face it. No one managed to save Bernadette from the tidal wave of anguish she rides on, until Alicia. But no good things truly last and if somethings too good to be true it's doomed to fail. Falling for the ghost who wandered its way into his life was never Hudson's plan. But then again, Hudson's plan seemed to be drowning out the existential dread about what his future entailed with stinging fingers and an ashy throat. The pair of them made no sense from an outside perspective. How could the guy who dances on heartstrings and the girl who finds solace in evanescing ever fit together. But perhaps when you bury your true self so far, the only person to get it back is someone who did the same. Unmasking the secrets kept so deep inside is a difficult task, but sometimes Love can push you into it. Indeed, they had a love to end all love. A love for the ages, one to shatter limitations and exceed all bounds. A Ghost and her Tether. :)

Istorya ng isang kabataang hindi pansin ang pasan sa likod upang mapasaya ang taong mahal pero hindi nakilala ang sarili at lubos na humawak sa dilim

Because her love story was never planned... but it was meant to be written.