Isabelle's pov

Red silk sheets lay across my body. I open my eyes and realize I'm in the red room. Feeling a hand slide over my stomach and then wrap around me. I look to my side and see Ethan.

He lays beside me in the bed. His eyes are closed and little breaths escape his mouth. His face is smushed against the pillow making his lips seem puffy. I smile and move closer to him.

Almost as an instinct he nudges his head into my neck and slides a leg over me. I can feel his heart beating against me and I wish that this could happen more.

"Isabelle." he mumbles, startling me.

"Yes?"

"Isabelle." he mumbles again. Is he sleep talking?

"I want... Isabelle... tell you somethi.." he mutters and then moves himself completely on top of me, still asleep.

"Ethan. What do you want to tell me" I ask him while running my hands up his back. He shivers so I pull the blankets up farther on his back, so only his head was popping out from under it.

"I-" he breaths out.

"You what?" I say still rubbing his back.

"I-"

"Ethan you can tell me" I say reassuringly to him even though he's asleep.

"I love you." my body freezes and I peer down at him. His face had been all scrunched up in frustration and now it was completely peaceful looking. His lips pouted and I looked up at the ceiling.

"I love you too Ethan.." I whisper while running my hand through his hair. I kiss the top of his head and then close my eyes as my throat begins to feel like it was closing up. Wheezing quietly I try to calm my nerves. If only this was how he really felt.

Ethan's pov

I had been awake for a while. But I had pretended to be asleep just so I could tell Isabelle I loved her without it being a big deal. I regret it now that I can feel her shaking and hear her crying underneath me.

She had said she loved me too though and that excited me. After her breathing evened out and I waited a few minutes, I look up at her pretending to be tired.

"Isabelle."

"Ethan."

"Are you hungry?" I notice that her cheeks are still damp with tears so I try not to stare.

"No not really" she lightly pushes me off of her and turns away from me.

I grab for my phone off the night stand and check the time.

4:46pm

"Ethan do you know what you said to me in your sleep?" She asks, still facing me. I can feel her body tensing up beside me. I frown.

"Um no? I said something?" Lieing I escape out from under the tangled blankets and begin to walk for the door. Not caring that I'm nude.

"Never mind it doesn't matter." she laughs nervously.

"Isabelle do you know how to cook?" I stand between the hall and the door frame, covering myself slightly with the door.

"Um yeah?" She begins to get up while looking at me.

"Can you cook something nice for tonight? My parents and my brother and sister are coming over for dinner." I leave the room and make my way down the hallway.

Isabelle pov

After I changed into a burgundy knee cut dress and black flats, I moved to the kitchen to begin making dinner. I'm not that good at cooking so I decided to prepare the thing I'm best at making. Spaghetti and meat balls with garlic bread and caesar salad. I begin to roll out meat balls and then place them on a pan to be precooked. Then I cut up vegetables and pour tomato sauce into a big pot along with the minced carrots, celery, and mushrooms.

After cutting up a baguette and smothering garlic butter onto either side of each slice, I pour pasta into a pot of water and then turn the stove and oven on and put everything in there place to be cooked.

"What're you making? It already smells amazing" startled I turn to see Ethan walking down stairs in dress pants and a black dress shirt.

All black looks so good on him.

"Um spaghetti, garlic bread and caesar salad but I haven't started the salad yet because I don't want it to get soggy.." I go to sit on a stool and watch him as he walks towards me.

"You look beautiful." He says and places a hand on my cheek.

"Thank you." I blush and look down at my hands.

"Just so you know I will introduce you to my family as my girlfriend. They don't like when my assistants live with me and I prefer to not get in an argument seeing I haven't seen or talked to most of them in little less then a year." He mutters all of it and then walks to the door just as the doorbell goes off.

My heart begins to pound and I can feel my palms getting sweaty. Mrs.Dolan and a man walk into the entrance followed by a younger looking lady.

I get up and try to wipe my hands discretely on my dress before reaching out to shake all of their hands.

"Hi my names Cameron." The younger girl says to me while smiling.

"My names Lisa." MrsDolan shakes my hand roughly. Why is she acting lie she doesn't know me? She seemed less friendly then I remembered so I moved on quickly to the next hand.

"I'm Sean. Lisa is my wife and Cameron is our daughter also known as Ethan's sister. We have another child, Grayson. He should be here soon I think." Sean, Ethan's father smiles and laughs gently when referring to Cameron as Ethan's sister as if it were a joke.

"He's always late." Cameron laughs and gives her brother a hug.

"And who are you?" Ethan's mother asks me. Why is she being so intimidating. I've worked for her so long and she knows my name. Why is she playing dumb?

"This is Isabelle Thornington. She's my girlfriend." Ethan butts in and wraps his arm around me. I smile up at him, my heart skipping beats.

"Awh that's soo cute! How long have you two been together?" Cameron asks while punching Ethan in the arm.

"Four months." Ethan lies, he smiles and begins to walk to the sitting area, all of us following and taking a seat. Ethan cuddles up close to me and wraps his arm around me while his other hand held my own.

"Well honey, at least we know he's not gay now. Jesus Ethan we were getting worried seeing you haven't had a girlfriend in soooo long." Sean laughs and nudges his wife. I smile and laugh along, looking over at Ethan I can see him blushing.

"Well you see dad, I've just been so busy with building my own company up from the ground." Ethan glares at his father and Sean's smile fades.

"I was just joking." Sean leans back in the couch and wraps his own arm around his wife.

"So Isabelle! Tell us about yourself. What do you do?" Cameron jumps in and turns the conversation around. Oh fuck. What do I say my profession is?

"She works as a interior designer. She's hoping to make her own company as well." Ethan says calmy.

I let out a small breath and I smile at him thankfully. I can hear Mrs.Dolan snort with disagreement.

"I don't recall asking you Ethan." Cameron shoots at him.

"But that's sounds like a lot of fun." Cameron smiles at me and then we all participate in friendly conversation.

Later on Cameron goes to get the door after hearing the doorbell go off. A tall man walks in. He has hazel, kind, friendly eyes but his broad shoulders and the way his dress shirt strains around his arms tells me he'd be rough in bed. He looks similar to Ethan but different at the same time.

"Ahh Isabelle this is my twin brother Grayson." Ethan pulls me up by the hand gently and then leads me to his brother. Twin?

"Hi." Grayson says and smiles at me. His white teeth seem to gleam and I can't help but smile back.

"Hi.. I'm Isabelle." I hold my hand out for him and he takes it.

"Isabelle's my girlfriend." Ethan smirks at his brother and then everyone except me, makes their way to the table. I move to the kitchen instead and strain the noodles and pour them into the ready sauce. I stir it around then pull the meat balls out of the oven. I slide those into the sauce too and then grab the garlic bread out of the oven. I place them neatly on a plate and then begin to make the salad. Ethan and his family chatter happily at the table.

Ethan's pov

"She seems really nice Ethan. I'm happy for you." Cam places her hand over mine and smiles at me.

"Why didn't you tell us you had a girlfriend?" My mother glares at me and takes a sip of her wine that I had poured for everyone except my dad, who had refused saying that he was going to be driving later on in the night.

I look over at Isabelle in the kitchen and see her completely focused on making a salad that she wasn't even paying attention to us.

"I didn't know I had too?" I say and take a sip out of my own glass of wine.

"Well it would have been nice to be notified that it wouldn't be just family here tonight." My mother shoots me a fake smile.

"Mom. It doesn't matter. She is family now." Grayson says and pats our mother on the arm.

"She's not family until I see a ring on her finger Grayson." My mother glares at me and I can feel my face getting hotter.

"What's your problem tonight?" Cam whispers aross the table at her.

"Okay! I'm so sorry it took that long to be ready but dinners ready now!" Isabelle comes to the table and places bowls infront of my Father and Cameron.

"Here I'll help." Grayson stands up and walks to the counter to grab the already filled bowls.

"No no it's okay!" Isabelle grabs them before Grayson can and rushes to place bowls infront of me and my mother. Grayson grabs the last two and continues to insist his help.

The garlic bread and salad are brought to the table along with a stack of wooden bowls for the salad.

"This is soo good Isabelle." Cameron says while grabbing a piece of garlic bread.

"I'm glad you like it." Isabelle sits down beside me and gives me a smile. I can tell she was trying to be her best and win my family's approval of her. I grab her hand and kiss it gently. She blushes but continues to eat.

"It isn't that good." I hear my mother say. I look up at her and so does everyone else except Isabelle. Her face begins to turn red and she looks down at her hands.

"It's amazing." my dad gives my mom a glare.

"Not really. But the garlic bread is good." My mother throws her napkin on the table and crosses her arms. I can see from the corner of my eye that Isabelle was trying to collect herself. She then looks up at my mother and smiles lightly.

"I'm sorry you don't like it Mrs.Dolan, I'll try to make something you'll like next time." I rub Isabelle's back as she continues to eat, along with everyone else except Lisa.

"I doubt you'll be able to."

"MOM!" Cameron shouts.

"I think it's time you stop talking and drink your wine Lisa." My dad gets up and removes her plate from infront of her, bringing it to the counter.

Isabelle's pov

I clear the table and begin to wash dishes. Ethan and his family had gone to some game room he had down the hall. I think about everything Lisa had said to me. Was the meal really not good? There were so many unexplained things and questions running through my head. While I was lost in thought I drop a knife and it slides down my palm. Leaving a long scarlet cut. I gasp and pick up the knife.

"Are you okay?" Grayson comes rushing towards me and presses paper towel onto my cut. I hadn't even known he was there.

"Oh haha yeah it's only shallow. I'll be fine." I say while looking up at him.

"Okay well you should be more careful." He laughs lightly and continues to hold my hand, pressing down.

"I will." I laugh awkwardly. He's really attractive. I think and smile at him.

"Well I'll help you with the rest of the dishes. He moves his hand away and places it on my hip. His eyes linger on me for a bit and then he goes to the dishes.

"It's okay I can do it!" I say while moving to grab a plate, I turn and bump into. He laughs and I squeak. His hands were now on my hips again, steadying me. I blush and go to move away.

"Isabelle?" I hear Ethan and I turn to face him. His face shows he had been watching the whole thing. Did he think I liked his brother touching me?

"Ethan." I say calmy back.

"Can I speak to you upstairs." He asks and then begins to walk upstairs without an answer from me.

"Go. I'll finish up the dishes." Grayson says so I follow Ethan.

Now on the second floor I look down either side of the hallway. No doors were open except Ethan's. I walk towards it and peer inside. Sure enough there he was sitting on a low couch against the wall.

"Can you close the door behind you." He asks me, he doesn't look at me though. He seemed too focused on rolling his sleeves up neatly. I close the door and begin to step towards him.

"Lock it." He demands. I do as told and then go to sit beside him. He looks at me and then slides his hand up my back.

"Bend down over my knee." He speaks calmly to me and for a moment I'm confused.

"Why-?"

"You need to be punished. Get down on your knees and bend over my thigh. You'll be receiving 5 spanks." I look at him and then slid down onto my knees. He pushes on my back lightly so I crouch over his knee. I place my hands infront of me for support and close my eyes.

"Do you know what you did wrong" he asks me. I shake my head no and bit my lip.

"You let my brother touch you in a way I should only touch you." He pulls my dress out of the way and then slides my underwear down to my thighs.

"I'm sorry." I whisper. He places his hand on my ass for a moment and then pulls it away, seconds later it comes down on me and I gasp, lurching forward a bit. He repeats it again and another gasp escapes me. Everytime his hand met my bare skin it sent shivers up my spine and for some reason I liked it.

The 5th spank came down on me and I let out a little moan. Ethan's hand now layed limply on my back. He sighs.

"Seeing you seemed to like that I'll have to add some things to your punishment." His fingers slide inside of me and I moan again. They moved at a speed I wouldn't be able to do myself.

Just as I'm about to climax he stops and slides my panties back on. He pushes on my chest for me to stand up so I do. Looking up at me he grabs both of my hands and brings me down to sit on his lap, straddling him. I move my dress out of the way so I can finish the job he had started but he slaps my hand.

"As your punishment you don't get to finish." He grabs my face and brings it close to his. He then pushes my hair away and kisses my neck. His tongue slides up my neck and I shiver. A slight pressure is forced against my skin and I realize he's bitting me. I open my mouth about to moan but he stops again and I get off of him. He stands up and goes to the door, unlocking it he leaves me standing alone in his room.

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