What Deceit Novels & Stories

R. I crawled at the center of my lumpy bed, hugging myself as I let out a yawn. I'm tired, hungry and I feel miserable. I closed my eyes while I let the thick silence envelop me in its cold embrace. It did nothing to calm my thoughts, but it help me ease the growing turmoil in my gut. Deceit is an intricately beautiful masterpiece, weaved from countless of lies until it becomes someone else's truth. Perhaps, the deceit Enrico weaved a long time ago had already sunk in his head, making him incapable of grounding himself into the reality of the present.

You tried to manipulate me with your stories but you forgot what I had told you that nothing will work on me. I accept that I always acted foolish just to save our marriage but I have no reasons to dig the grave of my self respect. Not even your love has that power for which I should compromise with my self respect. I'll snatch everything from you and your so called parents. After that you all will be on roads. Or I should say behind the bars for doing fraud. My Deceitful Husband also deserves to get deceived from the love of his life. He should know the taste of deceit.

she explained. He doesn't want his friend to move forward ?. "That's selfishness "I mumbled . "Not only that you should include deceitfulness in it . He was trying to deceive his friend .From what I heard from your dad ,he had planned it out with the person in charge of the contract also". "I... don't know what to say " I sighed and drop my back on the seat . "You don't have to say anything .I don't just want you to hate your dad for what happened " she smiled.

They couldn't wait for that big day to come. Moreover, Laurie wasn't happy within her because James wasn't there to celebrate with her. She only pretended to be happy in front of her workers but her secretary knew that she wasn't happy. Her secretary tried to always make her happy by cracking jokes so she would at least laugh. On the other hand, James has hired some hefty boys with him to disrupt the big event coming up in Laurie Cosmetic Company. They draw out their plan and once they are successful that would be the end of Laurie's career and she would go back to beg on the streets again.

I asked warily, but even as I picked up the documents, a cold dread settled over me. Each page was a fresh accusation. Fabricated charges against my company, lies that seemed absurd but had just enough twisted truth to sting. Fake makeup products, supposedly harmful; the claim that my charity work was a front for laundering money. And, worst of all, implications that I’d used “questionable means” to build my company—because, of course, I’d come from nothing, so the only way I could have succeeded was through deceit. My stomach twisted as I read, feeling each new lie like a slap in the face. I glared up at Regal, who was watching me with a sick, satisfied smile.

I hoped that Gael would take the cue and change the subject, but instead, he spoke up, giving a fake response that made my heart ache. "We're actually trying right now," he said, smiling at me and putting his arm around my shoulders. "We're really excited about the possibility of starting a family." I felt like I was going to throw up. Gael was lying, and I knew it. He didn't want to have children with me. He didn't even want to be married to me. But he was pretending to be a loving husband, just to impress his parents. I forced a smile and played along, but inside, I was seething. I couldn't believe that Gael was doing this. I couldn't believe that he was lying to his parents and pretending

she asked, her voice sharp, needing confirmation. I shifted uncomfortably, my words tumbling out. “Well, he’s the one I drugged, but it wasn’t supposed to be him. I don’t know how this happened.” Ana froze for a moment before pacing the room, her steps quick and frantic. “Oh no, Mira. That man is Aiden Hayes—the richest man in the city.” Ana stopped pacing, her voice urgent. “The Hayes family owns businesses everywhere in the city, and Aiden Hayes is the one running it all,” she said, her words hitting me like a weight. My chest tightened as the gravity of my mistake sank in.

It was disappointment. He took a breath. “The Luna stands accused of child abduction, deception, and attempted escape. Years of falsehoods that tore apart families, undermined trust, and violated the very code we live by.” I didn’t move. I didn’t blink. My hands were curled at my sides, long nails biting into skin. He continued. “She not only kept River from his true mother, Astrid. She lied about his paternity, manipulated this house, and sought to flee when truth caught up to her. But worse still, she did all this in defiance of prophecy—”

Their enemies were always one step ahead, but now, with the ledger in the wrong hands, the danger was magnified. “We need to find them before they destroy everything,” Sienna whispered. “And we have to assume they’re watching.” ⸻ The next morning, Lena gathered the remaining team members. “We’re going to play Nexus at their own game,” she said, eyes sharp with determination. “We’ll feed false information, create decoys, make them chase shadows while we prepare the final strike.” Dominic agreed. “We can use the leak as bait. If they think they have the upper hand, they’ll expose themselves.”

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.