Tool (A Step-Brother Romance #2)

I didn’t know if the camera crew was behind me or focused on the blow job. What a choice for them to have to make. Both would make equally good television.

I felt strangely calm as I walked through the house, my heels echoing on the marble floors, click-click-clicking through the hall. I passed the photos of us on the wall, the framed pictures of ski trips and Paris and Bora Bora and the tour with the band. I entered his room, the one where he kept the things he loved, the vintage baseballs and cards. The walls were lined with rock memorabilia, the gold record and the guitars he collected. Shelves of stuff signed by his friends, mentors, his idols.

I picked up a bat, this collectible thing that was his pride and joy. I stood there holding it. The objects in here were priceless. Mostly irreplaceable. It was enough to give me pause for a moment. I didn't take stuff like this lightly-I wasn’t one to just destroy precious objects.

But I brought the bat up to my shoulder.

Swing, batter, batter.

And I started smashing.

I heard them behind me. I heard them running, their footsteps, his voice indignant, hers shrill. The camera crew was saying something. But no one touched me. Not yet.

I’m sure someone will call security. They should. I think the producers have security.

Everyone was about to hate me. No one expected this kind of thing from me. I could already hear my mother’s disapproving voice in my head.

This kind of behavior is unacceptable in public. No matter what happens, you smile for the camera and behave with grace.

This was definitely not grace.

But could you blame me?

In exactly three and a half hours, I was supposed to marry that man on live television, the one with his cock lodged in my sister’s throat in the middle of the foyer in our house.

When I got in the car, I waited until I was on the highway to take the SIM card from the phone and toss it out the window, watching it bounce on the road, shattering into pieces.

The shards of my life.

So why the hell did I feel so relieved?