Secret: A Military Stepbrother Romance

by Irons, Aubrey

  Unfair doesn’t seem to cover it.

  I’m on CNN, smiling at the cameras and talking from the script about what a great mom-figure Eleanor is, and how awesome it’s going to be to be a family again. And it’s not that the words are bullshit or anything — she really is great, and I’m glad for her and for my dad — but it’s the principle of it that grates on me. It’s the fact that I’ve got to sit there and parrot someone else’s scripted, packaged, pasteurized and sanitized words that gets my blood boiling.

  And so it goes like that for a week; a blur of days where I’m crashing into bed every night wondering if I’m ever going to actually see Maddie again now that we’re family.

  *****

  “Mr. Ryan! Mr. Ryan!” The White House press secretary nods at the man in the third row waving his pen in the air. This is the fourth one of these fucking things I’ve done in as many days, and I’d like to think I’m getting to be pretty good at them. Still, having Irving there is a Goddamn life-saver.

  Not to mention, the fact that Maddie’s hanging out just off-stage after finishing her own press Q&A. It’s a nice little addition, considering I’ve barely gotten a chance to say hi to her over the last few days with the way things have been.

  Of course, not getting a chance to say “hi” to her isn’t what’s been keeping me up the last four nights in my room across from her. Not having a chance to “catch up” or “see how she’s doing” is not the reason I jerked off twice last night before I could fall asleep.

  It’s being this close to her and having less of a chance at getting into those panties of hers. It has me on edge. Yet, despite the cameras and the madness around us right now, it is nice to just be near her for the first time in days.

  “Uh, yes?” I squint through the flashbulbs as the man with the waving pen stands.

  “Mr. Ryan, how do feel your new circumstances affect your engagement to Ms. Carle?”

  It’s like a slug to the gut and I feel the wind knock right out of me.

  Oh you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.

  Ms. Carle, otherwise known as Anya.

  Otherwise known as my psycho ex-girlfriend, who’s apparently decided to outdo herself with her gold-digging, social-climbing, manipulative bullshit.

  I start to open my mouth and say something that will probably make Irving cringe, when something out of the corner of my eye catches my attention. I turn, just in time to see Maddie shoot this look — eyes narrowed, her mouth pursed shut — before she whirls and marches away.

  Fuck.

  I want to chase her. I want to run right after her, grab her by the arm, spin her around, and tell her it’s all bullshit. Except I know I can’t do that, even if I feel my whole body tense telling me to.

  Yeah, I can just imagine that headline: New First Son Chases After His Stepsister After She Runs Off In An Obviously Jealous Rage Over Remarks About His Ex-Girlfriend

  Okay, I supposed there’s a reason I’m not in publishing, but still, I’m pretty sure every cameraman and interviewer in this room could draw their own conclusions from that.

  Instead, my knuckles go white as I grip the podium and turn back to the man, wishing death and destruction on him as I smile thinly. “I’m currently unaware of any such rumors about any type of relationship between me and Ms. Carle, Mister…?”

  “Leland, with the Weekend Post, and Mr. Ryan, I’m not going off rumors, I’m going off the statement Ms. Carle herself made just twenty minutes ago.”

  I almost want to be impressed with Anya’s tenacity to pull something like this, especially since last I heard she was off in Europe somewhere involved with a Grand Prix racer or something.

  Amazing how fast she managed to get back to D.C. and cook up a nice big pot of bullshit for a shot at some camera time.

  “Well, then Ms. Carle is mistaken.”

  “Would you call this a lover’s quarrel, Mr. Ryan?” Another reporter stands and quickly blurts out.

  “I’d call it bullshit, actually,” I say with a smile, as Irving cringes beside me and a titter runs through the crowd of journalists. “Anyways, I think we’re done here.”

  I’m already marching offstage, my eyes searching the backstage area for Maddie as I hear Irving take over and step up to stem the rushing flood of questions that pour after me.

  Yeah, I’m going to get an earful for this one.

  *****

  It’s Maddie that bumps into me, actually, about five minutes later as I round a quiet corner of the West Wing looking for her. She gasps as she crashes into me, her hands going to my chest before she scowls up and pushes me away.

  “Fiancé?!” She hisses, her cheeks pink and her eyes wild and accusatory as she glares at me.

  I roll my eyes. “What do you think?”

  “I think you’re a dog and a manwhore, and that I have zero interest in being part of your stable of booty calls, actually.”

  “Stable of booty calls?” I grin at her.

  “Oh fuck off, you know what I mean.”

  “Will you relax? At what point when I was around you something like eighteen hours a day when I was still your detail did you get the impression I had time for anyone else?”

  “Someone like your ex or fiancé, or whatever the fuck she is?” she says heatedly, her hands balling into fists at her sides, her pouty pink lips pursing together.

  I smirk at her. “You know, you’re pretty cute when you’re jealous.”

  She barks out a cold laugh. “You wish I was.”

  “And what would you call this little display then?”

  She narrows her seething eyes at me. “I’d call it being pissed at being played into being your little side dish.”

  “Where do you get these terms, by the way?”

  Maddie groans, exasperated, and goes to push past me, but I grab her by the wrists and yank her against me.

  “You’re not my side anything, doll. Anya’s full of shit, she’s like that.”

  “Yeah I’ll have to take that into serious consideration,” she says angrily, fighting my grip on her wrists.

  I don’t let go.

  “Maddie, I’m telling the truth and you know it, despite this little jealousy act.”

  “I am not jealous!”

  “Bullshit,” I growl, pulling her close. It’s been days since I had her this close. Days since my fingers were inside her slick pussy making her come, and days of me dreaming about it every single moment — waking and sleeping.

  Damn, she feels good pressed against me like this. The scent of her hair teases me, and the heat from her body seeping through my shirt has me gritting my teeth and suppressing the growl in my throat.

  Her pink lips are still pursed together like she’s angry at me, but if she’s trying to get me to fuck off with that look, it ain’t working. Those lips are just a fucking temptation, even — shit, especially — when they’re pursed together and looking pissy like that. Those lips are like a challenge to me, and I want to take them. I want to claim her mouth with my own and feel those lips yield to me.

  I suddenly imagine her lips slowly parting as she looks up at me, and picture the softly pouty wetness of them sliding over the head of my cock while she’s there on her knees.

  Fuck. I haven’t been this close to her in days, and now it’s like a hit of drug crashing through my system all at once. It’s four days of pent-up denial in the face of temptation hitting me full in the face.

  “Let go of me,” she says softly, and I blink back to the present as I stare into those wild green eyes.

  “No.”

  “Excuse me?”

  I do growl then, as I pull her squirming body tight against me, loving the way she gasps feeling my cock throb in my pants.

  “I said no, princess,” I husk out.

  And —God help me — she whimpers.

  It’s not loud, and it’s actually barely indistinguishable from a whispered gasp, but I know what it is when I hear it.

  That’s the straw that breaks this camel
’s back.

  Her mouth is as eager as mine as I crush my lips to hers, pushing her back against the closed door behind her, growling into the kiss. She moans, her hands clutching at me and grappling at my shirt as I hold her face in my hands and kiss her hard enough to bruise.

  I want this girl, now. I want all of her, right now, come hell or whatever consequences. Because I’m through teasing, and I’m through with the games. I’m through with anything that isn’t feeling her slide onto my cock and listening to her cry out when she comes for me.

  I grab the door handle behind us, twisting it open, falling inside with her still desperately kissing me.

  And it’s only when we tumble inside the room that we suddenly freeze and then away from each other in shock.

  “Um—”

  We’re in the Oval Office.

  I don’t know how I managed to not realize where the fuck we were when I bumped into her in the hallway, but we’ve just fallen through the small side door right into the middle of the most famous office on the planet.

  It’s empty, of course, seeing as Eleanor is actually up in New York meeting with the U.N. General Assembly, but there’s still a sense of power and authority here.

  Yeah, you know what? Fuck it.

  I grab her and pull her back against me as I kiss her, pushing her back until her ass bumps into the fucking Presidential desk. Like I said, come hell or consequence, I’m not waiting another second to taste this girl; to feel her moan and writhe as I slide every inch of my cock inside of her.

  She pulls away from my lips with wide eyes. “Are you kidding me?”

  I grind my thick erection into her thigh. “You tell me.”

  She blushes, her breath catching. “No, I mean, here?”

  “Princess,” I say, reaching up to cup her jaw in my hand as my eyes flash into hers. “It’s going to take a fucking army to stop me from doing this right here, right now.”

  Her breath comes out in a gasp, and then she’s falling into me as I sear my lips to hers and push her back against the desk.

  She’s still wearing one of those ridiculous prim and proper skirt-suits her stylists keep insisting on putting her in for public events, like she’s Jackie O or Nancy Reagan or something. It shouldn’t be hot, with that sensible knee-length skirt, those modest pumps, and that damned blouse buttoned up to her fucking chin.

  Except fuck-all if it doesn’t get my cock harder than Goddamn iron. And maybe it’s because I know what those perfect, soft tits of hers look like underneath that blouse, or because I know that the cream-white hose on her legs are actually the sexiest fucking thigh-highs you can imagine, because I know she hates pantyhose.

  Or maybe it’s just the lingering memory of being one with her, and that one utterly unforgettable night of letting the fuck go, that I’ll never be able to get out of my head even with a million nights and a million girls.

  It doesn’t really matter, because right then, I do what I did that night: I let the fuck go.

  She moans into my lips as my hands tear at her jacket, shoving it off her shoulders and barely getting it down her arms before I’m tearing at the buttons of her blouse like some sort of animal.

  She’s whimpering “yes” as her hands slide over my chest, clawing down to my belt, yanking my shirt fervently from my pants as she tears at the buckle. Her blouse is still tangled at her elbows as I shove her back on the desk, pushing her ass up onto the historic wooden desk where bills and laws have been signed; where heads of State have sat and lived and breathed.

  Except none of that shit matters to me right then, because there isn’t a single fucking thing that could break my singular focus of tasting her in that moment. Her skirt bunches around her waist, and her legs wrap around mine as she tears my shirt apart at the buttons and then yanks me by the tie into her.

  My hand slides up into her dark hair, grabbing her by the nape of her neck and pulling her back sharp enough to make her gasp as my mouth finds her collarbone. My other hand slides between us, and she moans out loud as I find her wet heat, soaking through her panties.

  I start to push my pants down over my hips when she pulls back from me, her eyes flashing that same nervousness that just slays me every time I see it.

  “Wait, Hunter—” Her breath comes panting, her lips red and swollen from our kiss as that look blazes into my eyes. “No fucking.”

  I frown, gasping for a breath myself. “What?”

  Maddie chews her bottom lip as she looks up so innocently into my face. “No fucking; it’s too…it’s too weird.”

  “Fine,” I growl, mashing my lips to hers again, feeling my body roar as she whimpers into my kiss. “But I’m putting my mouth on you.” She nods slowly when she pulls back, her eyes wide and her chest flushed.

  She’s sexy as fucking sin with her dress pushed up, her blouse tangled on her arms and those damn pearls on. Jesus, I feel like I’ve got fucking Jackie and Marilyn laid out for me, and my cock throbs as I take the sight in.

  I lower my mouth to her neck, nipping at the skin there and teasing my lips over her collarbone and the tops of her breasts. Her black lace bra has a clasp in the front, and I tear it apart, growling as her Goddamn perfect pillowy tits pop into view. My lips wrap around one of her hard little nipples, my hands running over the softness of her skin and teasing down her belly to the edge of her skirt and panties.

  Maddie whimpers when I push her back flat onto the Resolute desk and run my hands lower over her soaking wet panties. I start to yank them down her thighs, but I make the decision to just rip them off in my eagerness, and she gasps when they snap away from her.

  She’s open and bare to me, and fuck if it isn’t the hottest thing I’ve ever seen.

  Madison Adams, sprawled across the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, with her blouse tangled in her arms, her perfect tits with those swollen pink nipples thrust up to the ceiling, her skirt bunched around her waist, and her legs spread wide for me. Her pussy is wet and pink and glistening as I find myself moving my lips to her belly button, before sliding over to her hip and biting gently at the skin there.

  I’m running my fingers up and down her thighs, teasing her and making her purr and whimper as my mouth slips lower, moving over the bunched fabric of her skirt to her thigh before I trail wet kisses down between her legs.

  “Oh, fuck…” she whimpers as I nip at her thigh and inhale deeply, loving the scent of her as it fills my nostrils. I bury my tongue in her heat, growling as I lap at her honey, desperate to taste her and desperate for more.

  Maddie cries out, grabbing my hair in her fingers as her hips buck against my mouth. I’m sliding my tongue deep as I taste the honeyed sweetness of her, before I wrap my lips around her clit and let my tongue dance over it. I slide my fingers up to her opening and push two inside, feeling her writhe against me as I curl them up and forward, coaxing them against that sweet spot right inside as I tongue her clit.

  I’ve got the President’s daughter, my fucking stepsister, sprawled out across the desk in the Oval Office with my fingers buried to the hilt inside her pussy and my lips wrapped around her clit as she moans and bucks against me, her hands raking my hair and her cries filling my ears.

  We’re off the deep end now. This isn’t just inappropriate anymore, this is a national fucking scandal.

  But nothing in the world is going to stop me from tasting her when she comes on my tongue.

  And when she does, her whole body explodes against me. Her pussy tightens around my fingers, her thighs quiver, and her cry comes choking and gasping as she holds me tight against her slit and coats my tongue with her cream.

  And fuck if I don’t want more.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

  I’m coming.

  I see stars, my toes curl, and my breath is stuttering in a broken staccato as the wave crashes over me, and I shatter to pieces right there on the desk of the Oval Office. I gasp for air as I gently push Hunter away from me, feeling the tremors roll through me as he stands, grin
ning at me.

  Holy shit.

  And then I’m melting into him as he pulls me up and kisses me, and I can taste myself on his lips which somehow only drives me crazier as his hands cup my face. I pull back, grinning up into his face, seeing those piercing blue eyes blazing with heat and fire, and I close my eyes as I lean in to taste those lips again when we both suddenly jerk apart at the sound of voices outside the side door to the office.

  Oh my God…

  “Move!” Hunter is dragging me off the desk and pulling us behind it, with me having barely enough time to grab the jacket to my skirt-suit and kick the torn remains of my panties under the desk as he drags us around it.