Work Stories

"Bridget Jones with a lot more wine! This story is hilarious, feel-good and relatable in all the best ways!" - Grace K @ HQ. She's just quit her high-flying job, and her marriage is coasting on fumes. Can Alice find a sense of purpose in the wreckage? ***** Alice's life isn't going to plan. She's tied to her phone, pointlessly managing PR for a sinking corporate megalith. She's become a bit player in her kids' lives, and her marriage is coasting on fumes. Forcing herself into action with a rash resignation, Alice sets out to make a positive impact on the world around her. But how? Meditation leads to napping, and her attempts to get closer to her teenage daughter result in the discovery of a secret that leaves her at a loss. As the months tick by and a sense of purpose continues to elude her, Alice finds herself forming bonds with the most unlikely characters: the young woman who panhandles outside her old office; the homeless boy who sits cross-legged outside the liquor store with his ginger cat; her own dog walker who, it turns out, knows a thing or two about developing a good crema. Testing the limits of marriage, motherhood and the Toronto subway system -- can Alice find her way into a purpose-driven life? Or will it all be one giant hangover? [*Wattpad Editor's Pick 2018*] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] Readers say: "This had me laughing so loud that my sister came to check up on me to see if I'm OK!!!" "...the new Bridget Jones, a working woman's take on the digital age." About the Author: Working mother and red wine enthusiast, Renee lives in Toronto with her flawed but wonderful family (seriously, who left socks on the kitchen counter?) in a flawed but wonderful house (what *is* that smell in the basement?) where she writes flawed but wonderful stories about what it is to be a woman today.

Aarvish sees Khushi as chaotic, unserious, and distracting. Khushi sees him as robotic, arrogant, boring CEO who probably breathes spreadsheets. They clash instantly: She talks too much. He talks only when necessary. She laughs at everything. He barely smiles. He lived by rules. She never followed one

She's brilliant at her job, but outside the garage, her past never lets her rest. He's the world champion driver who seems to have it all. Late nights on the pit lane bring more than just data and setups-they bring quiet confessions, trust, and feelings neither of them expected. A slowburn romance between an engineer running from her past and the driver who might be the one to help her finally breathe.

The thoughts of a girl who felt unseen and ignored for most of her life. Not just by others, but by herself as well. See how she attempts to undo the hurt of being unseen and not ignore the experience that is living within her body.

He asked me to marry him. I said no. Three months later, everything fell apart. Two years later, he's dead - and the last words I ever said to him still haunt me. "I hate you." Now grief follows me like a shadow, and guilt keeps me awake at night. I would give anything for one more chance. One more conversation. One more moment. But some wishes don't come without consequences. Because when the past refuses to stay buried... I start to understand something terrifying. He didn't just come back. He came back for me.

A bastard-born maid enters the grand Wilson household, expecting only silence and servitude. But Lord Wilson's gaze lingers too long, his interest too dangerous for a married man. What begins as quiet tension soon ignites into something forbidden-hidden behind closed doors and fragile reputations. Because in a house built on secrets, desire is the most dangerous one of all.

Welcome, this book will mostly be about myself, any new books you should watch out for that I write, book reviews, anything random.

Sa isang malaking kumpanya sa Makati, sanay na si Joshua Lim sa tahimik at maayos na takbo ng team nila. Bilang newly hired assistant, dumaan siya sa adjustments, overtime, at pressure-pero unti-unti na siyang nagiging komportable sa current manager at sa mga ka-team niya na parang pamilya na rin ang turingan. Pero isang announcement ang magbabago sa lahat. "Next month, we will be welcoming our new department manager-Kyle Ramirez." Simula noon, parang rollercoaster na ang lahat-mixed emotions, office tension, silent competitions, at mga desisyong pwedeng magpabago ng career at puso. Sino nga ba si Kyle? Mabait ba siyang leader o magiging dahilan ng pagkawatak-watak ng team? At paano haharapin ni Joshua ang mga pagbabago-lalo na kung may kakaibang koneksyon siyang mararamdaman sa bagong manager? Isang kwento ng ambition, loyalty, pressure, at damdaming hindi inaasahan. Let's read the story as it unfolds.

Genre: Slow Burn • High Tension • LGBTQ+ Romance • Workplace Mayra Khanna, 24, a shy yet quietly confident HR executive at Beaumont Group of Industries, prefers silence over attention. Half-Indian, 5'5", with curly hair and brown eyes, she keeps her bisexuality and emotions carefully hidden. Ashley Beaumont, 30, the powerful Managing Director, is everything Mayra is not. Canadian, 5'8", with honey-brown eyes, short brunette hair, Ashley is confident, dominating, and strictly professional. A lesbian with absolute control over her world. When their paths collide, professionalism turns fragile. Unspoken tension builds. Boundaries blur. A slow-burning connection begins dangerous, intense, and impossible to ignore.

Ofell Ember has always lived by one quiet rule: you can tell what kind of person someone is by the way they treat animals. As a graduating nursing student with a heart that beats for every fragile life she holds-patients, her dog, her cat-she built her world around care, empathy, and certainty. Then she meets Rhan. A veterinarian. Gentle. Attentive. Someone who understands the same language of compassion she's always believed in. With him, everything feels aligned. Parang finally, someone who fits not just her standards... but her heart. But not everything that feels right is easy to hold onto. What if the things you're most sure about are the very things that start to blur? What if loving the same things doesn't mean loving the same way? At kung ang taong akala mong sagot... unti-unting nagiging tanong, ikaw ba ang dapat magbago o siya? 1st week Rankings: #1 - kiligmoments #2 - chances #3 - self-development #3 - flawedcharacters Tysm💗!

The world is filled with magic, gold, warriors, mages, tamers, guilds, castles and royalty. I was born between a warrior and a beast tamer. My mother retires guild work and opened a tavern, as my father gained more experience and rank within the guild. My parents had five children including me, and were raised within a close community with cousins aunts and uncles. I have three older brothers and a older sister. Two of my brothers are warriors wielding swords and axes, my third brother and my sister are both beast tamers with three pets following their orders. I have twelve older cousins six warriors, four mages and two beast tamers. I was babied by my whole family, but I am determined to prove everyone wrong and become stronger than anyone could believe. I want to train, fight and enter dungeons. One day I will be the best adventurer my town have ever seen!

The creator of a 26th century matchmaker is anti-romantic, but when an analyst challenges her views, she relives painful memories, exposing her technology's flaws and threatening her identity. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Kayla Lacson believes that love is a biological equation that can be solved. She is the brilliant mind behind Dorothea, the most advanced AI dating application of the 26th-century, designed to calculate compatibility with extraordinary precision. Kayla's world is crafted in data, logic, and predictable outcomes. That is, until Mathew Matel, a Behavioral Analyst whose brilliance matches hers, joins her team and challenges her views. When Dorothea's latest revision loses public trust and corporate pressure mounts, he becomes the catalyst that forces Kayla to confront buried trauma, uncovering the flaws of her creation and fracturing her carefully structured reality. Despite Dorothea's calculation of their incompatibility, Kayla finds herself drawn to Mathew. Flashes of his face begin to haunt her as she tries to unravel his unexplainable familiarity. And when her very identity is threatened by tangled feelings, she must decide whether love is something to manipulate or something to surrender to. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Written for ONC 2026 ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Genres: Romance SciFi Speculative Fiction Unconventional SciFi Hard SciFi Slow Burn Romance

Samskriti doesn't believe in love, but she does believe in good outfits, loud weddings, and stealing the spotlight on the dance floor. While Pavish believes in responsibility, family, and complicating life with anything but the contracted arrangement of marriage. What would happen if two different individuals with different beliefs agree themselves on a pact to satisfy their own reasons. Especially if one of them breaks the pact. When an arranged marriage proposal ties their families together, what was supposed to be simple becomes anything but, especially when love, distrust, past wounds show up Because while Sam and Pavish are busy pretending this is just practical... Drishya and Vikash are discovering that love has its own timing - and its own drama. Two strangers crossing lines. Between wedding preparations, late-night arguments, laughter that lingers too long, and tension that feels a little too personal, four lives begin to intertwine in ways none of them planned. After all, sometimes life is arranged. A Shaadi where Love was unwelcomed. And Drama that definitely shows up with the calm colliding with chaos and tensions that charge the air around. But Fate? It writes its own script.

Ashley, a young, blonde, and beautiful woman, began committing crimes at the age of 15. Since then, she found a twisted passion in hurting people: their feelings, their relationships, even their lives. James, a young, desperate, and lonely man, always dreamed of jumping off a roof and restarting his life from scratch. Unfortunately, he has to finish writing his book first, his parents invested a lot in this project. Both of them are trapped in a vicious cycle: One can't stop destroying her life, it's too late for her to turn back. The other believes everything is already broken beyond repair, without even trying to chase his dreams. It will surely end badly... if nothing changes, if no one helps them. Right? But what if... they meet?

مرح رغم تعظيم الحب في الافلام و المسلسلات الا اني لم اقدر أن أرى اهميته كما يحاولون رسمها ففي عالمي هناك ما هو أهم ما هو اعظم كالعائلة الاصدقاء و حياتي المهنية لا أعتقد أن هناك ما يعلو على هذه أهمية و في مقابل محافظاتي على عائلتي كان علي أن اخضع الظروف واقبل العمل معه من اقسم عقلي على كرهه امير جوسي امير حين تسلب كل ما تملك في عمر صغير سيسطر على عقلك هدف واحد الحصول على كل ما سلب مني و اكثر وفي حين اني حققت الاصدقاء و المال الا اني لا ازال أشعر بالنقص افتقد الحنان الانثوي الذي لم أحصل عليه وأنا فاقد الام حلي الاخير هو الحبيبة لكن قلبي يأبى ان يلين لأي فتاة . سوا واحدة من رفضها عقلي مرح التفاحي اعداء الى احباء أمل ان يعجبكم الجزء الثاني من سلسلة ما وراء القلوب لا مشكلة من قرأته منفردا الحوار في الفصحى يخلى من المشاهد الجنسية

Amelia feels as if she is drowning in the pain of her best friend's death, a death she feels at fault for. To survive, she must beg her neighbors for work, doing unfavorable jobs for small pay. With a distant family and little hope, Amelia finds herself wondering why she tries as hard as she does. When the head of a guild set his eyes on Amelia, looking for much more than manual labor, she finds herself saved by the person she least expected. Maybe Amelia has one more chance to find not only happiness, but love. Excerpt: "His eyes, full of fear and pain, bore into mine that night as three arrows found their way into his body. Three arrows meant for me. His mother had screamed at me, stricken with devastation as she threw her body over her only son, to get the doctor, run for help. I was stuck to the earth, wishing that Andrew wasn't. My sister had run for help, but it was too late. Three crooks had killed my best friend because he was in the way of their target, and I would never get to tell him how much he meant to me. "

Once, Aren lived by the sword. Every battle took something from him-his sleep, his smile, his reason to live. Tired of war, Aren abandons violence and walks into a quiet land known as Windland, a place ruled not by kings, but by seasons. There, he learns to farm, to listen to the wind, and to heal wounds that no medicine could touch. Through broken soil and slow days, he discovers that peace is harder than war-and far more meaningful. In Windland, Aren meets Lina, a woman whose strength lies not in weapons, but in patience. As crops grow, so does love-soft, hesitant, and real. Together, they face hunger, memories of bloodshed, and a world that still believes power comes from violence. This is not a story about conquest. It is a story about choosing not to fight. A chapter-by-chapter journey of farming, love, redemption, and quiet strength, Windland: Where the Soil Learns Peace explores what it truly means to be strong in a world that only respects war.

❤️🩹Masa lalu Dirgantara akhirnya kembali. Namun Kirana selama ini menyimpan sebuah rahasaia tentang penyakit kanker otaknya, tidak ada yang tahu kecuali Dirgantara seorang. Walaupun dunia menjauhin darinya, tetapi Dirgantara tidak akan meninggalkannya untuk berjuang bersama sama melawan penyakit itu sendirian. Semua inti Thunder Shadows dan Revan selalu ada untuknya, namun siapa yang benar-benar mencintai dan bisa mendapatkan hati seorang Kirana? 💫 Apakah persahabatan dan cinta bisa mengungkapkan rahasia yang masih setia mengawasi mereka? Akankah penyakit itu mengubah hidup Kirana selamanya? ✨Ini adalah kisah tetang, cinta, luka, rahasia dari dua sejoli

Some love stories begin with the wrong truth. She wasn't looking for a savior. He became her undoing. Between the silence and the secrets, something bloomed.

Minho never expected college to feel like stepping into a new life. He planned on quiet mornings, pink sweaters, sketchbooks filled with half-finished ideas, and a tiny dorm that smelled like laundry detergent and freedom. He didn't plan on him. Professor Hwang Hyunjin wasn't just another instructor on campus. He was a name spoken with respect, a presence that made rooms fall silent, a figure as precise and untouchable as the art he created. Strict. Sharp. Controlled. The kind of man who lived behind rules and expected others to follow them. Minho was supposed to be just one more student in a crowded room. But from the moment their eyes met- from the second Minho saw the way Hyunjin looked at him like he was something worth studying- everything tilted. A student shouldn't look at his professor like that. A professor shouldn't look back. Yet they fall into a game neither of them names: stares held too long, breaths caught too easily, careful steps across a line neither of them should cross. It's messy. It's fragile. And sometimes, it's the one thing that can ruin everything. This is a story about want disguised as curiosity, rules bent under pressure, emotions that grow in the quiet moments, and two people trying-and failing-to pretend they don't feel what they shouldn't.