In Love With My Evil Stepbrother

Chapter 57: Three Years Ago 

Natalia’s POV

“What? Where did this come from?” 

I almost laugh out loud.

That is the most ridiculous I’ve ever heard. I’m literally shaking with laughter.

Before I moved to Miami for good, Jenna flied here once and stayed with me for a week to help me pack. She met Eason a few times that summer. 1

But it was such a long time ago! And they didn’t even speak to each other. So something is definitely wrong with her memory.

“You got it wrong. We were friends, but nothing more. In fact, I saw him dated at least 4 girls that summer. I even had dinners with his girlfriend! Do you still think he had a crush on me?”

Jenna frown, shaking her head in perplexity. “No, I’m pretty sure about it. He used to stare at you in a funny way, like he was ready to take you as his personal prisoner any minute.”

“Ewww, gross!” I shiver in disgust. “You are totally fantasizing things. He was probably just sick of me following him around.”

“No! I know it for sure because-” 

“Because?”

“One day you were out with your dad and I was waiting for you in your room. He came knocking on your door, with a bouquet and a letter in his hands. When I told him that you weren’t here, he asked me to give the flower and the letter to you. He didn’t seem like his usual self that day. He was shy and stuttered a lot. It was kind of cute though. But he seems like a total asshole now.”

I’m stunned.

I have absolutely no memory of this.

“Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Back up,” I hold up my hand and stop her. “When was this exactly? And where did you leave the flower and letter?”

“On your desk! I didn’t stay till you get back, so I just put them on your desk. Oh, and that was like a week before we left for Miami.”

I think hard for a moment and suddenly remember that day.

I went to school with my dad to get my paperwork done. When we got home, we even bumped into Mr. Ramirez, Ms. Griswold and Eason on the doorstep. They were heading out for a charity event. Mom was upset about Mr. Ramirez going out with his ex-wife, so I ordered pizza and stayed with her.

Me and mom talked for a long time that night, about her marriage and her new life. So I remember that day vividly.

But I have zero memory of the flower and letter.

“Wait…” Jenna gasps. “Don’t tell me you never get his flower and letter.”

“Well, I didn’t! Are you sure you left it on my desk?”

It was sitting on your desk when I left your

I didn’t get

none of us suffer from memory loss, then there’s

took it before you

shiver travels down my

ago. But hat’s the

who came into my room and took those

in your

hard to think back. “There was me and my mom of course. Mr. Ramirez and Ms. Griswold was also there before I got home. And there were a few maids. So I guess 5-6

would

with three people, Mr. Ramirez, Ms. Griswold and

came back

it’s that old hag!” Jenna cries, waving her fists

she”

back and find Eason standing by the door with a

light up immediately when he sees

and kisses me on my forehead. “Your mom would skin me alive if anything happened to you. She is venting it all on my dad right

finger at us and yells, “What the hell? You-are

yet!” I shush her. “I’ll tell you

pouts and mutters some complaints. When Eason turns around to fix my food, she mouths me:

feeling a

“So Eason...?”

“Yeah.”

I left, you went into my room and gave me some flowers? And a letter?

silence fills

my breath waiting anxiously for his reply, and so does

a carton of milk into the glass

he asks in a light tone.

and she cries out immediately, “No way! How could you forget?

he shrugs and

say something, but

nothing we can do to force out the truth. Plus, I have

story.

“I’ll go see if they are done talking with the lawyer. Your mom will

almost forgot. There’s still that business with Zack! So did he die? Did they know I was

to stay so we can work on our story together. But Eason has already

“That dude just gets weirder and weirder. You know what? I’ll help you find it out.

he doesn’t

not. But he has friends, right? Maybe we can poke around and see if his friends