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Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Epilogue
It's been two months, five days, and eleven hours since Alethia moved in with Ethan. Two months, five days, and eleven hours of carrying more than just his love and the excitement that had known no rest.Alethia leaned on him and took a deep breath to relax her body which had begun to feel heavy just recently. They were sitting on the large couch in the living room, facing the expanse of glass that opened to the garden. The sun was setting ahead, the songbirds chirped with excitement in the garden--Alethia took a deep breath again. Then she reckoned that, while others had dreamt of a life like her own, she was living it. "Are you okay?" Ethan demanded."I'm fine, love," she said."Should I get you more water?" he asked, then he attempted to get up from the couch, but Alethia held him down."I'm fine, my love," she said. Then she picked up the glass cup of water on the ottoman upholstered in red in front of the couch. She drank and returned the cup. "See? I'm okay with this.""But I
Last Updated : 2024-03-30Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Prologue
At this point, their desires can’t be tamed.It rained an ocean that night, and there were thunder-claps the sound of a disaster. As usual, it was the two of them at home, and with the fear that they might get swept away before morning, he was literally in front of her door to check up on her -- or so he made himself believe. Or was he suppose to admit that he's had her on his mind all through the day?And he's been on her mind as well, so the sound of his knuckles on the door sprung her up from the bed as if she was called to receive the best gift nature has ever offered. By now she knew how he smelled, and she could perceive his scent even with the door between them.She opened the door with bright eyes, like the moon that seldom graced them that night, putting on her best smile, and he was mesmerized for oblivion.He looked deeply into her blue eyes as his breath swelled in his chest. She'd washed her hair and had it dried, and he loved that they were moist and dark. When she bl
Last Updated : 2023-06-16Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter One
Emily sighed heavily with restless effort as she entered the house. She could leave the house for a whole day and by the time she returned, her daughter would have deafened the neighborhood with her loud music. There had been constant complaints about the way she played the music so loud, whereas Alethia didn't think there was anything wrong with that, so long as she was playing the music in her own house."This weasel!" Emily said as she dropped her bag on the couch and made to head up the parallel concrete stairs, but she rather hit an empty beverage can and halted at the faint sound amidst the sound of the music blaring from her daughter's room.She sighed heavily and looked around, and only then did she realize that the house was in a total mess. There was a great deal of odor wafting from the kitchen, and Emily knew it could only mean that Alethia didn't do the dishes from last night's dinner. "What should I do with this girl?" She asked no one but herself. Alethia had chang
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Emily pulled the door with a creeping feeling. She couldn't place her hands on what was wrong, but she could feel a steering premonition under her clothes, and it left her with goosebumps and her head swelling from overthinking. It was a few minutes past 5 pm by that time and that was approximately an hour earlier. She'd decided on an early closing so that she could find enough time to make amends with her daughter.She stepped into the living room as quietly as the atmosphere permitted that evening. Although she could feel a strange peace, it hit her somehow that such peace had not come without a price. Maybe this was why the neighbors had smiled more widely towards her on her return today.She made to drop her bag without looking, so the sound of its thud on the floor startled her rather from within. "Please, God. Let this not be what I'm thinking." She said and moved around a bit, trying to find a positive ground around the world that had begun to spin beneath her feet. "Al
Last Updated : 2023-06-16Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Three
Alethia swerved quickly to avoid the pole. It'd loomed with a frightening suddenness that almost made her heart jump out of her chest, though she'd been absent-minded, wondering how to approach her mother and what the woman would say on seeing her. She pulled her cardigan more closely to her shoulders -- at least she remembered to take that along with her before she left the house, and the weather was getting colder now. There is something about November that just makes indoors the place to be, and now she was wondering why she'd decided to run away from home in the first place. But if she hadn't met Ethan, she probably would still be wandering around by that time of night. Ethan…Did he exist or was he just a fragment of her imagination? He'd been too real to be her hallucination. Every moment with him, however short, had been right in place, save the moment he disappeared, leaving her to wonder if he was real or if he'd just existed in her thoughts. Alethia took a deep breath. On
Last Updated : 2023-07-28Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Four
"Aleth..." Alethia heard her mother's indistinct voice in her head and halted. Gosh! Why then when she was just about to savor the beautiful-luscious lips hanging atop her face? And of everywhere her mother could be in that moment, why the fuck was she there?For a moment Alethia thought she was dreaming, or maybe she was hearing things. On a whim, she decided to go for the lips again. And again, her mother called.Indeed, she had been dreaming. Alethia woke up to her mother's bright face staring worriedly down at her. She didn't know what to make of her mother's countenance, but it did prepare her for whatever she might have missed."Good morning sunshine," Emily said, kissing her on her forehead.Alethia found the gesture rather meant for kids. She was an adult, and somehow she didn't feel comfortable with her mother's lips on her forehead, especially not when she'd deprived her of the experience she was just about to have in her actual dream. She adjusted on the bed and stretche
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"Aleth! Language, girl…" Emily cautioned.Alethia was staring at him with an undaunted gaze that seemed to challenge him. Gosh, he looked different that night, more so because he was dashing in black denim over a plain white T-shirt and dress pants. His blue eyes were deep and beautiful. His nose pointed out sharply, and he smiled in such a way that made her forget what the hell she was doing there. She could perceive the rich fragrance oozing from his body, making his masculinity relatively present. With all senses beaten out of her, she wanted nothing more than to touch him."So, you're real?" Alethia said, absent-mindedly."Aleth!" Alethia grabbed herself back from obliviousness immediately. She swallowed hard and tried to calm herself, and that reality relayed that the man standing in front of her wasn't the man she could satisfy her desires with. He was to be her stepfather.How the hell did this happen? Alethia stared at her mother for a while, demanding an answer from her, th
Last Updated : 2023-08-04Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Six
It was Saturday.Alethia had enjoyed the peace of Friday night since she'd fallen to obliviousness at the late hours anyway. Nothing was supposed to be special about Saturdays, at least in Alethia's view. She had never thought anything was special about any day. As much as she'd allowed herself to think about this, every day is nothing but the continuous repetition of yesterday. But this Saturday, something was biting her under her dress.Her heart had been thumping fast since daylight streamed in through her blinds, and she'd been doing things she wouldn't normally do -- like arranging her room and dusting her bedside drawer over and again. It was as if she had to do something to keep her mind from continuously going over the fact that Ethan would be coming in during the day, so she had to make an effort to keep herself from thinking about him. "Alethia?" Emily called at the door, startling Alethia out of her thought. Alethia took a deep breath to calm herself. She moved to the door
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It's been two months, five days, and eleven hours since Alethia moved in with Ethan. Two months, five days, and eleven hours of carrying more than just his love and the excitement that had known no rest.Alethia leaned on him and took a deep breath to relax her body which had begun to feel heavy just recently. They were sitting on the large couch in the living room, facing the expanse of glass that opened to the garden. The sun was setting ahead, the songbirds chirped with excitement in the garden--Alethia took a deep breath again. Then she reckoned that, while others had dreamt of a life like her own, she was living it. "Are you okay?" Ethan demanded."I'm fine, love," she said."Should I get you more water?" he asked, then he attempted to get up from the couch, but Alethia held him down."I'm fine, my love," she said. Then she picked up the glass cup of water on the ottoman upholstered in red in front of the couch. She drank and returned the cup. "See? I'm okay with this.""But I
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Sixty
Ethan adjusted to sit properly. "I'm sorry, Emily. I know I should have told you earlier, but-" Emily interrupted."But you didn't, Ethan. You wouldn't have told me if you hadn't mistakenly picked up your call that day, while you, Segun, and Olivia discussed it."Ethan breathed deeply. "I'm sorry."Emily chortled. "Are you? I just can't believe you had gone for my daughter while we were together.""I've loved Alethia longer than I've stayed in this house for," he said and raised his head to look at Emily. She was looking at him strangely, confused, to say the least. "Yes, I met Alethia before you introduced us."Emily scoffed. "I see you're trying to meander your way around this, heh?" "No, I'm not. It's the truth. I surmise she'd left home that night, I helped her out, we felt a connection, and though we didn't express it then. It never left."Emily swallowed. Of course, she remembered the night when Alethia packed her bags and left the house--Emily had been so devastated, more so b
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Fifty-nine
...but Alethia approached him. She moved closer so that the space left between them was so small that it could pass through the eye of a needle, not caring that he was holding his breath and trying so hard not to look at her. She swallowed the saliva that suddenly welled in her mouth, then she held him by his arms stiffened like a rock, and stood on her toes as she placed her lips lightly on his.He didn't respond. He didn't even as much as lower his gaze to look at her. But Alethia knew she'd be able to break him. Firstly she settled back on her feet and took a deep breath, then she stood on her toes again and pressed her lips on his, persistently. She could feel him going numb the more he tried to hold his wit in place, but his lips twitched now, and though he held back immediately, his hands had attempted for her waist. Alethia pressed her body closely to him so that his knees broke and he slumped on the bedside table. He looked sharply into her eyes now, while she held back for
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Fifty-eight
Alethia was staring blankly at the TV. She could barely make out what the presenter was saying, and what relevance the game show was supposed to have with her state of mind. But Olivia had promised that it was necessary, at least to distract Alethia's mind for a while. She looked at Olivia who was sitting opposite. Olivia eyes were fixed on the TV, and she was grinning as if she was the one who needed the moment the most. At a point, she laughed, and then she instinctively turned to look at Alethia, only to raise a brow at Alethia's indifference."Are you okay?" she asked. Alethia shrugged. "Isn't it obvious that I just about exist?""You can live a little as well."She dragged a breath. "You know I find no interest in anything these days. But I'll be fine, okay?"Olivia glimpsed at the TV and sighed wearily. Then she got to her feet and came over to sit beside Alethia. "Should we go out?" Alethia chuckled. "I don't think my mom would love that. She brought you here to babysit me,
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Fifty-seven
Chapter Fifty-sevenThe days didn't just roll away as they should, they dragged slower than a snail, creating longings and weariness as if to punish Ethan, and by the time it was a week, he was regretting his decision to stay away, and because he couldn't just crawl out of nowhere and appear in front of Alethia as if he hadn't made her worry for days. As if he hadn't put her through so much that he could feel would have been unbearable for her. Ethan breathed deeply on one of those beds that wouldn't stop creaking with his weight. He'd rented a room at a remote place to make it impossible for anyone to locate him. The room was small, though it contained three beds and usually gave access to three people at a time, as its purpose was only for people who needed to pass the night. Ethan had had to rent the room all to himself, and the bad condition of the room was a way to punish himself. But he'd learned to make do with the ceiling painted in white because each time he stared at it, ev
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Fifty-six
"Alethia, stop!" Olivia appealed, halting immediately as she got to the last step of the stairs. Apart from the obvious, that the situation was escalating beyond what Alethia might be able to handle afterward, Olivia could feel it in her bones that the danger that loomed above was only hanging loosely and waiting for either Alethia or her mom to cut the tiny rope which was barely holding it in place. But Alethia was too annoyed to stop, and her legs were too ahead of her as if their purpose at that moment was to get her out of the house, away from her mom so that she wouldn't consider going back to do what the evil voice in her head whispered the moment she felt the torrent of her mom's hand on her face. Her hair had bristled when the disaster landed on her face. She would have treated her mom like any other woman, had reality not put them in the same house. And had she not called her 'mom' even in the heat of the dissension? She jerked the door to herself and thundered out of the h
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Fifty-five
Alethia heard a sharp sound, prompting her fingers away from the keyboard of her laptop as she looked at the door immediately. What was that? She thought as she hesitated to look back at what she was doing on her computer. The sound had been light to be that of thunder, but it had been loud enough to shake something in her for worries. She got out of bed and removed her glasses, then she dropped them blindly on the bedside table. She approached the door gently, taking her time should the sound come again and it was nothing. But nothing came. All she could hear when she got closer to the door was the spiteful voice of her mom. Alethia opened the door and came out. She'd just closed the door behind her and turned around when she saw Ethan crouched, his face clouded with persistent hysteria like that of a man whose glory days had come to an end."Ethan?" she said and headed down the stairs immediately. Emily turned around and stood in her way."Aleth, go back to your room.""No, Mom,"
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Fifty-four
"But first, is Alethia okay?" Segun chuckled. "Of course, that's what you're more concerned about.""She's my friend.""And she created this mess.""No! She didn't," Olivia said and sat right, facing Segun. "She didn't ask for this, okay? Ethan should have handled this better."Ethan scoffed. "Excuse me, I'm here.""No," Segun defended. "Ethan here is the victim. Do you know how hard it is to navigate your feelings for two women?"Olivia laughed. "Who asked him to fall in love with two women? A mother and daughter at that. This wouldn't have happened if he had just stuck to the mother alone."Segun chuckled in disbelief. He drank from his coffee and cleared his throat. "How about the fact that Aleth was in love with him and wanted him for herself as well?"Olivia looked sharply at Ethan. He looked back at Segun and scoffed. "That was supposed to be a secret."Segun shrugged. "You left me with no choice.""Of course, I didn't," she said and reclined in the chair, then sighed in resigna
Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Fifty-three
If anything, the silence that held them in that frozen moment spoke what was more apparent--'stunned'. Alethia's impulsiveness has never been more heart-wrenching than when Emily looked at Ethan's face and saw that should she decide to press further on the allegation, he didn't seem like he was going to deny it. It was true after all--he was cheating on her. She breathed deeply and bit her lower lip. Emily reckoned that she'd have preferred that Ethan had cheated on her by sleeping with just a random woman to having fallen in love with someone else. She wouldn't have decided how they move further from there by his momentarily carnal desire, which she considered only biological for him to satisfy. But how does she move on knowing that Ethan has fallen out of love with her?She looked at his face again, this time looking for a hint of remorse, but rather she met a screaming guilt that made it impossible for him to raise his lashes and look outright at her. Ethan took in a huge gasp o
