Replaying the Villain's Game Chapter 2

As he spoke, my brother—the guy who never shed a tear or begged for mercy even when Dad beat him as a kid—suddenly had red eyes.

"I can listen to you about anything else," he said, his messy hair framing a face of rare seriousness. "But Sis, I really, really like her."

I looked at him.

For a second, I saw my past self.

I, too, had once desperately sought love from a man who didn't want me.

I used every trick, every resource I had.

But I still couldn't keep him.

He still ran away from me.

Seeing the fragility on Ryan's face, I turned my back.

"Fine," I said. "But aside from keeping her by your side, you cannot hurt her in any other way."

"Or I will freeze all your accounts."