Chapter Two

"No," I muttered under my breath as I watched the man that had me screaming in pleasure a few hours ago stand in front of me with a smile on his face. 

"Olivia, don't just stand there, greet them," my mom said violently and I immediately greeted.

"Good morning sir." 

"Oh no, call me Xavier and one day, I hope you will be comfortable enough to call me dad." I could see why my mom had agreed to marry a man she had just met five months ago. 

Just like Daniel, his father was a sight to behold. He had gray hair, a sharp and admirable face and a muscular body. Everything about him looked dream worthy and it all made sense to me. 

"Olivia, why don't you go bring the food from the kitchen? I am sure our guest must be starving." Mom asked and all I could do was nod. 

I was still shocked that I had slept with my step brother. This had to be an abomination and I was sure mom would never forgive me if she found out.

Rushing to the kitchen, I heaved a sigh of relief and I stood there to decide that I would avoid Daniel like the plague itself. But that was short lived because suddenly, I heard his voice 

"So your name is Olivia? Wow, God does answer prayers." He said and I turned to see him smiling. His smile had the same effect as it did on me at the bar but I knew I couldn't do anything with this man. He was my step brother!

"What are you talking about?" I asked. 

"Well, you left before I could even get to know your name and I prayed that God should allow me to meet you again and now He has. What do you say we pick up from where we left off or should we wait till we are alone in our penthouse?" He said moving closer to me.

It took everything in me to push him off . "Have you gone nuts?! Did you not hear my mother introduce you as my step brother and you still want to take off from where we left off?"

I was applauded by his behavior but immediately sensed that he would be a trouble maker. 

"Look, I don't care. And I have a feeling that you don't either!" 

"Well I do. So do me a favor and stay far away from me!" I warned him sternly and dashed out of the kitchen. 

"You can't stay away from me darling!" He echoed behind me as I ran to my room. 

Mom followed me to my room and she made it perfectly clear to me that she can't do anything about it because my step father was the one paying for it and she could not afford to pay for a different accomodation for me. 

I felt awful that day, not because I would be stuck with the most annoying person for four years in the same penthouse but because I would be stuck with someone that my heart constantly yearned for. 

***

I have always been the kind of student to read ahead of my classes, and tomorrow, I will be having my first class in college. I had a lot of topics to cover, and I immersed myself in my books. 

I was so drawn and captivated by what I was reading that I almost did not hear the moaning coming from outside my door. 

Almost.

At first, I shrugged it off. "It's probably my annoying step brother watching his 18+ rated movie in the highest volume to annoy me," I said to myself. 

But the more I tried to focus on what I was reading, the more I heard the moans and loud music coming from outside my door. Tired and curious to know what was happening, I stood up from my bed and opened my door. And that was when my eyes saw the most horrific sight ever. 

Right outside my door, a half-naked girl was kissing a guy and having her nipples played with. 

"Argh!" I screamed, but they could not hear me over the loud music that they were playing. 

At that point, my brain did not remember that the doors in the penthouse were soundproof, and that was why I couldn't hear them before. All it wanted was to get away from the sight in front of me. 

I moved hastily to my left, and I saw a girl bent over my couch and sucking on a guy's dick. 

Everywhere I turned, my eyes feasted on some horrible sight. At that moment, I knew that my stepbrother was throwing a sex party. 

Filled with anger and rage at the sex party and my inability to study because of their loud music, I huffed into my stepbrother's room, screaming his name. 

"Daniel!" I screamed as I barged into his room, which was open. I couldn't see my face, but by the pounding of my heart and my folded fist, I knew that I was boiling red. 

"Daniel!" I screamed again, and that was when I saw him sitting at the edge of his bed with a blonde girl kneeling in front of him, sucking his life out of his dick. 

I stared at him in horror and I felt my heart break. I looked at the girl kneeling next to him with disgust and jealousy and I wished that I was her giving my step brother such pleasure. 

Tearing my eyes from the sight I knew would give me nightmares at night, I looked for the source of the loud metal music that was playing in the whole house. Once I saw it, I marched towards it with rage and plugged it out from its socket. 

The loud music stopped immediately, and I turned around to the crowd who was now staring at me and screamed, "Get out!" 

But my little show of anger was met with laughter instead of fear that I had expected. 

"Who the fuck is this little witch?" One of his guests said. 

"I am the girl who has been trying to study for hours but can't because of your loud music and your sex party. You know, you should all be ashamed of yourself, but if you don't want to make anything out of your miserable life, then don't drag me down with you." I said with so much anger.

"You little slut!" I could see her fuming with anger and then suddenly, the girl I was addressing raised her hand at me with the intention of slapping me, but her hand was caught mid-air by my stepbrother. 

"Don't you dare slap..." 

Before he could complete his sentence, a girl, who I believe to be the friend of the one who tried to slap me, pushed me, and I fell on a glass table, shattering it. 

"Are you out of your mind?!" Daniel said angrily, his fist folded. 

"You know what? That's it! All of you, out now!" He said authoritatively and my heart skipped a beat at how he was defending me. 

"What?" His crowd murmured.

"Did I stutter?! I said you should all get out!" He repeated himself angrily, and I watched with happiness as they all left the penthouse one after the other. 

Suddenly, he turned to me and raised his eyebrows. "You too," he said, and I staggered to get up from the floor. I felt a sudden urge to grab him and kiss him but I just rolled my eyes as I tried tirelessly to remind myself that he is my brother. 

"You know you should be ashamed of yourself for throwing a party like this in the middle of the night!" I said boldly, ignoring the pain I felt in my ribs. 

I put all my courage and looked directly into his brown eyes, It was enchanting and if possible, I could stare at them for eternity. I pushed my thoughts away when he pulled me by my hand closer to him. 

"Look, I really don't have the strength for your lecturers right now, and yes," he said. I couldn’t stop but notice his bare chest, and muscles like my fingers wanted to run from his chest to his navel. 

"If you want, you can pay me for the table you have spoiled." he shot back in a husky voice, and shivers ran down my spine as he caged me into the wall. 

I looked at him as my heart was racing and I stuttered, "y-y-yo have g-g-got to be j-j-joking."

"Come on now," he said and leaned in closer to me till our lips were almost touching. "Because it's you, I will even collect kind." His lips were so close to mine and I froze, not knowing what to do but Daniel was a master at it and before I knew what was happening, he leaned into me and my eyes widened. 

"Olivia," my name fell off like honey from his mouth and somehow, the image of another woman on top of him flashed through my mind and I quickly pushed him off. 

"No!" I screamed at a shocked Daniel as I took my heels and ran to my room. 

As soon as I got to my room, I shut the door and placed my hand over my heart to control my breathing. 

Suddenly, my eyes strained towards my bed and I saw what looked like a note on top of it. Immediately, I got shivers down my spine because I knew how badly I hated reading on my bed, so I knew that I was not the one who dropped it. 

Slowly I approached the note with caution, picked it up with shaking hands and saw a cryptic message: 

"This is just the beginning. Beware of the shadows that linger." 

Attached to the note was a picture of Daniel and I laying naked on the bed.