Filed To Story: Mated To Big Brother-in-law
When he opened his eyes, they were calm.
‘My coffee makes him calm,’ she thought in her mind.
“Is everything okay?” she asked him.
Her voice was low and soothing. Her tone was filled with nothing but obedience.
Bryan put the coffee mug on the desk and glanced at her. He reached out to touch her hand as she was standing next to him.
“Come here.”
She held his hand and sat on his lap obediently. She rested her head on his chest and asked,
“What happened, Mate? Why are you so angry?”
He put his hand on her head and ran his fingers through her hair.
His action moved her, and she closed her eyes.
“The pack party I wanted to have in this pack will be held in another pack.”
She raised her head to look at him. But her nose brushed against his when she turned her head.
She leaned back a few inches to speak with him.
“So what will we do now?” she asked while looking into his mysterious eyes, which never failed to captivate her.
“We will have to go there to attend the meeting next week.”
“We?”
She almost moved from his lap after hearing it, but his hands tightened around her waist to stop her from moving.
She looked at him with a shocked expression.
“We? Did you mean that I would also need to go there?”
Every expression she made was captured by his gaze. He could see how nervous she was.
“Yes, you are going with me to another pack next week.”
Sophia could not believe it. How would she get out of the pack? Her mother would never permit her to do it. In fact, she had never gone out of this pack in her whole life.
“I can’t,” she replied to him.
There was a slight movement in his calm eyes. She could see it clearly. They turned a little dark and gloomy.
She came to the realization that she had reacted too much. So she took a deep breath and lifted her hands to place them on his shoulders.
“Mate, you know my family. Mom will not give me permission.”
He remained silent, which sent a shiver down her spine. She hugged him as she felt frightened by his calm and dark expression.
“Mate, I’m sorry.”
His muscles loosened a little as she hugged him tightly.
“Don’t worry about your mother. I’m taking you on a business trip, not a private vacation.”
She froze because of his remark. But she did not break the hug; she only hid her face in his chest.
His cologne soothed her as she calmed down and smiled a little.
If he managed her mother, she would have no problem with it. It would be only a two-day event anyway.
In the last few days, Bryan was no longer the Bryan she met for the first time.
He turned soft for her; he let her touch him and hug him anytime. Just as he called her his baby girl, he looked after her.
He knew what she liked and never forgot to surprise her with her favorite things. He did not put her under much pressure at work. He took her to have meals sometimes.
Day by day, Sophia began to believe that he also knew he loved her. Otherwise, why hadn’t he slept with her yet?
“Okay,” she mumbled in reply.
She, on the other hand, turned into the most obedient girl, just like Bryan wanted her to be.
She knew when his mood was off, so she chose to remain silent. She knew her closeness calmed him, so she always tried to soothe him whenever he got angry.
Like the only woman in his life, he embraced her in his arms. His chin rested on the tip of her head.
After a while of staying like that, she broke the hug and looked at him. She recalled what Livia said to her.
She sat up straight, but when she felt her bottom move on his thigh, she blushed.
She lowered her head and started fiddling with his shirt’s second button.
When Bryan saw she was biting her lower lip, he lifted her chin to make her look at him.
The touch of his fingertips gave her tickle feelings under her chin.
“What do you want to say?”
She looked at him with surprise. “How do you know I want to say something?”
He reached out his hand to hold the coffee mug and sipped it.
“I know you. Go ahead. “
She stared at him. ‘He knows me. Yes, he knows me really well,’ she said in her head.
She coughed a little and held his hand, which was holding his chin a few seconds ago.
“Can you please give a little more time to Miss Livia for submitting her project?”
She became nervous when he paused while drinking the coffee.
He shifted his gaze at her and raised an eyebrow.
She cleared her throat a few times, as if she could find her voice in front of him.
“Why?” he asked.
“Mate, please. Her mother is sick.”
“So?”
She was stunned by his blank expression. She played her fingers on his button again and replied,
“Please give her two more days. She has to take care of her mother, too.”
“Did she tell you all these things?”
She shook her head and lied to him. She could not risk Livia’s job.
“No, I overheard others.”
“That means she was talking about these in the office; otherwise, how did they know?”
She looked at him with a shocked expression. Why was this man so clever?
He knew that Livia was the one who said it. But he wanted to hear it from her mouth.
She tried to think of how she would convince him. She smiled at her and said,
“Please don’t fire her, Mate. Give her some spare time. Pretty please?”
She gave him a puppy look and blinked her eyes quite a few times, the intention being to win his heart over.
But he looked like a stone.
She thought he would not agree.
After a while, he put the mug on the desk and unwrapped his hands from her waist, leaving her to go.
“Please?”
He gave her a nod. “If you want that, then okay.”
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