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  Hunter Ryan is a monumental d*ck.

  Bad boy, womanizer, soldier, pr*ck. Oh, and he thinks he’s God’s gift to women - mostly because of his… endowments.

  What an ass.

  I’d normally have nothing to do with Washington D.C.’s biggest manwhore Secret Service agent, except things just got slightly complicated.

  You see, my mother just became the first female President of the United States, and now she’s about to marry her Secretary of State - Hunter’s father.

  Which means besides being my new security detail, that arrogant, insufferable man is my new stepbrother

  Oh, right, and it’s worth mentioning that I already slept with him - once, before I knew who he was.

  Forget John and Marilyn. Forget Watergate. Forget Monica.

  I’ve got a scandal that could rock the entire world; a dirty, illicit, forbidden secret that could bring the most powerful country in the world to its knees.

  My protector, my secret, my stepbrother.

  This is about to be a true state of emergency; a national catastrophe.

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  Author’s Copyright

  Copyright © 2015 Aubrey Irons

  Editing: Sennah Tate

  Cover/Interior Photography: FXQuadro Photography

  M.J. H1nkle

  BortN66, Nikhg

  Cover & Interior Design: Aubrey Irons

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, organizations, actual events or locales is entirely coincidental. The author acknowledges the trademark status of products referred to in this book and acknowledges that trademarks have been used without permission.

  All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations used for review purposes.

  This book is intended for mature, adult audiences only. It contains sexually explicit and graphic scenes and language which may be considered offensive by some readers. Please do not continue reading this book of you are under the age of 18 or are offended by content of this nature.

  All sexually active characters in this work are 18 years of age or older and are in no way blood relations. All acts of a sexual nature are completely consensual.

  Dedication:

  A very special thank you to the wildly supportive group of authors who I’m absolutely blessed to call friends and peers. “Thank you” doesn’t even come close.

  To my husband, who got busted proofreading this at work and might never actually live it down. You are forever my hero.

  To you, for reading.

  Author’s Note:

  “Sometimes it's our secrets that define us.”

  Britney Spears, interview, August 25, 2011

  So, I wanted to start this book with a quote. It seems…author-ish to do so, and as much as my Aunt enjoys wrinkling her nose whenever I refer to myself as an author, I figure that seven novels in, I can go ahead and enjoy the moniker.

  But right, quotes. At first, I was going to go with the far heavier-handed James Joyce “Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned”, but jeez. How about a little levity, James?

  Because sometimes, a little humor is what we need, especially when it comes to politics. This book very purposely does not choose “sides”, or “parties, or decide who’s “right” and who’s “wrong”. In fact, the only “wrong” this book deals with is the very very good kind. The kind of wrong that makes your toes curl and pulse skip a beat. The kind of wrong you’re just dying to say yes to.

  This book may be a bit dirtier and bit naughtier than previous ones, and if it shocks, ruffles, or scandalizes; good. It means I’ve done my job.

  Besides, politics without anal in the Oval Office just sound like no fun at all.

  Let this book be your hidden scandal, your dirty little secret, or your illicit affair, and I do hope you enjoy every single second of it.

  Secret: A Military Stepbrother Romance

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Epilogue

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  An Excerpt:

  “All you have to do is sit up there and smile, okay?” Emma smiles as she holds my shoulders and looks into my face while the prep crew finishes up with my perfectly coiffed hair.

  My makeup is perfect, and my demure and conservative skirt suit — like all the other ones I end up wearing to everything like this — is fit and smoothed to perfection. Even the way I’m supposed to smile — “not too toothy, okay?” — has been micromanaged and perfected for the camera.

  Because we’re the perfect American family; the perfect first family.

  Emma peers into my face and smiles reassuringly.

  “You’re going to be fine up there, Madison,” she says, patting my arm, as if the reason for the tenseness writ across my face is the fact that I have to be on international television in ten minutes. />
  Of course, she doesn’t know that the reason my heart is pumping a million miles an hour and my knees keep shaking is that I know that when I sit there in front of those cameras with him right next to me, I’m going to feel like the whole world can see through our sham. The whole freaking world is going to see Hunter and I smiling away up there, and the wild paranoia in me screams that they’re all going to know.

  They’re going to know that I know what his lips feel like on mine.

  They’re going to know that I can’t stop thinking about his cock.

  They’re going to know that as terrified as I am about being up there in front of them, I’m also still wet from earlier.

  It’s all crazy-think, and I know that, but it doesn’t seem to be helping much. Emma gives me a final pat on the arm before she holds her finger to the com in her ear and mutters some words into her microphone, scurrying away with her clipboard.

  “You know, they say T.V. adds ten pounds.”

  I scowl as I turn to glare at Hunter while he comes up behind me in the backstage area of the press conference area. My mother is finishing up her initial statements about her education bill before we’re all going to join her on stage at the long conference table for part two.

  Yeah, part two: the announcement.

  “You know,” he says, grinning at me before looking around the dark, curtained backstage area. “We gotta stop meeting in places like this.”

  “I agree.”

  “It gives me way too many ideas,” he growls into my ear, letting his hand trail over my ass.

  I swat him away as I move a step back from him. He’s grinning and making jokes about this, as if the whole thing is funny. As if what we’re doing isn’t that much closer to being exposed and consequently shattering both our families, if not the nation.

  ‘What we’re doing’? What the hell ARE we even doing?

  I mean honestly, what is this thing between Hunter and I? Over-active hormones? Is it just that I’m cooped up in the White House and behind security so much that he’s just the only option for flirtation and male attention?

  “You look nervous.”

  I shoot him a look, “Are you not?”

  “Nope.”

  “Well good for you.”

  He grins as he moves much closer to me than a bodyguard should. “I’ve got something much more interesting to think about to keep my mind occupied.”

  I’m blushing as the door next to us opens suddenly, sending Hunter stepping back from me.

  “It was one cigarette!” Dexter’s grinning as a stern-faced Emma marches him in by the arm.

  “One cigarette, Mr. Ryan, will be a P.R. nightmare if someone were to snap a picture of it, especially with the President’s announcement about the engagement to your father in a few minutes here.” Emma furrows her brow at Dexter. “And especially given your age.”

  Dexter smirks at her. “‘My age’? What are you, like a year older than me?”

  “In actual years or maturity, because she’s got you beat by centuries on the second count,” Hunter says with a grin.

  Dexter shoots him a look. “Whose side are you on?”

  Emma’s suddenly putting her finger to her earpiece and then quickly pushing Dexter towards the stage. “Never mind that Mr. Ryan, we’re on in three minutes.”

  I start to follow, but suddenly I gasp as I feel myself get pulled back into the folds of the backstage curtains. “Hunter—!”

  He spins me around, and suddenly I’m face to face and pressed right against him. The words I nearly spat at him, or the hand I was about to smack him with suddenly get lost somewhere else in my mind as I just fall, right into those piercing blue eyes.

  “What are you doing?” I whisper, swallowing quickly and blinking as I get lost in the burning ice of his gaze.

  “Just saying ‘break a leg’ up there,” he grins. “Oh, and I had a quick question.”

  “We’re live in sixty seconds! Places on the stage!” I hear a voice call out.

  “Hunter!”

  “One question, doll.”

  “What!?”

  And then I’m gasping as he yanks me right against him, grabs my hand, and places firmly on something huge in his pants.

  “I was just curious,” he growls into my ear. “If you’re as wet as I am hard.”

  My heart leaps into my throat as I realize I’m holding his cock through his pants, and suddenly I jump as I feel his hand slide right up between my legs and beneath my skirt. His fingers stroke across the front of my panties, and I moan softly as redness blooms in my face.

  Because I don’t even have to answer him. He knows from touching me exactly how wet I am.

  “Madison! Hunter!”

  And just like that, he’s pulling away from me, grabbing my hand, and yanking me onto the stage. I’m hoping to God that everyone just assumes I’m nervous when they see my red face. I pray that I don’t have to say a thing up there when my mother and Alec give the announcement, because I don’t think I could find words right then.

  Because my head is still lost somewhere back there in that curtain, and my thoughts are still entirely centered on thing and one thing only.

  How much I want him; how utterly and completely turned on I am sitting up there right next to him.

  The stage manager counts down on his fingers, the lights go up, and my mother smiles at the camera.

  It’s that exact moment that I feel Hunter’s hand drop to my knee under the table, sliding all the way up to the wet front of my panties.

  My jaw drops before I quickly shut it, fighting everything I have not to turn and just stare like he’s insane.

  Because he is insane, and this is insane. There’s a floor-length drape over the table, including on our side which cover our laps. But it doesn’t matter that no one can see us; it doesn’t matter that no one knows that Hunter’s fingers are sliding under the soaking wet edge of my panties and brushing across my pussy.

  It matters that I am now on live fucking international television with my stepbrother’s fingers sliding into my pussy.

  “Good evening, America,” my mother says easily, as if addressing a nation on television is the most effortless thing in the world. As if looking into a camera beaming her face to hundreds of millions of people is so carefree.

  Let me tell you, the perspective is slightly different from where I sit, with Hunter’s finger slowly driving me mad under the table.

  I want to push him away, or slap him, or even just tell him to quit it before we both get absolutely humiliated on national television, but I can’t. I can’t hit him on T.V., I can’t say anything to him while my mother is addressing the country.

  I have to sit there and smile — “not too toothy” — and just be part of the perfect little all American family, — the first family — on that stage. I have to just smile benignly at the camera, while Hunter’s fingers slowly drive me absolutely wild.

  “Tonight, I wanted to take a moment to share something very special with you all.”

  My hands grip the edge of the table in front of us, my knuckles white as I force myself to keep breathing and not to let my eyes flutter shut as the pleasure rolls through me.

  “When you voted me into this office, we made history. It’s because of you, America, that I’m here today breaking down every boundary this office still holds, in the name of equality, and in the spirit of pushing this great country into the future.”

  My breath catches in my throat and my heart threatens to pound right through my chest as Hunter lets his thumb circle around and around my clit. He’s just sitting there quietly, a small little smile on his face. Looking to all the world like the perfect little soldier; the charming young man stepping into his new role.

  “You put your trust in me, America, and so today, I’d like to do the same with you as I announce one more historic breakthrough for this Presidency.”

  And suddenly, the horrible realization hits me that he’s not going to stop. Suddenly, I reali
ze this doesn’t end with him teasing me to a point and then stopping.

  This ends with him making me come on national fucking television.

  The shocking realization has me pushing a hand beneath the table, trying to pull his hand away, as incredible as he feels. He resists me though, and I clench my jaw tight as I smile into the camera while his thumb rolls over and over my clit.

  “I’ve been keeping something under wraps that I’d love to share with you all tonight, because this is for everyone.” She turns to Alec before looking back at the camera. “Major Alec Ryan, as you know, was one of biggest champions on the campaign path. He offered his help, his support, and his kindness when I needed it the most, and he has stepped graciously and without hesitation into his new role as my Secretary of State.”

  She suddenly reaches over and entwines her fingers in Alec’s. “Tonight, I’d like to announce his move to fill a new role in my life.”