Dirty Stepbrother (Part One) by Harper James

Author:Harper James [James, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Favor Ford Publishing
Published: 2018-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

Josie

My stepbrother is an asshole.

I mean, he was right. It is insane for us to hook up. It’s even more insane for my first time to be with him. But it’s also what I’ve wanted since I first met him. For a girl who’s had so many fantasies fall flat— having this one yanked out from under me is especially painful. I keep replaying that moment when he changed, when he went from gazing at me like I was the most beautiful thing in the world to gaping like I was some sort of freak show. Was it something to do with my body? The fact that I’m a virgin? Because if his hang-up was truly our by-marriage-only relation, then we wouldn’t have even made it so far as the bedroom, right? It’s not like he suddenly found out, seconds before thrusting into me, that our parents were married.

Between getting mugged and getting turned down flat by my long-time crush— after he initiated the whole freaking thing— suffice it to say that my first night as a New Yorker sucked.

The days that follow are marginally better, I more or less throw myself into unpacking my boxes, buying the last few textbooks I’ll need before classes begin the following Monday, and eavesdropping on my suite mates talking about how insane the whole sorority rush process is. It’s entertaining, but a pretty weighty reminder that while these girls are perfectly nice, I don’t have much in common with them. I don’t have much in common with anyone I’ve come across so far, to be honest; the other third year students have already established their friend groups, and the freshmen are more interested in partying than I am, these days.

I knew it would be like this. Hell, a big part of the reason I transferred was that I wanted to become anonymous, part of the cityscape instead of my mom and stepdad’s secret-keeper. But now that I’ve seen Xander, I want…

Well. I can’t have what I want, apparently, so there’s no point in focusing on it, right?

“How’s your first week going?” my mom asks when she gets me on the phone a few days later.

“Okay,” I say, exhaling. “How are things there?”

“Fine. It’s pretty depressing without you here, though. You know, if you don’t like it come December you can always transfer back—”

“It’ll be fine, Mom,” I say. “Besides, I’m excited for my classes. They don’t teach any magazine writing classes there.”

“Derek says magazines are a dead industry anyway,” my mom replies, and I roll my eyes. Derek is her boss— and the guy she’s sleeping with behind my stepfather’s back— and for a dude I’ve never met, he sure does seem to have a lot of opinions on my decisions.

“Tell Derek I didn’t ask for his opinion,” I answer shortly.

“That’s not very nice,” my mom says. “He’s going through a hard time right now.”

“Because his girlfriend is married?” I ask bluntly.

“Josie!” my mother hisses into the phone. “I told you that in confidence.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.