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

caroling outside the door from time to

I wanted nothing more than to go home and burrow under my warm, cozy

his room.

also didn’t do as

scrolling on

from the past kept flashing in my mind. It was already deeply embedded in my brain, and I didn’t allow myself to forget it either.

grudges, i just knew that there was

of my heart and soul, but I also didn’t dare to get any closer to

doing here alone? You look like a sad,

suddenly snatched away, making me

person. He held onto the armrest on

was good. Rather, I chose it

Give it back to me,” I said, reaching up to try and snatch it back

“If you want your phone back come to my room to get it.” Then, he turned on his

his room, much less chase after

was full of photos of him. Most of them had been secretly taken by me, and I’d saved them for a long, long time. He didn’t know about those photos. I was worried that he would come across those photos by accident and kick up another

and went to

I reached his room, he was sitting by his table. He was holding my phone with one hand, and his

showing all of

the person he liked. He shouldn’t give me any false hope by leading me on. He should just let me be my miserable self for the

time?