Free HUGE X3: A MFMM Menage Stepbrother Romance by Stephanie Brother

on the
counter, looking at me fiercely.   I've
never seen him angry.   The flash of his
dark green eyes is kind of mesmerizing.
    "Look, Katelin.   Cut the attitude, okay?"
    "Attitude?"
    "Yeah. All the glaring and moodiness."
    "You don’t think I've got a right be angry."
    "Angry about what?"
    I put my hands on my hips and glare at him, doing
exactly what he's trying to tell me off about.   "Angry that our parents are dating and that you knew."
    "Who told you I knew?"
    I pause for a second, realizing I actually don’t know
that for sure.   "Are you telling me
that you had no idea?"
    He doesn’t say anything but is still staring at me
furiously.   "So you did know!"
I shout.
    "So what if I did?   Your mom told me not to say anything because
you have a rule. What was I supposed to do?"
    "Oh my god.   We're friends Bryan.   At least I
thought we were.   You could have told her
you weren't prepared to keep a secret like that from me."
    "I did it for you," he says.   "Before your mom, my dad was going
through women like water.   I didn’t think
it was going to last more than a month.   What was the point of upsetting you for nothing? Then, when it went on
for two months, then three I kept thinking it was only a matter of time before
dad moved on.   When it got to a year I
wanted to tell you but it had been too long.   And my dad told me it was serious.   Then..."   He trails off,
stuffing his hands into his pockets like he did in the yard.   He won’t look at me and I don’t get it.   What’s his problem?
    "Then what?" I demand.
    "Then dad told me that I needed to start thinking
of you as a sister because it was only a matter of time before we were going to
be family."
    He says that last bit as though he has something
disgusting in his mouth and I feel like I need to sit down.   All this stuff has been going on in his life
and I had no idea.   Suddenly, I put two
and two together and make five.   "Is
that why?"
    "Why what?"
    I blush because what I was going to say will out all the unspoken stuff that has been
marinating between us for years.   I don’t
know if I can bear to say it and have him tell me I'm wrong.   But at the same time this is my opportunity.
This is what I have been desperate to clear up.   I have to take the bull by the horns and come out with it.   I have to know once and for all, if nothing
else so that I can put all my unrequited feelings to bed.
    "All our friends were telling me that you were
interested in me but you never made a move. Is this why?"  
    Bryan sighs, looking me in the eyes with such a solemn
expression on his face I want to pull him in for a hug.   I'm so angry with him, but inside all the
feelings that I've pushed down for lack of nurturing on his part are there,
tightening around my heart.   "I
couldn’t, okay.   I wanted to, but you're
going to be my sister, Katy."
    "Stepsister," I say.   He pulls out a bar stool and gestures for me
to sit.   When we’re perched at the
counter he leans forward and takes my hand.
    "Katy," he says quietly.   "You don’t know my dad.   I couldn’t go against his wishes and risk
hurting you in the long run.   If he found
out that we were together, he'd cut me off.   I need his support to finish college.   I'm supposed to be joining him in the family business, and maybe taking
it over eventually.   I didn’t want to
start something with you that I couldn’t finish."
    Bryan strokes his thumb over the skin on the back of
my hand and looks at where we are touching.   He's so gentle with me that it hurts my heart.
    "But you wanted to?"
    "Of course I did.   It's killed me to be friends with you all this time, to want you so
badly, to see you with other guys and know that I couldn’t make you mine."
    I think back to yesterday when he came to my house to
find out if I was okay.   He didn’t once criticize
me for what I did with his brothers.   He
should have been so angry, but all he did was show me concern.   I