Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother
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“Your leave? I know. You have two weeks of leave saved up and a few sick days. We don’t usually letpeople take annual leave without notice though… which is why I applied for your leave three weeksago. It starts today by the way.” She says cheerfully.

“You are an angel Amber. I swear you keep the whole place running.” I compliment her. I can practicallyfeel her delight through the phone. I remember she complained to me once that people are always madwhen she doesn’t predict something and they get caught by surprise, but don’t appreciate it when shedoes. So since then, I’ve been making more of an effort to acknowledge her special contributions atwork.

“I know.” She says proudly. She pauses a moment before asking.

“Ryann, is everything okay with you? I haven’t seen much, I only really can see the parts of your lifethat directly affect me, so basically your work related stuff. But you’ve been a bit off lately. You had thattime when you were all depressed, then you got happy again and started bringing a bodyguard to work.I know you’re involved with the Shifters somehow because I’ve seen them around and again, thebodyguard. But this sudden time off… I booked your leave for two weeks, but I can’t actually see whenyou will be coming back. Or even if you’re coming back to work at all.” she concludes.

“I’m coming back.” I assure her.

“I had a few… relationship issues, which have mostly been resolved now. But now I also seem to havea… stalker? I don’t know. Someone left me threatening notes and vandalised my house. So I’m justtaking some precautions for a while is all.” I explain, trying to keep it as casual as I can while tellingsomeone my life is being threatened. Amber sucks in a deep

breath.

“That’s awful! I hope you’re alright, and tell that Shifter of yours to keep you safe. If there’s anything Ican do to help, please let me know.” She offers.

“Thanks Amber, I will. And thanks again for booking my leave.” We wrap up the phone call and I turn toBellamy. I know he was listening but I still tell him.

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“Two weeks, then I’m going back to work.” I insist. He nods.

“I can work with that.” He seems pleased, although still a little anxious. I’m starting to think that until thiswhole issue is resolved, he is just going to be constantly a little on edge. My stomach growls andBellamy frowns, displeased.

“You said you needed to eat. You’re hungry. I should have fed you already.” He sounds guilty again. Iscoff a little and smile.

“It’s not your job to make sure I eat, and even if it was, I’ve only been up a few minutes. Relax. I’ll goeat now, I should probably change first since I’m not going to work.” I think aloud. Bellamy shakes hishead.

“You change, I’ll get you food.” He starts to guide me to the door with a hand on my back, hurrying mealon

I head back upstairs and quickly change into more comfortable clothes then head back down. Bellamyis in the kitchen. I can smell toast and he is just cracking an t at the egg into a frying pan. I sit andquietly watch as he makes me breakfast and then I sit counter and eat. He makes himself food andsomehow manages to finish it before I finish mine. I guess I don’t eat nearly as fast as him. I wonder if

there’s any orange juice left… I make my way to the fridge to get myself a drink. Bellamy is wanderingthrough the kitchen. cleaning and putting things away.

“Thanks for this. You really don’t need to feed me all the time.” I remind him again..

“I want to. I need you to be happy here. Since the circumstances that pushed you here weren’t ideal Ican at least try and make it good for you being here.” I stop walking, causing Bellamy to almost walkinto me which then makes me trip. Bellamy catches me by the hips to steady me. I turn back to facehim and he releases me briefly before allowing his hands to fall back to my hips. He tilts his head andraises an eyebrow in a clear question of why I stopped.

so suddenly.

“Why would you think I don’t like being here?” I ask. I am totally confused. I have been visiting regularlyfor weeks now, I spend half my free time here these days. Why is he so worried? Bellamy shrugsuncomfortably.

“You’ve just never seemed that comfortable here. Not compared to how you are at your place. Youdress more carefully, all put together rather than wandering around in pyjamas and stuff

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like you

do at home. You always sit on the couch properly instead of lounging. You peek around doors to checkif you’re welcome before entering. You wait until someone else is getting food rather than just gettingyourself something.” He pauses a second, taking a breath before continuing.

“You never leave anything here, not even by accident. I bet if I went over the whole place. right now, Iwouldn’t replace a single one of your possessions outside of that bag you packed.” He points out. Thatcan’t be right… can it? Damn… it probably is. But it’s not like he leaves a lot of stuff at my place… doeshe? I mean there are the things he asked to leave there. Plus he does bring a lot of food and snackitems for himself. He also tends to forget hoodies, sunglasses, stuff like that behind a lot. Even Megangave me wine glasses to keep there so she would be able to drink more comfortably. I suppose I cansee his point. But I had no idea I wasn’t doing that… or that it meant anything.

“I… I hadn’t noticed.” I confess.

“My place is really the first proper home I ever had, I’ve never tried… getting comfortable….somewhere else. It didn’t occur to me that I was even acting differently here. It wasn’t on purpose. I dolike it here. I love it actually, it’s nice, there are people around so it isn’t quiet all the time like my place. Inever really have to eat alone, which I suppose is part of why I never help myself to anything. Butmostly I just didn’t want to… annoy anyone.” I know Bellamy invited me to stay here, but it’s not like thisis forever. I don’t want to screw anything up. Bellamy pulls me into a hug.

“You wouldn’t annoy us. You saw how excited my sister is to have you here. I might be hiding it a littlebetter but I can guarantee I am far more pleased about it than she is. We LIKE having you around. If-well… you never seemed particularly interested when i’ve brought it up in the past. But I have to admitI’m kind of hoping… that if you like it here you might want to stay. When this is all over and we catchwhoever is harassing you. I want you to be comfortable enough here that you make this your home anddon’t move back to your place. I don’t want to make you uncomfortable or anything and I will totallyunderstand if want to go back. But while I have you here, for however long that might be, I want toshow you how good it could be here. I know I’m stressed out and grumpy and you don’t have as muchfreedom as you would like right now, but the way I see it, that means it can only get

better, right?”

you do

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Chapter Comments

Amy McPhail

Oh my heart. Bellamy is just such a sweetheart sometimes!

Melissa D

maybe his confession will ease her tension