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Layla’s pov.Ryan doesn’t come back until the next day, and though I feel briefly worried, I don't feel anything else much.There’s a light itch all over my body that won’t scratch itself. There are thoughts and questions in my head that neither make enough sense for me to want to answer them, or are vague enough that I barely know what they actually are.I’m tense.I’m nervous.I’m freaking out and,“Hey, get up will you, Layla? The doctor already said you’re free to go.”Ryan’s rough voice soothes me and makes me angry at the same time. The tone of his statement tells me enough of his impatience, but would it kill him to be gentlemanly for once?To begin with, can’t he see I'm sick?Can’t he see I'm in a mood here?“What if I don't want to go home?” My voice is cold and the sound of those words on my tongue makes me feel something bitter at the back of my throat. That place is not my home.It may be home to him, but to me, it’ll always have only one meaning. Ryan lets out a soun
Four months with my Stepson and the Twin Alphas. Chapter 14: "What the fuck."
Ryan’s POV. Layla’s pinching me. I swallow all the spite that brings out in me because this might have been a result of my actions. She wasn’t walking fast enough to the car, and I had a meeting I wanted to catch up with, so I swept her off her feet and put her in my arms, ignoring her yelp and making for the car. Except getting to the car is proving a little bit of a problem. “Stop pinching me.” The words drop from my clenched teeth in a cold frigid manner but if Layla hears that she makes no indication of it. She does respond cheekily, however, “Put me down then.” Layla’s voice is meek and almost silent, and that is all the more reason why I do not put her down. She’s feeling shy. Embarrassed. It occurs to me that she’s probably never had anybody carry her like this. Bridal style. My father would have never, not in a million years. He might have once though, when he was younger, and if Layla had been someone else, someone like my mother. The pictures of his and my mum’s
Four months with my Stepson and the Twin Alphas. Chapter 15: "Was it because of Ryan?"
Layla’s pov. I wake up in the room this time. Unlike other people who wake up disoriented after fainting, I wake up quite lucid, and I have passed out several times, so I should know. Sometimes I pass out from sleep deprivation, from general weakness, from a lot of things. Ryan’s question rings in my mind because that’s what caused all this, and now as I hear it again, I can't help but wonder why I felt the way I felt when he asked me that question. ~What happened between you and My father?~ A slew of curses was already on my lips at the sound of that, but I restrained them, and I realized that he doesn’t know. Ryan has no idea what I suffered at the hands of the man he calls his father. Ryan Earl doesn’t know his father is a monster. Not a man. The man was a facade, an illusion he put on to fool the public. Three orphanages here, two shelters for the homeless there, those are the actions people will remember him by, but not me. To Ryan, his father is just a man who didn’t
Four months with my Stepson and the Twin Alphas. Chapter 16: "No."
Ryan’s POV.“NO.”My response rings out strong and terse and I can hear the reaction that elicits from the brothers though we’re only over the phone.The buffer one, Damien, chortles like an asshole, and the other one sighs, like he’s tired of putting up with my shit and they’re both on their last strand of patience.“There’s no “No” about this sadly, Ryan.Layla will continue making these attempts unless we are with her.”The chuckle that slips out my lips is cold, and it lacks mirth.These guys must think I'm some fool if they think I'd believe this.“So what both of you mean to tell me, if I heard well, Mr Damien and Alek, is that Layla is attempting suicide because she feels she doesn’t have a pack anymore?”Their individual grunts make me chuckle one more time and I respond.“I should remind you, that my father never believed in the hierarchy or idea of a pack. I haven’t been in a pack ever since I was given birth to, my parents have lived as lone wolves, and so have I.I have ne
Four months with my Stepson and the Twin Alphas. Chapter 17: "I'll be down in five minutes."
Layla’s pov.For the next four days, I see nothing of Ryan.I don’t know if I'm happy or sad at that, but I know it brings a reaction out of me. A reaction I wish I didn't have at all.There’s an itch that runs down all the skin of my body….There’s a terrible urge to scratch that’s just below the surface of my consciousness, and for the first two days, I resist it and do other things.Hearing Ryan leave early in the morning left me with relief on the first day.His men were around, to accompany me as I knew they would. They didn’t bother me so much.The first day I make breakfast myself, make lunch myself, the maids avoid me but Breanne comes around.She tells me there’s a bit of pie in the fridge if I want it.On the second day, she doesn’t come to me at all.Whispers follow me around the hall again this time but I don't care about them. The mansion is empty, and unlike the past five years of my life that I'd been asked to stay in my room, I explored.Ryan’s father was a proper bast
Four months with my Stepson and the Twin Alphas. Chapter 18: "Mate."
Ryan’s pov.My heart thumped like it’d collapsed in on itself when I saw the quirk that manifests itself at the side of Layla’s cheek.I’m all the happier because that quirk on her face might have been because of my smile. I saw the smile on her face when she saw mine.She didn’t let it out, but I saw it.Doubt casts a heavy cloak on me as I make my way back downstairs. There’s a shroud of melancholy sadness over me because I can tell she has no idea they are around yet.She can’t feel their presence, and I don't know what she’d have done if she could. There’s a part of their mate bond I don't understand yet.For the past four days, I've been making findings of my own.I watched Layla sleep and I watched her have nightmares the day I brought her back home. I still don’t know why she’s trying to kill herself, I initially thought it’s maybe she’s regretful of the fact that she was sleeping with some of my father’s friends.But I realized that nah, that couldn’t be it. She’s a young wo
Four months with my Stepson and the Twin Alphas. Chapter 19: "You."
Layla’s pov.My mind locks me in, and despair takes control of me.I can’t think past the pain. I can’t think past the fear. I can’t think past the mind-numbing and brain-shattering disbelief, so I do the only thing I can do.I cling to whoever’s closest to me and I cry. I cry from the depths of my soul, because no.There’s no way this is happening. Not after what they did to me.Not after what they could have saved me from.I… I was their mate!I was the one destined for them. They were never meant to reject me. They were meant to be my peace, my future,... they were meant to be my hope.Yet they rejected me.Damien took one look at me and said he didn’t want me. So did Alek, the one who I thought would even if everyone else didn’t. The one who I thought would give me the benefit of the doubt.More furious tears drip down my cheeks and pour from my eyes. There’s an ache in my heart, an ache I can't quell.It’s like a cloak of sorrow has been draped over me.My mind registers slowly,
Four months with my Stepson and the Twin Alphas. Chapter 20: "I hate you."
Ryan stares at me with a bewildered expression on his face. Almost comically he points to himself and asks,“Me?”I feel my anger flare up immediately because yes him.Yes, him.He’s the one who started all this. He’s the one who asked them to come into his home.He’s the one who’s now exposed me to them. All because he couldn’t get what he wanted in the first place.The more I think of it the more my anger rises until I can feel my face hot and red with the force of my repressed emotions. This IS all because of him.Because of his inability to do the simplest thing and keep me safe!“Am I doing something, or did I do something?”Ryan sounds confused and that only sets me rolling.“I hate you, Ryan Earl.” The words feel like venom as they coat my tongue but I feel a trickle of joy at the expression that crosses Ryan’s face. I go on undeterred.“I hate you.I hate this house. I hate everything and everyone you are related to.From your horrible father, to this horrible house, to those
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