Stepbrothers' Darling

by K.A. Knight

One’s dark gaze is filled with a promise as it roams down me in an unmistakable way. Another’s flirty eyes touch everywhere they look. The third man, with light irises, is grinning at me.

But even I know you don’t mix pleasure with business or, more accurately, don’t fuck where you eat.

I dance like nobody’s watching. Leaving everything else behind. I twirl and grind as the beat controls me. That’s when I feel it... Eyes. It’s my turn to be watched.

“Mind if I join you?” she inquires, clearly trying to be nice. But this girl is anything but nice. It’s in her eyes, in her attitude. Not to mention we saw her beat the fuck out of a table full of guys and get arrested. No, our new stepsister is a badass cock tease.

The arty one, Asher, I think, with the blond shaved head. Bray, with the tied back brown hair, muscles to die for, flirty smirk, and nose and lip piercings. Shit... and then Cyrus, the grumpy giant, whom I wanted to climb like a tree.

For a moment, I’m somewhere else. I’m someone else. I’m not broken. I’m not angry. I’m not alone. I just am.

I’m not easy just because I like sex. If I were a man, it wouldn’t be an issue, but because I have a pussy, how many bodies I have apparently matters, as if my pussy has a body count.

“Are you mad ‘cause I fucked her... or ‘cause I didn’t fuck you?” I retort, and he swallows. “That’s what I thought. Jealousy is a bitch, and so am I.”

We’ve just claimed Blair as ours to protect, and we protect ferociously and permanently.

Maybe that’s why I’m here in her bed, because I know what it means to need someone but to be completely alone. To lie in bed at night with tears in your eyes and pain in your heart, needing to scream, to rage, and let it out, but instead, you just lie there completely still, as if you do, it will all disappear.

What Crew owns, they protect. I’ll look after this broken little heart of hers and never let anyone close to it again. It’s a promise.

Being a friend doesn’t mean blind adoration, it means calling you on your shit when you need it. It means trying to help and support you when you need it, but it also means knowing when to leave you when you need to be broken so you can heal better than you did last time.

Even in our weakest moment, we have strength and beauty. Asher

“We’ve never had anyone protect us, claim us, or threaten people for us before. It’s always the other way around. It was nice. You’re changing our lives, Blair, for the better.”

She lights a fire and stands in it as it burns, and I want to smoulder right there in the flames with her.

“We’re off to see the dead man, the dead man of the city,”

Family is a dirty, bloody mess, and I fucking love it.

Tonight, we slay Darling’s demons.

“Blood in, blood out. Family isn’t always blood, but who you are willing to spill blood for.”

Happiness can sometimes be found right in front of you if you just open your eyes and look.

The kings of this city have finally found their queen, and we are never letting you go.