I Dumped Him 500 Times Online Then I Met Him at My Brother’s Birthday Chapter 10

I Dumped Him 500 Times Online Then I Met Him at My Brother’s Birthday Chapter 10

After a few days of rest, my knee had almost completely healed.

When I returned to campus, Rachel came to find me.

Her attitude was completely different from before.

I was confused until Ethan said he would pick me up for dinner.

The moment I slid into the back seat and met Lucas’s nervous, cautious gaze, everything clicked.

He stared at me with red-rimmed eyes full of emotion.

I didn’t want to see him.

I reached for the door handle, but Lucas caught my wrist.

“Don’t go, baby.”

His voice was raw with desperation.

Hearing that word from his lips for the first time made my heart skip.

I glared at Ethan in the driver’s seat.

He immediately ducked his head like a turtle retreating into its shell.

“So you know everything,” I said.

“You helped Lucas trick me into coming here.”

“What an amazing brother.”

“You two really do deserve each other.”

“Lily, let me say something for Lucas,” Ethan said with a sigh.

He glanced at me in the rearview mirror.

“He genuinely didn’t know you were the person he was dating online.”

“So of course he was distant with you in person.”

“That only proves he treats his girlfriend differently from everyone else.”

“If I were you, I wouldn’t be mad.”

My brother defended Lucas with a perfectly straight face.

The more he talked, the angrier I became.

Was this man even related to me?

I rolled my eyes.

“If you think he’s so great, the two of you should date.”

“I’m leaving.”

The second the words left my mouth, Lucas panicked and wrapped his arms around my

His arms closed around me, pulling me firmly against his chest.

His familiar scent surrounded me.

waist!

I froze.

He looked at me with red-rimmed eyes, clearly desperate to say something but holding back.

Ethan took the hint and got out of the car.

“You two talk.”

“I suddenly have somewhere else to be.”

The door clicked shut, and silence settled between us.

Lucas tightened his arms around my waist and pulled me closer.

I felt him breathe in the scent of my hair.

I pushed at him, annoyed.

“Had enough yet?”

“Never.”

His voice came out small and wounded, almost pitiful.

“When it comes to you, baby, I can never get enough.”

His warm breath brushed my neck, sending a shiver down my spine.

But remembering how cold he had been to me before, I couldn’t soften.

“Lucas, we broke up.”

“This is only going to make me dislike you more.”

His breath caught.

His Adam’s apple bobbed.

“Baby, I don’t want to break up.”

“I never will.”

“It was my fault. I didn’t recognize you, and I was an idiot.”

“You can yell at me, ignore me, make me apologize a thousand times. I won’t complain.”

“Just don’t leave me.”

Lucas looked at me like a lost puppy abandoned by its owner.