Filed To Story: Mated To Big Brother-in-law
Sophia lowered her head when she was scolded by him. The whole class was silent. But when she turned to look for Bruce, the girls began to whisper.
“She is so fake. We all know she obviously wants to be with Bruce. She is pretending to be hard to get.”
“Yeah, you are right. We are dying to sit with him, and here is his ex. Such an idiot! Where will she get a man like Bruce if he stops feeling interested in her?”
“Exactly. He is a son of the royal family and is both attractive and handsome. He is the younger brother of Alpha Bryan.”
Sophia clenched her jaw as she tried her best to ignore their voices.
In a few seconds, her gaze settled on Bruce, who was seated on the last bench in the left corner. Because all of the benches were joint for two, students were required to sit in pairs.
Sophia could see Bruce staring at her. She headed in his direction with a gloomy face.
She glanced at the two students who were seated on the front seat of Bruce’s seat.
She stopped next to them and asked,
“Excuse me? Can we exchange seats, please?” She whispered so that the professor would not listen to her since the class was massive and she was standing at the end of the class.
Both the boy and the girl looked up, rolling their eyes at her.
“Didn’t you hear the professor? Go sit with Bruce quietly. We don’t want to sit with you,” the girl replied as she held the boy’s hand.
Sophia was stunned. Did she think that she was after her boyfriend?
With a sigh, she moved to the last seat, which was located behind the bench.
Sophia wanted to tell Bruce to move to the window. But he stood up and stepped aside.
She had no choice but to sit close to the window, where Bruce sat next to her.
She found him sitting a little closer to her. She glanced at the professor, who had started the lesson.
“Can you just move a little to your side?” she muttered with an angry tone.
Bruce did not move; instead, he replied,
“You won’t tell which side is mine. It’s a bench where you have to compromise the space with me.”
Sophia exhaled deeply as she fixed her eyes on the professor.
She knew Bruce would disturb her like that. It was the reason she did not want to sit with him. She did her best, but she was stuck sitting next to this boy.
While Sophia attempted to concentrate in class, Bruce’s gaze remained fixed on her. He examined her carefully. He observed every expression and movement she made.
He chuckled when he noticed her tapping her nails on the bench under stress.
Sophia turned her head to the side and almost let out a gasp when she saw his face so close to hers.
“W-What are you doing?” she asked. While she was moving away from him, she pressed her back against the window frame.
“I’m doing nothing. I am just looking at you.”
“Don’t look at me.”
“Why? Is there any rule that I can’t look at my baby?” He asked with a wicked grin.
She gave him a glare. “I knew it. I knew you would do something like that. Keep your distance from me. Otherwise, I will complain to the professor.”
She warned him and glanced at the professor. She wondered why that man could not notice them. Was he so preoccupied teaching others the lesson?
Bruce laughed in a low voice and shook his head. “I can’t understand what you think of me. You always warn me that you will complain to others about me. I want you to know that I am not a coward. You are free to give it a shot if you so desire.”
When Sophia heard him say that, she scoffed at him because she believed that he was only saying that because she had never tried it.
So she got to her feet and looked at the professor.
“Sir, Bruce is disturbing me. I can’t pay attention to the class because of him.”
The professor paused as he looked at her. All the students turned their attention to her, then glanced at Bruce, who shrugged his shoulders.
For a moment, the professor looked at Bruce, but then he turned his attention back to Sophia.
Given how often he had reprimanded her today, Sophia assumed he would do the same to Bruce.
However, to her surprise, the professor lifted his hand and gestured at her.
“Sit down. I don’t have time to hear your complaints right now.”
Sophia’s eyes widened. When the professor went back to his lesson, Sophia sat down slowly and with astonishment on her face.
“How is that even possible?” she mumbled.
She felt Bruce lean close to her and whisper,
“I bought him.”
She pushed on his chest and looked at him. “W-What?”
He raised a brow and asked, “What? Have you never heard of buying the judge in a case? Just like that, I bought the professor in your case.”
Sophia could not believe in her ears. Bruce bought the professor?
“Don’t be too shocked. It’s just for the classes. I didn’t make any deal with getting a high score. So it’s not illegal that you can go and complain to the dean about it.”
Bruce’s voice was full of mockery. But by looking at the expression on his face, anyone could say that he was enjoying Sophia’s reaction.
As she grabbed her forehead and turned her head away from him, Sophia thought to herself,
‘These two brothers are getting on my nerves.’
She closed her eyes to take a deep breath to ease her mind. However, she was unable to allow her thoughts to calm down. Before she had a chance to calm down, Bruce spoke out again.
“The professor informed us that he would assign us such a large amount of work that we would be required to spend nearly four hours working together. I was considering telling him to increase the hourly rate…” he muttered.
“Shut up!” Sophia roared at him.
He pursed his lip to stop his laugh.
He had so many ideas in his head to get her back. It’s just that he needed time to proceed. He was an Alpha in rank. It did not give him a nature to feel cowardly. So even after his big brother warned him, he did not agree to leave Sophia’s side. He believed she belonged to him from the beginning, and he would get her back.
“It is just that my brother was born first, and for that reason, he gets to be the head Alpha; otherwise, I am also an Alpha and a royal blood as well,’ he thought to himself.
Suddenly, his eyes widened at his thoughts. Why did he think that? For the first time, he thought about the position.
There was never a moment when he felt envious of his brother’s position. From childhood, his parents told him his position, which was after his big brother. He never gave it a thought, even after some of his friends told him that his father could have given the throne to him.
‘What’s I’m thinking?’ he asked himself.
He shook his head. He could not be greedy for something that was impossible.
But an unexpected thought arose in his mind.
‘If I were the Alpha, my brother would never have had the chance to warn me about her. Even if she were his mate, he would have to let her go for me.’
During the time Bruce was thinking all of those unrealistic things, Sophia glanced at him and observed him.
“Have you gone mad?” she asked him.
“Huh?” he asked as her voice reached her ears.
“You looked crazy a few seconds ago,” Sophia replied as she turned the pages of the notebook.
Bruce cleared his throat as he shoved his thoughts about the positions and gazed at her.
Sophia could feel him looking at her from head to toe. She was aware of his gaze because she had spent two years with him.
“Stop scanning me with your eyes,” she muttered in a furious tone.
“Why did you wear such a hot dress today? To impress me?” he asked with a smirk.
She didn’t have to turn to look at him to see his smirk. She knew how he reacted when he talked.
“No, to impress your brother,” she replied while turning to him and smirking at him.
Almost instantly, his smirk disappeared. “Sophia.”
“What?”
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