Drawn to You (Lover to Stepbrother)(60)

“Don’t tell me to calm the fuck down. I told you not to touch her. To stay away from her.”

“Honey, what is going on?” Marie asks, looking at us confused.

“My son is fucking your daughter.” She gasps and I pull my arm back, punching him.

“Don’t you dare!” I scream at him. He is huffing and puffing, but he knows he won’t be able to take me. I am bigger than he is, he knows it.

“Why do you think we are sleeping together?” Sasha asks softly. Xander glares at her.

“I knew all about you two years ago. I fucking heard you both at it after graduation and I told my son to leave you alone. I try and help him to get back on his feet and this is how he repays me?” He glares back at me.

“You knew?” Sasha asks him, shaking her head. “All this time and you knew, and yet you asked him to be my new bodyguard?”

“Only if he didn’t fuck up, but guess what, he did.”

“That night, when you ended it,” she looks to me, “it was because of him.” I look to the ground. I don’t know what to say to her. “You didn’t leave because you wanted to, but because you had to. That’s why you avoided me over the years.” I walk to her, holding her hands.

“What is happening?” Marie yells out with her hands in the air. “Sasha, you were with Colin?” Sasha nods.

“He was the guy I liked back in high school. The one I was in the arms of when you called that day. The one I fell for.” She looks up to my face.

“You were together when we told you we were going to get married?”

“We ended it, we stopped it. We tried to move on, but it was hard. I guess it ended again but it was because of Xander, I guess.”

“You knew about this and you never told me?” Marie yells at him.

“I didn’t want to hurt you,” he tries to explain.

“I knew after Colin left that something wasn’t right with my little girl. I saw the sadness in her eyes for years. She wasn’t the same. Now I know why. You shouldn’t have kept me from it.”

“But if people found out…”

“I don’t give a damn what people think. I remember seeing how my daughter was back in high school. I saw her glow and because of us, they put their happiness to the side, they were kids and they acted like grown-ups.” She walks to Sasha. “You should have told me.”

“You were so happy.” I see tears in both their eyes.

“So were you.” Sasha sniffs. “Do you love her?” she asks me.

“I always have,” I tell her, entwining my fingers with Sasha’s.

“Then be together.”

“Marie, you can’t be…”

“I’m not finished with you,” she interrupts him. “I don’t care what people think and I know they wouldn’t be outing themselves to us if they already haven’t thought about all that. My daughter is in love, fuck anyone who gets in the way.” I look to her and my mouth hangs open. I don’t think I have ever heard her swear.

“Your mom is so badass,” Aaron whispers in Sasha’s ear.

“Marie, it could ruin her career.”

“Her career is music and that’s it. Not her personal life. I want my baby happy, end of discussion.” She winks at me. “Take care of her.”

“I will.”

“I always told you, you were a good man. A little rough around the edges but a good man.”

“Thank you, Mom.” Sasha runs into her arms.

“Now that all the drama about you two is over, we still have a stalker and the media to sort out.”

“Xander will call a press conference and with the stalker thing, we will wait to see what he does now knowing that the media is around.”

“I’ll make some calls,” Xander says before heading to the kitchen.

“Thank you for being so understanding. I thought you would have killed me.” I smile to her.

“Don’t get me wrong, if you hurt her, I will gut you like a fish.” She pats my cheek before following Xander.

“I can’t believe you two are together. Just makes you wonder what would have happened if you spoke to her at the very beginning. You would never have broken up,” Aaron says and I glare at him.

“You really know how to put a damper on things.” Karen pushes him.

“Just saying.” He shrugs.

“Least we are together now.” I smile down to Sasha and she leans on her tiptoes, kissing my lips.





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I grab hold of the table, tipping it over, grabbing anything that is near me, and chucking it against the far wall. This is not how this was supposed to go.

He was supposed to back off.

Now the media is involved.

I can’t get caught.

I open up my tablet and scroll through some videos until I land on one of them all in the hallway near the front door.

Colin may think he was being smart by checking everywhere, but he should have looked at the photos that hung around the house. Or the mirror in the bathroom. I made sure I was two steps ahead.

I watch as Xander and Marie enter the home. I listen to every word.

My eyes trail to Sasha and she doesn’t look freaked. She actually looks calm, and when she walks to Colin, I feel anger seep into my very soul.