Excerpt Reveal: ANTI-STEPBROTHER by Tijan
The sun shone into the
room, and it took me a few moments to realize where I was. I didn’t recognize
the king-size bed, or the black sheets, but then Caden walked past the open
door and all the memories flooded into place.
I slept at his place.
I glanced around the bed… I
slept in his bed!
“Your alarm’s about to go
off in ten minutes,” Caden called from the doorway. He had a cup of coffee in
hand and wore only jeans.
I tried to keep my eyes
front and center, but I lost. The tattoos were a nice little zig-zag pattern,
pulling my gaze down, all the way down. Caden’s slow, smooth chuckle told me he
knew what I’d just done. My cheeks only warmed a little.
I shot him a look, falling
back to the pillow. “I feel like this should be the first skip day of my school
career.”
“You’ve never skipped before?”
I shook my head, rolling it
side to side on the pillow. “Am I missing out? Should I embrace my inner
deviant?”
He smirked. “You can skip a
class for any reason in the world. It’s your life.”
I sat up, eyeing that
coffee. “You were supposed to be the bad influence.”
His eyebrow lifted. “I’m
not selling it enough?” He lifted his cup. “You want some coffee?”
“I’m wondering if today is
the day I try coffee too.”
“You’ve never had coffee?”
“I’m beginning to think I’m
lame.” I thought about it. “Really lame.”
“You slept at some guy’s
house last night. Think of it that way.” His smirk was back. “Not so lame now.”
I could do one better. “I
slept at a fraternity house.”
“And you drank beer.”
“It was the second night in
a row that I drank beer.”
“See? Not so lame after
all.”
“You’re right.” I sat up.
“I’m halfway to total badass.”
He grinned. “We cuddled
last night, and you could think of it as dry humping. You almost got some last
night.”
Except I hadn’t, and we
were in the friend zone. Why were my hands curling around the covers into tight
balls? I glanced down and forced them to loosen, then shrugged, trying to be
the nonchalant badass I was.
“You carried me to bed.
Almost the same thing.”
Suddenly, the joking was
gone, and his eyes burned. I could feel his heat from across the room, and my
body reacted, instantly warming even before he said a word.
“Nothing’s the same as
sliding inside,” he murmured after a moment. “The feel of being in there,
feeling that clench around you, knowing you can push as deep as you want, as
hard or gently as you want. Nope. I’ve gotta step off the joke train for a
moment here. Nothing is remotely the same as that feeling.”
Fuck. My pulse spiked.
He tossed me a look. “Maybe
I’ll cop a feel the next time.”
I pretended to groan. “One
more notch on my badass peg. You better cop a feel next time.”
“Is that all I am to you? A
notch on the bedpost? I feel so used, Stoltz.”
Okay. My last name. We were
back on familiar ground here. But my grin was still a little shaky.
“Get used to it, Banks. I’m
only disguised as this plain Jane. Inside there’s a wild woman just waiting to
be let loose.”
He didn’t reply.
He stared at me for a few
more seconds, then straightened from the doorway. “There’s nothing plain about
you, Summer.”
I came to college with
daydreams about being with my stepbrother, but what would happen if I fell in
love with the anti-stepbrother instead?
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He told me to 'settle, girl.'
He asked if 'something was wrong with me?'
He said I was an ‘easy target.’
That was within minutes when I first met Caden Banks.
I labeled him an *sshole, but he was more than that. Arrogant. Smug. Alpha.
He was also to-die-for gorgeous, and my stepbrother’s fraternity brother.
Okay, yes I was a little naive, a tad bit socially awkward, and the smallest amount of stalker-ish, but if Caden Banks thought he could tell me what to do, he had another thing coming.
I came to college with daydreams about being with my stepbrother, but what would happen if I fell for the anti-stepbrother instead?
He asked if 'something was wrong with me?'
He said I was an ‘easy target.’
That was within minutes when I first met Caden Banks.
I labeled him an *sshole, but he was more than that. Arrogant. Smug. Alpha.
He was also to-die-for gorgeous, and my stepbrother’s fraternity brother.
Okay, yes I was a little naive, a tad bit socially awkward, and the smallest amount of stalker-ish, but if Caden Banks thought he could tell me what to do, he had another thing coming.
I came to college with daydreams about being with my stepbrother, but what would happen if I fell for the anti-stepbrother instead?
I didn't begin
writing until after undergraduate college. There'd been storylines and
characters in my head all my life, but it came to a boiling point one day and I
HAD to get them out of me. So the computer was booted up and I FINALLY felt it
click. Writing is what I needed to do. After that, I had to teach myself how to
write. I can't blame my teachers for not teaching me all those years in school.
It was my fault. I was one of the students that was wishing I was anywhere but
at school! So after that day, it took me lots of work until I was able to put
together something that resembled a novel. I'm hoping I got it right since
someone must be reading this profile! And I hope you keep enjoying my future
stories.
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