Online Love, Offline Stepbrother

Online Love, Offline Stepbrother — A woman realizes her arrogant stepbrother is the stranger who sent her intimate messages for two years.

Five years after her mother marries into the Sterling crime family, the narrator endures a frozen relationship with stepbrother Louis. The dynamic shatters when she spots a distinctive birthmark on him identical to the one belonging to Rowan, the online partner who sent her hungry, intimate messages for two years. She recently severed that connection by fabricating a Harvard rejection to protect Rowan from her dangerous in-laws. Now panic drives her to flee, but Louis intercepts her at the door, blocking her exit with a menacing laugh and a threat that he knows her deception.

Quick answers

Who is Rowan?

The narrator's online boyfriend of two years who sent intimate nightly messages.

Why did the narrator lie about Harvard?

To break up with Rowan and shield him from her mother's criminal in-laws.

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