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The performance

Penulis: Starlight
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-08-22 06:07:14

KINGSTON

Renee’s comment from the morning was still sitting in my head when I walked into the dining room that night.

You look different lately. Happier.

Nia had brushed it off with the job excuse. I had watched her do it from the hallway and felt the same tight pull in my chest that had started the night before when she almost said the thing neither of us was ready to name.

Dinner was already set. Dad at the head of the table, Renee across from him, Nia in the chair that had become hers. I too
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  • My One-Night Stand Turned Out to Be My Stepbrother    Welcome home

    KINGSTON Nia had packaged the entire Marcus file like she’d done it a hundred times. I sat at the dining table late that last free night, laptop open, watching her walk me through the folder she’d built. Every access log, every secondary server bounce, every timestamp that didn’t match Marcus’s travel calendar—organized, color-coded, annotated in plain language. She’d even added a one-page summary at the top that any executive could understand in under two minutes. “You did all this today?” I asked. “Most of it.” She scrolled to the bottom. “The last three files were the ones that sealed it. If your dad looks at this and still wants to protect him, that’s his business. But he won’t be able to say he didn’t have the full picture.” I looked at her. Smart didn’t even cover it. She’d taken the mess we’d been chasing for days and turned it into something clean enough to hand over. “This is good,” I said. “I know.” Neither of us mentioned that it was the night before everythi

  • My One-Night Stand Turned Out to Be My Stepbrother    Last free night

    NIA Tuesday night felt like the last good breath before the wave hit.We’d spent most of the day doing absolutely nothing useful. Ava had declared the afternoon “officially anti-productivity” and forced everybody into the theater room for a reality show marathon. Cole sat through two episodes like he was serving a sentence. Kingston kept finding reasons to leave and come back. I mostly stayed next to Ava and laughed when she yelled at the screen.By seven she was over it.“I’m starving and I refuse to eat another thing out of that judgmental fridge,” she said, stretching across the couch. “We going out. All of us. No excuses.”Cole didn’t even look up from his phone. “I’m good.”“You are not good. You’ve been sitting there looking like a disappointed uncle all day. Get up.”Kingston glanced at me from the doorway. The corner of his mouth twitched. “There’s a rooftop spot in Midtown that stays open late. Food’s decent. Not too loud.”Ava pointed at him. “See? Leadership. Let’s go.”Tw

  • My One-Night Stand Turned Out to Be My Stepbrother    Loud house

    KINGSTON The penthouse never stayed quiet when Ava was in it.Cole and I had set up at the dining table with our laptops, trying to knock out a few things before the day got away from us. Sunlight poured through the floor-to-ceiling windows. It should have been peaceful. Instead, every few minutes Ava’s voice exploded from the living room like she had a microphone attached to her chest.“No, because why would you text me ‘u up’ at 2 a.m. like I’m supposed to be grateful? Be serious.”Then her loud ass laugh. Then Nia’s softer one mixing with it.Cole’s jaw flexed for the third time in ten minutes. He stared at his screen like it had personally wronged him.“You good?” I asked.“I’m trying to work.”“She’s been like this since she got here. You act like you just noticed.”He didn’t look up. “I noticed. I’m just choosing peace.”Another burst of laughter floated down the hall. Ava said something about “the audacity” and Nia cracked up again. Cole exhaled through his nose and typed hard

  • My One-Night Stand Turned Out to Be My Stepbrother    Too close

    KINGSTON The knock came again, harder this time.“Yo. You alive in there? Laptop’s dead and I need to send this file before morning.”Nia’s eyes went wide. Water still ran down her shoulders. My come was still inside her. The bathroom was thick with steam and the smell of sex. One wrong move and Cole would know everything.I raised my voice and kept it casual. “Give me two minutes. Almost done.”“Aight. Hurry up.”His footsteps moved away from the door. I looked at Nia. She was already moving—grabbing her T-shirt, wiping water off her legs with a towel, trying to make herself look like she hadn’t just been fucked against the wall four times. I shut the water off, wrapped a towel around my waist, and cracked the door just enough to check the hallway.Clear.I mouthed go. She slipped past me, bare feet silent on the floor, and disappeared toward her room like a shadow. I waited until I heard her door click shut before

  • My One-Night Stand Turned Out to Be My Stepbrother    Playing with Fire

    KINGSTONThe new access string was still glowing on my screen when the first knock sounded.Neither of us heard it.Nia was leaning over my desk, one hand braced next to the keyboard, the other pointing at the route the file had taken. Senior ops clearance. Secondary server. Same pattern as before, just tighter. We were so close the only thing between us was the heat coming off her skin and the fact that I couldn’t stop looking at her mouth.The second knock was harder.We both jerked back. I clicked the window closed a second before the door opened.Marcus’s junior analyst, Derek, stuck his head in. Operations badge swinging from his neck. “Mr. Carter—sorry. Didn’t know you still had company. I can come back.”“It’s fine,” I said, voice even. “We were just wrapping up the campaign numbers.”Derek’s eyes flicked to Nia, then to the blank screen, then back to me. “Cool. Just needed to drop the revised projections for

  • My One-Night Stand Turned Out to Be My Stepbrother    That’s Sus

    NIA I barely made it back to the room before the guilt and the evidence caught up with me.The kitchen still felt like it was on my skin—his hands, the edge of the island, the way I’d bitten my own wrist to stay quiet. Ava was knocked out on her side of the bed, one arm flung over her head, soft snoring already going. I grabbed my towel and headed straight for the bathroom, locked the door, and turned the shower on hot.I stayed under the water longer than I needed to. Scrubbed everything. Washed my hair even though it didn’t need it. By the time I stepped out, the mirror was completely fogged and my fingers were wrinkled.When I opened the bathroom door, Ava was sitting up in bed with her phone flashlight on, staring at me like I’d just confessed to a crime.“That’s sus,” she said, voice rough with sleep.I froze with the towel still wrapped around me. “What?”“You bathing at night.” She squinted at me. “You don’t do that.

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