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Chapter 40
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Chapter 45Adrian found me in the kitchen after dinner.I was putting the last of the glasses away when he walked in and stopped beside me, close enough that I felt the shift in the air. He didn’t pretend it was an accident.“You’ve been quiet since I got here,” he said.“Just adjusting.”“To me?”I kept my hands busy. “To another person in the house.”He turned toward me, one hip against the counter. “Damon already warned you about me, didn’t he?”“He mentioned you.”“Let me guess. He said I make things complicated.” Adrian’s mouth curved, slow and unapologetic. “He’s not wrong. I do. Especially when something interesting is already happening under the same roof.”The way he looked at me left no room for polite misunderstanding. It was direct. Intentional. The kind of look that made my stomach pull tight.“I don’t know what you mean.”“Yes you do.” His voice stayed low, almost conversational. “You’ve been watching me the same way I’ve been watching you. Difference is, I’m not wasting
Home Alone With My Stepbrother Chapter 44
Chapter 44I heard the front door open before anyone called out.I was halfway down the stairs when I saw him.Adrian stood in the entryway with a black duffel bag at his feet, one hand still on the handle of a rolling suitcase. The late afternoon light cut across his face and for a second my brain simply stalled.He looked like Damon.Same sharp jaw. Same dark eyes. Same mouth that always seemed a second away from saying something cutting. But everything on him was… more. Broader shoulders under a fitted black shirt with the sleeves rolled to his elbows. A little taller. A little older. The kind of mature that made the resemblance feel dangerous instead of familiar. Where Damon was sharp and coiled, Adrian looked settled in his own skin—calm, confident, and somehow hotter for it.My stomach dropped hard.I wanted to fuck him.The thought arrived fully formed and shameless. No buildup. No denial. Just raw, immediate want that hit me so fast I had to grip the banister to keep from show
Home Alone With My Stepbrother 43
Chapter 43The house felt different the moment Adrian’s name entered it.By the second day after the announcement, Damon had gone quiet in a way Lila hadn’t seen before. He still spoke when spoken to. He still answered his father with short, polite replies. But something in him had locked down. He spent longer hours outside the house, came back later, and barely looked at anyone during meals. Even Sophia seemed to notice the shift. She watched him more carefully now, like she was recalculating.Lila caught him alone only once that afternoon, in the upstairs hallway after his father had left for a meeting.“You’re acting like someone’s dying,” she said under her breath.Damon didn’t slow his pace. “My brother is coming home. Close enough.”“That bad?”He stopped walking and turned just enough to look at her. The expression on his face was colder than usual, stripped of the usual heat that always lived between them.“Adrian doesn’t arrive quietly. He walks in, smiles at everyone, and st
Home Alone With My Stepbrother Chapter 42
Chapter 42 The announcement came during dinner, right after Damon’s father set down his wine glass. “I spoke to Adrian this morning,” he said, almost casually. “He’s flying back next week. He’ll be home for a while.” The table went quiet for half a second too long. Damon’s fork stopped halfway to his mouth. His expression didn’t change much—just a slight tightening around the eyes, a muscle jumping once in his jaw—but Lila felt the temperature at their end of the table drop. Sophia looked up with mild interest. “Adrian? Your brother?” Damon’s father nodded, smiling. “He’s been in London for almost two years. Work’s finally letting him take an extended break. I told him the guest room is his.” Lila watched Damon carefully. He set his fork down with deliberate calm. “How long is ‘a while’?” Damon asked. “A few months, at least. Maybe longer. It’ll be good to have both my sons under one roof again.” Damon didn’t answer. He reached for his water instead, took a slow drink, and s
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Chapter 41Lila barely slept.Every time she closed her eyes she saw the red marks on Sophia’s hips, the bruise under Tyler’s jaw, the way his voice had cracked when he admitted what he’d done. He had fallen asleep eventually with his back to her, the space between them on the mattress feeling wider than the entire house. Lila stared at the ceiling until the first gray light of morning leaked through the curtains.She got up before anyone else and went downstairs for water. The house was still quiet. She stood at the kitchen sink drinking slowly, trying to force her thoughts into something useful.The side door to the garage opened.Damon stepped inside, already dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, hair still damp from a shower. He stopped when he saw her. For a second neither of them spoke. The air between them felt charged and familiar in the worst way.“You’re up early,” he said.“Couldn’t sleep.”He walked past her to the fridge, pulled out a bottle of water, and leaned against t
Home Alone With My Stepbrother Chapter 40
Chapter 40Lila stood in the kitchen long after Sophia left, the sound of the upstairs shower filling the silence. The red marks on Sophia’s hips kept replaying in her mind—four distinct fingerprints pressed into soft skin, already beginning to darken.She told herself it could be anything. A rough grip from Damon. An accident by the pool. Anything except the thing her gut already knew.Still, she went upstairs.The bathroom door was cracked. Steam drifted into the hallway. Tyler stood under the spray with both hands braced against the tiled wall, head down, water running over the tense line of his shoulders. He didn’t hear her until she stepped inside and closed the door behind her.He turned too fast. Water sluiced down his chest. For a second his expression was pure panic before he forced it into something softer.“Hey,” he said. “I was just—”“You okay?” Lila kept her voice even. “Sophia said you felt overheated.”Tyler’s throat worked. He shut the water off, grabbed a towel, and
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