Secretly Loving My Adoptive Brothe

accept my of

my head quickly. Was he insane? There was no way

o said, holding out the glass of

had gone blank. Forcing this liquor down my throat, I told

inging my nose. But just as the liquid was about to touch my

stop beating the instant I realized the man was Javier. I had

is voice low but carrying an

eel how wonderful the world can be. Have a boyfriend, drink a little, isn'

Pedro's interruption and the mocking stares of everyone els

. But the moment I turned, Adriana

posed to have a boyfriend if you keep her caged like this? She probably wants to drink too,

had gone rigid. And then the next words out of

real sister, is she? So you're

t wasn't just me-Javier, too, turned to stare at his fiancée in disbelief. In an instant, the

will be furious with," Javier said, slow but bitterly cold. Without waiting for a

, I yanked my hand from his grip, hard. I spun around, meeting Javier's eyes with

, my voice low

ck, his face already froze

eginning to pool at the edges of my eyes. "Didn't you already start treating me like a stran

osing to go along, Camil

ted me and forced me into it!" I shouted, refusing to back

dinner table, I'd flatly refused. But Adriana always had s

you," Javier said again, his tone like an older brothe

e'd first arrived, he'd stayed silent, indifferent, as if I didn't e

choice, isn't it? Besides, weren't you the one who asked us to stay professi

the offic

e, office or not, i

te. I didn't know whether my words had wounded him, or simply bruised the ego of a powerful man unus

ed with them. Especially not with Pedro-he's a cunning w

could learn how to kiss properly from him, couldn't I? I cou

n

y a single, powerful pull from Javier. The force of it was so strong

loseness-this intense, dangerous closeness. I could feel the warmth radiating from him, the th

e this," I stammered, trying to push against his br

stance further. He lowered his head, bringing his hard, resolute face cl

t for the rest of your life, Camila," he threatened, his voice a

hoved me back and turned away without another word, vanish

y chest rising and falling unevenly. My heart was still pounding wildly, utterly failing

dn't have felt this furious. If she hadn't sensed something so unnatural in the way he looked at her, she never would have set any of this in motion. Th