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.

aggrieved, yet I had no

filled my entire

I dragged my broken umbrella, wiping away the

tears from my cheeks.

an abandoned puppy, sadly

every step I took was strenuous. For every step I took forward, I’d be pushed back two

tossed the umbrella away after

so strong that I couldn’t open my eyes. I could only walk back

intuition.

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

of home would

the streetlamps flitted through the buildings. They

was wrong with the ground. I couldn’t retract

landed on solid ground.

abandoned storm drain on the street.

was and was certain I

in a life–or–death situation less than

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

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

off a cliff last time and down