Stepbrother: Impossible Love (Stepbrother Romance) by Victoria Villeneuve

Author:Victoria Villeneuve [Villeneuve, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-22T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Luckily for my mental state, my mom’s admission to the hospital was on Friday, so I had the weekend to go and visit her, and to get over the initial shock of it before having to go back to my classes.

It was a shock. A big one. I’d never seen my mom look so weak, so frail. She was released early on Saturday morning and came back home, immediately retiring to her bed to rest as per doctor’s orders.

I went to visit her fairly often, and by the end of the weekend she was already looking more like herself again; she was getting up, wandering around the house, refusing to be seen without her makeup done perfectly, that sort of thing.

When I saw Annie on Tuesday at our Art History class, I told her everything.

“Oh, I’m so glad your mom’s ok!” she told me.

“Me too.”

“What happened?” Oliver asked as he sat on the other side of me.

“Nothing. It’s pretty personal.”

“Well, nothing you can’t let me in on, I’m guessing.”

“Actually, I’m not telling you. Mind your own business.” I had been polite to him before, but that was just crossing a line. In fact, I wasn’t sure why he was still insisting on sitting next to me after I turned him down. There were plenty of other empty seats out there.

I heard him mutter “bitch” as he turned around, and I rolled my eyes at Annie, who gave me the ‘woah, what’s with that dude’ look as the professor walked in and began her lecture.

I realized halfway through class that I was completely and totally exhausted. Maybe the weekend had been harder on me than I thought. When the professor let us go, I begged off from going to the gym with Annie that afternoon.

“I just don’t have it in me today. I’m so tired, I think I’m just going to go grab a coffee, then go home.”

“Yeah, of course. Don’t worry Julianne, I get it. Go home, get some rest. Take care of yourself, ok? Say hi to your mom for me.”

“I will, thanks Annie.”

I shot her a grateful smile then went off the other way, taking out my phone to text Michael to come pick me up an hour early.

I headed towards my favourite coffee shop, a couple blocks off campus. As the next set of classes were getting started, the streets were pretty empty, but I decided to take a shortcut through a small alley anyway, just to get there faster.

Suddenly, I heard a voice behind me.

“Hey, Julianne!”

I turned to see Oliver coming towards me.

“What do you want?” I asked, instinctively pulling my jacket closer towards me.

“What the fuck do you think you were doing, disrespecting me like that?”

There was rage in his eyes, he came closer to me, and I started looking around to see if there was anybody around. Nope. I was alone in this alley with a guy that I had a bad feeling wasn’t here for a friendly visit.

“Disrespecting? You’re the one who decided to come in on a conversation you weren’t invited to.

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