The Don’s Reborn Lover Chapter 08By Novel7s / May 12, 2026 The Don’s Reborn Lover Chapter 08I had barely been in my seat for a minute before students from other classes started showing up with gifts. It was my eighteenth birthday. “I’m not accepting gifts, and I’m not taking letters either. Thank you.” I smiled politely and turned them down one by one. My friends crowded around me, laughing and teasing. “Elena really is the school beauty. Every year on her birthday, people line up to bring her stuff.” “It’s the one day every year guys treat like confession day. One badge of honor around here is getting to say you once took a shot with the school beauty.” “Haha, you’re just jealous.” They had been my best friends in high school. After graduation, we all went our separate ways and barely kept in touch. Seeing those girls from my memories again made me so happy that I started joking around with them too. Things got a little too rowdy, and our resident powerhouse gave me a hard shove that sent me straight into Adrian. Adrian reached out to catch me, and I ended up landing right in his lap. For once, he looked startled. His arm was around my waist, his pupils widened, and he just froze there. “I’m hard. I want to fuck you.” At the worst possible moment, I remembered those words from my last life. I shot to my feet at once, cheeks burning, and sat back down in my own seat. My friends started yelling and teasing, but I didn’t hear a word of it. Adrian lowered his head and went back to reading without looking at me again. But my attention kept drifting to him anyway. Even in the corner of my eye, all I could see was Adrian. That night, Sebastian rented out a whole bar to celebrate our birthday. Since we were twins, my birthday was his too. I used three hundred thousand dollars from my saved allowance to buy Sebastian a watch. The watch had been modified. There was a bug hidden inside it. In my last life, Earl Cline hadn’t gone after Adrian and his mother until the day before the SAT. But I had no way of knowing whether something might change this time. I needed to keep Sebastian under surveillance and find out when he made contact with Earl Cline. “Sebastian, this is my gift to you for turning eighteen. I spent all my savings on it, so I want you to wear it every day.” Sebastian put the watch on immediately. He patted my head with an indulgent smile. “Okay.” Everyone around us cheered. “No wonder they’re twins. They’re so close.” “I wish I had someone like Elena around too. She’s so soft and sweet, and so thoughtful.” Sebastian draped an arm around my shoulders. “You can all stop dreaming. Elena is mine.” Just then, Adrian came over in a waiter’s uniform carrying a tray of drinks. The second he saw Sebastian’s arm around me, his expression darkened. And in that instant, I understood. Sebastian had deliberately chosen the bar where Adrian worked part–time. He had picked this place just to humiliate him. “Well, if it isn’t Adrian Cross. So you work here now. What’s your hourly rate?” Adrian said nothing. The guy next to him hurried to answer instead. “Sebastian, we make twenty–five an hour.” Sebastian’s friends burst into shrill laughter. “Twenty–five? That doesn’t even cover a pack of cigarettes.” “Adrian, here’s a thousand bucks. Finish this bottle of whiskey, wish Elena and me a happy birthday, and you can leave.” I thought Adrian would refuse. Instead, he picked up the bottle and started drinking. I moved to stop him, but Sebastian grabbed my arm. “Elena, I didn’t force him. He’s just that desperate for money. He wants the thousand, so he’s doing it.” After Adrian finished the whiskey, he looked at me and said, “Elena, happy birthday.” “Thank you.” As soon as Adrian walked away, Sebastian stepped outside to make a call. Something about it felt off, so I put on my earbuds and listened in through the bug. “Adrian’s drunk. Wait for him in the alley he has to pass through on his way home and cripple him for me.” That bad seed really did wake up every morning thinking of new ways to torment Adrian. He had no idea how terrifying Adrian Cross really was.
