You Don't Get to Love Me Now, Alpha Stepbrother의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 4

AVA'S POV Three missed calls. All from the babysitter.I stared at my phone screen in the staff breakroom, my thumb hovering over the call-back button, my knuckles red and aching from six straight hours of loading dish racks. Rain hammered the greasy window behind me, but it was the silence from those three unanswered calls that made my stomach drop.The door banged open, hitting the wall with a sharp clap. "Ava. What are you doing sitting down?"I jumped, pulling my hands into my lap as Mr. Vance strutted into the room. He was a short, chubby man who always smelled like cheap cigars and stale sweat, and he wore his cheap suits like armor."I have two minutes left on my break, Mr. Vance," I said, keeping my voice quiet and smooth. "I’ve been on my feet since five.""I don't give a damn about your feet," Vance snapped, tossing a silver serving tray onto the table in front of me. It rattled loudly. "Suite 404 just called down. They want a fresh bottle of the fifty-year single malt and

AVA'S POV "Who is it?" I called out, my voice tight and trembling with fear. I slowly backed away from the bed, my hand blindly searching the small plastic table until my fingers wrapped around the heavy base of a brass desk lamp.There was no answer from the hallway. Just absolute, terrifying silence.I stepped closer to the door, holding the brass lamp high over my shoulder with both hands. "Who is it? I have a weapon. Leave right now or I'm calling the police."The brass door handle slowly turned downward.Before I could rush forward to jam my shoulder against the wood, the lock clicked open, and the door was pushed inward.Standing in the frame, his broad shoulders easily blocking out the flickering yellow light of the hallway, was Damien.He had discarded his suit jacket somewhere along the way. His white dress shirt was soaked through from the rain, clinging tightly to his broad chest, the top two buttons undone to reveal his neck. His short black hair was messy, plastered aga