In Love With My Evil Stepbrother

Chapter 72

Read In Love With My Evil Stepbrother Chapter 72 – Whatever It Takes

I crouch down there frozen, staring at him.

“I said midnight. And you just waited me till midnight?” my voice is filled with shock.

“Yes,” he nods.

 

“But why?” I ask, perplexed.

I can’t think of one reason that would make him wait in the weather like this for 2-3 hours.

Is he just trying to be nice? Or does he still have feelings for-no, impossible. I immediately laugh at that fleeting thought.

And then I hear his answer, “I said I want to have dinner with you. You clearly haven’t eaten anything. Come, let’s go.”

He rises and gestures me to follow. Before I realize, I’m already walking with him side by side under his umbrella. The chilly wind hits me, and I shiver. The next second, a scarf that still carries his warmth lands on my neck.

“It’s cold during the night, isn’t it?” he says casually and looks straight ahead, paying no attention to the astonished look on my face. “Don’t forget to check the weather next time.”

I touch the scarf, which smells so much like him. It’s irresistible. After only a few seconds of hesitation, I tighten his scarf around my neck and instantly feel warmer.

We walk together to the parking lot where he parks his car, which turns out to be a black Audi. Very low-profile. Very unlike him.

“What happened to your fancy sports cars?” I turn to him and ask.

“I sold them.”

I gasp in surprise. I can still remember the proud in his voice when he told me about his car collections, and now he is telling me that he sold them?

Did his family go bankrupt?

“Why? Do you have a financial difficulty?”

He blinks and then bursts into laughter,“ Oh no, nothing like that. I needed money to start my own business, so I sold them for a good price. Plus, I can’t have my business partners see me driving around in a gaudy convertible…doesn’t seem very reliable that way.”

I don’t know which word makes me more surprised, “business” “gaudy” or ” reliable”?

He really has changed a lot. And it makes it harder for me to read him.

“Why don’t you ask Mr. Ramirez for the money?” I ask.

His face darkens for a quick second and then he quickly covers it with a smile, “do you want to have dinner or ask question?”

He is dogging my question. That I am sure of.

He unlocks the car and open the passenger’s door for me. Before I get in the car, I suddenly notice a darker area on his left shoulder. It looks like a water stain from the rain.

But he was holding an umbrella large enough for us two.

Then it suddenly hits me. I was walking on the right side of him. So he must be leaning the umbrella more towards my side to make sure I’m perfectly sheltered from the rain. That’s how his left shoulder got wet.

“Something wrong?” he notices my moment of lost and asks.

“No! No, it’s nothing…I—nothing.”-

lower my head and get in the car, avoiding

He is

in his car, I quickly take a deep breath to calm myself down before he gets

what do you want to eat?” he starts the engine and

exhausted, physically and emotionally. I’m really not in the mood for dinner and just want to lie down. But my gut feeling is telling me

know…a simple bite perhaps?” I force out a smile. “It’s late and I’m sure you have things to do tomorrow. I don’t want

out of the parking lot. When the car

is playing, Whatever It

but never really paid any attention to the lyrics. And now I’m trapped in the car with nothing to do but to listen carefully, it just occurred to me that, ironically, this song tells

strangled smile fell

I

part is that I didn’t even

reasons for you to

if you can find a reason

the air getting

to this song with Eason, who has also done me wrong in the past. But I don’t know if he has ever regretted

song just snapped us back to

going in the

do whatever

To turn this around;

what’s at

that I’ve let you

if you give

Believe that—”

The song stops abruptly.

off

he turned it off, because unlike the singer, he doesn’t have any regret for the past and

been so long already. He has moved

of my bag in the darkness and struggle to fight back those hot tears in my eyes. I can’t let him find out that this song brought out the emotional side of me, which

need to pretend that I’m cool

finally breaks the awkward

girlfriend, remember?” I’m glad that my voice sounds natural and calm, so I carry on

voice suddenly turns darker

is my fault, nevertheless. Can’t really complain about

it’s a bit unfair? Getting fired over something

I guess the

Normal people like us can only be really careful about every little thing in our lives, or those little things

immediately realized that the final sentence sounded more sarcastic and mean than I intended to

driving his car with his face hidden

regretted it already. We won’t see each other after

to lighten the mood. “Your girlfriend seems nice. How long has it been? How did you

the person who got you fired nice?”

a decent conversation here. Be a

then says, “I think food is

the window and see a little Taco joint at the

and then gets off

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