Chapter 242

Scarlette stumbled back a few steps, finding herself pinned against the sleek

black car.

"Nicholas, that's enough!"

With a cut on his lip from her slap, Nicholas casually licked the blood away. "Scarlette, I heard you're bringing Morgan to meet your folks?"

Scarlette's chest rose and fell as she clutched the car door frame.

"This is my business, I don't owe you an explanation."

She took a deep breath, her voice softening. "We're going to be family soon. Don't look at him like he's your enemy. You're going to have to call him 'brother-in-law.""

Nicholas chuckled darkly, his eyes clouded with intensity.

Scarlette felt a hint of fear from his unpredictable nature and frowned. "And stop being so informal with me. Call me 'sister.' If you keep coming around like this, the Greenard family is going to give me a hard time. Nicholas, stop acting like a kid."

Nicholas grabbed her wrist and pushed her

dizzy. Before she

me like a toy. When you want to push me away, I'm just your 'little brother,' but when you need me, you cling to me

in the cramped space, his presence

was roomy, but when Scarlette tried to get up, he pressed

so many times, that night was a mistake,

hand moving

trying to push him

"Nicholas!"

fingers. "You say one thing, but your body

finished, Scarlette slapped

five red

and pain. They used to be so close, incredibly close. She thought his clinginess

he wasn't. Did he really not know whose

her heart softening as she gently

even if he were just a pet, there would be feelings. But to Scarlette, Nicholas was like a brother. She never

rummaged around the car for a first aid kit but found

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