Falling for a Lie: My Stepbrother's Hidden Revenge

Chapter 4

Mom and Mr. Lancelot knew Jocelyn was coming to dinner. They’d been cooking up a storm since noon.

When Lorian arrived with Jocelyn, my parents handed her a card containing a ridiculous ten million dollars–just a casual “welcome to the family” gift.

I pretended to be sick so I could just chill in my room.

But Lorian came up anyway, carrying a gift box wrapped in silver paper.

As he slipped a bracelet onto my wrist, he pulled out a blue rose–still warm from being tucked against his body.

He dropped to one knee, his eyes full of what I used to mistake for love.

“I know, being with me but can’t show up like a proper couple isn’t easy. But after the wedding, I’m still your brother. And I’ll be living with you, just like before–I’ll always be here for you.”

“Sylvia, don’t be mad at me, okay? Please?”

I looked down at the Hermès logo on the bracelet. It was literally the free gift that came with Jocelyn’s handbag.

“Whatever. I’m not mad.”

“Let’s go eat. They’ve been cooking all day for this.”

Congratulatory voices floated up from downstairs. Mom stood awkwardly by the table, treated more like hired help than family.

Lorian casually ordered her around–serve this, ladle that soup.

The rage building in my chest finally exploded.

me over six years and hurled them into the trash.

over, Jocelyn

she smiled like

Can’t handle reality?”

even more pathetic than I

15:26

for a Lie: My Stepbrother’s Hidde

0.3%

Chapter 4

own mom run around like

stared at her, ice in my veins. “What

lips curled into

her phone and waved her chat history with Lorian in my face.

know? Your precious Lorian sends me videos of

found their way to mommy dearest? Would she have a

meltdown?”

husband’s son fucked his precious daughter, night after

“HOW DARE YOU!”

her so

echoed through the room

into a glass picture frame. Blood immediately began seeping from

The look he gave me was pure

the actual hell? Have you completely lost

just came to invite you down for dinner,

darkened like a

things down. “Sylvia didn’t mean it. There must be some