Library
Search
Home / Romance / Falling into the devil's bed / 019: my lying goddess

Share

019: my lying goddess

Author: Dikan
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-10 10:33:49

Penelope's POV

Two days later, I was at my new building.

"Now that it's empty, it's quite spacious," Sera says beside me. She had insisted on coming with me.

"Right? I'm imagining all the possibilities. And the rent was quite cheap too. Sure I'd have preferred to buy the building but—"

Sera spin around, grabs my hands and stares into my eyes. "I can't believe you're finally doing this!"

"I mean I can’t believe it too. It’s like I’ll wake up and find that it was all a dream!”

"No, not that! You're going to start painting again!"

My smile falters. "Painting?" I pull my hands back from hers. "Who said anything about painting?"

Sera frowns. "I thought that's why you're making this place a gallery? To host your exhibitions?"

I sigh softly. "I can't paint anymore, Sera. I don't think I even remember how,"

“Oh,” her voice is a whisper. She puts her arm around my waist, her cheek resting on my shoulder. "You'll remember. I know it. It's only been a couple of years,"

I want to believe her. B
Continue to read this book for free
Scan code to download App
Locked Chapter
Previous Chapter Next Chapter

Latest chapter

  • Falling into the devil's bed   035: fear and salty popcorn

    Vincent’s POV:My princess is spiraling.She paces the floors so fast I’m dizzy just by watching her. I mean, I expected something akin to her current reaction. I just didn’t expect her to freak out entirely.“How did that even…” she whirls around and faces me. Her eyes are a cocktail of worry, arousal, and fear. “That looks…painful?” I can tell she’s cherry picking her words. I’d have found her reaction adorable. That is if her chest wasn’t rising and falling rapidly, and she hadn’t immediately jumped to her feet and reeled back at the sight of my dick.She’s scared. And it’s not funny.“It doesn’t hurt,” I answer, keeping my voice soft. “I got it a long time ago, it’s fully healed now.”She blinks up at me, her eyes misty. “Did it hurt when you got it?” her eyes track down my body to my dick which was still hanging out by the way. She swallows nervously, her hand cupping over her mouth. “It must have hurt a lot, right?”“Not much.” I said with a shrug.She looks up at me. “Make no m

  • Falling into the devil's bed   034: Evidence of adultery

    Calypso's POV:“I’m fucking done!”Charles grabs my wrist, the same hand holding my suitcase, and yanks me back to him. My body reacts before I can, and my hand comes flying at his face. He catches my flying fist, holding both of my hands and trapping me against him. He stares into my face, an amused smile dancing on the edge of his lips. “Are you done now?”“Let me go! Let me go right now!” I scream at him. Yet the more I struggle, the tighter he holds me. He spins me around so my back is pressed to his chest, while he holds my arms in an X across my chest. His head dips into the crook of my neck, his hot breath fanning my skin and making me feel sensitive against my will. “Calm down now, let’s talk this out. As we always have.”I laugh bitterly. “This…this is not going to be talked out.” “We always have worked things out,” he says, pressing an open mouthed kiss to the left side of my neck. “For six years now, we’ve worked out our differences. That is exactly what we’re going to d

  • Falling into the devil's bed   033: seven steps

    Penelope’s POV:And the line goes dead. I get into the car and take a few minutes to calm my racing heart. I’ll have to tell Sera about this. Hopefully she can track the person down. I don’t like this. A strange person sends me a picture, and my mother lies to me about it. Now they’re saying I’m blind?What the actual hell?“Miss Verdant,” Athena’s steady voice is like a much needed anchor. She’s in the drivers seat, her head turned over her shoulder as she watches me. “Is everything alright?”“I think I’m being watched, possibly followed too.” I say, guilt creeping into my tone. “I’m sorry for today,”“There’s nothing to apologize for. It’s late, should I drive you home?”“You should go home,” I say. Even though there’s a room for her at my apartment, she prefers to go home to hers at the end of the day. In her words, she doesn’t want to bump into Vincent not even by accident. That reminds me, I still haven’t asked her what her history with him was. As I stare at her, I try to wo

  • Falling into the devil's bed   032: open your eyes, darling

    Penelope’s POV:My heart skips a beat. A delicious beat. “Alright, I’ll be there soon.” I say and hang up. Athena pokes her head into the back seat. “Home?” She asks. “No. I have to go—” my phone vibrates, cutting me off. I pick it up, glancing at the message that just popped in.An unknown number. For a while, I think it’s Charles. Then I remember I just blocked the number he used to call me. “One minute,” I say to Athena as I open the message. It contains one photograph. At first glance, it doesn’t look like much. A picture of my parents and a couple. They way it’s angled, I almost brush off the image. Almost. The couple my parents are talking to in the photograph is Mr and Mrs Halstead. My brow furrows as I zoom into the picture. It looks like an old picture, one taken years ago. I know that by my mother, her hair is without a single strand of white, a rich black color tumbling down her slender shoulders. She looks beautiful here, radiant even. My father has his arm around

  • Falling into the devil's bed   031: vulgar confrontations

    Penelope’s POV:All from Vincent. Guilt eats my heart and leaves nothing behind. He did call, he did text. I just didn't see any of them. Oh. My phone was on dnd all day. “Pen! You need to look at this!” Sera’s panic laden voice pulls me back. I look up to see her walking up to me with her laptop. She halts a few feet in front of me, glances at the screen then back at my face. “Actually, I don’t think it’s right. Forget about it.”I put my phone away, making a mental note to apologize to Vincent later. “What is it?” I ask. She glances over my shoulder at Athena. She looks worried and a tad guilty. “It’s about Mrs Fletcher’s painting. And it’s not pretty.”She shows the screen to me. Displayed on it is a surveillance video showing the storage room where some paintings were kept last night. “Nothing is happening,” I say after a few seconds. “Just keep watching.” Sera replies, her voice tight.Just as she says that, the video moves. Two figures walk into the storage room, entangled

  • Falling into the devil's bed   030: a sense of normalcy

    Penelope's POV:The next day at work, I can barely keep my eyes open. “Wait! Are you for real?!” Sera slams her fists down on my desk, rattling my pen holder and sending a few loose papers flying. She leans down so close that our noses bump. “You’re a landlord now?”I rub my temples, groaning softly. My head hurts…and I haven’t had my morning coffee. “Yes. That’s exactly what I said.” “And landlord of Aether Garden no less?”“Yes.”“Damn. My mom will lose her shit if she finds out.”“Why?”Sera leans back and shrugs. “She’s always had her eyes on the place. The penthouse, I mean. I advised her against it and…yes. She’ll skin me if she finds out.”Her deadpan tone makes me laugh. Sera’s mom is one hell of a business woman. I’ve lost count of how many ventures she runs. As a result, I’ve seen her only a handful of times, even though Sera and I have been friends for years. “You won’t tell her, right?”Sera shakes her head and calmly walks to the water dispenser. “You want to keep thi

More Chapters

You may also like

Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status