Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 284

Chapter 284

That would have been a great place to be on my birthday since I'd be taking over my father's tech company when I grew up. It sounded like the best place ever

But here I was, all alone with no one to wish me a happy birthday.

The sun was beginning to dip below the horizon, turning the sky a seft, golden pink, yet Mum and Dad weren't home.

I sighed again, the same heavy sigh that I had been sighing all afternoon.

A cold shiver ran through me as I moved closer to the window, pushed by a force I couldn't see. My leg lifted, just hovering over the sill. The wind picked up, and my long, shoulder-length hair whipped cross my face.

I made up my mind.

I'll jump.

The possible results I thought of getting from the fall made me happy to take the risk.

then something caught

fence. A little girl, no older than four. She was dressed in a white

her hair tied

had these big, bright green eyes. She looked

and when she

seen her before,

smile that made my heart ache a little because it was so pure and so

didn't know why. Maybe it was because I was just so used to being ignored and not being seen. But here she was, waving at me like I was someone

her voice high and sweet, like the sound of

beat. She knew. She knew it was my

didn't know

disbelief, my hands

she said, her voice so soft and

in the face. Not in a bad way, though. More like she was reminding me that I was

blinked as her words sunk

way she said it. But for the first time