SEDUCING MY STEPBROTHER novel Chapter 50

Chapter 50

“We're sorry for being late, I suddenly craved chocolate ice cream so we had to stop at the restaurant to get one.”

‘WE?’ Aziz’s question was answered when she walked in with a man holding on to her arm, but that wasn’t what made his heart stop beating.

It was the large swell of her stomach. She was pregnant?

His eyes found hers and he felt his world shattered in front of his eyes.

The love of his life had moved on… She was pregnant for someone else.

Lexi couldn't believe her eyes as she stared at the man that refused to leave her head.

He's here? Flesh and blood?

"Are you alright? Do you feel dizzy?" Raymond's tender voice brought her out of her thoughts and she realized she'd leaned on him, her body bent in awkward angles as if she was about to fall.

"Lexi," Balthas smiled at her but she find it hard to lift the corner to her mouth and returned his smile.

Raymond guided her to the table and she notice Aziz's eyes never left hers since the moment she walked in. Trying to ignore him would be ridiculous, so she lifted her head and tilted it a little to the side.

"Aziz," she nodded in greeting, but he ignored her and continues to stare at her. His eyes held so much rage and betrayal, she didn't know if she was mistaken, but a look of disappointment crossed his features before they vanished as if they hadn't been there.

Lexi sat down beside Raymond and all through the dinner, she struggled to ignore the man staring at her as if to bore holes in her head. She barely acknowledges Raymond, who keeps trying to get her to laugh with his dry jokes.

Aziz's gaze followed each movement of the woman in front of him, he couldn't get over the shock that she had moved on from him and forgotten how she cried, telling him she loves him so much.

He folded his fist every time Raymond touches any part of her body, he wanted to punch his face and ruin it but he knew he would only ruin the dinner and Lexi would hate him if he lay his hand on her boyfriend.

When he could no longer bare to sit still and watch them display their lovey-dovey act, he pushed the plate aside and stood up from his seat.

"What happened? Is the food bad?" Daphne's worried voice filled his head and he felt guilty for making her worried for nothing.

"The food is great Daphne, I must've been jetlagged... I've little appetite for food," he smiled at her, and turn to glare at Raymond before pinning Lexi with his gaze.

He sighed when she refused to look at him and walked away from the dining room. She'd really moved on.

Aziz had hoped he was mistaken, that her relationship with that man was as a result of their break-up and it was a mistake, but the way she avoided eye contact and ignore him and kept talking to everyone in the room like he wasn’t there was enough to let him know he'd lost her for good.

The sound of a door click shut caught his attention and he knew at once that she was the one. He wasn't sure if her boyfriend would sleep in the same room with her and he hope it was just her alone.

With bated breath, he watched the hours tick by until silence descended in the mansion and he confirmed that she is the only one in the room. As soon as the hours struck 12 AM, he slid out of his bed and walked to the door that linked their room together.

Carefully, he pushed the door open and walked into her room. He was expecting her to be fast asleep but was surprised to find her sitting on the edge of the bed as if she was waiting for someone.

His heart twisted when the thought of her waiting for her boyfriend crossed his mind. He stopped a few feet from the bed and stared at her for so long.

"You must've a reason for you to sneak into my room at this kind of hour and I am sure that reason isn't for you to stare at me like I am a stranger," her voice pulled him out of the abyss of his own mind.

"We need to talk," he finally manage to speak.

"The last time you said those words, you ended up breaking my heart into tiny shards, why should I listen to you again?" Aziz stared into her eyes and a chill ran down his spine.

Her eyes looked hollow, the sparkles that drew him to her long gone.

"You're right," Aziz swallowed with a pause. "You have no reason to listen to me, nor are you mandated to hear me out. I just hope you will let me lift this burden off my chest."

Before Lexi could open her mouth to either protest or accept his plea, he fell to his knee in front of her and held her leg.

"I'm so sorry Lexi... You're right, I never really got over what Lena did to me but it wasn't because I was deeply in love with her," he looked at her, tears pooling in his eyes.

"It was because I was too desperate to have her in my life, I wanted to know what love feels like so I thought buying her stuff would be enough to keep her with me.

"Love was something foreign to me and I didn't know what it feels like. So when she told me she loved me, I came to the conclusion that I was in love with her as well. With Lena, it was all about wanting to impress her and earning her approval, but with you, it was something else."

"What are you talking about?" Lexi tried to get away from him but he held on tight.

"I didn't know what love meant or how it feels until I met you. I've never been scared to lose anyone before, but when you told me you love me, and I wasn't sure of my feeling, the thought of losing you scared the shit out of me that I stopped breathing."

"What the fuck are you saying!" Lexi's voice shook as she listened to him pour out his feelings to her.