All Chapters of Love At First Taste: Her Stepfather's Pet: Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

. I look out into the rows and rows of empty seats and the small group of people at the front. Well, I will get good seats afterall."Hey! Amelia!" I know that voice. I look ahead in the direction of it and sure enough, it is Dylan. Waving at me with a big smile like I was a long lost friend. He is sitting alone in the second row of seats to the left. There are four empty spaces in that row and nobody is sitting with him. "Hey, Dylan. Happy first day of resumption." I greet him as I slide in next to him. Nobody pays us any attention. The few people around are classmates whom I have never crossed paths with and everybody is in cliques, having their own discussions and all. Dylan is smiling at me. I return his smile and ask, "what is happening? Why is there barely anyone around?" "There is only one explanation." He says with an upbeat tone that I don't follow. "They are all hungover! I left the party early but I have heard it got really wild and didn't wrap up till about five this m

"The latter." I say, looking him squarely in the face. "Okay. I was asking because I plan to spend my afternoon in the cafe down the road, study a bit and just hang. Would you like to tag along?" He asks the question confidently, holding eye contact. I am taken aback by the obvious pick up line. Or am I thinking about it too much? "Uh..." I sneak a quick glance behind me and Ashley is already out of her seat, the group is moving towards the door."Give me a minute." I say to Dylan and I don't wait for a reply before I am bolting out of the row of seats and going after Ashley."Ashley!" I yell with all the exasperated air in my lungs. The class has emptied out to an extent but the people left behind stop whatever they are doing and stare at me. Ashley turns and look at me, blankly. Her group of friends stare at me like I have two heads. I ignore them. I ignore everybody as I make my way to her."Can we talk?" I ask her, not caring to keep my voice low. "No. We don't have anything t

Finally, she pulls me in and closes the door. A quick glance around the living room tells me she keeps a clean tidy space. She has made the place a home. That is what she is capable of, just by being in a house, she makes it a home. My mansion is miserably empty without her. For the past eight days, I had dreaded going back home. Something that never used to happen before she came for her internship program. All that emptiness without her laughter to make it feel full and useful. I even contemplated moving out to a smaller place. But that would be crazy. "Oh my God. Are you really here? I missed you so much." She says, leaning up to wrap her arms around me again, she crushes her soft body against mine and I sigh with content. "I don't have the words that will properly equate how much I missed you, Ames." I say into her coconut scented thick golden hair. It is the truth. I feel it in every bones of my body and it is a different kind of misery knowing I will have to feel like this fo

"You look better than you did on Monday." Dylan says, giving me a long sideway glance. "How do you mean?" I ask him, though I know exactly what he means. It is the damn smile. I can't keep it off my face. It is wednesday and I am still not over the bliss of having Linc come over that Monday afternoon. He left at night and those few hours we spent together, talking, cooking, teasing, laughing, they were the best hours of my life yet. "Well, for one, you can't stop smiling. And then you are, like, glowing. You looked like you could use a hug on Monday and now you are just different. If you have a magic elixir, put me on please." Dylan says, nudging me in the arm and smiling. I can't tell him the elixir is Linc. We are walking to the coffee place down the road from the department he swears by to hang out like I promised him I would last time. I didn't expect him to keep a spare seat for me beside him today, but he did, calling me enthusiastically when I walked into the class, I joined

"Sheryl. What do you think you know?" I take a step forward, just a tiny very brave one. It takes her by surprise because she kind of snaps back to reality in front of me. Like she had wandered somewhere else in her head. This was still a woman wracked with grief and regret. I feel sorry for her and also can acknowledge that she is very volatile. Dangerous. Just like her son was. "What do I think I know? You are seriously asking me that? I can see that Linc's arrogance must have rubbed off on you, girl. It won't do you any good. At all. What I know is that your relationship with him goes beyond the legal guardian bullshit his company is selling to the public. I don't just know this. I have hard proof. And you just wait, I want to know how confident you will be when the whole world can see you both having sex on his desk like the sick bastards that you both are." Sheryl flings her half finished cigarette and crushes it into the ground with her platform heels. She glares up at me. I fe