My Stepbrother's Lust
Alex says slowly, and I just want to fucking disappear and leave this family to its rot, then I turn my neck and see her.
My mother.
Grace Donovan…or Cross. Whichever the fuck.
She stands in the doorway but doesn't come in, just rests her head against the frame and stares through dim eyes at her failure of a daughter who can't do anything right.
Does she know too? Do they all know?
“You know what's funny?” Sloane asks, choking out a bitter laugh as she turns to Cassian,
“I was going to say no. I mean…I'm pregnant. I can't work,” her breath hitches, “I'm fat, and I cry all the time…I would be a corporate nightmare. But to hear YOU say no?”