Brotherly Bonds: A Tale of Regret and Longing

My step-brother Julian hates my guts.

But I always cling to him.

He paid me twenty thousand bucks to stop walking home with him after school, and two hundred thousand to transfer out of our class.

But every single time, I found my way back to him.

After college entrance exams, he wired a huge sum of money to my card, his voice ice-cold:

"Here's five million. Go study abroad. Just don't ever show up at my house again."

My eyes welled up. I lowered my head and said, "Okay."

YES!

He finally fell for it.

**1**

I caught Julian nearly kissing Chloe, a scholarship student.