The Heart Never Lie Novels & Stories

Slams wildly into my palm like it’s trying to escape. He stays silent. But his heart answers anyway. And in the dark, I realize I’ve just crossed a line I can’t uncross. Because hearts don’t lie even when people do.

she murmured, leaning her forehead against the crisp linen of his shirt, hiding her face from his analytical gaze so he couldn't trace the deceit in her eyes. Beneath the soft fabric, she could hear the heavy, steady thud of his heart. It sounded completely steady, completely unbothered by the complex web of lies he was weaving around her mother's murder. It was the heartbeat of a man who believed he was completely in control of the narrative, entirely unaware that the analyst in his arms had already solved the true equation.

He asked, "Emma, what happened? Please tell me. Why is this happening? Whatever it is, we can fix it if you just talk to me." A bitter laugh nearly escaped me. Even now, he clung to his act of innocence. So I looked him straight in the eyes and spoke slowly, making sure every word landed. "Fine. Then, tell me—how did my mother really die? And whose chest is her heart beating in now?" For the first time, true panic flickered across Ryan's face. He fumbled for words, unable to find a single excuse. Finally, he offered the weakest excuse imaginable. "I never wanted your mom to die. She practically raised me. Do you think I wanted that outcome?"

She turned back and walked towards Kyle, she looked at him before looking at me, with a glare "No one will ever love you, you will never get a man as good as Kyle. You are pathetic Tara, sorry to say but no one likes a girl who keeps secrets from her boyfriend." Damn, she always gets me, I hate the fact she always gets to my head. She turned back and was about to leave when I stop her, I walked towards her and stood right in front of her, staring into her eyes "For your kind information Maria, you are the pathetic one, not me, if I remember clearly, Kyle didn’t cheat on me, actually, we were playing each other." I said before I looked at Kyle. It hurts me to lie but I have no other choice, I

“I mean truthfully and you can try to lie and say you’re fine when I can so obviously see you’re not coping.” “I don’t know what you mean,” I say, shaking my head and scoffing. “I’m fine.” Liam puts down his cup and moves closer to me, cocking his eyebrow. “I can hear your heart beating furiously in your chest the more you try to lie. Be honest with me, beautiful, tell me what’s really going on in here. You can trust me.” When he says that, he reaches out and gestures towards my heart and it drops at his perception of me. I swallow deeply while looking into the cup that I’m holding.

“Okay. One, I diligently finish my homework weeks prior to the deadline. Two, I’m a dean’s lister. Three, I’m not interested in relationships at all.” Bo, Hiro, and I stare at each other in silence. Nothing can be heard from our table but the bubbles popping from the glass full of beers and our breaths. How come Lev sounds so out of this world? If it wasn’t him talking, I would think everything he said was a lie, but it’s Lev. It’s him, so now I’m contemplating which of those three is the lie. “Bro, the rule says two truths one lie,” Hiro says, bargaining.

My world. Adam cupped my face and looked at me with all seriousness radiating off his face. His eyes bored against mine. “I will never ever forget you Ana. Don't you ever think that. You're my first love and the only girl I will ever love. No one else can take you away from me.” He said sternly and I blinked. He grabbed my left hand and placed it on his left sided chest- where his heart was. I gulped and blinked. He wanted me to feel his heartbeat. It was beating so fast.

The sincerity behind his words makes my heart ache knowing that whatever this is won't last forever as a lie escapes my lips once again. "Always."

Far beyond the glowing walls of the Heart, hundreds of figures were making their way through the Valley of Echoes. Some had come for power. Some had come for revenge. Others had come because they feared a future they couldn’t control. None of them knew the truth. They believed the Heart was hiding a weapon. When in reality… It had learned how to love through trust instead of fear. And that was something far more powerful.

The truth. She locked herself inside her room and thought about everything she’d been through. she traced the timeline of her life from the innocence of her childhood to the day she met Thomas, her charming college boyfriend. It all felt like a lie now. Her whole life. The man she called her father was a lie and the man she loved for years was another deception she lived with too. Every memory was tainted by the realization that her life had been carefully scripted.