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chapter 49
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2026-06-24 22:58:59
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Lovely Little Liar chapter 49
NIKOLAI POV I had made a decision somewhere between leaving her room last night and waking up this morning.If Arianna refused to give me the truth, I was going to build a situation that forced it out.She had been lying about her death for five years. She had constructed a reason and a story and had stuck to it across weeks of pressure, and I respected the discipline of that even as it made me want to break something. But every structure had a load-bearing wall, and I had been pressing on them one by one long enough to know which one it was.Noah.The boy was the wall. Everything else she had deflected, absorbed, given me partial truths and calibrated lies on — everything except the things that came close to him. The moment the conversation touched Noah, her tells multiplied. Her voice changed. Her body moved differently.She had faked her death to protect something. And whatever that something was, it lived in that child.So I was going to stop pressing on the wall directly and sta
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 48
ARIANNA POV I heard him before I saw him.The key in the lock, the door, the sound of his footsteps, I had memorised them without meaning to. I was sitting on the edge of the bed when he came in, and I schooled my face into something that looked like it had been there a while.He stood in the doorway for a second and looked at me."Pack your things," he said.I looked up at him. "Now?""Now. We're going to the cabin tonight."I had been expecting this. He had told me it was coming and I had been dreading it in a low, background way ever since, the loss of the city, of proximity, of any hope that Liam might still find me through whatever thin signal I was leaving in this building. A cabin meant nothing. A cabin meant Nikolai and four walls and no trace."Okay," I said.He paused. I saw the pause register on him, the slight adjustment of someone who had walked in expecting a different response and was recalibrating."No argument?""Would it change anything?" I questioned."No.""Then n
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 47
NIKOLAI Pov I got to the bar early, not because I was eager, but because I wanted to be seated when he walked in. I wanted to watch him enter the room, clock me, and cross the distance to where I was — so that by the time he sat down, the dynamic was already established. The Montgomery was quiet at this hour. Dark wood, low light, this was exactly the kind of bar that didn't play music loud enough to interrupt a conversation. I had chosen it for exactly that reason. I ordered a drink and waited. The door opened at seven past seven. Rafael Moreno walked in and I watched him from across the room. He looked good. He was tall, had dark features, a sharp jaw, and walked with ease like he belonged in a room. There was something familiar in his architecture that I didn't want to examine too closely. He scanned the room. When he found me, he smiled. He crossed the bar with his hands in his pockets and his posture easy and unhurried and I sat there and watched him come and told myself,
Lovely Little Liar chapter 46
ARIANNA POV I couldn't move.It's been five years since I had stood in front of this man and five years since I had made myself believe he was gone from my life as completely as I was gone from his. I had faked my death and in doing so had also buried him, buried the version of my life that included him, that needed him, that had called his name in the dark when things got hard and known he would pick up.He stood in Mrs. Kate's doorway and looked at me and I looked at him and neither of us moved for a long moment.He had changed. He looked like a man who had been sorry for a very long time.He walked toward me slowly. He didn't run to me the way part of me had spent years imagining this would go. He just walked, steady and certain, and stopped in front of me.And I hugged him.The anger was there, I felt it sitting in my chest. The anger of three years watched from a distance, of all those nights I had believed I was completely alone, now it just went. I don't know where it went. I
Lovely Little Liar chapter 45
ARIANNA POV "Arianna."Mrs. Kate stood in the doorway with one hand pressed to her chest, her eyes moving over me and then down to Noah and then back up."I'm fine," I said before she could ask. "I don't have time to explain. I need your phone."She stepped back and let us in without a word.The apartment was exactly as I had left it — the same small lamp, the same smell of tea and something faintly floral. Noah's head was still on my shoulder, heavy and warm. He had been silent the whole taxi ride, which was so unlike him that it had scared me more than his crying would have.I set him down on the couch and he sat there looking around with the wide, processing expression of a child catching up to events."Stay right here," I told him. "Don't move."He nodded.Mrs. Kate handed me her phone. I took it and dialled my father's number from memory — the same number I had been calling since I was a teenager, the number I had memorised. My thumb stopped.I looked at the screen, and the numb
Lovely Little Liar chapter 44
ARIANNA POV I paced around the room. The room was smaller than the one Nikolai had been keeping me in. There were no personal touches, no attempt at comfort, just a bed and a lamp and four walls. But it had one thing the other room hadn't had, a window. I crossed to it for the third time and pressed my hand flat against the glass and tried the latch. It was locked from the outside. I pressed my forehead against the cool glass and breathed.Noah was in the room next door, and was still asleep when Nikolai brought me here, still asleep as far as I knew, but that wasn't going to last. He woke up at the same time every morning, and when he woke up and found my bed empty and a room he didn't recognise and no one he knew…. I didn't let myself finish that thought.I had to move very very fast.Rafael.That was the problem sitting in the centre of everything. Nikolai was having drinks with him tomorrow and Rafael had no idea who Arianna Costa’s so claimed son was. None. He had probably lo
Lovely Little Liar CHAPTER 39:
NIKOLAI POV My father showed up at nine-thirty without an appointment. That was his way of reminding me he didn’t need one.Lena buzzed me and I told her to send him in. I closed the file I’d been reading, laid my hands flat on the desk, and waited.He walked in staring at his phone, dropped into
Lovely Little Liar chapter 38
NIKOLAI POV I sat in the back of the car and didn't speak.Drev knew better than to fill the silence. He drove and I looked out at the city and I turned the conversation with Noah over in my head whether I wanted to or not.A four year old boy sitting on a couch holding a toy car, running a strate
Lovely Little Liar CHAPTER 37
NIKOLAI POV:I should have kept walking.Noah was in the living room at the end of the hall, sitting in the middle of the large couch with his feet not quite reaching the floor, staring at nothing. He had a small toy car in his hand but he wasn't playing with it. He was just holding it, turning it
Lovely Little Liar CHAPTER 36
ARIANNA POV:"Don't worry about it."He said it flat and final, which suggested he wasn't going to discuss further.I looked at him across the table. Noah was still eating, head down, completely absorbed in his food. I kept my voice level."So you found something.""I said don't worry about it. I h
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