Serena_Moon

"Sterling, what have you done?"  I whispered, my voice trembling.  "He was just asking for help!"

My stepbrother's eyes, usually a deep emerald green, now glowed with predatory amber as he shifted partially back from his wolf form.  His breathing was heavy, primal.

"He was too close to you, Aurora.  His scent was all over you."  Sterling's voice was eerily calm as he wiped blood from his hands onto his dark jeans.  "No man approaches what's mine."

Mine.  That word made my skin crawl.  I wasn't his.  I was his stepsister, not his possession.

Claimed By My Stepbrother's Obsession

My heart hammered in my chest as I stumbled away from Liam's house. The look in Kaelen's eyes—that cold, murderous fury—played on repeat in my mind.


"I should walk you home," Liam had insisted, his face etched with concern.


"No!" I'd practically shouted, gathering my purse with trembling hands. "I'm fine. I'll take a taxi."


I couldn't risk it. Couldn't risk Kaelen seeing Liam with me. Couldn't risk what he might do.


Now, sitting in the back of a taxi, I kept checking over my shoulder, certain I'd see Kaelen's sleek black car following us. The driver glanced at me in the rearview mirror.


I nodded stiffly. "Fine. Just... drop me a few blocks from the address I gave you."


The taxi slowed to a stop three blocks from Kaelen's—our—house. I handed the driver cash, including a generous tip.


Chapter 49