Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

Chapter 41

I told myself I could do it. I could still be that cheerful young girl named Luna without him.

torrential rain had caused a brief flood to rise above curb–level. I couldn’t see the road or what was beneath my feet save for dark, muddy water.

It was a perfect metaphor for my current state after deciding to let go of Felix and stay away from him. I still hadn’t found a way nor knew what my next step should be.

I carefully felt my way into the water, tears falling down my eyes and blurring my vision.

I was aggrieved and angry. Why was I always the one left behind? What did I do wrong? I liked Felix so much and treated him like my everything. Why did he have to treat me this way in return? 1

Was shame the only result of liking someone?

I couldn’t hold back the tears as they fell.

I told myself not to cry. I had walked this street countless times that I could go back home with or

without Felix.

But I couldn’t control my aching heart. Tears continued falling as I saw Felix and Lilac running together, laughing in the rain in my mind’s eye.

sad and aggrieved, yet I had

my

umbrella. I dragged

tears from my cheeks.

thunderstorm alone like an abandoned puppy, sadly licking my

yet every step I took was strenuous. For every step I took forward,

away after it

that I couldn’t open my

intuition.

on consoling myself that I would be home soon. I just had to hold on a little longer. Mom,

home

flitted through the buildings. They seemed like deadly

couldn’t retract my foot fast enough. It felt like a large

on solid ground. Dirty water fell

an abandoned storm drain on the street. It was dangerous as it didn’t have

it was and was certain I had fallen into

was in a life–or–death situation less than two weeks past the

had Jade and my friends beside me the last time. But this time. I

thought my luck ended with Felix on that year’s Thanksgiving. Now, he was the bane of my existence. I

fell off a cliff last time and down a drain this