Stepbrother OMG! (The Stepbrother Romance Series #2) by Claire Adams Page A

Jaxon was my step-brother when we’d had sex. I
didn’t even know for sure that he’d known. I wondered if he had—if he’d found
out before or after. Had he been nice to me before because he knew his dad was
going to marry my mom? Had I been reading into his attention too much from the
beginning? No—if he hadn’t meant to have sex with me, he wouldn’t have made a
pass at me in the frat house. He would’ve kept it to friendly banter.
    My head was spinning. Just get through this weekend, I told myself. Pretend like nothing ever happened with you
and Jaxon and deal with the rest of it later. We all sat down at the table
and someone began bringing out food. I should have realized that with a house
like the one he had, my new step-father would have at least one or two people
working for him—a gardener, a house keeper—but it was weird to watch my mom
chatting with Jaxon’s dad, both of them looking into each other’s eyes and
beaming like high school kids in love, while someone was putting a bunch of
food on the table in front of me. It wasn’t—thankfully—an incredibly involved
meal; chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, normal food and not anything fussy
or obviously high-end. I looked across the table at Jaxon and wondered if he
felt half as mortified as I did. My mom and Jaxon’s dad were obviously
incredibly into each other; they reminded each other of cute little stories,
capped each other’s jokes, and they almost didn’t seem capable of keeping their
hands off of each other.
    It was obvious to me, at least, that they were still
in the honeymoon phase. I wondered to myself—a little bitterly—just how long it
would last. I was shocked that they were married at all. They’d only been
dating a handful of months; it wasn’t like my mom to just rush into a
relationship that serious so quickly. Bob
must be really good in the sack, I thought to myself, looking at Jaxon’s
dad. It was pretty easy to see the resemblance between the two of them. All of
a sudden, I thought of the fact that Jaxon himself was good in bed and I felt
my face burning as I realized I was actually—against my will—thinking of my new
step-father having sex with my mom. I tried to distract myself, to think of
absolutely anything, but the fact that I knew Jaxon was well-endowed and good
in bed, and that his father might be too.
    “It’s so good to be a family together,” Mom said,
looking from Jaxon and me to her new husband. I suddenly didn’t feel very
hungry, in spite of the fact that before I’d gotten the news about my new
family members, I’d ben starving.
    “Yeah,” I said, forcing a smile for Mom, who I knew was just fired up for the holidays. “It’s…it’s
nice to get to know everyone.” Jaxon’s dad grinned, giving my Mom’s hand a
squeeze. I picked at my green beans, making myself eat a few, trying to both
avoid looking at Jaxon and not seem like I had anything in particular on my
mind.
    “Are you feeling all right, Mia?” Mom asked me.
    “Fine,” I said; my voice sounded annoyingly chirpy
to my own ears. “Fine, just tired. It’s a long way out
here from the college.” Jaxon’s father laughed.
    “I’m surprised you got here so much later than Jax did,” he said. “You two go to the same school; I
thought you’d get here about the same time. You could’ve even car pooled.” I
swallowed down a lump of potatoes.
    “Ah, well, I mean—we didn’t even know each other.
We’re not even in the same year,” Jaxon said with a shrug.
    “Yeah,” I said. “It’s a big campus, tons of people.”
I shoved some more food in my mouth to keep myself from talking.
    “I got out of my classes early—Mia probably didn’t,
or something like that.” I swallowed hard and took a long sip of water to keep
from choking on a piece of chicken.
    “Yeah, I couldn’t get out until this afternoon, it
was lame.” Mom and Bob nodded and I was just grateful that they bought the idea
that Jaxon and I