Virtuous Lies Haley Jenner Novels & Stories

Haley's phone exploded with notifications. She looked down, and her face twisted. "What?" Jack asked. She turned the screen around. Her account had posted the fake image. The caption read: I am afraid of him. Haley's hand began to shake. "I did not post that." The conference room screen flickered. A new video went live across every board monitor. Haley's own face stared back from the screen, smiling the empty smile of a woman without edges. "If anything happens to me," the fake Haley said, "look at Jack Miller."

"Oh mom, we've always been friends, except that now she has her girlfriend Lily Sterl. I don't want to interfere..." " Okay, then honey. I'm replacing a colleague right now. Kiss the other girls for me please ! Goodbye honey!" As soon as she hang up, Dylan clapped his hand. "Congratulations! Well done for your first lie, to your mother !" Hayley rolled her eyes and lied beside him. "Now I feel guilty... I've never lied to my mum..." " Don't ...please honey, don't ... one or two lies once in a lifetime isn't a sin baby. "

"Yes, and I believe we should take the intensity out of that. I just don't think we're a good fit." "But Zelda, we made love...eight times." Hunter whispered. "And those eight times were very nice and I will cherish them always. However, we are not compatible my dear." "I gave you my virginity!" "Oh not this again. You didn't have to lie to me about that, you know? I've had many men, I wouldn't have cared if you had many women." I informed him. "What are you talking about Zelda?" Hunter asked. "Beta Penn mentioned you weren't a virgin like you claimed to be. Why did you lie?"

I went to my room, and my packed suitcases still stood beside the wall, waiting for the honeymoon Jared and I were supposed to leave for tonight. My chest tightened painfully. I stared at them for several seconds before finally sitting on the edge of the bed. The silence lasted less than ten seconds as my phone exploded with notifications. The very first one caught my attention. “AliceCare posted a new video.” I clicked the link and froze, my eyes widening to watch the modified version of my humiliating video. The video cut between my binge eating and Alice smiling elegantly in her wedding dress. The caption read: “Real change begins with honesty. Discipline matters.

I should take what little information I've gathered and disappear before this gets worse, before I start feeling things I can't afford to feel. But I can't leave yet, not without answers. Not without knowing the truth about what happened to my father. Not without understanding who Xade Cross really is beneath the masks he wears. I plopped back on the soft mattress, swung my legs over, and stared at the ceiling as my thoughts ran like a freight train. It had to be a freaking mask, else I was more confused than ever. He was acting so innocent. I had to get to the bottom of this, so I'll stay. I'll keep lying. I'll have to keep pretending to be Maria Davidson while Amelia Stone hides underneath

"The lie is the nightclub one. You don’t seem like the type to sneak around." I grinned. "Wrong. I have snuck into a nightclub. The lie is that I’ve never broken a bone. I cracked two ribs during training when I was sixteen." "Damn, didn’t take you for a rule breaker," Slade mused, looking at me with new interest. "You have a pilot's license at 18, bullshit!" Riley was watching me with disbelieving eyes. "I swear, I do." "You guys are so bad at this," Vera said, shaking her head. "Alright, my turn. One—I’ve been in love before. Two—I once rejected a mate. Three—I have never cheated."

I looked at her straight in her face. She wasn’t wearing mascara, Jules never forgot to put on mascara. “I’m fine, just tired. I was revising all night.” She lied through her teeth. She would rather get bitten by a mosquito than sacrifice her beauty sleep. I let it go, planning to ask again at lunch. “Okay, I’ll see you later.” I replied with a small comforting smile before she left for her next class. Just then, I saw Adrien and his dad, professor Hayes walk into the school. He looked miserable.

I immediately told Celine everything that I knew. "A person who truly loves you won't hurt you like that. He also won't care that you're not a virgin. If you enjoy the feeling of sleeping with someone, you should do it the right way. Besides, you can get a hymenoplasty if he does care about you having your virginity intact." Celine's eyes lit up when she learned that she could undergo a procedure to restore her hymen. She then stopped using her other entrance whenever she slept with Jeffrey. In the end, she broke up with Jeffrey, and Mom eventually introduced a wealthy heir to her.

He didn’t know they were the same person and I was the only thing standing between that ignorance and the complete destruction of the careful life I had rebuilt from nothing. And I was starting to enjoy his attention. He wants someone who doesn’t exist, I thought. And I’m letting him. The guilt of that sat heavy and specific in my chest. Because it wasn’t just Pinky he trusted it was Zara. The girl who came with Kofi. The family friend. The one he brought coffee for on a Tuesday morning like it was nothing. He trusted both of them. And both of them were lying to him. I got to Velvet an hour early again.

Kate's voice was high-pitched with panic on the other end, causing Serena's stomach to clench with a tendril of dread. "Seen what news?" She rubbed her eyes, trying to shake off the lingering cobwebs of sleep clouding her mind as wakefulness slowly seeped back in. "There's a video circulating online of you being intimate with some strange man!" Kate babbled in her frantic rush to get them out. "It's going viral as we speak! There are also medical reports of you undergoing a virginity patch three years ago, before you and Alex met, as well as another from the night you were detained. It says that you had a vaginal rupture after taking multiple men at the same time. Llast night, there were pho