Controlling Interests: A Step-Brother Romance (The Legacy Book 2)
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Authors: Lana Grayson
Controlling Interests (The Legacy Series #2
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Copyright © 2015 by Lana Grayson
Published by Tika Lake Publishing
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Other Works By Lana Grayson:
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Takeover – The Legacy Series #1
Anathema Series
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Exiled – Anathema MC Series #2
Knight – Anathema MC Series #3
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Please Note:
This story is a continuation of a dark step-brother romance which will include scenes of captivity, physical abuse, sexual encounters with multiple partners, and non-consensual situations.
The series will end with a Happily Ever After, and will not feature themes of cheating/adultery.
All of the characters are over the age of eighteen and are of no blood relation.
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To My Husband...
A novel intwothree weeks!
…Yeah, I know. I’ll relax once it’s done. ;)
Table of Contents
I expected abuse, rage, and violation from Darius Bennett.
Instead, he offered me a pink sundress and white strappy sandals.
Darius asked me to join him for dinner. It was more likely I’d claw his damned eyes out.
The gifted outfit rested over my unmade bed. I regretted leaving the comforter tucked and the pillows so neatly stacked. The message was clearer than if Darius had caught me within Nicholas’s arms.
I didn’t sleep in my own bed last night.
Then again, I hardly slept at all.
“I’m not having dinner with that man.” I faced my step-brothers and dared them to argue. “Not after he attacked me.”
Nicholas remained silent though no words spoken in his caramel cadence would sound as satisfying as the crunch of his fist against Darius’s jaw. His hand bruised. Neither of us cared. I kissed every last scape on his knuckles.
Then I kissed more than his hand.
I shivered. The sensual memory threaded with apprehension. The dread wasn’t nearly as bad as the lingering sense of utter helplessness which remained long after Darius’s assault. Fear didn’t lash me. Humiliation, frustration, and rage humbled me in ways I didn’t know I could be humbled.
I made a promise to myself then and there.
I would
never
be that helpless again.
I tossed the dress into the corner before Reed tumbled on the bed. He grinned. The flashed dimple meant trouble.
“Dinner?” He folded his arms behind his head. “There’s only one thing I want to eat now.”
I fully anticipated reliving the passionate and bewildering night in bouts of blushed awkwardness, but Reed wasn’t helping. I tangled my fingers in the buttons of Nicholas’s suit jacket as I lingered before my step-brothers half-nude with mussed hair and puffy lips. Reed had no sense of propriety.
Or modesty.
Or
tact
.
“There’s a limit to your puns,” I warned.
Reed was immune to shame. “Make you a deal. I’ll stop making puns when I knock you up.”
“Great.” I tugged at a fresh towel from my linen closet. “Then the Bennett Estate just turned into a comedy club.”
Max reached over my head, slamming the closet door and nearly taking my fingers with it. His shadow loomed, menacing. I weighed my options. If he wasn’t carrying his flogger, I had more wiggle room to oppose him.
“It helps to have a little optimism, baby,” he said.
“
Optimism
?”
Max was more predator than hero. “We’re doing this for your own good.”
“How magnanimous.”
“Just doing as we’re told, right, Nick?”
The air thickened.
And I was still very exposed.
Nicholas said nothing. Max retreated, and I clutched the towel against my body. Nicholas’s jacket hung over my curves, but it offered no protection.
All three of my step-brothers had touched, tasted, and tempted every last bit of me.
And I enjoyed it.
All
of it.
Christ. Life wasn’t easy before, yet I handled my illness, school, the funerals, my mother, and the company with a smidgen of grace. It wasn’t neat and tidy, at least I wore clothes for most of it.
Now?
Well, I wasn’t wearing much of anything, and everything I thought I had under control twisted in the Bennetts’ shadows.
How was I supposed to confront the tattooed, muscle-bound behemoth who ordered
optimism
just hours after rutting me over the arm of a couch?
Was I just supposed to ignore the green-eyed charmer who
winked
before he ripped me from the floor to take his turn with my spent body?
And what defenses did I have against Nicholas Bennett?
He dominated me. He protected me. Then, he gave me to his brothers.
And I obeyed him. I accepted every touch and kiss and caress. But, even as Nicholas and my step-brothers enthralled me with pleasure and conquered me in lustful savagery, we all understood our places.
I
owned
him.
I owned them
all
.
The stock my family bought and the influence they garnered guaranteed me a controlling interest in the Bennett Corporation. In less than a year, I could ruin them for the virginity they stole, the skin they bruised, and the life they destroyed.
They planned to rape me. Imprison me within their home. Impregnate me.
They thought they’d control me.
Except, in the best and worse decision of my life, I fell in love with Nicholas Bennett, and I allied myself with Max and Reed.