Hide Behind A Smile Novels & Stories

I slowly looked at him and saw him with furrowed brows. He smirked at me. “I hope you’re available on sale, Miss Janice Lawson,” he said in the most menacing and taunting way possible. Fuck.

I whispered under my breath. An asshole kind of smile came over his face, the kind that reached his eyes.too. “This should be interesting.” “You need to hide.” "You really think they’re going to come into your bedroom?” “It’s not impossible, hide in the closet.”

He had been in the social scene for years and knew exactly how to handle people. A perfect smile played on his lips as he clinked his glass with mine. His gaze lingered on Nydia. I excused myself, heading for the bathroom to give them some space.

There was nothing to call mine, nothing at all. “Will I ever find love? Will I ever smile, not because I do not want to be seen as rude, but because I am genuinely happy?” A tear slipped down my cheek, and I hurriedly covered it with my palm, hiding evidence of melancholy before anyone could notice. A smile involuntarily spread across my face as I nodded on. “Never realised it hurt this much…” …

There was something cruel in his smile, like he was enjoying a front-row seat to a show. Violet relaxed her brow. “Whatever happens between him and me is none of your business. Why are you at this hospital? There’s nothing here you want.” Marcus let out a short laugh. “Relax. No need to look at me like I’m here to rob you.” “I don’t think we’re close enough for a private conversation,” Violet said coolly, her guard fully up. Marcus slipped his phone back into his pocket and raised both hands, palms out, moving slowly—as if calming a skittish animal. The smirk, however, stayed on his lips, smug and assured. “I guarantee you’ll like what I’m about to say.”

She rested her face on her hand while watching the scenery from the window passing by them. He lights the cigarette. “But, I have to say, you are quite the actor. He wasn’t able to notice anything at all. The fact that you were lying in his face and he wasn’t picking up anything makes him more of a dork.” “You are wrong!”. “Wrong?” he took out his cigarette from his mouth. “I wasn’t lying at all.” “What?”. A smile formed on her lips. “I was just hiding the truth, nothing else. It doesn’t mean that I was lying then, does it?”.

It’s enough to break the trance. “I have a private booth,” I whisper against his lips. “We can curtain it off.” His smile is pure alpha hunger. “Let’s go.”

I've seen death more than I can imagine. Dressed in my Smith Huggins diamond edition dark blue suit made of cashmere, silk, and wool, my Rolex, and a pair of black leather dress shoes, I took my gold red ruby diamond ring and placed it in my pinky. Not only that, but I look like a boss, and looking at the part is also important. “Rose, the guests have arrived.” My beta but in the human world, he’s known as my right-hand man ‘Kane’ called out to me.

I left. Then, I hid in the shadows and watched as a refined-looking middle-aged man approached Mom with Ally in his arms. I had no idea what they talked about, but Mom's face lit up with a smile. She ruffled Ally's hair affectionately, and the three of them walked off hand in hand.

"Hi. My name is Ethan Rivera, and I'm not here to tell you how to live. I'm here to tell you how I survived." The room quieted instantly. "When I was young, I thought there were only two kinds of love. The kind that was allowed, and the kind you had to hide. I learned to hide early. I became good at it. Smiling when I wanted to scream. At dating people I didn’t love. Pretending to be someone else just to make everyone else comfortable." His voice trembled but did not break.