The Lies We Leave Behind Novels & Stories

"There is no truth to tell. I am already telling you the truth." "You are not," she said in a low tone before adding in a loud voice all of a sudden. "If you are thinking of leaving me, then I can assure you that won't work. Remember that if you try to leave me and go to Lila, then half of everything you own would come to me and you would land in jail for a crime you committed three years ago." Gavin tried to act as if he was shocked by her accusations, even though he was already plotting how to go back to Lila. Gaining Lila's trust was the only way he could easily cross over what he was facing at the moment.

Vida said stuttering wildly, unable to put the words in her mouth, Vergil was patiently waiting for them in the nearby alley. “So, uhhh, we need to take an extended leave of absence, if that’s okay with you, Peter” Tessa interjected suddenly, getting over her nervousness. Peter stopped what he was going and stared at them intently with a blank face, as if trying to read them, “Extended leave of absence?” he repeated. “Yes.” Vida and Tessa said together. “We are needed out of the state” Tessa lied immediately, “But we’ll be back or not, if you do not want us back”

Jasmine was so clear when she spoke. "Okay, that's true and I should be honest, I wouldn't lie. But uh. I had to leave. It was hard for me to say goodbye. It was a family trauma and we were all to leave. I could say goodbye to everyone else because they would tell you, I imagined if I left and didn't tell anyone. Everyone would be worried. Everyone would blame you and wonder why you- my so called best friend doesn't even know where I went to and why I left and I wouldn't like it was a lot. It took everything." Lily said with a sad tone. She didn't know how Jasmine would react, she was careful with her words but she wasn't careful enough.

I ran my hand along the wall, the dresser, the bedpost, just to make sure it was all real. When everyone went to bed, Emily stayed behind with me in the living room. We sat in silence for a while, just listening to the ticking clock. “You know,” she said quietly, “you’re stronger than you think.” I smiled faintly. “Maybe. Or maybe I just got tired of being broken.” She looked at me, her eyes warm. “Either way, you made it.” Deep down, something still lingered. A faint unease I couldn’t name, it felt like I was living a lie and I'd still go back to that hole. The deep scar in my chest throbbed, I held my chest tightly.

Hannah’s POV: Lies never hold still for long. When light cuts through the constructed walls of lies, the structure crumbles, the mask falls off, and the truth is laid bare. Nothing is hidden under the sun. And the thing with lies is that they are infectious for the ones who tell them; they spread like poisonous vines. They find themselves building up more lies to cover up for their previous lies. But it gets to a point when the dam fills up so much it begins to pour out, all the lies flooding out in all their sinful glory.

She tried to feign fainting, but the sight of the phone in Evan’s hand startled her back to reality. On the screen were medical records Evan had painstakingly obtained through a trusted friend. The foreign doctor Anne had claimed diagnosed her rare illness had outright denied issuing the report, calling it fabricated. The supposed "terminal disease" was a complete lie. Evan’s voice was cold and sharp. "Do you have anything to say for yourself? I pitied you, thinking your days were numbered, and yet you lied to me! You’ve been standing between Claire and me, ruining our relationship all this time?"

Christopher's face turned ghostly pale. After a few minutes, he suddenly stood up, his chair toppling over with the force of his movement. Grinding his teeth, he grabbed Nathan’s wrist and said in a low voice, "Let's go. We should leave. Don't come back to disturb your Mom again." For the first time, Nathan lost control in front of me. He struggled against Christopher's grip, then threw himself into my arms. "I won’t leave. I want to stay with Mom! You lied to me! Mom isn’t as bad as you said!” he cried.

People that love us, without wanting anything in return. We all need people that are with us, when we are alone-when the sun sets giving way to darkness to conquer. When all hope is lost, we all need someone to grab our hand and bring us out of that pit of hopelessness. ...As long as those people are with us, darkness can't conquer. I don't know what happens when the light in our life goes away. For now, I don't want to live in the fear of losing the loved one's. In the end, my Philosophy of Life has always been 'LIFE OF LIES' and the sweetest Lie we can tell ourselves is "EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE". I would like to continue doing that until it becomes the truth '

The entirety of South City had witnessed our love. On our wedding day, he swore on God, "Lia, I'll never betray you, and I'll never hurt you." And yet, in the end, he did both. Suddenly, I felt so, so tired… I lay on the floor the whole night, my mind never stopped resting. When morning came, I made my decision. I called my father, Midas Medina. "Dad, Medina Group is expanding its business in Lumiere City lately, right? I want to go there for a while, to learn and see how things work."

“Do you hear yourself? You expect us to believe this sudden declaration of love is anything but another attempt to protect what little remains of your empire? You’ve disgraced us, Damon. Lied to us. Manipulated her. And now you want to sell us a fairy tale ending?” Margaret turned her face away, tears sliding silently down her cheeks. That hurt Damon more than his father’s rage. Her silence was worse than any scream. For the first time in his life, Damon stood before them stripped of power, stripped of defense. His words, usually sharp enough to cut, fell useless into the air. Nothing he said could change what they had already chosen to believe. He left the mansion hollow, fury and despair w