Tempted By my Evil Lycan Stepbrother novel Chapter 61

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Chapter 61: Fuckboy Or Not?

Riley’s POV

I didn’t know how I fell asleep that night. Or maybe passed out was more accurate. Because Ezra was really like a beast that way.

How did his previous girlfriends endure him? Or did they like how relentless he was in bed?

I struggled to open my puffy eyes when the first ray of sunlight hit my face. I was lying on Ezra’s jacket. But he was nowhere to be found.

“…Ezra?”

My voice echoed in the cave. But there was no reply.

My heart sank.

Shit, that jerk wasn’t going to sleep with me and then ditch me, was he?

I pulled myself up and got dressed, although my body felt like a truck had run over it. I walked toward the cave entrance and called out again, “Ezra!”

Still, nothing.

‘Last night was amazing,’ Rene suddenly spoke up in my mind. She sounded very satisfied. ‘Elen and I really connected.’

No doubt Elen was Ezra’s wolf. ‘Now that you know he ditched us, do you still think everything was great?’ I asked sullenly.

‘Oh, Elen would never do that. He was such a gentleman.’

Looks like my wolf had completely switched sides after last night. Elen really won her over.

I tuned out Rene’s excited rambling about how amazing Elen was and walked outside to search.

Under a tree outside, I found my backpack and weapons.

But all of Ezra’s stuff was gone.

He left. No doubt about it.

The cold, harsh truth was like a slap to my face. I clenched my fists but still

COL”stop myself from shaking.

Why did I trust him? I knew how much of a fuckboy Ezra was. Women

ere like rental cars to him- he used them hard and returned them the next morning. And yet somehow, I thought I was special to him. Why? Was it because of the speech he made last night?

Well, he must make all the girls feel special before he crudely abandoned them. I was such an idiot for letting him get to me like that.

There was something hot and wet in my eyes. I quickly wiped my face and bent down to grab my gear.

The Hunting Season wasn’t over yet. I wanted to win.

Suddenly a twig cracked behind me.

Without even looking, I grabbed my dagger and swung it back with all my strength.

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But my hand was caught immediately.

“That’s how you greet me after last night?” Ezra raised an eyebrow at me.

I went still, staring at him in disbelief. Rene cheered in my mind, ‘I told you he’d come back!’

I ignored Rene and asked him, “Where were you?”

“Scouting the terrain nearby. When those beasts dragged us down here yesterday, I lost my sense of direction too. Gotta find a way back to the right path.”

He glanced at the dagger in my hand and my backpack on my shoulder, a dangerous look on his face. “And where do you think you’re going? You weren’t going to sneak away after last night, were you? That’s cruel.”

I cleared my throat, feeling awkward,

‘Should I tell Elen how you were picturing him and Ezra as two completely heartless jerks? Rene snickered.

‘Oh, shut up,’ I hissed at her, annoyed.

“Hey.”

Ezra pulled me into his arms. He buried his face in my neck and inhaled deeply. “…Last night was amazing. I know it’s a cliché thing to say, but that’s how I felt. Your scent, your voice, your body… Before last night, I never knew someone could have this much of an effect on me.”

My heart swelled. I wrapped my arms around his neck. “Yeah, I felt the same way.”

The sex was one thing. But it was more about the connection. Our matebond felt stronger after last night. It was like we were one, and the rest of the world didn’t matter.

He looked down at me with a gorgeous smile, his green eyes soft as water. “I know we still have a lot to talk about

-us, the future, and everything. But what do you say we wait until after the competition? The Hunting Season isn’t over yet.”

I nodded. “Yeah, agreed.’

He tucked a stray strand of hair behind my ear. “And no one needs to know about us before we figure everything out. Including your friends and your mom. You know, to avoid misunderstandings.”

I thought his extra caution was a bit strange, but it’s what I wanted too, so I shrugged. “Sure. I don’t have many friends anyway, you know that. And it’s always a bad idea to share anything with my mother. So yeah, I totally agree.”

“Great.” He planted a gentle kiss on my forehead and held my hand. “Let’s go. The path ahead isn’t an easy one.”

“Will you now admit that you were totally being paranoid?’ Rene asked lazily as I followed Ezra up a slope. ‘He and Elen are great. And we’re mates. They’d never abandon us.”

I did feel like I’d overreacted a bit. But I was too embarrassed to admit it, so I said, ‘Maybe he was planning to leave. Look how he took everything with him. You don’t need to bring all that stuff just to scout nearby, right? He just changed his mind halfway and came back.’

‘Oh, stop being so cynical. Who hurt you?’

I couldn’t help but laugh.

Ezra led me across a ridge before we got back to the woods where we’d split up before. We should have gone our

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separate ways here, but he insisted on walking me back to my team first.

“Just to be safe,” he said. “Don’t let me worry, okay?”

So I didn’t refuse.

My team and I had agreed on a rendezvous spot if any of us got separated during the game. That’s a small clearing upstream by the river.

Luckily, it wasn’t far from here.

Ezra and I approached the spot through the woods. From a distance, I could already hear something-my teammate’s voices.

They were here waiting for me!

My heart lifted, and I was about to hurry over when Ezra grabbed my arm.

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