Lahat ng Kabanata ng One Night's Mistake With My Stepbrother : Kabanata 131 - Kabanata 140

"Yes, I’m so sure of it too myself," my mother said teasingly before letting out a laugh.I appreciated that she was adding some humor to our conversation, although I doubted that it was genuine. The truth was I wasn’t so sure at all about what I just said. However, what else could I possibly say?A part of me feared that this business trip had to do with the mafia business that they were running in the shadows, but there was no way that I could tell my mother that."Why don’t we watch this movie? My friend told me that it’s supposed to be interesting," I told my mother in a desperate attempt to change the topic....The mansion was uncharacteristically quiet the next morning when I woke up. It felt like having both masters of the mansion leave had left a void that couldn’t be filled. Apart from that, everything in life proceeded so normally as if nothing was happening.My mother sat on the sofa in the living room sipping coffee while I tried my best to keep some sort of casual conver

I wasn’t sure if I was ready to walk away from him and from all that. My eyes focused on the small slip of paper that Francesca had handed me earlier in the day. It was Francesca’s number, and also my way out.I knew that I had to do the right thing, and perhaps my mind already knew what the right way out was, but my heart was finding it extremely difficult to accept it....I wasn’t exactly sure when I fell asleep the night before, but when I woke up my mind was made up. There was no more room for hesitation, and no more time to dwell in my feelings. The right solution was that I had to get my mother out of here as soon as possible. If we stayed, it would be like pretending that we could live in this world without bearing the consequences. Something terrible would eventually happen sooner or later, and I wasn’t sure that we were prepared to face it.I had seen enough to know that there was no such thing as safety within the ring of the mafia. My chest ached so painfully when I though

"Please don’t," I whispered softly. The forbidden secret between us, the one that could shatter everything if spoken out loud between my mother and me, hung between us in silence. I couldn’t bring myself to blame Rowan for using our secret against me when I was the one who plotted to betray him first."Then from now on you will do as I say," Rowan said. His eyes didn’t soften and he didn’t smile, and I knew that it would take a while for me to gain his trust again.I got into the car, and we were on our way back to the mansion. My mother looked slightly nervous during the ride, but I was too busy with my own thoughts to inquire about the reason, although I had a really good guess."I’m sure George won’t mind. I just hope that nothing happened that made him return from his business trip so early," I said to reassure my mother."I hope so. It would be unlike him to get mad simply because we wanted to go on a holiday together. I just hope that his business meeting went well," my mother r

"I’ll never let that happen. I’ll always protect you. All I’m asking is for you to trust me and do as I say," Rowan pleaded."But..." I began protesting but Rowan pulled me into his arms again.His lips silenced whatever words that I wanted to utter in a passionate kiss. The heat of his lips enveloped mine before I felt the seeking wetness of his tongue as it slipped between my parted lips. His sweet intoxicating taste filled my mouth as our tongues intertwined. He kissed me long and deep as if he wanted to impart onto me all that he was feeling. I could sense his desperation along with his desire to have me all in that one kiss. The intensity of it swept all my words away to the point that I forgot what it was that I wanted to say to him."Do you love me?" Rowan asked after breaking our kiss.All I could do was nod my head in reply as I felt tears stinging the back of my eyes. It felt like everything else that we had just talked about didn’t matter. It all boiled down to one thing an

I closed my bedroom door before pressing my back against it as if it could help me shut out the entire world from my life, even if for just a moment. My chest ached with every breath that I took. All I wanted to do was sink into my bed and hide beneath the blankets.I wished I could have pretended that none of this ever existed. Pretend George wasn’t who he was. Pretend that Rowan wasn’t both the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with and the person I should run away from.The knock on my bedroom door came too soon. It wasn’t a polite and soft tap on the door, but the kind of knock that demanded the door be opened immediately. My stomach dropped because I realized that it must be Rowan on the other side of the door."Annabelle, open the door," Rowan said in a low, commanding voice.I wondered what he needed to talk to me about after telling me to return to my bedroom and get some sleep for the night. Rowan entered my bedroom and locked the door behind him immediately after