Chapter 7
After my talk with Leah, I didn’t hear another peep about my relationship with Alex from her or our mother during the following week. I’d been expecting more pushback, especially from my mother, but none came. She just gave me constant looks of disappointment accompanied by exaggerated sighs when she saw me, but she kept her feelings about me and Alex to herself. It was unlike my mother to give up a fight so easily, so I suspected she was planning a way to broach the subject with me again. Knowing her, she was probably concocting another way to try and talk me out of sleeping with my stepbrother. Shaming me obviously hadn’t worked and neither had siccing Leah on me, so I wondered what other tricks she had up her sleeve.
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On Thursday morning, after I showered and got dre
