Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

Chapter 19

I felt a pang in my heart. The sweet, juicy watermelon immediately turned sour in my mouth.

I kept my silence as I frowned and tossed the watermelon skin back onto the table. Then, I wiped myself clean with the towel.

Was that a harmless insult? Or did he really look down on me that much?

He was perfect. As someone who’d had a crush on him for the longest time ever, how much harder did I have to work to shift my affection to somebody else?

I didn’t know if I was destined to spend the rest of my life alone while waiting and hoping that my childhood sweetheart would finally come to his senses.

“Felix White, you’re a meanie. Can’t you stop being so cruel to me?” I whined inwardly.

It was bad enough that he didn’t like me. But he didn’t have to rob me of my peace either.

Please, could he just leave me the fuck alone?

Both our families still spent Christmas Eve together.

Mom, Dad, and I were all quickly ushered over to Uncle Austin’s house early in the morning. Mom then looked at Christmas dinner recipes with Aunt Mel while Dad and Uncle Austin pored over a game of

chess.

p with fairy

of the house was lights. We’d hear caroling outside the door from time to time, and the TV just kept playing Christmas movies on repeat. It really

was nothing for me to do, and I wanted nothing more than to go home and burrow under my warm, cozy blankets. But Aunt Mel stopped me from leaving and

his room.

also didn’t do as she

scrolling on my

my mind. It was already deeply embedded in my brain, and I didn’t allow myself to

would make it sound as if I was a very unforgiving person who held on to grudges, i just knew that there was a deep scar in my heart that never healed. Maybe I would never recover for the rest of

but I also didn’t dare to get any closer

You look like

away,

a tall person. He held onto the armrest on the couch

good. Rather, I chose it because it was a very long movie,

I

took a step back and threw me a glance, saying, “If you want your phone back

his room, much less chase after

for a long, long time. He didn’t know about those photos. I was worried that he would come across

up and went to his room to retrieve

my phone with one hand, and his other hand beckoned me in. “Come in. We can watch the

and happily, showing all of his teeth. His eyes were also bright

was not the person he liked. He shouldn’t give me any false hope by leading me on. He should just let me

time?