Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

Chapter 19

I felt a pang in my heart. The sweet, juicy watermelon immediately turned sour in my mouth.

I kept my silence as I frowned and tossed the watermelon skin back onto the table. Then, I wiped myself clean with the towel.

Was that a harmless insult? Or did he really look down on me that much?

He was perfect. As someone who’d had a crush on him for the longest time ever, how much harder did I have to work to shift my affection to somebody else?

I didn’t know if I was destined to spend the rest of my life alone while waiting and hoping that my childhood sweetheart would finally come to his senses.

“Felix White, you’re a meanie. Can’t you stop being so cruel to me?” I whined inwardly.

It was bad enough that he didn’t like me. But he didn’t have to rob me of my peace either.

Please, could he just leave me the fuck alone?

Both our families still spent Christmas Eve together.

Mom, Dad, and I were all quickly ushered over to Uncle Austin’s house early in the morning. Mom then looked at Christmas dinner recipes with Aunt Mel while Dad and Uncle Austin pored over a game of

chess.

p with fairy

rest of the house was lights. We’d hear caroling outside the door from time to time, and the TV just kept playing Christmas movies on repeat. It really felt like

more than to go home and burrow under my warm, cozy blankets. But Aunt Mel stopped me from leaving and suggested that I spend some time with

his room.

didn’t outright reject her offer, but I also didn’t do as she told me. Instead, I

and started scrolling on

and I didn’t allow myself to forget it

who held on to grudges, i just knew that

also didn’t

here alone? You look like

suddenly snatched away, making

He held onto the armrest on the couch

an action movie to watch. I didn’t choose it because I liked tort was good. Rather, I chose it because it was a

a movie. Give it back to me,” I said, reaching up to try and snatch

threw me a glance, saying, “If you want your phone back come to my room to get it.” Then,

didn’t want to go to his room, much less chase

full of photos of him. Most of them had been secretly taken by me, and I’d saved them for a long, long time. He didn’t know

to his room to retrieve my

I reached his room, he was sitting by his table. He was holding my phone with one hand, and his other hand beckoned me in. “Come in.

and happily, showing all of his teeth.

was not the person he liked. He shouldn’t give me any false hope by leading me on. He should just let me be my miserable self for

time?