All Chapters of A Billionaire's Dirty Secrets (Secret Sins Club Book 1): Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

“You should forgive him and let him rest in peace,” he softly said. My lips trembled at his words. No one had said kind words about my father the way he did. I did know he’d respected him. That those few times I talked to him about my itay, he knew things I didn’t think he did. He’d said before that he had been so fascinated with my father that every time adults around him talked about him when he was still a kid, he would listen intently. He was already making me feel better. “You must stop feeling bad about his death and let him go. Now, imagine if he knew about the nightmares. He wouldn’t like you going through them. The way he’d felt about you and been protective of you and your mother, it would hurt him so badly to know his death resulted in something like this. It will break his heart, Elise.” Of course, he knew what he was talking about. I couldn’t complain because he had terribly lost someone, too. Gian knew about nightmares as much as I did. “You’ve had the same nightmares

I smiled and relaxed in my seat and thought of where I was going to start my story. That was when Jase sauntered in. Alia glared at her cousin, too. I already was. He really had to come back as soon as Alia knew. That didn’t stop Alia from smacking him and pinching on an arm and blaming him for not calling her about the injury last night because he could have fetched her from work. “So there was a meltdown, huh?” Jase asked while he rubbed the abused part. Then he shrugged. “I never had any training about cousins on meltdown but I assumed my other cousin here has the experience many times,” he teased, but his touch on the top of my head was gentle. “Meds?” “Need to eat first.” “I’ll help with breakfast. What do I do?” So he and Alia cooked and watched over me as I ate everything they spooned to my plate. I took my meds as soon as I had a few mouthfuls of food in my stomach so pretty soon, the pain of my injuries started to dull, too. I told them what happened in between the rema

About thirty minutes later that I had come back to bed when my mother called. And I hadn’t recovered from that call when Brandon also called. As I put the phone to my ear, I was distracted. Inay was so angry after finding out what happened to me that she was crying on the phone. I could imagine that Gian had felt obligated to report. It was something he thought my parents had a right to know, and he would do the right thing even if it would make him look bad. I should have known because it was a classic Gian move! But there it went, and I felt as distraught as my mother, sister, and my stepfather when I assured them all that what they could see on the video call weren’t as painful as they looked, especially the black eye. Thank god Anna had the flu. Well, I wasn’t grateful Anna had the flu, but because it held my parents from jumping onto a ferry to come here. My sister was the best. She acted nauseous on cue after I gave her one of our customized SOS finger signs so they had to termi

IT was the middle of the afternoon and I had just taken a bath when Alia informed me Gian was in the living room. It was just a simple, strapless house dress, really, to avoid her cuts to rub on cloth as much as possible. But I wore a strapless bra before I came out to the living room where Gian was waiting for me because I still felt like the biggest panicky ball everytime I would remember he had seen my breasts naked. Acting like nothing more than the usual unusual happened last night like him seeing my boobs—Will you please stop?!—I was even smiling when I got there. “I didn’t think you'd come back because it’s a Sunday. Checking on... me?” I stopped and gaped at a Gian in ripped jeans, a white V-necked t-shirt, and sneakers. Sneakers. His hair wasn’t even combed smoothly, his soft curls were not in control so it looked like an overgrown nest except it looked quite expensive. He wasn’t wearing a jacket so I could see his muscled pecs, and he really looked… good. Deliciously goo

We were quiet as Mang Karding drove us up to Tagaytay. Gian got busy on his laptop as soon as the trip started while I listened to an audiobook on my iPhone. But I couldn't focus. I was thinking. Not about that awkward moment I had with Gian in my room. I was overthinking something else to avoid thinking about that. I pulled my earphones out and turned my attention to him. "Gian?" He raised his eyes from the screen of the laptop and looked at me, his eyes still unfocused, his mind still on whatever he was working on there. "Can you come with me tonight to the Schultzes?" "Is it going to be a personal visit or—" "I wanna break up with him. If he’s there then he’s lying to me and it could be happening for a long time now. He knew I wanted to break up, but I felt he was avoiding me." His eyes were suddenly focused on me. He let a few moments pass before he spoke carefully. "I'm sorry to hear that. I had hoped he would be a good boyfriend to you." "It's okay. It was my 'yes' that he g