The Secrets We Left Behind Novels & Stories

But what Vivian said stuck with her. She had feelings for Liam. A cold shiver ran down Allie’s spine. What would happen if she ever found out about their short-lived marriage? She exhaled slowly. No one will ever know. But as she glanced toward the distant city lights, an unsettling thought crept into her mind— Secrets never stay buried forever.

However, of course he had left a lot of that curiosity for Emily. "Damn, even all the problems that happened to me haven't been completely resolved, but he said that there are many secrets that I didn't even know until this second?" muttered Emily to herself afterwards. It really made her feel very curious. ***

I closed the ledger carefully and tucked it beneath my arm. "We're leaving,” I said. Nobody argued. Whatever answers we hadn't found today, they were no longer buried beneath this hospital, they were coming with us. The heat hit us the moment we stepped back into the tunnel. Smoke drifted through the narrow passage as firefighters guided Eleanor's bed carefully toward the exit. "Easy, she's still unstable,” one of the medics said. I glanced back only once. The hidden room was disappearing behind a curtain of smoke. For twenty-five years it had protected Victor Hale's secrets, today, it had finally surrendered them.

Sienna In the depths of the Blackwood archives, secrets lay waiting—books that defied time itself. They were ancient, older than the pack, older than the very land beneath our feet. Written in forgotten tongues and bound in leather that bore the scent of ash and flame. Some pages seemed to breathe, others murmured in the dark. We stumbled upon one such tome, hidden in a sealed drawer beneath the grand table in Ronan’s private library. It wasn’t listed in any index.

Without her there. I looked away. “Not really.” She studied me. “You’re lying.” “Maybe.” The honesty surprised both of us. Harper swallowed and nodded slowly. “Okay.” The conversation ended. But the tension didn’t go away. Because neither of us wanted to say what we were really thinking. A while later, we reached the property. The house was old and abandoned. It sat behind big gates with tall trees all around it. The perfect place to hide secrets. The perfect place to hide people.

Thessaly dropped onto the nearest chair, grinning like a cat who’d eaten the entire aviary. I dumped the satchel’s contents onto the war table, ancient tomes, scrolls, sealed ledgers. The sheer weight of what we’d taken was intoxicating. “We’ve got it,” I said. “Every dirty little secret the Black Court thought they buried.” Thess ran her fingers over a cracked leather cover, eyes gleaming. “Now we burn them with it.”

My heart was still racing. I opened my notebook, the one hidden beneath my pillow and flipped to a fresh page. At the top, I wrote in capital letters: The Second Secret. Then, beneath it: Vanessa and Kyle are working together. Fraud through MorganTech. Secret accounts. Adrian’s money involved. My handwriting looked almost foreign to me, as if someone else had written it. My pulse refused to slow down. I transferred the photos from my phone to my laptop and encrypted them under a hidden folder labeled “Recipes.” It was almost poetic. No one ever looked there.

I could still feel that heat wrapped tightly around me, as if one push would break the final barrier between us. "I-I fell asleep back here earlier," I said, my voice uneven. "I accidentally triggered the mechanism on the bed. Can you… turn it off for me?" My breathing had grown heavier without me realizing it. But instead of pulling away immediately, Clarissa seemed to shift her weight lower against me, as if the reaction only made her more excited. Then, after a pause, she stepped away and unplugged the bed. Without power, the restraints released almost instantly. The moment my arms and legs were free, I instinctively stood up.

He looked at Grandma Lacy who nodded encouragingly before taking a step towards the door that led out of the kitchen to the back yard. To the place that held his darkest secrets and fondest memories.

I stepped in line with him, but Lucifer shook his head. "I am actually going to need Loss, and Josie to go find the book. My brothers and I will be on the battlefield cleaning up this mess. You have to hurry though. Anymore of these strange signs existing, the closer she is to coming back on earth." Lucifer said, as he disappeared in a burst of flames. Loss grabbed my hand, as we blinked out of existence. When we come to, we're in the southern area of the world. Antartica. The place where all the secrets are frozen.