TEMPTED BY MY STEPSON
he began coolly, “what was so important that you couldn’t wait five minutes?”
Hunter hesitated and I saw it– the pause, the flicker of panic, the scramble behind his eyes as he searched for something believable to say, something that wouldn’t make Christian suspicious.
He had not come in for any urgent reason, he had come in to save me.
Then he spoke. “My birthday."
Christian blinked. “Your what?”
“My twenty-third,” Hunter continued, voice steadying and his confidence building as he went on. “It’s coming up.”
Christian stared at him for a moment, then laughed softly. “You interrupted me for that?”
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