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Chapter 176: Aunt Sophia
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Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 176: Aunt Sophia
*Back in the Dining Room*Isabella stared at her cold coffee and tried to process the morning.Victor squeezed her arm gently."She's learning," he said quietly. "Karla is learning what it means to be part of this family. It's not easy for her.""I know," Isabella said. "But that doesn't make this any easier."Victor didn't respond. What could he say? That everything would be okay?He pulled Isabella closer and held her while she stared at her cold coffee and tried very hard not to cry.***One week in Rome felt like a month.Lyra had settled into a routine by necessity. Wake up. Check her phone. Make coffee. Check her phone again. Shower. Check her phone. The obsession with checking her phone had become a ritual, a desperate habit that she couldn't break even though she knew it was slowly driving her insane.She hadn't left the apartment much. Just enough to get groceries, to pick up necessities, to pretend she was living a normal life. The rest of the time, she stayed inside, moving
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The morning sunlight filtered through the dining room windows of the Nightbane estate, casting everything in warm, golden light.Isabella sat at the head of the long dining table, her coffee growing cold in front of her. She hadn't slept properly since Lyra left. Her face showed it, the dark circles under her eyes, the way her hands shook slightly as she lifted her coffee cup.Victor was beside her, reading the morning newspaper without really seeing the words. He was going through the motions of normalcy, but there was a tension in his jaw that hadn't been there before. They were waiting for Karla. She'd asked to have breakfast with them this morning. Something in her tone had suggested it was important.When Karla arrived, she was dressed impeccably in business casual, a crisp blouse and tailored pants. She looked composed, put-together, like she'd been rehearsing this conversation in her head since Lyra left yesterday.She sat down across from them and poured herself orange juice,
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 174: When will we be traveling to Rome?
She wanted to be strong for herself. She wanted to figure out who she was without him. She wanted to choose him from a place of wholeness, not desperation.And she was asking him...begging him, really, to give her space to do that.Damien read that section over and over.If he comes here, if he shows up at my door, I'm scared of what I'll do. I'm scared I'll just give in completely. And I need to figure out how to be me first.She was still his. She was across the world in Rome and she was still completely, utterly his. But she didn't want to be. Not yet. She wanted to earn her own wholeness first.It was the most selfless thing she could have asked for.And it was the most impossible thing she could have asked him to do.Damien stared at the screen and made a decision.He began typing, responding as DarkVeil.DARKVEIL: You asked me if I think he'll respect your need for space. The truth is, I don't know. But I think he'll try. I think loving someone means sometimes letting them go, e
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 173: And what do you want, Lyra?
Of course she knew that. She'd always known that. But hearing it stated so plainly, so simply, made it real in a way it hadn't been before.LYRA: I've ruined everything. I left him and my family and now I'm in Rome alone and I can't stop thinking about how much I've messed up.DARKVEIL: What do you want to do now?Lyra stared at that question for a long time.What did she want to do?She wanted to go back to bed. She wanted to wake up and find out this was all a nightmare. She wanted to be back in the penthouse with Damien, wrapped up in him, his darkness and his love and his possession all around her. She wanted to see her mother's face without seeing the disappointment. She wanted to undo the last forty-eight hours.But she couldn't do any of those things.LYRA: I don't know. For now I just want to get enough rest and clear my head. That's all. I can't think about any of this right now. I can't figure out what comes next. I just need time.DARKVEIL: That's fair. You need to take car
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 172: The Chat With DarkVeil
That night, she tried to sleep but couldn't.The apartment was too quiet. Too empty. The bed felt wrong without him. The silence pressed down on her like a physical weight.She got up and went to the kitchen, poured herself a glass of water, stared at it without drinking.Her phone sat on the counter, dark and silent. She'd turned off notifications so she wouldn't be tempted to check if Damien had messaged again.But she wanted him to. God, she wanted him to.She wanted him to call and demand that she come back. Wanted him to be possessive and controlling and refuse to accept her running. Wanted him to show up at her apartment and drag her back to New York and force her to deal with the consequences of her choices.Because that was the Damien she knew. That was the man who always got what he wanted.But this version of Damien, the version who respected her choices and took care of her from a distance and let her go, was somehow more devastating.She went back to the living room and sa
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 171: Back To Rome
The taxi pulled away from Fiumicino Airport, leaving Lyra behind in the chaos of the arrivals hall.She stood there for a moment, her suitcase beside her, completely disoriented. Around her, travelers moved with purpose, families reuniting, businessmen rushing to meetings, people who knew where they were going.Lyra had no idea where she was.Or rather, she knew where she was geographically. She was in Rome. She was back in the city that had been her sanctuary once before, when she was twenty and running away from her life in New York.But emotionally, she was completely lost.She pulled out her phone and ordered an Uber, watching as the app calculated the distance to her apartment. Seventeen minutes away. She'd lived there for two years before moving back to New York. She'd once bult a life here before.The apartment was hers. She'd kept it when she went back to the States. Had paid the rent every month even though she wasn't there, because some part of her had known that she might n
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"The Mercers. They were good people. Are good people." Karla's eyes filled with fresh tears. "They passed away six months ago. Car accident. That's when I did the DNA test. I had no one left and I just... I needed to know if there was anyone out there who shared my blood."Isabelle made a soft soun
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LYRA POV:The plane touched down at JFK with a jolt that matched the anxiety thrumming through Lyra's veins.She'd barely slept during the flight, her mind spinning with questions her mother refused to answer over the phone. Urgent. Family matter. Need you home. The words had echoed through her hea
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Her phone screen glowed accusingly in the darkness, her shameful confession staring back at her. With shaking hands, she minimized the app and clutched the phone to her chest, heart hammering so hard she thought it might break through her ribs.Footsteps on the stairs.Light, measured and feminine.
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 1: The Anonymous Friend
Lyra's fingers trembled as she typed, the blue glow of her phone the only light in her darkened bedroom.LyraNight: I thought about him again today. God, I'm so fucked up.She held her breath, waiting. The three dots appeared almost immediately....her anonymous stranger always responded, no matter
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