Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews! This chapter is pretty short, sorry about that... I don't know when I'll be updating again because I have some holiday shopping to do today and I have a minor surgery tomorrow morning. So I don't know if I'll be up to posting more tomorrow. You never know, though! ;-) So anyways, on with Derek...
On the way back from the ice cream shop, I was surprised that Casey sat next to me in the back seat. She didn't say anything, however, and simply lied back, closing her eyes. I watched her fall asleep, her head tilting over to the side, her lips slightly spread apart. She looked so peaceful, so beautiful—
At that comment I sat up straight. What the hell was that about? I don't think I had ever used the word "beautiful" before. Glancing back overt at Casey, however, I realized that's what she was. Beautiful.
Oh no, I was going soft. It was the lust talking, I tried to tell myself. But was it really lust? Lust was more of a "look at her, she looks so sexy and hot, I just want to bang her."
"Beautiful" was definitely not a lust word.
Then what was it?
She shifted in her sleep, and her head involuntarily dropped on my shoulder. I looked down at her and my mouth twitched into a smile.
Shit.
I was falling for my stepsister.