Free The Other Brother Part 2: Taboo: Stepbrother Billionaire Romance by Lauren Hawkeye, Tawny Stokes Page A

SECRETS
    DARK LIES
    VEILED TRUTH
    MAHINA’S STORM
    BEWITCHING HOUR
    THE VAMPIRE’S QUEST
    THE VAMPIRE’S KISS
    HER DARK HEART
    A WOLF’S HEART
    The Fallen series (published with Harlequin Nocturne) HEART OF THE HUNTER
    RELEASING THE HUNTER
    SEDUCING THE HUNTER
    PROTECTING THE HUNTER – coming soon League of Illusion (published with Carina Press) LEGACY
    PROPHECY
    DESTINY
    ICE BOUND (published by Harlequin) Silver series (published by Avon) QUICK SILVER (Alluring Tales Volume 1) SILVER WATERS (Alluring Tales Volume 2)

Read on for an excerpt from Ivy in Bloom by Tawny Stokes
    T he last thing I expected as I walked across the Glendale campus to my economics class with a Venti Moccachino in my hand was to be completely humiliated and embarrassed in front of a bunch of strangers. But that was exactly what happened at 10:24 that morning.
    It was a gorgeous day and I loathed spending it indoors, but in California almost every day was gorgeous, so it wasn’t like I was never going to have another day like this to spend working on my tan. I walked quickly across the center quad because as usual I was going to be late for class. It was quite possible that I had set a college record for the amount of tardies in the first year. In high school I had gotten that honor.
    I was just about to open the door to the west hall, when I heard my name.
    “Hey Ivy.”
    I turned to see Derek, my boyfriend of the past three months, strutting up to me. And the boy did strut much like a peacock. The cock of the walk. At six foot two he pulled it off tremendously. I put up with it because he was extremely cute. He even had dimples in his cheeks when he grinned.
    His two douchey friends, Brett and Rico, stood off to the side to wait for him. Neither of them liked me much because I didn’t put up with their immature bullshit. I had questioned Derek many times on why he was friends with them. He never really gave me a definitive answer. Just mumblings about having been friends since high school.
    I still had friends from high school, Violet and Dahlia, but they were awesome. Although I hadn’t seen either one of them in a few months. Dahlia was across the country at a design school and Violet was still trying to get her life back together after some horrible shit happened to her. We texted and talked on the phone though.
    “Hey baby.” I wrapped a hand around his neck and pulled him down for a kiss. I missed him as we hadn’t hooked up the night before like we usually did. He said he had some test to study for. Which I thought weird since I had never seen him study for anything since I’d known him. He was in his second year of aviation, and all I’d ever seen him do is fly more beer and weed into his mouth.
    I pulled back and looked him over. He tasted like coffee and the one cigarette he allowed himself every morning in an effort to kick the habit and, surprisingly, cherry lip gloss. My stomach lurched. I didn’t wear cherry flavored anything.
    “Did you study for your test?” I asked, although by the way he was looking at me, I didn’t think he wanted to talk about studying or school.
    He took my hand. “We need to talk.”
    You have GOT to be kidding me?
    “Okay?”
    “Look, you are really pretty and stuff, but…”
    “Are you breaking up with me?”
    He looked down at his feet.
    “You’re screwing someone else, aren’t you?”
    “It’s not like that, Ivy.”
    “What’s it like then? Huh?” I pulled my hand out of his.
    Others who mingled around in the quad started to look our way. It was highly possible my voice was a few octaves higher and louder than normal.
    “I’m sorry, but it’s just not working for me anymore.”
    “What’s not working? The sex we have all the time? The blowjobs you beg me to give you? The time I tied you up and spanked you? Huh? What?”
    There were some giggles from the other people in the quad.
    “Ivy, don’t be that way.”
    “What way? Mad? Because you stuck your dick in someone else