Chapter 344 Dear Brother

Ella

Our breaths intertwined in the small room, mixing with the scent of moth balls and old memories, as we quickly smoothed down our clothes and stepped apart. Logan looked as if he had something to say, but quickly shut his mouth after a glare from me.

Then, just as we had managed to create a facade of innocence, the door swung open, revealing the intruders: Marina and Harry.

They sauntered in without so much as a greeting, their eyes scrutinizing every detail of the room, the air thick with unspoken insinuations.

“What were you two doing?” Marina’s tone was laden with feigned innocence, her eyes gleaming with amusement and that all-knowing look that she always seemed to have.

I felt my heart do a flip inside my chest. Had they heard? Had they followed us here? Had they been… watching, somehow? Collecting evidence of our fake relationship, maybe>

Logan, with a stern expression, retorted, “That’s none of your business. But if your curiosity knows no bounds, we were just reminiscing about childhood.”

Harry, seemingly amused by this, sauntered across the room. A smirk came across his lips as he spotted the little wooden car and snatched it up. There was something possessive in his mannerisms as he held it, something rough and unempathetic. Logan had held it so delicately before, but Harry… He owned it. Or least he thought he did.

“Oh, reminiscing, are we?” he mocked, a cruel smirk playing on his lips as he turned the little wooden car over in his thick fingers. “Do you remember how you used to bawl your eyes out whenever I took these away from you, Logan?”

Logan shrugged, glancing away. “Don’t really remember much. Not about that, at least.”

thud onto the table. I could see Logan’s posture stiffen ever so slightly, his blue eyes

continued as he wandered around the room. “Always one thing after another. Mommy, mommy! Harry broke

stepped forward, my voice a blend of firmness and reproach. Maybe it was my own experience

low voice. “But there is everything wrong with stealing

eyes raked over me, a mixture of mockery and condescension in his gaze. “Oh, the false

what do you mean by that?” I retorted, folding my arms across my chest. Logan shot me a warning glance, urging me not to get involved, but

act like you don’t know what they say, Miss Morgan,” Harry chided,

edged with venom, implied knowledge of my past, of the father I

his flaws, his misgivings. He mistreated humans, overlooked the value of equality, but

like stone. Her face betrayed no emotion. I couldn’t tell

to do with my dear brother?” The mockery in his voice was palpable, his gaze

waist, causing me to grow somewhat tense after our impassioned encounter, but it was also comforting at the same time.

began to guide me over to the door, but before we could reach

more thing,” Harry

“What

Logan once had a man shot simply for daring to look at him the

eyes, wide with shock, flickered to Logan, a thousand unspoken questions swirling in their depths. Was the man I was seeing, the man exposing his vulnerability, his past, capable of such

listen to him,” Logan

it was too

Harry began, the mirth in his voice making my skin crawl. “Logan, the ever- passionate lover,

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