The Deception Trilogy Novels & Stories

The realization hit me like a sledgehammer, shattering the illusions I had built around our fake relationship. Hot tears streamed down my cheeks as I put the pieces together. Ethan's sudden change of heart, his unexpected romantic gestures, and his insistence on luring me into his bed over and over again had all been a meticulously planned ruse. I was merely a pawn in his game, a means to achieve his greedy ambitions. The depths of his deception crushed my spirit, leaving me feeling foolish and heartbroken.

Deo continued for Cassie. " I was tricked by a con artist to help me find someone who can provide me of the information I need to fufill the mission. But instead I was sold as a sex slave it was a good thing that Deo help me escape and hide me so that the ones after me will not be able to take me back." Cassie said. " The reason that I snatched your pouch is that to lead you here with out raising suspicion. The people who you met on the way here has already suspicious that you are the famous triplets who was destine to bring peace and harmony to the whole races."

"The pack mourned a lie. The funeral was a show. The decoy was the sacrifice to sell the deception. The real Elio is here, laughing about it all. He planned every detail to break you." Rhydian held my hand tightly, his voice fierce. "We capture him. We bring him back alive. We dissolve the binding. The truth will destroy the lie. The pack will see the real Elio. Not the idealized memory. The real traitor." I looked back at the window where Elio and Jax were still laughing, raising their glasses in celebration. "He is laughing. About your grief. About the manipulation. About the perfect tragic death he staged. It was all to break you. All to make you weak."

The eyesore that was me had left, and she could not wait to move in and take my place. Learning that I had deleted all my accounts, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When Dante was not paying attention, she quickly deleted the taunting messages she had sent me from her phone. After finishing everything, she pretended to comfort Dante. "Dante, Lily must have left just to spite you. Maybe she's hiding nearby, watching you worry about her!" Only then did Dante calm down slightly. "Right, she even erased her identity. Where could she possibly go? She must be too angry and deliberately hiding. Besides, she's carrying my child. She can't possibly leave!"

His eyes were two black holes in the dark. “What do I want?” He let out a short, lifeless laugh—a sound that made me shrink back into the leather seat. “I want to understand how the sweet, submissive woman I was going to marry turned into this… this calculating creature. You deceived me, Amy. Every second, every look, every touch… it was all a lie. You forced me to pay that absurd loan; you drained me financially while smiling for engagement photos. You set a public trap to destroy me in front of all my allies.” “You talk about deception as if you’re the victim,” I said, a spark of anger beginning to fight against my fear. “As if you didn’t spend months building an empire upon my misfortune.

So I didn’t hesitate when I answered. “Don’t worry, Lucien,” I promised softly. “If you leave, I’ll leave too.” Now I understood—it had all been a trap, a game he had carefully orchestrated to deceive me. One of his friends laughed openly. “You pretended your wolf hadn’t awakened just to trick her into transferring with you.” “She’s practically devoted to you. Aren’t you worried she might meet someone else once she’s out there?” Lucien’s reply came without hesitation, dripping with confidence.

Somewhere around hour four of my vigil, exhaustion finally overcame me. I dreamed of a courtroom filled with faceless judges. Isabella sat in the gallery, her face twisted with betrayal as evidence of my deception was presented piece by piece. The ultrasound images, the fake pregnancy, the lies I'd told. All of it laid bare for judgment. "Guilty," the judges intoned in unison. "Guilty of deception, manipulation, fraud." The floor beneath me opened, revealing flames that reached up to claim me. As I fell, I could hear Nico's voice calling my name, but when I tried to reach for him, my hands passed through him like he was made of smoke.

That you were always supposed to be mine — before any of it, before the lies and the plan and the swapped glasses and the five years of a marriage built on a story that should have been ours. Before her. Before all of it. I pressed my palms flat to the wall behind me. Let my head fall back. If one day you find out — if the investigation your friend pushed you toward comes back with everything buried in it, every document, every careful erasure my family paid for — would you still want me. Or would I be just another piece of the lie. A crash from the bedroom. Something heavy. Glass or wood, the sound of impact sharp enough to carry through the closed door, and I was moving before I'd finished

I worked tirelessly day and night, all while maintaining my career as a lawyer so that I could use it as a platform for vengeance when necessary. For months on end, I spent every waking moment trying to find something that would expose the truth about MID's products and practices, until one night when all the pieces finally fell into place and everything made sense. I realized that shit didn't happen for people who walked a path of good faith. I dove deeper and deeper into the underbelly of Washington DC, and I began to crave the way deception and manipulation felt. I got drunk with power, and I realized this was who I was supposed to be all along.

The only reason Fiona would have come back into this family was revenge, and I was nothing but her bait. "Sir, where? How? No, who?" Frederick couldn't pick an appropriate question, stepping on a piece of glass as he moved closer. "Fiona, she is Gabriella Wilson," I loosened my tie, wrapping it around my bleeding hands. "What! Wait, she was the one all along?" Frederick helped remove the tie, disinfecting the injury before tying a bandage on it. "Are you alright?" "She deceived me. I thought I was capable of love. I gave her everything I could give, but just like everyone else, she deceived me. She betrayed me," I fumed, clenching my fists.