All Chapters of Dirty Stepbrother: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

"You think I'm stupid?"The words came first, and then his hand landed harshly on my cheek and my back hit the freezer door before my brain caught up… Manager Cole's fingers tight in my collar."I didn't touch the register." My voice came out steady and firm. "I promise you, I wouldn't take your money."Cole's grip tightened. "Six hundred dollars doesn't walk out by itself.""If you don't believe me, then check the cameras.""Check the cameras," Cole mimicked in a high, whiny singsong, and then let go so suddenly that I stumbled. "You think I have time for that? You think you're worth that, you little dick?" I said nothing.Cole pulled the envelope from his back pocket. It was my pay for the week… and he started removing some bills."One fifty," Cole said, stuffing the rest into his own pocket. "Consider the rest interest."My jaw tightened, and the split in my lip from earlier… the one my manager had caused on a different night for another stupid reason… pulled open again. I tasted b

"I will take you home. You're badly injured."I pushed myself up from the pavement I'd been sitting on. Everywhere in my body hurt… my ribs, my elbow, my fucking soul… and I hated that Sebastian seemed to have noticed all of it."What were you doing out here?" I asked. "Following me?""I was leaving." He shrugged. "Saw you run out like your ass was on fire. Wanted to find out what happened.""Nothing happened."Nothing happened. Just twenty minutes ago, I agreed to strip for money. Ten minutes ago, I found out my girlfriend had been playing me for a fool. And now I was standing on a wet street with my stepbrother, injured and bleeding, while the city went on around me like I didn't exist.Why the fuck does my life have to be this way? Why can't it just go normal like everyone else's?"I need to go home," I said."I will take you home. Just let me know the location." He nodded at his car, parked a few feet away from us but closer to the bar. The black Mercedes shone under the streetlig