Page 12 of Sac-rifice (RBMC: Cleveland, Ohio Chapter #7)

WORDS ARE IMPORTANT

SAC

Past

“S hane, will you double knot this for me?” Cor asked, running into my room with her hands over the tiny triangles she called a swimsuit.

“Yeah,” I said, pushing the word out of my incredibly dry throat, forcing myself to stare past her and into the hallway. I refused to look at her again. She was my best friend’s little sister. I shouldn’t gawk at her the way I was and tying her top for her shouldn’t make me nervous, but I was.

“You know that requires looking at me and not staring at the wall, right?” She pouted, knocking the Nintendo controller out of my hand before she dropped onto my lap.

I held my breath and pinched the sleek fabric between my shaky fingers.

This summer break was going to kill me, and we were only on the second week.

“Earth to, Shane.” She glanced over her shoulder at me, and I gulped when the warmth of her words touched my face.

Her body felt so good against mine, forcing me to use every ounce of concentration I had to make my stupid fingers work.

“I’m sorry. I know your games are important to you, but I couldn’t ask Tate to do it.

You know how he is. Ever since we both hit puberty, he’s acted all weird around me, like I’m suddenly a different person because he has three chest hairs now.

” Her shoulders rose and fell rapidly, and she giggled, “Isaac is all ick, you have boobs . So he definitely wouldn’t tie this for me without insisting I wear one of his shirts over it.

It’s not fair. If you guys get to go shirtless, I should be able to wear this.

It’s a double standard, and I don’t like it.

At least you don’t treat me differently. ”

Her face turned toward me, and her body shifted with the movement. She was going to fall if I didn’t catch her. I dropped the strings and wrapped my hand around her, grabbing the first thing my fingers found. Her body slipped down my knees and stopped when her back smacked against my chest.

I closed my eyes, and she gasped, both of us realizing all of my fingers were firmly planted around her tit.

Her nipple hardened against my palm, and I know I wasn’t the only one who felt the tip of my cock wedged between her ass cheeks.

I didn’t want her to be my best friend’s little sister anymore.

Honestly, describing her as such hadn’t sat well with me for some time now.

Over the years, she had become my best friend, too.

The friendship between Isaac and me was somehow different than what Cor and I had.

I didn’t know if Isaac and I would have wound up being friends if we hadn’t grown up sharing a yard.

But things between Cor and me seemed as natural as rain.

Where I ended, she began. We simply worked together.

There wasn’t a thing in this world I believed she would judge me for talking to her about, and the feeling was mutual… until it wasn’t.

She stared at me with those starry innocent eyes, and the only thought I had was sinking myself inside of her.

I was a shit friend. I was a shittier person for sexualizing a moment that shouldn’t be.

Thinking about screwing her should never be something that crossed my mind, and definitely not multiple times a day.

I wanted to murder anyone who thought of her like that, but my motives were far from pure.

“Um,” she whispered as her eyes dropped to my hand on her chest before returning to meet my gaze once again.

“Oh, shit! Sorry.” I jerked my hand off her as she readjusted the fabric to cover her body. Her cheeks flushed while she pinched the strings, pulling them around her neck and out for me to tie them again.

“It’s okay. Don’t worry about it. Alright?

I’m not. I’m like your sister, right? That’s what you told Isaac, isn’t it?

” Her voice quivered as she spoke the word sister.

I hadn’t told him that exactly, but I should have.

I’d just groped her and couldn’t clear the thoughts of screwing her from my head long enough to realize how uncomfortable she was.

“I said I would protect you like you were my own sister,” I mumbled, hating myself for ever wording it like that.

I quickly tied the strings and cleared my throat.

“There, all done.” I cupped her upper arms in my hands and lightly squeezed, patting one with my hand afterward.

This situation was already awkward enough, and I was only making it worse.

“Right. Like I was your sister. Same difference, isn’t it?

” She blinked slowly and sighed before licking her lips.

My brain went haywire; it was too much. Her pink tongue gliding along those perfect lips and her warm body still pressed against mine…

if she didn’t leave soon, I was going to do something that would make her and her brother hate me.

I wasn’t able to take another second of this without kissing her.

“It’s not what I meant. I was just trying to protect you, little dove.

I’ll always protect you,” I admitted, making my mind up that it was me who I needed to protect her from at this moment.

She came to me because she trusted me, and here I was ready to betray her trust because we unintentionally got to second and third base with each other.

It was an accident, but I wanted everything with her—all the bases.

However, thinking of her like this wasn’t right.

“I can protect myself, Shane.” Her body stiffened, and she scrambled to her feet.

“When are you going to realize I’m old enough to do a lot of things?

” Her voice was raised in irritation. Good.

She should be mad at me. I was. I hated the feelings I had for her because I wasn’t supposed to have them.

I’d always cared about her, but I didn’t know when my feelings had morphed into something more.