Ashton shook his head. “You are one sick puppy,” he said.
Elise shrugged. “I’m not the one who was jerking off to step-sibling porn.”
“Yeah” Ashton said. “But you are the one who just fucked her stepbrother.”
Elise seemed to force a grin. “I think this job might turn out to be an awful lot of fun for both of us.”
Ashton shook his head. “We can’t do that again!” he said. There was a tone of panic in his voice that even he didn’t recognize. Maybe it was because it was taboo and risky. Maybe it was because he didn’t like the unhappiness he sensed in her. “It’s wrong. We shouldn’t have done it in the first place.”
“Why? Because you’re my boss?” Elise asked.
There it was. He finally understood. She must have felt like she ended up in the same situation as before. She must have felt used. But Ashton was slightly confused by her answer. He wondered why she wasn’t more concerned about them being stepsiblings. “No, because you’re my sister!”
Elise held up her hand. “Uh-uh, don’t say it like that. It’s just gross that way. I’m not your sister, I’m your stepsister.”
Ashton shrugged. “Is there really a difference?” he asked.
“Of course there is!” Elise exclaimed. “For starters, it’s illegal to fuck your sister. Not to mention it’s really, really disgusting.”
Ashton opened his mouth, closed it and then opened it again. “Okay, but imagine telling my dad and your mom what we just did,” he finally got out.
Elise shook her head, her eyebrows knitted. “Why would we do that?”
“I’m not suggesting that we do it, Elise. I’m just saying, what do you think their response would be if we did?”
“They would probably be really freaked out,” she responded.
Ashton nodded in agreement. “I guarantee they’d be really freaked out. So, in that sense, there isn’t all that much difference between fucking your sister or fucking your stepsister.”
Elise shook her head. “No, it’s still not the same,” she said. “And stop saying it is because you’re kind of freaking me out.” She looked away from him and grimaced. He didn’t know if it was because of their conversation or because of what had just happened, so he decided to play it safe.
Ashton chuckled. “It’s a little too late to freak out now. Anyway, Elise, I didn’t plan this. I was stupid. I did something stupid and I got caught. Sorry if that put you in an uncomfortable position.”
Elise looked at him. She almost looked hopeful. “Really?”
“Really,” he responded. He closed up his pants and stood up, looking at her as he said, “I enjoyed it but I don’t ever want you to feel obligated. You didn’t have sex with your boss. You had sex with me. Okay?”
She looked positively relieved and smiled before standing up to clean up too.
For the rest of the afternoon, Elise sat at her desk. She gave up making anymore phone calls for the day after she’d spent all her energy on Ashton. Ashton was no more productive than he had been all morning. Rather than picking up the slack for his distracted morning, he spent the rest of the afternoon Googling stepsibling relationships.
“It says here that lots of stepsiblings do it,” he said.
Elise turned around to look at him. “But what’s the name of the website?”
Ashton grimaced. “Stepsibling Love?”
Elise laughed and turned back to her desk. “I think that tells you all you need to know then doesn’t it?”
Ashton mumbled in agreement. “Not many reputable sources have anything to say about it. Although, that’s no surprise. I told you, it’s all pretty taboo,” he said as he continued to click through links.
“Why are you looking it up anyway? It’s not like we can undo what we did,” Elise said. For once she was the voice of reason between the two of them.
“Because I need to make sense of it in my head,” Ashton said. “I need to not feel so weird about it.”
Elise shook her head. “Look, it’s not like we’re related, right?”
“Right” Ashton answered.
“So, quit freaking out about it and just let it be what it is,” she said without turning around.
There was a long period of silence before Ashton spoke again. “But aren’t you freaked out? Not even a little?” He didn’t know why he needed so much reassurance from Elise, but he just couldn’t stop asking her to justify what they had done. Perhaps he was still stuck on making sure she didn’t feel used by another boss. Now he was starting to understand why she felt so insecure as an employee and why she hadn’t been happy to talk about it. He didn’t want to be another male employer who made her think that was her only value.
“Ashton, I’m not freaked out by it because we aren’t related. We don’t share blood and we’re not going to have six headed babies or anything like that,” Elise said.
Ashton’s face froze. “Babies? Oh my God, you are on the pill aren’t you?” he asked.
Elise nodded. “Yes, I am on the pill. No, we’re not having six headed babies. So, for fuck’s sake, would you relax now?”
Ashton began grinding his teeth. Reaching over he closed out all the browser windows on his computer and turned off the monitor. “Do you want to go grab a drink?” he asked.
Elise looked at her phone and then back at Ashton. “We have another three hours before five,” she said.
Ashton shrugged. “Let’s go now, I need a stiff drink.”
Elise stood up, grabbing her purse. “Fine, but you’re buying me a drink too.”
Ashton almost told her that she was too young to be drinking, but he thought better of it. After all, she had just been through the exact same experience and whether she admitted to it or not, she was probably just as confused as he was.
“Sure,” he said. “But just one.”
Chapter Six
Elise sat at a small table in the corner of the bar. Ashton had chosen it because he was convinced that people would know what they had done if they sat in the open. Elise had agreed to it simply because she wasn’t yet twenty one, but she intended on drinking as much as she could.
“I got you a beer” Ashton said, setting a half pint glass of beer down in front of Elise.
“That’s not a beer,” she said. “That’s half a beer.”
Ashton sat down with a pint glass in his hand. “Fine, drink that one and I’ll get you the other half.”
Elise noticed that Ashton had become more like his hostile self once he was out of the confines of his office. She wanted to ask him to calm down, but she knew better.
“Bet I can finish it before you,” she challenged him.
Ashton stared at her in disbelief. “Of course you can, you only have half.”
“I meant half of yours,” Elise said.
Ashton shook his head. He didn’t feel like playing games. His head was reeling and he had so many unanswered questions. He was used to always being the man with the answers but now he found himself without any. At least, none that made sense.
“Hey,” Elise said as she reached across the table and put her hand on top of his.
Ashton quickly looked up, glancing around the room in case anyone was looking at them. He liked the way her hand felt on his but he did not like the paralyzing fear of being caught.
“Would you stop that?” Elise said. “No one here knows and no one here gives a shit who we are or what we’ve been doing.”
Ashton sighed heavily. “I’m just confused.”
Elise smiled at him. “There’s nothing to be confused about. Just let it go, okay?”
Ashton didn’t answer her, he was too busy gulping down his beer.
“If you keep drinking like that I’m going to have to carry you home,” Elise said.
Ashton pushed his empty glass away from him. “I don’t know how else to ‘do’ this,” he said.
“Do what?” Elise asked. “We’re not ‘doing’ anything, Ashton. We did something, once. We did something
that’s not against the law, something we both enjoyed and something that is perfectly natural for two adults to do!”
“But,” Ashton stammered, “I feel so out of control.” He grabbed Elise’s beer and gulped it down quickly.
“Well, thank you for that,” she said looking at the empty glass he set down on the table. “You don’t always have to be in control of everything, Ashton. The world doesn’t fall apart just because you don’t have control of the way you feel about someone.”
Ashton looked at her dully. He thought about what she just said. Was she insinuating she had feelings for him? If she did, that would actually explain why she was always so happy to see him. And it would make sense why she enjoyed having sex with him so much. “It does sometimes,” he said. He was thinking about his father. He knew his father would disapprove of this. It would be just another disappointment on Ashton Jr.’s behalf.
“Go get us some more drinks and shut up,” Elise said.
Ashton obeyed.
By the time Elise and Ashton were ready to go home, Ashton was more than a few sheets to the wind. He could barely stand upright and Elise was forced to hook his arm over her shoulders just to keep him standing.
“I’m taking you back to my apartment,” she said as she loaded him in to her small compact car in the office parking lot.
“No!” Ashton exclaimed loudly. “I need to go to my house!”
Elise shook her head. “You will be fine sleeping at my apartment tonight. If you still want to go home tomorrow morning then I’ll take you home then,” she said firmly.
“But I can’t stay at your apartment!” Ashton cried.
Elise got in the driver’s side of the car and slammed the door shut before anyone heard Ashton’s outburst. “You can and you will. That’s the end of it.”
Ashton sighed dramatically. “I can’t! Then everyone will know that you’re my sister!” he slurred.
Elise shook her head. “Ashton? Would you just please shut the fuck up?”
Ashton pouted his lips and slumped down in the back seat. “You’re not my mom!” he said childishly.
“Yeah and I’m not your sister either,” Elise said.
The drive back to Elise’s apartment was a quiet one. Ashton had passed out almost as soon as he slumped down in the seat. She had always looked up to him as her big stepbrother who had such a firm grasp on everything. And that was something that had always attracted her to him. This afternoon, however, he had shown her a whole new side to himself and she wasn’t sure that she liked it.
When they made it back to the apartment complex, Elise thanked God for only living on the second floor.
“Come on,” she said. She tugged Ashton by the arm in an effort to wake him. He didn’t move other than to slump further in the other direction. “ASHTON!” she shouted. He didn’t stir. Finally, Elise realized that he was a lost cause and after making sure that he was lying on his side, she left him in the car to sober up.
Heading inside, Elise grabbed a cold glass of water and a couple of aspirin and set them on the table by the front door. Ashton would certainly be needing them when he did come to.
Having made sure that her stepbrother’s needs were tended to, she walked into the bathroom. Regardless of what had happened, it had been a long day and she needed a soak in the tub.
The hot water steamed up the mirror on the vanity and as she waited for the tub to fill, Elise drew a large smiley face. She couldn’t really see what Ashton was so worried about. The way she saw it, what they had done was no different than if she had fucked her regular boss. Sure, her mom married his dad, but she and Ashton hadn’t even grown up together. In fact, she knew a pair of siblings who had married another pair of siblings and in her mind that was weirder than what she and Ashton had done.
With a deep exhale, Elise slid in to the warm bathtub and sank down until the water covered her chin. She had a feeling that tomorrow was going to be a very long day.
Chapter Seven
Elise was awakened by Ashton a little after midnight. Without saying a word, he crept into the bedroom and slipped into bed. His muscular arm swept over her waist and he pulled her close to him with a deep sigh.
“Are you awake?” he whispered.
“I am now,” she said.
“Sorry.”
“It’s fine,” Elise said.
“No, I mean sorry for today.” He whispered back.
“What part of today?” Elise grumbled as she turned over on her back.
“For making you feel pressured. For making you think I was just another boss after one thing. And then for freaking out so badly afterward,” Ashton said. He let his hand slide down to her bare belly. “You’re right. It’s nothing to get all worked up about.”
“Are you still drunk?” Elise asked.
“No,” Ashton replied, pulling her body closer to him. “I just realized what an ass I made of myself.”
“You didn’t make an ass of yourself,” Elise said. “You just freaked out.”
Ashton laughed quietly. “Well even if it is understandable, I’m sorry. You didn’t need me freaking out on you like that. You were right anyway, it’s not as though we’re breaking any laws.”
Elise reached up in the darkness and rubbed his bare shoulder. “Don’t worry about it, okay?”
“Okay.” Ashton said.
The room fell silent. Elise was just about to doze off again when Ashton let his hand slide further down her belly and over the front of her panties.
“Ashton?” she whispered.
“Mmm hmm?” He said.
“Nothing. I just wanted to make sure that you were awake,” Elise said.
Ashton leaned over and silently placed a light kiss on Elise’s cheek. “Is it okay?” he whispered. Elise nodded.
“Yes, it’s okay,” she answered.
Ashton slid his hand back up to the top of her panties and very slowly he slid his hand inside them. Elise took a deep inhale as his hand ran down through her curly pubic hair. She could hardly breathe as he got closer to her parting.
“Ahhh,” she whispered.
Ashton slid his hand further down, until he could dip his finger into her opening. Then he carefully parted them and let his finger touch her aching pink. He could feel every inch of his body responding to her soft skin. Sliding his finger down to her opening he dipped it inside her.
“Ahhh…” Elise repeated as she arched her back slightly.
“Are you okay?” he asked as he let his finger sink deeper inside her.
“Oh yes, I’m very okay,” she answered breathlessly. The truth was she felt her attraction stronger than before. Having him cuddle her in bed and speak so honestly brought back all her old feelings and only intensified them.
Ashton slowly dipped his finger in and out of her, eventually sliding it up over her clitoris.
Elise gasped loudly this time. “Ahhh!” she said as Ashton’s finger circled her most sensitive spot. “Oh Ashton!”
“Mmm?” Ashton answered her cry.
“Ashton, I want you again!” she said.
Ashton smiled to himself in the darkness.
“I will fuck you as often as you want,” he whispered back.
Elise reached down under the covers and hurriedly she peeled down her panties. Following her lead, Ashton reached under the covers and slid down his boxers. As they lay together naked under the covers, their breathing came heavy and in unison.
“Are you sure?” Elise asked him.
“I have never been so sure of anything,” he replied. Ashton lifted himself on top of Elise. He felt her spread her legs wide underneath him. He felt his cock throb with anticipation. He felt her whole body trembling for him.
Ashton steadied himself on his muscular arms before he thrust forward slowly. As his cock head pressed up against her wet opening, Elise took a deep inhale.
“Ahhh!” she whispered. Ashton pushed forward until the thick head of his cock popped inside her. Elise gasped again. Ashton rev
eled in the tightness of her opening as she welcomed him inside her. Ashton thrust forward, burying his shaft down to the hilt inside of her. He lay his body on top of hers, their naked skin touching and his cock deep inside her.
She pressed her mouth up against his ear. The feeling of her breath against his ear was all it took for Aston’s cock to swell to capacity. All of a sudden Elise’s opening became so tight around him. He couldn’t help but lift himself up and pull back. He began to thrust slowly, burying himself in to her completely before pulling back. “Ohhh yes, just like that,” Elise said.
Ashton leaned down, pressing his lips to hers, letting his tongue snake in to her mouth. He began to thrust her harder. He really enjoyed being like this with her. Not only did it feel amazing, he felt a connection he didn’t usually with other women. And he was fairly certain she felt the same connection.
“I’m going to cum!” Elise cried out. Her breath was coming faster and Ashton could feel her breasts rising and falling underneath him. Elise panted, her back arching as she lifted herself onto Ashton’s cock. “Ohhhh…” she moaned. Ashton thrust harder until he felt her tightness squeezing him once again.
“Ooohhhh!” Elise moaned. “I’m cumming!” she cried.
“Ahhh, ahhh!” Elise moaned as the throes of her orgasm causing every inch of her body to be sensitive.
Ashton couldn’t stop. Thrusting again and again, he felt himself coming closer and closer to orgasm. “Where do you want me to cum?” he asked her. He wasn’t trying to be dirty. He was being considerate.
“Cum inside me!” Elise shouted. Just as she did, she felt the first shot of his cum shoot inside her and she let out a moan. Ashton smiled in the darkness as he thrust and thrust again until he had emptied his cock completely. Then, with a deep sigh, he leaned down, resting his body on top of hers.
“Oh fuck…” he whispered.
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