Total pages in book: 23
Estimated words: 22967 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 115(@200wpm)___ 92(@250wpm)___ 77(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 22967 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 115(@200wpm)___ 92(@250wpm)___ 77(@300wpm)
“Oh, that’s wonderful!” Megan says, looking thrilled. “We thought you were going to be at your mother’s this year.”
“This is great news!” Dad says with a big smile. “What a nice surprise!”
I nod my head as I stare at Harmony. “I’m staying right here so I can get to know my new stepsister. I want to know her intimately.”
“We’ll all get to know one another,” Megan says, looking ecstatic. “Ten days of bonding with our new family. It will be so much fun.”
Ten days of living with this beauty. I can’t wait.
I just wish our parents weren’t here to get in the way.
But this large cottage has enough dark corners for us to get lost in.
Dark corners where we can discover just how innocent my new stepsister is…
Chapter Four
Harmony
How’d it go???
Don’t leave me hanging gurl!
was your mom pissed?
Are you sleeping outside??
We worked it out.
I think. I’m still worried she’s a bit mad. I still don’t understand why she had to leave my dad but whatvr.
How’s the new stepbrother??
HOT!!
Don’t even THINK about it!!
August is watching me as I put my phone away. I give him a nervous smile.
“It’s fun that we’ll get to know each other over the holidays,” I say as I take a Christmas tree ornament out of the box. Oooh, I love this one. It’s a frog holding up a peace sign. Its back leg is missing and it doesn’t have much to do with Christmas, but I still love it. “I always wanted a sibling growing up.”
Our parents are in the kitchen cooking dinner while I’m decorating the tree with August.
I’m trying to focus on the task at hand and not on the pounding of my heart from being so close to my hot new stepbrother.
Is it always going to be like this? Will this man always have such a strong effect on me or will we settle into a sibling-type relationship?
I hope it’s the latter, but I can’t imagine seeing this guy and not having all of these naughty thoughts popping into my head.
“Is that what you really want?” August asks as he watches me hook the peace frog onto a branch. “A sibling?”
I can feel my cheeks heating up as I look at him. I think I know what this guy wants, and it’s anything but a platonic step-sibling relationship. With those heated eyes, he looks like he wants to unwrap me right here under the tree.
“What else would we be?” I ask all innocently like I don’t know what he has in mind.
He gives me a sexy wolfish grin as he grabs an ornament out of the box and comes over. I suck in a breath as he leans over me and hooks the blue ball on a branch beside my head.
“We could be so much more,” he says in a deep rumbling voice as he gazes into my eyes. I hold my breath as his heated brown eyes drop to my mouth.
He looks like he’s thinking about kissing me.
My chin tilts up. My lips part.
I’m thinking about him kissing me too.
It’s all I can think about around him.
“Siblings is good for me,” I say as I quickly duck under his big arm and hurry away. I open another large box of ornaments with my heart pounding, keeping the box between us like a shield.
This guy is so hot it’s unnerving. It’s like sharing a room with a wild tiger and trying to act normal.
He’s probably used to girls giving him everything he wants. I bet he’s the kind of guy who takes everything. But I’m the kind of girl who would never give in. I’m the kind of girl who would never submit.
At least, I think I am.
He’s throwing me off. I’m usually way more certain about these kinds of things.
“So, are you taking time off work?” I ask, trying to change the subject to something less sexual.
“Don’t worry, Harmony,” he says. “I’m off. You’ll have me for the entire ten days. All to yourself.”
My eyes snap up to his and my mouth forms a straight line as I glare at him. “Who said I wanted you?”
“Some things don’t have to be said,” he answers with a grin. “Sometimes our bodies do the talking.”
“What’s my body saying now?” I ask I give him the middle finger.
He chuckles.
“Are you seriously trying to flirt with your new stepsister?” I ask, staring at him in disbelief. “Do you have any idea how inappropriate this is?”
“Do you have any idea how fun this could be?”
“Oh yeah,” I say with a roll of my eyes. “So much fun to have our parents realize that their kids are knocking boots under their noses.”
“I like where your mind is at,” he says with a grin. “I can picture you in long leather boots, although I’d much prefer you completely naked.”
My mouth drops open as I stare at him in shock.