~*MIA*~

I was in love with my stepfather, Chase.

It was a secret I had kept for years, one I had never dared to whisper to another living soul.

But as the days passed, it became harder to contain.

The desire to have him consume me, to let him ruin me in the way I craved, grew heavier in my chest until I could barely breathe around it.

Chase married my mom three years ago, and they had been a happy couple, a fact I had grown to hate with a quiet, seething resentment.

I used to lie awake at night, weaving fantasies in my head where they would fight,...