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Chapter 25

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He raises an eyebrow, but doesn’t say anything. He’s probably had many guns stuck in his face before. The tension in the room is thick, the muted sound of Kendall’s breathing the only thing breaking the silence.

“This the patient?” he asks, gesturing toward Kendall.

I nod, my throat tight, and Jimmy steps toward her, his leather bag creaking softly as he sets it down. His sharp eyes scan her injuries—the awkward angle of her shoulder, the stark white bandage standing out against her cheekbone like a brand.

“It’s my shoulder,” she says, her voice soft but steady, though I can see the strain behind it.

“And your cheek,” he comments. His voice is calm, almost clinical, as if assessing injuries is as routine as brushing his teeth. “Let’s get that shoulder stabilized, and then we’ll see if you need stitches, yeah?”

Jimmy kneels beside her and takes her left hand gently, his fingers surprisingly delicate for a man who looks like he’s seen his fair share of bar fights. She winces—j
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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 26

    [Kendall]Camden looks at me, shocked, his face paling, and then he just stands up and walks out of the room. He doesn’t say a word to me, and I don’t follow.My head is spinning from the drugs and the trauma and the shock of Jimmy telling me that I’m pregnant.He said there was no way to tell how far along I am without ultrasound equipment, but I haven’t been with anyone else for years, and I know the baby I’m carrying is Camden's. He must know it, too, because he hasn’t questioned me.I was happy at first, almost felt giddy.Jimmy was just looking at me with intense blue eyes.“Are you okay?” he asked.“What?” I felt out of it from the drugs, like this might be a dream I was having.“Do you want to...take care of it? I have my ways,” he said mysteriously, and I shook my head, shocked.“No. No, I want...I want the baby,” I said finally.He nodded. “Then I’ll leave these prenatal vitamins. Take them every day, and do your best to keep things down. I’ll leave some nausea medication, to

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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 27

    [Camden]I wake up with a vicious hangover, the sunlight streaming through the blinds feeling like spears in my eyeballs. My stomach rolls with the whiskey I ingested the night before, and I reach out for Kendall, groaning.She’s not in bed, and I sit up quickly, more pain spearing through my head.“Kendall?”She pops her head into the door. “I’m making pancakes,” she chirps, and I blink, feeling like my eyelids are sticking together.“You are? With one arm?” I ask incredulously.“It is kind of hard,” she admits, laughing a little, and I can’t believe she’s in such good spirits after everything that happened.She’s pregnant. The thought slams into me like a train, and I feel sick all over again, bolting out of bed and barely making it to the bathroom before throwing up in the toilet. I groan and brush my teeth and wash my face before coming out of the bathroom.I head into the kitchen to see Kendall standing there at the sink, washing up the dishes.“I’ll do that,” I mumble. “You shou

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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 28

    KendallA week later, I’m tired of the damn sling I’m wearing and I’m tired of Camden not touching me. I feel a lot better since the doctor gave me the nausea pills, and I stopped taking the other drugs the second day. I’m taking my prenatal vitamins every day, and I’m feeling a hundred times better.I keep telling Camden that, but since Jimmy can’t come out and see me until next week, he won’t give in. It’s driving me crazy, sleeping next to him every night and not being able to be with him. I look at his bare broad back and shoulders, stare at him every night, but there’s nothing I can do about it.I decide to ramp things up a little since Jimmy’s tied up with other emergent situations, and so at dusk, I go skinny dipping in the pool out back.It’s a fancy saltwater one, and it feels good on my injured shoulder, anyway. Camden's out on the terrace, fake-smoking as I call it, and the pool is right nearby, so I know he can see me as I shuck off my dress, throwing it on to the lawn cha

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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 29

    [Camden]I know that I have to talk to someone about Kendall and the baby, that it’s driving me crazy not to have anyone know about it, not to talk to someone.It’s not really like I can call my sister, and it’s not like we’ve ever talked about this kind of thing, so I call Dante.“What’s wrong?” he answers, and I curse myself.I haven’t really talked to him since Jimmy came around, and I haven’t updated him much, either.“Nothing. Sorry, capo,” I mumble. “Just wanted to talk to you.”“What’s going on?” Dante asks.I groan and sigh at the same time. “It’s a long story.”“It sounds like you’re worried sick about something.” He pauses. “Does this have something to do with Kendall?”“You could say that,” I say, looking back toward the closed door. Kendall is still sleeping and I’m standing out in the hallway.“Let’s meet up,” Dante suggests, and I frown.“I can’t leave Kendall alone.”“I didn’t say you’d be leaving her alone. I’ll send Alberto, and you can meet me at that shitty diner up

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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 30

    [Camden]“Shit, I didn’t know it would be that heavy,” he says quietly.“What do you mean?”He shrugs. “I mean, I’ve already put it together that you’re sleeping with her.”“You have?” I gape at him.“Yeah, I mean, please, Camden. She’s exactly your type and you’ve been stuck with her what, month and a half to two months? Of course you’re sleeping with her.”“I hate that you know me so well,” I groan.“But that you’ve knocked her up surprises me,” Dante says, sipping his coffee and wincing. “Yeah, it’s not that great.”I crack a smile. “I didn’t mean to knock her up,” I sigh.“You didn’t use a condom?”I shrug. “Didn’t exactly have time to pick them up on the run from Marco.”“That motherfucker is sneaky,” Dante curses.“Yeah, he is. There’s still no leads?”“Oh, plenty of leads, but none that have panned out.”I order something simple, just a waffle, because I figure they can’t fuck that up much. Dante does the same.We sit there in silence for a moment before Dante speaks.“You know

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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 31

    [Kendall]Alberto and I play cards and sign while we’re playing.First, we talk about Marco.“We’re doing everything we can to find him,” he signs.“I know,” I sign back.“He’s like a ghost,” he comments, and I nod in agreement. It doesn’t take long for him to win three hands in a row and I curse out loud.He grins at me, gesturing to the cards as if to say we should play something else.I shake my head, and he looks at me for a long moment.“Do you have brothers and sisters?” he asks, clearly happy to have someone to communicate with.“None,” I answer. “You?”He nods his head.I smile a little. “I’m going to have a family, though. A baby,” I sign.Alberto’s eyes widen and he grins. “I love babies. I have three brothers and a sister, all younger.”We sign for a while longer, talking about his family and talking about my baby, and then Camden comes in the back door.Alberto stands, looking a little sad, and I stand up to hug him.“You made me feel very welcome,” he signs, and tears bur

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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 32

    [Kendall]I lean against the doorjamb, watching him. “So, do you think you could get me Alberto’s number? We could text,” I say dryly, and Camden's shoulders stiffen.“You can get it from Elora ,” he barks, and I chuckle but there’s no mirth in it.“All right. Guess I’ll call her tomorrow.”Camden turns to look at me, his sea-green eyes intense. “You’re not really going to get his number,” he says, like it isn’t a question.I shrug. “I think I’m finally realizing what I’ve been missing out on. You never know what I might do. I’m thinking I should strive to be more like my best friend – more...impulsive.”“You’re just trying to piss me off,” he growls, stalking toward me, and I don’t back away, looking up at him defiantly.“You want me to be yours, Camden?”He looks away briefly and then back at me. “I didn’t say that.”“But you don’t want me to be his? Make up your mind, would you?”Camden's hand goes around my throat, not gentle but not so hard that I’m afraid. My breath hitches in a

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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 33

    CamdenI wake up again with a violent hangover and hate myself for drinking so much. I hate myself for what I said to Kendall, too, how roughly I made love to her. She doesn’t deserve to be treated that way, but it was like I was possessed. I’d felt like I needed to own her, like I needed to show everyone how she's mine.She’s carrying my baby, for god’s sake, how can she not be mine?So, there’s this part of me that feels like she is, that doesn’t want another man touching her, but there’s this part of me that wants to go back to my old life. That wants to go back to fucking three women a week, to not knowing any of their names the next week.That’s the life I’ve always lived. My safe life. A life without risk. Without hurt. And I can’t imagine living any other way.Or, rather, I couldn’t. Now I can easily imagine living with a beautiful woman who smiles at me, her hair mussed from sex first thing in the morning. That’s the problem. Now I know there’s another way, but I don’t know ho

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  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 66

    I pause for a beat. He knows about it, of course, because he pays for it. It just seems like an out of the blue question. “About a year,” I answer.“And you take it every day? The way you’re supposed to?”“Yes.”He strokes harder, faster, his eyes glazed and distant as he looks at me. “That’s good. And when you had sex with Dante, where did he come? Inside of you?”“Yes.” For some reason, this line of questioning makes me nervous, like I might be in trouble. Lines seem blurred. But there’s an urgency to Xavier’s question; thinking about it is turning him on. “But in a condom,” I add.“That’s good,” he breathes, voice quivering. “That’s good, baby.” His brow furrows deeply, as if he’s in pain, and his breath starts coming in hard, rough pants. “Show me how good your tits feel. Squeeze them for me. Let me see you play with them.”Lifting my hands, I cup each one, rubbing and massaging them while my stepfather stares with rapt attention. I have a terrible thought, a thought I feel guilty

  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 65

    Hazeli wake up what feels like hours later. The lamp is still on, and Xavier and I are both sprawled out on our backs, asleep for who knows how long. My t-shirt is pulled up, Xavier’s cum drying on my breasts, and he’s naked from the waist down. If Melanie were to walk in, there would certainly be no way to hide what we were doing.I wonder idly if she could have heard anything through the wall. The house has remarkable soundproofing, but the low, guttural roar Xavier gave as he came would be unmistakable if she heard it. I kind of hope she did, I think meanly. It would serve her right to find out that I’m fucking her husband.Although… Her husband. I hate to think of Xavier that way. He’s mine in every way. Every way…except one.The sex I had with Dante last summer felt good at the time, even though it seemed like I couldn’t get the rhythm quite right, and I definitely didn’t come. But being penetrated, having a man inside of me, was a kind of pleasure I hadn’t expected—like it fulf

  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 64

    It’s a risky thing to say, a risky kink every time I try it out, but Hazel only flashes me a naughty look. “I don’t care,” she answers defiantly, giving my cock a squeeze.Dirty girl.She grips the shaft of my cock, rubbing her hand up and down over the fabric of my pants while I lie still, breathing heavily as she gets me erect. She releases her grip, running fingers lightly up my length and wriggling her hand under my waistband until I can feel her skin against mine. Her hand is warm and soft as she encircles my hard cock again and starts stroking it.She’s so good at making me come already. So good at taking my cock. I’m pleased and oddly proud that she’s learned so much about what I like so quickly. What she hasn’t learned yet, though, is how much her pleasure is a part of my arousal. Knowing I can make my stepdaughter come, when no one ever has before, gets me harder than anything.“Has anyone ever licked your pussy before?” I ask quietly, combing my fingers through the hair at h

  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 63

    “Of course,” I answer quietly.“Please!” adds Melanie. “It’s good vibes only at this table. We don’t need your mopey energy.”I keep an eye on Hazel as she climbs the stairs, wondering if letting her mother stay here is the best thing for her after all. Melanie was never a great parent to Hazel, but it seems like since she’s come back she’s worse. She ignores Hazel or treats her as an unwelcome stranger. It’s as if the minute Hazel turned eighteen—or rather, shortly before she turned eighteen, when she decided to leave her and go to New Mexico—Melanie just washed her hands of her daughter.Downstairs on the sectional after dinner, I toss and turn. I spent as much time cleaning the kitchen after dinner as I could tolerate, Melanie drinking wine and yapping at me the entire time. When I couldn’t take it anymore I told her I was going to bed and she gave an exaggerated pout.“I thought we could talk, Xavi About things.”“About money, you mean,” I’d responded bitterly. “You’re not getting

  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 62

    For a terrifying moment, I think it’s an accusation, but then I see the imploring look on her face, and understand the innocence of the question. It’s just Melanie performing jealousy to try to get her own way. She could care less if there’s someone else sharing my bed.“Maybe there is,” I tease. “This isn’t like before, Mel. I’m done.”She tilts her head and traces a finger over her shoulder, deliberately drawing the other strap of her tank top down. Her breasts, still full and round without a bra on, are temptingly obvious under the skimpy shirt. “How about a final hurrah, then? For old time’s sake?”“No. I said I’m done. Go back downstairs.”She pouts, rolling her head back in frustration. The gesture is so like Hazel it makes me ache for her. Then she flounces back over to the bed and throws herself down on the unoccupied side. Her side.“I can’t sleep downstairs, Xavi It’s too quiet. And you’re going to wake me up when you start using all that heavy gym equipment. Can’t I just sl

  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 61

    Her voice is a warm, honeyed purr, and in the pale light filtering through the curtains I can just make out to her long, wild curls.“Baby,” I respond, grateful and relieved.She giggles and climbs onto the bed, straddling me in the darkness, and I reach for her legs, finding the firm, muscled flesh of bare thighs and running my hands up towards her hips. She feels good. The heat and pressure of her body against mine makes my cock thicken.“Mm,” she murmurs, rolling her hips against me and trailing her fingers down my arms. Her forwardness surprises me. Hazel’s usually a bit more shy, but I like it. After the stress of the evening, I need her touch, need her closeness.“Sweetheart,” I groan, squeezing my eyes closed and lifting my hips up against her. The pressure of her body, and the friction of the covers as they slide against the underside of my hard cock makes me shiver. I slide my fingers further up her thigh, underneath flimsy fabric, until I’m cupping her bare ass. I dig my fin

  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 60

    Dinner is predictably awful. Xavier sets the pizza box on the table with three plates and opens a beer. It doesn’t escape my notice that he doesn’t offer Melanie one.We sit in our usual spots: Xavier and I across from each other, and Melanie at the head, and the mood around the table is disjointed and weird. There’s a heavy energy between Xavier and I. We’re stilted and silent. But Melanie is completely indifferent. She’s positively incandescent as she talks about how great it is for the three of us to be back together again, and how New Mexico was just “faaabulous!”“You would love New Mexico!” is the first thing she says to me when we sit down at the table—as if I had the opportunity to go and opted out. “For an artist like you, it’s so inspirational. I swear I did some of my best painting work out there. Oh! I need to show you The Faces of Love. That’s what I call it. It’s a painting of Cathedral Cliff—get it? Rock faces?”I don’t react at all, and I don’t have to. Melanie doesn’t

  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 59

    HazelI lower myself slowly onto the couch, too stunned to know what to do. From downstairs, I can hear my parents’ voices, which means they’re being loud—the house is so soundproof.Melanie’s here. She’s back. And I have no idea what that even means.Are we supposed to go back to the way things were before?The doorbell rings again, and it takes me a minute to even remember that we’ve ordered a pizza. It feels like hours have passed since Melanie arrived at the door. It feels like years since Xavier picked me up from school, his eyes dark with lust, asking to see my panties.This past month with Xavier has been the best month of my life. For the first time ever, I truly had Xavier all to myself. In the past, Melanie was always on the horizon. Even if she was off on one of her ‘sprees,’ cheating on Xavier with some dirtbag, he was still distracted and distant, his thoughts and energy still pulled in her direction. But this time, creating a naughty, secret world of pleasure together, i

  • Forbidden Desire:My Best Friend's Brother    Chapter 58

    “Of course I do! She’s my daughter.” For a moment, I almost believe her. For a moment, I’m almost relieved to think that she might actually love Hazel after all.“But I’ve been going through a lot,” she continues, and the illusion shatters. Melanie doesn’t care about anybody but herself. “I’ve been going through a lot, but I’m doing the work, you know? I’m figuring a lot of stuff out. Stuff that I wish I could have figured out a long time ago, so that I never would have hurt you the way I did. I wish, I mean…I wish I could undo those things, Xavi I know I fucked up, and I’m sorry.”I don’t say anything. Months ago, I wanted to hear those exact words more than anything. Despite everything that had happened, shortly after Melanie left, all I wanted was for her to come back. I had delusional notions about how we could rescue our relationship, how the cheating would stop if I could just understand her better, if I could just love her harder.But eventually I realized that life without Mel

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