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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
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Lovely Little Liar Chapter 77
ARIANNA POVHis back was to me when I said it.He had found his shirt, and was buttoning it quickly. I watched him from the bed and felt the sentence sitting in my chest like something I had been holding underwater, and finally I let it surface."Nikolai."He turned his head slightly, just enough to show he was listening."I want to leave," I said again. "Now that Noah is back, I want to take him and go. I think it's time."My heartbeat was extraordinary. I could feel it in my throat, my wrists, the backs of my hands. I had rehearsed this sentence approximately forty times in the last two days and it still came out sounding like something I was confessing rather than requesting.He went very still, like a man thinking. I watched it move through his shoulders and his jaw and the way he held himself when something had landed that he hadn't prepared for.I had wanted tonight.I needed to be honest with myself about that, at least in the privacy of my own head, because Noah was safe and N
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 76
Nikolai POVThe taste of her lingered on my lips, soft, warm, and far too dangerous. Arianna had kissed me like she meant it, then walked away with that teasing promise hanging in the air between us. I sat there for several long seconds, frozen in the dining room chair, my mind reeling. My cock had other ideas. It surged to life instantly, thickening and hardening until it strained painfully against the confines of my trousers. The ache was immediate and insistent, a heavy throb that demanded attention. What the hell was that? I hadn’t expected her to initiate anything, not after everything that had happened. Not after the fear, the rescue, the fragile truce we’d been dancing around. Part of me—the rational part—knew I should stay seated. Let her have this moment and keep control. But lust was already roaring through my veins, drowning out reason. *Fuck it.* I stood up, the chair scraping against the floor, and followed her. Four steps behind, close enough to catch the faint s
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 75
ARIANNA POVI didn't let go for a long time, I just held him, my arms around his small body, my chin on top of his head, feeling him breathe. Three days I had spent imagining the worst things a mind could produce and now here he was, real, and I couldn't make myself loosen my grip because some part of me was still not convinced that letting go was safe.Noah didn't complain.He held on just as hard, his small fingers curled into the back of my shirt, his face pressed into my shoulder. We stayed like that without talking because there wasn't anything that needed saying yet, just this, just the fact of him being here and me being here and both of us knowing what the last three days had been.Then his stomach growled loudly, and we both froze.Then Noah pulled back and looked at me with an expression of profound personal betrayal directed at his own body, I laughed, and he started laughing too, and across the room I heard Nikolai make a sound that was not quite a laugh but was something
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 74
THIRD PERSON POV Arande had just set the wine glass down when her phone rang.She had been sitting on the edge of her bed in the quiet of her room, freshly showered, her hair loose. The glass of red wine had been a small reward to herself. She picked up the phone and looked at the screen and the satisfaction evaporated.The caller was one of the kidnappers.She answered immediately, her voice low. "What.""They found us." The man was breathing hard, like he was still moving. "Petrov's men… they had the place surrounded before we even knew they were there. We got out through the back window but the boy …" there was a pause. "The boy is with them. They have him."Arande said nothing.The glass left her hand before she had consciously decided to throw it. It crossed the room and hit the wall and came apart, the red wine spreading down the pale surface in a slow crawl, glass scattered across the floor."How," she said. Her voice was very controlled for what was happening inside it. "How
Lovely Little Liar chapter 73
THIRD PERSONNoah had stopped counting the cracks in the ceiling.There were eleven of them, and he had memorised each one because staring at them was better than staring at the door or listening to the men in the next room laugh at things he didn't understand. He lay curled on his side with his knees pulled up, his wrists still tender from the rope even though they had taken it off hours ago, and he cried quietly because his mother had always said it was okay to cry as long as you kept thinking at the same time.He was trying to keep thinking."Mama," he whispered, to the ceiling. "Where are you?"She didn't answer. She couldn't hear him. She was somewhere that wasn't here, and here was a room that smelled badly with a door he couldn't open and voices beyond it that belonged to people who had grabbed him from behind in the trees when he was only trying to see where the rabbit went.He pressed his face into the pillow.She had tucked him in two nights ago — it felt like longer but he
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 72
ARIANNA POVEverywhere was quiet when I woke up. It felt like something was different. I lay still for a moment with my eyes closed, and the weight of it came down all at once.Noah.Two days.I turned over. Nikolai's side of the bed was cold, his jacket was gone from the chair. I had fallen asleep angry at him and woken up to find myself alone in the room, which should have been fine, but something about the cold sheets made the fear come back faster than I was ready for.The night before came back in pieces. His hand on mine. His voice, steady, saying things I hadn't fully believed but had held onto anyway because there was nothing else to hold. I had not wanted him there. I had also been glad he was there and refused to admit it, and now he was gone and the cabin was quiet and Noah had been missing for two days.I sat up, then I waited.An hour passed, maybe more. I watched the light through the curtain move from pale to brighter and my thoughts moved in circles that kept landing i
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 3
Arianna's Pov I stared at him. A second passed, then another. The seconds stretched at the edges because my brain refused to process what it just heard."You're married," I said, not as a question, but to process what I had just heard."I'm aware." He responded like it meant nothing."You're stand
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 2
Arianna's Pov:Voss's wife? Was Nikolai married? When?I kept questioning myself. I didn't move, I didn't speak, I just stood there with the tray in my hands and the silence pressing in from every direction, and I told myself to breathe.Asher, the guy who had just said something about Voss's wif
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 1
Arianna's Pov The first thing I noticed when I woke up that morning was Noah's breathing. It was wet and sounded like he was having difficulty breathing. I pressed my hand to his forehead, and the heat burning through my palm confirmed what I already feared. He was running a fever. "Mama." His
Lovely Little Liar Chapter 4
Arianna's Pov By the time I knew what was happening, Nikolai crossed the room in three tides, cornering me, my back hitting the wall with a full force, his left hand on my waist, the right one resting on my neck deliberately. His lips found mine like he had been hungry for this, and had waited
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