Babysitting the Beckham hockey brothers
“I’m going to kiss you, Sophie. And you’re going to let me.”
“Why?” My breath stutters.
“Because my brother is watching.”
I gasp. That should have bothered me, but it didn’t.
“Not… not that. Why do you want to kiss me? You don’t… kiss girls, everyone knows that.”
“And yet, I’ve kissed you before, haven’t I?”
My jaw dropped open. Did he... remember?
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I used to have a crush on Ace Beckham.
Used to.
He’s Greenwoods Academy’s golden boy. Hockey captain. The kind of beautiful that makes a whole arena go silent when he skates.
Ace Beckham doesn’t kiss girls.
Everyone knows that.
He’ll flirt. He’ll ruin you. He’ll make you feel like you’re the only one in the room.
But he doesn’t kiss.
Except once.
One stupid, drunken, reckless night, he kissed me like it meant something. Like I meant something.
The next morning, I was invisible again.
Maybe he forgot.
Maybe I was never meant to be remembered.
I’ve learned to survive that.
To pretend I don’t notice him.
To make him as invisible to me as I am to him.
Until I take a babysitting job—three boys, or so I think.
Because they aren’t boys. They are men. The Beckham brothers.
And avoiding Ace Beckham in his own mansion turns out to be impossible—especially since I’m starting to realize I never really got over that crush.
And I don’t know which is worse—
Being invisible to Ace Beckham.
Or finally being seen.
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Chapter: 9CHAPTER 9”Ace!” I squeaked, eyes blurring with tears as he pulled me harshly through the shocked, murmuring crowd. My injured ankles protested. “It hurts! My ankle hurts, Ace, slow down.”Flames spread through my veins when Ace came to an abrupt halt. His harsh fingers that wrapped around my wrist loosened. And when he turned to me, my stomach clenched, and I wished I hadn’t spoken. His brows were furrowed, eyes a burning flame of yellow, almost like he was seconds away from transforming. From quenching the rumors that Ace Beckham had never released his wolf in fifteen years, and never planned to do so.Throat drying, I took a shaky step back, stammering. “W-where are you taking me—ACE!”I screamed as he wrapped an arm around my waist and lifted me, throwing me over his shoulders like I weighed nothing.“He is carrying her,” viewers murmured, my eyes wide as Ace stomped towards the black door hidden by a curtain at the far end of the viewer’s section. “Ace is touching her, omg! She
Last Updated: 2026-05-07
Chapter: 8CHAPTER 8 SOPHIE “You have got to be fucking kidding me!” Maddie squeaked as she got into the car that packed before her work place. “Is this really happening? We have vip to stay at the front row too?” I rolled my eyes, pulling my purple jacket closer to cover the number of the jersey I wore. “This is all your fault.” I glared at her. “I really do not want to do this.” “Girl please,” she shushed me away, closing the door closed. “You have been hung up on Ace Beckham for what? Centuries? And I’m all for crushes, but he hasn’t even noticed you once.” My skin prickled, my fingers digging into my leather jacket as the driver Jaxon sent began driving. Something stupid told me that Maddie was wrong. That maybe Ace actually had noticed me. But I knew it was just the stupid crush-filled girl in me speaking.I was so done with this bullshit after tonight. “Don’t forget the reason you’re dating his brother, it is to get over him. So make sure every thought you have of him is negat
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Chapter: 7CHAPTER 7 SOPHIE I watched Jaxon wink at me and leave, my heart pounded so loudly in my chest I thought it might explode. Running a hand through my blonde hair, I sighed. I already agreed to this, there was no use regretting it now. Thirty minutes later, Josh’s baked bread was ready, and I prayed to the goddess that It was as perfect as it could be. Josh had been the only person so far in this mansion who had been nice to me at first… and I really would hate for that to change over badly baked bread. Using a puffed up hand-glove, I transferred the bread into a glass plate, and I took it up to Josh’s room. I knocked, and he opened immediately.“Hi, Sophie,” he waved, his eyes were dull, with dark circles underneath his eye lids. My brows pulled together, “Hey, are you… are you alright?” Josh smiled—barely. And then nodded. He moved out of the way, granting me access. Josh’s room unlike Ace’s organized and clear of any personality — was glowing with pictures of hocke
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Chapter: 6CHAPTE 6 SOPHIE “How could he still be with her after what she did to you?!” Maddie screamed into the phone, making me wince. She had showed me a picture Mackenzie had posted of her and Ace after his hockey game yesterday. She had her arms around his neck, and a huge smile on her face. Captioning it, ‘A might with the hottest Hockey captain in history.’I inhaled, kneading the bread dough I was about to bake with the recipe book Mrs Abigail had given for Josh’s food schedule. “You seem to be forgetting that what I have is a one sided crush,” I reminded, wetting the baking pan with butter. “One I would very much want to be over with.” It had been three days since the incident with Mackenzie.Three days of Betty and Belladonna calling me slutty names while passing, also sharing wrong, degrading information about me and creating gossip. But for some reason, the bullying ended in words and words alone. I was getting to my breaking point, and I knew I would retaliate soon enough
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Chapter: Chapter 5CHAPTER 5 SOPHIETears so hot it felt like I cracking open spilled through me. I screamed into Ace’s leather jacket, my fingers digging into his neck as his hand on my leg shook. “It hurts, it hurts… I can’t…” my body convulsed.“Sophie…” Ace’s hand left my leg, and before I could blink, his hand snaked around my back, “fuck, Sophie.” He pulled me into him tighter, and more tears spilled through. I sobbed, the pain was so much it felt like I was being pulled apart.“Just hold a second, a second, the pain will disperse, I promise.” He muttered into my ear, his fingers flexing on my back as he held tight. Heck, maybe even tighter than I was holding him. My breaths came out in short gasps, my eyes closed shot, waiting for the pain to disperse like he had promised. I nuzzled my nose over his jacket, shocked to the bone when his scent enveloped me. He smelled like Cider and heavy rain on a stormy night. I hated stormy nights. But for reasons I didn’t want to admit, I love
Last Updated: 2026-04-16
Chapter: Chapter 4CHAPTER 4ACE BECKHAMOne tap.My fingers around the phone tightened, the screen light reflecting in the darkness of my gaze. Sophie was being recorded.Second tap of my finger on my bed cushion.Betty and Belladonna splashed her. With a drink.Sophie was splashed.Mom’s therapist had said one thing to me years ago that had stuck. Especially when Hockey had not been in my life, when I had no other way of letting out aggression in ways that didn’t end up in blood.She said five taps. In my head, on my fingers, it didn’t matter. What mattered was that I tapped five times. And if I couldn’t get my beast under control at the fifth tap, then I was free to spill blood.Third tap.Laughter. Everyone in the proximity of the hall laughed, they stared at her, mocking her. My nails threatened to break under the harshness of how tight I held onto Mackenzie’s phone.While I watched as the ice-cold drink soaked the outfit she wore that had almost brought me to my knees, had Mackenzie not gratefully
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Bound to the Villain who craves me
What the council wants, the council gets. And what they can't get, they eliminate.
When she is forced back to Oakblood and into Kingsbury College, Rain Riverton is well aware there are only two ways out. Survive or die.
But survival isn't as simple as it seems, not when the council is watching her every move, not when the students at Kingsbury possess magic she could only dream of owning. And certainly not when she gains the attention of the one person she shouldn't.
Kai Malek is as dangerous as the council she fears, or maybe more. Her tormentor and the reason she left Oakblood years ago. He swore to kill her, and there is nothing more sacred than a blood oath.
Oakblood isn't what it used to be. Kingsbury isn't the safe haven everyone thinks it is, and Rain isn't the same girl she was when she crossed the wards into the cursed town.
The council wants something with her and she is going to make sure they never get it, even if it costs her sanity, her life... or the enemy she has no business caring about.
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Chapter: 10CHAPTER TEN.IVY’S POVA sharp knock at the door was the only thing that saved me from the suffocating weight of Aiden’s gaze. I didn't wait for him to speak. I slipped away from the bed, my skin still prickling where he had pinned me, and heaved a silent sigh of relief. He met the guards halfway, their voices dropping into hushed, urgent tones. “An emergency assembly," Aiden said, his eyes suddenly shifting from the intense heat earlier to a cold, detached golden color. He paused at the door, his silhouette blocking the light. "Don’t play smart, Princess, I'll be back.” He left before I could even find my voiceI heaved a sigh of relief.The announcement for the emergency came before sunset.They gathered us in the central hall, rows of bodies packed tightly, shuffling feet against the stone floor, inaudible whispers travelling through the air. No one knew why we had been called, but curiosity could be seen in the eyes of everyone, tension was palpable in the air.I stood somew
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Chapter: 20CHAPTER 20RAIN ANDREA RIVERTON Prophecy or not, we were still students of Kingsbury High. It didn’t matter what we knew, or who we slapped. Attending classes was non-negotiable. Especially when they involved training. We were going to die one way or another, better to put up a good fight.“I am pleased to see some more familiar faces from the remaining aspirants the first trial didn’t wipe out.” Professor Bengal raised his chin. Hands behind the back of his robe, Dr Zia stood behind him like she always had been. “Do not rejoice yet, you still have three more to survive and win.”Three.Total of four. Not three like the Acolytes had done, Or as Aunt Eloise had in her time. Four. “Why does everything about our set have to be fucking different?” Nazeera frowned. Lix stood next to us with her Kitsune blade tugged in an X shape behind her fight gear.“Right?” Lix sneered. “It’s like they are trying to get us killed on purpose.” Professor Bengal continued. “You have today and tomorrow
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Chapter: 19CHAPTER 19RAIN ANDREA RIVERTONShivers trailed down my arms in waves as I looked up to his tall frame. There was no surviving the rage that was in his eyes.“I have to cover my fish,” Nazeera said and walked away without waiting for a response.What in the world of betrayers?“I have to go help her cover her fish.” Leon hurried along. My eyes widened at how fast they were to betray me. Leaving me with this raging monster in front of me. But I couldn’t blame them, I’d do the same.“It wasn’t intentional.” I frowned, turning fully to him.“Do you even have any idea of what you have done?” His eyes flashed.Kai was angry. Murderous even. The hallway was empty, most students were in class already and I was in danger. “I kept it safe!” I shot at him. “I tried to, at least.” He scoffed, silver eyes blaring into mine. Suddenly, his ears twitched and he grabbed my wrist forcefully. Electricity passed through my veins and straight into my brain as he pulled me towards him, my face going to
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Chapter: 18Chapter 18RAIN ANDREA RIVERTON“Ward nine, section five members have always been first in Kingsbury. So it would be absolutely wrong for me to say I am surprised.” Councilman Omen said with hands behind his back in high prestige. I could see the resemblance between Kamari and Ivella with their father. Were they as fucked up as he was too? Did he take the key? Did Nazeera take it?“Good job, once again.” His eyes scanned the hall.Our formation of three was behind our flags as always. Wards three and six stood beside us. “Your second trial comes in three days.” “Three days?” Voices were raised in protest, “We barely survived this one.” My brows squinted as I stared at Omen. Whatever his soul was made of, it was so dang obvious mine hated it. “Why the rush?” Naz mumbled beside me. “Aunt Eloise’s dairy stated we had at least two weeks to rest before the next trial.” I still didn't trust that she didn’t take the key. But I couldn’t accuse her if I didn’t witness it myself. Besides,
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Chapter: 17If you are reading this, it means your first trial went well and you are still breathing. I am proud of you. You’ve always been a smart girl, Rain. Pay attention to details, patterns, and things that repeat themselves. And at the same time keep an eye on the council. And always remember. Once is a coincidence, and twice is a pattern. ~A GUIDE TO SURVIVAL AT KINGSBURY HIGH, GIFTED TO RAIN ANDREA, RIVERTON. FROM ELOISE RIVERTON (section5) ~ Chapter 17 RAIN ANDREA RIVERTONHome. Sweet. Fucking. Home. Well, maybe not exactly my idea of home, but at least I was back in my room. No corset. No long gowns. No cupcakes. And certainly, no Kai Malek. The slight movement from the other end of the room reminded me that Nazeera was still my roommate.Taking a deep breath, I let the sleep wash over me.***“Do you think you are worth anything? Do you think your father would find excuses to travel every time if you were so worth it?” Mother’s voice pierced through my ears, my little legs s
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Chapter: 16CHAPTER 16RAIN ANDREA RIVERTON“It’s time,” Kamari stated. Each of us on either side of our beds was already dressed in our fight gear. My hair was packed in a high ponytail and two strands braided on either of my checks. Seconds later, we were pulling up to the tower to the meet-up spot Ward nine had picked. Lix moved from one foot to another with worry in her eyes. Naz? She wore a scowl more than half the time, I could barely read a thing out of her.I cleaned my sweaty palms over my gear. I was going to survive. My name was not going to be added to the death board.“Divide yourselves into groups of five,” Kai ordered. Unlike us, he wore a round-neck black top that highlighted his muscles. Only his pants were the school fight gear. “After tonight, we will either win or barely make it out with our lives. Because then, it will be obvious what we came for. I can guarantee that Aldamar will not let anyone leave alive.”“With our number and the guards we will have to kill, would he
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Chapter: 22CHAPTER TWENTY-TWOIVY’S POV.I didn’t remember how I got back. Only that I ran.The corridor blurred past me, my lungs burning, my heart pounding so hard it felt like it would tear through my ribs. The image of Aiden’s dark furious eyes remained etched in my mind as I ran.I slammed into the suite door and pushed inside, my back hitting the wood as I tried to steady my breathing.BANG. The sound shook the door behind me, and I froze. Another heavier bang followed, violent enough to rattle the hinges.My pulse dropped straight into my stomach. He was here. Before I could move, before I could even think, the door flew open.Aiden stepped in. No… he stormed in.His presence filled the room instantly, suffocating me with his scent. His shirt was half-buttoned, his hair slightly disheveled, but it was his face that made my blood run cold. His eyes was crimson, with bits of wounds on his forehead and cheeks.“Come here.” He roared, a sound that made me tremble. My body reacted before my mi
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Chapter: 21CHAPTER 21IVY’S POV.The morning air in the academy was different, the tension, uncontrolled movement and hushed voices stood out. Everywhere I turned, incoherent whispers rippled through the corridors into my ear.I didn't stop walking until the noises became very audible. The corridor outside the training grounds buzzed with overlapped conversations, and loud whispers." …he’s returning…”“Professor Valerius…”“sooner than we expect, they said…”I slowed. The words echoed in my mind, keeping me calm in a way nothing else had since I arrived here.Finally, this was a way forward. A reason all of this wasn’t going to be pointless. A small, fragile sense of hope settled in my chest, even as everything else felt wrong right now. His name was the only existential lifeline I had in this school. I could feel the excitement brewing in me, already.A sharp bell cut through the noise, ringing three times. "Everyone to the Great Training Arena!" an official shouted, his voice echoing off the
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Chapter: 20CHAPTER TWENTY.IVY’S POVThe air in the office was suffocating, filled with tension and arousal. Aiden’s words sent tingles and shivers against my skin, his hand moving toward the button of his trousers, when the world outside crashed back in.BANG! BANG! BANG!The sound of a fist hammering against the heavy oak door was so violent it made the lamps flicker.Aiden didn’t move. He stayed pinned against me, his chest heaving, his eyes still swirling with that dark, intense red.The knocking continued, more insistent than the last, echoing against the walls like whoever stood outside had no intention of stopping.My gaze flicked toward the door, then back to him.He exhaled slowly through his nose, irritation flickering across his face. The knock came again, harder than the last."Lycran King! Emergency protocol!" a guard’s voice barked through the wood, frantic and high-pitched.Then, he let out a low, guttural snarl… a sound of such raw, frustrated fury that I felt it in my own bones
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Chapter: 19CHAPTER NINETEENIVY’S POVI stood paralyzed, his scent of cedarwood and rain overwhelming my sense of smell. I ruminated various answers in my mind, none coherent.Aiden didn't rise from the chair. He just watched me, his bare chest glistening in the low lamplight, the muscles of his stomach rippling with every slow, controlled breath."Where did you go, Nick Martins?" he asked. The use of my name was like a physical blow that weakened me."I... I was here," I stammered, my voice cracking. "I just stepped out for a moment. The dust in here... it was getting to my lungs."Aiden let out a low, humorless chuckle that didn't reach his eyes. "You’re a pathetic liar. I’m going to ask again, and only once more." He stood up slowly, looming over the desk like a god of war. "Why did you switch places with Jay? What was so important that you had to risk my wrath to find it?"My heart plummeted. He knew. He was most probably here the moment Jay stepped into the room wearing my mask. My eyes fl
Last Updated: 2026-05-03
Chapter: 18CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.IVY’S POVMy pulse was still racing and my breaths still ragged. I didn’t slow down until the air in the corridor felt cold enough to settle the heat in my skin. My fingers were white-knuckled around the silver key, the metal biting into my palm. Every time I closed my eyes, I pictured Aiden’s mouth against mine and the terrifying realization that would have washed over my face when my binding was exposed. Aiden loves to wield secrets as a tool of manipulation, and playing into his hands would have been mortifying.I was so caught in the chaos within my own head that I didn’t see the figure rounding the corner. I collided into something solid.A hand shot out, steadying me before I could fall.I stepped back immediately, forcing my breathing to steady. “Sorry… I didn’t see you.”"Whoa, easy there, Nick!" Jay stumbled back, steadying himself while he laughed. He looked at me, his brow furrowing as he took in my disheveled state. "Aren't you supposed to be the Head
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Chapter: 17CHAPTER SEVENTEENIVY’S POVThe realization of holding the locket in my palm finally settled in my brain, why did Aiden give it without a fight? He always had a sinister motive but I didn't have time to dwell on it. As the head of his office organization team, I was expected to be there ten minutes ago. I turned to leave the common area, my mind already racing through a supposed mental map of his office.I was halfway to the door when it hit me. Of course, he hasn't given me the key. My steps slowed, then stopped completely. My fingers tightened slightly at my sides as fear was beginning to take root within me.I exhaled slowly, closing my eyes for a brief second before turning back. My gaze shifted toward the hallway that led to his private room. It felt like a bad idea.Every instinct in me said to leave it alone, to find another way, to avoid him entirelyMy pulse picked up speed. Before I could overthink it, I went down the hallway, my boots heavy on the floorboards, and knocked o
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