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  Her Stepbrothers are Angels© 2016 by Trinity Blacio

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  First Edition: February 2016

  Chapter One

  Dixie Squire sighed as the warm air brushed over her bare skin as she sat watching the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean. In her hand was a glass of whiskey and coke, the perfect ending to what had turned out to be one of the worst weeks she’d had in a long time.

  A nice long vacation had been in order after her father told her that he was getting married, and not to anyone, but an angel.

  An actual angel with wings. Dixie had found the lady used to hunt demons with her son’s. To think, her own father would marry someone who wanted her dead. Tears filled her eyes once again as she took a sip of her drink.

  It was bad enough that her own mother, a demon, had left Dixie after she’d birthed her. But now the one family member who’d been there for her was sentencing her to death.

  Dixie knew there were hunters who killed demons on sight, but she was a half-breed. A disappointment to her mother and now it would seem a disappointment to her father too. Still, she knew she should count herself lucky. Dixie had survived till her twenty-fifth birthday, which happened to be Valentine’s Day.

  “She probably picked the wedding date because it was close to Valentine’s Day, to remind Dad of what a failure I am,” Dixie muttered. She raised her drink to the falling sun. “May you finally be happy, Daddy, and may your lives be filled with love. Something I’ll never know.” Because who would want to be tied to a sex demon?

  Yep, the one thing her mother had given her was an addiction to sex. She not only craved it, but needed it to survive. No human man could keep up with her appetite. Plus, no man would want what she had been called so many times: a slut.

  At the age of twenty-one, her so-called powers, or curse, came into effect, and so did her need for sex. She had been lucky, if you could call it that; one of her mother’s demon friends had found her and explained what she was while also fucking the shit out of her. Dixie had to admit the demon, Trey, had been the only one in the past five years who had totally satisfied her sexually.

  “Here you go,” her best friend Lilly said, putting another fresh drink in front of Dixie’s face.

  “You know, you didn’t have to come. I know I’m a downer to be around,” Dixie said, taking the drink and looking up at her friend. Where Dixie had dark hair and brown eyes, Lilly was the total opposite with blonde hair and green eyes.

  Lilly snorted. “Like I’m going to leave you alone. Your family might not know what it is to stick with someone you love, but I do.” She sat down next to Dixie and reached over to squeeze her arm.

  “Plus, like you I have no one. So we’ll be miserable together for Valentine’s Day. I for one think we should order from that Chinese place and buy two bottles of whiskey and about six bottles of pop. Oh, and let’s not forget the coffee in the morning.” Lilly sat up with a smile on her face. “We have to get a birthday cake for you too. I’ll hit the grocery store tomorrow and stock up so we won’t have to go out. Now, how many men do you need this week?” Lilly asked.

  She sighed. “I was thinking we could find the local BDSM club. We both brought our papers, and my friend Trey sent word to the place that we would be stopping by.”

  Lilly turned her full attention on Dixie. “So do I get to meet this sex god Trey?” she asked. “Will he be at the club?”

  Dixie couldn’t help but laugh. “I have no idea. I just called him and told him where I was, and he took it from there.” She swirled her drink around in the cup. “You know I hate looking for sex partners. I just wish I hadn’t been so stubborn earlier.”

  “I know, honey, I know. Sometimes I think we need to track your mom down and slap her upside the fucking head. So are you still ignoring your father’s calls?” Lilly asked just as the phone rang.

  “And here I thought I was weird. We are a pair,” Dixie mumbled and took her phone out of her bag. “Hello, Father, did you have a nice wedding?” she asked. This was the first time she’d talked to her father since getting the letter.

  “Where in the hell are you?” he yelled, and she laughed.

  “‘In hell’ is an appropriate phrase, isn’t it? But we all know mom’s kind didn’t come for below, but from a different plant. Too bad the stupid hunters don’t want to listen to that. But don’t worry, I’m sure your new wife and her so-called sons can try to track me down if you want me dead so fast. Have a good life.” She hung up, her vision blurry from the tears.

  The phone started to ring again, and Dixie was ready to pitch it into the ocean just before Lilly grabbed it and answered.

  “You know, I used to respect you, sir, but when you married someone who would hunt down your own daughter and kill her, well, all I have to say now is just leave her the fuck alone. She has me now, and I won’t screw her over.” Lilly hung up. “There, we both said our piece.” She handed it back to Dixie. “Now, pitch it. We can get you another with a new number later.”

  Dixie sent it flying into the air just as it started to ring again. “Good-bye, Daddy,” she whispered, watching it fall into the ocean.

  It was time to start a new life. If only she could.

  * * *

  Eae stretched his legs out in front of him and stared at his new stepfather. He was furious and worried. Gordon’s only child Dixie had run as soon as she had heard that Eae’s mother was an angel.

  “Don’t you think you should have explained to her that we don’t hunt demons anymore? That we have a truce now?” he asked.

  “I didn’t get any time to. Damn, I knew I should have just gone there and talked with my daughter, but I wanted her to come to me. I know she’s having problems dealing with her other side.” Gordon Squire sat down in the chair opposite Eae and his brother Leo.

  “Both of you are trackers. Can you find her for me? Her and Lilly both. Her twenty-fifth birthday is coming up.” Gordon looked up at Eae and cursed.

  “Your daughter doesn’t know, does she?” Eae asked.

  “No, I was going to explain it to her the day I meet your mother. I know, I know, I waited too long,” Gordon said.

  “Do you know what her gift will be?” Leo asked.

  Dixie’s father shook his head. “No, and that has me worried. Her mother said she’d send someone to help her through the transition, but it’s obvious she hasn’t.”

  “Maybe she hasn’t told you,” Eae said.

  Gordon shook his head. “She would have. We’ve shared everything.”

  Eae raised an eyebrow. “Aren’t we in this mess right now because you didn’t share with her?” He was stating the obvious, but his mother still glared at him.

  “Enough. Will you find her for us? She shouldn’t be alone and thinking I want to kill her.” Tears filled his mother’s eyes, and Eae groaned.

  “Don’t do that,” he mumbled. “We’ll find her, and if I find whoever told her that we used to hunt demons, I’m going to kill them,” he grumbled and stood, n
odding to his brother.

  “We know she’s near the ocean, but we don’t know which one,” Gordon said.

  “I’ll find her before her birthday. Come on, Leo, we need to hit her apartment.” Eae tossed Leo the spare set of keys in his hands before transporting himself to Dixie’s front door.

  “Did you ever believe Mom would find her bonding mate?” his brother asked.

  “No. Maybe one day we’ll find ours, but let’s hope she can handle the both of us, because we both know she’ll belong to us together.” Eae stepped into his stepsister’s apartment and froze.

  Her scent hit him like a truck, sending him back a step. He shook his head, trying to make sense of this. His cock was hard, and for the first time in his life, he couldn’t control his wings as they slid out of their hiding spot, ripping his shirt.

  “Damn!” he snarled and glanced at his brother. It would seem he wasn’t the only one having trouble.

  “Can you believe this? Our own mate thinks we’re out to kill her when we want to fuck her senseless instead,” Leo snarled, ripping his shirt off.

  “Not fuck. Love.” Eae took his shredded shirt off and threw it into her garbage can. “Shit, she’s already gone through the change.” He lifted up her nightshirt and sniffed it. “Her scent has changed, and damn.” He adjusted his cock in his jeans.

  Leo tossed her journal to him. “Looks like our woman is a sex demon,” he said.

  Eae couldn’t help but growl. “And that means we have four days to find her before she’ll need more men to fuck her. Wonder if it’s monthly or weekly she needs to feed.”

  He flipped through her journal, reading as he went. “Weekly, damn. We need to visit the Pana Club in town.” He held up the one journal entree. “They might know where she’s gone.”

  “We don’t need to.” Leo handed him a computer printout.

  “Tampa it is,” Eae said. “Let’s go, and we’ll need to find a club. She’ll go there to feed, but our woman won’t be feeding from anyone but us from now on.”

  Chapter Two

  Dixie sat down on the bed and stared into the mirror. It had been three days since she had talked to her father, and it hurt like hell not being part of his life. She didn’t even recognize the person who looked back at her. Her eyes were now a purple-red color, and her hair had even turned dark red.

  But she was lucky. Dixie had never taken the full form of a demon, but Trey, the one demon she’d been with, had been hot. She looked up as Lilly came out of the bathroom.

  “You know, I hope Trey is there tonight. You two would be great together,” she said to her friend, who frowned.

  “But don’t you like him?” she asked.

  “Lilly, Trey did a favor for my mom. There was no—” Dixie waved her hand back and forth at her. “You know, no connection. Yeah, the sex was awesome, but he deserves someone too. Do you know what his specialty is?” She smiled for the first time that week.

  “Know what?” Lilly asked, putting on her bustier. She turned so Dixie could clinch it up tightly.

  “He’s a blood demon, you know, like the vampires you like so much.” Dixie rubbed the spot on her neck, where Trey had taken her blood. “And let me tell you, he’s a total turn-on, but can you handle the master that he is?” Dixie asked as she finished tying up her friend’s bustier.

  “I think I could if he was strong enough. Like you, if a man has enough, you know, power behind him, then I’m putty in his hands. But if he’s a wimp, forget it.” She sighed. “But you know as well as I do that today’s human men are a little lacking. So many of them are mommy’s boys or hooked on some kind of drugs.” Lilly shivered and Dixie hugged her.

  “I know that was a close call. We’re never going near that place again. We’re lucky we got out. It would have been nice to inherit was the strength for situations like that, but no. I get the hair, eyes, and the need to fuck. Who the hell is going to want someone who needs sex to feed?” She grabbed her flats and slipped them on, knowing she couldn’t do the five-inch heels tonight.

  “You’ll find someone who will love you for you,” Lilly said, sitting down beside her. “We both will, you just have to wait. Who knows, maybe Cupid will be there tonight and he’ll aim his bow at us?” she teased.

  “At least it’s red night. I mean, you look smoking hot in that red teddy.” Lilly whistled and she shook her head and grabbed the dress to put over it so she could wouldn’t be arrested for indecent exposure.

  “Okay, let’s get this show on the road. I want to get there early and maybe see some of the scenes. We haven’t done that in a while.” Dixie moved to the door of their hotel room.

  She had been smart about saving for a rainy day, and right now they were staying in one of the best hotels on the beach. If they were only going to be here for a few days, Dixie figured they might as well live it up.

  “So, any idea where you want to go after we leave here? I was thinking New Orleans. We’d fit in there perfectly. It’s a party town, and we could get lost easily there,” Lilly said.

  “Stop reading my thoughts, bitch,” Dixie grumbled, and Lilly just laughed, grabbing the keys from her hand.

  “You know you can’t drive right now. Especially today. We still don’t know if you’ll change again” Lilly reminded Dixie and Lilly shivered.

  “God, I hope not. This is all I can handle right now.” Dixie closed her eyes and listened to the ocean. “I do have to admit I love the sound of the ocean. It’s so peaceful.

  “Yeah, it is that. Well, if this mess gets straightened out, maybe we can stay here. I sure do hate the winters in Ohio. I could so live in a condo here.” Lilly said as they got into her SUV. “You know, I was doing some research. I don’t know how true it is, but from what the sites are saying, your species and the angels have a truce now. Do you think maybe that’s why your father married the angel?” Lilly asked.

  “I have no idea, and it would be great if that was the case, but as far as my father is concerned, he hasn’t told me anything. You know though once a hunter it will always be in their blood, old habits aren’t going to just die out. How are they going to react to me?” She turned to face Lilly while she drove. “I mean, after hating a certain race for over a hundred years, how could you stop all of a sudden?” Dixie shook her head. “I would never feel comfortable with Dad’s new wife because of this. Not to mention her son’s.”

  “Well, don’t shut the door on them just in case the information is right. You don’t have to live by them, but your dad does love you. I know it. Remember your sixteenth birthday? Now you tell me what father has gone to that length to make sure their daughter has the best party?” Lilly said.

  Dixie laughed. “I can still see the picture of him with the cake on his face. You know, this will be the first birthday I’ve gone without talking to him.”

  “Here, call him. You at least owe him that,” Lilly said and pulled out her cell phone.

  Dixie reached over and took it, her hand shaking. “Okay, I was just going to call anyway.” Dixie took a deep breath and punched in her father’s cell number, hoping his bride-to-be wouldn’t answer.

  “Lilly, where are you two? Why didn’t you and Lilly tell me you already went through the change? Damn it, I should have been there for you,” her father rambled, his voice worried.

  “Because it wasn’t a change a father should see in his little girl, Daddy.” Tears filled her eyes. “But don’t worry, it seems Mom did do something right. She sent me someone to help with the transition. It seems she knew what my gift was before I did.”

  “Are you okay? You sound tired. Damn it, Dixie, you should come home so I can help,” he grumbled,

  The tightness around her heart increased, and tears rolled down her cheeks. “Afraid you couldn’t help me with this, Daddy. I wish you could, but you can’t. Plus, you have a new bride you should be concentrating on. But I do have one question before I hang up.” She wiped the tears with the Kleenex Lilly stuffed in her other hand. “Is there really a
truce between the angels and my kind? Or is that just a rumor?” she asked, staring out at the buildings that passed but not really seeing them.

  “I’m disappointed in you, Dixie. To think, you actually believe I would bring someone into our lives that would hurt one of the only people I’d die for. But yes, the treaty has been there for over a hundred years, and Sophia wants to meet you.”

  She sighed, nodding to Lilly, who had been listening. “It’s the truth,” Dixie mouthed to her. “Maybe someday, Daddy,” she continued, “but right now, no. I have to figure out how to handle this so-called gift before I can come home, and it’s one thing you can’t help me with.”

  “Tell me what it is. Maybe Sophia or her sons would know how to help.”

  She laughed. “I don’t mean to be cruel, but unless they want to screw around, there’s nothing anyone can do. You see, I’m what they call a sex demon, Daddy. I have to have sex every week, like a vampire needs blood. I need sex. Kind of weird, don’t you think, stepbrothers and stepsister getting it on?”

  “No. Who did your mother send to you?” her father growled, and fresh tears slid down Dixie’s face as she held the phone away from her for a second, frowning.

  She sighed. “He was honest, Daddy, and gentle. Trey has been helping me over the last few years. I’m sorry I can’t talk to you about this. I love you, Daddy.” She shut the phone off. “Well, we can relax a little,” she told Lilly.

  “A lot.” Lilly pulled into a private parking area Trey had drawn on the map he’d sent them. “So are we going to go back home?” She parked the car and turned to stare at Dixie.

  “I don’t know. We have a few days here. Let’s enjoy them and see where they go. I like having the beach close. It’s soothing, and I’m sure glad we missed the stupid snow storm.”

  Lilly snorted and reached over and wiped the tears from Dixie’s face with a cloth. “We’re lucky you don’t need mascara. Your eyes are a little puffy, but not too bad. But aren’t you glad you called?” Lilly asked. She was about to get out of the car when Dixie put her hand on Lilly’s arm, stopping her.