In Love With My Evil Stepbrother

Chapter 84: A Patient Predator

Eason’s POV

I wake up in her bed the next morning.

The first thing I look for is her. Luckily, she is still sleeping soundly besides me, her face bathed in the golden morning sunlight.

She’s like an angel.

I let out a long sign, feeling relieved. I don’t remember how many nights that I dreamed about her sleeping in my arms and woke up to find that everything was only in my head.

It almost crushed me.

I went through the darkest period time in my life three years ago when she left me. I couldn’t cope with the fact that the love of my life was gone, and everything was my fault. So I fled back to New York from Miami and locked myself up in the apartment. I wanted to rot in that dark room, so that I didn’t need to face the reality.

I drank myself to sleep but just kept being woken up by nightmares. So I drank more, forcing myself to sleep. It’s like a vicious circle. My life had fallen into a dark, endless pit.

I remember one time I drank an entire bottle of vodka and passed out on the bathroom floor. If my bodyguard didn’t find me in time, I’d be dead already. I was taken into the emergency room because of alcohol poisoning and couldn’t get out of the hospital bed for a whole week.

My dad flew from Boston to New York to check on me. He sat beside my bed staring at me, but I didn’t want to face him. I had no interest in talking to anyone, except Natalia.

“So are you acting like this because of her?” asked him sternly. “Do you think she would be happy seeing you like this?”

I stare at the ceiling, ignoring him. Truth to be told, I blamed him too. If he had given us a little bit of support, maybe she wouldn’t have left.

why she left! Because you couldn’t take the responsibility as a man

me a fucking lecture? He didn’t want

alcohol had burned my throat.

things can happen in the future. What if she come back one day and

shed a light on me. Right, what if she comes back one day? What if we meet again in the future and she finds me as this filthy and scruffy man covered in wine and vomit? She

hot stepbrother now…that Liam. God, do I hate him, his muscular figure, his great hair, his flashy teeth and

Fuck.

a smart kid. You will figure this out,” my dad said that and

paid me back. A year later, I got into a good university majoring in business. My parents were thrilled. But I knew it wasn’t enough. If I want to win her back one day,

enough money to start my own company. I knew everyone thought of me as the Ramirez’s heir, but I had made up my mind not to take over the family business. This way, I took orders from no one. I would be fully in charge of my own life, including my

I got the news that she was admitted into a university in New York, which meant that she was only four hours away from me. It was killing me. All I wanted to do was to rush back to her side and drag her into my

finds out. Her photo was the only thing that kept me going for the past two years. I knew that each day I have waited and each

company was on the right track, and I had gotten rid of my drinking

to meet her.

…But how?

on her doorstep would only scare her off. So I had to make sure that our reunion seemed like a perfect coincidence. Luckily, the private detective told me that she was working at a restaurant, a

looked wonderful, more sophisticated and mature. I

surprised seeing me. But fortunately, she didn’t push me away. Apparently, she believed that we had both moved on. So I kept my patience, playing the role as her big brother and

still detect the lingering

It had to be her.

introduce my marriage partner to

Natalia. So I eagerly agreed to her proposal and brought Natalia back to Boston.

knew I was being manipulative again, a trait that Natalia hated the most. But this is who I am. I planned