Forsaken Daughter Pampered by Top Hier

Chapter 317

Those years of bottling up her feelings–man, they’d been rough, weighing her down. She’d never let it show.

Now, with one sentence, he’d brushed it all away.

He teased her on purpose, his voice warm and playful. “Oh yeah? Down about what?”

He knew exactly what, but he grinned down at her, waiting for her to fidget.

Tears rolled down Stephanie’s cheeks, quick and hot. She gave his waist a sharp twist, not holding back.

“You’re still screwing with me!” she huffed, her voice breaking with a sob.

First acting like he didn’t notice when she played drunk, now pretending he didn’t get her feelings–she felt totally called

out.

“You knew the whole time, didn’t you? Tell me–did you know how I felt all along?” She stared up at him, pushing hard.

He’d known she was into him, and he’d felt the same–she was more sure of it every second.

Sebastian grabbed her flailing little hand mid–attack, his tone soft but stuck. “You were just a kid back then, you know that?”

A teenage girl, all crushy and dreamy–who’d have thought it’d stick around this long?

Stephanie’s face went red. She dropped her eyes, too shy to look at him.

He cupped her cheeks, tilting her face up, and planted a gentle kiss on her lips. “What, you’re barely grown and now you’re quizzing me about old times?”

She mumbled under her breath, wiggling defiantly in his hold.

Mid–squirm, the box slipped from Sebastian’s hand, hitting the floor with a quiet thud.

Stephanie glanced at it, muttering, “Hello? THAT THING dropped.”

easy, one eyebrow raised. “Want me to use

choked on his

that?” Her

reply, and just clung to his waist, hiding

crossing the foyer, and stopped

that box sat on the floor, screaming

brain shorted out.

he turned and bolted down another

She pinched Sebastian’s side and hissed, “Elliot!”

back, but Elliot was already a ghost, disappearing around the

voice calm. “Told you, no need to

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hiding,” she whispered back, but not

people staring? She’d rather sink

rolled out again. In one smooth move, he scooped her up into his arms and turned, carrying

to their room.

washed over them, throwing warm shadows across the

voice all jittery. “That thing’s still out in the hall!

if someone spots it? Her stomach twisted into

waved it off like it was nothing.

blinked, thrown. “Huh?”

voice, all

went

lit up red again, and she dove for the blanket to hide, but Sebastian wasn’t letting her off

her cheeks gently, his

today,” she mumbled.

thought, giving him a grudging nod in

into a little smile, catching

backtracked quick. “But

eyebrow, teasing. “You’re saying