Six Years One Big Lie Novels & Stories

“Your are a bastard!” “How shameless!” “Bastard! My mom says you’re a bastard, and your mom’s a terrible person too!” Riley curled up in a corner, too afraid to look up. He could not help but tell the teacher about it, but since many of the other kids’ parents were influential, the teacher was too scared to do anything. Therefore, Riley had no choice but to endure it quietly. I had been in South City for almost a year by then. Without a wife or a son, I threw myself into work at the factory and cut back on expenses. After a year, I was promoted to team leader, managing an entire workshop. I had even saved up a decent amount.

"If you can live with it, the wedding goes on. Nothing changes." He paused. "I know what this is. So, what's it gonna be?" "Live with it?" My body started to shake. The sheer fucking absurdity of it, the dull, heavy pain of betrayal, washed over me. Six years. He had lied to me for six years. A wave of nausea churned in my stomach. The morning sickness, twisted with the raw shock, had me scrambling out of bed and running for the bathroom. "Ugh—" I collapsed over the toilet, heaving my guts out.

Fiona pulled out her phone and brought up surveillance footage. "Look closely. This is you meeting the kidnappers back then. Persistence pays off. I finally found it. What else do you have to say? "I thought you were really injured and that your leg had been broken. Turns out even your disability was fake. Ryker, how dare you? You kept up the act for six years?"

"I was already in love with Lydia during our university days. In fact, I fell for her even earlier than you did. But everyone fell for you when you showed up, including Lydia." His eyes darkened before he continued, "I knew that the party from eight years ago was my only chance. When she got pregnant, I told her that I would expose what she did to the world if she aborted the child. "She truly loves you, so she was terrified about the truth coming to light. Coincidentally, you were away on a business trip for a year." He barked out a self-deprecating laugh and said, "It's actually really easy to deal with a woman. You just have to control her weak point."

My hands trembled as I gripped my phone. I couldn't believe what I was seeing on the screen. This was a livestreaming platform for pranks, with a majority of viewers coming from wealthy families or elite backgrounds. My parents told me they got divorced, left me to my own devices, but raised my younger twin brother, Archer Sullivan, rich. It turned out everything was just a game, a six-year-long livestreamed spectacle, made purely for the entertainment of others.

And for some reason that scared me more. He looked back at the crowd. “She says it's not a contract.” A few students exchanged glances, I could feel every pair of eyes on me. Alexandre continued. “So, Natalie, tell them what you want them to believe.” I turned to the crowd. “It was never a contract nor was it a lie. I love Leonardo and I chose to be with him.” “So Leonardo didn't buy your loyalty?” I glanced at Alexandre. “He didn't.” “Are you with him because you have to be?”

TAKUMI WILLIAMS I’d learnt from an early age that some lies were needed. Like when my dad called in sick at work so he could watch my hockey match in grade 6. Or when my I told my dad my mum was the one craving pizza so he could pick it on his way home after I’d spent an entire week eating nothing but that same pizza. Those lies were harmless and in the long run, we had all laughed at it upon realization. It had been understandable and somehow, made me grow up to believe everyone always had a good reason behind their every action.

"Doesn't that bother you? That your whole family protects people by lying to them?" "Every day." He said it fast, like it had been sitting there waiting. "Every single day it bothers me." "Then why does everyone keep doing it anyway? You, Adrian, your father, Eleanor standing there smiling at my wedding like none of this was happening underneath her. Somebody in this family decided a long time ago that lying was the same thing as love, and I married into that without ever being told the rules." "You're right." "I don't want you to agree with me. I want you to explain to me why it keeps happening."

I let out a shaky laugh that didn’t sound like mine. “You’re insane.” “Am I?” “Yes, you are.” I stepped back slightly now, my pulse suddenly loud in my ears. Six years, that didn’t make sense. Six years ago, I wasn’t even… I wasn’t even in his world. Six years ago, I was... My thoughts stopped abruptly. Julian. Six years ago, Julian was still alive. My voice dropped. “You’re lying.” “I’m not.” “Then prove it.” That silence again, I hated that silence.

She needed his money to save her brother. He was the son of the man who destroyed her family. Elena Rossi never expected to fall for Adrian Blackwell, her sworn enemy and billionaire lover. But when the truth about their families threatens to tear them apart, will love be enough to survive a betrayal that began long before they met?