Lahat ng Kabanata ng Secretly Loving My Adoptive Brother: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

It turned out Adriana’s madness didn’t end there. The snake of a woman had cooked up yet another scheme, deliberately designed to make me look monstrous and cruel in Mama’s eyes.That afternoon, in the empty second-floor hallway, Adriana deliberately let her own body drop to the floor when it was just the two of us there. The moment she hit the ground, she immediately began shrieking hysterically, her voice piercing through the corridor as she pretended I had just shoved her violently.“Oww! Camila, what is wrong with you? How could you do this to me?” her sobbing burst out at once, echoing down the hallway.I stood frozen, unable to respond or even open my mouth, my mind still struggling to process her cunning. But before I could defend myself, Javier had already appeared at the top of the stairs, rushing toward us after hearing the commotion.“What’s going on here?” Javier asked immediately, his sharp gaze

Really, after the barrage of cruel words Mum had hurled at me earlier, I shouldn’t have been dreaming of Javier anymore. My heart and my reason should have known better. But it turned out I was wrong. The dream still came, unstoppable; that wild fantasy still crept in to ambush my morning sleep, exactly as it had done before. “Ah, Javier… I miss your touch,” I moaned in the silence of the dream world.“Me too, Camila. You’re the only woman I want to touch,” replied Javier, his voice sounding so deep and intoxicating that it made me even more aroused. “Hm, touch me however you like. Touch me just as you wish, Javier.” Javier flashed a faint, captivating smile. He then gently pushed my body onto the bed, leaning in until there was no space left between us. The next moment, he began to press our lips together in a kiss that was so gentle yet full of unspoken dema

“It's nothing, really. The wound isn't serious.”Listening to the private doctor's explanation after he'd finished examining Adriana, I could only smile bitterly to myself. It was already painfully obvious the wound wasn't serious at all. Her skin had barely caught a few drops of splashed coffee.Just a few drops, that was all. And yet Adriana had made such an elaborate show of it, as if the injury were massive and life-threatening.“So it won't leave my hand disfigured, will it, Doctor? I won't need surgery or anything, right?” Adriana asked, her voice deliberately trembling with anxiety.I wanted so badly to laugh out loud at that ridiculous question. It was completely absurd, utterly childish. The faint reddish mark on her hand was barely even visible.“There's no need for that, Miss. It will heal on its own—this ointment I'll leave for you is more than enough,” the doctor explained kindly, then took his

Feeling an unbearable pounding in my head, I finally decided to go somewhere that might settle my mind, if only a little. A dim, private bar became my escape tonight, a place to shed the exhaustion weighing on me.A glass of high-proof liquor sat in my grip. I had already lost count of how many bottles of hard liquor I'd gone through in my attempt to drown my own sanity.My head suddenly throbbed, flooded with memories of the past spinning wildly out of control. Memories of the day, more than a decade ago, when Mama brought home a ten-year-old girl to our house. An orphaned child who was strikingly beautiful, innocent, and sweet.From the very beginning, I had liked having her in that house. The bond between the two of us grew strong and good, and I always watched over her closely, the way a true older brother shoul

Crack!The sound of a brutally hard slap echoed through the silence of the living room. The moment my foot touched the last step down to the lower floor, Adriana's palm had already flown, striking my left cheek dead-on. I stumbled backward, clutching my cheek, which instantly burned and throbbed fiercely. I lifted my chin, glaring at her with a sharp gaze blazing with fury."Why?! What did I do wrong?" I demanded at once, my voice trembling as I insisted on an explanation, certain that I hadn't done anything wrong at all."What did you do wrong? You still dare to ask what you did wrong, Camila?!" Adriana snapped, her pretty face flushed with overflowing rage.I closed my eyes for a moment, trying to quell the storm building in my chest, certain I hadn't done a single thing to wrong this woman. If anything, I was the one who should have been furious, since it was Adriana who kept slandering me."I've warned you over and over, so why do you still ins