All Chapters of SINFUL PLEASURES: Short Flithy Stories: Chapter 181 - Chapter 183

Chapter 1Phoebe’s POV“Daddy, this rain turned the whole garden into a mess,” I said, wiping the sweat from my forehead as I knelt down by the flower bed, my knees sinking a little into the soft, muddy soil that still held onto the morning’s downpour even though the summer sun had pushed through the clouds now and started drying things out.Everything felt so heavy and slick under my hands, the weeds tangled up with the roots of the flowers I was trying to save, and I grabbed another handful, pulling hard until they came free with a wet squelch that made my fingers throb from the effort.I glanced up at him standing there nearby, his shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows, dirt smudged across his forearms from helping earlier, and something about the way the sunlight caught on his skin made my stomach twist in a way it shouldn’t, especially not with him being my stepdad and all.He crouched down next to me, close enough that I could smell the earth on him mixed with that faint soap sc

Chapter 1 Sophia’s POVI sat cross legged on my bed with the suitcase cracked open in front of me, pulling out shirts and jeans and stacking them into the dresser like I had done a hundred times before. The house felt the same as always, that faint smell of laundry soap and the low rumble of the television drifting up from downstairs where Mom and Dad had already planted themselves for the night. Three hours of their new show, they had said. Good. I needed the quiet.The door opened without a knock. Ryan stepped in, his chest completely bare, skin still slick from his workout. Sweat rolled down the hard ridges of his stomach in slow, shiny lines, catching the light from my lamp and disappearing right into the waistband of his gray gym shorts.Those shorts sat low, showing the sharp cut of his hips and the trail of dark hair that led lower. His shoulders looked wider than I remembered, arms cut from all the lifting he did now.My stomach flipped hard. That same rush I had been fig