Secret: A Military Stepbrother Romance (14 page)

His lips linger for a half a second more on my ear, and the words he says next have me
shivering
. 

“
We’re also not done fucking
.”

And then he’s all business — all stoic looks and narrowed eyes as he does one last sweep of the crowd before ushering me inside to the cameras, the lights, and the screaming questions.

The whole time, I’m standing there forcing myself to smile. Forcing myself to look the part of the all-American girl-next-door. I’m forcing the idea from my head and trying to convince myself that the cameras and reporters don’t
know
what I was just doing.

And of course, I’m also trying to force myself to forget the fact that Hunter Ryan just had his fingers in my pussy, and nearly made me come. 

But that, as it seems, is impossible to forget.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The worst part of all of these little
games
and and the back and forth with Hunter is that there’s no getting away from him. There’s no escape from him, since it’s his
sworn job
to literally be my shadow. Of course the first thing I want to do as soon as we’re back stage at my mother’s press conference is shove him away and stalk off by myself to seethe and chastise myself for being so fucking
weak
that I’d let him get to me like that again.

Except I
can’t
do that
. The second we walk through those doors, he’s just on me. He’s my shadow; my smirking, cocky, knowing-grin-on-his-stupid-face shadow. 

The shadow who keeps making a show of bringing his fingers to his nose and inhaling when no one is looking but me; the shadow that keeps letting his hand trace over the small of my back as he leads me back stage in ways that a normal bodyguard would never
dream
of touching a charge.

“Stop
touching
me!” I hiss under my breath as we duck under a hanging curtain in the dark backstage area of the auditorium. There’s hardly anyone back here, which emboldens me to finally whirl and shove a finger in his face.

He licks it.

I roll my eyes and groan as I whirl back away from him and stomp away, only to hear his chuckle following me as he catches up.

“Stop being so touchable then.”

He runs his hands up my sides, and before I can stop myself, I’m closing my eyes and
sighing
as I sink back into him. It’s dark where we are, lit only by the lights out on stage, and we’re practically alone back here. But it’s still
wildly
reckless to let myself go like this. It’s insane, actually, to be out in public like this and letting my bodyguard stepbrother run his hands over my sides, his fingers tracing just shy of my breasts as he pulls me back into him. I bite my lip as I feel just how damn
hard
he is; the bulge at the front of his suit nestling right into the cleft of my ass through my skirt. 

There’s a wild cheer suddenly from out in the auditorium, and I jerk my head out to see my mother waving and smiling as she takes the stage, Alec right behind her along with a couple aides as they move towards the microphone array on the podium.

“
Hunter, stop it!
” I hiss, utterly unconvincingly even to myself as I gasp and let him pull me tight against him. 

Reporters are starting to ask questions, and the lights of a hundred camera flashes strobe out on stage, but back here, I’m lost in the heat and the illicitness of it all. I’m gasping as I feel his hands slide over my hips, moving down to rub me between my legs through my formal skirt and my drenched panties.

“You can’t just
grope
me whenever you feel like it, you fucking caveman,” I hiss. But even as I’m saying it, I’m running my hands over his muscled forearms, scratching my nails over his suit up his arms to his biceps, and then sliding my hands up to the back of his head to pull him down to my neck.

I gasp, a soft sound in the dark of the backstage area as his lips find my neck. He grazes his teeth over my exposed collarbone, making me bite my lip and sink into him as his fingers start to creep lower, to the hem of my skirt-suit.

“I’ll touch you whenever I damn well please,” he growls roughly into my ear. His fingers finally bunch up the hem of my skirt, and he starts to pull it up my thighs. “And I’ll touch you whenever I please because we both know damn well that you’re
dying
for me to touch you.” 

I whimper as his fingers slide across the front of my panties, making me shiver and moan.

There’s another cheer from the audience that snaps me out of the
total
insanity of what we're doing and I freeze against him for a second. 

“Hunter,
no
—” I bite my lip through the moan as his fingers delve between my lips through my panties. “Not here, you can’t touch me
here
like that!”

“Fine,” he growls into my ear. “Then
you
can.”

I gasp as he suddenly reaches up and envelopes one of my hands in his before sliding them both down over my stomach, delving right between my legs. I moan as he pushes my fingers over my aching pussy, using his hand to move mine across my lips.

“
Hunter
—“ I manage to gasp out before he’s pushing both of our hands under the waist of my panties and sliding right over the slick heat of my pussy. I melt against him as our fingers find my clit, both of our hands there, but he’s controlling the movement. I’m limp; a rag-doll writhing against him as he uses my fingers to play with my clit. 

It’s like something out of a forbidden fantasy; something not real, and something that could never
be
in reality, but here we are. I’m backstage at a press conference, with a million security eyes everywhere while my mother, the President, gives a speech on stage, with my stepbrother’s fingers buried deep in my pussy. My conservative skirt is pulled around my waist, my legs are spread, and my toes are curling inside my extremely polished pumps. I am the
picture
of wanton inappropriateness, and in that moment, with his fingers and mine right there, I couldn’t care less.

And then in the madness of my own lust, I’m reaching back around, grappling for the zipper of his pants and yanking it down. He growls as I reach inside, and I’m biting my lip as I wrap my fingers around his thick cock. The pants are too tight around my hand, so I’m pulling him out, and gasping as I feel the throbbing heat of him press against my ass. Hunter rocks against me, his breath hot in my ear, sending shivers down my back as his fingers make my legs weak. 

He thrusts forward, the head of his cock slipping under the tiny back of the thong I wear beneath my hiked-up skirt. He rocks against me, and I whimper as I feel him nestle between the cleft of my ass and start to stroke him rapidly with my hand. There’s nothing sensual or slow about this; this is raw lust and need, and we’re barreling towards the oblivion as fast as we can. I’m stoking the pulsing hot length of him, and feeling his fingers and mine slide deep into my pussy as he grinds the palm of my hand against my aching clit. 

I see flashing lights, and and feel the heat pooling between my legs erupt as the teasing from earlier, and the fear of being caught, and the utter
wrongness
of it all finally hits me like a hammer. I turn and bite his arm, hard, as I squeeze my eyes shut and go crashing over the edge. His breath is hot and stuttered in my ear, and suddenly I can feel his cock
throb
in my hand.

Oh my God, he’s coming
.

I moan as I feel him pumping against my ass; feeling it run hot against my fingers and soaking into the back of my panties. It’s
so
fucking dirty and so
totally
wrong, and hot with both of our hands buried between my legs that I shudder as another small orgasm tears through me.

There’s the roar of applause again. I gasp and look up in time to see my mother walking off stage again. I hear the sudden squawk of Hunter’s ear piece, and then suddenly he’s pulling away; we’re both pulling away from each other like we’ve been shocked. 

I’m guilty turning away from him then, red-faced and unable to even
believe
what just happened as I hurriedly smooth down my skirt and groan at the feel of his cum still warm against my panties. 

I’m lost in it all, speechless and still floating as he’s suddenly putting his hand on the small of my back and growling a “we’re moving” into his mouthpiece as he guides me out from the stage, back through the mercifully
empty
halls of the building, and out a side-door the waiting embrace of the SUV.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Maddie avoids me for the next
three
goddamn days after that. It’s like turning off a switch. And yeah, normally it’d be hard to avoid each other completely what with me being her shadow any time she leaves her fucking quarters. But
that's
the problem; this girl
doesn’t leave her quarters
for three fucking days. 

It’s borderline crazy, like she’s one of those Hollywood starlets you read about in tabloids that shuts themselves away in a luxury hotel on the strip and orders room service all day. But that’s exactly what it is, and guess who the sucker is that has to
sit there
outside her goddamn door for all three fucking days.

Yeah, bingo.

Three days of just
sitting
there outside her door thinking about what happened. Three days of going over every detail of the last week or so and trying to figure out how the fuck we got to this point. Three days of rolling my eyes and knocking on her door to let her know when the service is up with her fucking meals, or when the maids are there to clean up her little hermit-sanctuary, or whenever Emma comes by to do scheduling or whatever with her.