Chapter 10

Have I mentioned how much I hate how easily my body betrays me when it comes to Linc Tanner? He is my goddamned stepfather for fuck's sake. Why can't I find some other middle-aged man to feel this way for? I will take any other man but him.

No matter how much I like to deny it, we are related. Not by blood, but something that might be worse. We are related by commitment. Loyalty. All the things that bound him to my mother. This attraction to him started as a rebellion, but now it has evolved into something completely out of my control.

An uncontrolled flashback to that night a week ago rips through my mind, and I feel the heat rise up my neck. I kissed him back. Recklessly. I wrapped my leg around him, wanting more. I wanted more. And he gave me just what I was demanding, and then I ran away like a coward.

"Let's start," Linc says to the room, his voice authoritative and incredibly hot.

I zone out. The more the meeting progresses, the harder it gets for me to keep m