Forbidden Pleasures
Cousin’s Forbidden Affairs 1
The Family Trip
The annual end-of-year trip to the lake house was a law in our family. Every summer, without fail, the entire clan packed up and headed to the big wooden house by the water. It was supposed to be a week of tradition: loud dinners, messy bonfires, and aunts and uncles trying to force everyone to "bond."
For most of my family, it was a vacation. For Kai and me, it was a trap.
I was Maryann. I was twenty-two, a fresh college graduate, and I was doing my absolute best to pretend I wasn't in love with the one person I was forbidden to touch. Kai was my cousin. He was three years older than me, tall, with broad shoulders and dark, messy hair. He had sharp green eyes and a quiet way of looking at me that made my heart race and
