Novel & Cerita Big Little Lies By Liane Moriarty

“You will.” She stared at him, then closed the folder. “How much?” she asked. He blinked once. “Excuse me?” “How much are you paying me to lie to your mother?” A pause. Then, slowly, he smiled. Not the polite one from earlier. Something warmer. Something dangerous. “I like you,” he said. She swallowed. “That’s unfortunate.” “Yes,” he agreed calmly. “For both of us.”

"What's so great about Spencer Jordan anyway? Why are you acting like you've suffered so much? If he weren't Chase Monroe's rival, he'd be pretty average outside of racing." Brielle Fuller's indifferent voice drifted in from outside the hospital room. For a moment, I thought I was hallucinating. My head felt like it was splitting apart. Maybe the pain was making me imagine things. "Really? Then tell me, if you were married to a man you didn't love for seven years, wouldn't you feel wronged too?" Naomi Sutton shot back irritably.

he said calmly and I leaned back. “I'm handling everything under my authority perfectly well," I replied and the temperature in the room dropped. “What about this?" He said and a tablet landed on the table with a sharp sound. I stared at it for a moment before picking it up. A headline filled the screen: ‘Leonardo Moretti abandons marriage with Gloriana Conti for a scandalous student, Natalie Rossi.’ My jaw tightened. The article was worse, photos, comments; hundreds of them. My name and Natalie's tangled together in every direction.

“I love you Hayden. I really do. Brittany isn’t worthy of you. Okay, if you won’t love her, you can date me. We would do it in secret. I don’t mind anymore as far as I have you too” “You should visit the psychiatrist hospital because you aren’t normal anymore” I said standing up. “I am!.” She disagreed. “Okay, let’s have sex just once and I won’t disturb you anymore” I looked at her in shock wondering if it’s another person in Layla’s body. ****** “She clearly has another motive working here” I rolled my eyes. “Which is?” “Getting you” I said. “Huh?” “She likes you. The bitch doesn’t even hide it”

“You too. Bye.” Rayon, I can’t believe he cracked the story, he is a good reporter but not that good, he must have had some help getting his hands on solute proof, and the only way…… That black book. My eyes widen in shock, did Lorenzo go to Rayon, but why? What about his mom? I fall to my bed as all the questions run through my head. I don’t understand why Lorenzo would do such a thing, he loves his mom so why put her in danger? “Lilly-Ann.” Shane storms into my room but freezes on the threshold when his eyes land on my face. “You’ve heard?”

Lily's POV: The buzz of my alarm jolted me awake, but I didn’t need it. My eyes were already open, staring blankly at the ceiling. Sleeping has become impossible since yesterday. How could I possibly rest when the strange man’s words kept playing on a loop in my head? After our bizarre conversation in the hospital lobby, I tried to return to the restaurant, but Jasmine insisted I go home to gather my thoughts and rest. "You look like a ghost." She said, shooing me off with her apron in hand.

“Don’t you dare shut me out again. I carried your broken body out of that club. I saw what they did to you. Tell me the truth. Who is controlling you? Because I know it’s more than money. More than the stripping.” I looked into his eyes—those intense, beautiful eyes that saw too much—and something inside me cracked. “Someone from my past,” I whispered, the half-truth tasting like ash. “He’s controlling me with blackmail and threats. If you get involved, it’ll destroy you too, your mom. Everything will be destroyed and I can't let that happen.”

Everything went smoothly, right up until he ran into me. He had planned to do what he had done before: pick a fight, blame someone else for an "unstable pregnancy," then use that as an excuse to take leave and stage a miscarriage later. But I had gone through this life before. I didn't fall for it. After hearing all that, the room went quiet. Philip and HR both looked like their faces had been drained of color. With a scandal like this, the company was going to be a joke across the whole industry.

With my business done and out of the way, I got a ride back to the Moretti Estate. Upon opening the door, I walked into the unfamiliar sound of a woman chuckling in the living room. The hallway was cluttered with suitcases, and the household help scurried to move the bags upstairs. Dressed in a comfortable floral nightgown, Charlie nestled on the sofa with her swollen belly. Casen took the plate of fruit from the butler and brought a piece of apple to Charlie’s lips.

“What’s going on? You’ve been in here a while.” “Well, Xavier was just letting me know dinner was wrapping up.” The lie rolled off my tongue before I could think, and I managed a small smile to make it more convincing. “I was also lost in our little discussion that I lost track of time.” Frank looked at me for a moment like he found something blue in what I said and then Xavier, I couldn’t read the plain expression he had, it was the kind of look that made you think he had some suspicious thoughts. My pulse hammered in my ears but I held his gaze, kept my shoulders lose and held on to the smile.