The Liar Nora Roberts の小説・ストーリー

“It’s none of my business. Your mother was already in poor health and should’ve died long ago. It’s good that she died. Think of it as payment for my mother’s life. I didn’t do anything wrong.” She kept denying everything and used her mother’s death as an excuse. I lowered my head and took out her mother’s medical record from the drawer. My mother left it before she died. My tone turned cold. “Jaime, you knew long ago that your mother’s surgery had a very low chance of success. You kept lying to yourself. Doctors aren’t all‑powerful. They can’t bring the dead back to life. You spent ten years torturing my mother and me, blaming everything on us. Now my mother is dead, and I won’t live much l

She nodded and opened her bag to bring out the evidence. Nora smiled. "Team leader, here is the record about what had happened yesterday. You will know who is lying and who is telling the truth. Wait and listen to it." She said. Nora is the opposite of me. She's feisty and sassy and hates unlawful acts. She doesn't allow bad things to happen to good people for some reason. For a few weeks, I've to get to know more about her kind of person. She drops it on the table. "This is..." Brizo says, trying to take it.

She instinctively started stuttering, “No —Nora knows nothing, I —swear.” Anthony shot his eyes. Kayla became a liar over the years, the kind of liar that sealed her lies with swears. He'd known Kayla and Nora as friends that shared everything with each other. Nora came very early when he hadn't taken his medications, he read her mind when she said ‘If only the imposter hadn't killed her already’. Nora was tight-lipped, but mind readers must hear her. Kayla closed her eyes and blew a heavy breath the moment he left. Then something called to mind. He shuddered so vigorously, didn't he?

“I am sorry Rose, I didn’t mean to scare you, I just have been so carried away that I haven’t had time to call, promise I will try and call often from now on, I got into a little accident,” Nora added that bit while looking at Luca, he didn’t look moved by what she had said but she knew not to push it. “Accident? What accident?” Rose asked with concern, lacing her words. “Rose, it is a minor accident and I am fine, I called to let you know I am good because I know you will be worried sick about me,” Nora lied about her accident, there was nothing minor about what she was going through right now and it was certainly not an accident but the devil was in the room with her and was listening to t

"Are you out of your damn mind? Lizzie is my wife. We're legally married. We've got papers! How dare you try to steal her back right in front of me! I'll kill you!" He lunged, but I stopped him with a hand on his arm. "Don't waste your energy on trash like him." I pulled out my phone and played the recordings of Sheldon cheating with Riley. The crowd turned fast. "So he’s the cheater, not her! Look at the way he treated his kids. He deserves this." "Exactly. He was cruel first—she just fought back." "This man's got no shame. If karma's real, he's getting it right now."

My blood ran cold. What is she talking about? Nora’s smirk deepened as she lowered the phone slowly, like she couldn’t wait to drop her next line. “Oh, Carmen,” she sighed, as if she pitied me. “Still clinging to half-truths, huh?” I narrowed my eyes, trying to steady my breath. “What the hell are you talking about, Nora?” She leaned against the pipe across from me, casually crossing her arms like we were in a classroom, not a concrete prison. “You keep thinking I ruined you and Blake. That I was the big bad wolf in your fairytale.” Her lips curled.

You better do something quick. Nora started sobbing almost immediately. No…she cannot lose her baby “Did you lie to me? “Daniel got really icy. “I didn’t but I know someone who can help her at this time” Robert said.

“Not true and yet, here I am.” Nora shook her head, her breath uneven. “You’re dead. I saw the blood in your clothes and the digger. I was blamed for your murder…” “Yes.” The former Luna nodded. “oh Nora..but what if I told you…everything you think you know is a lie?” Her spine was cold, an unexplainable shiver ran down her body. “What do you mean?” she asked.

I said finally. A lie,I know but Not a good one either. Nora stared at me for a long second. Then another. “You know,” she said slowly, “you become worse at lying when you’re stressed.” I looked away immediately. Cars moved past us in soft blurs of light. People laughed somewhere across the street. The world kept moving. Normal. Completely normal. Meanwhile my heart still hadn’t slowed down. Nora stepped closer. “What’s going on?” Her voice was gentler now.

I was so calm that I reached out to a divorce lawyer and began dividing assets. After the lawyer, Mr. Sage, got into the seat across from me and ordered coffee, he made small talk to ease the air. I had never been good at such professional talks with strangers, and the jargon I couldn't follow terrified me. Back then, Harvey would squeeze my shoulder and steady me when I tried to retreat. "Babe, you'll get dumber if you don't talk to people," he'd say. Whenever I faltered, he'd pick up the thread without a pause. We had been so in love that thinking of it now brought sorrow and shame.