Secretly Yours: A Novel Novels & Stories

He just didn’t have the right door. I stared at those three lines for a long time. Then I looked at the clock. It was 2:17 in the morning. I thought about the folder and its eleven years of guarded secrets. I thought about what would happen when Daniel published the story, the Tao name splashed across headlines, and the massive fraud. The cover-up that started with four cold sentences and grew for fifteen years. Most readers would see the last name and make up their minds before they finish the second paragraph.

"Well, what about a book?" "Antonio knows nothing about my situation. I lisd to him okay? I couldn't tell him what I did, and so he thinks he can take me to court if he gets his hands on the signed book that contains the will to my wealth. He thinks our late father had a secret wealth meant for us both, that I've kept to myself the entire time." Ge explained. I thought it made absolutely no sense but I still chose to ignore it. I continued to internally convince myself that he was not a part of my oife, and so I wouldn't commit his words to heart.

Nothing is ever taking her from me, ever. **Ruby** "Yes, I'm sorry. I have never told that to anyone, not even Haven." I don't want him to leave. There's something about him that brings out my trust. I know he will keep me safe no matter what. "Do not apologize for how you feel." He kissed my forehead again. My whole body heats up when he touches me. "Haven doesn't know that I’m half shifter, no one knows that either." He was staring into my eyes. It was like he could see all of me, every thought and every secret. I just hope he can't see my most painful secret.

She handed me a novel. " Read it." She sniffs. " The revenge started because of love....what ends it read it. " I met her gaze but didn't collect the book so she throws it onto the ground and cleaned the tear that had dropped on her cheek and walks away. I look down at the book: ' Why?!' I didn't realize I had started crying until a drop of tears fell onto the book cover. ______________________ Jade pov Numb, it ain't pain, I just feel.....numb. opening my eyes I see all white. Where am I? I'm on a bed. Last time I remember,I was in my dad's shop. How did I get here?

And then, at the very bottom of the box, we got to my diary. The one that I had hidden in a secret compartment in the dresser that I thought my mother knew nothing about. The one that I had written in about the bullying and abuse that I suffered. The one that I had confided some of my darkest and deepest insecurities. Ashley saw my face and frowned. “Jenna?” “It’s my … my … my d-d-d-d-iary,” I whispered. “It’s here. Which means she found it. Which means… she read it.”

Secrets never just sat still. They didn’t stay buried, tucked neatly under silence; they multiplied in the shadows, fed on omission, got messier the longer you pretended they weren’t there. And now, with dawn spilling over Zurich, Selena saw this one with total clarity. Marcus hadn’t made some panicked choice five years ago. He’d set something deliberate in motion.

I wonder what he sounds like when he is close and when he comes and. I am so lost in my dirty thoughts and missed the way Mia was looking at me until she spoke. "With that look on your face, Sweetie? I think it's definitely a secret office romance." My cheeks turn a bright red and just because I am still a little bit worked up from my imagination, I ignore her and silently continue packing my bags.

Ian took a file bag from his assistant and dumped its contents onto the table. Papers and photographs were scattered everywhere. "You've hurt Angela again and again for this woman," he said coldly. "Now look carefully at who she really is." He jabbed at the evidence. "She tells people she came back to Sunnydale after finishing her studies, blaming her ruined reputation on bad luck with men. But the truth? She's nothing but a shallow, greedy woman! She got involved with a married man for money, drove his wife in her fifties to her death, and only then came crawling back here in disgrace.

Brandy immediately covered me, holding out a tissue as I dabbed my eyes. “Sorry, it’s the hormones” I said, laughing and still tearing up and then I froze, eyes wide. Our eyes locked then mine widened even more as I realized she hadn’t caught on but from my shock, she realized what I meant. I watched the happiness bloom. “Bestie’s secret,” I said, holding out my pinkie, she quickly hooked hers. “No one knows, I haven’t even told my parents, we plan to tell everyone after we know the sex next week. Please don’t say anything, not even to your husband,”

Fergus was working on something on his laptop. His secretary came into the room. sir, "Yes, what is up?" Fergus exclaimed, glancing at his secretary briefly. "Here is a package for you." The secretary kept a small box on Fergus's desk. "Who sent it?" he asked. "I don't know. There is no sender's name. Okay, then you may go." The secretary left Fergus's room. Fergus took the flash disk from the box he had opened.