Lahat ng Kabanata ng Forbidden To My Father’s Bestfriend; Irresistible To His Son: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 5

Christiana stood outside Marc's dorm building, her phone glowing with three unanswered texts and two missed calls from earlier that day. The cold bit through her jacket, but she barely registered it. He had been distant for weeks, vague excuses stacking up like cards in a crooked tower. She was done waiting for explanations.She pushed through the entrance and climbed the stairs to the third floor. Her boots made soft thuds against the linoleum, steady and deliberate. When she reached his door, she paused only to pull the spare key from her pocket. Marc thought he had been so careful, leaving his keys on the coffee table that afternoon three months ago while he showered. He never noticed one going missing. He never thought to look.The lock turned smoothly. She stepped inside without knocking.The common area was dark, but light spilled from the cracked bedroom door across the hall. She heard movement. Breathing. The kind that came fast and uneven. Her jaw tightened as she moved forw

Recognition came slowly, then all at once. Christiana blinked water from her eyes and stared at him. The sharp jaw. The dark eyes that had always seemed to see too much. Julian Frost. Her father's best friend. The man who used to visit their house when she was younger, who would sit in the study with her father for hours discussing business she did not understand.The man she had stupidly, hopelessly crushed on when she was sixteen.Her stomach twisted. Of all the people to appear now, it had to be him."I know who you are," she said, her voice flat."I thought you might." He kept the umbrella steady above them both. "Do you want to go back inside?"She looked at the funeral hall behind her, where people were probably still talking about what she had done. "No.""Then come with me."She should have asked where. Should have questioned why he was here at all. But exhaustion pulled at her bones, and the rain was cold, and she had nowhere else to go. So she nodded.He led her to a blac

Christiana walked away from the courtyard with her hands shoved in her pockets, her mind replaying the confrontation. Noah's shoulder slamming into hers. Jess's venomous accusations. And that other guy, the quiet one, who had looked at her like he could see straight through her skin.She found a bench near the library and sat down, watching students pass by. Most of them were in groups, laughing or complaining about assignments. Normal. Easy. She envied them for reasons she did not want to examine too closely.Two girls walked past, their voices carrying."Did you see them? Both of them were there.""Of course they were. Wherever Noah goes, Asher follows.""Or the other way around.""Either way, that girl was stupid for getting involved. Everyone knows you don't mess with the Vale brothers."Christiana's head snapped up. Vale brothers. She watched the girls disappear around a corner, their conversation fading. So they were related. That explained nothing and somehow made it worse.Sh