Climb on My Stepfather (Ashley and Alex)

Chapter 16

Chapter 2

The storm moved in not long after. As a light rain began to whisper outside the window, my father gave one final turn of the screwdriver in his hand and dropped it onto the carpet. He sat back and looked at the coffee table in front of him. I was sitting across the room on the couch, watching with a bowl of ice cream in my hand. I enjoyed seeing the strong muscles of his arms tense as he assembled the various pieces, his face scrunched in concentration, his tongue absentmindedly sticking out of the corner of his mouth. I had always enjoyed watching him work. He had a special ability to lose himself to whatever he was doing, and being the extremely handsome man he was, the effect was intoxicating.

"What do you think?" he said, wiping his hands. "It's nice, ehh?" "I love it, Daddy. Thanks for putting it together."

"My pleasure, sweetheart. Of course, my favorite part is having you watch me," he said, winking.

I grinned.

"I like seeing you work. You get so involved."

Just then a giant peal of thunder shook the windows of the house. I jumped, causing my father to laugh.

"There's nothing to worry about, Leah," he said. "Just a storm." "Sounds like a scary storm."

peal of thunder cracked the sky. The light rain roared into a downpour, the wind lashing

and walked over to the window

admit, it looks like it's going to be

couch and sat down beside me. He placed a hand on my knee, my

to play some board games. What do

long as you promise that

my knee. His fingers

into my

"I promise, love."

she had met John at an entrepreneur convention and gotten remarried a few months later. I think she had been planning to leave all along and had been looking for someone to trick into taking care of her daughter. Being the man he was, my stepfather had had no qualms deciding to keep me and raise me singlehandedly once my mother had fled. As he had told me more

his late thirties,

He was tall,

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