All Chapters of A Little Stepmother in Trouble: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Diana hadn’t seen that impulse coming from Alexander, and she couldn’t help but give in, close her eyes, and wrap her arms around him tight.The second she felt his lips, she forgot he’d just compared her to a ghost, and that falling into his arms was a terrible idea, since all he was doing was giving her heart one last caress before the blow.She felt her husband’s breath on her skin when he left her mouth and tried to trail down her neck.“Horrible nightgown,” she heard him growl when he ran into the suffocating wall of fabric, buttoned all the way up.Her heart hammered when he came back for her lips.She held him tighter, but it wasn’t enough. She didn’t want him to stop kissing her, or to utter one more complaint about what she was wearing.That insufferable man was a hopeless idiot, but right now he was “her idiot,” and she wasn’t strong enough to pass up the chance.This time she was the one who tangled her hand in his hair so he couldn’t get away. Neither of them let up, both

When Diana and her husband heard her mother's words, they looked at each other in surprise."What should I get your mother? I'm really starting to like her, and I want to be a good son-in-law." Diana looked at her mother with worry. If she kept talking like that, she was afraid Izan wouldn't think twice about hitting her in public.His expression was so full of rage it was scary.She couldn't believe she'd been married to him and had stayed blind for a whole year.The man was a cynic, a liar, and a manipulator on top of it."I'm going to stop my mother. I don't want that man doing anything to her." Before she could slip out from between the pews, Alexander grabbed her."You're not going anywhere alone. Did you forget I'm here? I won't let anyone touch a single hair on your mother's head, or yours."Diana felt her body go limp, her shoulders, rigid a moment earlier, giving way under their own weight."Really?" she asked, incredulous. "I... I don't know what to say."It was so strange t

"Where do you think you're going?" Alexander caught Roger just as he was nearly out of the building."To get my breakfast. I already told you. You're welcome to come along, though.""I see you're talking to me like a friend again, so as a friend, I'm going to take the liberty of asking: What were you thinking, getting involved with a woman like that?!"Roger picked up his pace, as if he wanted no part of this conversation, but Alexander had no intention of letting him get away."I like the coffee they serve there," he muttered, pointing at a café."I'm your friend. I'm saying this because I'm worried about you. You're in love with love. A woman flirts with you and you're ready to make her your wife. But this woman was willing to mess around with her best friend's husband. What do you expect from someone like that?""Don't be so dramatic. If that were how I operated, I'd have taken every woman I've dated home to meet my family, and I haven't. If Natalie keeps going the way she's going,

Diana, caught in a grip she hadn’t seen coming and unable to tell who was holding her, started thrashing and kicking with everything she had.She couldn’t take any more. Her nerves were shot. First what had happened with her kids, and now finding that woman standing right in front of her—it had blown Pandora’s box wide open.She was beside herself.The man grunted when she connected, scooped her up in his arms, and carried her away from Natalie.“You little hellcat, you kicked me right in the shin,” her husband complained, rubbing his leg.“Alexander?” He let go of her, and she spun around to face him. “What is that woman doing here?!”When she pointed, she saw Roger with his arms around Natalie while she sniffled and whined that Diana had hit her.“Mrs. Turner, looks like you pick up the habits of whoever shares your bed. You just hit my girlfriend. She only came to see me,” Roger complained.Diana looked at Roger, then at Natalie, then at her husband.Her face must have said exactly

The day before Jacob and Izan's meeting, Diana was sitting in on the reading of her father's will."Good morning," the lawyer said as her mother and she walked into his office. He stood and came over to shake their hands. "I'm so sorry for your loss. Mr. Miller was a good man."Diana cleared her throat. She was sick of hearing that her father was a good man. Maybe he'd been one in some other life, but not in this one.And nobody was going to convince her otherwise."Yes, yes, of course. Can we get started? My husband is waiting outside, and he's very impatient.""Diana, don't be rude. Alexander doesn't mind waiting. He told you he'd wait as long as it takes," her mother scolded.The lawyer looked uncomfortable, and she regretted being so rude, but every inch of her skin was crawling.That inheritance had wrecked her life over and over, and here she was, showing up to collect it.Her husband had insisted on coming along because he was afraid Izan would be there too, but since there was