All Chapters of Fated to my 4 bully Stepbrothers: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

~Valeria~"Your father is dead, Valeria. Has been for years. Whatever child like fantasies you've built up about him in your head, whatever fairy tales your mother might have told you, the reality is that he left and never came back.""But the documents...""Are none of your business." His voice was sharp now, all pretense of patience gone. "Whatever you think you saw, whatever co

~Valeria~"Can I think about it?""Of course. But the event is this Saturday, so don't think too long.""Saturday as in three days from now?""Is that a problem?"

~Valeria~I'd been staring at my bedroom ceiling for the past three hours, but every time I closed my eyes, I saw Elena Blackwood's knowing smile and heard her voice asking about my "unusual dreams."The woman knew. She fucking knew something about me, about my family, about whatever the hell was happening to me. And I'd just stood there like a deer in headlights, letting Landon rescue me instead of demanding answers.

~Valeria~Twenty-four hours later, I was sitting across from Marcus Thornfield the Second because of course he had a "the Second" in his name, wondering if it was possible to die from boredom."So then I told my golf instructor that my swing was off because I'd been thinking about quarterly targets," Marcus said, cutting his steak with so much concentration like a perfect surgeon. "Business never stops, you know?""

~Valeria~"I never asked for this so-called power that I know nothing of. I never asked for any of you to... to feel whatever you feel about me.""But you have it. And you know how to twist things up in your favor because tell me how you got four brothers falling for you in such a short time?""The same brothers who bullied me at first? You seem to forget that you were the mastermind of everything from the start. You hated me for no reason, now here you are preaching to me about what?!" I spat.Alerion's jaw tightened. "I didn't hate you," he said in that calm, controlled voice that drag my hair from my scalp. "I was protecting my family.""From what? From me? A little girl who just wanted to fit in somewhere? Did you ever stop to think that I never wanted to be here in the first place?” "I know and that was the major reason you were bound to bring in drama. One that would sabotage this family and my dad would be forced to part ways with your mother so you can have her back to yourse