STEPBROTHER (R-18) novel Chapter 7

Scarletts P.O.V

Afteryou'reyour dressed you decide to go find him. You search the house.

Where the hell is he? Maybe he left.

You checked the driveway and notice his car is still parked there.

Okay, but he's not in his room.

It's not until you hear the music coming from the garage that you find him. He shirtless, sweat dripping down his body and disappearing into shorts as he punches away at the punching bag that hung from the stand in the corner of the garage.

When the hell did they put that there?

Your eyes linger on the sculpted muscles of his back as he throws more blows at the back.

Damn... he's really fit.

"Are you just going to stand there staring at me?"

"Shit, sorry. Didn't think you noticed me."

"Of course, I noticed you!"

You wrap your arms around yourself and step forward. He turns the music down and twist his head to look at you.

" just fucking leave, Scarlett"

You frown and place your hands on your hips.

"Not until you fucking talk to me."

You shrug.

"It's not good to keep all that shit in. You gotta let it out."

I know firsthand about what it means to deal with bullshit. I used to wonder whether we'd have a warm place to lay our heads when i was younger. No stability. Keeping it bottled up just makes the problems bigger.

"What the fuck do you think I'm doing?"

He slams his fists wildly against the punching bag, panting loudly. His hair is coated with sweat, slicking it to his head. He swipes if off his forehead and ignores you.

"What happened? Who did that to you? Does your dad know?"

"He doesn't needs to fucking know. I can handle it."

"Oh yeah, beating the piss out of a punching bag and not letting him know about the toxic environment at home is really handling it."

He turns and stalked angrily towards you. He towers over you a good two feet. You see then tension throughout his body but you don't back down. You meet him head on, with a stern expression of your own.

"What don't you understand, I don't want to be fucking bothered."

You scoff.

He needs to know firsthand what it means to be persistent.