Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother
Chapter 176

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Nothing happens. Well that was anticlimactic. “So… is something meant to happen?” Harry asks. Ishrug.

“I don’t know. I’m not a Witch.” I point out.

“Well… can you let go of the bottle now?” Bellamy asks. Without hesitation, Harry opens his fingersand the GLASS bottle goes tumbling towards the floor. I gasp in horror. Bellamy’s hand snaps out andcatches it at the last second.

“Oops. Talk about cat–like reflexes though.” He holds up his now free hand to Bellamy for a high–five.Bellamy just glares at him and hands me the potion bottle.

“Thanks. Good catch, Bels. Harry… I’m starting to see why Cam spelled the bottle onto your hand.Why would you just DROP the potion?” I demand.

“You said to let go. I let go.” He says unrepentantly.

“I didn’t mean- Ugh. Why am I even bothering? This is a waste of time.” A thought occurs to me and Ismirk at Harry. He looks at me suspiciously.

“What? What did you just think of?” He demands. I shrug.

“Oh, nothing much. Just that I should complement Cam on how thoughtful she was to spell this bottle toyour hand after what I just saw, I did promise her an update.” I say, promise in my tone. Harry’s eyeswiden in horror.

“NO! Don’t do that! She already thinks I’m irresponsible!” He objects. Harry turns to Bellamy.

“I have Shifter friends, I knew you would catch it. Seriously, I did. I knew it wouldn’t get broken!” Heinsists. Bellamy looks tom between being smug and annoyed. Like he’s thinking “duh of course I cancatch it, but you’re still an ass.” Harry looks like he’s on the verge of a panic attack. I take pity on him.

“It’s alright Harry. I won’t say anything. I know you wouldn’t have broken it. Not really.” I reassure him.Bellamy still looks doubtful, but when Harry turns to look at him with pleading eyes he gives a slight nodand I smile at him. It’s sweet that Harry is actually taking it seriously with Cam, although I doubt sherealises that yet. He isn’t great at appearing like he takes anything seriously, especially himself. As isdemonstrated by how he is currently licking the whiskey off his fingers.

“Mmm, this is good stuff. Can I get a proper drink?” Harry asks. Bellamy glances at me and I shrug.With a sigh, Bellamy steps into the kitchen to grab a glass and returns with a drink for him. He also getsme a drink, but not whiskey. It’s not really my thing. He brings me a glass of wine.

“You’re not drinking?” Harry asks, Bellamy shakes his head.

“Nah, not right now. I’m having a great day. Don’t really want to dull it with alcohol.” He says cheerfullywith a wink in my direction. I blush.

“Oooooooooh.” Harry says in his most childish teasing tone.

“Did something HAPPEN?” He looks pointedly between Bellamy and I. Bellamy smirks and I roll myeyes.

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“Fine. Yes. But I’m only going to say this once, then you need to leave and I don’t want to hear a singleword from you. Harass me in the group chat later or something okay?” I stare him down. Harry mimes

zipping and locking his lips then throwing away the key. I take a deep breath.

“Okay. I told Bellamy I love him.” I force out. Harry looks like he is repressing a squeal. Bellamy stepsup beside me and hooks his arm around my waist, pulling me close to his side.

“And I said it back, in case that wasn’t

to the front door.

Vious.” He adds. At that, Harry rolls his eyes. Then he starts heading straight

“Okay, I’m leaving and saying noth

as promised. But keep an eye on the group chat. In the meantime, I need to go remind Cam that shetotally owes me for helping with that delivery.” He grins and leaves in a hurry.

“Well, I guess I should put this somewhere safe until we replace someone who actually knows Kiara wellenough to be able to use it.” I say. I can’t decide if having the potion is exciting or depressing. It’s likehaving the key to a car that doesn’t work. Sure, it’s great. You have a car and it MIGHT be useful. Butunless you can get it working, all it does is take up space and make you feel guilty, particularly whenyou know how useful it COULD be. Bellamy agrees and offers to put it in the safe. I frown.

“You have a safe?” I ask. He laughs.

e shows “We do. Yes. In the office. I’ll show you, come on.” He says cheerfully, leading me by the hand.In the office he shows me how there is a safe built in behind one of the bookshelves. It’s kind ofawesome. The type of safe that you only see

on TV.

“I’m so impressed. This is really cool.” Bellamy shows me how to open the safe and gives me the code.Most of what is in it is random paperwork, but there are a few other items, jewellery, weird lookingartefacts. I ask about them and Bellamy explains that most of the Shifter’s spelled or confiscated itemsare kept here. Most of them aren’t really all that useful. He also keeps paperwork, proof of ownershipand the important documentation for the many businesses the Shifters are involved in. I carefully placethe potion in a little empty corner, pushing it back to make sure that it’ll be safe and won’t tip out oranything when the safe door gets opened again.

Since we’re in the office anyway, Bellamy takes a moment to ch*ck his emails for anything urgentbefore we get ready for bed. I climb into the recliner and push it back as far as it goes. I have everyintention of just zoning out, maybe scrolling aimlessly through some social media. Except wait, I haveanother message. It’s from an unknown number.

Unknown- Good afternoon, I don’t know exactly how to address this but I have an issue I was hoping toget help with. I’m not sure that Alpha Kane is the right person to discuss it with. A few of my friendssuggested I message this number. They said you and the Alpha are good friends and you might beable to help me. It’s okay if you can’t. I just thought I would try.

Unknown- My name is Sara by the way.

Oh, wow. I know I gave out my number, but I didn’t think anyone would take me up on the offer soquickly. I answer immediately, not wanting her to think that I’m not willing to help.

Ryann- Hello Sara, you can call me Ryann. If you tell me what’s wrong I’ll see what I can do to help youout. I understand that sometimes it might be hard to approach Alpha Kane with certain matters.

my

Unknown: Maybe Sara- Thankyou! Okay, so my issue is that my dad is REALLY overprotective. Like Ilove him and

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everything but it’s getting ridiculous. I’m eighteen years old and he won’t let me go out alone or withany other men as protection. I never get to go out unless he is with me. I’m stuck with him ALL thetime. I understand that right now there are additional warnings in place for young women and I’m nottrying to ignore them. But this has been going on for ages. I want to go to university next year butunless he plans to attend classes with me, I’m scared he’s going to refuse to let me go. I know I couldjust move out, get a job and all that, support myself. But I don’t want to completely cut my dad out orleave him alone. I just want him to understand I need a little more freedom. I’m not a little girl anymore.I didn’t think Alpha Kane would understand, I mean his sister is in university but she has a guard all thetime, so maybe he would agree with my dad. But there are plenty of other Shifters who get to go outwithout babysitters. Sorry, I know this is a lot, but I just really don’t know what to do. I just really needsome advice please!

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