Alpha’s Baby(37)

“What on earth are you two doing in here?”





Chapter 17





Stefan





In an instant, I saw shock register on Bella’s face as the door to my bedroom swung open and panic gripped me. Moving incredibly fast, I pulled back from between Bella’s thighs and shoved her away from me, quickly jumping up from the bed and out in front to obstruct the view, hoping Bella would pull her pants on in time.

Garbed in a red evening gown made of silk, her hair done up into a French bun, Evelyn, my stepmother, strode purposefully into my bedroom, looking ready for battle.

She came to a halt in the middle of the room, and I briefly wondered if she had seen me between her daughter’s legs.

If she had, we were up shit creek. There was no way I was going to explain that shit away.

I could already see the look of outrage on her face.

Evelyn placed her hands on her hips and stared at me suspiciously. “What were you two doing?” she demanded.

Don’t crack, don’t crack, I chanted to keep calm. What made matters worse was that I had a boner as large as the Empire State Building. Good thing my cock was pointed downward in my jeans so it wasn’t sticking out in a way that was obvious.

I casually took my forearm and wiped Bella’s sweet juices from my lips. “Nothing,” I replied, thinking fast. I nodded to a half-empty coke can that was conveniently sitting on the nightstand next to my bed. “I was just sharing a drink with Bella, talking about what we planned on doing now that we’re back at home.” I cringed inwardly, hoping she’d accept my flimsy excuse, keeping my exterior calm and collected.

Evelyn peered around me to get a better look. Behind me, I heard the bed creak and I hoped that Bella had gotten her pants on in time. “You sure about that? You two scrambled away from each other faster than two squirrels chasing after a nut as I walked in.”

I let out an inward sigh of relief and relaxed. She hadn’t seen what we were doing after all, and I chuckled nervously to myself.

Before I could reply, Bella was at my side with a scowl on her face, her arms crossed around her chest. She had apparently managed to get her jeans back on in time, though her clothing looked rumpled.

“Jesus, Mom,” Bella hissed with venom. “Do you know how to fucking knock?”

I could tell that Bella was using faux anger to deflect some of Evelyn’s curiosity, but I didn’t think it was necessary. It was obvious Evelyn hadn’t seen me whipping Bella’s pussy with my tongue, so there was no need for the extra theatrics.

Evelyn appeared taken aback for a moment by Bella’s rage. “I didn’t think I had to, seeing as this is my house and that you two just got back home. I was just coming up here to tell Stefan something, and I didn’t realize you were both in here,” she replied when she had regained her composure. “And I most certainly don’t appreciate how you’re talking to me. You may be grown now, but you're still my little girl. I know Stefan says you were having trouble at school, but that doesn’t mean you can come home and take it all out on me.”

“Well, learn some basic manners and I won’t have to,” Bella snapped.

I nudged Bella with my elbow, hoping she’d take the hint. She was taking the fake anger thing a bit too far.

Evelyn stared at her scowling daughter, looking like she was about to explode. I knew I should head things off before things got out of hand, so I moved forward, put my hand on her elbow, and then led her out into the hallway.

“Evelyn,” I said, lowering my voice so Bella wouldn’t hear once we were a few steps away from my bedroom. “Please don’t take anything Bella says to heart. She really is going through a rough time after what happened at school. I’m sure she doesn’t mean to act this way.”

Evelyn glanced at the doorway to my room, looking like she wanted to march in there and grab Bella by the hair and demand an apology. “Why do I think that you are making up excuses for Bella again, hmm? You don’t think I remember how she acted before you guys left off to college? You saw it yourself.”

“But this is much worse than that,” I pointed out, not in a million years willing to say that I knew exactly why Bella had been acting that way, or that I’d been treating her like shit intentionally because of our mutual desire and inability to do something about it. Instead, I fell back on our cover story, which wasn’t really all that much of a cover. “Bella was harassed by a pack of assholes the entire time she was at NSU. She’s traumatized and is having trouble dealing with it.”

Evelyn gave me a hard look and I tried to quell the surge of anxiety that rose inside.