Chapter Four

I was silent throughout our drive back to our penthouse but my heart was beating so fast, I was afraid that he could hear it. So many different thoughts ran through my mind. I remember vividly how I felt being held against his hard body. I could feel my hands trembling as I thought about it.

I stole a glance at Daniel and his face was hard, as if he was angry and while he brooded in his anger, I took the time to admire his features. The man was handsome. The kind of beauty that would make any woman wet just at the sight and smell of him and he smelled like oak wood mixed with vanilla. He smelled delicious. 

My eyes moved to his lips and I yearned to touch it with mine. Unconsciously, I licked my lips as I thought of what it would feel like to kiss his and what it would taste like. 

'No Olivia, this is not right,' I whispered under my breathe as he drove to our home and I tried to fight the feelings that were rising in me because just being so close to him was torture. 

"Someone's following us," suddenly the words of Daniel broke through my subconscious and brought me back to reality. 

"What?" 

"Go down and hold on to something," was all Daniel said before swerving the car and taking a sharp cut to his left. 

I looked behind me and the car was still following us.

"Fuck, we are going to die," I muttered under my breath but Daniel was an excellent driver and somehow, he lost the car and drove us home safely. 

Daniel stopped at our driveway and sat down in silence. His silence scared me and I finally asked.

"What is it?" 

He turned to look at me, brought out his phone and opened a text message that read

"The past is closer than you think."

I trembled as I read the message and asked with a shaking voice

"Can you please just stop with the pretense!" 

"Olivia, I am not the one behind this. Why would I take naked pictures of us having sex? What would that do for me?" 

"So if you are not the one behind it, then who is?" I asked. 

"I don't know but what I know is that soon they will contact us to tell us what they want." 

"Of course they will," I said angrily and walked out. 

As soon as we got inside, I felt an eerie feeling and when I looked around, I saw a shadow standing by our kitchen.

"Who's there?" My voice came out as a whisper, causing Daniel to stare in the direction I was looking at and from his gasp, I knew he could see the shadow as well. 

Speedily, Daniel reached for the light and I saw the shadow scramble away and jump out of the window. 

Daniel and I ran to the window but before we could tell who it was, we saw a group of three people running away and our bodies were filled with goosebumps. 

***

We call the police but they did not believe a bunch of teenagers who claimed to see a shadow in their kitchen. 

After trying and trying to no avail, we sat in silence for what felt like forever. Finally, Daniel decided to break the ice with his words. 

"Aren't you going to thank me for saving you?" I heard Daniel say with a smut look on his face as soon as we got into the house. 

I hissed, picking up on what he was trying to do and following suit. "okay fine. Thank you. But I think it's better if you stay away from me from now on." As the words left my mouth, I could feel my heart breaking. I could not be away from him but I knew that if I stayed with him for long, I might eventually do something that I will regret. 

I looked at Daniel and I saw the happy look he had fallen. It was another thing that broke my heart. 

"What do you mean by that? I don't want to stay away from you," he said calmly.

"Well you have to. Your reputation is at stake if you continue being seen around me."

"Okay, so what?" He said nonchalantly and I raised an eyebrow at his words. "Look, Olivia, I don't care about any of that," he said and moved closer to me. Unconsciously, my legs moved back out of fear of being so close to him and he moved in on me, finally backing me up against a walk. 

"I only care about you," he said as he reached out to touch my cheeks and I couldn't tell if he could feel the red blush that appeared on my face but the was a strange look in his face but he stood so close to me that I ignored any another feeling.

"Only you," he whispered and he stood so close to me that I was sure that he could hear my heart beating

Slowly, I watched him close the remaining distance between us and I could not move. 

Enchanted by his looks and the smell of him, my entire body became numb as he moved in to me and finally closed my open and gasping mouth with his. 

As soon as our lips collided, I felt my heart burst out of joy. I stood still for a few seconds till my entire body was eager for more and I moved my lips against his, allowing our lips to dance to a tune played by our heart. My mind went numb and all I could think about was the moment and the kiss that left tingles all over my body. 

In the euphoria, I did not know where I summoned the courage to push him away but I did and my body immediately missed his touch when I did. 

Angry at my body for feeling such emotions towards my step brother, I took out the frustration on him. My heart was still pounding, I still had goose bumps on my skin and if not that he was holding me, my legs would have fallen because of how weak I was after the kiss. But in the midst of all this, I summoned up the strength and slapped him across the face. 

"How dare you?!" I said spitefully. "How dare you take advantage of me at my lowest? You are just like those bullies, aren't you? You saw that I was weak and tired and you took advantage of that to kiss me!" I accused him and ignored the little voice in me that told me that I was wrong. 

"No, don't make me out to be the bad guy here. You kissed me back and besides, I could see you yearning for my touch since after our one night stand. So do me a favour and stop acting like you don't want this."

He moved with so much speed that I did not have the time to say a thing. All I felt was his lips on mine with so much passion, igniting feelings that I thought were dead. I pulled into him, hungry for more and desperate to take in all I could from the kiss. 

His lips were soft and I suddenly became thankful that he was kissing me. As he was about to deepen the kiss, we heard a knock on the door and immediately broke off from each other. It was one of the most painful things I had to experience. 

My entire body immediately missed him badly as he moved away from me. 

"We will finish this kiss later," he promised me with a smile on his face before he moved to the door and I took that opportunity to run to my room as fast as my heels could carry me.

Immediately I shut the door, I threw my back pack to the floor cursing myself for allowing myself to be kissed by my step brother. I knew that it was wrong but my heart felt so joyful and happy that I immediately started doubting if it was truly wrong. I smiled as I touched my lips, remembering the kiss and I fell into my bed to day dream and yet all I dreamt of was the shadow in my kitchen but this time, he was in my room and the dream felt real.