Chapter 210: Glib Talker
** Eli **
"Tyler, it’s not like that!" Eli desperately tried to clarify as soon as he recovered from the shock enough to speak. "I was just helping Harper with—"
"Helping?" Tyler didn’t even deign to hear the rest of the sentence. "You call that help? What kind of help are you so generously giving by talking to her like that?"
"... She’s writing a romance novel! That was a scene in the story—"
"Harper, out of everyone, is writing a romance novel with those kinds of scenes?" Tyler hissed, and the grip on Eli’s collar tightened to the point that it was getting hard for him to breathe. "Do you even hear what you’re saying? You expect me to believe that my sister would ever do such a thing?"
"..."
Yeah, the guy’s got a point there.
Back at the beginning of their "lesson arrangement" two months ago, Eli himself could barely believe that the innocent little dove would be adventurous enough to try her hand at steamy web novels. But at least the surprise at the time had been subdued by the inexperienced way she wrote those scenes, especially her choice of vocabulary that was innocent and vanilla to a fault. Now, however, for her brother to suddenly see a polished version so much more mature and wicked than the old drafts ...
It was no wonder that he wouldn’t believe it. If Eli was Tyler, he wouldn’t have believed him either.