Revenge
By E.M. Denning
Publisher: Paper
Gold Publishing
Genre: Stepbrother Romance
Content Warning: 18+
On the heels of
a horrific break up, Summer is looking forward to having a couple months at
home to lick her wounds. After a run-in with her ex leaves her reeling, she
does something she’s never done before—has a one-night stand.
Hunter watched
Mitch treat Summer like crap for months, so he was relieved when they broke up
for good. Even better was when she invited him to her dorm room the night
before they left campus for the summer.
The morning
after comes with a surprise neither of them saw coming—Summer has a new
stepbrother.
I stuffed the
last of my clothes into a duffel bag and then zipped it up. My second year of
college was complete, and I was ready for a relaxing summer free of stress. My
life was a never-ending cycle of drama, and it all revolved around a guy I
could no longer stand. I eyed the box of his belongings and groaned. I’d have
to return his stuff sooner or later.
I sighed, picked
up the box and headed to his dorm. I should have felt some sort of emotion, but
all I could muster was irritation that I’d wasted two years of my life on
Mitch. The first year was great. We were inseparable. Young lovers who did
their best to be together as often as we could. We spent a lot of time finding
places to screw. I should have dumped him at the beginning of the year, I
thought as I lugged the break-up box across campus.
I came to his
door and set it on the floor. I could walk away and leave it there for him to
find, then I worried someone would take it. There wasn’t anything of value, but
it was his stuff. I picked it up, balanced it on my hip and knocked on the
door.
The door swung
open, but it wasn’t Mitch. His cousin, Hunter, opened it. They were also
roommates and best friends.
He rolled his
eyes. “What do you want, Summer?”
Hunter stared at
me. More like glared. He and I weren’t exactly friends. We had the same major
so we shared a lot of the same classes. There was an unfriendly competition
between us to see who could end up at the top of the class.
I shoved the box
at him. “See that Mitch gets that, will you?”
Hunter took it
and peeked in the top. “No problem. What’s in it?”
I scoffed. My
irritation at Mitch and this whole shitty year spilled over. “It’s all the shit
he left lying around my dorm.”
“So you two
really are done, huh?” Hunter took a pink teddy bear out. Mitch had given it to
me after our last reconciliation. “This was his?”
“No, but I don’t
want it anymore.” I didn’t want anything from him ever again.
Hunter laughed
and dropped the bear back into the box. “What happened with you two, anyway?”
I crossed my
arms over my chest. “As if you don’t know. He probably tells you everything.” I
turned and left, but moments later, Hunter walked beside me.
“Did you get
your chemistry grade?”
I nodded. “I
checked this morning.”
“And?”
I looked at
Hunter from the corner of my eye. “None of your business,” I spat.
I increased my
pace, but his legs were longer than mine. Even if I sprinted, I wouldn’t get
away from him.
He smirked and
shoved his hands into his pockets. “Yeah, I knew I beat you.”
“Excuse me?” I
stopped and whirled to face him.
“The only way
you wouldn’t brag about your grade is if it was shitty. So I beat you. Good to
know.” He turned on his heel and walked back toward his dorm.
“Asshole.”
E. M. Denning is
a writer from British Columbia. She loves her family and her animals and
anything cute and fuzzy. She was born a hopeless romantic and when she’s not
writing romance, she’s probably reading it. She loves love.
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