Scary Duolingo Messages

Le jour de ma fête d'anniversaire, mon mari Léo Thomas a soudainement amené ma sœur adoptive Anne et son enfant. Au moment de partir, il a naturellement installé Anne à côté de lui, puis il m'a dit : « L'enfant a facilement le mal des transports, la banquette arrière est pleine de choses, et toi, tu peux prendre le bus, tu es en bonne forme. » Mes amis ont immédiatement ajouté : « Tu es sa sœur, tu devrais t'occuper d'elle et de son enfant. » Il y avait quatre voitures, mais il n'y avait aucune place pour moi, la personne principale. J'ai donc pris le bus, toute triste, et en chemin, j'ai vu dans le groupe de discussion que Léo et Anne Dupont échangeaient des messages complices. En plus, les sujets dont je ne savais rien. Lorsque j'ai ouvert la vidéo publiée il y a peu, il n'y avait plus que des restes sur la table préparés pour moi. Même mon gâteau d'anniversaire, que j'avais préparé avec soin, avait été donné par Léo comme dessert à Anne et à sa fille. Certaines personnes, choquées, lui ont demandé s'il ne trouvait pas ça un peu excessif. Tout en essuyant la bouche d'Anne, Léo a répondu sans même lever la tête : « Nous sommes tous une famille, Julie Dubois ne va pas être en colère. » À ce moment-là, mon mariage de sept ans avec lui s'est terminé.

Mon petit ami Nick, qui avait combattu pendant dix ans dans les tribus du Sud, est enfin revenu. Quand il m'a dit qu'il voulait m'épouser et faire de moi sa Luna, mon cœur a débordé d'émotion. À ce moment-là, j'ai cru que j'avais enfin trouvé ma place. Mais après être tombée enceinte, j'ai découvert par hasard, dans son ordinateur, des vidéos pornographiques entre lui et ma meilleure amie Sherry, ainsi que son journal intime, rempli de déclarations d'amour pour elle. Je me suis connectée à son compte secondaire WhatsApp. Bien que Sherry l'ait déjà bloqué, il continuait à lui envoyer des mots doux, des déclarations en vidéo, des messages écrits et vocaux. Je suis allée à l'hôpital pour un examen prénatal. Mais dans le hall, j'ai vu mon Alpha, Nick, à genoux devant Sherry, un bouquet de fleurs à la main et le collier en pierre de lune, héritage de sa famille. « Sherry, pour toi, j'ai renoncé à mon rêve de soumettre les tribus du Sud. Je suis revenu uniquement pour te retrouver. Je veux t'épouser ! Un enfant a besoin de son père. Si tu es d'accord, je te marque immédiatement et tu deviendras ma Luna ! » Je me suis alors retournée et j'ai demandé au médecin de procéder à une interruption volontaire de grossesse. Puis je suis partie seule, sans me retourner. Je ne m'attendais pas à ce qu'il abandonne Sherry et leur enfant pour se lancer, comme un fou, à ma recherche.

Emily croyait que le mariage lui offrirait enfin un foyer. Mais il est devenu sa prison. Dans la maison de son mari, elle est invisible. Sa belle-mère la méprise, son mari est froid, et même son propre fils se détourne d’elle… pour une autre femme. Sophie. Parfaite. Aimée de tous. Et lentement, elle prend la place d’Emily dans chaque aspect de sa vie. Jour après jour, Emily disparaît. Jusqu’à ce que des messages étranges apparaissent sur son téléphone. Quelqu’un l’observe. Quelqu’un connaît sa douleur. Quelqu’un lui murmure de rentrer… chez elle. Mais Emily n’a plus de foyer. Du moins, c’est ce qu’elle croit. Lorsqu’un incident déchirant la brise complètement, elle abandonne tout — son mariage, son enfant, et la vie qu’elle avait désespérément essayé de sauver. Et c’est là que tout change. Un passé qu’elle avait enfoui refait surface. Une vérité inattendue éclate. Un monde auquel elle appartenait autrefois lui ouvre à nouveau ses portes. Mais le passé n’est pas sans danger. Certains secrets ont été enterrés pour une raison. Certaines personnes n’auraient jamais dû se retrouver. Et certains choix… ont un prix. Alors qu’Emily entre dans une nouvelle vie, plus puissante et pleine de possibilités, elle doit affronter des questions qu’elle a longtemps fui. Que s’est-il réellement passé dans le passé qu’elle a abandonné ? Et pourquoi a-t-elle l’impression que la vie qu’elle a quittée… refuse de la laisser partir ? Quand l’amour se transforme en trahison, la vérité commence à émerger. Emily parviendra-t-elle enfin à retrouver sa place ? Ou tout ce qu’elle tente de reconstruire… s’effondrera-t-il une fois de plus ?

In my second year running the company, my high school class monitor suddenly started tagging me nonstop in the group chat. [Alice, Vivian was only joking with you back then. Why won't you come to her party? Are you trying to make her feel guilty?] I didn't understand what was going on. Only after reading the messages did I realize that our class beauty, Vivian Spencer, had recently found her biological parents—and today, she had thrown a party to announce it to the world. Me: [I'm busy.] I had no intention of attending a party hosted by someone who used to bully me. But my answer didn't shut them up. Instead, it stirred up even more absurd speculation. [Don't tell me you're doing some kind of labor job and can't take leave?] [We're all former classmates. If you show up, I'll give you sixty dollars. That should cover two days of your salary.] Vivian chimed in as well. [Alice, it was just a joke back then. And I'd already dropped out by then. Why can't you let it go?] I stared at her message for a long moment before typing: [Only trash would call bullying a joke.] The group exploded instantly. [Vivian's no trash! She's a wealthy heiress. She's not even in the same league as you. Poor people really love to nitpick.] Vivian, ever the hypocrite, tried to smooth things over. [No matter what, today marks a new beginning for me. I hope you'll come to witness it. [We're classmates, after all. I don't hold it against you for forcing me to drop out. If you're short on money, I can even ask my dad to arrange a job for you.] Then she sent a screenshot of her chat with her father. When I saw her father's profile picture, I froze. Wasn't that the same profile picture as my freeloading dad? But I look seventy percent like my mom—it's impossible for me to be a fake daughter. And Vivian was two months younger than me. I let out a laugh. "Alright, I'll definitely attend your recognition party."

Mexique. Angela de la Vega, une jeune journaliste bien décidée à faire éclater le scandale des meurtres de Juarez, reçoit un e-mail énigmatique, signé Ö, qui la lance sur la piste du Chirurgien, le plus redoutable des tueurs en série de la région. Pérou. Noa Stevenson, grand-reporter de guerre traumatisé par la violence, découvre au fin fond des Andes, un message géant gravé dans une falaise qu'aucune technologie humaine n'a pu réaliser. Cité du Vatican. Un ordre spécial d'ecclésiastiques de très haut rang, s'inquiète d'une augmentation subite des apparitions angéliques dans le monde, car cela pourrait contrecarrer leurs noirs desseins. Etats-Unis. Le Réseau Advent Watcher, unité spéciale de la NSA s'occupant de traquer les messages à connotation ésotérique, analyse avec effarement une série d'e-mails signé Ö, envoyée à tous les internautes de la planète suivant une méthodologie humainement impossible. Après Titan, thriller au suspense haletant sur le thème des armes climatiques, Frédéric Zumbiehl nous entraine cette fois à la poursuite du plus énigmatique des lanceurs d'alerte, le très mystérieux Ö. Mais qui est-il ? Un Ange, comme certaines sources bien informées le pensent ? Ou un démon, comme d'autres le redoutent ? Initiatique et mystérieux, ésotérique et percutant, spirituel mais emprunt de vérités dérangeantes, Ö est un roman dont vous ne sortirez pas indemne. AUTEUR Frédéric Zumbiehl est un ancien pilote de chasse reconverti dans l'écriture depuis une quinzaine d'années. Scénariste prolifique du 9e art, il est l'auteur d'une quarantaine d'Album dont Team Rafale, Tanguy et Laverdure, Buck Danny, avec plus d'un million d'albums vendus. Il est également écrivain.

Cecilia Laurent’s husband, Lyon Melville, was known across North Ameria’s underground circles as the biggest womanizer. As the current Don of the Melville family, the women who wanted to get close to him would line up from New Yorke to Rondon. He never turned anyone away from his bed. Cecilia had been married to Lyon for five years. The taunting messages and intimate photos from his mistresses were enough to fill the storage on three of her encrypted phones. Cecilia showed no mercy. After the photos of Lyon in the car with a model were made public, she had the sports car dismantled completely. When he went out to sea with an actress to watch fireworks, she had the yacht blown to nothing. She blacklisted every woman who tried to cling to him. She overturned tables at family banquets. She risked every bit of dignity she had as the Melville family’s Donna in the hope that he would come back to her. Lyon allowed it. He let the rumors spread without denying anything. For five years, Cecilia was the joke of the family and the entire underworld. When the New Year came around, Cecilia received her first “gift” of the year. It was an intimate photo of Lyon in bed with another woman. At nearly the same time, a headline broke across New Yorke’s social media and tabloids. [Don Melville Meets Superstar Gianna Moretti Late at Night.] Inside the banquet hall of the family estate, the band continued to play. The champagne tower reflected a cold light. Everyone was waiting for her to blow up. Her assistant expertly pulled up the PR department’s number and held the phone out to her. “Donna Melville, the PR team is waiting for your instructions. Do you want us to make this bigger, like last time?” Cecilia looked at the man in the photo. Ten minutes ago, he had held their daughter on the balcony and watched the fireworks together. She suddenly smiled. “Take it down,” she said. “I don’t want to see this on the front page in two hours.” Everyone in New Yorke knew that the Melville family’s Donna loved like a madwoman. She could lose her temper just as easily. But this time, she did not lose control. She wanted a divorce.

My mom was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her life is smooth-sailing most of the time. The only mistake she's ever made is falling for my dad. That's why she insists on finding me a husband who's the complete opposite of my dad. My dad is tall and intimidating-looking, so Mom wants someone who's short and perverted-looking. My dad is a knowledgeable and well-read man, so Mom wants a guy who has only graduated from elementary school. My dad prioritizes his moral integrity more than anything else, so Mom prefers a guy who drinks, gambles, and sleeps around. She tells me, "This type of man is easy to manipulate, unlike your father, who just divorced me out of nowhere!" It's true that the man Mom has chosen for me won't divorce me. After all, he leeches from me on top of beating me up. It's not enough to leech my money from me, it seems—he just has to take everything from me. My mom says in a righteous tone, "This is the only way that proves you're valuable to him. He won't divorce you at all." I've fought back and escaped from my husband many times. Every time I do, my mom will trick me into returning to him by hurting herself. As always, I'm greeted with another round of beating whenever I do return to him. Mom will take me to the hospital to get my injuries treated. Then, she'll say, "Hurry up and give birth to a son for him. Once you have a son, you'll be extremely valuable to your husband. He won't beat you up anymore." Today is supposed to be the day Mom takes me to the hospital to check my ovulation timing. She spends a long time calling me on the phone, yet I never pick up. After that, she sends me a few audio messages that last for 60 seconds each just to lecture me. "Beatrice Anderson, what makes you think you can just ignore my calls? The hospital check-up is for your own good! As long as you can get pregnant with a son, your husband will be wrapped around your finger! He won't divorce you after this! Why can't you understand how much I care for you?" I seriously can't understand at all. After all, I've gotten beaten to death yesterday. My corpse is cut into 28 chunks, and they are being frozen in the fridge as I speak.

When I was born, I was already a certified liar. That's a fact that everyone seems to agree with. The truth is, my mom, who's a scientist, has implanted advanced chips into me and my fraternal twin brother, Ryan Hartwell, when we were still babies. By right, as long as we lie or make mistakes, our mom will receive the devil signal from the chips. Then, she'll administer electrical shocks as a form of punishment. Ryan's chip often transmits the smiley signal. Even if he destroys our mom's research equipment and pins the blame on me, his chip still has the smiley branded on it. Meanwhile, when I reach home ten minutes later than usual because I had to help out a classmate, my chip transmits the scary devil signal. The next thing I know, I've already crippled to the floor from the intense pain caused by the electrical shock. At first, I'll still explain to Mom what happened. But she often exclaims, "Don't think you can pull off clever little tricks just like that gambling father of yours! The chip is ten thousands times smarter than you! The punishments will only be branded into your bones if the pain is searing enough! What I'm doing is saving your life!" After suffering from the pain countless times, I get brainwashed into thinking that I really am a liar and a troublemaker by nature. On the night of Christmas Eve, Mom comes to the attic to tell Ryan to join the family at the table for the Christmas dinner. That's when my asthma suddenly acts up, causing me to stumble and fall to the floor. "I… I can't breathe… Save me, Mom…" But Mom just coldly gazes at the devil signal that she has just received on her phone. Then, she dials the shock value to the maximum. "You don't have asthma at all! Ugh, you're kicking up another fuss just to attract attention! Seriously, you never change your ways!" After that, she takes Ryan's hand and leads him out of the attic. Soon, she slams the door heavily behind her. As I suffer from asphyxiation while on my deathbed, I can't help but think that Mom is right. After all, my chip has just transmitted the devil signal. Maybe the asthma attack really is just a figment of my imagination. I've always been a bad girl who loves lying to others, after all. When Mom finds out that this is the last time I've ever lied to her, she must be really happy, right?