Tyler did not say a word on the way back. I enjoyed the silence and leaned back on the seat to pretend to take a nap.
We quickly arrived and I opened the door car to get out. Tyler placed one hand on the steering wheel and looked at me with a cheeky smile. "Aren't you going to invite me in?"
"Nope.” I got out of the car with a sullen expression. Why would I invite him to my house when I could not wait to get away from him?
As though he did not hear me, he got out of the car and followed me. "I don’t care if you're willing to acknowledge it or not but I'm your brother. Our names were once in the same household register and that's a n undeniable fact. As your one and only family member in the world, it's only right for me to go in and meet your husband."
I darted a glance at him and said, "That doesn't make u s a family. Tyler, you’re the one who has no family members, not me. You can’t impose your own experiences on me, and don't define me using your pessimistic views."
I understood the loneliness and resentment inside of him. From the day his father abandoned him and left
him to our family, he had been filled with resentment.
I was different from him. Although I was also abandoned, my heart was filled with love and sunshine.
I looked at him and continued, "I used to have my Mom’s love in the past, but now I have my husband, child, Cecilia, and my friends. So we’re destined to be different. You’re like an abyss that no one dares to come close to. You will never walk out of the darkness."
Perhaps it was because I sounded too harsh, he suddenly grabbed my hand with a dark and gloomy expression. "Do you really think so? Stop being so childish. We're just the same. We're destined to be unloved. Neither of us is better than another."
I was slightly stunned but did not say a word.
There was a mocking smile on his face as he said coldly, "I admit that Mom used to love you very much, but you're left with nothing now. Theo doesn’t love you, so even if this child is born, things will not be as perfect as you expect them to be.
"As for Cecilia, she'll get married one day and have a family of her own and leave you. I don't think I need to talk about those so-called friends of yours.
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