Charged: A Stepbrother Romance Novel (With FREE Bonus Novel Heated!) by Stephanie Brother

Author:Stephanie Brother [Brother, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01D3N6EGY
Published: 2016-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

In 2006, when Sash was eleven, her father and mother sat her down, and told her they were getting a divorce. Sash remembers the day as though it were yesterday. It's one of several defining moments in her life, which she can picture with crystal clear, almost high-definition clarity. If she closes her eyes, she's there again, sandwiched between her two brothers on the worn leather sofa, her favourite blue dress on, and a glass of water held tightly to her chest as though the thing might run away if she let it.

Sash knew things had been difficult between them, but didn't stop to think for a single moment they'd ever fall out of love. She had school friends whose parents had divorced. She had her older brother telling her exactly what was going to happen, the pair of them sat up night after night listening to the arguments below. Every single sign was pointing to it, but still she didn't want to believe it.

Her mother moved to a new house, and then a new city, and then eventually she moved out of state. Her older brother blamed her father, hated him for what he imagined he'd done, and went wherever she did, until he was old enough to find his own way. Her younger brother was too young to be too far away from his mother, and because of that, his mind was made up for him. Sash was torn between the two. She was closer to her father, but she didn't want to have to choose. She didn't blame either of them for what had happened, and neither of them tried to make her take sides.

Her mother took a temporary apartment up the road, while her dad stayed at home and the house went on the market. Sash decided to stay with him, simply because her brothers didn't. Half a year later the house was sold, her mother and brothers had gone, and Sash and her dad moved to where she would would eventually spend the rest of her childhood. Almost ten years later, she's still only seen them a handful of times since. Her younger brother is at University in Chicago, her older brother an engineer and her mother remarried and spending her time traveling the world. Somewhere, on another side of someone else's life, she apparently has more stepbrothers. The thought sends a chill down her spine.

Sash's dad took the divorce badly. He was always a bigger than average drinker, but in the years that came after Sash's mother left, he took it to a completely new level. For a long time, Sash was too young to realize what was going on. She just didn't have anything else to compare it to. When she was old enough to know that not everyone had a bottle stashed away in the car, to drink every day at work, she knew she had to do something. She tried to get them back together, but her mom had already moved on.

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