True Betrayals Novels & Stories

The same fiery anger and sense of betrayal she had felt when Lucas's true nature was revealed coursed through her veins once more. How dare he manipulate the narrative to suit his agenda? The audacity of Lucas and Maddie was staggering; they seemed to have no shame in distorting the truth to fit their own twisted storyline. As Olivia's mind reeled with indignation, her phone rang, interrupting her thoughts.

She thought she was speaking to a lawyer sent by Drake, and to reduce her sentence, she betrayed Gariel without holding back. “Gariel’s such a fool for believing everything I tell him since he was a child. I told him Hale was a temptress, and he hated her for twenty years. All the money he earned, I didn’t leave him a single cent, and he thought I was suffering out there. All the things he did, he did them himself. I’m willing to be a tainted witness if it gets me out. He’s useless. He can’t even complete his revenge. He ruined himself and dragged me down too.”

"Wow, Trisha did a number on you, huh?" Shane's jaw tightens at the mention of her name. It's no secret-he had found out his wife, Trisha, had been sleeping with his younger brother. Worse, the child he had loved and raised turned out not to be his, but his brother's. The betrayal had hit him hard. "Yeah, well," Shane mutters, "since then, I don't care about anything else. Just moving from one girl to the next." His voice is flat, emotionless as if that's the only way he knows how to cope now.

he said trying to explain. But the reporters swarmed him. “Does Terisa know?” “Are you cheating?” “Is this your second affair?” Flashes burst like fireworks. I stepped into view, pretending to stumble in. “Are you… serious?” I whispered in shock, eyes wide as tears spilled down my cheeks. Then I ran out, crying hysterically. Outside, I wiped the fake tears from my face. “So it really was true,” I murmured coldly. Behind me, a voice spoke:

Waiting. “Welcome to the Trial of Truth,” the Broker’s voice echoed through the space. “Guardian Kiera must confess her three greatest sins. Speak them aloud, honestly and for all to witness. The audience will judge whether the confessions are genuine. Lie, and you fail. Hold back, and you fail. Only complete, painful honesty will satisfy this trial.” I looked at the assembled faces. At Eli’s confused expression. At Darius’s attempt to appear supportive despite the dread I could feel through our bond.

I laughed weakly through my tears. Is this what I’m worth? When I thought life was finally being fair to me when I thought, just once, I didn’t have to fight so hard, everything was taken away. I had been humiliated at work. Drugged. Used. Pregnant by a stranger I couldn’t remember. I survived that. I had married without love. Lived with guilt so heavy it made breathing difficult. I survived that too. But this? This betrayal carved something out of me. Bailey hadn’t just told the truth. She had performed it. Timed it. Weaponized it. She hadn’t come to save Clinton, she had come to destroy me.

Elias took an involuntary step backward, and for the first time since the archive chamber, Everly watched genuine fear cross his face. "That's not possible," he said. "The ritual requires consent. I built in the betrayal specifically to bypass that requirement." "Then you misunderstood your own ritual," Everly said, silver light pulsing gently, steadily, around her with every word. "Betrayal isn't the opposite of consent, Elias. It's simply a different kind of truth, freely given, whether either of us wanted to give it."

I know he’s the right person to fill that void for Freya, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to trust someone again. I trusted Anton when we were younger, but every time I called him, he was at a club or party where tons of women were in the background, causing me to worry, so I broke up with him. He swears he was faithful to me the entire time, and I want to believe him, but there’s a voice in the back of my mind that doubts him. I married Lincoln, believing that he truly loved me and would be faithful, only to find out how foolish I was.

"I wondered over and over why you couldn't just die on a mission. Instead, you actually survived and even got promoted! I just wanted revenge. I wanted to make your wife cheat on you. I wanted to humiliate you. Guess what? Haha, I did it! That stupid wife of yours believed everything I said. She's such a fool!" Before I could argue back, he turned to everyone else and pointed at them. "And you idiots. Did you think I really saw you as friends? Why are all of you still richer than me when you're all just nobodies?! I admit it! I've slept with all your wives. Every single one of you has been betrayed, too!" As soon as he said that, the room fell into chaos. Everyone surrounded Randy and attack

One night without danger, secrets, or the complicated mess surrounding them. But Hope Elara was sitting across from him in the dress she had hidden for years, slowly trusting him with pieces of herself she had kept buried. And Valduz was still hiding something from her. Something that could destroy that trust. For the first time that night, he wondered if keeping quiet was more dangerous than telling her the truth. Because the closer Hope Elara came to trusting him completely, the worse the betrayal would feel when she learned about Anastasia Rizen from someone else.