Chapter 1

Arianna's PovThe first thing I noticed when I woke up that morning was Noah's breathing. It was wet and sounded like he was having difficulty breathing.I pressed my hand to his forehead, and the heat burning through my palm confirmed what I already feared. He was running a fever."Mama." His voice was small, and hoarse. He opened his eyes slightly, squinting them to block the sun."I'm here." I smoothed his hair back and forced a smile even though my heart was doing something ugly in my chest. "Mrs. Kate next door is going to watch you today, okay? Just for a few hours. I need to go to work today.""But mum, you promised to stay home today with me." He said, voice small, and it made my heart feel heavy. I had promised to stay home today with him to make up for not attending his school's PTR meeting, last week."I promise baby, just for today. I'll get you lots of goodies. I promise. Then maybe we could go to the park this weekend. Good?" He raised a brow, brushing a strand of his ha

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Chapter 2

Arianna's Pov:Voss's wife? Was Nikolai married? When?I kept questioning myself. I didn't move, I didn't speak, I just stood there with the tray in my hands and the silence pressing in from every direction, and I told myself to breathe.Asher, the guy who had just said something about Voss's wife, raised his glass again and smiled into it like this was all very entertaining. Like he hadn't just cracked something open inside me.Nikolai said nothing. He was still watching me. He had the patience of someone who had learned that silence was more useful than words, and he was using it now the way other people used pressure."You can all leave," he said finally, not as a request.Asher drained his glass and stood without argument. Marco and his friend were already gathering their things. The room emptied in under a minute. The door clicked shut.And then it was just us.I should have left with them, but I don't know why I didn't. My feet simply refused, and by the time my brain caught u

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Chapter 3

Arianna's Pov I stared at him. A second passed, then another. The seconds stretched at the edges because my brain refused to process what it just heard."You're married," I said, not as a question, but to process what I had just heard."I'm aware." He responded like it meant nothing."You're standing here telling me that you're going to keep me beside you, and I belong to you?" I said it slowly, like I was explaining something to someone who hadn't heard themselves. "You have a wife, Nikolai.""And you have a lot of nerve," he said, "lecturing me about what I do with my life." He tilted his head slightly. "Given everything."The ‘given everything’ landed the way he intended it to, so I had to close my mouth.He moved to the window. The city stretched out below him, indifferent and enormous, and he looked outside like he was already deciding what to do with it. The light caught the line of his jaw, the set of his shoulders, and I hated that I noticed. I hated that even now, even stand

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Chapter 4

Arianna's Pov By the time I knew what was happening, Nikolai crossed the room in three tides, cornering, my back hitting the wall with a full force, his left hand on my waist, the right one resting on my neck deliberately. His lips found mine like he had been hungry for this, and had waited for an eternity just to kiss me. The kiss was so hot that I had to struggle to free myself from him, but his firmness was tight. He held my hand in place, kissing me more, biting my lips and giving me a quick sting of pain. And somewhere between the struggles, I didn't know when I missed him back. My hand moved instructively towards his back, my fingers grazing his shirt..God, how I missed this.He slid his left fingers into me, and I had to gasp from the sensation.“I missed this….fuck” he muttered in my mouth, still kissing me.He didn't touch me roughly. His hands were deliberate and unhurried, like he had decided exactly what he was going to do and the only thing left was the doing of it. H

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All Chapters of Lovely Little Liar : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4