Arima Your Lie In April 소설 & 이야기

After putting fresh flowers down, I turned around and said with a raised brow, “Didn’t we agree that you’re getting Giselle’s company? I’m getting half its value in cash.” Displeased, Ceris leaned in and whispered in my ear. “But what if I want you to be mine in return?” I didn’t give an answer, neither agreeing nor declining. Whether I could commit to her was a question for another day. Life still went on. Tomorrow would be another day. Maybe one day, I might find the courage to give marriage another try. -END-

“Just came to ask if you wanted to take a walk later. There’s this new trail I read about near Silverpine.” Silverpine. Liam hated the outdoors. Allergic to mosquitoes, always complained about dirt on his shoes. I’ve been keeping track now—tiny things, subtle things. Tea. Dogs. The rain. Silverpine. Each one a pin on a map of lies. I force a smile. “Sure. That sounds… nice.” He steps closer. I don’t move. His hand touches my shoulder. Light. Affectionate. It would be sweet—romantic, even—if I didn’t feel like I was standing on a trapdoor.

'Is there some kind of misunderstanding? Wayne even replaced his assistant with a male werewolf for your sake.' My inner wolf, Moonshade, sounded puzzled. Footsteps approached from behind. I quickly slipped the ultrasound report into the book, took a deep breath, and pretended to read. "Nina, what are you reading?" Wayne Smith wrapped his arms around me from behind. He rested his chin on my shoulder. I closed the book. "Nothing much. It's just an old book about human history.

On my wedding day, I had just stepped onto the aisle when a ripple of laughter spread through the crowd. "Take it all off, and she's got a body on her! Look at her face, like she's enjoying it!" I turned toward the voices and saw my ex-husband's photos of me blown up across the giant screen. They kept changing, one after another, explicit and impossible to ignore. All around the room, phones were already coming up as people started taking pictures. My hands began to shake. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my mother collapse. Behind Leon Coleman, Allison Fleming slapped her thigh and raised her voice, loud enough for everyone to hear. "Oh, wow. Leon showed these to the guys yesterda

“Stop it, Liam. I told you that there was nothing to talk about.” Propping himself back onto the desk, he whispers, making my blood boil. Why does he have to be this annoying? Can’t he just leave? ‘Well, to be fair. You made him your Beta for a reason,’ my wolf growls in the back of my mind, and I click my tongue. ‘Sadly…you are right.’ “There is something between you and April, isn’t it? Did she seduce you?” he asks, lowering his voice even more as he tears me from my conversation with my wolf. “She gave you some strange potion and made you go crazy in love with her, didn’t she?”

“April, I know what happened. I know you were clear enough when you told me you couldn’t accept my feelings or any other man’s feelings, but you have to understa-.” April laughed softly, cutting off Levi’s words. “You were doing all those things because you were in love with me, Levi! Do you know how terrible I felt about myself when I knew it? I thought you were a real friend, I thought I could trust you, even I thought of telling you about… about… about my past, levi,” she lowered her voice. “You were expecting something, something I was not willing to give you or anyone else, Levi, but-”

“But I don’t understand… why would he lie like that?” April was silent, as if she were considering her options, trying to understand what was going through Finn's head. “I have no idea either,” she mumbled, still confused. “But are you sure nothing ever happened between you two? There wasn’t… any time when you felt insecure or…” I interrupted her, hand-raising to dispel that train of thought. “No, there wasn’t. There was nothing, April.” She nodded, still looking thoughtful. “So what is he trying to do? Why lie about it?”

"When I handed Jil over to you, you promised to love and protect her. Have you forgotten? Only a few years in, and this is what we get! We may be old, but we're not dead!" Harvey dared not cry out in pain and only grunted softly every time the spatula struck. He wanted to explain himself, only to open his mouth and close it again. "Just go. We don't want you getting hurt and blaming it on us later." Holding the spatula, Dad was about to close the door when Harvey, who had stayed silent the whole time, lunged forward and jammed his hand in the frame. "Please, let me talk to Jilian. I have something to tell her. I know that I've messed up, and I'm here to make things right. Please let me talk

His voice remains calm. Controlled. That somehow makes it worse. I stare out the glass windows of my office. The city stretches endlessly below. Busy. Loud. Alive. Meanwhile my heart suddenly feels too loud inside my chest. “You left,” I say quietly. Another pause. Then— “I did.” No excuses. No lies. No attempt to deny it. And somehow that annoys me even more. “You don’t get points for honesty now.” “I know that too.” God. Why does he sound like this?