Ways in the Guardian: A Menage Romance Book Collection

by Barbara Downey

“I took Evie skating,” Will answered, voice sounding strange. Evie had a feeling that he was sitting at the table to conceal his own arousal.

  “You would,” Brandon teased. “You know how many times he’s taken me and Kate to the ice rink? I guess you initiated Evie.”

  Evie couldn’t help but smirk. If they only knew. “I guess so.”

  “Evie, is Keegan coming over today?” her mother asked brightly.

  This time Evie’s stomach felt anxious for a different reason. “No mom. I…I… I think I have to talk to him.” She watched Will at his spot. “We had a huge fight the other night. I don’t think he likes how my new life is turning out. He’s afraid there isn’t room for him in it.”

  “Oh Sweetie,” Evie’s mother said comfortingly as she shoed Kate and Brandon out of the kitchen. I’m so sorry that he’s acting like that. Do you think you guys can work it out?”

  Once more she looked at Will at the table who was looking very absorbed in his task of staring at the way the table was stained. Evie exhaled before she replied. “He was very mean to me the other night. I don’t know if I can have someone like that in my life. He should be happy that my life is finally making sense. Not upset. We’ve been together too long for him to be so narrow minded.”

  Evie’s mother looked at her sadly. “It sounds like you have already made up your mind. I will support you no matter what you decide to do.”

  “Thank Mom.” Evie gave her mother a quick hug before she decided that she better not put off the inevitable for a moment longer. She smiled at Will who finally met her eye as she headed towards the stairs to her room. His face was guarded, but comforting enough to tell her that he’d be there for her when the phone call was over.

  She had vowed that she’d never be one of those people that broke up over the phone, but Evie just knew if she did it here he’d know it was because of Will and he’d try to punch him in the face.

  This was going to be harder than she thought.

  *****

  “Are we getting together tonight or what?” Keegan’s tone was similar to that of the day before, and it caused Evie to be a bit less torn up about her decision to break up with him.

  “I wanted to talk to you about something actually,” Evie replied. “I haven’t been happy with how things have been going lately.”

  “I’m so happy you said that because I feel the same way. I know your mom is trying this whole new happy family thing, but frankly, it’s messing up things for me. You’re too old for a new family and I really don’t like how friendly Will is with you. I’ve worked way too hard for you to not need me anymore.

  It was like Keegan unknowingly dropped a bucket of cold ice water over Evie. He should have been happy that her mother was finally happy. He should have wanted Evie to enjoy her stepfather and new siblings after being alone for so long. She resented the fact that he would say something like that to her.

  “Actually,” Evie replied and she could hear the edge rising in her voice. “I haven’t been happy with you.”

  “What?”

  “YOU Keegan, YOU!” she retorted. “After everything that I’ve been through, I’ve finally got some stability and happiness in my life and because it’s not you, you are envious and mean. I can’t continue a relationship with someone who becomes possessive and jealous every time I spend time with my new family.”

  Keegan laughed bitterly on the other end of the phone. “I’m sorry, I only find myself getting jealous when you spend time with one member of your new family. Do you blame me, Evie? He’s athletic. He’s good looking. He’s got more in common with you than I do. I’m threatened.”

  “Well maybe if you applied yourself and did something other than take the easy way in life you wouldn’t feel so inferior around him.” Evie tried to tell herself after the words had spewed out of her mouth that she had felt this way before she’d gotten to know Will, spending time with her step brother had only made it more apparent.

  “Are you breaking up with me?” Keegan demanded. “After everything I did for you?”

  Evie tried to blink back the tears that were trying to leak from her eyes. “I think so,” she replied. “You were a good boyfriend. But I’ve changed and you’ve remained the same. I can’t let you hold me back with your hostility.

  “This is bullshit!” Keegan spat. “If you had an older stepsister instead of Will we wouldn’t be having this problem.”

  “That’s not true!” Evie exclaimed but she knew that he was absolutely right.

  “If I catch wind that you broke up with me to fuck Will I swear to God I will never forgive you. I’ll find you both and make you pay.”

  “Don’t you dare talk to me like that!” Evie screamed. “Do you hear me?” But Keegan had hung up the phone and Evie stared at her phone in disbelief.

  Just when you think you know someone, they do something that completely shocks you.

  For a few minutes Evie cried. It was the end of an era after all. But eventually, she found herself at peace. Even if this thing with Will ended up being nothing more than a passing phase, Keegan’ true colors were going to show themselves eventually. It was better to free herself now instead of finding out about them further down the road when it would be even harder to leave him behind.

  She made her way downstairs to find that Will had gone out with a few teammates for dinner. Evie was grateful because she didn’t know how he would react to her news while the rest of the family was there. Craig had ordered pizza and she sat in the family room while everyone watched the latest sci-fi movie about flying sharks without saying much. Her mother looked at her sadly a few times because she knew that Keegan had been a comfort in all those years that her father had left them high and dry. Evie knew that her mother had finally found happiness in Craig, she knew that there would be someone else for her too.

  That night when she lay down in bed she didn’t dream. No fantasies, no nightmares, nothing. Eventually she was woken by the sensation of someone gently running their fingers through her hair and when she stirred, Will was sitting on the edge of her bed.

  “Hey,” he whispered and for a panic filled moment Evie wondered where the rest of her family was. “I just wanted to make sure you were alright.”

  Evie nodded, still half asleep. “I’m free.” She almost laughed.

  “That’s good,” he replied, “I hope he didn’t make you feel bad. I mean that from the proper stepbrother stance and from this other weird one where I think you are beautiful.”

  Evie smiled gravely. “I think he knew. That it was because of you. I should feel bad, but I don’t.”

  Will leaned down and kissed her. “Take your time. I won’t rush you into anything.” Then he rose up like he was going to return to his own room.

  “Will wait!” Evie hissed grabbing for his hand. He turned to face her. “Stay with me. Just for a little bit. Please.”

  She could see him wrestling with what was the right thing to do versus what he knew his desires were. He should have walked away and they could have laid together another time when their parents were away and Kate and Brandon would be too busy in their own lives to notice anything out of the norm. Instead, he stripped down to his boxers and crawled into bed with her, setting an alarm on his phone to wake up and head back to his own room before their parents woke up.

  Evie fell asleep content after he wrapped his arms around her, his bare skin feeling good against what wasn’t covered in a tee shorts and shorts. She slept so well that she didn’t notice his alarm go off of feel him leave her for his own room. She didn’t dream and for the first time in a long time, she felt peaceful.

  *****

  The next morning Evie woke up and headed downstairs to make herself some breakfast. On the refrigerator was a note from her mother.

  Working at the office today. Kate is at a friend’s house. Leftover pizza for dinner? Love Mom

  Evie made herself a bagel before she noticed the sound of video game warfare coming from the family room. When she e
ntered the room she noticed that Will and Brandon were smashing buttons furiously while their characters ran through a battleground on the screen. Brandon got the upper hand and Will’s character was blown to smithereens.

  “Yes!” Brandon celebrated. “Suck it Will!”

  “No practice today?” Evie asked with an amused smirk.

  “Nope. Today is a rest day,” Will explained before he told Brandon to play a solo campaign. Then he rose up and followed Evie back into the kitchen. When the sound of guns and explosions resumed, Will asked, “How are you doing?”

  “I’m fine, honest,” Evie assured, “It’s like being reborn as cheesy as it sounds.”

  Will shifted on his feet, “Do you have any plans today?”

  “Not really. I might go for a run later.” Evie sat the table and finished her bagel. “Do you want to come?”

  “Actually, I was hoping you’d want to come upstairs with me. Now that your single… I won’t feel guilty about touching you.”

  Evie looked at Will like he was crazy. They had talked about keeping things quiet until they decided on what was going on between them. Now he was talking about fooling around when Brandon was home.

  “Before you freak out, Brandon will not bother us. He’s got a day where my dad is at work and my sister isn’t around to fight over the TV. If we’re quiet, he won’t even know.” He walked behind Evie’s chair and put his hands on her shoulders. He rubbed them gently and made shivers go up down Evie’s spine.

  Evie had spent so long having fantasy about Will, wouldn’t she want to see if the real thing was a good, especially now that she had no one to answer to? She stole one more glance towards the family room where she could hear Brandon talking to someone on his gaming headset. If there was a time for them to explore without being interrupted, now was the time.

  Evie grabbed Will’s hand and pulled him up the stairs. Instead of taking him into her room, she continued down the hallway to his room instead. The room was full of hockey gear and sports memorabilia and she took in the way the room smelled like him before she pushed Will onto his bed and climbed on top of him.

  For a while they kissed each other. She kissed his lips until her own felt swollen, and then she moved to his jawline and his neck, loving the way she could hear him moan. He kissed her back and even nibbled on her neck and earlobes before she felt him sliding his hands under her shirt and playing with the clasp of her bra.

  Evie sat up and Will came with her. She pulled off her shirt as he unclasped her bra and she felt surprisingly confident as he took in her bare chest and then buried his face into her breasts. She had to bite her lip to keep from groaning loud enough that Brandon could hear her downstairs. Will closed his mouth around one of her nipples and Evie cursed. If what he was doing now felt good she could only imagine what other things would feel like. After he paid attention to her other breast, Evie clawed at his own tee-shirt so that she could see and touch every ab muscle.

  They froze when they heard Brandon walking around, but after they heard the distant sound of the microwave beeping they went back to the task at hand. Will got up and locked the door before pulling off his pants and Evie saw how aroused he was. She beckoned him over before she started to give him a hand job. Will was not only bigger than Keegan had been, but he was more girthier too. For the first time in a long time Evie wondered if she would finally be satisfied in bed. Evie gently twisted her hands around Will’s penis and was happy to see that he enjoyed the sensation. Now she wanted to make him feel unbelievable. She kissed his shaft before she continued the twisting motion while she sucked his cock. This time it was Will who had to put his hand over his mouth to stifle the swearing and moaning that was exiting his mouth.

  Evie was able to bob her head up and down a few times and take him to the hilt once before he backed away and pulled her up to standing.

  “I don’t want to finish without having done anything to you.” He pulled at her shorts and threw them across the room. A few seconds later her panties were discarded in a similar way. This time he pushed her gently so that she was laying on top of his bed. He skipped the finger play completely, and dropped to his knees, placing his mouth over her womanhood and licking and kissing her in ways that she had begged Keegan to do but he couldn’t be bothered. Evie was starting to feel less and less guilty about this breakup.

  “I think you should let me make you cum, and then I’d like to go all the way,” he said as he looked up from between her legs. “If you are comfortable of course.”

  Evie nodded, wondering how it was going to be possible for her to not scream as her wildest fantasies came to fruition. Will went back to eating her out and when he added two of his fingers inside of her it wasn’t long before the feeling of ecstasy was spreading throughout her whole body. She grabbed for one of Will’s pillows and put it over her mouth as she reached her climax and screamed with pleasure. Will climbed over her, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand before he leaned down and kissed Evie.

  “I just want to make sure you are okay with this.”

  “Will, you just went down on me. I think I’m okay with this.”

  He grinned as realized how intimate they’d already been. “Okay. Here goes.”

  He slid easily into Evie as she was so wet from all the foreplay and began to thrust back and forth. Even though she had just climaxed, the unfamiliar feeling of a different person being inside of her and filling her up deliciously was already making her head towards a new orgasm. She wrapped her arms and legs around Will and moaned and gasped into his shoulders as he tried to pound faster and harder without making his bed squeak.

  “Am I better than he was?” Will asked with effort and it was so hot that Evie practically came right then and there. Will wanted to know if he was better in bed than Keegan. There was no contest. This was better than all those dreams she’d been having and they were holding back so that they wouldn’t be discovered.

  “Oh my God yes,” Evie panted, “Yes Will, yes.”

  The compliment was all that he needed and he began to thrust with so much force that Evie came for the second time. Will pulled out of her just in time to make a mess all over her stomach but Evie was too euphoric to care. Will flopped onto the bed next to her and for a brief moment no one spoke. They attempted to control their breathing as they came back down to earth.

  “Wow,” Evie finally managed to muster, “Holy crap that was the best sex I ever had.”

  Will had found something to clean her up with and then he drew her close so that his forehead was against hers. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that this is going to be a phase. I want what we just did every day.”

  Evie smirked at him. “Me too. You have no idea.”

  *****

  A FEW MONTHS LATER

  Evie sat on the bleachers in the hockey rink where she had kissed Will for the first time. School was back in session and she’d come home for the weekend to watch Will’s team take on another college. She couldn’t help but feel exhilarated and proud as she watched him skate around quickly and check his opponents into the boards. He was so strong and it was obvious that he loved what he did.

  The summer had gone by quickly. Evie had grown comfortable in her new home and was proud to say that she’d gotten to know her new family very well. Some members she had gotten to know better than other. She and Will had started taking fewer runs together but spent a lot of their free time having sex in one of their bedrooms and even on their kitchen table while their parents had gone away for the weekend. Going back to school had made things a bit difficult, but she’d come home pretty regularly and sometimes when his team had away games Will would randomly show up at her dorm and they’d tell her roommate that he was a “friend.” There was no reason to make things more complicated than they already were.

  Keegan had reached out to her only once. Right when she’d moved back into school he had called her and asked her if she wanted to talk or hang out sometime. Evie never responded and
he never contacted her again. It was the end of an era, a chapter of her life closed.

  Evie’s stepfather Craig was sitting next to her and had gone to the snack area of the rink to get hot chocolate. He handed her one and Evie thanked him as she warmed her hands.

  “Thanks, Craig,” she said happily, very happy that the man had fallen for his mother for many reasons beyond bringing Will into her life.

  “It’s no problem Evie,” he replied. “Thanks for supporting Will. It means a lot that you came home to see him play.”

  “I wouldn’t miss it,” Evie assured. She also didn’t want to miss what would happen after the game when she’d sneak into his room and do things to him that weren’t appropriate to share with his father.

  “You know, it’s crazy,” Craig said as he watched Will skate and attempt to score a goal. “He’s usually so open with me and for the last few months he’s been a little guarded. I thought maybe he had a girlfriend, but he hasn’t brought her around yet.” The man shrugged his shoulders. “Maybe I’m wrong.”

  Evie tried to hide her smirk because her stepfather was more right than he knew. Will and Evie had been talking about bringing up their strange relationship to their parents but they weren’t sure how to breach the subject. More so, they didn’t want to make things uncomfortable for Kate. They needed to do it soon because he was only a matter of time before they were caught sneaking around.

  “I’m sure he’ll tell you when the time is right,” Evie assured.

  Craig smiled at her. “He’s lucky to have such a caring stepsister. The whole thing worked out so nicely.”

  Once more Evie smiled. If only he knew how well she took care of his son. The moment ended when one of Will’s teammates scored and the bleachers became deafening with cheers and applause. Will and his line celebrated before they skated back towards the bench. As he climbed over this edge to get to his spot his caught Evie’s eye and waved at her. Evie waved back, thrilled to see how things with Will would play out.