Brother Blues_Stepbrother MC Biker Romance

by Terri Lane

  “So wet,” he moaned happily. “So hot for me.”

  Once she got used to the unusual way that this felt, she pushed back against him a little, arching her back in pleasure. She loved learning anything new and exciting, and this was definitely that.

  “Do you want me?” Travis eventually growled, sounding pleased with himself. His words sent a bolt of lust screaming down to her core, causing her to moan. He loved hearing her going wild, and it made her happy to be able to turn him on too.

  “Yes,” she said, her breaths were coming out short and labored as she slowly started to lose herself. “Yes, I want you. So fucking badly.”

  Luckily, Travis didn’t have much control of himself either, and there was no way that he could keep up the teasing. He lay over the back of her, and slid in inch by inch.

  “Oh fuck,” Abbie screamed in surprise. “That’s amazing!” It was so much better than she’d been expecting. It was an angle that left her panting and keen for more.

  Her desire quickly had him thrusting hard and powerfully against Abbie, leaving her unable to catch my breath long enough to sigh or gasp, never mind speak. He was taking her, consuming her, and there wasn’t a damn thing that she could do about it.

  Weirdly, that helplessness she felt was incredibly erotic! She loved it.

  As a hot pool of pleasure began to spread over her body, she felt crazy with lust, like a wild animal unable to even think anymore. The pressure built until magnificent waves crashed over her, turning her into a bucking, quivering mess.

  “Oh Travis,” she cried out in the moment of ecstasy, thinking only of him. “You’re fucking amazing.”

  ***

  As she woke up the next morning, naked and entangled with Travis, Abbie began to really panic. Without the haze of lust fogging up her brain, she could clearly see what a mess she’d made of everything once more. She had come to Travis’s home hoping to clear up some of the confusion that she’d gotten herself in to, and she found herself leaving in an even worse state than before.

  When she was around Travis, it was as if the rest of the world didn’t exist. But when she was around Rex, it was the same. Whoever she was with was the one that she wanted – but she certainly couldn’t keep that up forever. Everyone would end up getting hurt – and that was the last thing that she wanted. She had stumbled into this mess by mistake, but Abbie wasn’t one to upset others. Especially not when it was people that she had real feelings for – and she really did have a deep emotional connection with both of these men. She wished things could be more straightforward.

  And now she’d just made things a million times harder for herself by sleeping with Travis and leading him on – what was she going to do? How was she going to resolve this?

  She needed to get out of here, to have some real time alone, and away from both men, so she could make up her mind. She didn’t like causing anyone pain, and it didn’t matter what she did, she kept getting herself tangled up more and more.

  She wanted Travis and she wanted Rex too, but she knew for a fact that she couldn’t have both. That was a ridiculous impossibility that would never come to anything, which left her needing to choose.

  She slid out of the bed quickly and pulled her clothes on, trying to remain as silent as possible. She couldn’t wake Travis up while her brain was all over the place – she didn’t know what she would even say.

  Scared of having to have yet another awkward conversation, she took the coward’s way out and left Travis a note, before making her escape into the cold outside world.

  Hi Travis,

  I’m sorry to run out like this but I really need some time alone to think. I hope you can understand that and I will be in touch soon.

  Abbie x

  As she ran home, feeling stupid and frustrated with herself, her mind raced everywhere. Now, not only was she indecisive, she was a terrible person too. She remembered how awful it had been for her to come home early to find Greg – her boyfriend of three years – having sex with someone else, and it was awful. It had torn her heart and her life apart.

  Okay, that situation was totally different because Abbie had actually been in a committed, long term relationship with Greg, whereas she didn’t have any commitment either to Travis or Rex. But it still felt bad.

  She made a decision to herself that she would get this sorted out once and for all in her mind. She couldn’t keep going like this, stringing them both along. She really needed to make a decision before things got out of control and all three of them got hurt. She cared about both men so much that the last thing she wanted to do was make any of this worse than it already was– especially when she knew what they’d all been through themselves.

  Travis hadn’t been letting anyone in for six years, because his ex-wife had cheated on him with his best friend and they were still together now. Rex had his life under a spotlight which caused him a lot of personal and family issues, especially as his mother was very religious, so she knew that neither of them needed any more pain or anxiety, just as much as she didn’t.

  Take this lesson, she told herself as she snuck indoors. Learn from it. Make things better.

  ***

  The rest of the week passed in a haze of indecision, despite Abbie’s best intentions to do otherwise. Travis didn’t contact her. That made her feel relieved and sad all at once. She also knew it wouldn’t be long until Rex would make his call, and she still wasn’t sure what she wanted. She had thought of nothing else, and almost driven herself crazy, but she still wasn’t totally certain either way. She wasn’t sure if she’d always been this hesitant, but there just didn’t seem to be any easy answer.

  She knew that whatever happened, she was going to have a difficult conversation with Rex too, and that she was dreading. It might have gone better than expected with Travis, but that certainly didn’t mean that the same was going to happen with Rex.

  Ring, ring.

  As her phone rang on the week mark, almost on the dot, displaying Rex’s number, she felt herself turn to jelly.

  Oh God, oh God, oh God.

  “Hello?” she stammered as she picked up. “Rex?”

  “Hi Abbie.” He sounded far too happy for her liking – and she was terrified that his hopes were too high. She knew that he’d said he would understand if she didn’t want him because of the media intrusion, but actually she wasn’t concerned about that.

  “Hi, Rex. How are you?”

  “Good. Are you free today to go out for a coffee?”

  Oh God, this is it! The meeting to discuss their potential future.

  “Erm… yeah sure,” she stuttered. “Sounds good.” Even she could tell that her words sounded hollow, but Rex didn’t seem to pick up on that – he must have been so happy that she’d agreed to meet with him that he didn’t hear anything else.

  As he reeled off a time and place to meet him, she started to panic. This was actually going to be so much worse, because she was going to have to admit to sleeping with Travis during her week of thinking time. It was almost cheating. Not quite; they weren’t officially a couple, after all. But it was in the same ballpark. After what her ex-boyfriend had done to her, she despised cheating and she hated feeling like she’d done something similar.

  “Okay,” she finally answered him breathlessly. “Sounds good, see you then.”

  There was nothing more for it, she needed to just face this before it ate her up alive.

  ***

  Luckily for Abbie, Rex was running late, which gave her a few moments to sip her coffee in peace while she tried to steady herself. On the outside she was cool, calm and collected, but inside she was a total mess.

  He burst through the doors, somehow making a grand entrance without even trying to, and joined her at the table. Watching him do this, she felt that familiar warmth that could only come from him. He made her feel safe and special, which was a wonderful contrast to everything that she’d ever experienced before. There was something about Rex that made her feel like she cou
ld give him her whole life, and that he would take real good care of it. Not only was he awesome and adorable, he was a great friend too – which was exactly how their union had begun.

  When she was with Rex, she wondered how Travis had come to be in the picture – but when Travis was around, she couldn’t think of anyone else. She didn’t know how she was supposed to deal with that.

  “So how have you been?” He asked her, grinning brightly. “It’s weird being back from Hawaii, huh?”

  “Yeah… really weird…” she trailed off, unable to keep up any pretense of a normal conversation.

  “What’s going on?” Rex asked, seeing right through any façade. “Are you okay?” The concern across his face was really upsetting, especially as she knew that it was only going to get worse.

  “I… I have something to tell you,” she said. Almost right away he sat up straighter, expecting the worst. “Before I came to Hawaii, there was this guy. I… I liked him, and I thought he did too, but he rejected me. And that hurt. That was why it took me a while to get close to you.”

  “Okay…” he drawled, a little confused. He clearly didn’t understand why she was telling him this.

  “But the closer I got to you, the more I liked you. And I still do, so much.” The anxiety was coursing so painfully through her that she could feel herself on the verge of having a panic attack.

  “But…?” he asked, sensing that he wasn’t going to like where this was going next.

  “But then he met me at the airport, and he asked me to be with him, and I’m sorry to say that I slept with him. And now…”

  “You had sex with him?” Rex hissed. “I’ve spent all week missing you like crazy, and you’ve been screwing someone else?”

  “It isn’t like that…” she tried, but it was too late. He was already giving her an awful look, hating her almost as much as she hated herself.

  “I just… I cannot believe you. I thought that you were different.” He shook his head at her, displaying how badly this was affecting him. “I cannot believe that you’re the same as everyone else. I thought…” he looked at her with tears in his eyes. “I thought you were better.”

  She had nothing to say to that – she was dumbstruck. She thought that she was a better person too, and to learn that she wasn’t was a bitter pill.

  Her silence seemed to say it all because he stood up, scraping his chair noisily along the ground and storming out – leaving her behind, devastated with only her now cold coffee for company.

  ***

  Abbie spent the entire night crying on and off, feeling utterly heartbroken at the mess she’d created. She’d lost Rex forever in the worst way possible, and she knew that she only had one person to blame – herself. He was such a lovely man, and he really deserved so much better. She knew for a fact that if she hadn’t met Travis, she would have been able to be the girlfriend that he deserved – and that sucked.

  Timing was everything, and with this situation, everything about it was all wrong.

  If she’d lied, and said that the media aspect was too much and that she wouldn’t have been able to handle the constant intrusion, they could have still been friends. But now, she doubted that he would ever talk to her again, and for that she couldn’t blame him. She knew that she would feel the same if he’d done the same to her.

  As the morning came around, she heard someone hammering on the door. She blearily got up, not understanding why her parents hadn’t answered the door, but it only took one quick glance into their bedroom to learn that they weren’t at home.

  They had never been a particularly close family, but it was still a little unnerving not to know where they even were.

  Knock, knock.

  Knock, knock.

  “Coming,” she eventually called out, not wanting to see whoever it was.

  However, when she swung the door open, and she saw his warm face, she felt glad that it had been her to greet him.

  “Rex?” she gasped in shock, her heart racing as she tried to figure out why he was visiting her at her home. It seemed totally bizarre after the way they’d left things yesterday. “What are you doing here?”

  “I came to say I’m sorry,” he told her sadly, looking only at his shoes. “I reacted so badly, without giving you the chance to explain, and I feel awful about that.”

  “No,” she insisted, wanting desperately to grab him and hold him close – how the hell was he being so understanding? She didn’t even know what to think about that! “This is my fault, not yours. I know what I did was wrong.”

  “Look, let’s just forget it okay?” He stared back into her eyes, a deep sincerity there. “Neither of us were committed to one another, and what you did really doesn’t have to stand in the way of something that has the potential to be really great. Sure, it’s a little weird, but I’m honestly so into you that I’m willing to give it a go.”

  “You are?” she asked, stunned and feeling a little nervous. She couldn’t believe how seemingly easy and honest he was with his emotions. She wished that she was the same. “Alright.” If he was actually willing to forgive her, then surely she shouldn’t push that to one side just because she felt guilty?

  “So let me take you out on a date tonight,” he pleaded with her. “Let’s start afresh and really give this thing a go.”

  She didn’t know what to say… but right now, he was here, and she wanted him.

  “Okay,” she nodded, feeling incredibly guilty. “That would be lovely thank you.”

  She thought of Travis, it was a distant thought. Her heart hungered for Rex. Even as he turned to go, she couldn’t stop thinking about him.

  She mulled it over in her mind. Maybe if I see this date as just ‘giving us a chance’ then it won’t be so bad? I spent time with Travis and gave him a shot, so surely this is only fair, too?

  But she couldn’t even make herself believe that. She was perfectly aware that all she was doing was digging herself an even bigger pit, but no matter what she couldn’t see how to stop.

  ***

  Abbie’s bad feeling didn’t subside until she and Rex were in a club together, having a few drinks and really loosening up. It felt so good to be back by this man’s side – he really did warm her up. Sitting there with him, she wasn’t sure how she could possibly choose Travis over him. Their time in Hawaii had been truly amazing, and now that they were back together it was as if they hadn’t ever been apart, for even a second.

  Argh, why did she have to like both guys so damn much? Why did it have to be so difficult? How did someone who used to lead such a boring life end up in this mess?

  “Abbie?”

  The voice came from behind her. Startled, she spun around to see Travis there, staring down at her.

  “How are you?” he said.

  Thump, thump.

  Thump, thump.

  Thump, thump.

  Her heart went wild, pounding so loud that she couldn’t hear anything else. Her worst nightmare had come true. Travis and Rex were in the same room – both kind of aware of the other one – and she was stuck in the middle. If things were going to go wrong, and she was going to lose both men, it would be now.

  “Oh I… erm…” her face flamed as she flickered her eyes between both men. This was the worst thing that could have ever happened, and she didn’t know what to do with herself. Her blood had run cold and her body almost shut down completely as the anxiety threatened to consume it. “H… hi…”

  This was it – her punishment for screwing around with two men. She was finally getting her comeuppance.

  “So, Rex huh?” he asked her with a knowing look in his eye. “Rex is the one from Hawaii.”

  Of course he knew Rex well – he was the one who had organized the job for her. How could she have forgotten such an important detail?

  “Wait,” Rex jumped in suddenly, not giving her a chance to answer Travis’s question. “The other guy you’ve been with is Travis? Travis Bunney?”

  Tears welled in her ey
es. She nodded quickly, wanting to get this over with as quickly as possible. She expected an onslaught from both men. She expected them both to tell her exactly what they thought of her. But instead there seemed to be a weird competitive air instead, and no one called her out on anything.

  “So, are you on a date?” Travis asked, but he was no longer talking to Abbie. In fact, he wasn’t even looking at her, but he had puffed his chest out in a display of dominance.

  “Yes,” Rex snapped back. “We are actually, so if you wouldn’t mind leaving…”

  For a second, she feared that there might be some sort of fight, but instead Travis plastered a serene smile on his face. “No, no I would like to buy the love birds a drink instead.”

  He spun around and spoke to the bar tender. Abbie tugged on Rex’s arm, wanting to say something to him, but he didn’t react to her at all – focusing only on the man that he now knew was his competition.

  As they all sipped their champagne in a stilted silence, Abbie could feel the tension rising. The men were oozing testosterone around her, and it was sending her a little wild. The thought of them fighting over her was almost too much.

  Even though she knew that it was very wrong to feel that way, Abbie couldn’t help but find it quite exciting that she was the prize – after spending years blending into the background, basically being ignored, being the center of focus for these two men was maddeningly erotic.

  “Would you like to dance?” Rex tried, pulling her towards the dance floor, but Travis wasn’t done yet. Even though he didn’t have an invite, and it was clearly a way to get rid of him, he joined them on the dance floor, where they all started to awkwardly move in time with the music.

  Now that the competition had been taken to the dance floor, it seemed to step up to another level. Abbie was just about overwhelmed with it all. The men seemed to compete to spend as much time brushing against her as possible, and Abbie quickly became consumed by the crazy, heightened sensations all over her body. She couldn’t help but think about what it was like to be with both of these men – how different they both were – and it sent intense bolts of lust all the way down to her panties.