All about love at first sight, deceptions,betrayal, lies and romance.
Chapter 1 ROOTS OF DECEPTION
Some people grow up surrounded by love-messy, unconditional, the kind that holds you even when you don't deserve it.
Eve Carter and Caleb Sinclair learnt that love is just a word of disappointment
Their worlds were nothing alike. Their lives should have never touched.
But fate doesn't care about should or shouldn't.
And by the time they met, they were already doomed.
EVE
Eve Carter never believed in the word love.
Because she had watched her mother fall in love over and over again, only to end up crying at the kitchen table, with the same excuses. "He's just scared, baby. He just needs time."
Time never changed anything, the men still left, the bills still piled up, and Margaret Carter still loved like a fool-so blindly, so completely, that Eve grew up wondering if her mother loved the pain just as much as she loved the men who caused it.
By the time Eve was fifteen, she had already promised herself two things:
She would never fall in love with a man who didn't deserve it and that she won't be a mother
And for a while, she didn't.
She went to college, moved to the city, and built a life that didn't rely on anyone but herself. She worked as a freelance illustrator, designing book covers and commissions for clients she'd never meet in real life. It wasn't glamorous, but it was hers.
Her apartment was tiny, her fridge was mostly empty, and sometimes the loneliness crept in late at night when the world was too quiet.
But it was better than waiting by the phone for someone who would never call.
Better than love so she thought.
Then she met Caleb Sinclair.
And everything she believed about love-and about herself-began to unravel.
CALEB
Caleb Sinclair was raised to believe that love was nothing more than leverage.
His father, William Sinclair, was the kind of man who shook hands with politicians, smiled at cameras, and ruined people's lives before breakfast. He didn't waste time with emotions. He owned people. Controlled them.
"People only stay loyal when they're afraid to leave," his father used to say. "Never forget that, son."
Caleb never forgot.
His mother, Eleanor, was a different kind of tragedy. She played the role of the perfect wife, wearing silk dresses and diamonds like armor, smiling at charity galas while her husband just ignores and kept her aside like an expensive painting decoration.
Caleb saw the way she faded over the years. The way she shrank herself to fit inside a life that was never really hers.
Promise me, she used to whisper to him late at night, when the house was silent. "Promise me you won't end up like your father, he had promised but deep down he knew better.
By twenty-eight, Caleb had built a life exactly the way his father had taught him to-with charm, power, and just enough lies to keep people wanting more.
He knew how to be exactly what people wanted him to be. He could make women fall in love with a smile, win deals with a handshake, and walk away from both without looking back.
Love? was just a game and currency to him, not until he met her
Until Eve Carter walked into his life and made him wonder what it would feel like to stop pretending.
THEIR WORLDS COLLIDE
Eve didn't believe in love.
Caleb didn't believe in honesty.
They should have never met. But one ordinary night, in a place neither of them was supposed to be, they did.
And neither of them would ever be the same again.
Because the thing about love is-it doesn't ask for permission.
And the thing about lies?
They don't stay buried forever.
Chapter 1 ROOTS OF DECEPTION
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Chapter 2 THE FIRST MISTAKE
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Chapter 3 THE FIRST LIE
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Chapter 4 SOMETHING TOO PERFECT
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Chapter 5 THE FIRST REAL CRACK
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Chapter 6 THE SECOND LIE
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Chapter 7 THE FIRST SLIP
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Chapter 8 THE WARNING
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Chapter 9 A TRUTH SHE DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW
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Chapter 10 THE BEGINING OF THE END
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Chapter 11 WHEN GHOSTS WON'T STAY GONE
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Chapter 12 THE LIE SHE CAN'T IGNORE
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Chapter 13 THE TRUTH SHE WANTED & THE LIE SHE BELIEVED
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Chapter 14 THE POINT OF NO RETURN
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Chapter 15 A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
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Chapter 16 NOTHING LEFT BETWEEN THEM
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Chapter 17 THE MORNING AFTER
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Chapter 18 THE FIRST REAL WARNING
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Chapter 19 THE BETRAYAL
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