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Chapter Thirty -Nine
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Sleeping With My Billionaire Step-Brother Chapter Forty
Fiona:I pushed myself up from the cold floor where Rafael had left me broken and aching. My legs trembled as I walked to the bed and collapsed onto the mattress that still smelled like my childhood. The tears came in waves that I couldn't control anymore."I love him." The words escaped in a broken whisper to the empty room. "I'm in love with Rafael and I've destroyed everything."My chest felt like it was caving in on itself. I pressed my face into the pillow to muffle the sobs that were ripping through me. Every part of my body still burned from his touch. Every cell screamed for him to come back and finish what he started.But he never would. I had made sure of that with every lie that fell from my mouth tonight.The realization hit me like a physical blow. I was completely alone. Zoe was dying in a hospital bed because of me. Rafael hated me because of the lies I had been forced to tell. I had no one left who cared whether I lived or died."Zoe." Her name came out as a sob. "I mi
Sleeping With My Billionaire Step-Brother Chapter Thirty -Nine
Fiona:"Fiona, darling, you must be exhausted." Carmela's voice floated from the kitchen as I stepped through the back door, where I had left Rafael, her forced warmth hitting me like a slap I didn't want to acknowledge.The smell of roasted chicken and garlic filled the air, rich and calculated in a way that made my chest tighten. She had cooked. She had prepared what she probably thought was some peace offering like we were family instead of strangers living in the same house."I made dinner. Roasted chicken with herbs." Carmela appeared in the doorway, wiping her hands on a dish towel, her face arranged in that careful expression of hope she always wore around me. "I thought you might be hungry after such a difficult day."Difficult day. As if she had any idea what my day had actually been like. As if she knew about Zoe fighting for her life in a hospital bed or the impossible choice Robert had forced me to make."I'm not hungry.""Of course you are. You've gotten too thin. I can s
Sleeping With My Billionaire Step-Brother Chapter Thirty -Eight
Rafael:The elevator doors closed behind me with a soft whisper. My reflection stared back from the polished metal, but the man looking back seemed like a stranger. Same expensive suit, same face that had graced business magazines for years. But something fundamental had shifted.I had made my choice.The words still reeled in my mind like a bell that would not stop ringing. I choose her. I choose Fiona. I choose her over legacy, heart over heritage, the woman who challenged me over the man who had given me my life.The decision had crystallized the moment Dad walked out of my office. Twenty-four hours to choose between the family that shaped me and the woman who awakened something I had not known existed. But it had not taken twenty-four hours. It had taken twenty-four minutes of staring out my office window, thinking about what kind of man I wanted to be.I wanted to be worthy of what I felt for Fiona. The kind of man who would fight for what mattered instead of hiding behind obliga
Sleeping With My Billionaire Step-Brother Chapter Thirty-Seven
Fiona:"Hello?" I said who the owner of the number was."Is this Fiona?"The voice was male, older, unfamiliar. My heart hammered against my ribs. "Who is this?""My name is Dr. Jude. I'm calling from St. Mary's General Hospital. I have a patient here who had your number listed as her emergency contact."The world tilted. "What patient?""She goes by the name Zoe. She was brought in early this morning after being found at a fire scene. She's been asking for you."I couldn't breathe. The air in Rafael's bedroom felt thin, like I was drowning in it. "She's alive?""She's alive, but her condition is critical. You need to come immediately.""I'll be right there." I was already moving, grabbing clothes from Rafael's closet, pulling on jeans that were too long for me. "What happened to her? How did you find her?""A search and rescue team found her under debris this morning. She's suffered severe smoke inhalation and partial burns, but that's not our primary concern right now.""What is you
Sleeping With My Billionaire Step-Brother Chapter Thirty -Six
Fiona:Sleep was impossible. I spent the entire morning staring at the ceiling of Rafael's bedroom, my body still humming from the memory of his touch while my mind replayed his devastating words over and over again. You've never had anything to lose. The phrase carved itself deeper into my chest with each repetition, like a blade twisting in an old wound.I had kicked him out of his own bedroom, and part of me wanted to march down that hallway and kick him out of his own house too. The other part of me wanted to find him and make him explain how he could hold me so tenderly one moment and then dismiss my entire life of loss the next.The silk sheets smelled like him. Like that intoxicating blend of expensive cologne and something uniquely Rafael that made my body respond even when my heart was breaking. I pressed my face into his pillow, breathing him in despite myself, hating how much I wanted him even now.My phone buzzed on the nightstand. I grabbed it, hoping against hope that it
Sleeping With My Billionaire Step-Brother Chapter Thirty -Five
Rafael:The door slammed shut behind me with such force that the artwork on the hallway walls trembled. I stood there like an idiot, staring at my own bedroom door, wondering how the hell I had managed to get kicked out of my own house by a woman wrapped in a bedsheet.My chest felt hollow. Empty. Like someone had reached inside and yanked out everything that mattered.She was right about everything. Every single word she had thrown at me was true, and that made it hurt ten times worse.I walked down the hallway to my spare bedroom, each step feeling like I was walking through quicksand. My hands shook as I turned the doorknob. The room was pristine, untouched, exactly how the interior designer had left it two years ago when I bought this place.Cold. Impersonal. Everything my life had become without Fiona in it.I grabbed my phone and dialed Marcus before I could lose my nerve."Jesus Christ, it's barely seven in the morning," Marcus answered, his voice thick with sleep. "This better
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