บททั้งหมดของ 365 Nights, Two Stepbrothers, One Me.: บทที่ 41 - บทที่ 50

Serena was still on top of him when she felt his hand shift under her and reach for the nightstand. She knew what that meant before she even looked. His phone. Her whole body went stiff for a second because if Ethan checked that phone right now, the first thing he would see was a message or a call from Lilla, and that was the one thing Serena could not let happen, not yet, not when she still had a job to finish. She leaned down instead and pressed her mouth to his neck, and she felt him groan under her, his hand pausing halfway to the phone. "I think I need to check my phone," he said, breathless, his fingers already curling around it. Serena lifted her head and looked at him for a second too long before she moved fast, and knocked the phone clean out of his hand. It hit the floor with a small thud and she sat back on her heels, her chest rising and falling like she had just run somewhere instead of just lying there. Ethan stared at her for a long moment, his eyes searc

Ethan lifted Lila up like she weighed nothing, his strong arms wrapped around her waist and under her thighs. He carried her a few steps to his bed and laid her down gently on the soft sheets. The room was quiet except for their breathing, and the only light came from the small lamp on his nightstand, making everything soft and warm. He climbed onto the bed after her, his body hovering over hers as his eyes searched her face. Neither of them said the words they were both thinking. Instead, Ethan leaned down and kissed her again, It started slow, just lips pressing together, soft and careful. Lila’s hands slid up his chest, feeling the hard muscle under his shirt. She kissed him back, her mouth opening a little, letting his tongue slip inside. The kiss grew deeper. Ethan’s hand moved to her cheek, then down to her neck, then lower, tracing the line of her collarbone. Lila’s fingers found the bottom of his shirt and tugged, he sat up just enough to pull it over his he

Lila's POV I realized fast that if I let Damian keep standing there thinking about what to say to Mr Roger, we would never make it out of that conversation. So I turned to Mr Roger and smiled. "Actually, he has a hard time expressing himself when it comes to how he found love with me," I said. "The truth is, yes, he's still strict and rigid, he hasn't changed much at all. I just learned to live with that side of him, and I think I'm used to whatever he brings to the table now." Mr Blackwood and Mr Roger burst out laughing. "Wow," Mr Roger said. "And she's so submissive too. You've earned yourself a real woman, son." They all laughed together, but my heart was already racing, because this was only the beginning. Walking into that hall, I could already feel a bigger, heavier kind of trauma waiting for us inside, and I didn't know yet if I could survive faking it that deep. I swallowed hard and glanced at Damian. His face was blank, frozen, like he hadn't fully processed

Lila's POV The car ride home was silent.I stared out the window the whole way, watching the streetlights blur past one after another, my mind still stuck on that ring, that stage and the pregnancy condition Damian had thrown at me like it was nothing at all.I kept replaying it over and over in my head, trying to make sense of a plan that made no sense, trying to figure out how I had gone from a girl just trying to survive under one roof to a pawn in some scheme involving marriage, divorce, and now apparently a baby that was never supposed to be real.We pulled into the driveway and I didn't wait for Damian to open my door.I stepped out fast, needing distance, needing air that didn't smell like his cologne, needing a second away from the man who had just knelt in front of hundreds of strangers and asked me to marry him like it meant nothing at all."Lilly, wait," Damian said, grabbing my hand."Calm down," he added, but I yanked my hand free before he could finish the sentence.Tha

Damian's POVI stood by my window with a glass of wine in my hand, watching them down there in the pool, and I told myself over and over that I didn't care.I sipped slowly, letting the wine sit on my tongue longer than it needed to, trying to convince myself that whatever was happening between Lilly and Ethan meant nothing to me.But my eyes kept drifting back to the window anyway, back to the two of them laughing in the rain like the rest of the world didn't exist.I already knew she was easy.I had known that from the moment my father brought her into this family.But this, watching her throw herself at Ethan barely hours after our engagement made the front page, felt like a new kind of low, even for her.Yes, we had a plan.She was supposed to sleep with Ethan eventually, get pregnant, and give us something believable to point to when the divorce came.I knew that.I had agreed to it myself.I just hadn't expected it to happen this fast, this easily, like she'd been waiting for th