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I’ve just been blindsided over and over and he’s enjoying this. The asshole.
My heart sinks as something Dad says floats back to me. I’ll have a brother.
Bennett is now my brother. I feel the color drain from my face, and I wish I could make a run for it. From the hopeful look my dad is giving me, I can’t make myself scarce.
I swallow down my need to escape and my pride. “Hello, Bennett,” I force past my lips and steel myself for the most awkward night of my life.
Well, at least until they move in. This is going to be hell, I already know.
Just one more year and then you won’t have to deal with it anymore. You can go anywhere you want.
I can keep my head down and protect my heart and self-esteem for a year. I think. I hope. From the cold malice in Bennett’s eyes as he looks me up and down, I have my doubts, but I don’t really have a choice at this point.
CHAPTER 2
BACK THEN – HIGH SCHOOL
BENNETT
Ever since Mom told me she was dating a new guy I’ve been dreading today. Move in day. It means that my life is being disrupted. Again. It’s not the first time and I was hoping Mom would stay single until I could get out of high school and could figure out my own shit.
I should have known luck wasn’t going to be on my side.
I know Mom means well. She’s been looking for a better life for us most of my life. She can be such a strong woman in so many ways, but she’s also desperate for love. Usually, she turns herself into someone she’s not to make a man fall in love with her. This is the first relationship she’s been in when she’s been more herself than pretending to be whoever she thinks her new man wants.
It’s been refreshing and scary as fuck.
I knew Jerry had a daughter who was around my age, but I was not prepared to see Evelyn the other night. I’m not sure how I’ll survive living with the girl who has haunted my dreams for years. We’re moving into Jerry’s house today, which makes sense, I guess, considering the couple eloped.
It was clear Evelyn had the whole thing sprung on her, including me. It was written all over her face. Her expressive face.
She’s never able to hide how she’s feeling, and I’ve taken advantage of it time and time again. Does that make me a bad guy? Probably, but I don’t really care.
She’s an easy target since she wears her heart on her sleeve.
I always feel something like a high whenever I’ve hurt Evelyn’s feelings in the past. Part of me recoils every time I do it, the part of me that wants Evelyn in my arms while I whisper in her ear all the things I want to do to her sexy as fuck curvy body. I’ve fought against those needs because she’s a class act and I know I’ll just cover her with my grime.
It pisses me off and I lash out because I can’t have what I want—her.
Now, I’m technically her brother and she’s even more forbidden and unattainable than she was.
It’s killing me. I can’t even find solace in the fact that at least I’ll be close to her. I don’t want to be close to her this way.
It’s a damn good thing Mom seems happy with Jerry or else this whole situation would be so much worse. Maybe this is the relationship that will take. I have my doubts, but I suppose anything is possible.
I put the last box in the moving truck and look back to see my mom walking out of our rundown apartment building. She looks out of place now with the expensive purse slung over her shoulder. It was a gift from Jerry, and she loves the damn thing.
A fucking purse. One where you take one look at it and know that it cost some ridiculous amount of money. The kind of money someone who has been worried about paying rent before shouldn’t indulge in.
Yet here she is.
My lip curls up, but I fight against the stinging words I want to throw at her. She probably thinks she’s helping me and that this is the solution to all our problems.
It’s not like I’m going to suddenly do better in school or give a shit about anything. I’m not going to stop working in the garage where I got a job almost two years ago. I need that fucking job. It’s the only thing keeping me sane.
I need a lot more than the job to keep my shit together now that I’m going to be near Evelyn all the time.
She is temptation wrapped up in sin with the hips to prove it. A vision of me grabbing her luscious hips as I slam my cock into her from behind has me reaching for the side of the truck to keep me steady. Yeah, that shit isn’t going to happen. She’s my sister now.
