My Stepbrother's Dirty Little Secret novel Chapter 115

Chapter 115

Raphael was standing less than an inch away.

He was dressed in all black, a skin-tight shirt that mapped out every hard muscle of his chest and shoulders, and heavy black cargo pants tucked into tactical boots. Leather holsters were strapped across his chest and thighs, the cold glint of a handgun and the serrated edge of a knife peeking out from the dark gear. He held a sleek black helmet in one hand.

The glasses were gone. His eyes were bare, dark, boring into mine with an intensity that made my skin feel like it was on fire. The silver rings were back on his fingers, and a single hoop glinted in his ear.

I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even breathe. The air between us was gone, and that made the hair on my arms stand up. I looked up at him, my fingers reflexively curling into the thin fabric of my sweater, pulling it tight over my chest as if I were standing there completely naked.

He wasn’t moving. He was just… staring. His gaze dropped from my eyes to my lips, lingering there until I felt them throb, then drifted down to the curve of my throat.

He looked like he wanted to kill me. The silence was screaming. I could smell him, leather, cold rain, and that expensive, spicy cologne that made my head spin.

“What-“My voice came out softer than I wanted. I swallowed and tried again. “What are you doing here?”

He didn’t answer right away. His eyes moved over me slowly once more, taking everything in.

The loose strands of my hair. The flush on my skin. The way my chest was still rising too fast from the routine.

I felt it everywhere.

That look.

It pressed against my skin like heat.

My grip tightened on the fabric of my sweater.

“Raphael-”

He leaned in just a fraction of an inch closer. His chest was so close I could feel the vibration of his breathing. My lips parted on a broken breath I couldn’t catch. Standing there in the dark, with his shadow swallowing me whole, he made me feel things that were wrong… It was a dark, pulsing heaviness between my legs, a deep, liquid ache 1 had no business feeling for my stepbrother.

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