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Obsession can come in many forms. Some are healthy, others not so much.

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-Chapter 32--Hidden desire -

"It's time for all of you to go to school now. "My mother announces as she looks at everyone in the living room, especially at Kevin. Who looked like he would kill someone if anyone said something that he didn't like.

My mother takes the photo albums right back upstairs, leaving us all here in a stuffy atmosphere.

My gaze first lands on Kevin. He wasn't even covering up his emotions, anymore. His eyes were narrow, as his jaw was clenched tightly. It almost seemed like they were about to break if he kept clenching them that hard.

My gaze landed on what he was staring at with so much hostility, and it was Emma. She was conversing with her father. A cute smile adorned her face as she placed all her attention solely on him.

Why is he mad when she is just speaking to the damn guy?

Then I see it. Richard has his right hand on her shoulder as he chats with her.

Really, Kevin... This guy never really changed. He's too stupid to notice that he's being too damn possessive with his things. I already saw this coming from a mile away.

I'm surprised that he hasn't exploded already.

He doesn't like it when any male touches what's his. He'll get aggravated and hostile towards those who touch his toys. That is one of his childish behaviors that he doesn't seem to conceal from me very well. And every time he gets a new one, he keeps getting worse.

I hit him lightly with my elbow at his side to get him to stop looking like he wanted to kill Richard. And bury his corpse in a random cemetery. The last thing I want is for Richard to notice that Kevin sees his daughter not as a step-sister but a potential woman to fuck.

He's making it too damn obvious, his temporary toy was gaping between him and Emma like if she's trying to connect the dots... It didn't take a genius to see what is going on here. He needs to get himself under control before someone finds it odd that he's acting this way towards his step-sister.

He snapped his cold sharp gaze at me, and I raised an eyebrow at him in question. The look that I was giving him was one of warning, to keep himself under control and wipe that deep frown off his face. The last thing I need is more problems to fix.

Don't get me wrong, I'm furious too. My temporary partner of the month just had to make things worse. By opening her damn mouth, too fucking much.

How dare she make Emma unhappy. The painful gleam in her dark doe eyes didn't go unnoticed by me. She looked so hopeless that all I wanted to do was to make her smile just a little. Maybe make her something delicious to eat to ease down the sadness that was building up in her eyes and projecting clearly on her body language.

But I'm not losing self-control, unlike Kevin.

Kevin is not only furious. No… He's also jealous of the attention Emma is giving her own damn father. His envy is showing clearer than the damn clear sky on a bright sunny Monday morning.

Mother has noticed that too. That's why she hasn't taken her sharp blue eyes off of him this whole time… indicating that she already knows that he is interested in Emma. And she definitely knows he wants to fuck her.

But she doesn't know how to stop it. Could you imagine when Richard starts noticing too? He would send Emma to his parents to be raised by them in another country. No doubt in my mind Emma is going to have a hard time with them when they only communicate in Spanish.

Plus, Who wouldn't keep an eye on Kevin? My mother isn't the only one keeping an eye on him every single second of the day. Observing that he doesn't do anything when he's in the same space as her.

My twin is worst than a fucking ticking bomb. At least the damn ticking bomb has a damn timer, to let people know when it's going to blow the fuck up and devour everything in its path.

Good thing, Richard is dense like a damn rock. How can he not feel that? The damn tension between his daughter and Kevin that was hard to miss, even in a storm.

Who am I kidding? He probably knows and he is pretending to be oblivious just to not face it head-on.

My eyes locked with Emma for a tiny moment, her dark eyes seemed a little watery under the soft lights that casted down on her beautiful sad features that I have grown to adore this past few weeks.

My heart squeezed a bit when she quickly snapped her dark gaze back to her father. For some reason, I felt dissatisfied that she did that, again.

Maybe... This is how Kevin feels when he doesn't get her attention for a long period of time. It's just rough being deprived of her attention and her cute smile that she throws at you when you humor her.

Sigh… Emma has been a little distant from me.

Is she angry with me? She hasn't even altered a single word at me that says otherwise.

Did I do something wrong to cause her to be so upset with me? Of course, she's upset.

My poor choice of accepting Kevin's stupid idea on playing boyfriend with this bitch was now destroying everything, I tried building-up with Emma for the past few weeks.

How Emma rejected me earlier, isn't sitting right with me. No, I didn't like it one single bit. It was hard to ignore this aggravating feeling inside my chest that kept growing the more my mind pondered on what went wrong to have caused this outcome.

And when she yanked her smooth hand out from mine, a strong painful sting struck my heart. It was a feeling I never experienced before.

My hands are aching to hold hers again, and touch her… Already missing her soft delicate hands in mine. She is a piece of my puzzle that I can't afford to lose.

She was finally opening up to me. She was getting comfortable with me being more around her. Fuck.

Yet, Somehow... She seems so uneasy to hold my gaze, right now as if... She's trying to avoid me, altogether. She seemed so closed off from everyone except her father.

And this uneasy feeling inside my chest kept growing the more I observed her quietly.

It can't be a fraction of my imagination, right? Fuck… I need to fix it fast. I can't lose the progress I struggle so hard to build with her. I can't have her closing herself off from me, again.

Richard calls both of us to the kitchen, leaving Emma and the girls in the living room.

Kevin hesitated on leaving Emma with the toys like he likes to call them.

He's too kind to call them that. I call them temporary sex buddies, and for good reasons. For me, that's all they're good for, nothing more, nothing less. And probably they think of me the same way, a stress reliever whenever they need it to blow off some steam.

They aren't good at holding a serious relationship, they always end up cheating or thinking that they own you and can control you just because you stick your dick in them a few times.

Look at Mike and his girl. Poor guy doesn't even know what hit him. And he's not the only one with that problem; many more in school have that problem too. Loyalty doesn't exist in that place. Only a fool will believe their partners are loyal and emotionally involved in the relationship.

Unlike my little angel, who is much more interesting than having her in fours... Although I don't mind having her like that, too.

In all honesty, I would be lying to myself if I don't accept that I have been fantasizing about her more, lately. On top of that, all my sexual dreams are flooded with images of her getting fucked by me.

Images of her short rapid moans, while I pound into her, swarmed my mind at this very moment. Just thinking about my wet dreams that plague me every night was getting me hard. And this wasn't the time to fantasize about her like this. Not in front of all these people and especially not in front of her.

We were now at the dining room, Richard gestured us to both sit down, and so we both did without question.

What is so important that he couldn't tell us in front of them, to have us come all the way here. We could have done this in the living room.

Damn it, That stupid bitch better not even open her mouth to say something stupid to Emma, when I'm here listening to what ever Richard wants to say in private.

"Emma will start attending school with you two, tomorrow. I hope you guys don't mind, " Richard let out with ease, eyeing both of us to see our reaction to the news.

Wasn't he sending her to an all-girl school?

I thought that they made the papers and everything to transfer her inside an all-girl high school. A frown slowly appears on my face as my lips sit in a hard line.

"Wait, isn't she going to an all-girl school?" Kevin asked as he frowned in confusion.

"The closest one is too far for her. I wanted her to go to an all-girl school. But I can't do that anymore …. I need someone to keep an eye on her when I'm not around." He softly sighs out as he runs his right hand through his dark hair in frustration.

Kevin is not delighted with that idea and it is reflected on his face when his brow deepens more and his body language becomes hostile.

If it was me… I'll keep Emma locked up in her bedroom. Too not let anyone see her, or touch her, or worst of all hurt her.

Especially when there are too many players in our school. Who likes girls like her, all innocent and defenseless. And easy to mess with. Easy to break.

"Why do we have to look after her?"Kevin says with curiosity evident in his low voice... But I know deep down he was more than just curious.

Now, my curiosity spiked. Is there something he's not telling us about Emma? Is she sick? I'm sure she's not. Or maybe I'm mistaken and haven't caught on to it yet.

Richard tried to avoid our curious gaze, thinking that we'd lose interest if he did that… But it wasn't working out in his favor at all. Instead, it just spiked our curiosity more.

"I don't know if I should tell you both this… I don't want to place more burden on you two."

I nearly rolled my eyes at this guy. Really, this guy is beginning to irritate me with all this indecisiveness. Is it that hard to just spill it?

"Just tell us if it has to do with Emma. " He's making me lose my patience the more he prolongs on spilling out what is going on. My tone came out sharper and colder. I wasn't in the mood to be pretending, anymore.

"Keep this between us, okay. The cops informed me that her stepfather nearly broke out of prison a few days ago. They warned me to take extra precautions in keeping her safe… Not knowing if he is going to attempt to do it again and succeed on his second or third, fourth, or fifth attempt.

He as you both know was the main person who abused Emma and is extremely obsessed with her. So much so that's all he talks about in prison, is what he did to her to his cellmate.

I concealed this information to ease her mind, so she won't have another panic attack now that she seems to be getting well. And has been opening up to people.

The cop warned me to not leave her alone. But I can't watch her when she is in school. And I'm worried he'll succeed in breaking out and come and kidnap her or worse hurt her. " Anger boiled in me, the more he let out words. He's really telling us this shit now.

What was this guy fucking thinking not informing us about this problem earlier? Now, I need to keep a very close eye on her.

That bastard better stay as far away from what is fucking mine. If he ever crosses my path or Emma's, I'll eliminate him on sight. He will regret ever being born or breathing the same air as her.

"Your mother and I were planning to make her study abroad in Italy or... in the Dominican Republic with her grandparents... If you guys find it too much to handle. " That fucking bitch had already a fucking plan to send Emma far away from us. Wow, should I be impressed or surprised that she always finds a way to always get her way? She had that under her sleeve not giving away anything this whole time.

From the corner of my eye, I can see Kevin getting even more pissed with Richard, and that made two of us.

Who wouldn't be pissed? We have a right to be when these bastards were going to send her to another country so far away from us.

Wow... No wonder my mother seemed almost delighted these past few days… But her little celebration ended today. Emma is not going anywhere. I'll make sure of that.

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Please ignore any bad grammar, for now, I'll fix that in the future.

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