Every Last Secret Novels & Stories

They moved closer. A small metal panel was hidden behind the stone. Elena inserted the brass key. Click. The panel opened. Inside was a black box. Adrian took it out. “What is this?” Maria whispered, “Your father's last secret.” Elena looked at Adrian. “Open it.” Adrian hesitated. Then he opened the box. Inside were photographs. Documents. A small silver bracelet. And a sealed envelope. Elena picked up the bracelet. There was a name engraved on it.

Cassie turned to me, breathless. "Did we just destroy the last secret?" I shook my head. "No. We just lit the fuse."

The pull tonight was stronger, sharper, almost panicked. She whispered, “I'm sorry, although she didn't know who she was apologizing to anymore. She stood in front of the small chest hidden beneath the floor and knelt, lifting the wood with ease. Inside lay the box. Small. Plain. Wooden. Her father’s last secret. Her hands moved over it before she touched it, as it it might burn her. Her father's memories Pressed in, voice low and urgent, the way he looked at her like she was both his hope and his greatest fear. Never let them take this from you, Elara. Not victor. Not anyone.

Nia had gone upstairs to check on her son, but Elena knew she was sitting in the nursery, staring at the crib, thinking about the sixteen-year-old girl she used to be. They were all broken. And they were all hiding. Again. Elena stood. She walked to the study. She opened the safe. She pulled out the black box, the one with the USB drive labeled “The Last Truth.” She plugged it into the laptop. She played the video again. Alexander’s face filled the screen. Older. Sick. But smiling. “Elena,” he said. “If you’re watching this, the last secret is out. I’m gone. And the boy has come for what he thinks is his.”

Gerald then looked at her closely and tried to give her secret through just a glance but apparently Emily still didn't understand either. "So, that's the first explanation, but I'm sure if you have guessed the next secret which is quite big even in my opinion," Gerald muttered at once. Hearing this, Emily didn't understand. Oh, what riddle is this again? "Umm, I'm not good at guessing. So what?" she asked then. You can see the man staring at all the sides that are around them at this time. After Gerald felt safe, he immediately drew closer to Emily. "I.. gay," Gerald answered then and immediately Emily was silent for a moment. Ah, so it seems the secret is...

Then I let my gaze linger on the girl who had given Camilla the videos to force honesty, who had cried in my arms, who had let me touch her while her mother watched. I felt the drive in my pocket, the last real secret I still held. I took it out, held it up. Both of them froze. “This is everything,” I said. “The last copy. The one Marcus gave me. The one with every moment we ever shared. Every moan. Every cry. Every time we said we loved each other and then fucked like animals.” Lucas’s eyes widened. “Isabella…” I walked to the open window, held the drive out over the drop to the rocks below. “I could drop this right now. Let the ocean take it. Let it be gone forever.”

One of the women in black drops a pen on top. I took it looking at her, I signed the papers. The second woman opens up her brief case and it had tiny ring boxes in it. She picks them one by one showing me rare diamond and explaining them. " I don't care about that just give me the most expensive one here. " She presented it. " Well do you like it?" I asked Elizabeth. " That's it?" She asked. " Why? Is the diamond not big enough for you?" I asked her. "If it's big, the biggest in the world.

Seb finally says. "Name it." I swallow. "You play Cold Secrets with me." *** Cold Secrets. The sadistic game that Seb invented when we were kids, in one of our almost daily trips to the 7/11 near our school. The rules are simple. We each drink a Slurpee and try to stop a brain freeze and whoever’s unsuccessful at it tells the other person a secret. The first time I played it, my migraine didn't stop for days and I vowed to never let him talk me into it again. Obviously, since I just agreed at doing it with him again now, I have failed my past self.

“It could wipe everything.” Elena crawled closer, bleeding from a graze on her arm. “Lyra, your father hid the master password in a message only you’d recognize. Something about the restaurant. Think!” Another volley of shots. One of Dimitri’s men went down with a grunt. The air smelled of cordite and fear. Lyra’s mind raced. The restaurant. Her father’s last words to her: “The secret ingredient isn’t in the sauce, kid. It’s in the family recipe book. Page twenty-three.”

Halsey asks as he passes me a plate of barbequed meat with veggies before flashing me one of his million-dollar smile. He is such a darling. “How about your darkest secret?” Aileen further suggests. “Hmm, sounds entertaining already.” Nick says as his brown eyes lingers on me. “It could be something not too personal but still a secret from close friends.” Aileen explains further as she moves her gaze from one person to the other, hoping everyone was on the same page as her. I was starting to get excited. “I’m in” I say cheerily. I was really curious as to what kind of secrets everyone had hidden and I couldn’t wait to get this started.