All Chapters of MARRYING MY STEP-SISTER'S GROOM : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

I laid in his bed, my body wrapped around dark sheets. My mind lost as I listened to the sound of the shower running from the bathroom.He fulfilled his promise, taking me hard and fast, and I savored every moment.The sound of Ethan’s ringing tone brought me out of my thoughts. Allowing curiosity to get the best of me, I reached out to pick it up.“What are you doing?” Ethan’s deep voice came, making me flinch in shock. Wrapped with only a towel around his waist, he came out of the bathroom. His ripped figure dripped with water.He moved toward the bed, swiping his phone away before my fingers could touch it, his face stoic and expressionless.Picking up the call, he moved to the balcony to answer. My fist clenched, my chest burned with a sensation I could hardly explain. I had seen the caller ID clearly ‘Little one,’ and there was only one person he called that: Jennifer.“I’m coming right now,” he said as he walked back into the room still on the phone. He ended the call, movin

There was only one person who I knew looked like that and that was—Vivian.“Thank you,” I whispered to my landlord, squeezing a couple of dollar notes into his hands as I rushed inside our old apartment.The musky smell of dust was the first thing to greet me immediately after I stepped inside. I walked into the small space which I converted into a room for my mum in the past. After searching each and every corner of the room, I still found nothing, not one document about the Harnes inheritance. My eyes landed on my mothers old journal, and I stretched my hand to pick it up.She always wrote in this old thing, and she valued it more than her life. I remember trying to throw it away once and she completely lashed out at me.I wonder what she wrote in here, that made her too busy to actually take care of me.I flipped through the book’s contents reading how my mother described her failed love life with my father.My eyes widened in shock when I read the contents of the next page.“My

“Please Jennifer, I don't have time for this, I am currently in grave danger. People are looking for me, they are going to…” “Oh shut the hell up Leah. And so what if you are in danger, deal with it yourself. I see no reason why you should involve my future husband. Ethan is currently still asleep in my bed, we had a long, wild night,” She said smugly. And immediately my phone beeped with a notification.I opened it to see Jennifer had sent me a picture of Ethan shirtless on a bed, with a blanket around his waist. He looked so peacefully asleep. So he really spent the night. That's why he never came back last night. My heart trembled in pain—seeing the evidence clearly although I had already known made it hurt worse.“There she is, drag her to me, we'll teach her a lesson, that’ll mark her for life,” a voice shouted. My body shook and the phone fell from my hands.“Please, please Jennifer i beg you. Inform Ethan, or please help me yourself, these people might kill me,” I pleaded th

“I’m sorry, Leah. I’m so fucking sorry,” Xavier said as he held me tightly to his chest, kissing my hair softly, while muttering sorry continuously.My mind barely recognized that I was being held by the same man that I had loved since childhood, the same man that broke my heart into pieces sleeping with my sister. The very man that was currently working with my stepmother to destroy me. I could barely think of all his misdeeds and shortcomings towards me. All I needed now was comfort, and he was there to provide it for me.I leaned into his hold, completely breaking down as I wailed for my little baby—the child I never got a chance to hold, and worst of all, I was never given the opportunity to watch it grow inside of me. He held me tightly to his chest caressing my head while I cried. My tears dampened his button-down shirt but he did not seem to mind because he tightened his hold around my waist, still muttering sorry.I don’t know how long I stayed there for, or when my tears fi

“Take the child and kill it, a woman like her does not deserve to bear a child and worst be a mother,” one of them said, and immediately my baby was snatched from me.I shouted, screaming and begging for mercy as they tossed my child on the floor. They held my hands and legs down on the ground making me unable to move.I watched her—she carried a huge rock, kicking my baby to her feet. Raising her hands holding the rock up, she slammed it down on my babyMy baby’s piercing cry of pain, along with mine echoed, as I jolted awake.“It’s okay, Leah. It’s okay, it’s just a dream,” I heard Xavier's voice come through the darkness.“My…my baby. Xavier, they…they… took my baby, they are going to kill him,” I stammered through my words, my entire body trembling from fear.“I’m sorry Leah,” he said softly.“No…no…no you don’t understand. They took my baby Xavier, she took him. I saw her. She wants to kill him. Please save my child, Xavier. I’m your friend right, for the sake of our relations