Workplaceromance Stories

"I am married." "I know." "I have a child." "I know." "You could lose everything." "I know." "Then why are you still here?" "Because you're the choice I will make at any cost, Doctor." Kavita Sen saves lives for a living. But she cannot save her marriage. She cannot save her family. And she cannot convince the court that she is a good mother. Shreyansh Oberoi is everything she is not - careless, reckless, and far too young to be looking at her the way he does. She is thirty-five, married, and fighting for the custody of her daughter. He is twenty-five, brilliant, and the last person she should ever get involved with. He was never supposed to be her happiness. He was never supposed to be her escape. But somewhere between night duties, court dates, and unsaid things, he became the only person who ever asked her one simple question: "When was the last time you chose something for yourself?" This is not a story about right or wrong. This is a story about choices and their consequences. This is Shiddat.

Kashi Sharma has exactly three goals in life: raise her twelve-year-old brother, keep her job and survive each day without forgetting anything important. Unfortunately, she's failing at the last one. Between missed alarms, school projects, overflowing inboxes and a brother who remembers deadlines at the worst possible moment, Kashi's life is already chaotic enough. The last thing she needs is another problem. Then Arth Singhania arrives. As India's most powerful Kingmaker, Arth is the man politicians trust, billionaires listen to and entire industries fear disappointing. He is disciplined, controlled and always ten steps ahead of everyone else. For years, he has run empires from behind closed doors. Now he's moving his operations to Mumbai and somehow, out of hundreds of employees, Kashi Sharma ends up becoming his assistant. Arth likes order, Kashi attracts chaos. He plans everything, she survives one crisis at a time. Working together should be impossible. Falling for each other should be worse. But when late nights, impossible deadlines, and shared flights begin turning into something more, both of them discover that the biggest problem in their lives might just be each other. And neither of them knows how to solve it.

There are fires of many kinds. Some burn with love that must never be named. Some smolder as quiet rebellion - against thrones, traditions, and the weight of family legacy. Some fires are tender. Some are dangerous. All of them change what they touch. In the kingdom of Utpal, the lotus is a symbol of peace. But beneath that peace, fires are stirring. Prince Siddhartha has always followed the rules - until he meets Bela, a palace helper whose presence feels like truth. Their bond is soft, unspoken... and forbidden. Far from the palace, Ishikaa Singh is heir to a powerful corporate empire. Ambitious, sharp, and alone at the top, she fights to prove she belongs - even if it means hiding her heart from the one person who truly sees her. As love and loyalty are tested, each must choose what they are willing to let burn - and what is worth saving from the flames. Because even the purest lotus can't escape the fire beneath it.

Skye never drinks, never goes to clubs, and has never even kissed anyone. But when her friends drag her out to celebrate her new job, one reckless dare changes everything: kiss the most attractive person in the room. Skye chooses Katherine, a striking, intimidating older woman who gives her a soft first kiss she can't forget. It was supposed to last one night. Until Skye starts her dream job at a prestigious design firm and discovers Katherine is a department head just two floors above her. Now every elevator ride, stolen glance, and heated argument pulls them closer to a line neither woman should cross. It started with a dare. Neither of them expected it to become desire.

She tried to close the elevator doors on him. He ended up being her boss. And then she found out he was her best friend's brother-in-law. Aryia is chaotic, Christian is serious, and the chemistry between them is anything but professional. With Christian determined to keep things strictly business, Aryia has no problem testing those boundaries. Between flirty moments, undeniable chemistry, and a job that keeps putting them in each other's path, staying professional might be easier said than done.

Moving back home after a breakup wasn't exactly part of Ink's life plan. Neither was living with his mom again, being unemployed, or letting his old high-school best friend Blue convince him to interview for the newly vacant Head of Design position at Dream and Nightmare's family company. Somehow, he gets the job. Now Ink has to survive eccentric coworkers, two bickering brothers running a company together, a documentary crew that refuses to stop zooming in on him, and a digital design system he barely understands. Worst of all, learning that system means working very closely with Error-the company's antisocial, sarcastic Head of IT who seems determined to make Ink's new job as difficult as possible. Ink came home expecting to start over. He just didn't expect his new life to involve this many skeletons. One office. Over Thirteen skeletons. Zero clue what they're doing.

Lacey Larkin is pink, chaotic, and heir to her father's restaurant empire. Mikhail Sokolov is broody, grumpy, and the new head chef who wants nothing to do with her. But Lacey is determined to make Mikhail fall for her. A romantic comedy about falling for the one person who refuses to fall back.

I have never owed anyone ten million dollars. Until I met him. Well, to be fair, I didn't exactly steal ten million dollars from the Spanish billionaire. I merely ruined a business deal. A very important business deal. A very, very expensive business deal. And before you ask, no, I didn't know I was ruining it. I thought I was helping my best friend avenge her broken heart. Unfortunately, Adrián de León does not share my opinion. Now the infuriatingly handsome billionaire wants his money back, and since I don't have exactly ten million dollars hiding beneath my mattress-or anywhere else, for that matter-he has come up with another solution. I work for him. In Spain. For as long as it takes to repay my debt. It sounds simple. It isn't. Because Adrián's mansion comes with a terrifying family, an annoyingly charming brother, a group of friends who seem really determined to make my life miserable, and a billionaire boss who watches me like I'm one wrong move away from destroying his entire empire. Again. He says I'm helpless. Useless. A walking financial disaster. I say he's arrogant, controlling, and completely obsessed with me. Unfortunately, one of us is beginning to wonder if this debt was the best thing that ever happened to us. And it definitely isn't me. Because I came to Spain owing Adrián de León ten million dollars. I never expected to leave owing him my heart.

When the person who taught him what it meant to have a home is gone, Shotaro must find a way to make peace with her absence. '✦ slowburn, angst, hidden identities [ 1/6 00 AFTER HOURS ]

Adrian Vale hated everyone. Or at least, that was what I believed. He was arrogant, impossible, and cruel enough to make me wish I'd never met him. But every once in a while, the walls slipped-and I caught a glimpse of the man underneath. The man who noticed everything. The man who looked at me like he wanted me, then punished us both for it. Falling for Adrian Vale was a terrible idea. Unfortunately, my heart didn't seem particularly interested in good ones.

"The moon is beautiful, isn't it, Naina?" Ryan confessed. Naina looked up at the night sky beyond her window, a wide smile forming on her lips. "It is indeed, Ryan." Two people. Two countries. One calendar invite. "Weekly Sync" A recurring meeting attended by developers from different corners of the world, brought together to discuss updates, deadlines, and everything in between. For Naina Sharma and Ryan Collins, it was just another meeting. Just another call. Just another set of updates. Just another name appearing on the screen. Until one day, it wasn't. They started noticing when the other wasn't there. They started missing a voice they had never expected to miss. They started finding bugs that didn't need fixing, just to have a reason to talk. They found each other.

Han Ji-an used to believe in people - until her last company taught her exactly how sharp betrayal can cut. Now she keeps her head down, does her job flawlessly, and lets no one close. Not her toxic ex-coworkers, not the CEO who once fell for her and never got over it, and definitely not the icy, impossible new boss she's just been assigned to as his temporary secretary. Joo Won-shik, heir and CEO of Taerin Group, doesn't do warmth. He doesn't do patience. And he absolutely does not do feelings for his staff - until the one secretary who refuses to fawn over him starts becoming the only person in the building he actually wants to talk to.

Lauren Miller never expected David Douglas to walk back into her life. Ten years after their complicated university relationship ended, Lauren has built a successful career as a heritage consultant-and learned to leave the past where it belongs. Then David offers her a project she can't resist. Glennie's Pub, a Kingston landmark filled with history and memories of their student days, is threatened with demolition. David wants to save it, but he needs Lauren's expertise to prove that preserving the building can make financial sense. Taking the job means working closely with the one man Lauren has never quite managed to forget. As they uncover the possibilities hidden within the old building, Lauren begins to discover things about David's past she never knew-and to question some of the assumptions she has carried for a decade. But David has battles of his own, including a family more interested in profits than preservation and secrets that have shaped the man he has become. The attraction between them may still be there, but trust is harder to rebuild. And when events leave Lauren questioning David's loyalty once again, she must decide whether the past is warning her away-or whether some hearts simply need a second chance to be found.

TO LIVE FOR THE HOPE OF IT ALL Dr. Alana Bennett has always been good at surviving. Surviving brutal shifts. Surviving impossible patients. Surviving the chaos of Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Unfortunately, she has one problem she can't seem to survive: Dr. Jack Abbot. To everyone else, Jack is brilliant, disciplined, and nearly impossible to impress. To Alana, he's the attending who never seems to miss a mistake-and the man who has been watching her ever since she broke protocol to save a patient's life. He thinks she relies too much on instinct. She thinks he relies too much on rules. Neither of them is willing to back down. But when Alana's reputation as the ER's resident "black cloud" brings one catastrophe after another through the trauma bay, she finds herself working closer to Jack than ever before. And somewhere between the overnight shifts, impossible cases, whispered conversations in empty hallways, and moments neither of them is supposed to notice... The lines between professional tension and something much more dangerous begin to blur. Because sometimes the person you least expect becomes the one thing keeping you alive. Jack Abbot x Fem!OC

Ethan Parker has spent his entire life working for the success he now has. As the founder of a leading tech company, his world is built around work, ambition, and staying in control. Romance has never really been part of the plan. Lily Mitchell has worked just as hard to get where she is. Smart, determined, and finally ready to begin her career, she never expected a chance encounter with Ethan Parker to become anything more than a memorable moment. But as their paths continue to cross, a connection begins to grow between them, one neither of them expected. And when Lily starts an internship at Ethan's company, things become even more complicated. Sometimes, the things we try hardest not to feel are the ones that change everything. A slow-burn romance about ambition, attraction, unexpected connections, and finding something you never knew you were looking for.

"You came.." "You called."

Marga Danielle L. Gomez Ph.D., is a bubbly Microbiologist. Due to her bubbly and warm personality, she can easily socialize and make friends. Despite being a "sunshine", she's also meticulous and inductive when it comes to work. Jameson Rafe S.Navarro Ph. D., an Analytical Chemist by profession but works as a Biochemist. A very inquisitive person, loves solving problems and is very methodical. Due to his intelligence, he easily caught attention, especially the ladies. Her warm personality caught his attention and his intellect caught hers. They became lovers who were deeply in love with each other yet due to the hectic schedule of their postgraduate studies they decided to end their relationship to prioritize their future. Now that they're both successful and work together in the same agency but in different divisions. He still loves her and wants to win her back. She still loves him but she's thinking about the constraints of their busy working schedule that it may hinder their relationship again. Dual POV

the last thing taylor had expected was for her boyfriend's new friend to be the same person she had a teeny tiny work crush on. the last thing travis had expected when he'd made a new friend in the city, was for the friend in question to be dating his co-worker that he had a slight (massive) crush on. how will he navigate keeping his feelings in check while they grow closer and closer at work? also posted on ao3

As the sun set over the city, Devereaux Enterprises hummed with quiet anticipation. At its helm sat Alexander Devereaux-ruthless, magnetic, feared and admired in equal measure. Beneath the tailored suits was a man who simply didn't know how to want something halfway; for Alexander, ambition meant control, and control meant everything. He didn't know it yet, but his world was about to change. A new employee was about to walk through his doors-a woman who would challenge everything he believed about himself, about love, about possession itself. Their collision was inevitable. Passion would ignite, boundaries would blur, and they'd both learn that surrender could be the bravest act of all. This is the story of Alexander Devereaux, and the woman who became his obsession.