Good Stepbrother (Love #2) by Scarlett Jade, Intuition Author Services Read Free Book Online Page B

whispered.
    “Why can’t you just leave me alone?”
    “Because I don’t want anyone else to have you just in case I decide I want you later on.” I twined my arms around his neck and gazed into his eyes. “I just might.”
    “Who says I’ll be waiting on you?” he sneered.
    Smiling slowly, I whispered, “You will be.” My fingers trailed against his thigh and I chuckled, “You will be.”
    Kirby found us that way a few seconds later. “God dammit, Carter!” he growled, pulling us apart. I almost fell as he pushed me back. “What the hell’s wrong with you?” he yelled at Carter, and I assume at me too.
    He shook his head slowly, “I don’t know.”
    “You, Satan temptress, go the hell home. Leave Carter alone. Let him be happy. For Christ’s sakes!” Kirby screamed at me. Shrugging, I knew I’d done what I’d come for. I turned to leave. I had to pay my debt for a ride to the parlor. Glancing over my shoulder, I smiled at him one last time. “Think about what I said. You know it’s true.”
    Ambling out of the alleyway, I walked to Peter’s car and opened the door, sliding into the seat. “Let’s get out of here,” I sighed.
    “Where you wanna go, babe?” he asked, his hand sliding up and down my thigh.
    Squeezing my eyes shut, I whispered, “Wherever you want to go.”

Chapter Five
     
    I didn’t succeed in breaking up Carter and Gabby. But I would. I just had to figure out the best way to go about it. My opportunity came when he bought the window licker a bracelet for Christmas. It infuriated me that he bought her something and not me. So I decided to show him exactly how I felt about it. After he went to the garage, I went to the store and purchased the same bracelet down to the charms he’d picked for her.
    The next morning as I readied for school, I slipped the tacky bracelet into my pocket. If he gave her the present, I’d be ready. I stewed the whole morning, through all of my classes. They only had one class together, history, and I was in there too, so if he decided to give it to her, I’d interrupt them.
    He didn’t give her the gift until lunchtime. I pulled the bracelet out of my pocket and handed it to Britney. “Put this on me,” I whispered.
    “Ooh, cute!” she giggled, latching the metal around my delicate wrist. “Where’d you get it?”
    “Bought it,” I said abruptly. “Now watch a master at work…”
    “What are you doing?” Jennifer hissed as I stood slowly from the table.
    “Watch and learn how to break up a relationship, ladies…” I giggled and stalked across the cafeteria.
    “It’s perfect!” Gabby gasped, turning to her little friend and cooing over her present. I leaned over the table.
    “Ooh, let me see!” I murmured, grabbing Gabby’s wrist and pulling it up to my gaze. “Wow, Carter, double gifting? Tsk tsk!”
    “What?” Gabby asked, her brow furrowed in confusion.
    “What are you talking about?” Carter growled.
    I released Gabby’s wrist and jangled the bracelet around my own. “Carter, that’s soooo original. A charm bracelet with a book and a heart. Just like mine. Isn’t my brother like, the sweetest?”
    Kirby looked at Carter open-mouthed. “You didn’t!”
    “I didn’t! She went in my coat!”
    “Come on, Carter, why do you paint me with such a nasty brush?” I stuck my bottom lip out then grinned. “That’s not what you tell me when we’re alone…”
    Gabby jumped up from the table and darted through the cafeteria, her sobs loud in the silence. “Dammit, Brielle!” he yelled. “What’s wrong with you?”
    “Me? You got me a present. You got her the same one.” I blinked innocently.
    Mindy jumped up from the table. “You’re a bastard,” she hissed at Carter before running after her friend.
    Kirby shook his head as he left the table too. “What the fuck’s wrong with you?”
    “I didn’t!” he insisted. “I didn’t buy her that bracelet.”
    I plopped down across from him and examined the