All Chapters of Forbidden Desire: Tempted By My Stepbrother: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

DANTE'S POVI watched her as she took glass after glass of the whiskey until she seemed frustrated and dumped the glass, taking a long gulp from the bottle itself. I probably should have stopped her sooner. But I didn’t.I was still trying to figure out how to get us both out of here alive. In the middle of all that chaos, my phone had vanished, either ripped from my pocket in the panic or lost in the crowd. If it were just me, I would be halfway out by now.But with her I had to be more careful. I took a step toward her, just as she raised the bottle again.“That’s enough,” I said, reaching for it.She jerked away, but I was faster. My fingers closed around the neck of the bottle just as she staggered a little, the alcohol and adrenaline finally catching up to her. Her heel caught the edge of the rug and she twisted with a hiss of pain, stumbling into me.I caught her around the waist before she hit the floor. “Careful.”“Don’t touch me,” she snapped, pushing against my chest with bo

AUTUMN'S POVWe remained quiet until Dominic arrived a few minutes later.“Is everyone dead out there?” I asked hastily, but Dominic’s attention wasn’t on me.He was focused on Dante. Something passed between them. Maybe a secret code or message, but I couldn’t tell. I wasn’t part of it.Then they walked to the corner of the room to have a conversation, and that pissed me off. I followed stubbornly.“Give us a moment, Autumn,” Dante told me, sounding as though he was passing a strict warning to a belligerent child.I wasn’t having it.“Why?” I asked, placing my hands on my hips and demanding for an answer.I was still shaken, and I couldn’t get the vision of what just happened out of my head. Before now, I only thought that these kind of things happened only in the movies, but clearly, I had been wrong.Since I took that flight and came down here, everything had changed.This was a different world, and with everything I had experienced since I was forced into this world of blood, ven

DANTE'S POV“He wants what?” I asked in shock.I didn’t think I heard well. Granduncle had to be pulling some of his rare old tricks on me.“Do you even know what you are saying? Is dad aware of this?” I asked further, looking at everyone in the room.“Your father is not reachable right now, and quite frankly, no one is involving a man who has allowed the damn thing called love to wrap his head in a bunch,” granduncle stated.“So what is this meeting about?” I asked, squaring up for the worst, but also knowing that that wasn’t going to happen.“We cannot have another enemy on the account of a woman,” David chipped in.“I really need you to shut the fuck up, David,” I roared at David.He raised his hands in surrender.“Alright,” he said calmly. “You are always defensive when it comes to her,” he added.I ground my teeth in annoyance, barely able to manage my emotions as it was. I wanted to drive a punch into David’s jaw just to remind him that I wasn’t fucking with him.I turned to gra

Autumn“What?!” I exclaimed in shock, unable to hide my shock.Dominic and Camille turned to me in shock. They didn’t know that I had gotten up from the bed and walked closer to them. I bet they would have remained quiet. There was a look of dread in their eyes now that I had found out, especially for Dominic.“Is that why you have been avoiding me?” I asked Dominic.He shook his head.“I haven’t been avoiding you, Autumn. A lot has just been going on, as you can tell,” he stated.But I wasn’t even listening to him. I now understood why Dante came into the room and wouldn’t talk to me. I should be happy, right?This was what I had always wanted; to leave. I had even tried to a couple of times, but it hadn’t worked, and now, the opportunity had presented itself. I should be glad, but then, why wasn’t I? Why was I feeling this deep ache in my chest?In one swift motion, I turned around and faced the door and I exited the room. They already knew that I was going after Dante, and before

AutumnI hadn’t expected to get the message I saw on my screen, and at that very moment, and even though I didn’t save the number, I knew it was him.It was him, goddamn it!I hurried to my room and shut the door firmly. Then dreadfully, I looked at the text again.“You can never get away from me or hide. I will find you, Autumn, I swear it, and when I do, you won’t have a choice.”My hands trembled and I flung the phone on the bed as though it had become too hot for me to hold.Abel, my ex-boyfriend.I blocked his number. Heck, I have blocked about six numbers from him, but he wouldn’t stop. He kept getting new numbers, but I was more worried this time around.Before I travelled down here, I got rid of the old number and bought a new one, because I really wanted to get away from him, so how did he get my new cell number? Something wasn’t right, and it deeply bothered me.Since I got here, I hadn’t even thought about him. I haven’t had the troubling nightmares, but one text and my ent