In Love With My Evil Stepbrother
Chapter 56

Chapter 56

Chapter 56:

Car Crash I hurry and follow him while asking, “What show? What are you talking about?”

“You will see,” he wraps his arm around my shoulder and walk me to the side.

“Are we going to walk?”

He lets out a short chuckle, “No of course not. How do you think I managed to get here in such a shorttime?”

Then I hear a loud clattering sound coming from above. I snap my head up and see a helicopter fastapproaching. It eventually lands in the open space in front of us, causing a gust of strong wind.

A real chopper! I’ve only seen one before on TV!

“This is so cool!” I shout to his ears as he picks me up and helps me onboard.“ But how much is thisgoing to cost!”

“A lot cheaper than you think!” he shouts back. “It doesn’t cost anything if you own it!”

I gasp in shock. So buying fancy cars isn’t his most luxury hobby then. This is.

He places me on the passenger seat and fastens my seatbelt. I widen my eyes when I see him switchseats with the pilot and start checking the dashboard.

“Wait!” I raise my voice and try to shout above the noise. “Are you flying this?”

He tosses me a headphone and tabs his ears, indicating me to put it on. I do as he said. Theheadphone is sound-proofed and the next second I hear his musical voice ringing in my ears.

“No faith in me?” he asks with a smile.

I subconsciously shake my head but then quickly nod again.

I am terrified of flying. I can never sleep on flights. The smallest turbulence makes me jump in my seat.I know people say that airplane is the safest

transportation, but it scares the shit out of me anyway. A faint smile appears on his lips as he places hishand on the joystick and pulls the helicopter off ground. I hold my breath and hold on tightly to myseatbelt, watching the mountain hill gets smaller as we liftoff.

To my surprise, it’s a lot smoother than I thought.

He’s a great pilot.

I finally ease up a bit when we reach the cruise altitude, “how long have you been flying?”

“A couple of years,” he says. “I used to fly to LA for weekends till my dad told me to stop because it’snot very green. I can do a few stunts for you, like quick diving or reeling—” “No!!” I almost scream.“Don’t!”

Then I hear his low chuckles coming out of the headphones. Turning around, I see a playful grintouches his lips and finally realize that he’s just joking.

“Well, probably not today then,” he promises. We hover in the midair for another 10 minutes before hepoints out the window,” Look.”

I follow his finger and look down, and then see a familiar black SUV speeding downhill.

It’s Zack.

“Now it’s time for him to face some consequences,” Eason’s voice deepens.“ What should we do withhim babe?”

Anger surges up in me when I think of everything Zack did. I clench my fists and grit out, “Can we stophim? And bring him back to the police? He won’t get away with it this time!”

Eason raises an eyebrow, “take him to the police? That could take months or even years before heactually pays for what he did.”

I’m stunned. I don’t quite understand what he is implying. Then I hear him ask me, “You want himdead?”

…what?

I can’t believe my ears.

Surely I want Zack to take account for his sins but I’ve never thought of having him dead!

And why is Eason asking me this?

I look at Eason, frightened, and then quickly take a glance at those bodyguards sitting in the back.

“Don’t mind them. They can’t hear us,” Eason says calmly. “You can speak up your mind.”

I answer him hesitantly, “I hate him of course. I did wish for him to go to hell when he held a knifeagainst my neck. But-”

“No but. That’s all I need to know.” Eason turns at me giving me a faint smile, which is so beautiful but italso makes the hairs on my arms stand.

Suddenly I have a very bad feeling about what’s going to happen. Yet before I get to say anything,Eason does a hand gesture to one of the bodyguards at the back, who nods and then whispers to his

own speakers. “What are you doing?” I start to panic. “What is he doing?”

Eason takes my hand, “It’s OK…look down there.”

I cast down my gaze and replace Zack’s car again. That black SUV is about to make a huge U-turn.

But the next second, instead of turning around, the car goes straight over the rail and shoots right offthe cliff!

“Ahh

I scream out loud, horrified, my hands covering my mouth. Then dense smoke rises into the air fromwhere the car dropped. There seems to be an explosion.

Eason squeezes my hand gently and chuckles, “There.”

I feel hard to breath.

Did he-did Eason just kill Zack?

“…Was it you?” I finally manage to force out these words. “Not me. Not you. No one is involved,” Easonshrugs indifferently. He is weirdly clam, like nothing significant has happened. “His car break failed andlost control. Bad luck, that’s all. But if he hadn’t kidnaped you, none of these would have happened.”

He’s so calm. How can be so fucking calm? It’s a life for god’s sake!

I suddenly feel the world zooming out from me. The air is getting thinner, and my vision becomes blurry.I vaguely hear Eason shouting my name, but I am unable to respond.

Then I spiral down a deeper darkness.

I don’t know how long I’ve slept. But I didn’t sleep well. My dreams were filled with horrified screams,explosions and loud crashing sound.

Then gradually, I hear someone calling me. I fight the slumber and open my heavy eyelids.

A bright, ginger head appears in my sight. “Oh my god!” cries the girl. “Finally! You’re awake!” I blinkseveral times to be sure and then ask in a rough voice, “…Jenna?” I can’t believe my eyes. But it’sreally her, my best friend back in Miami, standing in front of my bed right now.

“Don’t move just yet. Let me help you.” She grabs a pillow and shoves it behind my back to help me situp. I rub my head looking around and replace that I’m in the hospital. “God…what happened?” I murmurlowly. “Why are you here?” “You mom called me, and I caught the nearest flight. And I could ask thesame thing Nat! What happened? You had a panic attack and a sever loss of blood. Your mom wasTHIS close to going crazy.” She puts her fingers really close together. I sit there with a messed-upmind, trying to process everything. Moments later I ask slowly, “Where is Eason?” Jenna frowns, “Yourstepbrother? He’s outside with your mom and stepdad, talking to a lawyer. He said that you were in hishelicopter and suddenly had a panic attack and then just fainted. But wasn’t yesterday your mom’sanniversary party? What were you guys doing in a helicopter?” So he didn’t tell him the whole story,which is good because it keeps us clean.

I quiver in fear thinking of what Eason did to Zack. It’s such a heavy secret that I cannot bear. Jennastudies my face, “Wait…you’re not telling me the truth. What really happened?”

“…Nothing But I’m so so happy to see you, Jenna.” I lie to her, almost instantly. I can’t tell her thatEason just killed someone for me. That would drive her crazy.

Lying to my best friend makes me sad.

Yet a flicker of doubt appears in her eyes. “That’s a lie.”

Shit. She can be very intuitive sometimes. “God, you never lie to me. This is bad, isn’t it?” she asksheavily. “And it must

have something to do with your stepbrother Eason, right?”

My heart skips a beat. “Why do you say so?”

She shakes her head with a frown, “I have a very bad feeling about him. I don’t care how handsomeand rich he is. He just doesn’t seem like a nice guy. He always gives me chills…And didn’t he have ahuge crush on you three years ago? Such a creep.”