Chapter 4 She happens to be my stepsister

When Dante woke up from his sleep and he hadn't heard any news about Phoebe's return, he was a bit worried. Although pride wouldn't let ask his stepmother about it. So he asked his assistant that he should find out if there was any accident recorded by the airport. There was none aside from the robbery and he already knew about that. So then he thought that his stepsister changed her mind about coming.

Dante's mind didn't even cross it that Phoebe could be part of the people that got robbed. He didn't even ask for the name of the woman he slept with.

Dante had gone out to take care of something and he encountered his friends Jerry, Jay and Agatha. Jerry and Jay were twins and they've been friends with Dante since highschool, while Agatha became friends with them on a business trip five years back. Dante had narrated what happened with him and Phoebe to them.

The two had teased him about how he had started to live his bad boy look. Dante would have still continued to feel guilty if not for his friends. In fact he wanted to search for the lady to compensate her more.

He stayed with his friends until late at night. By the time he got back home, because he was thirsty, he went to get himself water, only to find his stepmother talking to someone. Then he knew that his stepsister had finally arrived. He hasn't seen her for a long time and he was a bit curious.

He felt burdened all of a sudden with her arrival. Dante was five years older than Phoebe and they never got along but what he didn't expect to see was that the lady he had slept with was the same as his stepsister.

"Hi Dante, you're back. Would you like to eat anything?'' Hannah asked with her usual sweet smile.

Phoebe turned to see who her mother was talking to. When she turned, Dante froze. His eyes were almost bulging out of its sockets. Even Phoebe stood there looking so stunned. The two didn't talk, they just stood there looking at each other.

Hannah who saw the way they were looking at each other, knowing their past record of their enmity, she thought Dante was angry to see her daughter. Phoebe had grown to be a beauty but Hannah didn't expect that there would be any attraction between those two, not to talk of them sleeping with each other.

"Dante, sorry I didn't tell you that your sister arrived already. She said she was robbed and that was why she came home late,'' Hannah said thinking he was angry with her.

Dante caught a headache immediately. His body vibrated as he found out that the woman he slept with was none other than his stepsister. Not in his life would he have thought that the fat short round girl he knew and hated would be a striking beauty.

"She is not my sister," he grumbled.

Even though Phoebe had seen the name on Dante's table, she had prayed in her heart that it wouldn't be who she thought it to be. Now her prayers were left unanswered. She snorted when he saw him looking at her.

Dante, not knowing what to do, walked away without saying anything. He felt like running mad with anger. He was so ashamed of himself and very angry. He noticed that Phoebe was not so shocked as he was.

When he got to his room, he emptied everything on his table to the floor. The clanging echoed through the room, which made Hannah and Phoebe look at each other. Hannah didn't know the reason Dante was mad but Phoebe does and for the first time in her life, she felt victorious over her arrogant stepbrother. Not that Phoebe also liked what happened but then she knew that Dante's pride was definitely hurt by what happened between them.

"I didn't know that he still held a grudge towards you. It's been over a decade since you last saw each other," Hannah said.

She wished that both of them could get along. She didn't mind if Dante hated her, she just wanted Phoebe and him to act like real siblings. She felt like she needed to talk to Dante and plead with him to accept Phoebe but she was scared. She didn't want to make things worse than they were.

"It is not hatred, it is more than that, '' Phoebe said with a smile and continued eating.

Hannah was confused at her word. "What do you mean by that?" she asked curiously.

She wondered what could be more when they've only met each other this minute after over a decade. Phoebe didn't reply to her anymore. She just continued eating like she never had a single care in the world.

Dante felt like dying. He didn't know why for the first time in his life he forgot his work etiquette, it had to be with his stepsister. He was almost dying of embarrassment. He took his phone and face-time is best friends.

"What's up bro?" Jay's voice rang in the room.

"For the first time in my life I messed up," Dante groaned.

The three on the other side wondered what was wrong with him; they knew that Dante was a perfectionist and he hardly makes mistakes.

"What's wrong?" Agatha asked him.

Dante sighed. He was even embarrassed to talk to his friends about it.

"Talk to us man," Jerry said when he saw that Dante was hesitating.

Dante, knowing that he had no choice but to tell them, started talking. "You remember the lady I told you about?"

"The one you had a quickie with at the hospital?'' Jay asked.

The way he said it made Dante cringe and his shoulder sank.

"I don't know how it happened but she happens to be my stepsister."

"What!" echoed through the room coming from the three on the other side.