Loving The Better Brother novel Chapter 35

Chapter 35 All Alone

WILLOW

They might as well have stripped me naked in front of everyone with how many times Mr. Fawn had called me out. He never said my name outright after the initial humiliation, but every pointed remark about “preparedness” and every subtle glance in my direction made it abundantly clear who he was referring to.

By the time the meeting ended, my dignity felt like it had been publicly rejected.

I stepped out of the conference room with my chin lifted despite my inner feelings.

Then someone bumped into my shoulder.

I turned to see Millie, looking like she wasn’t sorry at all.

“You’re getting in the way.”

Samantha, standing a few steps behind her, let out a soft laugh.

I inhaled slowly. “If you’re done,” I said calmly, stepping aside, “I’d like to pass.”

Millie’s smirk widened before she brushed past me. I waited until they were out of sight before releasing the breath I had been holding.

They might think I was some naive newcomer who had somehow slipped into a position far above her qualifications.

However, they did not know that the office I was walking toward technically belonged to me.

If I told them, what would they say?

No, it would be worse. It would invalidate every effort I was trying to make to prove myself without my father’s shadow looming over me.

I entered my office quietly and shut the door behind me. I dropped into my chair and pressed my palms against my eyes.

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Chapter 55 All Mene

Find Ned

I felt really bad.

The mistake about the compliance deadline was small, but in a place like this, small mistakes were magnified.

I should be studying more at this moment. However, I couldn’t bring myself to.

Between teaching in the mornings and navigating the Corporation in the afternoons, I barely had time to breathe. When I got home, I was too tired to process anything more complicated than whether I should eat or sleep first.

With that, I opened my contacts and pressed Kath’s name, wanting to talk to

someone.

She answered on the third ring. “Sorry, girly,” she said immediately, her voice slightly breathless. “I’m pretty busy. I can’t talk right now.”

“That bad?”

“We’re packed!” she replied. I could hear the hiss of a milk steamer in the background. “I don’t know why, but coffee sounds pretty good to people this afternoon, I guess.”

Despite everything, I smiled faintly. “Yeah, go ahead. Make those sales.”

“You okay?” she asked quickly.

“I’m fine,” I lied smoothly. “Call me later.”

“Love you,” she said before hanging up.

I lowered the phone slowly.

Even Kath was busy.

I scrolled through my contacts again and stopped at Rocco’s name. My thumb hovered over it.

He was probably drowning in work right now. He had taken on so much responsibility ever since my father died, and on top of that, he was still teaching

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me the ropes. In that event, there was a lot of work piled up because I could not yet handle everything alone.

If I called him now, he would come. He always did.

But that was the problem.

I did not want to be the girl who needed rescuing every time things became uncomfortable.

Maybe the others were right, and I was—

No.

I straightened in my chair.

We are not doubting ourselves anymore!

This was already bad enough. I refused to become my own enemy on top of everything else.

I kept scrolling.

And then I stopped.

Marcus.

His name stared back at me like a ghost from a different life.

He used to be the one I called whenever I felt overwhelmed. Back then, I would rant about minor inconveniences. He would listen, or at least I thought he did. Sometimes it felt like he was not listening at all, but venting to someone still felt good.

I swallowed.

Those days felt both distant and dangerously close.

I tapped his contact.

“I should delete this,” I muttered, my hand hovering over the delete button.

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Chapter 25 All Aboar

However, I stopped at the very last second.

Fir, hed

I still needed his number for the divorce proceedings. Even though I wanted to erase him from my life at this moment, our marriage was yet to be nullified.

I clicked my tongue in annoyance and quickly exited instead.

I scrolled further and froze when I saw a name that shouldn’t be in my contacts af all.

I frowned and clicked on the contact details.

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