ONE NIGHT STAND WITH MY STEPBROTHER
It was supposed to be one reckless night to be forgotten by morning.
For Yubi, it was an escape from a broken home, a mother who never loved her, and a past haunted by guilt and loss. She gave her innocence to a stranger in a club, walked away before dawn, and told herself it meant nothing.
Four weeks later, her world collapses.
A positive pregnancy test.
A new marriage.
And the man she can’t forget introduced to her as her Stepbrother.
Trey De Luca is everything Yubi should stay away from, arrogant, dangerous, and heir to a powerful empire built on money and secrets. He doesn’t believe in love, doesn’t want children, and doesn’t remember the girl he once held like she was everything.
Until the truth explodes between them.
Pregnant with her stepbrother’s child, Yubi is forced into impossible choices, between survival and desire, shame and longing, silence and scandal. When a violent accident leaves Trey fighting for his future, lines blur even further, and secrets buried inside the De Luca family begin to surface.
Power, betrayal, obsession, and love collide in a world where nothing is clean not family, not loyalty, not desire.
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Chapter: Chapter Forty ThreeYubi.I don’t even wait for the dust from Trey’s tires to settle before the feeling hits me, something is definitely wrong. Not the usual wrong, the tense silence wrong, the unspoken feelings wrong, the we are dancing around each other wrong. This is deeper. He didn’t look angry when he drove off. He looked hunted. Like someone had just lit a fuse inside him and he was racing against it burning down.I stand there in the driveway for two seconds too long, Chanel shifting against my chest, my heart pounding so hard it makes my ears ring.He lied, I know he did.And whatever he is running toward is dangerous.I turn on my heel and rush back into the house.The living room is quiet, almost eerily so. Michael isn’t here. That realization lands heavy, confirming the dread curling tighter in my stomach. Kiari is in the kitchen, pacing slowly with her phone in her hand, worry etched across her face in a way I’ve never seen before.“Kiari,” I say breathlessly.She looks up, startled. “Yubi?
Last Updated: 2026-02-20
Chapter: Chapter Forty TwoTrey.The call comes when I’m least expecting it, I am in the den, staring at absolutely nothing, my mind looping uselessly over everything that’s gone wrong in the past twenty four hours Yubi’s face at the hospital, the way her voice cracked even when she tried to sound calm, the detective’s words echoing in my head like a bad song I can’t turn off.My phone buzzes on the coffee table, it's an Unknown number.I almost ignore it but Something tells me not to.“Hello?” I answer, already standing without realizing it.“Trey,” a familiar voice says, clipped, professional, uneasy. “This is Andrew. Your family’s financial advisor.”My stomach tightens instantly.“Is everything okay?” I ask, even though every nerve in my body is already screaming that it isn’t.There is a pause on the other end. Papers shuffling. The kind of pause that comes before bad news.“I am calling to verify a transaction,” Andrew says carefully. “A very large withdrawal was made today from one of your father’s accou
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Chapter: Chapter Forty OneMichael. I don’t tell anyone, not Trey, not Kiari, not even Yubi, especially not Yubi.I sit alone in my study long after the house has gone quiet, the echo of Abel’s voice still ringing in my ears, the image burned behind my eyelids no matter how many times I blink. Ten seconds. That’s all he gave me. Ten seconds of Naomi tied to a chair, her hair matted, her face thinner than I remember, her eyes God her eyes still fighting even through the grainy video.I close my laptop slowly, deliberately, as if that might lock the image inside it instead of my head.If I tell them, I will give them hope.And hope is dangerous.Hope makes people careless. Hope makes people talk. Hope makes people call the police when they shouldn’t. And if Abel is bluffing if that video was old, if Naomi is already, I can’t even finish that thought then I will not drag the children through that kind of whiplash.And if she is alive, if she is still breathing somewhere, waiting for me to do the right thing then
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Chapter: Chapter FortyMichaelThe house feels wrong after the police leave, it's too quiet despite the baby sounds coming from Chanel. Even with people still inside it, the walls feel hollow, like they are holding onto their breath, waiting for something worse to happen.I stand in the living room long after the last patrol car disappears down the street. Kiari retreats upstairs. Trey follows Yubi outside, and for once, I don’t stop him. I don’t have the energy to manage emotions right now, not theirs, not mine.Because the moment the front door closes, something inside me hardens.I have played by the rules long enough, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands to get results.I walk into my study and shut the door behind me, locking it out of habit even though I know no one is going to interrupt me. I sit behind my desk, staring at the phone in my hand like it’s a loaded weapon.Abel.A name I thought I would never hear, a ghost from Naomi’s past that should have stayed dead.The police hav
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty NineYubi.The moment the words leave my mouth, Did you find my mom? the room seems to freeze around me. No one breathes. No one moves. It’s like the entire house is holding its breath, waiting for the detectives to either save me or destroy me.The female detective exchanges a look with her partner. Not a good look. Not a hopeful look.Something cold enough to numb bone spreads slowly through my chest.“Ms. Yubi,” the female detective begins gently, “we are going to walk you through everything we discovered. And we understand this is going to be difficult to hear.”My lungs burn but I nod once.Or maybe I don’t. I can’t even tell if my body is responding or if I’m just imagining it.The male detective adjusts the folder in front of him. “Earlier today, we tracked Abel’s movements to an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the city.”My hands curl so tightly around the edge of the couch my nails dig into the fabric. My heartbeat floods my ears loud, sharp, fast like my body already know
Last Updated: 2026-02-19
Chapter: Chapter Thirty EightTreyThe moment I step through the front doors, I can feel the energy in the house before I even see anyone. It’s heavy, thick like the air itself knows something is wrong. Kiari is the first person I spot. She is pacing near the staircase, wringing her hands together, her face pale. The second her eyes land on me, she rushes forward.“Trey!” she cries, throwing her arms around me. The hug is so tight it nearly knocks the wind out of me. “Oh my God, I am so glad you are here.”I stiffen a little, not because of her, but because everything in me is pulled like a magnet in another direction. I hug her back briefly, then ease her off me.“What’s going on?” I ask, my voice steady even though my heart is hammering. “Kiari what happened?”“I’m not sure,” she stammers, shaking her head. “The detectives are, they are talking to your dad right now. They said they want to meet all of us in the living room.”Detectives. Plural.My chest tightens. My mind goes straight to one place, Yubi.I nod
Last Updated: 2026-02-19
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