To Hate My Stepbrother

Mason’s POV

Conflicted about how I feel and not knowing what else to do, I made my way back to the sitting room and I couldn’t stop staring at the woman who’d caused all this, the woman that claimed to have my child.

Now, she’s refused to leave this house until I agree to the fact that I had sex with her, I still couldn’t believe it and I hated myself for being unable to remember it.

I stared at the child who was also asleep in his mother’s lap and I ran my fingers through my hair. I’ve been looking at him for a while but I just couldn’t bring myself to touch him.

Why is all this happening? What’s going on? Why did everything decide to go wrong just when Ava and I are getting it right?

“Follow me,” I ordered and she picked her son up as I walked her to the guest room, “you can spend the night here, it’s better and then we’ll also talk well tomorrow.” I added and she was excited.

“Thank you! I’ve always known that you’re…” she was saying as she moved closer to me but I moved away from her and her face fell.

“Keep your distance from me, okay?” I ordered and made sure that we were clear before going into my room.

I was unable to sleep, it was hard when all I could do was think about this mysterious woman and her son and also Ava.

After staring at the wall for a while, I stood from the bed and paced around trying to think of what to do but still couldn’t come up with anything.

Slowly, my feet padded to Ava’s room, I could hear her sniffing and I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me that she’s been crying.

“Ava,” I called, knocking and I heaved out a sigh of relief when I heard her footsteps close to the door. All my hopes were dashed when I heard the clicking sound that came from her locking the door.

“Just please, listen to me and let me explain.” I tried to get her to come back but nothing worked. After standing at the door for over an hour, I went back to my room.

I needed to talk to someone or people, picking up my phone, I sent my friends a text that they needed to see me at the location I picked before I went crazy.

***

Getting ready to meet my friends, I ignored the woman who was already in the sitting room before I got there and looked around in search of Ava but she was nowhere to be found.

I got to the restaurant and explained everything to my friends about the new development and the woman that showed up to my house claiming her son is mine and they were just as shocked as I am.

“Well, you’ve always been quite the player, you slept with not one or two ladies in school so I wouldn’t be surprised that someone showed up to your house with a child.” Larry joked but I couldn’t find a reaction to the joke.

“Oh, you’re really serious about this?” He asked and I sighed before resting my back on the chair.

“Do you really think I called you both here just to make a joke!” I retorted before closing my eyes in frustration, “and now even Ava won’t talk to me.” I added in a mutter. I was confused.

“And you’re sure that you didn’t have sex with anyone while you were away from Ava?” Malik asked, looking serious now and both of them seemed desperate to solve my problem.

“No, I swear. I stayed away from basically everyone, almost stayed away from you guys too.” I explained and they nodded in agreement.

“Seen the child yet?” Larry asked and I nodded.

“It’s confusing because he looks every fucking thing like me.” I answered and they both sighed.

“Are you sure this isn’t planned? Like she has some sort of ulterior motives for her to just appear suddenly and claim you’re the father of her child?” Malik asked and I groaned.

He might be right, this might be a plan or a setup but I have no idea who would want to do something like this, who would want to ruin my relationship with Ava like this.Content rights belong to NôvelDrama.Org.

“You know what?” Malik started, “you try to make Ava believe you and we’ll run a background check on the woman, don’t worry too much.” He finished, assuring me that they would find a solution.

Thanking them, I downed my glass of wine before telling them that I needed to be at the office. Driving to the office, I couldn’t stop thinking about how I never thought about running a background check.

I could also get a DNA test without any of their knowledge. Like Malik had said, I need to find ways for Ava to believe me.

Getting to the office, I adjusted my suit and made my way down to the meeting room since my schedule had been sent to me.

The directors were pitching their ideas but I couldn’t grab a thing from what they were saying. My mind kept drifting off and after three trials of getting me to concentrate, they finally gave up.

“We’ll schedule the meeting for another time.” One of them said and I apologized to them for wasting their time before going out of the boardroom.

“Cancel all the meetings I might have for today, I’ll be unavailable.” I ordered my secretary and she looked a little bit confused.

“But you scheduled one for our biggest investors today, it’s in three hours time.” She reminded me and I shot her a glare.

“I’ll cancel it all right away Sir.” She fidgeted and I walked out of the company as I loosened my tie because it seemed too choking.

I really need to get to the bottom of all this and find out what she wants.