All Chapters of CRAVING MY FORBIDDEN STEPBROTHER: Chapter 41 - Chapter 42

The pool bathroom is small and dark and the door clicks shut and the party disappears.He doesn’t reach for me immediately.That’s the first thing. In every version of this I have run in my head he reaches for me immediately, impatient, certain. Instead he stands in the dark and I can hear him breathing and neither of us moves and the not-moving is its own kind of overwhelming.“You heard all of it,” he says. “Everything I said to her.”“Yes.”A beat.“Good.” Rough. “I want you to have that. I want you to keep it.” His hand finds my jaw in the dark, tilting my face up. “Whatever happens after tonight. I want you to know that was real.”My chest does something I have no name for and don’t want one.His mouth finds mine and this time there is nothing held back in it, nothing performed, nothing managed. It is Cain Russo kissing me like he has been keeping this locked up and has finally stopped arguing with himself. I make a sound against him and his hands pull me closer and I go, I just