The Dare to Ruin Him, Falling for My Step Brother のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 91 - チャプター 100

BIANCA'S POV"This better be good." I muttered, dropping into my cinema seat and pulling my coat across my lap. "I gave up a hot bath for this.""You gave up nothing." Selena said, already reaching into the popcorn bucket. "Ninety four percent rating, stop complaining and sit down properly."I sat down properly.Devon was on Selena's other side saying something charming about the director that she was lapping up completely. I was on Sebastian's left. Eli was on his right. The four of us in a row in the dark with the previews already rolling and the whole cinema smelling like butter and something I could not name that felt like the specific kind of anticipation that came before something you could not take back.I was fine.The film started and it was actually good. It was genuinely good. Thirty minutes in I had almost forgotten entirely about the small remote sitting in Sebastian's jacket pocket and the thing currently inside me that had been sitting at zero since we left the car and

ELI'S POV"You look better than I expected."Jayden said it the moment I sat down. I already there when I arrived, both hands wrapped around a coffee mug, watching me cross the café with those careful eyes of his that had not changed even slightly in two years."You look exactly the same." I replied."Is that good or bad." He asked.I looked at him properly for the first time since I walked through that door. The boy who had broken something in me two years ago that I had spent a considerable amount of time and energy rebuilding from scratch. I waited for the feeling. The old one. The specific sharp thing that used to hit the moment I saw his face anywhere.Almost nothing.A faint echo. It was instant. It was like pressing a scar and feeling the memory of the original wound without any of the actual pain of it anymore.I was damn sure that meant something important about how far I had come."Neither." I said. "Just an observation."He almost smiled. I looked down at his mug. Then back

BIANCA'S POV"You sound different."She said it before I had even finished saying hello. That was the thing about her. She had known me long enough to hear things in my voice that I had not even admitted to myself yet and she never once pretended otherwise."Different how." I dropped onto my bed and stared at the ceiling with one arm across my stomach."I cannot explain it exactly. Just different. Like something shifted inside you and you have not told anyone yet." Another pause, shorter. "Are you okay.""I am more than okay." I said. And meant it completely."Bianca." Her voice went careful in that specific way it did when she was about to ask something I was not going to be able to dodge. "What is actually happening over there."I looked at the ceiling for a long moment.The house was quiet around me. Selena was out. Eli's door was closed with that particular weighted silence behind it that meant he was deep inside something ... thinking or reading or simply being still in the way o

SEBASTIAN'S POV"She is moving the engagement forward."Eli said it quietly and I sat up immediately off his bed."What?" My voice came out completely flat."Mrs Carter and your mother. In the corridor after dessert." He kept his eyes on mine. "Your mother wants to announce the engagement formally. Something public. Something that sticks." He paused. "She said two weeks."I stared at him."Two weeks." I repeated."Two weeks Sebastian." He held my gaze. "Which means Devon does not need to wait for the fraternity board anymore. He does not need to file anything or plant anything else. The moment that engagement goes public everything happening in this house becomes significantly harder to undo."I got off the bed and walked to the window and stood there with my hands in my pockets staring out at the dark campus below and felt everything pressing in from every direction at once."She planned this." I said quietly. "The dinner. Mrs Carter. All of it. She has been building toward this for

SEBASTIAN'S POV"Heard you went to see George this morning. Everything okay friend?"I stared at Devon's message for a long moment then held the phone out to Eli without a word.He read it. His jaw tightened. He handed it back."He knows." He said quietly."Not enough." I said. "Not yet. But he is fishing."My phone buzzed again immediately."Marcus not answering his phone. George's office closed after you left. Interesting morning Sebastian."I stood up from the steps."He is moving." I said.Eli was already on his feet.We were halfway across the quad when I saw him.Devon was coming out of the cafeteria building directly across from us. His phone in his hand, his eyes down, typing fast. He had not seen us yet.Then he looked up.He saw me.He saw Eli beside me.His whole body went briefly still the way a person went still when they registered something unexpected and needed a split second to recalculate. Then the easy smile came back and he walked toward us like nothing had happene