My Stepbrother's Dirty Little Secret novel Chapter 378

Chapter 378

I sat frozen in the chair, my breath catching in my throat as I looked up at him.

“We made a deal,” Raphael continued, “And both of us will mutually decide when this arrangement finally ends. Neither of us can singlehandedly just walk away and break this thing between us. We started it together, and we will finish it together. Do you understand me?”

A sudden, sharp pain sliced right through the middle of my chest. It felt like he was pushing my heart away and rejecting my feelings, even though I knew the truth… he couldn’t actually reject them because he had no idea how I truly felt about him.

I stared up at him through my eyelashes, my eyes stinging as a wave of deep hurt washed over me so fast it made me feel physically sick to my stomach.

A deal.

He was still calling it a deal. He was still talking about it like it was just a cold piece of paper, an arrangement with rules and a specific end date.

The realization hit me so hard I could barely keep my spine straight under my crop top.

But he was right, wasn’t he? I was just imagining things. I was letting my foolish heart dream up a beautiful story that didn’t exist.

He was my stepbrother.

We were just each other’s dirty little secret, hiding in the dark corners of his house. This was exactly how it was always going to end… as a secret that would eventually be buried and forgotten when the time ran out. Right?

It couldn’t change. It could never become anything real.

If we ever dared to step out into the light, everything around us would completely explode.

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