My Stepbrother's Dirty Little Secret novel Chapter 471

Chapter 471

Gianna leaned into my hand, giving me that look again.

I didn’t understand it. I wanted to.

“What?” I said, “Why are you looking at me like that, Mess?”

“I thought we had a date planned, Little Mess,”

“A date?” We can’t date, Raphael. Remember? We have a cold contract. We are a secret transaction behind closed doors.”

“And I didn’t want anybody looking at you that way.”

“Because I’m your stepsister.”

“Because you’re under my protection.”

“What?”

“Nothing.”

“That was definitely not nothing.”

“I just forgot who I was talking to for a second.”

“Don’t.”

“I didn’t say anything wrong.”

“You seriously don’t get it, Raphael?”

“Then explain it to me because I’m obviously missing something.”

“You talk about me like I’m different from everyone else… but you never say why.”

“I care about you.”

“Yeah,” she said quietly, “Like family.”

“I don’t understand what you want me to say.”

“That’s the problem.”

“We’re step siblings sleeping together in secret,” she snapped, “That’s not exactly healthy behavior, Raphael.”

“We already established it’s fucked up.”

“That was before.”

“Before what?”

“Before it started… Forget it.”

“No. Finish that sentence.”

“There you go again with the practical thing.”

“I don’t need a wife,” I said. “I don’t need romance. I don’t need whatever fantasy everybody else keeps chasing.”

“You really believe that.”

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