Lahat ng Kabanata ng His Crush Said My Brother Kissed Her: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 9

“What are you laughing at?”Edwin Gough’s brows furrowed. His eyes were full of disgust.I wiped my face and smiled even more calmly.“I’m laughing at how blind and foolish you are. I’m also laughing at how Ms. Shaw spins tales without a single draft.”“Peri Sanders! You’re done for, and yet you’re still talking back!”Peri cowered in Edwin’s embrace. Tears were streaming down her face like rain. She pointed at me as her voice trembled.“Edwin, look at her... She shows no remorse whatsoever!“She’s jealous that I saved your life; jealous of the bond we shared growing up together.“That’s why she sent her thug of a brother to ruin me... She said as long as I was defiled, you wouldn’t want me anymore...”The surrounding guests erupted in an instant.“How vile! How could this kind of woman become Mrs. Gough?“Not only is she a lowlife herself, but her family members are also scoundrels!“What good could come from that backwater village the Sanders are from? I hear her brother’

“Juvelia, are you sure it was him who licked you?” I asked again for confirmation.Juvelia shot me a venomous glare before nodding pitifully.“Yes... that wet, sticky sensation... I’ll never forget it for the rest of my life...”“Good.” I nodded with an icy expression. “Hopefully, you’ll still remember that feeling later.”Ten minutes later, the banquet hall doors swung open.A man clad in a black hoodie, a baseball cap, and a black mask stepped inside.His frame was lean yet held rigidly straight, like an unbreakable pole.Though his attire was plain, slightly worn even, his cool, aloof demeanor clashed starkly with the opulent surroundings.It was my brother, Efim Sanders.“It’s him!” Juvelia shrieked. She shrank behind Edwin, trembling. “Edwin! It’s that outfit! It’s those eyes! I’d recognize him even if he were ashes!”Edwin patted Juvelia’s hand and strode purposefully toward my brother.Bodyguards instantly surrounded him. Their stun batons crackled.“Efim, is it?”E

Juvelia collapsed to the floor, shaking her head frantically.“No... I must have remembered wrong... Maybe it was fingers... Yes! Fingers!“Not a tongue! I was so terrified that I must have hallucinated!”She rambled incoherently, grasping at the last straw.“Hallucinated?” I sneered coldly, slapping the dagger against her cheek.“Then, explain this. You claimed he asked you to please him if you wanted to get into the Gough family. Is that right?“How could someone without vocal cords or a tongue utter those words? Through ventriloquism? Or telepathy?”Juvelia’s mouth hung open, but she could not utter a sound.Her lies were too crude. They had been utterly shattered by ironclad facts.Edwin stood beside us. He looked like his soul had been drained from his body.He stared fixedly at the burn scar on my brother’s face. Then, he gazed at his empty mouth.A long-buried memory burst from the depths of his mind.Three years ago, before he lost consciousness during the fire, he

“Is this what you call loving me too much?“Is this what you call the Gough family blood?”Juvelia fell to her knees with a thud. She clutched onto Edwin’s leg.“Edwin! It’s fake! They swapped my face with AI! Peri framed me! That mute framed me! I didn’t! I really didn’t!”I coldly watched as she struggled desperately.“Whether or not it’s fake, we’ll know. We just handed the original video over to the technical analysis department.”“Also, that Mr. Smith. He was present earlier, wasn’t he?”My gaze swept across the crowd.A potbellied middle-aged man was trying to slip away unnoticed.“Mr. Smith, there’s no need to rush off.”My brother flashed forward, instantly blocking Mr. Smith’s path.He grabbed him like a sack of potatoes and hauled him before Edwin.Mr. Smith’s legs gave way, and he collapsed to his knees with a thud.“Mr. Gough, spare my life! This wrench seduced me! She said you couldn’t satisfy her...”“Pfft!” Someone could not hold back a laugh.Edwin’s face

Gone were his vigor and spirit of days past.When he saw me, a flicker of light ignited in his cloudy eyes.“Peri...”He trembled as he pulled a grimy box from his chest.He opened it, and inside lay a ring.It was our wedding ring.I had lost it back then and looked for ages without success.He had been keeping it all along. “Actually... I’ve always kept it.”Edwin gave a bitter laugh.“Peri, if I told you that I actually fell for you long ago, would you believe me? I was just too foolish, blinded by gratitude, and unable to tell love from obligation.”“Does saying all this now even matter?” My expression remained calm as I did not reach for the ring. “Edwin, what we had ended long ago.”Edwin’s hand froze in mid-air. The light in his eyes slowly faded.“Yes... It ended long ago. I destroyed it all with my own hands.”He slowly withdrew his hand and clutched the ring tightly in his palm.“Efim... Is he treating you well?”“Very well.”At the mention of my brother, I su