Free Tease: A Stepbrother Romance by Veronica Daye Page B

of his relationship with his girlfriend Annie Hall.
    “That’s our movie?” I asked with a laugh.
    “It’s always on whenever we make up.” He leaned closer to me and kissed my shoulder.
    “But we’ve only watched it once together.”
    “So then this will be the second time, and we’re making up so now whenever you get mad at me, I’ll have to make sure I find it.” His eyes wrinkled as he grinned, but then slowly his face grew serious. “I’ll do whatever you want. I just need to know you’re okay with this. Nothing is going to change my mind. In two weeks, I’m leaving for Recruit Training. You have to tell me you’re okay with that.”
    Could I be okay with him leaving in two weeks for the Navy? Could I be okay with never seeing him again? The answer was a huge NO. But I wasn’t going to tell him that. If all I could have was two weeks with him, then I would take it. The only thing I was sure about was that I wanted to be with him as much as I could until he left. I was tired of obsessing over his pictures on my phone, I wanted the real deal.
    “I’m okay with it,” I said.
    “I don’t believe you.”
    “Are you always such a pain in my ass?”
    “In your ass? Now you want anal? You really move fast.”
    “Asshole,” I said, laughing. I sat up and moved away from him.
    “Right, that’s what I said. Anal.”
    He smirked as he jumped on top of me. I grabbed a throw pillow and hit him on the head with it.
    “Can’t you ever be serious?” I asked.
    “If we’re being serious, then I want you to take the night to think about it.”
    “I don’t need to think about it. Plus I thought we weren’t thinking.”
    “Promise me you’ll think about it tonight” he said. “I don’t want you to change your mind.”
    “Okay, I promise.”
    “You promise I get to have your ass?”
    “No! You really can’t be serious, can you?”
    “I am serious. You’re just being a tease.”
    I sat up, and he wrapped his arm around my shoulder as we watched the movie. I didn’t need any more time to think, but he was right, maybe I would feel different in the morning.

~ Ten ~

    Sierra

    As I stared at the ceiling, I wished we hadn’t come home so early. I would have liked to spend more time on Oahu, especially after what happened between us.
    It killed me that he was leaving in two weeks, but I understood why he didn’t want any attachments. The truth was I didn’t want any either. I wanted nothing to get in the way of culinary school. But I couldn’t deny that there was something about Jagger that made me want to change my mind.
    Grabbing my phone, I flipped through the photos he sent me and then watched each of the videos in order. They were just like him, funny and sexy.
    I rolled over and tried to fall asleep, but my mind kept going back to him. The thought of him being in the next room didn’t help. As I closed my eyes, my phone lit up and Jagger’s name appeared on the screen.

    Jagger: You still up?
    Sierra: Yes.
    Jagger: Do you know what a time out is?
    Sierra: Like in sports?
    Jagger: Yeah. What if we took a time out from reality? In the time out, we can pretend that two weeks will never come and we’ll never talk or think about it. When time’s in, everything goes back to normal. What do you think?
    Sierra: I think I want a time out.

    As soon as I hit ‘send,’ there was a knock on my door. I opened it to find Jagger standing in his boxers.
    “Time out,” he said.
    He picked me up, and I wrapped my legs around his waist as we kissed hungrily. He carried me to the bed and pushed the blankets aside as he put me down.
    “I need to taste you again,” he said. “I can’t stop thinking about it.”
    He pushed my shirt up to expose my stomach, then kissed my belly button. Moving his lips to my hip, he bit me as he yanked my panties off. I jerked and giggled as he raised an eyebrow at me.
    “Sorry, I couldn’t help it,” I said.
    “You’re ticklish. I like that.”
    Pulling my legs