False Hope Novels & Stories

"By social services. By shelters. By their own strength. You just got there first and took credit. Then you told them a story about destiny that made them dependent on you. That's not help. That's manipulation." Hope sat with that for a long moment. Outside her office window, the city was dark except for scattered lights. Millions of people sleeping, living, surviving. How many of them believed in miracles? How many needed to? "Is that really what you think?" Hope asked. "That we've spent seventy-nine years manipulating people?" "I think you believe your own story," Rachel said. "That makes it more dangerous. You're not con artists. You're true believers spreading a beautiful, comforting, ul

Gary was confident enough to know that Hope would recognize him. She did remember he was the magic man from the hospital. But he was definitely worried if she would trust him. Although Rowena did tell him that she called up the school to let them know someone else would be fetching Hope, he was still anxious about her making a fuss. He didn't have much experience with children. Hope seemed like a sweet and well-behaved girl, but Gary knew enough to know children have their complexities, especially if they were put in an uncomfortable position.

Just then they heard something dissatisfying. “No hope for Ayomide,” Oreoluwa had said. “What did you just say, Ore?” Emmanuel demanded. “I said no hope for Ayo.” He shrugged. “I heard you the first time,” Emmanuel said with clenched teeth. “I only gave you a chance to change what you said.”

Without that, we can't move forward. 'What do you mean by that? I trust you! Sin! Of course, I trust you!' 'In parts you do, but you're too used to my hateful outbursts. And that, that makes you hold me back. For what we're going to do you must trust me, trust me. 'What did Hope say? 'There are several sins, some simpler, some much more complicated and even some forgotten. Hope is ready to move on, and I trust her. Do you trust her and do you trust me?'

"Can I ask you a question? "What are you hoping for?" Josh is taken aback by the question. He's not sure how to answer. He thinks for a moment, and then says, "I'm hoping for a job. I haven't been able to find one for a while now, and I'm starting to feel like there's no hope for me." The woman looks at him with compassion. "There's always hope," she says. "Even when it seems like there isn't." Josh looks at her, unsure of what to say.

She was relieved to know that Emma was not lying when she said her daughter doesn’t want her in her life. “You know what? I thought you were going to change. I was ready to give you a second chance after you successfully helped me take the kids, but right now I don’t think I can forgive you because you keep using your fake illness to bring me closer.” Hope scolded on the phone. Andra closed her eyes upon hearing the cold and heartless things Hope was saying over the phone; she couldn’t believe Hope could be this cold to her mother as well. She didn’t want to say anything at first, but Hope kept saying she was lying when she was really struggling with her health.

I replied and glanced at him. “Why are you not worried? Both of you are attracted to each other, right?” I asked, frowning but he just shrugged. “Now, tell me what do you think about the plan.” He said changing the topic. “Maybe his conscious got stuck and didn’t want to help us anymore because he doesn’t want to lie about something. So, even if I go there nothing would happen. Doctors have this ethical rules, James. Maybe he accepted before to lie and now he doesn’t. Why don’t we try someone else?” I asked him and he frowned at me like I have gone mad.

Jason while patting Ilona's shoulder. "Yes, Sir!" Ilona replied, still looking thoughtful. "If one day your heart breaks with him, you can confide in me, Ilona!" Jason said with a serious face. "What! Hahaha... Yes, thank you Sir!" "But..!" "But what, Sir?" "But, if you confide in me, I won't give you a Friend Zone!" he said unexpectedly. "What that's mean?" “I wouldn't consider a woman who is very close to me as a friend! Hope you consider it! Okay Ilona, I'll go back first, be careful, Ilona," said Jason with a smile and excused himself to leave.

"Twenty-two years is a long time to search for someone with nothing but a rumor to go on." "It is," she agreed. "I've chased false hope more times than I care to admit. Wolves with the wrong birthmark, the wrong age, the wrong eyes entirely. Each time, I told myself it was foolish to keep looking, and each time, I looked anyway, because the alternative was accepting that everything we lost that night was lost for nothing." "And you think I'm different from all those other false hopes." "I think," Elowen said carefully, "that you are the first person I've found who makes my old heart afraid to hope at all, precisely because the p

He whispered. Pulling me to him and I found myself so detached with him, emitting extreme anguish as I stood still, not reacting. “Please,” He murmured, remaining like this and all my hopes shattered that night. “It’s okay…” I whispered, losing my courage and the shine in my eyes, I felt exhausted, lost now. He had broken my hopes, my expectations, he had purloined my reasons to hold a tiniest drop of faith in him. “Really?” The promises he made were false. He lied to me. I was right to not believe in him.