Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress Novel

Chapter 233 Ian continued to watch me as I opened the door and slipped into the house. Closing the door behind me, I effectively ended the conversation. I watched from the window as Ian walked back to his car and drove away. The sight shouldn't have given me relief but it still did. With Ian gone, I turned and headed up the stairs and into my room. I could see Jake's office light on, as well as heard my parents talking in the living room. There were so many people I could talk to about what happened tonight, yet I didn't feel comfortable talking to any of them.

They'd already made their favoritism clear. They wanted me to be with Ian. If I told them I had met and felt attraction to Damien instead, the man who was blocked on every computer in the house, I wasn't sure what would happen. I was an adult, but I'd probably end up grounded. The only person I felt I could talk to about this was my sister, Sienna. She hadn't taken part in any of this Ian- propaganda. In fact, she hadn't been around much at all because she returned to the pack where she had gone to university to finish her PhD.

The distance mattered little though, when what I wanted was a conversation. Up in my room, with the door closed safely behind me, I pulled out my phone and dialed Sienna. She let it ring for a while, like she often did, but picked up before it went to voicemail. "What's up, Sis?" "Sienna, I need to talk to you about something... sister to sister..." Sienna immediately perked, sounding much more interested than she had when she had first answered.

I dove into the story at once, explaining how our family wanted me to date Ian, but I wasn't into it, and how I had met Damien at the theater, and how, even though our conversation had been brief and somewhat halting, that talking to him had made me feel alive in a way I hadn't before. That I could remember, anyway. Sienna listened carefully, barely saying a word as I finished. "I don't know what to do," I told her. "Well, firstly, listen, you don't have to date Ian if you think he's a dud," she said. "I always thought he was too stuffy anyway.

I have no idea why they think the two of you would work. But, that being said..." She sighed. " Damien is also all wrong for you." "He is?" I asked, more hurt by that than anything she had said about Ian. Intensely so. "Yeah, you clearly don't know a lot about him," Sienna said, "So I'll fill you in. The guy is dangerous. He said he's a widower, right? But what he didn't tell you was the suspicious nature of his wife's death..." "You don't think...?" Was Sienna trying to say that Damien had killed his wife? "Why wouldn't I? It's what everyone thinks." "That can't be true," I said.

"He looked so sad. He's still grief-stricken." 1/2 "That doesn't mean he didn't do it," Sienna said. "He could have done it and regretted it." "I don't know..." I said. Uncomfortable, I stood off the bed and walked toward the window. "He just doesn't seem like the type." "You don't know him that well," Sienna said. "The guy is ruthless." As I looked out the window, a bit of movement dragged my gaze down toward the trees. Oddly, I could have sworn I saw a figure there. But that couldn't have made sense.

Especially because the figure looked just like Ian, and I had already seen him driving away. This conversation with Sienna must have been making me jumpy. "Just be careful," Sienna said. "It's a bad idea to fall for a guy with a shady past like that." I wanted to take these words to heart, but part of me wondered if it was already too late. 日 Comments Support Share 2/2 +25 Bonus Joseph King