Tainted Heart Novels & Stories

Lizzy's P.O.V... All the touches he gave to Lizzy's body were very passionate. She had seriously missed him over the years and constantly wished that a day like this would come. However, she had conflicting thoughts about the position she had left Xander in her heart. She never, for once, wanted him or any other man to play with her heart the way she thought that it had been previously dealt with. All this while, she wanted to keep mute in the things about Xander, not until fate brought them together again.

Whatever secrets Aubrey harbors, whatever truth she's protecting, watching her suffer while maintaining this distance is destroying us both. When her scent trail leads toward the Ancient Heart, my blood turns to ice. Not there. Anywhere but there. The sacred grove has been tainted by dark magic for weeks now, twisted into something that makes even the bravest warriors avoid its borders. For Aubrey to venture into that corrupted space alone... The thought sends terror racing through my veins. The moment I emerge into the clearing, my breath catches in my throat. The Ancient Heart stretches before me, its usual ethereal beauty warped into something nightmarish. The air itself feels wrong, heav

The heart was alive, fighting back, clinging to its hold on him. "No!" Lucien’s voice rang out, filled with a ferocity that shook me to my core. "You won’t have me anymore!" The ground cracked open beneath us, and there, deep in the darkness, I saw it. The heart. It was black and pulsing, its veins extending like the roots of a tree, feeding on the lost souls trapped within its depths. It was a thing of pure malevolence, a creature of magic and death, a parasite that had slowly consumed Lucien from the inside out.

“I was in love with a woman I didn’t even know.” Lilac stood slowly, her demeanor shifting to one of caution as she observed me, her dark eyes filled with concern. “Makayla—” “No,” I snapped, shaking my head as if trying to dispel the feelings swirling within me. “I just—I need a minute.” Before she could respond, I was already striding toward the bedroom, my heart thundering in my chest. I slammed the door behind me, shutting out the world as I struggled to breathe through the betrayal clawing its way up my throat, a bitter taste that lingered like ash.

His eyes weren’t just filled with hate. They were empty. “Aldrian,” I whispered, staggering back. The entire training chamber groaned under the weight of my magic lashing out. Ice cracked along the floor. The runes glowed violently. Mr. Yellow squealed from the corner and ran behind a pillar. My heart pounded. I saw it again—the Heart Root Flower, tainted. A curse blooming over what was once sacred. The forest—the one where I had nearly died before Edric found me—was glowing red at its center like a heartbeat in a corpse.

Her voice laced with the same venom. "You’re filth, Sloane. You hear me? You’re ruined. What man would ever want something that dirty? The least you can do for this family is agree to go with them.” My throat tightens. My fingers begin to tremble. The edges of the room start to blur. Tainted. That word echoes like a gunshot in my skull. I blink and the room comes back into focus. My chest heaves with shallow breaths and I feel the sting before I feel the tears. One drop falls, then another. Then they just… won’t stop.

"Lauren… is it true?" My father’s head hung low. He said nothing, but his shoulders trembled with fury. "Lauren," Nora piped up sweetly from the side, her words soaked in poison. "You’ve gone too far. Sleeping with so many men… What if you infected Michael with something dirty?" My nails dug into my palms, sharp crescents cutting flesh. I opened my mouth, ready to strike back— However, Michael cut me off, his eyes clouded with something dark. "Lauren… I never thought you could be this filthy."

Alex asked. I sighed. “I can’t watch incomplete series. I have this weird thing about sad endings, so I need to know how it ends to watch it.” Alex turned his eyes at me. “Is that even real?” I nodded. “Yes, I know Titanic has a sad ending so never watched it. Even The fault in our stars. If I know the ending is sad, I can’t watch it.” “So this ending is happy?” “It’s not complete yet.” “So why are we watching it?”

Before Kate could speak, Nick was already walking away from her, until he is out of sight. Her hand flew into her chest, and she can feel the fast beating of her heart. And at the same time, she can feel a pinch of pain in her heart, while she was telling Kei to stay away from her. Her mind says: "You did the right thing, Kate. Nick Sorrento is just a distraction to you, and you don't need him in your life." But her heart is telling her a different thing. Her heart says: "You're just hurting yourself. You have to admit it to yourself that he's starting to pave a way to your heart, and he's becoming a special person to you. Why don't you give him a chance?"

I didn't know if she wouldn't trample on my heart if I chose to give it all to her. I had always preferred to play games and take my chances with people's hearts, but it was harder to leave my heart open. I could not bear a heartbreak. I didn't know what I would do if I gave my heart to someone and they chose to play with it. I didn't want to be a killing machine like Kevin but I fear that would be what I'd turn to if that ever happened. "Trust me babe, I'm good, " I said, trying to reassure her.