But Carter had never been the best at confrontation, and what he desperately needed to say to his older brother somehow always ended up on the cutting room floor, edited entirely out of any conversation they had – or any conversation with his father, also – so that he didn’t have to deal with all of the uncomfortable feelings it was going to stir up in all three of them. Despite the relatively small bump in the road that was Carter, Ellie and Cal’s relationship grew stronger every day, and he had to admit that she seemed to revel in his attentions, which threatened to border on the obsessive. He couldn’t seem to get enough of her – not fucking her or spanking her. They were both equally arousing to him, and to her, if the number of times he’d made her scream in ecstasy was any judge. Everything seemed to be smooth sailing until one night, quite late, when Cal had been away on a business trip for a few days and he decided to stop by Ellie’s and surprise her.
