Good Girls Don’t Cross The Line

Knox Callahan, Mr. Popular and my biggest tormentor makes me his favourite target after an unfortunate encounter in class. And there is no escaping him, no matter how hard I fight back. Then the decision that changed everything came. "Annalise, I got married. We are moving," Mom has said. And the new house? It turned out to be Knox's. Because somehow, while I was busy surviving him, his father had been out there and managed to steal my mother's heart before secretly marrying her. The boy who made my life hell was now my stepbrother. But there is nothing remotely brotherly about the way Knox looks at me. Or even the way his hands would slide up my skin each time he was near me. It is quite hard—keeping up appearances and pretending the tension suffocating every room that we both happened to step into doesn't exist. The more we share the same space, the harder it becomes to remember why I should stay the fuck away from my new stepbrother. And Knox? He can't do that. The darkness I once feared resided inside of him begins to feel dangerously like something I really wanted. He corners me and touches me at every opportunity in ways that can never be mistaken for anything innocent. It shouldn't be so because I’m running out of genuine reasons to continue to resist him. But I am a good girl. And good girls shouldn't sleep with their stepbrothers.