Foul Play
But even after that, I stayed glued to the ground, my back against it as I stared at him.
"I was thinking," Kaelen says, sitting up and fixing his gaze on me. "About what you said last night, about how we can't do this and about how I'm your stepbrother."
"Kaelen—"
"We're not really brothers, Leo. Our parents got married, but that doesn't make us family. Even if it does, it's not the way it counts."
"It counts."
"Does it?"
Before I realized, he was standing now and walking toward me. Like some predator who knows its prey has nowhere to run…damn, so I'm prey?