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Blazing Inferno: Step Dad's Mine Chapter Thirty-eight
When Alethia barged into the house angrily, Ethan caught the door in his face. She dropped her bag on the table and crashed on the couch, plaguing her face with all the anger that was ready to burst. Once she turned sharply to look at Ethan, he cringed, afraid she was going to make an outburst. "You know, Ethan. The most annoying thing is that they're both right.""Aleth…" Ethan said. Then he walked slowly towards her and sat beside her on the couch."I know we're walking on a thin thread, and I would have given anything to substitute for this situation. But how could Olivia have said that you and I are wrong?"Ethan breathed deeply. "I'm sure that's not what she meant to say. Maybe it came out wrongly.""Are you going to take her side now?" She adjusted to face him. "Come to think of it, you didn't even say anything while they ranted on."Ethan sighed in exasperation. He drew closer to her and took her left hand into his, then peered into her eyes. "Honey…" he widened his brows, wo
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Alethia went back to her room wondering what had just happened. Why couldn't they have sex when they were already on the verge of it? Why would Ethan give her similar pleasure but keep away from sliding into her when nothing was keeping him from doing so?She laid on her back and breathed deeply. It did feel good though, she thought and smiled widely, then turned to sleep on her side. She curled up to a ball as she reminisced, then rolled to lay on her back again.Alethia rubbed her forefinger gently on her lips and retrospect--the moment his soft yet firm lips pressed against hers and the tip of his tongue slipped across her sensitive lower lip. She breathed deeply as if to let the wave settle in now, so she adjusted, then parted her legs slightly. She smiled widely and swallowed hard as her fingers moved on her legs, then trailed up to her inner thighs. She was warm and wanting. When she felt her fingers on the smooth surface of her wet pantie, she pressed her legs together and bre
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Slow things down with Alethia? That's impossible!"You'd have to try," Segun said. He adjusted on the sofa opposite Ethan and crossed one leg over another. "I love Aleth, okay?" "Of course, you do. Ethan. The more reason you need to try to get this right."Ethan sighed exasperatedly. That's exactly what he's been trying to do for the past few days, but nothing has been easy as thought so. He figured it is only easy to think that something is going to be easy just by thinking about ways to make it easy, but when it comes to it being easy, it becomes a question of whatever one is ready to give up. So, to make the situation he was in easy, he'd have to bolt in a great deal of his feelings for Alethia, because they needed to be careful. But figuring out how to make that happen had only been thoughts he entertained whenever he was alone. Alethia only had to come around for him to forget that their relationship was an unusual one.He rose from the sofa and paced forth and back in his offi
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Alethia moaned deeply with lustful wants. She arched her back and settled her head properly on the arm of the couch, wrapping her legs around his waist. Her body was melting with all the volcanic disaster that Ethan was erupting on her lips, his hands cradling her cheek and neck. The gentle brush of his tongue on her lower lip prompted her to part her lips, and by that a gentle moan escaped her mouth. She raised her lashes and stared faintly into his eyes, then she smiled to herself and urged his body further down so that she felt her nipples poking his chest.When he set her lips free, though she wished he hadn't, she took in a huge gasp of air and swallowed hard. Then she closed her eyes gently as he kissed the freckles on the slope of her neck, making her drowsy with unresolved desires.He was stopping again, restraining himself. Typical of Ethan to leave her stranded each time she felt they could migrate to the next step in their relationship. She breathed deeply and wondered what
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Of all the abuses against women that Ethan hated, sexual abuse topped the poll. And it was the moment the woman mentioned it that Ethan wanted to hit the supposed husband, but he knew best to keep his emotions at bay, and because the man wasn't physically present anyway.The more the woman talked about her husband, the more Ethan hated the idea of him, like he was an utter disgrace to manhood. "Lesser men treat a woman less," his dad would always say. Ethan reckoned that it takes a good father to teach a man how to be a good husband, so Sophia's husband must have had a bad upbringing. But then again he knew that a man is both inherently bad or worse. And though a proper upbringing might help set a man right, as he grows he makes decisions that are dependent on his frame of mind. And it takes the will not to be bad or worse, to be good."Is he cheating on you?" Ethan asked. It was a rhetorical question. Even he could answer that immediately, but when he looked at the woman seated in f
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Ethan would have made a winning plan for the case by now, but divorce was out of his expertise, and he was careful not to leave any side unturned. He rummaged through the litters of files on the bed and picked one, but while he understood the numerous legal terms and statutory offenses as stipulated by law, it didn't change the fact that divorce was out of his jurisdiction. He breathed deeply, feeling stressed already. He hated bringing work home, more so having to work on a Sunday. But the case was two weeks away, and he needed every tick and tock to get ready.He positioned a pillow behind him and reclined on the headboard, his bespectacled face focused on the sheet of paper in his hand. He read a paragraph and sucked his teeth, then he smacked his lips and dropped the sheet.Ethan removed his glasses and rubbed his lid gently. He was glad when a knock landed on the door--he could use the distraction. And when Alethia came in, he figured he could use her company as well."Are you b
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Sophia, are you all right?"She forced a smile on her face and strained as she touched the side of her neck. The nurse who was attending to her was covering a considerable part of her image, but Ethan could see the bulge in her left cheek. "He did this?" He said as he walked across the nurse and stood beside Sophia, then he saw that her right eye was slightly closed with a bulge. Ethan gave an angry sigh and drew back a bit from her."What happened?"Alethia closed the door gently behind her. She still wasn't sure why she had insisted on coming with Ethan, but seeing Sophia in that state gave her a sense of responsibility. Sophia was going to need all the help she could get, and though Alethia wouldn't know how to go about getting her a divorce from her husband, she reasoned that she could support Sophia emotionally. When the nurse was done relieving Sophia a bit from her pain, she excused herself and left the room. Sophia looked outright at Alethia, then he looked at Ethan."Oh, th
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"Ugly things choose to happen to beautiful people?" Alethia couldn't shake the thoughts off her mind. It'd plagued her soul since Ethan worded the phrase. But what bothered her the most was her emphasis on 'choose.' She reckoned that Ethan could have simply said "Ugly things happen to beautiful people," but he'd used 'chose to happen,' and it continued to bother her why.Alethia tossed and turned in bed. The dinner in her stomach didn't seem like it had settled well, and her eyes weren't lusting for the oblivion of sleep. She knew she had to get her answer that night, lest she stay up all night.So she got out of bed and fastened the robe of her nightwear against her waist. By the time she was in the living room, she could hear movements in Ethan's room. She approached and knocked on the door, then she waited for Ethan to open. But when he didn't immediately, she knocked again. She was going to knock the third time when Ethan opened the door, surprisingly in a pair of jean trousers a
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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
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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
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...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
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"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
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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,"
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"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
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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
