Where Hearts Lie Novels & Stories

But the whole time, she was all he could see. I had trusted the institute's lies in my last life and delivered my sister into their hands, only to watch her die in agony. In the end, Victor had died for me. When his eyes met mine now, all I saw was hatred. "Anya is your sister. Do you even realize what you're doing? I've never met a woman in this world as vicious as you! Do you even have a heart?!" He had always been so gentle, yet the words he threw at me cut like knives.

Tears streamed down her face unchecked. For the first time, all Ryan felt was disgust. He flung her hand aside. "Get out!" After that, Olivia vanished from Ryan's world, but suspicion gnawed at him, driving him to dig into her secrets. What he uncovered made his blood run hot with rage. Olivia's so-called heart condition had been a fabrication from the very start. She had never been sick. She never needed my mother's kindness. Every word she spoke to them had been an act.

But things didn’t turn out the way we wanted. ‘’What happened?’’ I ask. My body was slowly shaking in fear. ‘’This time she is not coming for us. She is going for the immortal hearts.’’ ‘’What are the immortal hearts?’’ She takes a deep breath and continues. ‘’The three powerful hearts that can give one the power of immortality and also the power to defeat anyone. Most importantly it gives you the power to get rid of any sort of spell and wipe out human kind.’’ ‘’Something this powerful actually exists? Why didn’t you ever tell us?’’ Patricia walks forward closer to me.

Storm, Storm in my heart, can you stop scaring me hard, loom not above my head, let me be tucked cozy in my bed, All Hearts !!

Thump. Every beat made the island tremble. Every beat made the children above us scream in their sleep. "That's the heart of the void," Leo whispered. "If we break it..." "We go home," I said. "Or we all die instantly." I looked at Eli. He was staring at the heart with an expression I couldn't read. Longing? Fear? Hunger? "Eli," I said softly. "Can you break it?" He didn't vibrate an answer. He just walked toward the heart — dragging his useless legs, crawling on his hands — until he was right beneath it.

It looks like you're the one to blame. "I bet you did it on purpose! How could I have possibly given birth to such a heartless daughter?" Mom's words cut through me like a blade. I clutched my chest, too furious to speak. I could only stare at Heidi, my thoughts lost in a haze. Meanwhile, Heidi remained curled up in Mom's arms, deliberately avoiding my gaze. Just when I expected to hear her inner voice, a sudden realization hit me. It seemed that I could only hear it if she chose to let me.

She placed a small notebook at the base of the headstone. Inside were pages of her,her pain, her joy, their memories. A legacy. A goodbye. A start. As she walked away, the wind picked up again. And somewhere, in the silence between her footsteps, she swore she heard him say her name. Soft. Warm. Home. End of chapter 10 End of when love lies.

he had stood up abruptly, cursing under his breath. Maxwell Greenfield stared at the girl. She had a look of complete confusion. Something tells him that she is as confused about last night's events as he was. He couldn't help but notice how blue her eyes were, it reminds him of the ocean, and it seem to hold much mysteries just like the ocean too. She was beautiful in an innocent yet alluring way. Her face looked like that of an angel, she was petite, but with curves at the right places. Maxwell needed no one to tell him that last night was a huge mistake, one that will never happen again. He completely blamed his vulnerable emotional state of mind for last night's events.

Heart was crying while running away. But when Heart went to an isolated area, she stopped there and sobbed. She sat down and covered her face while crying, it was a dead end and she was crying next to a trash can. Cullen was able to find her and then stood behind her. “No, don’t go near me. I lied to you. You hate liars, right? I am a dirty woman. Yes, I am Scarlet Heart, I deceived you.” Heart said while crying and not facing him.

After a few moments of speaking and clicking her tongue to her teeth, Weaver dropped her palms to the hearts, clutched them up tight in her grip and pushed them over close, nearly bumping them together. “Arise, tribes of Pictdom,” she hissed, not seeming to care if any heard her, but her voice echoed out of the woods so loud quite a few standing took a step back. They all looked about, unable to understand how her voice came out so thunderous and rolled across the dell. “We will march on this morning, thousands of hearts, but one beat.” She then dashed the hearts together, causing her apprentice to jump and Tancorix to step backwards out of the grove. Her hands ground the hearts collectively