My stepbrother looks right through me like I don't exist—except the one time he doesn't.
When he gives me a look like he's undressing me with his eyes before storming out of the restaurant, I chase him down. I get in his truck. Refuse to get out until he tells me what the hell is going on.
But he's not about to take orders from me. Instead, he takes me home to his place in the middle of nowhere.
Gulp . I messed up. Because he's done pretending I don't exist. He's giving me more of his attention than ever before, and I quickly learn I was wrong about him all long. He wasn't ignoring me to be a jerk, he was ignoring be because that was the only way he could keep me safe... from himself.
A Tempted Step is a standalone novella of about thirty-two thousand words. No cliffhangers, lots of steam, some dirty language and a HEA.
Enjoyable story, although I think too much emphasis was placed on Luna's past relationships, and then to find out about her limited actual experience? I get that the theme of this story is unconditional acceptance, but it didn't need to come up quite so much. I was surprised she even went as far with Duncan as she did given how hung up on her father's approval she was. A little background as to why it was so all important to her might have been nice.