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MY STEPBROTHER’S CURVY TEMPTATION The Apology
Aurora’s POVI was still staring at the unfinished report on my screen when the soft knock came at my office door.Three soft taps, seems polite and careful. I wonder who that is, I raised my head up to see Marcus. Marcus stood in the doorway holding a paper cup of coffee like a peace offering. His usual sharp suit looked a little less perfect today. There were shadows under his eyes and a tightness around his mouth that hadn’t been there a week ago.“Can I come in?” he asked.I almost said no, I wanted to and the word just sat right on my tongue. After everything the tailing, the carefully timed “coincidences,” the way Zane Enterprises had started leaking small, damaging pieces of information that only someone on the inside could have known I wanted to slam the door in his face.Instead I nodded once.He stepped inside and closed the door quietly behind him. For a long moment he just stood there, staring at the floor like the right words might be written on the carpet.“I’m not he
MY STEPBROTHER’S CURVY TEMPTATION The Mole
Prescott’s POVI stared at the security feed until my eyes burned.Three different angles of the private garage under Zane Enterprises. Timestamped. Crystal clear. Marcus’s black Aston Martin pulling out two minutes after Aurora’s company car left the building yesterday. Same car that had been three vehicles behind her on the highway when she went to that late meeting across town.I scrubbed a hand down my face and leaned back in the chair. The office was dark except for the glow of the monitors. Everyone else had gone home hours ago. Even the cleaning staff had finished their rounds.Marcus.My best friend. The one person outside of family I had trusted with almost everything.I pulled up the access logs for the family security app next. The same app that controlled the mansion gates, the panic buttons, the private elevator codes, and the live feeds from every camera on the estate. I had locked Mia out of every company system the day she walked out five years ago. I was certain of it
MY STEPBROTHER’S CURVY TEMPTATION Room 312
AuroraPrescott didn't want me to go."It could be a trap," he said."It's at the hospital.”"Marcus has been holding a grudge for years, there’s no way it’s safe.”"And his father is sick now at the hospital." I pulled my hoodie over my head. "If it's a trap, it's the saddest one I've ever seen."He argued for ten more minutes. In the end, he drove me there himself. He parked across the street under a broken streetlight and pressed the black phone into my palm."One call," he said. "That's all it takes.""I know.""I'll be right here."I kissed him once, hard, and got out.Mercy General was almost empty at midnight. A security guard dozed at the front desk. The elevator hummed all the way up.Third floor, room 312.The door was half open. A single lamp glowed inside.Marcus sat in a vinyl chair beside the bed, elbows on his knees, head bowed. His suit jacket lay across the back of the chair. His tie was gone his sleeves were rolled to the elbow.He looked younger. Not like the poli
MY STEPBROTHER’S CURVY TEMPTATION Blood money
AuroraThe apartment had one couch, one bed, and a clock that ticked too loud.I'd been staring at it for three hours.I'd showered. I'd borrowed one of Prescott's gray T-shirts. I'd tried to eat the crackers I found in the cupboard and put them back after one bite. Every time a car passed outside, I went to the window sick with boredom.It was nearly ten when the lock clicked.I flew across the room before the door finished opening.Prescott stood in the hallway with his tie pulled loose and his jacket hanging off one shoulder. His face was gray. His eyes were red at the edges a look I had never seen before.I'd seen him angry. I'd seen him scared, i’d never seen him look like this.Like someone had taken something out of him."Prescott." I grabbed his sleeve. "What happened?"He didn't answer. He shut the door and leaned his back against it."Sit down," he said quietly."That's not a good start.""I know, please just sit.”I sat on the edge of the couch. He didn't sit. He stood in t
MY STEPBROTHER’S CURVY TEMPTATION What my Father did
PrescottI left Aurora at the apartment I kept under the company's name.Nobody knew about it. My father thought I slept in my office on late nights. The place had one couch, one bed, and a lock Grant had never seen."Stay here," I'd said. "Don't open the door for anyone.""Prescott...""I'll call you the second I know."She'd held my face and kissed me, quick and hard. "Come back."I was still holding that kiss when I walked into the house at 6:40.The foyer was dark. The whole place felt wrong. Too quiet, like a house holding its breath.Then I heard voices upstairs.Low. Tense. I recognized both.I climbed the stairs slowly, one step at a time. I stopped on the fourth from the top, where the old wood always creaked.Elena's voice drifted through the half-open guest room door."I heard him say it, Dominic. Tell her, or I will. And I heard you answer."Silence."You said you'd take it to your grave."My hand tightened on the rail.Take what to his grave?I didn't mean to listen. I to
MY STEPBROTHER’S CURVY TEMPTATION The Signature
PrescottMy phone rang and I answered before the first ring finished."Aurora.""I'm okay."Those were the first words out of her mouth. Not hi, or I’m sorry. Just I'm okay, like she'd rehearsed it.My knees nearly gave out. I leaned against my car in the garage and closed my eyes."Where are you?""Fourth and Maple. By the laundromat.""Stay there. Don't move, I’m on my way.”"Prescott...""I'm coming."I made it in eleven minutes. I broke at least three traffics rules.She was sitting on the curb with a manila folder in her lap and a baseball cap pulled low.She looked small. And untouched and so alive that I forgot how to be angry.I parked and jumped out. She stood. I crossed the sidewalk in two strides and pulled her against me in a hard hug her cap fell off."Don't ever do that again," I said into her hair."I know.""I mean it. I thought... I didn't know...""I know." Her hands gripped the back of my jacket. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I turned off the phone. You'd have stopped m
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