Owning My Stepfather:A Forbidden Romance
Can we coexist, William? Or is one of us eventually going to have to leave for the other to stay?"
"I don't plan for anyone leaving. Not unless we're all going.," I said.
"You don't plan for anything you can't control," Elias countered.
He reached out, his hand hovering near the sleeve of my sweater before he actually touched it. His fingers gripped the wool, his knuckles brushing the skin of my forearm. "What happened in 2018, William?” He asked softly.
“A small cottage in upstate New York. Bought and sold in six months. No profit. No record of who stayed there."
I felt the blood drain from my face. My hand moved instinctively, catching his wrist, my grip tighter than I intended.
"Stop digging," I hissed, my voice a low, lethal vibration.
"You’re hurting me," Elias whispered, but he didn't pull away. He leaned in, his eyes wide and dark, searching mine.
"Tell me what was there, Will. Tell me who you were before you married my mother."
"There was nothing in the cottage." I said, my heart hammering a frantic rhythm. I released his wrist, my hand shaking as I pulled it back. "Tell your friend to stop. Now."
Elias looked at his wrist, the red marks of my fingers already beginning to bloom against his pale skin. He didn't look angry. He looked... fascinated.
"So you can lose control" he breathed, a slow, triumphant smile spreading across his face. "You're just a man good at maintaining it." His eyes were wide with interest.
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After his father's death and the mother remarried three months later, Elias is furious and out for revenge.
As he digs into his stepfather's secrets,he finds some he can use against him and some that makes him confused about his feelings towards him.