Free Dearest Stepbrother Romance: Billionaire Standalone by Jasmine Love Page A

so weird right now?
    “Thank you,” I said and took a sip of champagne. “I shouldn’t have too many more of these though, this is my forth already.” He knew the waiter’s name, he’d probably hired them before then.
    “Your forth? I had no idea you were an alcoholic.” He shrugged.
    “What? I’m not an alcoholic,” I said in a raised voice and shook my head.
    “Relax.” He laughed and moved his hand on my shoulder. “I’m just kidding. You don’t look like that type of girl anyway.”
    “Oh ok. I normally don’t drink that much, but this party has been just plain boring for me. I don’t know anyone of your family and the few members of my family have already left.” I met his smile with one of my own. What did he mean by that? That I wasn’t a fun type of girl?
    “That’s okay, you’ll get to know them eventually. It’s normal, I don’t know anyone of your family either. It just happens to be so that my family paid for the wedding, which is normal to me. We’re wealthy enough so it wouldn’t be fair to ask your mother to pay for it,” he explained.
    “I guess it’s normal indeed but that doesn’t take away it sucks right now.” I laughed.
    “I see what you mean. It would’ve been fun if there was more to do around here. I even took the day off for this for crying out loud, my first day off in months.” He nodded.
    “Wow, so you’re a workaholic then?” I raised an eyebrow and grinned.
    “Nice one.” He gave me a smile. “I don’t see myself as a workaholic but rather as an achiever. I aspire to be as good of a businessman as my dad is and I should catch up with him in a few years time. Let’s drink on that, we’ve got nothing else to do anyway,” he said and touched his glass with mine, then emptied it in a few swallows. I did the same and emptied my fourth glass of the day. That was probably enough to last me for a while this day.
    “Let’s go somewhere more quiet to talk, it’s loud around here. I’d like to get to know my stepsister.” He grinned. There was something about that grin. It looked friendly, yet seducing. But that couldn’t be, right? Why would he want to seduce his stepsister? Would I even deny him if he tried it? He was hot as hell. Shit. I blocked those thoughts out of my mind, I couldn’t think like that, it was wrong.
    “Sure, but where to?” I asked him.
    “Come, I know the perfect place,” he said and grabbed my hand, guiding me around the house to the other part of the garden. The wedding party was held outside for the first part and when it got dark it’d continue inside the house. Not that it could really be called a house, it was more like a castle.
    His grip tightened, making sure I wouldn’t let go. He didn’t need to worry though, I wouldn’t want to let go, I loved his firm grip around my hand. The garden was filled with pathways, bushes, trees, flowers, and even a maze made of tall bushes at the outer side of it. Who came up with designing something like that? It must’ve caught a fortune.
    “We’re going to the maze?” I asked him as we got closer and closer to it.
    “Yep, it’s the most cozy place of the entire garden there,” he told me, turning his head, then looked in front of him again.
    “We’re here.” He nodded. After completing the maze we arrived at the most beautiful place, it was surrounded by four walls of bushes and it was so quiet there. In one of the corners stood a couch with an arch of wood above it. The arch was completely decorated with yellow and red flowers. There was a little pond in the other corner with a small fountain in it.
    “It’s beautiful here,” I told him, walking around the area to inspect everything around here.
    “It sure is. I used to come here as a kid all the time.” He moved behind me as I stood watching the pond and the little fish in there. He placed his hands on my hips and moved his head next to mine and whispered. “It’s beautiful.”
    Chills ran down my body, the good