Semua Bab My Stepbrother's Dirty Little Secret: Bab 521 - Bab 530

The way a daughter reaches for her mother, the way a child reaches for home, the way you reach for someone you love even when you know they cannot stay forever. My fingers stretched toward the darkness above and for one impossible second... I could almost see her, not sick, not in a wheelchair,

I looked at her, and she smiled proudly, so incredibly proud. The same smile she used to give me after every recital and after every tiny childhood performance where I forgot half the choreography and made the rest up. Tears threatened unexpectedly. I swallowed them back. Tonight wasn't for crying

"Emotional exhaustion is still exhaustion." Perla sighed. The saleswoman standing nearby immediately hid a smile. I crossed my arms, "How many stores have we been in?" Perla handed the handbag back, "I don't know." I groaned. Three whole hours. Three hours of expensive dresses, shoes that cost

Streetlights glowed against the dark evening sky. And standing in the middle of it all, clutching my backpack against my chest, I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do next. For a moment, I just stood there, the bus hissed behind me. A few passengers walked around me with annoyed expres

Denise smiled softly, "Better?" I looked down, not wanting to admit it. The warmth from the food settled painfully into my empty stomach. For a while neither of us spoke. Cars passed in the distance, the wind moved through the trees, a siren echoed somewhere far away. Finally Denise leaned back a