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.

was so sad and aggrieved, yet

my entire

my umbrella. I dragged

tears from my cheeks.

faced the thunderstorm alone like an abandoned puppy, sadly licking

about 20 minutes, yet every step I took was strenuous. For every

umbrella away

I couldn’t open my eyes. I could only

intuition.

I just

home would

strange shadows cast by the streetlamps flitted

too late by the time I realized something was wrong with the ground. I couldn’t retract my foot fast enough. It felt like a large hand had dragged me down into a giant

solid ground. Dirty water

this morning about an abandoned storm drain on the street.

it was and

situation less than two weeks past the

the last time. But this time. I was all

Thanksgiving. Now, he was the bane of my existence. I would surely be down on

time and down a drain this