Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

Chapter 184

I pretended to be asleep and ignored Helen.

“Stop pretending. I know you’re awake,” she slurred and flopped onto her bed.

“How did you find out?” I propped myself up. Helen lay on her bed. Her glamorous attire failed to conceal the disappointment and sadness she was feeling.

“Your eyes were moving. And your breathing was odd too. You don’t breathe like that when you’re asleep.” Helen sat up and ruffled her hair out of frustration.

Her nose was red, and she spoke with a nasal voice. I wondered if the autumn wind had given her a cold or if she had cried for a long time.

Given her looks and her family background, Helen was prideful and confident. But her unrequited love for Matthew might have dealt a huge blow to her ego.

I was also certain that Matthew was the reason why she was so upset now. However, there

wasn’t much I could do.

To ask a guy who liked me to like another woman was very cruel. I couldn’t possibly do that.

Go to bed.” I turned to the other side

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a while. Then, she went to clean herself in the shower

she switched off the lights. The apartment was pitch–black except for the moonlight

desolate.

date Matthew?” asked Helen when I almost

was so soft, like the summer breeze that passed through one’s

she was little. Yet, Matthew liked me. Somehow, I became her

he has now become the eldest son of his family. He’ll take over his family one day. That is what divides

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I should date him. What happened today only made me realize how different we both are. Helen, I’ll

me.”

a hissy fit. He fought with his parents in front of all the guests. His father dragged him to the study to punish him. The Loxleys are infamous for their strict discipline. Matthew was severely punished, but he still

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know, he has always been an obedient kid. He never talks back to his parents, not even when he was in his rebellious phase as a teenager. But today, for the first time, he defied his parents. I was devastated to see the wounds on

about it because he didn’t