Free Stepbrother Affairs (The Monroe Family Secrets Book 3) by Lauren Branford Page A

break my statue?”
                  “Robert!” Lydia yelled as she raced toward him. “He was upset!”
                  “You are a guest in my house,” my father was enraged. I had seen him like this a handful of times in the past. However, it always frightened me back to the time when I was just a boy, and he would tower above me. “You don’t get to come in here and destroy my possessions!”
                  “I don’t give a fuck!” Sebastian sobbed. “Fuck your shitty art!”
                  Without another word from his lips, I saw pure rage strike like lightening into my father’s eyes. Suddenly, he swung back his arm with the broken glass in it, and then hit Sebastian on the underside of his jaw. Sebastian jolted as a spray of blood spattered onto the concrete.
                  “Robert!” Lydia screamed as she rushed toward Sebastian, who was lying with his face on the pavement. Her white dress was almost see-through in the bright day as she ran to the aid of her son. “Don’t hit him!”
                  “He needs to learn respect,” my father defended himself. He noticed that the piece of glass had blood all over it as it rubbed against the palms of his hands. Quickly, he tossed it onto the grass and stormed back into the house. During all of the commotion, my sister Audrey sat by the pool as everyone tried to help. As usual, she was completely useless in a dire situation.
                  “What happened to Darla?” I calmly asked Sebastian.
                  “She left!” he sobbed with a mouthful of spit and blood. Lydia shot me a glance as she tried to lift him from the grass by the arm. I stepped onto the other side and helped her lift the miserable fool onto his feet.
                  “She sent him a text last night,” Lydia said softly. I noticed her eyes looking me up and down as she spoke. Even during her own son’s tragedy, she was thinking about my cock. I would have been offended if I also weren’t so turned on by her insatiable needs.
                  “After she fucking drugged me!” Sebastian yelled.
                  “She drugged you?” Audrey chimed in as she walked over to where we were standing. My sister was wearing a tiny string bikini that barely held together over her frame.
                  “Yes,” Sebastian replied. He glanced at her through the side of his eyes with a look that I couldn’t quite place. “I found a bottle of pills next to my bed. Read this.”
                  Sebastian reached into his pocket and whipped out a cellphone. After punching in the code with his thumb to unlock it, he handed the device to my sister.
                  “Sebastian,” Audrey read softly. “All of this was too much pressure and I need to go. I know you’d stop me, so I mixed some sleeping pills into your glass of water. I’m so sorry… good bye.”
                  “That’s what she wrote you?” Lydia scoffed. “That little bitch.”
                  “Mother!” Sebastian yelled. “Can’t you see that she was put off by all of this?”
                  Sebastian’s arms widened as he pointed to the mansion and the pool. Darla, as I understood, came from a humble beginning. I could understand how a quiet girl such as herself might felt overwhelmed. Still, with a body like she had, it seemed to me that she knew what cards she was playing.
                  “I’m so sorry,” Audrey said as she moved over to Sebastian. With her nearly naked frame, she wrapped herself around him. He embraced her back in a grasp that made me feel queasy. Audrey seemed to be playing another game with Sebastian. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that she had helped Darla disappear.
                  “Let’s go inside so that I can get you some ice,”