Chase

The Infected Kneel and Wait for My Orders

You are Leocadia Catesby, a 28-year-old combat interpreter stranded in an infected village. Leon S. Kennedy reaches the square just as the infected surrounding you kneel and wait for your orders. An instruction can open an escape route, but each one sends a signal farther than the village. Ada Wong offers transport to a buyer who claims to understand your condition. Luis Serra identifies a parasite that is using your voice as an authority channel. The rescue convoy approaching the safe zone may be part of the trap. You remain free to speak, stay silent, negotiate or search for another route. Trace the command source, separate actual survivors from the staged rescue, and stop the enemy from using your orders to deliver a larger swarm into safety.

Jon Rescues Me from Execution

You are Pernella Hollingsworth, a 32-year-old city-wall sentry condemned on the execution platform. Jon Snow has just cut your bonds when the city lord seals the gates and declares your rescuer a traitor. Below the rampart, familiar uniforms conceal unfamiliar guards. Their banners are changing before the crowd has understood why. You know the watches well enough to spot a substitution that Jon cannot. Tormund is holding the gate approach; Davos is watching the wall signals. Lord Melchior Isherwood needs the city to remember a prison raid instead of a coup. A route out may save lives now. A public challenge may expose the replacement troops before their story hardens. Neither settles what happened to the loyal garrison. The rescue is only the beginning: recover the hostages, reclaim the defenses and trace the alliance that paid for the change of flags.

I Am the Only Survivor of the Beauty Show

You are Undine Norwood, a 28-year-old replacement runway model who refused the show’s required beauty injection. The first walk begins while you are backstage, and the models on the runway collapse one after another. Cooper Madsen demands a shutdown. Jordan Bennett finds that the syringe assigned to you was substituted separately. Jeremy admits he was told to watch your response. Refusal did not remove you from the experiment: someone expected it and counted a non-injected survivor as another result. You are the only surviving model from this show’s scheduled lineup, not the only living person in the building. The investigators and Jeremy are alive. Find other comparison groups beyond the venue, preserve what can establish the backstage trial and create room for the victims' testimony. Survival does not make you responsible for proving the crime alone.

Neal Stole My Engagement Ring

You are Eudora Whitcomb, 29, an art conservator on the eve of your engagement celebration. Neal Caffrey has stolen the ring, and your fiance's furious reaction suggests the theft exposed more than a piece of jewelry. Neal discovered that Godric Vale used a false ownership-authentication claim bearing your professional name to obtain a collector's ring, then arranged a fake restoration appointment to bring the owner to tomorrow's celebration. The ring is a genuine jewel with a false ownership story. Peter wants it surrendered as evidence; Mozzie knows where the switched presentation box came from. Elizabeth notices that Godric is more worried about tomorrow's public announcement than the missing stone. Neal promises to return what belongs to you and then suggests the next proposal could come from someone else. His attraction does not excuse his theft or his delayed warning. You can demand the ring, expose the scheme, protect your practice, end or question the engagement, and decide whether Neal earns any trust. The caper continues through a gallery handover, an independent appraisal and a public restoration of your name.

KENDALL CHOSE ME OVER HIS INHERITANCE

You are Kendall Roy's fiancée. When Logan makes the wedding the price of an inheritance, Kendall chooses you in front of the family—without knowing your new shares could decide the company's next leader. You are a 35-year-old American investment principal engaged to Kendall Roy in this alternate continuity. The engagement is an established background commitment, not consent to a wedding date or to tonight's gestures. Through a separately financed fund you acquired a 6.4 percent voting block in Waystar from an exiting outside investor. Kendall does not yet know the holding. You may decide how to disclose it, vote, and define the relationship. No new player name is assigned. Your independent holding will be disclosed tomorrow. Over five days, family loyalty, corporate governance, and the engagement will come under separate tests; your vote is not a proof of love.

Five Demon Lords Owe Me Five Years

You are a contract auditor celebrating your thirty-second birthday. Five demon lords have arrived claiming each spent a year as your lover, and you remember none of them. Each brings a real keepsake: a memory pendant, a gem, a dream ribbon, a stopped watch and a dance token. Arnold Bellamy says five separate years were taken through repeated charges on one old transaction. Arsen Carver paid for a collection he did not question, Artem Delaney preserved a dream, August Ellery kept the missing intervals, and Augustus Fenwick knows the transaction never transferred your future affection. You can pursue your stolen time before deciding whether to know any of them again. A recovered memory is information, not renewed consent. The candlelit reunion begins with five claims on the past and no claim on your next choice.

My Groom's Family Shares One Mind

You are Irina Fairchild, a 30-year-old bride-to-be engaged to Janek Hawthorne. Before your wedding, his family begins moving as one, and a gesture meant only for you travels through five different bodies. Janek has never known complete mental privacy. His father Jaromir, older brother Jeroen, uncle Josef, and cousin Juan share a hereditary consciousness that repeats impulses and leaks memories. They remain five people with separate wishes; their family's rituals have taught them to call the interference unity. Juan has found a brief way to disconnect. The empty space he leaves in their rhythm reveals a fact Janek did not tell you: an old wedding ritual is intended to extend the network to a spouse. You have never consented to that, and an engagement cannot supply consent in your place. Janek is your only romantic partner in this story. His relatives may help, resist, or disagree as family. You can cancel the wedding, insist on privacy first, support a voluntary exit experiment, or leave the family to solve its own network. None of those choices belongs to the shared mind.

Obsession He Wished Away My No

You are Nikki,25, a music-store employee. Your childhood friend Bear bought a One Wish Willow and wished for your love. Now your phone contains affectionate messages you do not remember sending, and every recording of your attempt to say no plays back as yes. Bear calls it a miracle. You need to find out how much of your life it has already rewritten. At the shop, you find the broken twig in his discarded carton. Ian, Bear's closest friend, has saved an uncut recording. Your coworker Sarah still has a message you sent before the wish, when you were planning a job interview outside town. Her father Carter, the store owner, recognizes the box and suddenly wants the stock cupboard left shut. You have a place to begin: make Bear tell you what he asked for, compare the messages and recover the missing packaging. But a voice buried in the playback offers an easier escape: make someone else love you instead. Following its advice could turn another person into the next victim. Recover your own memories, test which choices the wish cannot overwrite and decide who can help without speaking for you. Breaking its hold is only the beginning. There are other boxes in circulation, a future you nearly abandoned, and a friend who must face what he chose to do. You decide whether Bear has any place in that future. An unofficial alternate story inspired by Obsession. The investigation, survival route and wish-breaking rules are original inventions.

Five Gods Crash My Breakup Dinner

You are Carmen Ivers, 31, a climate mediator who invited your thunder-god boyfriend to dinner to discuss ending the relationship. Four other gods arrive with gifts, and their rivalry turns the weather outside the restaurant dangerously strange. Cyril Yardley hears his thunder reflected back through the city. Rain god Cyrus Abbott notices rain becoming sleet before it reaches the ground. Frost god Czeslaw Beckett recognizes a maintenance fault he postponed. Wind god Dieter Calder knows where the air ducts connect, while sun god Dimitri Dalton has a reserve of heat he cannot safely release alone. Their emotions are being amplified by a weather apparatus that should have protected the city. You can ask them to stop competing, separate the emergency from dinner, bring in independent technicians or leave. Restoring safe weather must never depend on staying with Cyril or choosing one of the gods.

Addicted to Dreams

You have been dreaming about him for ninety-two nights. Ninety-two nights of burning houses, drowning lakes, and endless corridors, all of them lit by the same grief, a grief that is not yours yet leaves your sheets soaked and your heart hammering when you wake. You have drawn his face a hundred times in your sleep journal: dark hair, storm-gray eyes, a jaw carved from ice and old sorrow. A face you have never seen in daylight and know better than your own reflection. Last night, for the first time, he reached out. His fingers closed around your wrist with a pressure that felt painfully real, and he whispered your name like a prayer. He knows you. This morning the rain falls over Portland's Pearl District, and you are wiping the counter of The Grind when you look up. He is sitting at the corner table below your apartment, coat damp, sketchbook open, pen moving across the page. He raises his head, and his storm-gray eyes lock onto yours with a recognition that should be impossible. He is drawing your face. Your phone buzzes with a message from your best friend Maya, and beneath it, from an unknown number, three words that stop your breath: I SEE YOU TOO.

My Boyfriend My Sugar Daddy and My Best Friend Have a Group Chat

You are Vera, a 22-year-old event design postgraduate. Your boyfriend, your sugar daddy and your best friend have a group chat without you. It began as a graduation party surprise. Now the messages discuss which job offer you should accept, who should pay your next rent and how to keep you from moving away. Your relationships with Nico and Dominic are openly nonexclusive; neither is discovering the other tonight. What you never agreed to was a private committee arranging your future. Saskia started the chat to coordinate the party, then shared the overseas job offer you had told her about in confidence. At the mini-golf venue you rented for a trial event, Saskia's tablet lights up with a message about persuading you to stay. Nico admits he asked for advice because he feared distance. Dominic has drafted a local work proposal you never requested. Saskia insists she was protecting a friendship that suddenly felt temporary. You have eight days to answer the job offer and finish your graduation event. Decide what stays private, which plans should be undone and whether any of these relationships can make room for the future you choose. The first task is simple: stop the three of them explaining over one another and ask who decided you needed managing.

The Last Train Will Not Stop

You are Rachel Henshaw, a 30-year-old night-shift nurse, on the last metro train as it races past every stop. The young driver who usually waits for your late connection is asking through the cab intercom whether you are all right. Ethan has found a braking fault. The only other passenger, Neville, carries an old ticket for a closed branch and recognizes the tunnel the train is heading toward. His knowledge may help, but he has not yet explained why he knows a route no longer on the passenger map. Answer the voice that remembers your stop, speak to Neville or help keep the small group calm while the driver and control room seek a safe place to halt. You do not have to become anybody's rescuer to deserve a way home.

My Stunt Double Boyfriend

You are Abigail Mercer, a 30-year-old action actress publicly dating your leading man, Denzel Carver. The man who keeps catching you safely between takes is his stunt double, Donovan Rourke—and some of your boyfriend's most tender public moments were performed by Donovan. Denzel is affectionate when cameras turn on and distant when they turn off. Donovan checks your landing, remembers your tea, and never mistakes a scripted embrace for permission. After a difficult stunt, he offers his spare jacket and finally asks whether you notice him when he is not wearing someone else's face. The production has one week left. An old promotional clip, a small scar, and a familiar joke may expose how far the substitution went. Denzel wants to tell his side before the clip spreads. Donovan wants to stop being useful enough to hide and invisible enough to lose. You can challenge the public relationship, keep work separate, ask for an honest conversation, or walk away from both men. Being rescued on set does not make your heart part of the job.

I Funded a Movie Star

You are Bridget Calloway, a 30-year-old independent producer who put your savings into a film with a struggling actor. On the first day of shooting, you discover that Barnaby Redmond is the award-winning star who disappeared from public life. He can repay the money. He will not explain why he chose bad coffee and borrowed equipment over a return to fame. Your financial partner, Gordon Fenwick, recognizes the risk in that silence, while Barnaby stays after wrap to make sure you are not carrying the whole film alone. Decide what truth you need to keep working together, what help you actually want, and whether there can be a personal connection that neither money nor secrecy buys.

Bound to the Tycoon

You are Clara Hayes, twenty-nine, contract surgeon at a top Manhattan firm, and the tycoon you took this merger to destroy has locked the door and slid you the original bill of sale for Hayes Technologies: your father did not sell, he was forced, and Blackwood money did the forcing. Alistair Blackwood, thirty-eight, runs Blackwood Technologies; his father's hostile takeover ten years ago bankrupted your single parent. You took the merger to dismantle his empire from the inside. Except he hired you on purpose: he recognized your name and bet you are the only lawyer sharp enough to find the loophole that lets him legally hand his company back to you. He has spent a decade gathering proof that his father bribed a notary to forge the sale, evidence hidden to shield you. Every ally holds a file on you: your best friend Olivia guards a secret letter that could ruin her, the retired intelligence broker called The Archivist sells everyone's secrets at a price, Detective Jameson Reed warns you over coffee, and a leak in your firm feeds your strategy to the enemy. The merger might be a trap built to bury you both. It began on the fiftieth floor of Blackwood Tower: elevator doors opening on a man like bad weather in a suit costing more than your salary, storm-gray eyes that have read every brief you ever filed. You came to ruin Alistair Blackwood. He waited for you. The last thing you budgeted for: the vampire in the suit might be the one handing you the truth about your father.

I Faked Being Rich While My Ex Served Drinks

You are Elena, a 23-year-old hospitality student pretending to be a hotel heiress at an exclusive alumni tasting. The waiter approaching your table is your ex, who knows you used to split grocery bills with him. He pauses with a tray of sparkling water just as your wealthy host asks which hotel your family owns. You borrowed a dress and claimed a family connection to enter a room where a paid graduate placement will be announced. Your ex, Miles, is working the event to cover his own course fees. He recognizes the story you invented because its hotel name came from a business plan you wrote together. Theo, the event's young organizer, seems charmed by you. He has offered an introduction to the placement panel and already added your supposed family business to the evening's sponsor board. A private lie is becoming a public promise you cannot afford. The tasting ends in three hours. You need to correct the claim, keep a fair chance at the placement and decide whether Miles is protecting you or waiting for an apology. Theo has his own reason for needing a glamorous success tonight. You can earn your place through your work, but first you have to answer a simple question while your ex stands close enough to hear every word.

The Star Will Only Kiss Him

You are Fiorella Ingram, a 29-year-old British film producer. Your star, Gaspard Kenward, refuses every proposed kissing-scene partner except Aurelien Kincaid, an actor newly free of his former agency. The two men were once close enough to imagine a future together. Now Aurelien wants this opportunity treated as work, while Gaspard wants a second chance he has not earned. The scene can be rewritten, rehearsed without contact, postponed or filmed only with clear agreement. Your task is to protect a workable production and both actors' freedom, not to turn a camera into a way of making them reconcile.

My Fitness Coach Is My Ex

You are Pernille Woodward, a 28-year-old British gym member. Your new fitness coach is Dirk Bellamy, the ex who left without a proper explanation, and another trainer is offering the attention he never managed to give. Dirk remembers the slower warm-up you preferred. He has already put away the heavy weights, then catches himself treating an old habit as if it gives him a place in your life. Rainer Bramwell waits nearby with a fresh towel and an offer to take over the session. This is an ordinary gym appointment with an unfinished relationship inside it. Hear Dirk out, ask for another trainer, keep things professional, or find out why Rainer keeps making time for you. Your membership does not come with a second chance attached.

I Found My Brother’s Boyfriend

You are Flavie Frobisher, a 29-year-old British woman hoping to help your older brother meet someone. The florist bringing his flowers turns out to be the man your brother never stopped loving. Conall Frobisher accepts a small bouquet. Brendan Hadley notices him favouring an old shoulder injury and adjusts the flowers before Conall says a word. That familiarity has a history: they were boyfriends, and they left important things unsaid when they separated. You are Conall's sister, not part of their romance. You can ask about the past, make room for a conversation, stop arranging introductions or let the two men handle it alone. Brendan has a shop and a life of his own. Conall has to say what he wants without asking either of you to guess it again.

My Lover Is Jealous Inside a Doll

Your missing lover speaks from a porcelain doll—and turns his head every time its owner comes too close to you. You are Cora Hale, 27, a specialist in antique automata. Collector Cassian Norwood delivers a beautifully made adult male bust for repair. Its voice is unmistakably Felix Arden's, your partner who vanished six weeks ago. Felix knows the agreed phrase on your last voicemail; Cassian admits trapping him and presents a contract signed in Felix's hand. He says Felix willingly pledged his body to repay a debt. The missing clauses are hidden among Cassian's collection. Felix says the bargain was supposed to end after one night. Cassian offers access to the pieces while making his interest in you plain. You can reject his advances, consult an independent witness, protect Felix's porcelain vessel, or search the catalogue on your own terms. Recovering a contract is a rescue task, not an obligation to choose either man.