Her Billionaire Werewolf Stepbrother (2 page)

Finally, she sleeps. Jane has
always been cranky when she’s tired. I know that she’s out because her mouth is
working. Her front teeth are moving against her bottom lip. It’s sexy and it
makes me harder if that were possible. I’ve wanted her since I met her. The
moment I laid eyes on her I knew. She’s mine. My mate.

She was a child at the time.
Fifteen. Our parents met and mated when she was fourteen. I was away at school.
Dad called, gave me the details and told me I had a new sister. I admit that I
was a little jealous at first. He was going to act like a father. I stayed at
school because he hadn’t bothered to be a parent since my mother passed. I was
seventeen then though so there wasn’t a lot of parenting left to do. This woman
that he met was new to the pack and her mate was gone. I never asked where he
went and to this day I don’t know if he’s dead or alive. I should probably ask.
When my classes ended that summer and they weren’t offering the two that I
needed to graduate early, I came home. May as well meet the new family. She was
fifteen and amazing.

The first time I saw her, I walked
through the front door of the house I grew up in. There she was on the couch. Her
back was on the part of the cushion that you sit on, her ass pressed against
the cushion where your back goes, her feet dangling over the back. Upside down.
Her long dark hair was hanging down and pooled on the carpet beneath her. She
had headphones on, and was blowing bubbles with her gum while she read a book. I
watched her for a moment because she hadn’t seen me yet.  When her mouth
twisted into a smile and she nibbled her lip at something she read, I knew I
was a goner. My cock turned to granite and the wolf inside me pushed. It wanted
to claim her. The air condition came on then and her scent drifted over me.
Heaven. Every cell in my body lit up and for the first time I felt alive.

She was wearing shorts and a short
tee shirt that exposed her belly. I wanted to lick it. Suddenly ocean blue eyes
were on mine and she growled. So cute, that little growl. Suddenly she whipped
her legs back over her head and she was on two feet. She yanked the headphones
off and threw them down. “Who are you?” She shouted. I put up both hands to
ward her off. She’d never overpower me, not even now she wouldn’t be able to
but an angry she-wolf is nothing to mess with.

“I’m Jake, your new brother.” I
remember giving her the cockiest grin in my arsenal. That was a mistake. She
wigged.

“Mom!” She screamed. A tall woman
with golden hair up in a sloppy bun came around the corner.

“You must be Jake.” She hurried to
me and gave me a hug. “You look just like your father.” She stepped back. “You’re
early. That’s okay.” She turned to face the girl. “Sorry Janie, we’ve just been
so busy, I forgot to tell you. Jake’s been at school but he’s going to stay
here now until January, right?” She was looking at me again. I gave her a nod. Her
eyes were the same blue as Janie’s eyes. I knew why dad wanted her. “His room
is across from yours.”

“I know where his room is mom and I
know he’s been at school. Why is he here till January?”

“The two classes I need to graduate
are only available in the spring. So instead of wasting money on classes I don’t
need, I thought I would come home and meet my new family.” Sandy hugged me
again and patted my stomach. “Just like your dad.” She winked up at me then
started back toward the kitchen. “Dinner in fifteen minutes kids.” Jane
gathered her things and headed for the stairs. She looked at me sideways as she
passed me and I gave her my best smile. She scoffed and hurried up the steps.
Her door slammed at the top.   

I picked up my duffle and took the
stairs two at a time. My room had been left untouched except for regular
cleanings. That must be the new mate because dad wouldn’t have bothered. Not a
speck of dust anywhere, the carpet freshly vacuumed and the bed smelled like
dryer sheets. I put my bag down on the end of the bed and crossed the hall to
her door. Ours were the only rooms up here. Hers used to be my mother’s sewing
room. It had sat empty for a few years and it was where I went when I missed
her. Now this angry little girl that would bear my pups one day occupied it. I
opened her door. She had her back to me and was pulling on a tee shirt. I could
have that bra undone and on the floor in less than two seconds.

“So you’re Janie.” I said. She
startled, yanking her clothes down, she whirled on me. “Nice to meet you.” The
girl had fire in her eyes. She was pissed. I closed the door after giving her another
cocky grin.

I wondered if she knew then what I
knew. I lean over and kiss her forehead. So beautiful and mine. How am I going
to make her understand? Janie’s body knows. I scent what it knows. You can’t
hide arousal from a wolf. I see the way she trembles sometimes. I smell the
wetness between her legs but still she always puts me off. She won’t admit it.
I am going to have to convince her that it’s not only real but that it’s okay. I’ll
work on real first. I have to get her to go back with me.

She moves closer to me now until
her nose is pressed to my chest. Her wolf knows, I think her wolf always knew
but Janie would rather pretend she was more human that wolf. My cell vibrates
in my pocket and I pull it out. The office. I’ve been wrapping up things as
quickly as I could for the past week so that I wouldn’t be bothered but
sometimes it can’t be helped. Since I’d lost my assistant a month ago, there
was no one to run interference. I answer it.

“Yes.” I say it quietly because I
don’t want to wake her.

“Mr. Williams? This is Scott in PR.
We have a problem with the Adams project and the roll out will have to be
delayed.”

“Send it to me and a description of
the problem.”

“Yes sir. Right away.”

“Anything else?” I’m still quiet
and watching her.

“No sir.” I disconnect. She stirs
in her sleep when the phone beeps off and her stomach grumbles. Dad says she
hasn’t eaten much in a week. ‘She’s only picking.’ He’d said. I saw her
earlier. I’d stood behind her for almost four minutes before she sensed me.
That’s dangerous for our kind. She’d stood there stirring soup lost in her own
world. It was selfish of me to make her wait a week for the funeral but I knew
what else I would do here. I am going to claim her.

I’m worried. She seems so lost but
I am going to put that light back in her eyes. I have plans for Janie. She
doesn’t know any of them but she will soon. Her lashes flutter. Fifteen
minutes. She’s not sleeping and she’s not eating. “Fuck.” She hisses. “Why are
you still here?” She’s glaring at me and I can’t help that I only feel
compassion.

“I was waiting for you to wake up.
I want to take you somewhere.” I decide in an instant what needs to happen. My
mate needs to eat and sleep.

“Where?”  She asks.

“You’ll see. Get up unless you are
going to sleep more.” Janie sat up and swung her feet over the side. I grabbed
the bowl of lukewarm soup and saw her nose crinkle. “Not in the mood for soup?”
She shook her head. “That’s okay.” I follow her out of the room and down the
stairs. I put the bowl in the kitchen sink and grab my keys from the hook. Her
jacket is on the back of a chair and I pick it up. I resist the urge to hold it
to my face because she’s watching. I don’t want to freak her out. “Come on.” I
toss her the jacket and go out the front door.

“Typical.” She says going to the
car. I lift a brow. “You riding around in this red fiberglass penis. I thought
she’d like it when I bought it. Now she’s making fun. I’ll sell it as soon as
we’re back in the city.

“Get in.” I slide behind the
steering wheel and start it. The engine rumbles under me and I know she feels
it. I quirk half a smile and back out of the driveway. I take the turns with
ease and push the pedal down when we hit a straightaway. I’m going to feed her.
She is going to eat if I have to force it down her throat. I pull into the
hamburger joint. This was always her favorite. It’s a mom and pop joint where
the girls still come to your car with a tray. They have old fashioned
milkshakes and huge cheeseburgers. The fries are hand cut and limp but have a
unique flavor that will keep you coming back. It’s always crowded and today is
no different. The blonde teenager runs over to me. She looks disappointed when
she sees Janie but asks for my order anyway.

“Two cheeseburgers, fries and
chocolate shakes.”

“Sure thing, coming up.” She walks
toward the building scribbling on her pad.

“I’m not hungry.” Jane says staring
out the window.

“Yes you are.” I shift in my seat
to give her my full attention. “Your stomach was growling while you slept and
it’s why you aren’t sleeping. You need to eat sweetheart.” Her eyes snap up to
mine. I’ve never called her that but when I think of her it’s what I call her.
“We need to talk Jane. Not right now but we need to talk.”

“About what?” She is so angry and
I’m not sure she even knows why. I know why though. That’s the wolf. She feels
like mine. Incomplete and lost. Her wolf is desperate for her mate, so is mine.

“Us.” She makes a face.

“What about us?” Jane’s forehead is
creased over her nose. She doesn’t understand. It’s unfathomable to her.

“Later.” I hear the blonde coming.
She’s cracking her gum. I hate that noise. Bubbles are so much sexier.

“Okay, two shakes, chocolate, two
fries, and two cheeseburgers. Anything else?" I hand her a twenty. “Be
right back.” She says grinning, giving me a chance to be her hero. I bite but
not to be her hero, more to get her away from us.

“Keep it.” I tell her and take the
food off the tray so she can take that with her. She tucks it under her arm and
walks away swinging her little girl hips. I turn to Janie. She’s stuffing fries
in her mouth so I keep my thoughts to myself. I bite into the cheeseburger.
Heaven. Nothing’s changed. I hear her little moan as she eats. My heart speeds
and the wolf pushes again. I push it back. Janie takes a huge bite of her
burger and I know she’s going to be okay. I keep eating and I watch the people
stirring around on the other side of the windshield.

I don’t know what he keeps trying
to say. All I know is that right now, this cheeseburger is the best thing I’ve
ever eaten. He was right, I was hungry. Leave it to Mr. Fabulous. I suck the
shake up through the straw. The chocolate hits my brain like heroin hits an
addict. I shiver it’s so good. I see him look away. My wolf is jumpy. I need to
run but now with all of this cholesterol flowing through my blood I’m getting
sleepy. He was right about that too. Sometimes I hate that he knows everything.

I finish my food and settle back in
the seat while he gets rid of the trash. I see the blonde talking to him. She’s
petting his arm and brushing her boob up against him. “You don’t have to try
that hard honey, just offer and he’ll nail you behind the building.” He turns
and looks right at me. The window is still down. I stifle my giggle. He heard
me. I put my hand over my mouth and look across the parking lot out of my
window. I don’t care. What I said was true. He would nail her because he would
nail anything with a pussy. I can’t count how many women I’ve heard scream his
name. Some of them still echo through my nightmares. He settles in the seat
beside me and starts the car.

“No, I wouldn’t. She’s too blonde.
I like brunettes.” He said and drove out of the parking lot heading for home. I
feel my eyes getting heavy and let them close. I’m exhausted and there is no
reason not to catch ten minutes on the way home.

When I wake, I’m in my bed. It is
morning and I hear birds. God they’re noisy. I left the window open again. I
could get another hour if the windows were down. I feel his hand on my hip
then. Why has he suddenly become a fixture in my bed? “It’s only six. Go back
to sleep.” He says against my ear.

“Can’t. Noisy birds.” I manage to
say. He rolls away from me and gets up to close the window. He’s in boxer
briefs, only boxer briefs. “Why are you in here Jake, go sleep in your bed.” I
pull the sheet higher on my shoulder and it dawns on me that I am only wearing
the tank top that I sleep in and my panties. He’s undressed me. He took my
clothes off and redressed me while I slept. I don’t remember doing this myself.
He’s done this. Oh my God! I scream it inside my head. Jake has seen me naked!
Then my mind settles around that. He saw me naked and I don’t feel like I’ve
had sex. So staying away from my naked body wasn’t hard for him. I almost cry.
Plain pudgy Jane, what did I expect?

He’s climbing back into my bed and
snuggling up behind me now that the window is closed and the blinds are closed
and down. The room is darker. “Your room is over there.” I point at the closet
because beyond that is his room. I don’t want him here. He’s seen me naked and
was unaffected.

“No.” He says and kisses the back
of my head. What the hell? “I told you that we need to talk. I guess since
you’re obviously wide awake, it’s time. I wanted to catch another hour of sleep
and I wanted you to catch at least two but…” He sighs. “You’re my mate Jane.” I
laugh. Not one of those elegant little lady chuckles either. One of those big
from the gut guffaws. I roll over and stare into his face, I’m still grinning.
He’s not. I swallow, hard. “Sorry to disappoint you but yeah.” I shake my
head.  He nods. “I’ve known since the first day I met you and I think deep down
you do too.”

“If you’ve known since then why
didn’t you say?” I narrow my eyes on him. If he is then why didn’t he wake me
when he had my clothes off?

“You were so young and had so much
in front of you. I wanted you to have that childhood.” He grips my chin with
his finger and thumb to tip my face up so he can look directly in my eyes.
“Your wolf knows. It’s why you’re so cranky.” I raise one eyebrow. Calling me
cranky will not win him any points. “Anyway, your child hood is over. Your mom
is gone and there is nothing holding you here. You will return to the city with
me, we will mate and you know that rest.” He leans down and kisses my lips
softly. “On Monday you will start your job as my assistant.” I jerk away.

“I didn’t go to college for four
years to be your assistant.” He grins. It’s that sexy smile that always gets me
wet and it occurs to me that maybe he’s right. Maybe I have always known. It
doesn’t make it right though. I’ve spent the past four years around humans and
if we went to his place in the city we would be surrounded by them.

One thing that I learned is the
rules on incest are pretty clear. It’s a no-no. Humans would not like it that
step siblings were now living together and screwing on a regular basis. The
wolves will get it and none of them would raise an eyebrow. Mates are mates and
that’s that. As far as they’re concerned our parents were mated but we are not
related any further than pack. They expect us to produce pups if we are mates
and to be productive members of the pack. It’s so much simpler with them. It
wouldn’t even phase them if I took up with Dad. He’s now unmated and available.
Any she-wolf is fair game for him, young or old.

“So you object to being an
assistant not to being my mate. Good. I want you to be my assistant so that you
can learn the business from my side. You will be privy to meetings, memos,
hiring, firing, everything that I see, you will see. In a year we will marry
for their benefit and you will become a full legal partner.” I nibble my lip.
“Don’t do that.” He flicks my bottom lip away from my teeth with his thumb. “I
want to mount you but not this morning. We have to get through the funeral
first.”

“Does Dad know?” I ask. He nods.
“And she knew?” He nods again. I think about a few conversations that we had,
me and Mom. The last one, in the grocery store when I was checking out the
cashier. ‘He’s not a good catch sweetheart. Jake is a good catch, that human is
a waste of potential.’ I remember answering, ‘yes Jake is a good catch but Jake
is my brother.’ She’d scowled at me then and got lost in thought. We’d had
another conversation about that before too now that I thought about it. When
I’d first gotten home from school. She said something about me finding a mate
and I told her that nobody ‘did it’ for me and she’d chuckled and said ‘except
Jake’. I remember saying ‘har har’ incest is best put your brother to the test.
‘He’s not your brother, I didn’t spit him out.’ She’d told me. I’d argued and
said ‘well the world would see that differently.’ She knew. She really did
know, all this time, she knew we were mates. She’d picked that fight on purpose.
She’d sacrificed herself so I wouldn’t see him as my brother any more. Damn
her. Why would she do that? She died for my future. A tear slid down my cheek.

“You’ve put two and two together.”
He says quietly. I nod. “Come here.” He’s pulling me into his arms and wrapping
me in them. It feels good and wrong all at once. “I know you’re having a hard
time with this. She said that you were fighting it. That you were afraid of the
world and what they would say when they found out what we were. That’s why you
will assist for a year then we will announce our engagement. I have a whole PR
department to handle it, they’ll announce it then spin it. It’ll be fine.
Meanwhile, we carry out my plan.” Tonight when we get back to the city, I am
going to claim you.” I swallow. I remember all those women.

“You said that you’ve known since
the moment you saw me.”

“Yes.” He pulls back and looks into
my eyes.

“If you’ve known since the first
moment why did you screw all those women? I had to listen to that, sometimes
more than once and sometimes to different ones in the same day Jake.” My brows
furrow. “Are you going to continue that kind of behavior? I don’t think I can
be with someone who would cheat.” I try to free myself and he tightens his
arms.

“Do you have any idea how hard it
was to not mount you the first day? I was a wolf with raging hormones. I wanted
you so bad that I was a walking hard on all the time. I couldn’t get you out of
my head, or out of my nose. I scented you constantly and you tested my will to
the extreme Janie. I’m surprised I’ve been able to wait this long.” I stare at
him. “Every girl I took in there, every girl I’ve ever taken was just a warm
body, just a replacement for you. You were always in the front of my brain when
I fucked them. I can’t get off if I’m not thinking about you and for your
information I haven’t been with anyone in a very long time.”

“Bull shit.” I glare at him. “I saw
you on the front page of the Times with a slinky woman wrapped around you. She
look very satisfied, like she’d just finished in the car.”

“She had.” I roll my eyes. “She
hiked her dress up and used her hand. I never touched her. She thought to tempt
me like that. It didn’t work. I watched, I’m not a prude but I had nothing to
do with her look. She wanted to make me hers and thought that was how to do it.
When the evening came to an end, I dropped her at her door and I left her
alone. I can’t think about anyone but you anymore. I told your mom a couple of
weeks ago that I couldn’t wait that I was going to claim you. She agreed it was
time.”

“You talked to Mom?”

“Often. Your mom was cool. She got
it. She understood. Dad didn’t like it though. He always thought that you should
have a shot at other men. So, to satisfy everyone, I waited. He wants me to
give you a choice. So I will. I’ve told you what I want and what I have
planned. If you strongly disagree, you should say so now.” His eyes flashed at
me. He felt strongly about this, about making me his mate.

“You’ve had years to think about
this, I’ve had two minutes.”

“Either you find me completely
disgusting and offensive or you don’t Jane. It’s not a difficult decision.” A
short laugh barked out of me. “Not really Jane. Me, my wolf and your wolf are
in agreement. It’s only you holding this up. I purse my lips and one corner of
his mouth lifts. I breathe deeply. Why is this so hard? He’s right, of course
he’s right, and when has he not been right? God it’s annoying. All those women
screaming his name and he was thinking of me. No women because he can’t do it
without me. Huh. I didn’t see this coming, that’s for sure. I know my body
reacts to him but I’ve never known if it’s because my body wants sex or if it’s
because it wants him.

“Kiss me.” I demand and he moves
closer. I want to see what the wolf inside me does. He takes my hands and pins
them over my head moving closer. My nipples go hard and all my lady muscles
clench. Nothing from her though. Jake leans over me and his weight covers me. I
watch him and finally his lips meet mine.

He kisses me, really kisses me. His
tongue moves against my lips and I open them for him. It moves against mine,
brushing erotically and sending throbbing blood to my center. That’s when I
feel her push. She wants him, wants to submit, and wants to be claimed. That
controlling bitch! All this time she never let me feel even Luke-warm toward
anyone until right now. No, not true, she’s always made me feel things around
him. He’s right. Mr. Fabulous is right. I’m his mate. I don’t want to wait. I
want him to claim me right now. One of his legs is between mine and I hook my
free leg around his hip. He thrusts against me and groans, my heart jumps. I
want this. He breaks the kiss.

“Later. We have to get ready.” His
lips touch mine as he talks and I still haven’t opened my eyes. I lift my head
and kiss him again. I want more. He rolls away and gets up. I open my eyes and
see it tenting his boxers. He’s huge. We’ll never fit. I know my eyes have gone
wide when he runs his hand up the length. “All for you Janie, but later.” I
swallow the new lump in my throat.  “Go shower and get ready. The funeral is
soon and you still need to eat.” Shit he’s right. We’ve been talking a long
time and now I have to go bury her. The woman who sacrificed her life so I
could let myself be happy.