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“Strange!! I didn’t reach my place last night, and I’m still not there, but I haven’t received a single call from my protective brother, Colton.” Tiara said, munching food and checking her phone.
“He knows that you’re with me,” Wylder responded.
“Does he?” Tiara asked in shock.
“Your brother is keeping an eye on you continuously after all this mess, you know,” Wylder spoke. “He cares for you a lot. And I’m glad that he trusts you with me, even though I’m the opposite sex.” He added.
“Well…. Not only Colton but my whole family trusted me with you even though we used to share the same bed at night and close used to stay close.” Tiara pointed out. “Because they knew that you will never cross the line of friendship.” She added with a smile. Wylder had to bite his cheek from speaking unnecessary things.
He wanted to tell her that it was because they trusted him, even though they knew that he loved their daughter.
He wanted to tell her that it was because her brothers believed that his sister would be safe with him, but he stayed silent.
‘How could everyone sense my feelings for her but not her? Didn’t I spend my whole time with her? Then how can she miss observing that?’
“What do you think, Ara? Why do your parents trust you with me?” He couldn’t help but ask to know what exactly think except for treating him as a friend.
“Because you grew in front of them. They know you and trust you.”
“And?”
“And you’re my best friend.”
“Oh please!! I don’t want to hear this reason. Because you have a lot of male best friends, but there is a big restriction on you for sharing the room with them. At least not in front of them, in their mansion.” Wylder scoffed, to which Tiara laughed, knowing how her protective father was back then. He was protective of her even now, but now he just glared at all the men around her.
“You are like dad’s godson, and tell me, why will doubt his daughter with you? Aren’t we like brothers and sisters?” Tiara said, motioning her fingers back and forth between them. Instead of getting angry, Night started laughing by watching the result of Wylder’s patience. At the same time, Wylder’s eyes widened in shock, he opened his mouth to speak something rude to her, but he pressed his lips tightly.
“Do you picture me as your brother?” Wylder asked. He agreed that Brandon Haysbert was like his godfather. And they kind of shared a relationship of father and son to some extent, but he could bet that he never thought of him as Liara’s brother, not when he had clearly said, ‘I don’t want to be Ara’s brother. I want her to be MINE.’
These were his exact words when he and Aunt Sophia talked with him about adopting him. To be honest, he had no problem in becoming HAYSBERT, but things would have gone so wrong in that way.
At that moment, Brandon glared at the little boy for speaking about making his daughter his to his face.
‘Do you even know what you are speaking, boy?’
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#TBC
