This Heat Deceit Novels & Stories

I snatched the tablet from her hands, and there it was, glaring back at me was a bold headline, ‘International model, Ari, ‘strikes’ again.’ Below it was a thumbnail; I pressed play and dropped the tablet when I saw the content. It was Derek and me at the beach, naked, having sex. The clip was short, but it didn't need context; it was clear. My fake sex tape is on the internet! Good Gods! “This…..this isn't real.” I stuttered, looking at Stella. “I know,” She said quietly. “But the world doesn't."

Looking back now, I realized that the woman he truly wanted as his lawfully wedded wife was Yvonne Quinto. I used to think that I was the happiest woman in the world, but now, I knew that our love was filled with nothing but deceit. It was just a lie he made up to protect his beloved Yvonne. Chris caressed my belly gently as if wishing that the IVF embryo transfer was successful. "We'll give up if we fail again this time. The process has really been hard on you." He looked at me worriedly and changed the topic.

As James stood up to go lock the door, Laurie quickly stood up, ran to him and gave him a warm hug from behind and said "I love you so much, James, I really do love you, I'm so sorry for what happened the other day and I'm ready for anything you want me to do." James smiled deceitfully because he knows that he has made Laurie so weak and foolish that she can't think straight again. Then he turned to face her and said, it's okay, Laurie! He kissed her and carried her in his arms to his bedroom. He undressed her gradually and immediately he laid with her.

When pretending started to feel like something more. But I shut the thought down. Quickly. Not tonight. Tonight wasn’t about feelings. It was about making the first move. About slipping the knife in and twisting just enough to watch them bleed. Charlotte and Adrian built their little kingdom on lies and betrayal. Now it was time for it to fall.

If it were not for their disheveled hair, flushed faces, and the faint marks on their necks, no one would have guessed that Emmett, the stoic engineer, and Calista, the refined radio announcer, had just been intimate. Emmett nodded when he saw me and stepped aside to let me pass. Calista smiled and greeted me while muttering under her breath, "Deaf woman!" I carefully maintained my usual expression, pretending not to hear anything as I quickly entered the room. The moment I stepped inside, the lingering smell of intimacy made me violently ill. I retched, my stomach contents spewing forth uncontrollably. Emmett cursed at the bad timing and asked Calista to leave while he came in to check on m

My phone buzzed one last time. A text from a number I did not recognize. Do not trust him. Do not believe the goodbye was real. Declan Westcott does not let go of what he wants. And despite everything, he still wants you. But what he does not know is that I want something too. Revenge. Complete and total revenge. And tomorrow, when the real truth comes out, when the evidence I have been hiding finally surfaces, both of you will understand that love is not enough. That trust is not enough. That nothing is enough when the past refuses to stay buried. See you at the trial. Can not wait to watch you both burn. Camilla

We kissed under the dimly lit streetlight as he leaned against the car, letting me lean onto his body heavily. "Julius," I called out to him, already slurring my words. Upon hearing Julius' response, I murmured his name again. Each murmur earned me a response. He made sure to respond to me every time I said his name. Despite being out in the cold wind, Julius kept playing this dreary game with me, his intoxicated lover. I curled up in his warm embrace, looking as though I were about to doze off any time now. Then, I mumbled softly, "Julius, I'm about to book a hotel room. Do you have the guts to sleep with me?"

She knew for sure that he was making sexual advances towards the kitchen assistant. "Why am I getting fired when that man is the one going against company rules, huh? I swear, I saw him!" Aria demanded. The chef stepped closer to her, not even hiding his smirk. "Where is the woman I 'assaulted'? She denied it, so what's your problem? You must think you're a real chef because of your family, but you don't even come close. You were just hired for PR. The daughter of the Great Critic; Edmund Beaumont is working in our kitchen. That story increased our sales so much. It's time for you to leave now, Aria. Nobody wants you here."

"You know the price to pay for betraying me, Colton Serra. It's too late for you to run now." "Anywhere you are, that's where my heaven will be."

“Something like that, yeah.” We both laughed, and for the first time that day, the heaviness in my chest eased. I looked back to see Theo talking with one of the people standing in the hallway. “You’ve got quite the catch with Theo,” Raya teased, nudging me. "Theo?"Heat rushed to my face when I realised what she was insinuating "No it’s not like that,” I said quickly. She tilted her head, looking at me doubtfully "We are just friends. We were at least" the reality of everything dawned on me the way they all lied to me and kept me in the dark about everything.