Wanting: Forbidden Obsession Duet 1 by Lynn Burke

Author:Lynn Burke [Burke, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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I refused to attend dinner, not that I even knew if our so-called family sat down to one.

Lloyd came knocking at my door around bedtime, but I told him I didn’t want to talk. He left me alone without argument. Gideon didn’t knock, not that I’d expected him to, but I wouldn’t have spoken with him either.

He showered while I plugged my ears, and eventually the house rested quietly.

The opposite of my mind.

I’d enjoyed being held by my stepbrother way too much. At first, I’d soaked in the warmth, the comfort of a male hug I hadn’t had since…I couldn’t remember. The memory of my father’s arms hadn’t carried through the years, and I ended up crying against Gideon more over that fact than the way my mother had hurt me yet again.

But then he had to go and get hard and start spewing sick shit.

Which you actually liked.

“Ugh!” I punched my pillow and curled into a ball, aroused and revulsed at the same time.

Hours passed, but I couldn’t sleep. Without a phone, I couldn’t call Jenny to unload and at least hear some verbal comfort. Mother didn’t allow me a laptop in my room after I finished homework, so communication fell short in that area too.

I had nothing.

No one.

And it sucked big balls. Hairy ones like on that goat Jenny and I had giggles over at the farm we’d visited for a field trip in the fifth grade.

Acid seemed to eat away at my stomach, and a little after one in the morning, I decided to sneak downstairs and get something to help ease the ache. I hadn’t eaten since lunch, and between the gut-twisting bullshit with my mother and the unwanted way my body reacted to Gideon and his brutal truth bombs, it was no wonder my stomach complained.

A buttery bagel sounded divine, so that was what I crept around the kitchen for, taking care to make as little noise as possible.

The light flicked on at the same time the toaster popped up my snack, and I let out a muffled shriek around my hand.

Lloyd stood just inside the kitchen in sleep pants and a t-shirt, his dark hair sticking up.

“What are you doing?” I whispered, glancing beyond him. My stomach hardened over the thought Mother might be behind him.

He ambled into the kitchen—without Mother.

“I’m getting a snack,” he said, opening the fridge door. “Why are you in the kitchen this late at night?”

“Sneaking a snack,” I muttered, placing my toasted bagel onto a small plate, my hand still shaking from the adrenaline rush his sudden arrival caused.

He shut the door without retrieving anything and turned to lean against it, arms crossed. “Why sneaking?”

“Because if Mother knew I was down here,” I said, buttering my bagel, “she’d have a fit and take my phone for another week.”

Lloyd stared at me hard, and even though I expected I sounded like a whining toddler, I didn’t have the energy to give a shit.

I slumped at the table and took a big bite.

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