All Chapters of Fake Dating my Stepbrother : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Joan’s POV“I’m sorry,” I whispered, my voice a fragile, broken thing.I sounded pathetic even to my own ears. But what else was there? I was already drowning under the two-hundred-million-dollar ghost of my father’s debt, suffocating under a hundred-thousand-dollar rent due at dawn, which I had only seen five thousand dollars out of, and now? Now I had just shattered three million dollars of vintage liquid?“You’re sorry?” Isobel let out a sharp, jagged scoff. She glanced back at her inner circle—Priya, Camille, and Lexi, who were already laughing, their amusement cutting through the club's bass like jagged ice. “Did you hear that, girls? The charity case is sorry.”The heavy VIP curtains shifted, and my boss, Mr. McCall, stepped into the light.I watched his face drain of color the second his eyes landed on the shimmering amber puddle and the green glass scattered across the marble. He went rigid, his eyes widening with a terror so pure it made him look ten years older. He swallowed

Joan’s POVMy lips crashed into his a second time, frantic and entirely clumsy. I didn't know what I was doing, but I was driven by a feral, suffocating need to escape my own reality. I wanted to drown out the memory of Rita’s lashing words, Isobel’s stinging slaps, and the looming threat of the morning. For a heartbeat, the stranger went completely rigid beneath me, his hands freezing on my wrists.Then, the air inside the tight confines of the sports car completely shifted.A low, primal growl rumbled deep within his chest. Before I could even blink, his right hand shot to the back of my neck, his long fingers tangling into my hair. He didn't push me away this time. Instead, he deepened the kiss with a sudden, bruising possessiveness that made my head spin. He tasted like rain and dangerous, unyielding power, capturing my lips and taking my breath until my lungs burned.For a terrifying second, I forgot about the money. I forgot about the cold. I forgot everything as his heat comp