Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother
Chapter 60

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I turn to Bellamy about to ask how he’s doing when he sweeps me up into a hug, pulling met right offmy feet.

“Thankyou so much. I thought I could handle her but then she started crying. Usually I don’t have aproblem with dealing with people who get angry but it’s not like SHE did anything wrong and I just… gotstuck.” I can feel him breathing into my hair as he places me back on my feet, holding me close. I staystill a few moments until he releases me.

“Sorry if I overstepped. I just didn’t like seeing her yell at you. Also I was worried she would wakeMegan, she’s finally asleep.” Bellamy shakes his head.

“You didn’t overstep. I know you aren’t ready to be… well, all in yet. But helping with this kind of thing,emotional Shifters. That is what the Alpha female does. You are going to be so. good at this, I justknow it.” I take a step back in shock.

“I…um. Didn’t mean to…this doesn’t mean.” I stammer out. Bellamy takes my hand and runs.

his thumb over the back of my hand soothingly.

“Don’t worry, I understand. I’m just saying you’re better at this dealing with emotions stuff than you thinkyou are, even if you do turn bright red every time I flirt with you.” He pauses. and winks at me, thensighs.

“This kind of thing is why the other Alphas are so obsessed with me replaceing a mate. This isn’t the firsttime I’ve folded to tears.” He shrugs and shuffles his feet awkwardly, running his free hand through hishair.

“But don’t worry about that, I promised not to pressure you and I meant it. I’m just trying to say Iappreciate your help.” I give him a small smile.

“You’re welcome. And I don’t mind hearing stuff like this. I don’t want you to bottle things up and dealwith them all yourself. I want to help you where I can. I just need time to get used to… us?” Bellamygives me a bright smile.

“Thankyou, and I really do understand. I know being with me comes with a lot of

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responsibilities that you haven’t exactly signed up for. I just hope you don’t resent me for it too much.” Ishake my head at him and ze his hand.

“I don’t resent you. I just don’t want to rush into anything. Now, you look like you could use a brownie.” Ilead him to the kitchen and settle into a chair while he raids the brownies we

left in the fridge. He glances at a clock and sighs.

“I have more work I should probably try and get done.“I can see he’s reluctant to leave me by myself. Ihop to my feet and wave my phone in front of him.

“I was going to just keep playing on my phone, maybe watch a movie or read a book. Megan issleeping so I don’t want to bother her. Is there somewhere I could sit quietly and hang out?” I ask. Hisface lights up immediately and he responds almost too quickly.

“My office. You can sit there while i’m working.” I smile and nod following him to his office. I glancearound unsure where I should sit. There’s a chair across from his desk but that might be a bitdistracting.

“Are you sure I won’t be in the way?” I hesitate. Bellamy just grins at me.

puts

“Wait here a sec.” He dashes out of the room and a minute later comes back carrying one of the comfyrecliners from the living room that I never seem to end up using. Megan and I always seem to be in thekitchen or her room. I’ve never even sat in the recliners. Bellamy

it down and then begins shoving his bookshelf and desk around until he’s cleared a corner to the left ofthe room, with far more ease than I expected, he shows off his strength by moving the recliner into thenewly cleared corner. The colour of the black recliner doesn’t quite match the wood and blue coloureddecor of the office, but it fits in the space well enough. I settle in and Bellamy moves to sit behind hisdesk. On this angle he is still facing me but I’m off to the side a bit, not directly in his line of sight unlesshe turns his chair a little. I sit and replace a movie to watch online. I keep the volume low so I don’t disturbhim. At one point he gets up and leaves the office for a few minutes. He returns and drapes a blanketover my lap and hands me a plate with a brownie and a glass of water, I thank him and he gets back towork.

My movie finishes and I glance up at Bellamy. I expect him to be looking at papers or his laptop, buthe’s watching me. In fact I don’t think I’ve heard him typing for a few minutes now. He doesn’t evenseem to notice I’m looking back at him. He’s completely zoned out. I

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clear my throat and he jumps. He gives me a half smile.

“Good movie?” He asks. I shrug.

“Not bad.” I respond. He opens his mouth to say something then pauses and hesitates. I raise aneyebrow in question. He pushes his chair back from his desk a little and angles it towards

1. me.

“Want to come over here for a bit?” He asks. I’m not totally sure what he wants but I push my blanketaside, hop up and cross over to his side of the desk. I stop a step away from him. He doesn’t hesitateand grabs my hand pulling me in closer until I stumble into him. He catches me and sits me sidewayson his lap. I immediately blush red.

“Uhm… hi.” I say awkwardly. Bellamy chuckles.

“Hi. Is this alright?” He asks. I nod and hide my face against his shoulder. He wraps his arm around meand strokes my back.

“How did your conversation with Megan go??” He asks. I sit up a little and give a light shrug.

“Not too bad, she’s not really mad at me at least. You’re going to have to apologise for never sayinganything though, properly apologise. She’s a bit grumpy with you. That’s about all she said about howshe’s doing. She really didn’t want to talk about it.” I explained.

“Ah, I see. I’ll have to apologise.” I can feel him cringing at the thought. I laugh.

“I’ll help you. It’s not so bad.” I assure him. He shrugs.

“What did the two of you talk about then? he asks.

“We talked about the Shifter courting stuff you told me this morning, and why she never said. anything.I’m still so embarrassed.” I hide my face again as Bellamy laughs and continues to stoke my backsoothingly.

“I know, I know. I wasn’t sure how to bring it up, especially since you haven’t always been very…receptive to my attempts at courting.” I mumble into his chest.

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“I might have if I knew what you were doing.” He somehow makes out the words.

“Really? Because you ran away the first time I tried to kiss you.” He points out. I sit up and glare at him.

“Because I wasn’t expecting it! I didn’t think you were even interested, I had no idea, I

thought Darrien was exaggerating when he said you liked me.” I complain. Bellamy raises an

eyebrow.

“You discussed this with Darrien?”

“Uhm, yeah. Before we went out to dinner that time. That was when he figured it out. I did

say we were talking about boys.” I joke. Bellamy rolls his eyes.

“I knew it. You said you had been talking about the movie. But I knew you were too comfortable withhim all of a sudden for it to just be that!” I giggle.

“Well we did discuss the couple in the movie, but we didn’t JUST talk about them.” I admit.

“I’m still not sure how you didn’t realise I was interested in you. Even excluding the Shifter

stuff I wasn’t exactly subtle. I mean, fancy dinner, excuses to come hang out with you, shopping,dancing together…”

“I might have been in denial a bit, I didn’t want to read into anything and be wrong. Besides, I have noidea how any of these things work. I’ve always shut down anyone who even tried to get close to me inthat kind of way. I don’t date. Or I didn’t before at least.” I flush red again. Bellamy looks pleased.

“Well, it doesn’t matter anymore, you know now. What did Megan tell you about the Shifter courtingstuff?”

“Among other things, she told me how the women are meant to reciprocate. We were talking aboutwhat things the women give as gifts.” I explain.

“You know you don’t have to do all that, I don’t expect you to give me anything. You aren’t at Shifter. Iunderstand if you want to do things differently.” I give a half shrug.

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“I, I think I want to try. I don’t know about the whole making sure everyone knows publicly thing, but ifthis stuff is important to you I can at least look at getting you a gift.” I explain awkwardly. Bellamymakes eye contact with me for a moment before moving in closer. Before 1 know it his lips are on mine.My heart is racing but I kiss him back. This kiss is relaxed and unhurried and I sink into it. Bellamycontinues running his hand up and down my back. His hand slips lightly under the edge of my tshirt andI pause and pull back slightly trying to decide how I feel about it. His hand stills and I’m about to kisshim again when Megan clears

her throat in the doorway.