All Chapters of More Than Just Her Stepfather: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

An hour later we were walking out of the precinct with Jon, Caroline, and Jenny by our sides. The police had kept Candice in custody, not that I was surprised in the slightest. She had been busted trying to sell Jenny to me, and that poor girl was very obviously traumatised. Between that and what Jenny told the police, I had no doubt that Candice wouldn’t be seeing the light of day any time soon. Nor did she deserve to. We stopped beside my car, and Naomi immediately pulled away from me to wrap her arms around Jenny when she burst into tears. I swallowed hard as she clung to Naomi, who gave me a worried look, silently begging me to do something.“Jenny?” I called softly. “Would it help if you stayed with Naomi tonight?”Jenny turned her attention to me, and I instantly wanted to go back inside to throttle the bitch that had the nerve to hurt her in such a way. “Y-yes,” Jenny sniffled.I nodded. “Caroline and Jon will take you to our house. We can spend the night in the cottage behind

RipAfter getting ready for work, I met Jon in the kitchen of the main house so we could walk back to the cottage, chatting about the day’s scheduled meetings. As soon as we rounded the last corner of the small path and saw a newly arrived familiar car, I took off sprinting toward the smaller building, my heart racing like a gazelle being hunted by a pride of lions. Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! What in the hell was Ryan doing there? And why hadn’t anyone told me that he was coming over? I wouldn’t have left to get ready. Fuck!As much as I liked the boy and knew he would be an amazing partner for some woman, I didn’t want him to even have a chance at being the man for Naomi. I barrelled inside, immediately drawing up short when I found Naomi sitting on the couch with Jenny and Becky playing in her hair, while Ryan sat close to them, talking animatedly with the younger girls about Naomi’s hair. My heart sank lower than my feet, and I was absolutely crushed to see how amused they all were wi

After Rip left to take Becky home, I sat on the front porch for three hours, waiting for him to get home, while I thought about the last 48 hours. Don’t get me wrong, they were wonderful, but they weren’t at the same time. Rip had been so loving and attentive toward Becky that it made my heart ache for what could be, while at the same time barely acknowledging that I existed. To say that it hurt would be an understatement. I had no clue what had upset him, but I desperately needed to get to the bottom of it, and soon.I didn’t want to keep living like this. Waking up alone in his bed, picking Becky up, only to have him be all about her the entire day until he took her back to the orphanage, and then disappeared for the rest of the night. I didn’t know what to think. Hell, I didn’t even know if he had changed his mind about us, but I deserved to know. Maybe he realized that I was too young for him, and was trying to tell me that he didn’t want to be with me. Or maybe he thought being wi

I ran a finger from her ankle up to her knee, pausing for a moment to relish in the fact that she was laid almost completely bare in front of me again. Truth be told, it had been hard to keep my hands off of her, even though I knew I needed to prove a lot to her, but right now I wasn’t going to think about that. I just wanted to have tonight with her. I wanted to remind her and myself that our relationship had a lot of everything. Our emotional connection was the deepest one I ever had, and our physical one was more than a little explosive.“Rip?” she called breathlessly. “Are you okay?”“Hmm? Yes, I am. I was just thinking,” I answered as I trailed my finger lightly up her thigh to flick her clit, causing her to shudder.“About what?” she moaned.“How perfect you are,” I told her as I leaned forward to inhale her scent directly from her core.Fuck, she smelled good. She smelled like mine. God, she was amazing. She settled back against the mattress, shifting closer to the edge of the

“How was your day, handsome?” I practically purred as I ran my fingers through his hair as he carried me toward the house.“It was boring,” he chuckled as he glanced down at me. “How was yours?”“I’m exhausted. Last night wore me out, and then I have been on the move since I woke up. I don’t know how you do this, Rip. Making love all night and then working all day,” I answered. When he didn’t respond, I narrowed my eyes on him. “What?”“Nothing, Nomes. I didn’t mean to make you tired all day,” he replied softly as he deposited me on his bed.I got up and made my way over to where he stood in front of his dresser, rummaging through it. I ran my hands up his back to wrap my arms around his neck.“Rip,” I called softly. “What’s wrong?”“Nothing, sweetheart.”I pulled back. “I thought we weren’t going to hide anything from each other anymore.”He sighed as he turned around to take me into his arms, pulling me tight against his body. “Nothing’s wrong, baby. I promise. I’m just upset at mys