To Hate My Stepbrother

Ava’s POV

Rushing out of the car, I realized that Mason was waiting for me, “What are you doing here?” I asked, my teeth gritting against each other because of the cold.

“Waiting for you.” He replied as he pulled off his coat and placed it around me before pulling me into him in a hug.

After a while of holding Mason, we both made our way inside the house and since we’ve promised each other not to keep secrets, I told him everything that transpired between Chad and I.

“I knew I don’t feel comfortable with you around him,” Mason sighed as he wrapped both his arms against his chest.

“I know and I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have gone for that dinner and all these wouldn’t have happened.” I apologized.

“It’s fine,” he responded, “I just don’t want you seeing him anymore.” He added and even before he could complete his statement I agreed to whatever he had to say.

I also don’t want to see Chad anymore, I knew the feelings he had for me weren’t just platonic. He likes me romantically and I don’t feel the same because I’m in love with Mason.

“I’m sorry.” I tried to apologize again but all I had to say were crushed when Mason’s lips claimed mine, shutting me up.

“It’s fine, I didn’t say anything about it because I didn’t want to be too controlling.” He explained as he placed the pancakes on the plates.

I couldn’t eat much because I’d already ate out with Chad and I only agreed to the pancakes because I didn’t want Mason eating alone.

“Oh, I almost forgot,” I started as I took my glass of water, “Khalid is curious about where Aisha is. Don’t you think we should tell him?” I asked and Mason nodded for a while.

“You’re right, we should probably tell him. We can’t keep lying to him and he’ll grow older and get even more curious,” He agreed and I nodded affirmatively.

“We’ll tell him but not yet, not until I’ve settled all the weird things happening in the company at least.” He explained and I felt sorry for him. I felt bad because there was nothing that I could do to help him out of everything.

“You know, I had to hire a private investigator to investigate all of these and he still has no lead, a detective to put an eye on the company’s account.” He sighed as he spoke, his face fell and his expression was of worry.

“And someone deliberately got my monitor wet during a very important meeting, I couldn’t work on it all day. I had to get it fixed,” He continued, “someone is trying to sabotage me.” He finished as he ran his fingers through his hair.

His shoulders were tense from all the burdens that he had to carry and the wrinkles on his forehead deepened as he thought about what was going on.

I couldn’t help but get scared for him, the only person that I could think was sabotaging him is Aisha but she’s no longer with us which means that she was no longer a threat.

Who could it be?

“Let’s go to bed.” Mason’s voice jolted me out of my thoughts and I smiled as we both went to our room. Pulling off my dress, I joined Mason on the bed and it didn’t take long for us to fall asleep.

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Waking up early, I decided that I was going to make breakfast before Mason and Khalid woke up and when I finished I baked brownies.

Mason, Khalid, Khalid’s friends and their parents including me had decided to take the kids to the park. We got ready and took the children to get Ice cream.

They had the ice cream with the brownies I baked while Mason and I with the parents had wine with ours as we chatted and watched the kids have fun.

“How long have you both known each other?” One of the parents asked and I couldn’t help but smile as the memories of the very first time I met Mason replayed in my head.

“Roughly six or seven years.” I replied with a smile and they all gasped before one of them decided to let out a sigh.

“We Uhm… we saw the news about the both of you being siblings and we just kept wondering. Don’t you think it’s incest and forbidden for siblings to get date let alone get married?” She asked.

What she’d said tore my heart to shreds and I had no idea what to say. I felt bad and I couldn’t stop myself from seeing that she’s right.

“We’re not real siblings,” Mason spoke up and I couldn’t be any more grateful, “we’re not blood related so it’s okay to get married.” He finished.

I saw the confused look on their faces but they agreed with him anyway since they didn’t have anything else to say about our relationship.

Looking away, I thought about their questions but pushed it to the back of my head as I watch Khalid have fun with his friends.

They were laughing about something as they played with the ducks in the pond and laughed at the one that looked like it was sinking.

The day went by quickly and soon it started getting dark, “Kids, time to go!” I called the kids who came running in our direction at once.

“Thank you so much for coming, we had fun.” Michael’s parents said and I laughed with a nod while Mason shook hands with Michael’s dad, I hugged his mom.

“Goodnight.” We bid Khalid’s friends and their families goodbye before getting into the car while Mason drove us home.

We got home and I tucked Khalid into bed with Mason with me, “Goodnight, Champ.” Mason kissed his forehead and I did the same before walking out of his room.This is the property of Nô-velDrama.Org.

We made our way to our room and I got into the cold shower with Mason. We needed it to relax after the hot night out.

“You don’t know all the things I could do to you here.” He whispered into my ear and I laughed.