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 MoreCARMEN“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
CARMENI couldn’t tell if I wanted to hear the next words that Jasper would say, especially when he looked the way he did – panicked and barely even able to stand on his feet as he attempted to get off the bed.“What…what’s wrong with your mother, Jasper?” I stuttered, my heart thudding faster than I had ever felt it thud before.“Terri told me that she only wanted to make her some soup when she started to have strange seizures,” he reported, placing his phone to his ear as he started to dial a number with the SIM he had gotten from the airport.“Doctor Gerber, I need you to report to my house as soon as you possibly can. My mother is having a strange reaction to something, she’s alone with her caretaker, and I am all the way in Belize to drive her to the hospital by myself,” he said into the phone.In an attempt to calm him down, I headed for him and placed a soothing hand on his shoulder as I whispered calming words to him.“She’s going to be fine,” I gave my words of reassurance, b
CARMENI stayed on the phone with Emily, and the silence passed after what she had just told me. My thoughts went to all of those times that I had seen Jasper inject his mother and how he had assured me that he was just doing his duty.“He can’t kill his mother, Emily. That’s not possible,” I denied with a shake of my head, praying for it to be untrue. If that really were the reason for Terri still being in that house, then what about me? How much danger was I in by living in that house?“I’m not going to argue with you about this, Carmen. My mother has warned me against talking to you about it, but I would really like to be of help in any way that I can. The one thing I can tell you right now is that you’re married to a raging psycho, and I really hope you don’t have an awful confrontation with him,” she said.My eyes trailed over the building for a second, and my body froze as I noticed the silhouette of someone through one of the upstairs windows, looking down at me – Jasper.“I ca
CARMENI stopped in my tracks, turning back to my mother and staring at her in utter disbelief. She stared back at me with pride, as if she had not just told me the worst thing that I could hear from her.“What do you still have the video for? You told me that you deleted it,” I pointed out, my tone holding accusation.“Well, I may have misspoke. Also, I had a suspicion that it could still come in handy sometime soon. I know how much you barely keep to your business, Carmen. This would have happened sooner or later, and it grieves me that it came sooner than I prepared for.”“So it’s true?” I scoffed. “You have been poisoning Steve?”“You wouldn’t understand,” she said and shook her head. “You’re barely twenty. I’m doing everything I can for you, I swear. I fear that the only time you’re going to realize this is when you have succeeded in putting us in trouble, or when I’m dead—”“Stop trying to manipulate me!” I yelled at her, walking back towards her.“Why are you doing this? Do you
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