All Chapters of One Night Stand With My Hubby's Cousin: Chapter 251 - Chapter 259

Evelyn's POVI stopped for a moment, genuinely caught off guard by his response, because if I was being honest, I'd fully expected him to agree with me, to take the opportunity to criticize Sebastian, or at the very least to confirm every frustration and resentment I'd been carrying around for months.Instead, he did none of those things.“I know this probably sounds strange coming from me,” Julian said after a moment, his voice calm and measured as we stood beneath the trees, “but I don't actually believe Sebastian never loved you.”The answer surprised me enough that I forgot what I was about to say.Julian continued before I could interrupt.“The reason I say that isn't because I'm trying to defend him, and it certainly isn't because I think what he did was acceptable. It's because I've known him longer than you have, and I remember exactly what he was like before you came into his life.”The wind shifted softly through the pines.“When we were younger, Sebastian was the definition

Evelyn's POV“Then, right after I finally realized you were going to be okay and started breathing again, the very next thing you did was ask whether I wanted to sleep with you.”“Julian!”I immediately felt heat rush to my face.“That is an extremely selective version of events.”“It's also a fact.”His expression remained infuriatingly innocent.“Which makes it even worse.”I groaned.“At the time I was completely out of my mind.”“I know.”The smile that crossed his face wasn't teasing anymore.It was softer than that.More affectionate.As though the memory had stopped embarrassing him years ago and become something he secretly treasured.“And honestly, I figured out what had happened almost immediately,” he continued as we walked beneath the trees, the moonlight slipping through the branches above us in pale silver patterns. “I'd known for years that Sebastian wasn't exactly faithful, and although I never felt it was my place to tell you something I couldn't prove, I wasn't surpr

Evelyn's POVThe second we both realized exactly what was happening inside that RV, Julian and I simultaneously took two careful steps backward like a pair of burglars who had accidentally opened the wrong door, and if anyone had been watching from a distance, they probably would've assumed we were trying to escape a crime scene rather than the consequences of somebody else's sex life.The retreat quickly evolved into a full tactical withdrawal.Because once we'd reached the unfortunate conclusion that Frank and Maddie were definitely not discussing camping logistics in there, the situation stopped being merely awkward and became a matter of self-preservation, since I had absolutely no doubt that if Maddie ever discovered we'd lingered outside long enough to confirm our suspicions, she would personally make sure our bodies were never found.So we fled.Quickly.Dignified was no longer an option.By the time we made it back to the campfire, both of us were working very hard to behave l

Evelyn's POV“Frank's most dangerous quality,” Julian said, leaning back in his chair while watching the last embers shift in the fire, “is that he's lived through every lesson reality tries to teach a person and somehow still came out the other side believing he can change the world.”I turned toward him.He smiled slightly.“You know what his life looked like when he first started his company?”I shook my head.“He poured everything he had into it. Not most of it. Everything. He lived in basements, slept in offices, spent months surviving on terrible food and almost no sleep, sat through meeting after meeting where investors treated him like a joke, and heard every possible variation of ‘this will never work’ from people who were supposedly experts.”The wind moved softly through the trees.“A normal person would've quit.”His voice carried no hesitation.“Honestly, a smart person probably would've quit.”That made me laugh.Julian smiled.“But Frank didn't.”The fire crackled quiet