In Love With My Evil Stepbrother

Chapter 46: Paying the Debt Natalia’s POV “Me? Your date?” | frown. “What about Valerie?” “What about her?” “You brought her shopping for evening gowns the other day. So | thought you were taking her to the party,” | snort. “She stood you up, didn’t she? And that’s why you are coming back tonow because I'm your backup.” “You are unbelievable,” he sighs. He runs his fingers through his hairs as a spasm of frustration flits across his face. “Stop piecing everything together in your mind!” he growls, lowering his eyelids to avoid my gaze. “I took her shopping, but we didn’t go shopping for evening gowns. If you don’t want to cwithto the party, | might as well go alone.” That's when | notice a pink tinge appears on his cheek and his ears are turning red. Is he embarrassed for being so honest? He almost never shares his real thoughts and true feelings with me, and this is actually the first time. Oh god I love the honest Eason way much more than the manipulative jerk he used to be. 1 This is the chance in a lifetime! I'm not letting it slide away so | deliberately tease on him,” Well that’s just too bad. | already asked Alex to cwith me.” “You what?” he lowers his voice dangerously, raging flames dancing in his eyes. “You heard me,” | curve up the corner of my lips. “I asked him the day you took Valerie shopping. We are already on a break, so | figured why not ask Alex—" In the blink of an eye, he strides over, grab my chin and lowers his head. The next second, he presses his lips against mine roughly. | inhale sharply, and he takes the chance to slide his tongue into my mouth, kissingpassionately and wildly. And | didn’t forget that we are standing right outside of the coffee house. His mom could be looking at us from above right now and anyone could see us kissing.

“What-what the hell!” | struggle against his iron grip and huff under his lips. “Let go of me!” It's been a while since we last kissed. And | can’t deny that | crave for him. | want to be back into his arms so much. But my rationality is screaming at me, We are on a break! | bite his lip. He hisses and finally lets go. But his fingers linger around my cheek, caressing my skin as he whispers, “God | miss you so much.” I'm almost seduced by his hoarse voice and deep green eyes.

“Are you crazy? Anyone could have seen us just now!” “So what? You need to get used to it,” he shrugs.

My heart almost stops beating. Wh-what does he mean? As if he can read through my mind, he takes my hands again and says in a low voice, “Yeah that’s what | meant.

We can't stay like this forever. So | was thinking — if you are OK with this - We can tell your mom and my dad about us after graduation.” I think I'm living in a dream. My body is shaking, and my will power is gradually shattered by his sweet words.

“What do you think?” he murmurs besides my ears.

| try fighting back waves of strong emotions and say breathing hard, “...what about Valerie?” “For a thousand times, she isn’t my girlfriend. And,” he pauses before carrying on.”-I never slept with her again ever since you were back.” | bite down my lips to stop myself from smiling.”So, all those acts such as taking her shopping and parading her around the campus...you were just trying to getjealous right?” A suspicious blush appears on his cheek and his tone becomes grouchy, “Are you coming to the party withor not?” | laugh briefly and then fall into silence, taking a moment to think it over. Eventually under his nervous gaze, | speak up smiling, “I'll save my first dance for you.” His face lights up immediately.

“But that doesn’t mean we are back together!” | say hastily. “I still need tto think everything over and make the right decision...hope you can understand.” “Yeah of course,” he lands a soft kiss on the back of my hand. “A dance is good enough for now.” Eason’s POV She waves atand goes back to the coffee house again. The moment she disappears behind those doors, the smile on my lips vanishes immediately.

I snort internally, turning back and walking towards my car.

| never doubted that | can get her back. She was mad atfor sure, because | pushed too hard. But she also couldn't reject me. | can see the love and passions hidden deeply in her beautiful almond-shaped eyes.

The way she looks at me...it makesfeel so weird and my chest would constrict thinking about her.

One more month. | tell myself. As soon as the anniversary party is over and the revenge is served, I'll dump her. | don’t ever need endure those weird feelings anymore.

| can go back to being my old self. Because this new self with her feels so fucking strange.

When I'm back at my car, my phone buzz and it's Valerie.

[I've found the perfect necklace for the party! Really matches your cufflinks!!] (You wanna cover and see it?) Right. I still need to deal with her. | stare down at the phone screen, fingers typing on the keyboard: [Change of plan. I'm not taking you to the party.] (WTF????] She's pissed. Obviously. (But it'll be over soon. Trust me.) | hit “send” and toss the phone aside. | don’t care much about what Valerie thinks. | also don’t care about the girl mom just setup with. Actually, | don’t care about any girls in this world.

I've becthis heartless, cold blooded, manipulative monster all because of her. And she’s paying for her own debt.