It has been just a year since my father passed away and my mother has already remarried? How could she be so ready to just move on and start over so soon? Before I could even wrap my mind around her bombshell, another surprise walked through the door, Dave- The nerdy boy in my class who had rescued me from being raped and had fucked the hell out of me on our prom night just weeks earlier, was none other than the handsome son of my mother's new husband who will now be my stepbrother, and the spark between us became a forbidden flame. Passions and betrayals threatened to burn down the fragile ties binding my new family and I realized no one could be trusted. Not my callous mother, not my devilish husband, not my hot and sweet stepbrother, perhaps not even myself. But my troubles are only beginning, as my dangerous attraction to my new stepbrother led to a new heart beating in my tummy. With everything on the line, I had no choice but to try protecting the people I love and reclaim the future stolen from me. After all, I was Carmen Cartier. And I don't back down from a fight.
View MoreCARMENJasper collapsed on my body, rolling over until his back hit the bed and he was facing the ceiling as he took deep and satisfied breaths. I could almost hear the triumphant smile on his face with each breath that he took.“You said you would pull out,” I reminded him, even though I knew it was not going to lead to a place where I would be able to win the argument if it led to it. At the end of the day, he had done what he wanted, and I was the one left to bear it.My neck stung in the spot where he had bitten me on the neck, and it burned as if a fire had been lit on it and I was now living in the aftermath of everything that had happened.“I know, Carmen. I’m sorry,” he apologized, turning over to kiss me on the side of the head, but I was not having any of it, so I sto
CARMEN“Save me,” Jasper’s mother told me before sighing and sinking back into the bed as if nothing had happened. It suddenly felt as if the room had turned fifty times colder, making me completely uneasy.“Mariah?” I called, taking her hand and raising it to my cheeks. “Please just…tell me what exactly it is. I don’t know what exactly I’m supposed to be saving you from. Is it Jasper? Maybe Terri? Is it the drugs you’re taking that make you move once in a while?”There was no reply from her, save for her squeezing my hand to let me know that she was still there and listening to me. I knew it took almost all the energy she had to speak, but I really wished there was more I could work with.I tucked her in properly and walked out of the room, where I found Jasper standing with his back leaned against the wall and his hands folded.“Jasper!” I gasped when my eyes landed on him
CARMEN“I don’t like how you’re staring at me, Jasper,” I expressed cautiously, standing in the spot where I had stopped and going no further. “I thought we already resolved this back at the restaurant.”“No,” he slurred, standing up and staggering towards me, but I stepped away from him with each step he took closer to me. “We’re not done. I told you we would talk about it back at home, remember?”“Please, step back or just stay where you are if you can. You’re drunk, and it makes me uncomfortable and nervous. It’s late at night. We shouldn’t be having a talk like this. When you sleep it all off, we can talk tomorrow,” I suggested calmly, but he didn’t listen to a word that I said.Instead of doing what I had told him to, he walked towards me and trapped me in a hug that smelled of vodka and the perfume that Kate always wore. He grumbled and mumbled, but I
CARMEN“I don’t think we should be doing this, Jasper,” I suggested, pulling the shot of vodka which he held firmly in his hand and refused to let go of until I gave up and took my hand away. “I just don’t think we should be getting drunk. You drove us here, remember?”“Oh, that doesn’t matter much. We can always get a taxi. I can make a call for someone to come over and pick us up if we’re ever too drunk. Besides, I trust that Dave won’t be getting drunk, we can ask him for a lift home. Right, Kate?!” He yelled as he looked at Kate, who barely heard a word that he said.“What? Yes! Oh, absolutely.” She nodded, going back to the cocktail she was having and taking large gulps of it.“Come on, Carmen. It’s your birthday. If you’re sceptical that I’m going to do anything…” He paused as if to read the expression on my face and figure out if that was it. “You don’t trust me.”“Let’s not start this conversation once again, Jasper,” I pleaded.“I’m not going to lay a hand on you, Carmen.” He
CARMEN“Carmen!” Jasper caught me downstairs before I could find a cab and leave for the house. “Carmen, why are you doing this?”“I don’t think you understand this; I don’t like it when you get controlling and manipulative—”“Manipulative?!” He raised his brows in shock at my words. “You’re calling me manipulative? I wanted to apologize and ask you to come back with me since everybody is here for you, and you choose to call me manipulative? When have I ever made you feel that way?”“We shouldn’t be fighting about this out in public,” I said, looking around in worry that we could be found out by strangers and passersby.“Let’s go back upstairs. I’m not going to force you if you don’t want it, of course, but it would really mean the whole world if we celebrated your birthday without a fight. We can do all of this tomorrow. We can talk about India, and we can talk about trusting each other more. You don’t want me sitting there all alone, do you? Besides, your food is there…”I sighed in
ZORA His hand pulled my arms and held them above my head, his eyes staring deep into mine with a teasing glint."My little one needs to learn patience", he repeated in a raspy voice as my unrelenting hunger to be one with him intensified. I could tell he felt the same.With a tone that bordered possession, he whispered, “You’re all mine”I felt my legs grow weak and my lower regions quiver in anticipation of what was to come.His fingernails elongated into claws and he brought them up to my chest, drawing lines across my chest before bringing them down in sharp merciless swipes. I gasped in shock and blinked down to my shredded shirt, the cold air of the room attacking me as the pieces fell off my body and made me bare before him.I felt the claws on my back, sending intense shivers through me as they traced down my back, slow and soft. They stopped on my lower waist and drew small circles on my skin, his lips softly placing kisses on my jugular in a sense a normal Aiden wouldn't but
CARMEN“Is something the matter?” I jumped as Jasper caught me on the way to the bedroom reading the note that came with the plane ticket in shock.“Oh, it’s nothing too serious. I just got a birthday package from this aviation company that I was looking to get into a collaboration with soon, and they want me to test something out for them. It’s fine,” I lied with the fastest thing I could come up with, putting the note out of his sight.“You’re planning a collaboration?” He laughed. “How come you didn’t tell me about it? What aviation company?”“Oh, you wouldn’t know it. We’re working confidentially, so I can’t reveal even the tiniest detail about them until we’re sure about the entire thing.” I waved him off, turning around and making my way to the bedroom.“But I’m your husband. I’m not someone off the street. I’m not going to take your business and talk about it in public when you don’t want me to. Let me see, just to make sure you’re not getting scammed—”“Scammed?” I frowned, fa
CARMEN“How are you feeling?” I asked as I walked into the ward that Dave had been put in. His face was still a bit bloated, but the smile he had on his face was enough for me to figure out that he was doing better and he really had recovered.“Not very great, but not horrible either.” He grunted as he sat up and gestured for me to walk over to him, which I did.“You shouldn’t have sent the doctor to tell Kate not to come, by the way,” I said. “She feels bad now. She thinks you’re angry at her.”“I am,” he confirmed with a nod. “I told her right before that I was not one to—”“You do know that it’s not her fault, right? She did all she could. And her effort to order the separate platter for you shows how much she cares about you,” I lectured, not knowing why he found it funny as he started to chuckle.“You’re a Kate advocate now,” he joked. “Look at you, being all serious about how she cares for me and all.”He placed a chaste kiss on my lips, and I couldn’t help but feel a tug of gui
CARMEN“What the hell is going on?!” I shouted at Kate in panic as the other patrons of the restaurant started to look at us, some of them approaching us and calling to the attention of the people who worked at the restaurant. “You said there wouldn’t be any mistakes!”“That’s what they told me! Someone, please help me get him to a hospital!” Kate yelled, but people were already on it, lifting Dave and listening to different recommendations on the closest hospitals to where we were until they settled for one which was just down the street. “Where the fuck is the manager of this restaurant?!”A middle-aged man with wide eyes and a bald patch in the middle of his head ran towards us, breathing loudly with his mouth open as he scoped out the scene and tried to figure out what had just happened.“I am the manager of this restaurant, and I don’t know what—”“Sir, is this truly how you manage your restaurant?!” Kate snapped at him before he could finish his statement. “I was told after lots
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