Her Fantasy: a dark romance novella by Lauren Biel

Author:Lauren Biel [Biel, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lauren Biel
Published: 2022-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“Yeah, yeah, I know. Dinner at six for Mom’s birthday next week. I’ve had it on the calendar since you mentioned it last time,” I told my brother Mark as I jotted down the time and place. I was absolutely pitiful at keeping up with events in my real life. Reality and fiction blurred too often, but I wasn’t as “unreliable” as my brother claimed. I was just . . . lost in my own mind.

Anna wasn’t my mom, but she was an excellent stepmother and deserved that birthday dinner. Mark also wasn’t my biological brother. My mother died and my father remarried a woman with a son.

It always felt weird to call Mark my brother once we became adults and moved from beneath the same roof. The feelings of sibling familiarity drifted further away the longer we were apart, but the moment I saw him whenever we got back together, all the memories of Christmas mornings and all the trouble we got into as kids rushed back to me and reminded me that he was my brother regardless of the distance.

That’s why the next book made me anxious. A forbidden stepbrother romance. It hit pretty close to home, but it was a trope I was desperate to try, even if I was certain I wouldn’t like it. I wanted to wrap myself in the blanket of a taboo fantasy. I wanted to feel the tug of doing something wrong when it felt so damn right.

I lifted the book. The young, shirtless, tattooed man on the cover intrigued me. Curiosity outweighed the guilt I felt for reading the story after getting off the phone with my stepbrother, and I couldn’t wait any longer to rip into that fantasy.

I took the book to the couch, cracked open the cover, and began to read. While Michael busied himself with the yardwork he loved, I would disappear into a new, exciting world. The curl in my lip shifted to a tilt of my head and then a rise in my eyebrow. Discomfort became comfortable in ways I never expected—ways that made me feel emotions from every direction. I separated my life from the one on the page and let myself slip into the land of taboo romance.

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