StepBrother: New Rules (Stepbrother Romance) Read Free Page B

pressure, Will. I’ll tell her when I’m ready. Why can’t you just let me enjoy being with you? Isn’t that enough? If I tell Mom, it’ll make everything complicated. She’ll want to interfere, and it’ll fuck everything up.”
    William took a deep breath. “You know, at some point, you’re going to have to grow up and be ready to move out of your mother’s shadow.”
    Evelyn studied him, trying to decide if she wanted to blast him for suggesting she grow up or if she wanted to really think about what he’d said. She decided on neither option. “You’re probably right, but today is not that day. I want to eat, and I want you to take me to bed and fuck my brains out. Can you do that, or would you rather argue?”
    “Well, given those options, I’d like to eat this delicious dinner and take you to bed and fuck your brains out.”
    “Perfect. We agree.”
    Evelyn sat back down, and the pair watched the rest of the MMA fight while eating in silence. When the fight was over, Evelyn stood up.
    “I’ll clean up since you cooked.”
    William didn’t protest, and she realized she’d been far bitchier than he’d deserved. She knew he was right—at least to a certain extent. She should be able to be open and honest with her mother. Her mother should love Evelyn for the person she was, rather than trying to mold her into a younger version of Ella. Evelyn was afraid. It was that simple. She was afraid her mother would be horrified and reject her—politely, of course—if she knew Evelyn wanted to physically fight another woman. And she had no idea how Ella would feel about her daughter dating the son of the man Ella had been spending time with.
    She was scared, and she didn’t want to risk her relatively comfortable life. As she loaded the last of the dishes into the dishwasher and hand dried her mother’s good knives, Evelyn made up her mind. William was just going to have to trust her. If he wanted to be with Evelyn, he’d have to let her handle her mother in her own way.
    She walked back into the living room to find William running through his emails.
    “Can I talk you into bed?” she asked, batting her eyes.
    “You don’t even have to try,” he answered.
    As he stood up and pressed her against the wall, the warmth of his body against hers wiping any negative thoughts away, she opened her mouth to his insistent kiss. He pulled back, and she opened her eyes, curious why he had stopped.
    “What’s wrong?”
    William laughed. “So, your mom is out with my dad, and she’s not coming home. Wonder what they’re doing right now.”
    “Ugh, quit it. I do not want to think about our parents having sex.”
    “I wonder if they’d be doing it if they knew what their kids were up to … together. I wonder if they know I’m going to slide my hand underneath your shirt and caress your perfect tits.” William’s hands did just what his words had described. “Or if they know I’m going to unbutton your jeans, right here in the living room.”
    “Oh, stop, Will.”
    He paused while lowering her zipper. “Okay, if you really don’t want me to undress you, I guess I’ll stop. That’s going to make it harder for me to get in your pants, though.”
    Evelyn couldn’t help but laugh, and as she realized that William’s irreverence was one of the things she liked most about him, all the worries from their disagreement fled from her mind. She reached out and ran her fingers over the beginnings of an erection she could see through his jeans.
    “I just don’t want to be standing here naked if you still have all your clothes on.” She hooked her fingers through his belt loops and pulled his hips toward hers. “Take me to bed,” she whispered.
    He picked her up, and she wrapped her legs around him, kissing him as he managed to turn off the living room light and take her down the hall to her bedroom.
    ***
    When Evelyn opened her eyes, she was surprised to see the bright sunshine filtering through the curtains