All Chapters of My Billionaire Rebound: Chapter 71 - Chapter 76

ALINA“Is everything okay?” Theon’s concerned voice came over the receiver instantly, switching from the teasing lilt it had just a moment ago.A heavy sigh escaped my lips. “Maybe.”Silence greeted me for a while and I had to pull the phone off my ear to see if the call had disconnected. It hadn’t. I pressed the device back against my ear and held on, willing him to give me a response.He finally spoke over the silence. “You wouldn’t sigh like that if everything was okay.”Damn, he knew me so well. My knees buckled at the dominance in that simple observation, the way he so casually called me out on my bullshit.“It’s not some girls night or anything,” I confessed. “She needs me right now and I have to be here for her.”He sighed. “I get that. Well, I guess I’ll just see you tomorrow then.”“Extend my love to Grandpa,” I called, laughing as he groaned.When the call clicked off, I felt like I had suddenly gotten grounded in a reality that wasn’t so difficult anymore. I held the phone

THEONI was still feeling more than I wanted to feel, and most of it was in the hallways of anger. My eyes stayed stuck on Casey as she made a huge show of dragging her suitcase down the stairs. Her attention was back on the task now that she was done telling us off, and for some reason all the remorse I had felt earlier for talking to her the way I had died and reignited as anger that wasn’t going anywhere soon.“Can you put aside your emotions and act like an adult with real life problems for once in your bratty life, Casey?” I quipped, my voice dripping with enough annoyance to halt her movement and have her stop mid-flight.She shot me a dark look. “And who the hell do you think you are to be making comments like that, Theon?”This was the first time she had used my full name since she came back into my life like a cancer that refuses to die. The fire in her eyes would have been another dead giveaway to how she felt if this one telltale didn’t sit between us like a wall.“This is

THEONMy hand hovered over the phone, fingers itching with the need to grab it and put a call through to Alina. T had been hours, so many, since she ran out of bed like I had burned her or something, framing an excuse about having an early shift even though we both knew what she wanted was space to process the conversation from last night.To be fair, I felt like shit too. I mean, we were just trying to get our relationship off the ground, and here I was returning home with a long face because I found my ex-fiancée fucking my cousin. I would be pissed too if I was her.I needed to give her a proper explanation, one that clarified that my feelings were not spun from jealousy, but disrespect. It wasn’t even aimed at Casey, it was aimed at Bryon, the one who I believed should have known better than to frolic around with someone with whom I had once had a very serious, very disastrously ended relationship.She made it clear that she was only after the prestige that came with my leading Da