Substitute Wife for the Mafia King R18-Chapter 373: Tricky Love
I couldn’t bring myself to respond to her, so Diana took charge in speculating about my feelings. Ironically, I thought that perhaps Diana had put into words my feelings better than I ever could. Seeing that I did not have anything to say in my own defense, Diana’s lips curved into a knowing smile before she continued.
"You’re in love with him, Leya. That’s why it felt so unbearable for you and that’s why you got jealous. I mean, you practically ran out of the room because you couldn’t take it anymore," Diana stated her observation confidently. Had I not already realized my feelings towards Bradon at that point, I might have had the urge to say a couple of things in my own defense and say that there was no way I could possibly be in love with him.
"Is that why you did it? To somehow force me to realize my true feelings?" I asked softly. At that moment, I felt very calm inside, and my head felt surprisingly clear. If I had harbored any hard feelings against my sister, it felt like they all evaporated right at that moment. Diana probably never knew just how significant of an impact her mischievous plan had on my relationship with Bradon because she didn’t know what happened that night after I ran out of the room.
"Do you honestly think that your only twin sister is that shallow?" she asked challengingly before the corner of her lips curved up into a smirk. I honestly didn’t think that there was another level of depth to Diana’s plan.
"What do you mean?" I asked blankly as I started to feel very suspicious of my sister.
"Don’t worry. As always, everything that I do is for your benefit. You’re my younger sister, and I am always worried about you. Honestly, I suspected how you felt about Bradon from the way you reacted whenever I teased you about him," my sister explained before coming to a pause as if collecting her thoughts. Although it seemed like everything had played out the way that Diana had anticipated, she didn’t seem overjoyed that her plan had worked.
"Despite thinking that you probably are in love with him, I have to say that there was a very big part of me that wished it wasn’t so. You had always been in love with Anthony, and although I wished that you would move on and fall in love with someone else, I have to say that I never expected that it would be his troublesome elder brother. I asked myself, why him of all people?" Diana said with a distant look in her eyes before she smiled a little sadly my way.
"Please don’t talk like you have the best taste in men," I muttered darkly. My retort only drew an embarrassingly loud laugh from my sister.
"I guess that it’s even funnier when your words can’t even hurt me because I know very well just how truthful they are," my sister replied smoothly as she brushed off my remark.
"Well, I hope you’re satisfied that your plan worked out just as you expected," I said without much joy.
"I got more than I wished for, although I have to say that the results were quite unexpected. Of course, you confirmed that you are really in love with Bradon, but what I truly didn’t expect was his reaction when I approached him while acting as you," Diana said before her lips curved into a teasing smile. Her words truly caught my attention, and I suddenly felt extremely curious about how Bradon reacted that day and what my sister thought of it.
"You look so curious. It feels like your head might burst if I don’t tell you all about him," Diana teased before letting out a giggle that reminded me of our much younger days.
"Please just spit it out already," I said as I started to lose patience. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
"Well, alright. It really caught me off guard when he told me that he realized right away that I wasn’t you. I honestly did not expect him to be able to tell us apart, especially when I was so focused on pretending to be you. I honestly thought that I had the act down pat after pretending to be you on and off for so many years, but perhaps while you were away, my impersonating skills got a bit rusty..." my sister said before shrugging her shoulders helplessly.
"He could tell us apart?" I asked, my eyes widening in surprise.
"Yes. He was so confident that he was right to the point where I didn’t even bother making excuses," Diana said before rolling her eyes upwards. I watched as she laughed as if she found the whole situation quite ridiculous.
"What else happened?" I urged for even more information. I wondered what led them up to that point and what transpired between them after I ran out of the hospital room.
"Nothing really happened. I thought that I could seduce him without any problems, but he really did exceed my expectations. I hate to admit this, but I could tell that he was not at all interested. Instead, he was probably just baiting me to see what I would do. So I began wondering about what could be a reasonable and plausible explanation for him to turn me down when I gave him the perfect opportunity to have sex with me," my sister said with a thoughtful look on her face as if she was figuring out an intriguing mystery.
"Should I sympathize with you for the fact that he turned down your advances?" I asked mockingly.
"That’s not funny, but jokes aside. Listen to me, Dahlia. You’re not the only one who is in love. Just like you are in love with him, Bradon is deeply in love with you," Diana tried her absolute best to convince me.
"I’m not so sure about that. Just because he didn’t want to sleep with you doesn’t mean that he is in love with me," I replied dryly.
–To be continued...
