All Chapters of Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Scarlet's Pov The bedroom was dark when I woke up.Damian's arm was heavy across my waist, his breath warm against the back of my neck. Outside, the city was still quiet. That particular quality of silence that only existed between three and four in the morning, when the night had run out of things to say.I lay there for a moment without moving.This had become its own kind of routine. Falling asleep in separate rooms and ending up tangled together anyway. Neither of us acknowledging it in the morning. Both of us pretending we didn't notice.His hand moved. Slow, half-asleep. His fingers spread across my stomach, pulling me closer."You're awake," he murmured."So are you.""Mm." His lips brushed the back of my neck. "What time is it?""Late. Or early. Depending on how you look at it," I chuckled after saying.He made a low sound that wasn't quite a laugh. His hand moved upward slowly, unhurried."Damian—" I groaned as I felt my core twist with heat, pooling down to my hot pussy."W

Scarlet's POV I was at the hospital when Dr Hendrick paid me a visit. At first I wanted to tell him I was busy— which truthfully I wasn't..I just didn't want yo see anyone. The rumours about me cheating on my ex husband was still in everyone's mouth, and I was tired of people coming to get some gossip about my real life under the pretendebof wanting to know how I was fairing.But when the doctor had told me it was about my son, Jace i quickly responded.Jace had been attending therapy twice a week, and often the doctor in charge would send me notes of his improvements.Dr. He stick and I were standing close to the cafeteria as we talked. He suddenly said something funny and I laughed out loud.I didn't even remember what it was. It was something about Jace probably, because that was mostly what we talked about. But he was leaning against the corridor wall with his arms crossed and his head tilted back, genuinely laughing, and I was smiling at whatever response I'd just given him when

Scarlet's Pov"Check if the turnout has shifted to the other part of the brain," I groaned into my mask as I swuibteed at the opened skull in front of me. The nurse beside me immediately nodded. I don't know how I caught myself in this situation, because last I could remember, today was my day off, but somehow I had founfvmyself in this room when it was supposed to be my colleague here.I wonder who tampered with the schedule...Just as I began to prod the internal tissues if the brain, a thought rammed into my head.Today was Friday.The day Jace was supposed to have his first ever school play.Oh fuck! I wanted to pause and think of how possibly I could have forgotten such a critical event.I was standing at the operating table with my hands inside Mrs. Delgado's skull and the anesthesiologist's monitors beeping their steady rhythm when it landed in my chest like something dropped from a height.His play was today."Time?" I asked without looking up, my fired already feeling scra

Damian's pov I spotted Jace the second I walked in.He sat at the front row, alone. That little crown crooked on his head and his hands folded in his lap and his eyes on the door.My chest tightened.She's not here yet. I already knew that walking in. I'd tried calling her three times. No answer. Which meant she was still in surgery.I sat beside him.He looked up at me and did that thing children did when they were trying very hard not to show they were disappointed. Rearranging their face into something acceptable."Hey," I said, keeping my voice easy."Hey." He looked back at the stage. "She's not coming, is she."It wasn't a question. It was more of a conclusion he'd already reached and wrapped himself around.God, this kid. "She's trying. She's with a patient... you know that right?"He sighed heavily before shaking his head in disappointment.."She's always with a patient," he said simply, no form of bitterness in his voice.For a month I just looked at him...wondering what I

DAMIAN'S POVThe penthouse was completely dark when I got home.I stood in the entryway for a long moment without moving. Without turning on the lights. Just standing there with my torn jacket and dried blood above my eyebrow and the distant sound of traffic from the street below.pathetic. Stupid. Damaged.Lucas's voice was still running loops in my head. Had been running loops since I'd left the school parking lot. The entire drive home I'd heard nothing except that and the sound of chairs crashing and Jace's small voice asking if I was scary.Am I? Is that what I am to him now?I needed to talk to Scarlet. I needed to explain what Lucas had actually said, why I'd completely lost control, why it had taken every ounce of restraint I had not to follow Lucas to his car and finish what I'd started.But more than that I needed to see her face. I needed to look at her without that expression she'd had in the gymnasium, the one that said she was looking at a stranger wearing someone she r