My Wild Stepbrother by Kira Ward

Author:Kira Ward [Ward, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Grace went to class Saturday afternoon, determined to skip Steele’s concert at Spike’s later that night. Since their “date” at the dive bar, she had somehow managed to avoid any further temptation. The car got towed to a shop, and she was busy haggling with the mechanic and getting rides to and from the shop – rides that didn’t involve sexy, handsome, alluring stepbrothers, and for his part, Steele had been secretive and aloof.

As she sat in her last class of the day, Concepts in Design, Grace had little patience for the tedious lecture. She wouldn’t have even been in class if she hadn’t been trying to double up on credits over the summer and get out of the house as often as possible. And now images of her wild, tattooed, bad-boy stepbrother kept battling with her higher learning.

She was glad when the class got out, and she could finally swing by the quad, ordering coffee and a bagel at the Campus Café and eating them slowly on a bench. Campus was deserted this hour, the Café closing shortly after she had placed her order. She watched the baristas drift away in the sunset, chattering about the evening’s plans, shoulder to shoulder with their black and green uniforms still on.

Grace was killing time, in no rush to head home and spend the night listening to her mom and stepdad canoodle in the living room over warm brie and cold duck. The temptation was growing to drift out to Spike’s and try her fake ID, while pretending to ignore her sexy stepbrother and his rock and roll band.

She’d lost most of her friends in the move to Egret Lane, and what few she’d had left already left to go to distant colleges. Like her, they’d been overachievers who’d chosen to stay on at their far flung campuses rather than come home and hang with her all summer. Now she spent most of her days in or out of class, in or out of the house, mostly on her own.

She sighed and scrolled through the movie ticket app on her phone, thinking a solo movie might be in order. There wasn’t much to see, but she figured a bucket of popcorn and some red vines were better than going home so soon.

She finished her bagel and tossed the napkin in the trash on the way back to the student parking lot. There was a flyer on her window, and she was reaching to tear it off when she recognized the picture on the lime green paper as none other than her stepbrother’s. It was a flyer for Steele Falcon’s concert tonight.

Grace resisted the urge to crumple it, and instead left it on the passenger seat as she drove away from school. Smirking to herself, she turned right toward Spike’s, instead of left toward the movie theater, and in doing so gave in to the swirl of excitement that had been fluttering around in her belly all day.

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