Julie Garwood The Secret Novels & Stories

It was a chance of a lifetime, and I wasn't about to let it slip through my fingers. I flicked my blonde hair over my shoulder, twirling a strand around my finger as I stared at Cullen with a coy smile. "I'm ready, it's a deal." I purred, watching as his eyes lit up with excitement. But there was one secret I couldn't bring myself to tell him. The one thing that could ruin everything. The fact that I was already married. But I couldn't let him get in the way of my jackpot. I couldn't let Cullen know the truth, or everything would fall apart.

But then again, who keeps files containing vital info with a stack of rotting papers? I marched to the third category, and saw the word neatly scribbled on the paper with dark ink. VAR. I went through the papers, each file seemed like a new discovery. A sickening smile crept to the corners of my mouth. Taking out two vital files, I turned and left the room. Nothing was here. There was no hidden compartment, no second secret passage like in the movies. Just an old library filled with moth-eaten files. As soon as I closed the door feeling a little disappointed, something shuffled on the board. My eyes snapped to the hallway. Was Ava awake?

I took my phone on the bed and marched out if the house. I know no where in Nigeria. The ladies in the reception were drooling as I walk pass. I board a taxi and entered. "Take to a police station here" I muttered. ..................... Kate's pov I began to read the diary loud. It reads: Dear diary, when will Kate know about this secret we've been keeping from her? How will I tell her that Janet her sister isn't her biological sister. She's Andrew's daughter. Her uncle. He really wanted to use Jane has his burnt offering to the god(idol) he was serving but knew his secret and had to save baby Jane who was still 5 then and Kate is just a year old.

He knows..... William pov Getting home I saw the package Nathaniel was talking about. I opened it and it was a picture of I and Jade on our first date. On top was written: I know your secret. Shit! He knows! Is that why he is intentionally keeping Jade around? To hurt us? Does he know that I was the one who drove the car? I didn't waste anytime, I rushed to my former work place to check the case again. Was he at the scene? If he was why didn't he say anything?

I gasped as I scanned the tree lines for anything. A howl ripped through the night as I ran inside and grabbed Adaline. I laid her in the safe room in the office room that my parents installed when I was a young pup and not able to fight. I laid her down and locked her in. Only her and I knew the code. I ran back outside only in time to see our border patrol and royal guard in wolf form running to where we were. "Rogues." Jackson spit out, "Go ahead with Adaline. I can't lose you again."

Flipping it over in his hands several times before handing it to us with a deep sigh. Nina takes the picture and she stares at it, assessing the image. I watch through her eyes, pressing against the veil to get closer. The image was from several months ago, I remember Byron posting it on Mybook. It was a picture of me in my room but someone had zoomed in on the bookshelf behind me. Circled in red pen was a crystal wolf figurine on top of a box. It was coming back to me now. The random gift was missing. “The wolf box. That’s what’s missing.”

Charles says, wrapping his arms around me from behind. My poor heart "Oh no son, I just didn't know that you and Elizabeth were that close" "Let's just say she's that hidden secret I wasn't ready to reveal yet" Now he's insinuating things "Oh I get it now. Congratulations you both!" She says with a beaming smile and walks excitedly, as if she has a dirty secret she cannot wait to share with everyone. "Charles!" "Elizabeth!" "Now you're just creating stories" "I've always wanted to be a writer since I was a kid"

Lily: "James, I have to tell you something. I can't keep it a secret anymore." James: "What's wrong, Lily? You're scaring me." Lily: "I know we agreed to keep our feelings hidden, but I can't do it anymore. I have feelings for you, James. Strong feelings." James: "Lily, I've been feeling the same way. I just didn't want to complicate things with Sarah." Lily: "I know, and that's why we have to keep this a secret. But I can't keep pretending that nothing has changed between us."

Wright's cryptic file names and the surveillance camera I had found at home. Piece by piece, it felt like something much larger—and far more unsettling—was coming together. Some secret, hidden in plain sight, was waiting to be uncovered.

"I had friends watching him closely. He won't get off that easily." Only then did I unlock my phone. My friends' feeds were full of people talking about the scandal, paired with the photos the reporters had taken when Calvin was being led away. The captions were all kinds of weird. [I know this Leeroy guy. I heard he was cheating during his marriage–some scheme about using a mistress to have a child. What a playboy.] [This pixelation is pointless; anyone can tell who that is. He dresses like some gaudy butterfly.]