All Chapters of The Dare to Ruin Him, Falling for My Step Brother : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

BIANCA'S POV"You walked in on WHAT?"Maya's voice came out so loud in the kitchen that I grabbed her arm immediately."Maya." I warned."Bianca." She stared at me. "A collar. A leash. The man was on the FLOOR.""Keep your voice down." I urged."I am keeping my voice down." She insisted. Her voice still absolutely not down. "I walked into a room and there was a man on the floor with a leather collar around his neck and your—" She stopped. "Who even was that? With the leash?""That is Eli." I disclosed."Eli." She repeated."Sebastian's fiancé." I disclosed.She stared at me."His fiancé." She repeated slowly."Yes." I confirmed."The man on the floor." She said. "Is engaged.""To Eli." I confirmed. "Yes."She pulled out a chair and sat down very deliberately at the kitchen table.I sat across from her.We looked at each other across the table in the kitchen light and I felt the specific extraordinary surreal feeling of having two completely separate chapters of my life sitting in the

SEBASTIAN'S POV"She is actually here."I stared at the ceiling in the dark with Eli beside me and tried to process the fact that Maya was two doors down with Bianca right now and the world had shifted in a way nobody had planned for."Yes." Eli replied flatly."She flew here in three hours." I said."Sebastian." Eli said."I am just saying." I said. "Three hours. No warning. Third door on the left.""Go to sleep." Eli said."I cannot sleep." I said."Try." Eli said.I stared at the ceiling."Eli." I said."Hmm." He replied."Do you think they are okay in there?" I said."Yes." He replied."Like actually okay." I said."Sebastian." He said."I am just—""They are fine." He said. "Bianca is fine. Maya is fine. The second door on the left is fine. Everything is fine." He paused. "Go to sleep."I stared at the ceiling for another moment."I am happy for her." I disclosed quietly. "Bianca. I am genuinely happy for her."Eli was quiet for a moment."Me too." He replied. Quieter this time.

SEBASTIAN'S POV"It is not who you think it is."The words burned into my eyes. I kept staring at Mr George’s text until the letters started to blur and swim together. My chest felt tight, like someone was squeezing the air out of me."Sebastian." Eli’s voice cut through the cold like a knife, sharp and urgent."I read it," I muttered, not looking up from the screen."Then say something. Don’t just sit there staring like that.""I don’t know what the fuck to say!" My voice came out louder than I meant it to, cracking at the end. "What do you want from me? ‘Oh nice, maybe it wasn’t my mom who tried to kill Devon’? I don’t even know how I’m supposed to feel right now. Relieved? Scared? Fucking angry? Pick one because I can’t."Eli sat up quickly, his bare skin still flushed and marked from earlier. He grabbed his phone without hesitation and started typing, thumbs moving fast and aggressive across the screen."Who."We both leaned in close, shoulders pressed together, our breath visible

SEBASTIAN'S POVThe ring shop was small and warm inside, smelling like wood polish and something fancy I couldn’t name. It felt too nice for how nervous I was.Eli stood next to me with his hands stuffed in his pockets, staring at the glass cases like none of this was a big deal. Like we were just killing time. Meanwhile my heart was hammering so loud I was sure the lady behind the counter could hear it.Jasmine stood on my other side, practically shaking with excitement she was trying really hard to hide.“You didn’t have to come,” I told her.“I absolutely had to come,” she shot back. “This is huge, Sebastian. The most important thing you’ll ever buy. You need me here.”“I don’t need supervision.”“You were gonna propose on a staircase,” she said, raising an eyebrow. “You definitely need supervision.”Eli didn’t say anything, but I saw the tiny smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. That little movement made something warm bloom in my chest.The woman behind the counter gave us a

SEBASTIAN'S POVThe basketball court was empty.Cold morning air. No wind at all. The nets hung completely still. My footsteps sounded too loud on the concrete as I walked out to the center circle.This court.This exact court where Eli first looked at me like I was the most annoying person he had ever met. Where I grabbed his collar like an idiot and everything between us started whether we were ready or not.I stood there with two boxes heavy in my pockets and waited. My heart would not slow down.I heard his footsteps before I saw him. That slow, steady walk he always has.He came through the gate and stopped when he saw me standing in the middle like a fool."The basketball court," he said, voice flat."The basketball court," I answered.He walked toward me slowly and stopped a few feet away."Sebastian.""Eli.""If you are proposing to me on a basketball court at ten in the morning," he said, "I am saying no on principle.""You are not," I said.He looked at me.I looked back at