LOGINSophie Steele swore she would never come back.Seven years ago, she walked away from the Steele family, from the man who was her mate, from a bond she refused to accept. She built a new life, far from everything that once had the power to break her.Now she is back for one reason only. A funeral.One night. One goodbye. Then she leaves again.That was the plan.Until Dominic Steele walks back into her life like those seven years never happened.He is stronger and colder now. And the moment he looks at her, her wolf knows what she has been trying to forget.The bond is not dead.It never was.The silence becomes uncontrollable as old feelings return. Old wounds open. And the pull between them burns hotter than before.Sophie wants to leave.Dominic is not letting her go.Because there is one truth she has hidden for seven years.A truth that will change everything.He looks at her and asks the one question she cannot run away ftom.Where is my son?
View MoreSophie Steele POV.
“Oh! Oh! Ohmmmm, yes. Fuck me. Please."
Who knew things would spiral this fast? Well it's another Friday night and I'm in my home, the weight of not having a functional social life crushing on me like a wave that doesn't quite know what to do with itself. At nineteen it's not totally unusual to be home on the weekend with no one to talk to, more homework than you deserve and an irrational fear of the coming Monday.
What is unexpected though is the sound of your bathroom door clicking open while you're touching yourself. Why? Because you know your socialite mother is attending some new event to boost her social capital and get “investors" for her crazy business ideas. Your new stepfather is working late, trying to seal an important collaboration deal... So you're alone… with the hot stepbrother you just met a month ago and have been avoiding like a death sentence because the first time you saw him you felt something you shouldn't have– desire, a strange yet deep yearning you don't even understand.
So imagine him pushing your bathroom door open right as you're rubbing your clit to an image of him in your head and the first thing he says upon seeing you is a low "fuuuck.”
But would I blame him for having barged in? My noise must have drawn his attention. If only I had kept my damn mouth shut, locked my bedroom door– why the hell did I leave it ajar?– or maybe even decided not to play with myself in the first place. This wouldn't have happened. He's my step brother for goodness sake.
Yet the problem is beyond the fact that he is here. It’s that he isn't really reacting. Yet…
If it had been my mother that had burst in like this at least she would have screamed at me and talked about how much of a disgrace I am to her, like the way I came into her life wasn't bad enough– out of wedlock. I could deal with that. My stepfather? He would pretend he didn't see anything and ask my mother to handle it which would lead us back to Scenario One. But a stepbrother you've been crushing on since the first time you saw him though… I expect him to just ahem his way out of this one– avert his gaze, tell me why he's here and then escape as quickly as he came in. But no, this step brother comes even closer and I swear I grow wetter by the moment at his approach. I forget for a moment that I am covered in nothing but foam from my bath, one finger stroking vigorously in the space between the petals of my clit. Soon another whine is escaping my lips, stifled yet audible.
It takes me a moment to realize that I hadn't even let out an ordinary moan. No, it had come with a name. His. And now the secret is out in the open. He knows that he's the one in my head.
“Sophie,"
Dominic says quietly.But I just hum in response.
“Say it again."
“No," I shake my head for emphasis."No.”
“Say it."It sounds so hoarse and breathy that for a second I wonder if this feeling– frustration as punishing as this– is mutual.
"Dom,” I finally whisper, looking timidly at him through soaked lashes.
In a flash he closes the distance between us and joins me in the spray, not pausing to even take his clothes off. Soon he's all I see, chiseled, angular jaw and eyes that would undo any woman taking up all the space in my vision. Then hands… everywhere. Cupping my face, caressing my breasts, palming my ass, squeezing, pulling me closer so that I can feel how hard he is for me– odd, quiet and boring little me making him so aroused. I'm literally on cloud nine because here is a guy who always went out with the classiest chicks in school– high profile girls whose families make the kind of money that would terrify anyone.
Obviously he never really noticed me and in fact has been living with me in this house like I was a ghost. Now I'm making him feel things. Dangerous, wicked things. How… flattering.
Yet it goes beyond that to the pure, naked ecstasy simmering between us; how thoughtless and reckless this whole thing feels. The high alone is well on its way to making me orgasm.
But I need more.
One look at Big Brother and I know he's going to give it to me. His eyes promise me sin, ruin and everything in between– no preamble, no justification, just raw heat rolling off him and into me like a vengeful storm. Before I can even make sense of what is going on his shirt is off, a drenched mess at our feet and rows of toned muscle pulsing with an otherworldly energy slide into my view. Soon he has my back to the tiled wall as his lips take mine at an angle and mould against them until my own name becomes a distant memory in my brain.
I forget the fact that I am currently making out with my own step brother and we're both naked in my bathroom. Guilt is a mile away at this point. All that I feel is sweet, undiluted pleasure– I'm dripping in ways that have nothing to do with the shower overhead and it is absolute euphoria; incomprehensible bliss that tingles along the roots of my hair.
My wolf only has to whisper “Mate,” just once for it all to make sense. Everything– the way I am unraveling like a dirty secret under Dom's skilled hands; how it seems like my center of gravity shifts every time I set my eyes on him and my legs feel like they can't bear my weight anymore.
At the announcement from my wolf my hitherto shut eyes open like a trap door in the dark to find his gaze on me.
He knows. His wolf must have briefed him too. But before I can say anything, ask how on earth the moon goddess could have played such a cruel game with us, he drives his cock inside me and my brain just blanks.
Dominic Steele"Get on a flight," I told Rowan. "Earliest available. Not commercial, take the charter.""Already looking," Rowan replied. "There's one out in ninety minutes. I can make it.""Take it." I was already at the desk, pulling up the council contact list on my laptop, one hand on the phone, the other moving through files. "The photograph at the front desk. Did Miriam describe whoever left it?""The staff at the desk said it was a courier. Uniformed, had a delivery log. It looked completely legitimate.""Which means it was arranged in advance," I said. "Before Miriam moved. Someone had the secondary address before we thought they did.""That's what I'm thinking," Rowan said. "Gerald's contact is better than we assessed.""Or Helena gave it to him," I said. "She was at the gate two days ago. She could have had people positioned in LA before she came here."A pause. "That's a longer game than we thought she was playing.""Yes," I said. "Go…Call me when you lan
Sophie Steele"Sophie." Lena's voice came through the door before her knock finished. "Now, please."I was already moving before she pushed the door open, something in her tone cutting through the tired fog of the morning, sharpening everything instantly.She stepped inside, closed the door behind her, phone in hand, screen facing me."Someone made an inquiry this morning," she said, without preamble. "Through a private research service. Background check request on a woman connected to your LA address. Full name, employer registration, current location." She turned the screen fully toward me. "The name they used to identify her was yours. They linked it to an assistant."I stared at the screen. I read it once and read it again."Miriam," I said."Yes.""This came through Gerald's network.""Not directly," Lena replied. "One step removed, same structure he used with Erik. A contact he keeps at a distance so the line stays clean. But the request pattern matches, t
Gerald Steele"It went poorly," Aldric said over the phone, with the tone of a man stating something he considered obvious."It went as it went," I replied. "Which is a different thing."A pause. "Dominic had documentation, Gerald. Payment records, names, dates. He laid it in front of the council like a case file. Castellan looked at me for the rest of that meeting like he was revising thirty years of opinion.""Castellan revising an opinion is not the same as Castellan changing a vote," I said. I was at the desk in the room I used when I stayed at the villa, the door closed, a glass of water untouched beside me. "There is a significant distance between discomfort and action.""Perhaps," Aldric said. "But the motion won't pass now. Not this week. Not with the council in this state.""The formal motion was always one instrument," I said. "Not the only one."Silence on his end. Aldric was old enough, sharp enough, to understand what I meant without requiring elaboration.
Ethan's POV"Miriam," I said, before I even properly opened my eyes. "I had the dream again."I heard her put something down in the kitchen. Her footsteps came across the floor, then she sat on the edge of my bed the way she always did when I had something important to tell her, which meant she was taking it seriously, which was one of the things I liked best about Miriam."Tell me," she said.I sat up. My pyjamas had twisted around in the night, the way they did when I moved a lot in my sleep, which Miriam said meant I was dreaming very hard, which sounded right."The big house," I said. "The one with all the rooms. I was there again.""The same house as before?” "Yes. The grey walls. The big windows. The garden outside that goes on for ages." I pulled my knees up to my chest, thinking about it carefully, because the dream had felt important in the way some dreams felt important and I wanted to describe it correctly. "But this time I went into the forest."Miriam w
Dominic Steele"You need to hear all of it," I said, closing the study door behind her. "Not the version that makes it easier to sit with. All of it."Sophie stood near the desk, arms crossed, already braced for something. She had that stillness she wore when she was preparing to
Vivienne Steele"Close the door, Gerald."He did, then turned from the door with the ease of a man who had never once in his life walked into a room and felt unwelcome in it. He looked at me across Richard's study, took in the fact that I was seated behind Richard's desk, not in fron
Dominic Steele"Helena Voss," Lena repeated over the phone, her voice stripped of everything except information. "The car is registered to a property holding company she set up six years ago. It's her current legal name, her current address in the registration. She's been using
Sophie Steele"Mummy!"The voice came through before I'd even gotten the phone fully to my ear, loud enough that I had to adjust my grip, loud enough that I felt the sound land somewhere warm in my chest before I'd processed a single word."Hi, baby." I stepped further into the garde
Welcome to GoodNovel world of fiction. If you like this novel, or you are an idealist hoping to explore a perfect world, and also want to become an original novel author online to increase income, you can join our family to read or create various types of books, such as romance novel, epic reading, werewolf novel, fantasy novel, history novel and so on. If you are a reader, high quality novels can be selected here. If you are an author, you can obtain more inspiration from others to create more brilliant works, what's more, your works on our platform will catch more attention and win more admiration from readers.