Page 6 of Reckless Hate

“Avengers!” He spoke for a few minutes, telling her what his toys were doing, but he stopped midway as though realizing she wasn’t at home with him.

“Come here!”

She kept the smile on. “I am on a holiday, Sohan. I will come soon. I promise. Tell me what else is Hulk doing? I thought he was the good guy. Why is he hitting his friends?”

Her baby brother seemed satisfied with her answer, and he got excited about his toys and once again spoke about them.

After a while, Maria came to Sohan. “Say bye-bye to Miss Samantha. It’s your bath time.”

Sohan frowned a little at Maria’s words, but he nodded. Samantha knew her brother loved bath time and spent an hour each day playing in the tub with water and his toys.

“Bye, Sammy!”

“Bye, Sohan.”

She ended the call and closed her eyes.

Despite herself, her eyes prickled. She missed her baby brother, especially hugging him and kissing his baby cheeks.

How the hell did I get attached to someone again?

After her parents’ divorce, she had sworn not to get attached to anyone, but somehow her baby stepbrother managed to wiggle into her heart. She had ignored him for almost the first three months after his birth. But when her mother began leaving the house and the baby was often left alone often with a young, distracted nanny, there was no other choice but to attend to the tiny, helpless human.

Sohan will be fine.

She knew Maria would take good care of him. Maria was more like his mother than the one who had given birth to him.

One of the conditions she had put to agree to transfer to a new university was to be able to choose the nanny for Sohan. She had picked Maria because the older woman was sweet, kind-hearted and genuinely affectionate. Maria was also a middle-aged woman, which meant her stepfather wouldn’t seduce her like he did with other nannies before they left or got fired by his jealous wife.

Taking a deep breath, she once again reminded herself of her goal. She was going to get custody of her baby brother. And for that, she would need to graduate from Simha University.

CHAPTER 3

Ved Simha opened his eyes to see that he was squashed between two naked girls who were fast asleep.

His mouth twisted at the memories of the torrid night where both the girls were eager to please.

He and his cousins had hosted a welcome-back party the previous night outside the main campus. It was an exclusive party, and not all students were invited, but those who were in attendance had a blast. There were bike races, beer bong games and dancing the night away to pulsating music. It was close to three in the morning when he and his cousins forcibly stopped the party and sent everyone back to the campus as the classes were beginning the next day.

But even though it was late, he was generous enough to accept the offer of two pretty girls to join them in their room.

Grinning, he sat up slowly. He carefully extracted himself from between the girls and got out of the bed before pulling up his boxers and putting the rest of his clothes back on. Making sure he didn’t leave anything behind, he slipped out of the bedroom through the attached balcony to head back to his housing unit.

His two cousins, who were also his roommates, weren’t in the living room. Either they must still be sleeping or gotten an early head start on the first day of classes after the break.

Thirty minutes later, he was freshly showered before heading out to the campus for classes. Thanks to what seemed like a gallon of beer he must have drank, he could only grab black coffee and toast for breakfast.

“Hi, Ved!”

He was greeted by a group of girls.

“It was such an awesome party last night, Ved!” another girl said excitedly.

“Yes, Ved. I’m so glad you and your cousins won again at the races. I was cheering for you in particular.”

“Thank you, sweethearts.”

The girls blushed and giggled.

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