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BLAZING INFERNO: Step Dad's Mine

Chapter 4 Back Home

Word Count: 2229    |    Released on: 23/02/2024

she'd been absent-minded, wondering how to approach her mother and what the woman would say on seeing her. She pulled her cardigan more clos

was wondering why she'd decided to run away from home in the first place. But if she

ha

ucination. Every moment with him, however short, had been right in place, save the moment he

hing the front door of her house, and her feet automatically halted. Her heart began to po

s no way to avoid the situation, she would have at least preferred to sleep through it and

ual form. The light at the front revealed her mother haggard and pale. Alethia felt a wave of emotion sweep over her, leaving her dry as well so that her eyes co

took a single retreating step, but her mother was already wrapping her t

," she said, sobbin

lt. She made this happen, and

I'm sorry I ma

kay, baby. It's my faul

my fault. I w

ed her out to make sure she was okay, like a treasure that had been out of its shelter and back in its p

Alethia down on the couch and q

r mother came back with a steaming cu

cold, honey.

other, until her mother mad

ng to eat? Should I m

om. I'

side Alethia on the couch and c

ness! You

ogize to her mother, but Alethia wasn't even given a single chance to do so. And the more she got treated delicately, the more she felt the guilt

om's hands and adj

I'm

n, Emily couldn't

as she searched fo

lming. I wish your father was here. He would have known what to say..." she pa

all. Maybe there was no point reminiscing on her father's time with them and letting it hold them back from movin

n her face as she picked the beads of tears with her knuckles. They were both in

fferentiate her mother's Ethan from the Ethan she had earlier met, but it came out as such, and he

should leave

fish. You do deserve to be happy, and if this Et

ghter's approval of her new man, but given th

to make you feel t

rry I've been so laid off. You needed my help aro

ad we're here now, at this moment. At

and maybe because the man was not in the house yet. But she was ready to take the situation as it had

You don't know how

welcom

er which they both moved into Aleth

ong night so that she has more

*

tering and ready to make sail. As the air became more chilly, she wrapped her hands around her body and tried to make her environment. Somehow she felt like a stranger as if she'd just been thrown only to land whe

lethia found herself smiling more widely now, reminiscing on one of the many memories she had of her father. Maybe this particul

er these past few days was because her mother was always still head-bent on going to work while her father

e reckoned she'd rather leave the environment than die in the cold hands of the weather. But

it would take a magnificent kind of miracle to meet him again since she'd thought he was only her imagination. But there he was, staring into hi

anket?" He said and t

was smiling from the. movement at the side of his lips. She watched his neck and down to his broad

na bore a hole through my face

rit had been heightened to the point where she was starting to im

. Alethia cringed and held still. Her breath stopped in her throat, and her heart became heavy as she held onto the little inkling

xpecting so

sense of the sheer awareness of his presence, so her body was lost to numbness. She

. She could feel a jolt of electricity running through her spine as his hand moved further down to caress her cheek. T

t want to escape anyway. She wanted more of what he was doing to her body, arousing her carnal desire like she'd never felt before. There was something about this man that drove her nuts for reasoning

she'd earlier wished could get a room and save her the sight of them devouring each other outside were n

no escap

here, P

feet, she struggled to stand straight. Then she felt his hand on her back, thinki

you tremble

ming hot with pleasure and more desire. She looked into his eyes. He was smiling with those lips. Those darn beautiful lips that she could barely resist. Well, why the hell should she resist? He'd been the one to

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1 Chapter 1 Prologue2 Chapter 2 Emily & Alethia3 Chapter 3 Alethia met Ethan4 Chapter 4 Back Home5 Chapter 5 Fantasies6 Chapter 6 The Beginning7 Chapter 7 Hate or Love 8 Chapter 8 Almost9 Chapter 9 Steamy Night10 Chapter 10 Complicated11 Chapter 11 Jealous or not12 Chapter 12 Dilemma 13 Chapter 13 Jealousy 14 Chapter 14 Let's hate him15 Chapter 15 We hate, and we love16 Chapter 16 You make my heart go wild17 Chapter 17 Breathless18 Chapter 18 We are broken19 Chapter 19 Finding a boyfriend 20 Chapter 20 Tension and love21 Chapter 21 His allergic reaction 22 Chapter 22 At the brink of death23 Chapter 23 Kiss and guilt24 Chapter 24 Untold feelings25 Chapter 25 Bad timing 26 Chapter 26 Love lessons27 Chapter 27 Hearts and brains28 Chapter 28 Drop dead gorgeous 29 Chapter 29 Apology and retaliation 30 Chapter 30 Retribution31 Chapter 31 Desires32 Chapter 32 Naked desires33 Chapter 33 Your image in my head34 Chapter 34 The proposed proposal35 Chapter 35 The unrest and a breath of fresh air36 Chapter 36 Do you love me or not 37 Chapter 37 Carnal desires38 Chapter 38 The morning after39 Chapter 39 We're not having sex today40 Chapter 40 Restrictions 41 Chapter 41 Sex, please...42 Chapter 42 These Feelings...43 Chapter 43 The case44 Chapter 44 Emergency 45 Chapter 45 Working the case together 46 Chapter 46 A narrow escape47 Chapter 47 The cheaters 48 Chapter 48 The big question49 Chapter 49 When disaster loomed50 Chapter 50 Another narrow escape 51 Chapter 51 Sixth senses 52 Chapter 52 Caught53 Chapter 53 Confusion 54 Chapter 54 The impulsive confrontation55 Chapter 55 Taking sides56 Chapter 56 Losing ourselves 57 Chapter 57 Longing, but staying away58 Chapter 58 Without him, life is...59 Chapter 59 Nowhere to run to60 Chapter 60 When can we make love again 61 Chapter 61 Love and love62 Chapter 62 Epilogue