Secretsandlies Stories

Prerna Mishra is a twenty-year-old village girl who trusts the uncle who raised her. She never imagined he would sell her future to save his failing business. When the powerful Aishwardhan family demands a marriage alliance in exchange for their investment, Khal offers them his niece, Prerna. They accept her without meeting her. But they hide one truth-the groom, Roopendra Aishwardhan, is not the man Prerna believes she is marrying. Once the family's chosen heir, Roopendra's life changed after an accident at fifteen. Now twenty-four, he lives in isolation, struggling with a condition his family desperately keeps hidden. Prerna enters the Aishwardhan Estate as an innocent bride, unaware that everyone around her is keeping secrets. Her husband is unpredictable. His family is divided. And the truth behind his accident may be more dangerous than she ever imagined. As Prerna begins uncovering the secrets surrounding her marriage, the quiet village girl they expected to control slowly finds her voice. She was chosen because they thought she would obey. They were wrong. 𝑻𝑯𝑬𝒀 𝑫𝑬𝑪𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑫 𝑯𝑬𝑹 𝑭𝑨𝑻𝑬. 𝑻𝑯𝑬𝒀 𝑵𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹 𝑰𝑴𝑨𝑮𝑰𝑵𝑬𝑫 𝑺𝑯𝑬 •|| 𝑻𝑹𝑶𝑷𝑬𝑺 ||• • 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒅 & 𝑨𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒈𝒆 • 𝑽𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍 × 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 • 𝑰𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑾𝒊𝒇𝒆 × 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑯𝒖𝒔𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 • 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒚 • 𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒘-𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 • 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒅 • 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒚 & 𝑰𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒓

Raised by a powerful crime family, Agilus desires to be the rightful heir of the Deogracias clan. But when blood appears to matter more than loyalty and competence, Agilus must make a difficult decision that alters the course of his entire life. *** Trustworthy and capable, Agilus is determined to be the heir of Don Severino Deogracias, the head of a powerful crime family. With the power and connections the Deogracias empire has, he knows he can use them to his advantage. However, everything changes when Agilus discovers that the don believes that only blood can be inherited. Faced with an order to marry a distant relative of Don Severino, Agilus devises a plan to scheme his way out of the marriage while still pursuing his goal of ascending to the throne. But when he realizes that the key to making his plan succeed is far more complicated than he initially thought, Agilus finds himself torn and confused. Will he go through with his plan and risk the life of the one he loves? Or will he choose to accept his fate, even if it means being on the losing end of the deal? DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Louise De Ramos *** Weekly updates on Wednesdays.

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴? 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘝𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘪𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘢, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳? 𝘐𝘧 𝘯𝘰, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳? 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸...

**THE GIRL WHO NEVER SPOKE** At Asteria High, everyone knows everyone. Or at least, they think they do. Jessica Valerian is the quiet girl by the window-the one who never gossips, never joins the crowd, and always seems to know more than she says. Maddy never planned on becoming her friend. It started with a stupid bet. But as their friendship grows, Maddy begins noticing things that don't make sense. A mysterious family name. A warning from an unknown number. A secret buried twelve years ago. And a connection between Jessica's family and Maddy's own. Then Maddy discovers something that changes everything. Jessica isn't just hiding a secret. **She might be the secret.** Everyone has a version of the truth. But someone is lying. *This is a high-school mystery filled with friendship, rumours, secrets, drama, and a slow-burn story where the smallest details might matter.* **Book One - The Secrets We Buried**

Justice was buried. But memories never die. My name is Aadhya, and I was never the daughter my parents wanted. Too stubborn. Too outspoken. Too difficult. But none of that mattered, because my siblings-Avani and Aryan-were my entire world. Everything changed the day Avani married into one of the richest and most powerful families in the country. What looked like a perfect fairytale soon became a nightmare. One tragedy after another shattered our family, leaving behind unanswered questions, buried secrets, and a silence that money seemed to buy. As I search for the truth, every clue pulls me deeper into a web of lies, betrayal, and powerful people who will do anything to protect their secrets. But some stories don't end with death. Some memories refuse to stay buried. And when the past comes back... it comes for revenge.

THE GIRL WHO KNEW MY SECRET I had spent years making sure no one discovered what really happened that night. Then she came into my life. She knew my name. She knew my past. And somehow, she knew the secret I had sworn to take to my grave. But why? Who is she? And what does she really want from me? The closer I get to the truth, the more dangerous everything becomes. Because she didn't come into my life by accident. SHE CAME BECAUSE SHE KNOWS MY SECRET

Above an endless sea of clouds, humanity has built a world that was never meant to touch the ground. Altair Academy stands at the heart of this civilization-a place where students learn to preserve the fragile world their ancestors built through biotechnology, sustainable systems, and one guiding principle: there is no waste to waste. For Zoe, the clouds have always been home. The world below them is spoken of only in fragments, buried beneath old records and warnings no one questions anymore. Then there is the Vortex. A vast spiral in the cloud sea, surrounded by strange electromagnetic disturbances and powerful enough to disrupt the technology around it. Most people see it as a natural phenomenon. Zoe isn't so sure. When she and Caiden are given the opportunity to descend through it, curiosity becomes something far more dangerous. Because beneath the clouds is not empty space. There is another world. An abandoned one. Because beneath the clouds is something no one at Altair Academy was prepared to find. And the deeper they go, the more they discover that the history they were taught may have been carefully preserved-and carefully altered. "What if we're not supposed to go down there?" Zoe asked. Caiden looked toward the dark center of the Vortex. "Then why build a world that makes us curious enough to try?" She glanced at him. "That's not an answer." "No," he said. "But it's the reason I'm going." Some truths lie beyond the clouds. And sometimes, discovering the truth means deciding what deserves to survive.

Some secrets should stay buried. Three years ago, Isla Vale's sister disappeared without a trace. Now Isla is back in the coastal town she swore she'd never return to-and she has no intention of leaving until she discovers what really happened. Then there's Roman Blackwood. The last person to see her sister alive. He's arrogant. Dangerous. Impossible to read. And, despite everything Isla knows about him, impossible to stay away from. When anonymous messages begin appearing at Isla's door, warning her to stop digging into the past, she realises someone is watching her. Someone knows what happened that night. And Roman knows more than he's telling her. As suspicion turns into attraction, and attraction becomes something neither of them can control, Isla finds herself caught between the man she should fear and the secrets she can't stop uncovering. Because the closer she gets to Roman, the more dangerous the truth becomes. And some things are buried for a reason. Some truths are deadlier than lies.

Naomi Kingston spent twenty-seven years as the reliable daughter, the competent employee, the invisible woman who kept everyone else's life running while her own slowly suffocated. When she finally walked away-quit her job, sold her things, bought a one-way ticket to Japan-she told herself she was running toward freedom. She did not expect to collide with a man whose entire existence was built on the exact things she had escaped: control, obligation, and inherited violence. Ryūji Kurogane was born into power, trained in blood, and married to a woman he respects but does not desire. He has spent a decade performing absolute control while quietly suffocating beneath it. He does not believe in rescue. He does not believe in redemption. He believes in power, loyalty, and the elimination of complications. Then Naomi Kingston walks into his nightclub, stares at him with an expression not of fear, and becomes the complication he cannot eliminate. What begins as escape becomes captivity. What begins as passion becomes obsession. And what begins as a single reckless night becomes a pregnancy that ties her to the most dangerous man in Osaka's criminal underworld. This man already has a wife, a dynasty, and a reputation for permanently removing obstacles. When an attack leaves Naomi with a shattered leg and forced dependence on the man she is trying not to need, the fragile structure of their connection collapses into something more honest and more dangerous than either anticipated. In a world of Yakuza violence, political marriages, and blood loyalty, two damaged people must decide whether love that begins in deception can ever become something true-and whether the freedom they both crave can survive the price of choosing each other. This is not a redemption story. It is a story about two people who see each other clearly-damage and all-and decide to stay. _RelleLebby_ // R. L.

She flew to Seville to save her family's future. She did not know what she was flying into. Kamilah Baptiste is sharp, composed, and prepared for an arranged marriage that will merge two resort empires and preserve everything her family has built. What she is not prepared for is the scale of what has already been constructed against her: a calculated campaign to make her walk away, a contract clause she was never shown that makes walking away impossible, and a man who is more dangerous because he has convinced himself he is justified. Diego Álvarez did not want this marriage. He had other plans and other loyalties. He deployed them without mercy. And he was very good at it. What neither of them planned was her. Tides of Torment is an international slow-burn romance with real darkness behind the luxury. Corporate warfare, buried secrets, psychological manipulation, betrayals from people who looked like allies, and a woman who refuses to be unmade by any of it. The story moves from the courtyards of Seville to the streets of Old Havana to the tango halls of Buenos Aires and back again, building heat slowly and deliberately until it is impossible to contain. The cruelty is real. The reckoning is real. So is what grows in the space between them when there is nothing left to hide behind. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Since she was fifteen, Ria Martin has known one unchangeable truth: she will marry Adrian Morgan. A man she has never met. A future she never chose. A vow she walks into not for love - but for survival. With her family's safety hanging by a fragile thread, the aisle becomes her only escape route. Adrian Morgan, heir to a global empire, has lived his life bound by duty and power. Arranged marriages are nothing new to him. But this bride is different. Why has she never reached out? Why does silence cling to her like armor? And what is she hiding that feels... dangerous? When fate finally binds them, carefully constructed lives begin to crack. Secrets surface. Old wounds bleed. And a quiet storm of betrayal, desire, and buried truths gathers beneath the calm of their union. ✨ Can love grow where trust is fractured? ✨ Can she survive the shadows closing in around her past? ✨ And can he become her refuge... when he may be the very reason she's in danger? A story of forced vows, hidden scars, and a love that dares to bloom where it was never meant to survive.

𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙼𝙸𝙳𝙳𝙻𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙾𝚂, 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴 𝚆𝙰𝚂 𝚈𝙾𝚄. HER: "You checked my personal information. I don't think agencies allow it." HIM: "The agency also doesn't allow adding false information to your documents, Miss grey-eyed girl." Aina Zainab was five years old the night her parents were murdered in front of her. Raised far from home by her adoptive dad, she's spent her whole life training for one purpose - finding the people responsible and the truth they buried with them. When infiltrating a secret agency's data room gets her recruited instead of arrested, she finds herself working under Huzaim Khan, the one agent sharp enough to see through every lie she told to get there. With her brother, her twin sister, an unofficial team no one is supposed to know exists, Aina digs into a years-old secret buried deep enough to kill for. But somewhere between the lies and the danger, the agent who once vowed to catch her becomes the one person she can't stop thinking about. "𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫."

> Mark Keifer Watson runs the city's underground. He never kills without reason. His silence is more terrifying than his anger. > > Jasper Jean Mariano aka Jay jay a literature student who wanted nothing to do with men like him. > > Until her brother vanished with Keifer's money. > > To save him, Jay Jay must live in Keifer's mansion for one year. > > *Rule 1: His study is off limits.* > *Rule 2: Don't lie to him. Ever.* > *Rule 3: Don't fall for him.* > > She breaks Rule 3 first. > > What starts as hatred turns into late-night arguments, stolen glances, and coffee cups left on desks. > > But Keifer has secrets. Dangerous ones. > And jay jay isn't a guest. > She's part of a game she doesn't understand yet. > Copyright © 2026 [mutya_lover]. All rights reserved. Do not copy, steal, or translate without permission.

From the outside, Ella and Harper live the kind of life people dream about. Stable income, a beautiful home, two children whom they both love dearly. A marriage that looks stable. But ordinary can turn into suffocation. Ella has lived her life for her family since the marriage: slowly losing herself in the process. On the other hand, Harper believes he's doing everything he can to provide for his "Perfect" Family. They both love each other dearly. At least, they have an illusion of love for each other. Their marriage unfolds in two different versions of their story: through both of their eyes. Where routine starts to feel lackluster. Where love, resentment, and the fear of starting over begin to lose their distinction. When little things begin to strain their relationship, the life they promised to create together starts to feel like a cage. What happens when two people can love each other and still feel trapped inside the relationship?

💙 Maynard High: Awkward Blue 💙 "He's running from legacy. She's fighting to be believed. Both are closer to the truth than they should be." Kael Lance was born into power, expectation, and control. When he finally pushes back, he's sent to Maynard High, a remote boarding school where discipline is strict, rules are absolute... and students don't always make it out. Siobhan Wildes has spent her time at Maynard trying to survive, its pressure, its silence, and the way people like her are easily pushed aside. But when she gets her hands on something she was never meant to see, she learns the truth: At Maynard, people don't just hide the truth, they disappear. And the ones who ask too many questions are next. As strange patterns begin to surface and reality starts to blur, Kael and Siobhan are pulled into something far bigger than school rules or social hierarchy. Because at Maynard, knowledge comes with a cost, and once you see it, there's no going back. In a world where secrets are controlled, loyalty is tested, and even your closest allies might turn on you, survival isn't about strength. It's about knowing when to look away. ...and when it's already too late. For fans of dark academia, boarding school drama, psychological horror, a little sports drama and slow-burn tension. Updates every Tuesday 💗

What happens when the person you can't stand is also the one you can't escape? Kashvi Rathore has always believed in one thing-never settle for second place. Brilliant, ambitious, and fiercely competitive, she's used to being at the top. But there's one person who has always managed to challenge her every step of the way. Reyansh Oberoi...Her biggest academic rival. The one person who can match her intelligence, challenge her ego, and annoy her within seconds. Because when the college doors close... their story looks very different. And when circumstances force them into situations they never expected, keeping secrets becomes harder, their rivalry becomes messier, and the line between what everyone sees and what actually happens behind closed doors begins to blur. But what exactly are they hiding? And why does it seem like there's much more to their rivalry than anyone knows? Will they be able to set their journey from enemies to lovers or will they just end up being good friends? Will they ever be friends even? They can't even tolerate each other so how much do they manage to survive? At times some secrets are meant to stay behind closed doors.

Some promises survive time. Others are written in blood. Lucian Valentino rules New York with fear, power, and one unbreakable rule: "Born in blood. Sworn in the shadows." To the world, he's a monster. To someone from his past... He was once just a boy. When fate reunites two souls separated by years, buried promises begin to resurface, secrets refuse to stay hidden, and love becomes the most dangerous weakness of all. In a world where loyalty is earned in blood and betrayal is paid for with death... Will a childhood promise be enough to survive the darkness? ♠️

The alarm didn't wake Shivam; the shift in his internal clock did. It was 4:30 AM. The apartment around him was pitch black, silent, and cold. He didn't turn on the overhead lights, preferring the sharp, sterile beam of his phone screen as he checked his emails. Three notifications from the intensive care unit. Two patient updates. A text from his chief of surgery. By 5:15 AM, Shivam was standing in the hospital locker room, pulling on a pair of faded blue scrubs. Even in the harsh fluorescent lighting, it was easy to see why people were drawn to him. He was striking-tall, with sharp, symmetrical features and a calm, commanding presence. But it was his eyes that truly defined him; they were wise and intensely perceptive, carrying the quiet gravity of someone who understood the fragile line between life and death. He tied his mask behind his head, stepped up to the metal sink, and began the ritual. Scrub. Scrub. Scrub. Water blasted against his forearms. He scraped under his fingernails with a plastic pick. In the operating room, there was no room for error, no room for microscopic dirt, and absolutely no room for hesitation. "Morning, Dr. Shivam," the scrub nurse muttered, her voice muffled by her mask as he walked into OR 3. "Patient is a sixty-two-year-old male. Triple bypass." "Let's begin," Shivam said, his voice dropping into that calm, authoritative register that everyone in the room relied on. For the next six hours, Shivam's world shrunk down to a five-inch opening in a human chest. The air conditioning hummed aggressively to keep the room at a steady 16°C, but a bead of sweat still formed on his brow. The rhythmic beep-beep-beep of the heart monitor was the metronome of his life. His fingers moved with terrifying precision-sewing arteries thinner than a strand of hair. Yet, for all his clinical perfection, Shivam's kindness was legendary in the wards. When the surgery was over and the patient was stable, he didn't just disappear to his office. He

Sarah King-Brown doesn't trust easily, she doesn't have the luxury. At twenty-eight, she commands one of the most powerful corporate empires in the world, she controls billions with a single decision, and walks through boardrooms with a precision that makes grown men rethink their words before speaking. Jordy Laurent lives in shadows, quiet, observant and dangerously unreadable, A man with blood on his hands, secrets in his past, and loyalties that could get them both killed. He was never supposed to notice her, never supposed to protect her and definitely never supposed to fall for her. But when accidents stop looking like accidents... when family starts feeling like the real threat... and when the line between desire and danger disappears; Sarah and Jordy are forced into a world where trust can cost everything... ...and love might be the deadliest choice of all. In a world built on power, what happens when the only man she can trust... comes from the shadows?

الجميع يعرف ميلانثا. قارئة التاروت اللطيفة ذات الوجه البريء، والابتسامة الهادئة، والقدرة الغامضة على رؤية ما يحاول الناس إخفاءه بشدة. يتابعها آلاف الأشخاص عبر الإنترنت من أجل قراءات حول الحب، وخيبات القلب، والأسرار، والمستقبل. ثم يجد إيفرين حسابها على تيك توك. هو لا يؤمن بالتاروت. لا يؤمن بالقدر، ولا بالتنبؤات، ولا بأي شيء لا يمكن إثباته. فبعد بضعة تعليقات ساخرة، يقرر أن يختبرها بنفسه. بلا اسم. بلا وظيفة. بلا أدلة. فقط هو، ومجموعة أوراق التاروت، وفرصة واحدة ليثبت أنها ليست سوى مخمّنة ماهرة. لكن عندما تقرأ ميلانثا أوراقه، تصيب في كل شيء. بدقة مبالغ فيها. ما بدأ كتحدٍّ بريء يتحول ببطء إلى شيء لا يستطيع أي منهما تفسيره. يبدأ إيفرين بالبحث عن أجوبة، بينما تبدأ ميلانثا بالقلق مما قد يكتشفه إن استمر في البحث. لأن الجميع يظن أنه يعرف ميلانثا. لكنهم لا يعرفونها. خلف الابتسامة الهادئة والوجه البريء يكمن سرٌّ قضت سنوات تحرص على ألا يكتشفه أحد. وهناك شيء واحد لم يُسمح لأوراقها أبدًا أن تكشفه. هى.