Silent Lies: An Age Gap Arranged Marriage Mafia Romance

There are moments that you know will haunt you forever, even if you live a thousand years. Those moments fundamentally shake your existence, changing the trajectory of your life. The new journey before you is one you never saw coming. One you couldn’t plan for. A path you’ve never seen. Whether karma or destiny, those moments are rarely of your own choosing.

Faced with one such moment, you know nothing will ever be the same. It becomes a nexus, a pinpoint in time where everything is thought of as “before” and “after.”

The heart will always take the blame because it can’t understand that the love it feels wasn’t enough to save a loved one from harm. And that’s okay, as long as the brain understands it.”

People say that loving someone is the most amazing feeling ever. It’s not. It is absolutely the worst. The more you love them, the more it’ll hurt when they’re gone.

“My kind?”

“The kind that could sleep through an earthquake and nuclear disaster combined. An alien invasion, too, probably.”

She might be a sneaky, scheming little spy, but she’s my spy.

“There is never ‘enough’ when it comes to ladies’ outfits,

I swear, this woman must have been a crow in her past life to be so captivated by shiny things.

The thing is, I don’t like cheerful people. No one can be happy all the time. If they act that way, they are either stupid or pretending.

Do they have a priest among them? What does the priest do, bless the drug containers?

“And you are my wife, so it’s expected that both you and your suitcases would be here.”