Lahat ng Kabanata ng One Night's Mistake: Claimed by my Boyfriend's Brother.: Kabanata 141 - Kabanata 150

Christian still isn’t back.A sigh leaves my lips as I stare at the door, and the same thought I’ve been having for the past hour flies through my head again. Maybe I should leave the romantic gestures to Christian and just sleep.I thought waiting up for him would be cute and sweet, we could fall asleep together, listening to each other’s heartbeats and dozing off to the sound of each other breathing.I don’t want to stare at the clock again but my eyes flick to it anyway. The soft glow of the numbers only taunts me.Past midnight.It’s well past midnight, and the quiet of the city is all I can hear through the window. I don’t even think cars are driving past anymore, and that says one thing.Christian isn’t coming back home tonight. At least not here.I’m trying not to feel disheartened but the disappointment sits on my chest like a stone.He did say he had things to handle and I know that, but how long can handling those things possibly take? He can’t be handling matters at the off

Estel packs her laptop up immediately and pulls out her phone, dialing a number as she does so and breathing loudly as she waits for the line to pick up.I, on the other hand… I’m standing with my heart in my mouth and cold in my bones. I don’t… I don’t understand what’s happening.End Her?That can’t mean me can it?I must have asked that question out loud because Estel whips her head to me with a look of disbelief in her eyes as she asks, “You don’t think that message was referring to you? Even when it had your date of birth encrypted in it?”Tears of fear spring to my eyes immediately but I try to sound as brave as I can while I respond, “It doesn’t make sense for it to be me. Why… why would a crime syndicate have anything to do with me? I’m not a criminal.”Estel’s voice is foreboding as she responds directly, “You’re worse, Lyra.” The silence that falls is like a slap to my mind, waking it up and bringing me to the stark reality of what’s happening as Estel continues, “You’re a t

Everything in me seems to shake at the sound of Christian’s voice, like water on a lake when a stone has been abruptly thrust into it.For a moment I don’t believe it.I think it’s my mind that’s simply playing games on me, but the intruders never spoke. I don’t think they were ever planning to.They were planning to stay silent and kill me, then go back where they came from, nameless. Right now, the voice that comes from behind the door is soft and urgent.“Lyra. Are you in there, Lyra?”Estel asks me who that is in a sharp whisper but I tell her to shush and make my way slowly but steadily to the door.It sounds like Christian. Whoever this person is sounds like Christian Storm but no matter how fast I want to believe that, I know it’s not wise to be so ready to accept that.It could be Christian, or it could be someone who just sounds like Christian. I don’t know if calling out to him would be wise or if keeping quiet will do me any good so I scramble through my mind for a question

When I wake up again in the morning, it all feels wrong from the second I open my eyes.I couldn’t sleep much and right now I’m feeling the effects of that. The bedroom is too bright, the sounds of guards standing outside the room are too sharp, it feels like I can hear them breathing, and that’s weird since I’m sure it’s all just in my mind.Christian’s guards are usually silent as stone. They must have learnt it from him since that’s all I could think of for the remainder of last night. His silence.My head is aching now and for a moment I want that ache to simply die. For a moment I think maybe it was a nightmare, that my apartment isn’t destroyed and Christian isn’t out there somewhere, staring at the ceiling as he thinks about all the words we said last night, but then the door clicks open and I sit up in the bed immediately.Estel walks in, a tired look in her eyes as she logs her phone in my direction. Her face is pale but the expression in her eyes is a mix of something betwee

Everything is happening fast. Too fast than I can keep track of it.Lyra's voice wavers at the end and I rub the back of my neck, a bit of awkwardness filling the room.We still haven’t sorted out the issue of the press. Faye and her family have made their move, and now, Lyra has a suspicion that could end up with her questioning her whole life and who she really is. This is the kind of situation that would have me going for hunting in the mountains or an escape to the countryside, but I don’t want to do that.I don’t want to do that without Lyra.I let out a slow breath and paste a rare smile on my face, “Maybe you and Estel should stay at one of my safehouses. Just until I clear this mess.The location is safe and secure, and living there would give you the time and peace to figure things out. Things about your family for example.”A suspicious kind of smile lights up on Lyra’s face, “You’re trying to distract me, Christian Storm.”I don’t deny it but I don’t admit it either.“If tha