All Chapters of My 7 Deadly Stepbrothers : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

“She wouldn't play with Dad like that, would she?” His question made me uncomfortable because Mom was doing exactly that. She was with Derek because of his money and she claimed he knew that too and was fine with it, but I didn't know if I could pass that information to Leo or not. Whatever agreement they had was between them, and I believed it wasn't my place to share that with his sons. Thus, I hid the truth but didn't tell him lies about Mom either. “I don't know her enough to comment about that. She hasn't been around much and you know she dated a lot of men between my Dad and yours.” “Still, she's your mother,” Leo tried to pull out any information, it was understandable that he was worried about Derek. “You must know something.” “I know that she's not the most responsible person on the planet, and didn't care about her daughter for years,” I said, remembering how I wanted to leave with her when Dad and her divorced. “Apart from that, she's just a stranger to me. I guarant

The weight of my mother’s confession sat heavy on my chest, like a stone I couldn't dislodge. It felt like a constant reminder of the chaos brewing under everyone's feet. They had no idea about my mom and Derek conspiring together. All day, her words had been replying in my head—the nonchalant tone with which she admitted to manipulating Derek, using Alaric, and completely dismissing the fall out it would unleash in the future. She didn't realise that it wasn't just her life at stake, but also mine and everyone else entangled in that family.I sat on my bed, knees drawn to my chest, trying to focus on anything other than the storm in my head. The book I had picked up was lying next to me, forgotten a long while ago. The words blurred into an unintelligible mess every time I tried to read them. My thumbnail had taken the brunt of my anxiety, and the faint metallic tang of blood jolted me back to reality.Enough was enough.Their secret wasn't just my burden to carry. It was about mo

The house felt unusually quiet when I stepped out of my room after a short nap in the afternoon. It wasn’t the same old comforting kind of quiet that was common during the afternoon in the house. Rather, it was the kind that makes your throat scratchy. The kind that settles in after too many secrets have been shared and too many lies have been left unspoken.I couldn’t shake the memory of my conversation with Caspian and Dev in the morning. Telling them about my mom and Alaric’s plans had felt like a weight lifting off my chest, but it didn’t lessen the confusion swirling in my mind. I still had too many questions. Neither did it make me comfortable like I hoped it would after telling them. I knew I had to do more, find more evidence against Alaric, something concrete to help them. They looked like they didn't want me to go with it anymore, and I knew sooner or later they were going to ask me to not get involved. But I had to be a part of it. Caspian didn’t say it outright earlie

The ride back home with Neel was lighter than I anticipated. For some reason, I thought he would ask me about Alaric, and that had me on the edge the whole time. The last few days had been so stressful that I couldn't believe I was finally having a good time with someone. I told Dev and Caspian about Alaric yesterday, but they weren't able to do anything about him yet. They were being very cautious which I understand, given Alaric is their uncle, but I wanted them to do something fast. Lucas had some of the accountants he trusted from the company, look over their company's finances and find anything out of the ordinary. While Caspian was meeting with Derek's lawyer to find out how deep Alaric had his claws inside their business. Although I felt like I was in boiling water, thanks to Neel's animated recounting of our art class, I was able to enjoy myself a little, forgetting about everything else. Neel had a weird way of reading people's emotions, no matter how strongly you're

I’d stayed in Lucas’ office even after he and Caspian left, trying to make sense of everything we had uncovered. I was still not convinced that Derek would do something illegal like that. He was already a multi-billionaire; why would he put everything at risk—including his family—for a few more millions? It just didn't make any sense to me, no matter how I tried to look at it. It was strange, almost surreal how quickly the day turned from relatively calm to something far more sinister, and that wasn't even the end of it. Something far worse was seconds away from happening and oblivious to it, I was sitting in the office, looking at the encrypted emails. It had been about ten minutes since Caspian and Lucas left for Derek's when I heard a scream that shattered the silence covering the house. My stomach dropped when I realized it was Leo. And without a second thought, I bolted out of the office. My mind was racing with all the terrible possibilities and I couldn't stop them. The p