Midnight Threesome With Stepmom Vivian

Jake and Mia crept down the stairs in socks, the house creaking under them like it was in on the joke. The clock above the mantel had just ticked past midnight. Jake carried a plastic bowl and the tub of rocky-road; Mia clutched two spoons and a bag of potato chips she was already tearing open.

“God, if Vivian catches us she’ll do that little head-tilt thing and say something about ‘growing boys needing their protein,’” Mia whispered, elbowing her stepbrother in the ribs. She was twenty-eight, a year older than him, and had perfected the art of making him blush. “You know she sleeps in those tiny silk slips that ride up when she stretches. Bet she’s not even wearing panties tonight.”

Jake’s ears went hot. He shifted the bowl in front of his pajama bottoms, trying to hide the quick, traitorous twitch that happened every time Mia brought up their stepmom’s nightwear. “Shut up. She’s asleep. We’ll be back upstairs in five minutes.”

They were halfway through the chips and laughing too loudly about the time Vivian had walked in on Jake watching a movie with too much moaning when a silk rustle sounded behind them. Vivian stood in the archway, one hip cocked, the tie of her robe barely knotted. Forty-two looked good on her: smooth olive skin, dark waves falling over one shoulder, the robe slipping just enough to show the curve of a breast and the lacy edge of the black slip beneath. Her smirk was pure trouble.

“Guilty giggles at one a.m.,” she purred. “What are my favorite children up to?”