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Laney
I CAN’T BELIEVE WEjust did that.
I’m drenched in guilt as we make our way back to the cabin. Is Reed going to take one look at us and know exactly what we’ve been doing? What’s he going to say? I remind myself that I’m eighteen, and he can’t tell me what do to, but that doesn’t ease my remorse.
It’s because a part of me knows he should have been there, too.
If anyone is going to be my first, it needs to be him.
I test how that acknowledgement sits with me. He’s my stepfather, if only legally, and I really shouldn’t be thinking about fucking him.
That didn’t stop you from masturbating over one stepbrother and letting another lick you out,a voice says in my head, the tone accusatory.
I think of all the moments I’ve had with Reed, how safe he makes me feel. I picture waking up with his erection pressing against me, and this time, instead of wriggling away, I shift myself into a different position, so I can rub myself up against it.
Instead of the thought filling me with revulsion, that familiar heat builds inside me.
God, what’s happened to me? I’ve gone from an innocent virgin who barely gave a thought to men or sex, to a total nympho who’s imagining getting it on with her stepfather.
“Are-are we going to tell Reed?” I ask as we’re almost at the cabin.
Cade turns to me. “Are you fucking joking?”
I blink. “No. I mean, it doesn’t seem right to have secrets, not in the situation we’re in.”
He gives a cold kind of laugh. “Everyone has secrets.”
“Do they? I don’t.”
“You do now.”
I stare at him and then turn to his brother. “Darius? What do you think?”
“He’ll know,” Darius says.
“So we should tell him?”
“Fuck, no. We deny everything, at least until you can work your magic on him. If you can make him understand how things could be so much better for us all here, then he’ll come around.”
They know Reed far better than I do.
“Okay.” I let out a slow breath. “Okay.”
I’m nervous as I enter the cabin, but at least now I have a bit of a plan forming. Reed can’t be angry with us if he’s involved, too.
Reed is placing wood on the fire, laying smaller sticks diagonally across each other, and larger ones on top. He glances over his shoulder as we enter.
“Thought I was going to have to send a search party out,” he says, half-joking. He sees the three of us, and something flickers in his blue eyes. “Where did you get to?”
I speak hurriedly. “I needed a dunk in the river. Darius came with me to...make sure I was safe.”
“I thought I could use a swim as well,” Cade says. “I was sweaty after the walk.”
Reed doesn’t say anything else, but his gaze darts between us. He can sense something is off, some kind of tension, like electricity sparking through the air between us.
We go about our usual chores. I hang my damp towel on the railing of the porch outside and then use some river water to wash some laundry.
The creak of a floorboard comes behind me, and I turn to find Reed standing there, his hands on his hips, glowering down at me.
