I AM MY STEPBROTHER'S OBSESSION
His eyes darkened as they flicked down to my lips, my heaving chest, the way my legs had parted just a little without me realizing.
“The question,” he said, voice dropping to that dangerous timbre that made my core clench, “is whether I can live with myself if I take you tonight when you’re not sober enough to choose it fully. I already crossed that line once. Seven years ago. I was twenty-seven, telling myself you started it, that you begged so sweetly, that it wasn’t really on me because you wouldn’t stop grinding against me like you were starving. But I was the adult. I let it happen. And it’s haunted me ever since.”
“That’s not the same,” I whispered, but my body betrayed me, leaning for