Tasting Nora-Pleasing Her Stepbrother Mates novel Chapter 65

65–The Big Game Played By My Stepbrothers 

Nora: 

I didn’t even resist and forgot about Natalya and Lord Atwood. I thought the kiss would happen because the way he pulled me back suggested he was in the mood. However, just when our lips were about to connect, he pulled back and let go of my face. 

“I can’t do this,” he muttered under his breath, leaving me stunned. 

“Huh?” I asked in shock. 

“I can’t do this. You are my-,” he turned away, running his hand through his hair and breathing heavily. 

“Nora! Cain! Are you two home?” Lord Atwood’s voice snapped me out of my trance–like state. I didn’t quite understand what had just happened, but what my brain could comprehend was that maybe he was feeling uneasy about the fact that I was known to everyone as his stepsister. 

To break the awkwardness, I never questioned him. What could I even ask him anyway, ‘Why didn’t you kiss me? I am desperate?‘ 

Lord Atwood’s arrival back home was a good excuse to break the awkwardness and change the subject. I turned around and left the room while Cain still had his back towards me. 

I rushed downstairs to meet Natalya and Lord Atwood, but my steps. slowed down when I could only spot Lord Atwood. 

“You’re back. You have no idea how worried I had been for you,” still 

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not thinking too much into it, I ran up to him and hugged him. His arms felt like a father’s love. I wish my father was even the slightest bit like Lord Atwood. But he wasn’t. He would never be, at least not to 

1. me. 

“Hey! What happened? Is no one at home with you? Is that why you are so scared?” he was laughing, not even sounding worn out. 

I broke the hug to examine his face. He looked up from me and smiled at someone. I followed his gaze and saw Cain standing at the top of the stairs, watching us interact. 

“Did the monsters hurt you?” I 

wondering why Cain wasn’t coming back at Lord Atwood, 

father. 

to check up on his 

“What?” Lord Atwood laughed, staring at me like he had no idea what I was saying. 

“You were captured by the monsters? Do you have any idea how 

worried we all had been? We all went to the woods and looked for you and then we called Natalya-,” I pushed on, even as I saw his frown grow. He was watching me cluelessly, and then he looked at Cain, who had now come downstairs. 

“You were captured by the monsters, right?” My heart started to lose 

its beats. 

“Cain, what is she talking about? Did you guys take her to the woods?” Lord Atwood used his commanding tone with his son, and right off the bat, I understood that everything I had been told was a lie. I turned to face Cain, and then I understood why he couldn’t kiss me. That was his way to distract me from meeting Lord Atwood so that the brothers could do whatever they were doing. 

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“Natalya!” I covered my mouth in shock. 

“What is going on?” Lord Atwood held my hand to comfort me because tears started to appear in my eyes. 

“We had to take that step. That girl Natalya was lying about being a special one and the one who killed the monster,” Cain was no longer talking in his sweet and calm demeanor that he had been using with me for the past few days. I watched his face with big tears in my eyes and wondered how long they had been planning this for. 

“So you lied to her?” Lord Atwood yelled, pointing at me. 

“She is her friend and would have blown our plan,” Cain had his hands. in his pockets and talked casually. 

I was so disgusted that he even tried to kiss me just so that he could. stop me from confronting Lord Atwood and finding out about their plans. That’s why he couldn’t kiss me. Not because he was shy or considered me as his stepsister, but because he was disgusted and couldn’t go to that extreme length for the sake of this plan. 

“Natalya is in the woods with the brothers. What are you trying to do to her?” I screamed at Cain and noticed his jaw clenching. He was suddenly angry.