Claimed By My Stepbrother
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“My sweet Camila,” he chuckled darkly. “You’re dripping wet for me—even though I’m standing here injured and drenched in blood. I never took you for a little sadist.”
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Camila has always kept her head down, kept to herself. But that was before she discovered her new stepbrother was Ethan—the infuriating, untouchable heartthrob of her school.
She's used to staying out of the spotlight, but Ethan’s arrival flips her world upside down. Brooding and untamed, he’s as tempting as he is off-limits.
There’s a rumor he’s more than just a pretty face, that there's something wild hidden behind those intense eyes. Something dangerous.
The more Camila tries to keep her distance, the more their worlds collide in ways she can't explain. With every stolen glance and forbidden touch, she’s pulled closer to a secret that’s as thrilling as it is terrifying.
A secret that blurs the line between human and beast, love and fate. And once Camila learns the truth, she’ll have to choose: keep her distance… or risk everything for a taste of the forbidden.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 225: Yeah… It Was TimeEverything moved pretty fucking fast after that night—like someone had hit fast-forward on the worst parts of our lives and forgotten to give us the remote. One minute we were all sitting in the living room bleeding out our secrets, the next the house was full of cardboard boxes, packing tape screeching across seams, and the kind of quiet conversations that happen when nobody really wants to be heard. Mom threw herself into organizing like it was therapy, labeling shit with Sharpie in that neat handwriting she always used for grocery lists: “Kitchen—pots & pans,” “Fragile—photo albums.” While Jake wandered around hauling boxes to the garage for the moving truck that would show up in three days. Dad mostly stayed in his study with the door closed, the faint clink of a bottle against glass the only proof he was still breathing in there.And the morning they left? The sky was that flat gray that made everything look washed out and tired. The moving truck idled in the driveway, exhaus
Last Updated: 2026-03-04
Chapter: CHAPTER 224: Staring At Nothing Yet Feeling EverythingThe words landed like a brick through glass. My mouth opened, but nothing came out at first. Just air. Just the sudden, hollow rush of understanding why the house had felt wrong for months, why Dad had been sleeping on the couch more nights than in their bed, why Mom’s smiles never reached her eyes anymore.“You’re… what?” My voice cracked on the last word, sounding younger than I’d sounded in years.“We’ve been trying to figure it out,” Mom continued, words tumbling faster now like she needed to get them out before she lost her nerve. “We’ve been in counseling for almost a year. We thought we could fix it, that we could wait until you graduated, until things settled down. But after Camila… after everything… it just became clear we can’t keep pretending. We’re hurting each other more by staying together. And we’re hurting you kids by dragging it out.”Counseling for a year??!I could stop the ugly bark of laughter that slipped from my mouth.“You’ve been in counseling for a year? A
Last Updated: 2026-01-24
Chapter: CHAPTER 223: What The Fuck Is That Look?I stared into the steam rising from my tea, watching it curl and dissolve, trying to force my brain to focus on something normal. “Tessa, can you hear me?” Mom’s voice cut through the fog, soft but insistent, the way she spoke when she was trying not to startle me. I blinked hard, tea sloshing against the rim of the mug. “What?” I asked, startled enough that my shoulders jerked. “What did you say?” She was sitting on the armchair across from me, knees pressed together, hands clasped so tight her knuckles were white. Jake hovered in the doorway to the kitchen, arms crossed, looking like he wanted to disappear into the wallpaper. Mom took a careful breath. “What do you think about us moving? After your final exams.” Moving out? I felt my whole body go rigid, mug trembling in my hands until hot tea splashed over the edge and burned my thumb. I set it down on the coffee table a little too fast and the liquid pooled around the base. “What?!” “It’s a nice place, I promise,” sh
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Chapter: CHAPTER 222: On MeI spun so fast my hood fell back, snow flying off like confetti as my heart slammed against my ribs. I was ready to swing and scream… until I saw his face. Jake. Breathless, cheeks flushed from running, hair sticking up in wet spikes under his beanie. “Jesus, Tess, where the hell have you been?” His voice cracked on the last word, lower than usual, rough from shouting or cold or both. He didn’t let go right away, fingers tight around my sleeve like he was afraid I’d vanish if he did. “I’ve been driving around for an hour looking for you. Mom’s losing her mind.” I yanked my arm free, the sudden motion making my shoulder twinge. I rubbed the spot where his grip had been, more out of habit than pain, and let out a long, shaky sigh that fogged the air between us. “I’m fine,” I muttered, even though the words tasted like a lie. “I just… needed to walk.” “You needed to walk for three fucking hours? In a snowstorm? Without answering your phone?” He ran a hand through his hair, snowflak
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Chapter: CHAPTER 221: Fuck You!“She’d look over her shoulder when we were walking home from school,” I went on, voice cracking a little. “Like she expected someone to be following us. Wouldn’t tell me what. Said she couldn’t. That it was better if I didn’t know. I pushed, Miles. I pushed so fucking hard, but she just hugged me and said, ‘I dont want to drag you into this. You don’t understand how messy it is.’ I thought she was being dramatic.”My hands were shaking now, not just from the cold.I pressed them against my thighs to stop it. “And then she was gone. Her, her mom, her dad, Ethan. The house empty like they’d never lived there. And yet the police act like it’s a cold case already. Like four people don’t matter enough to keep looking.”I finally turned my head toward him to find his face pale under the hood, glasses catching the faint orange from the distant streetlight. He looked… wrong. Frozen. Like I’d just dropped something heavy on him and he didn’t know how to pick it up.“When did she go missing?
Last Updated: 2026-01-12
Chapter: CHAPTER 220: She Sounded… OffThe figure stopped dead, like a deer caught in headlights. Then a voice, cracking a little on the edges, floated over the snow.“Shit—sorry! Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.” He took a half-step back, palms up in that universal I’m-harmless gesture. “I thought nobody came out here anymore. Especially not… uh… alone. At night. In January.”I squinted through the falling snow, trying to make him out. Skinny. Tallish but slouched like he was trying to disappear into his own shoulders with big square glasses that reflected the faint light. Messy dark hair sticking out from under the hood and a backpack slung over one shoulder, straps worn thin. Definitely not one of the usual suspects who haunted this place. He looked like he belonged in a library, not on abandoned train tracks.Still, I didn’t relax. “What the hell are you doing here then?” I snapped. “You following me or something?”“No! God, no.” He shook his head fast, snow flying off the brim of his hood. “I come here sometimes.
Last Updated: 2026-01-11
Daddies Taste Better
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Gage didn’t make a habit of denying himself anything.
If he wanted something… anything, he’d claw his way to get it, consequences be damned.
But her? Thea?
She was the only goddamn exception.
Off-limits. Untouchable. A tempting little toy he had no right to shatter, yet that only made him itch to wrap his hands around her and play until she begged.
For months, he’d fought the urge, keeping his distance but fate, the-smug-bastard, threw her to him and he, being the despicable-asshole he was, couldn’t say no.
She’d walked into his life on his son’s arm, but that wasn’t an issue.
Because he’d take her anyway.
Steal her. Ruin her for anyone else. And keep her pinned beneath him for as long as it took to satisfy the hunger that’d been gnawing at him for months.
THEA
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I kept hoping my boyfriend would look at me. Just once. Just enough to feel like I still mattered.
But he never did.
So I went looking for attention elsewhere… and somehow, “elsewhere” turned out to be his father.
Gage.
The man I should’ve stayed the hell away from.
Gage wasn’t gentle, and he sure wasn’t safe, but he saw me and looked at me the way his son never did. And the moment I stepped toward him instead of away, I knew I’d crossed a line I couldn’t come back from.
It was wrong. Forbidden. A disaster begging to happen.
And yet… standing there in front of him, lonely and stupidly hopeful, I lean into the warmth he gave so easily, the attention he offered like it cost him nothing.
I should’ve walked away.
But I didn’t.
And neither did he.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 174: New Year!My cheeks were burning so hot I was sure they could light the hallway on their own, and every time someone gasped or snickered or—God forbid—actually pulled out their phone to record, I pressed myself tighter against him, trying to disappear into the solid wall of his chest. The automatic doors hissed open ahead of us and the cold January air slapped me in the face like a wake-up call. Snow was still falling in lazy, fat flakes that caught in my hair and melted instantly against my flushed skin. The parking lot lights turned everything orange and stark, and he strode straight toward the black SUV waiting at the curb.The driver stood by the rear passenger door, expression professionally blank even though I could see the faint twitch at the corner of his mouth when he saw me draped over Gage’s shoulder. He proceeded to open the door without a word.Gage didn’t set me down immediately.He ducked slightly, maneuvering us both into the backseat with the same easy strength he’d used to c
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Chapter: CHAPTER 173: Gage!We stayed like that for a long moment—his hand on my face, my cheek pressed to his palm, breathing each other’s air in the narrow space between us. His thumb kept moving and I let myself lean into it harder, closing my eyes for just a second because looking at him hurt too much and not looking at him hurt worse. Eventually his thumb stilled and his hand slid down to cup the side of my neck, thumb resting against my pulse point. “What happened?” he asked quietly, voice gentle. I opened my eyes, met his gaze, and felt the familiar twist of irritation flare up again. “You should stop acting like someone hasn’t already filled you in,” I said. “Mrs. Harlan’s nurse probably talked to you. The doctor probably talked to you. Even the security. You’ve probably got a full report typed up somewhere with bullet points and timestamps. So don’t pretend you don’t know.” He didn’t speak nor pull away for some moments and just kept his hand on my neck, thumb still resting over my pulse, feeling
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Chapter: CHAPTER 172: Still Needed HimTHEA -ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- My cheek was pressed against the thin hospital pillow that smelled faintly of bleach and cheap laundry detergent, and for a second I couldn’t remember where I was. Then the steady beep-beep-beep of the heart monitor pulled me back, followed by the hiss of oxygen through the nasal cannula and the low murmur of nurses in the hallway outside. Mrs. Harlan’s. I sat up too fast, head swimming, neck stiff from sleeping half-slumped in the ugly plastic chair beside her bed for who-knows-how-many hours. With my mouth tasting like old coffee, I rubbed my eyes with the heels of my hands, blinking until the room came into focus: pale blue walls, a single window with the blinds half-closed against the afternoon light, the IV stand dripping clear fluid into the back of her hand, the monitor showing numbers that had finally stabilized into something that looked almost normal. Mrs. Harlan was awake. Been awake since yesterday. I swallowed hard, and managed a small, shaky
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Chapter: CHAPTER 171: LackrySilence choked off whatever bullshit he was about to spit next. I just kept walking. Every step sent fresh spikes through my cracked ribs, my fucked-up shoulder, and the goddamn staples holding my scalp together. When I finally hit the bedroom door, I rammed it open with my good shoulder and staggered inside. Then I kicked the fucker shut hard enough that the latch snapped like a promise. The room was dim, curtains still drawn tight. I didn’t bother with the light. No way in hell did I want to catch my reflection in that mirror across from the bed—didn’t want to see the walking disaster of bandages, purple bruises, and dead-eyed exhaustion staring back. So I limped straight to the nightstand. My good hand shook like a junkie’s as I fumbled the drawer open. Fingers finally closed around the orange bottle of oxycodone. Label worn to shit, corners peeling, but the pills inside still rattled like loose change. I shook two into my palm… paused… then shook out a third. Fuck it. I neede
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Chapter: CHAPTER 170: It Was A JokeLex exhaled through his nose. “Wow.”One word. That was all he managed at first.While Ellis on the other hand just blinked.Then he rubbed the back of his neck, eyes darting between me and Lex like he was waiting for one of us to say it was a joke. When neither of us did, he dropped his head and sighed, “Bro… I know I say all sorts of things about women but the little I know of Thea, she doesn’t seem like the type who would just… leave a relationship like that and then go fucking your dad to get back at you? That’s not her.”I couldn’t help but laugh.“So you think I’m lying?”“I never sai…”“And what do you even think you know about her, Ellis?” I cut him off. Silence.I took another drag then crushed the roach into the ashtray until it was pulp.“I’m taking her back,” I said quietly.Lex’s head snapped up.“I’m not letting him take her from me.”He exhaled slowly. “Noah…”“I’m not asking for permission,” I cut in. “I’m telling you because she’s mine. She’s always been mine. He d
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Chapter: CHAPTER 169: BullshitNOAH ❁✿❀ The smoke curled thick and lazy from the joint between my fingers, filling my living room with that heavy, skunky haze that always made everything feel a little slower, and a little less sharp. Lex had brought the good shit—some sativa-leaning strain he swore was “clean as fuck, and just vibes”—and right now the vibes were the only thing keeping me from putting my fist through the goddamn wall. I took another long drag, held it until my lungs burned, then exhaled slowly through my nose. The cherry glowed bright in the dark room, casting dull blinking light across the coffee table that littered with empty beer bottles, an ashtray overflowing with butts, and the half-eaten pizza box someone had ordered at three in the morning. Lex was sprawled on the sectional with his legs kicked up on the ottoman, scrolling through his phone like nothing had happened while Ellis sat cross-legged on the floor, back against the couch, picking at the label on his beer bottle. They’d sh
Last Updated: 2026-03-03
All Of Us Are Dead
“Get away from me,” I hissed, gripping the knife tighter.
His gaze flicked down to the blade, then back to me, a slow, amused smile curving his lips.
“A knife?” he said softly, tilting his head. “Are you perhaps flirting with me?”
I gritted my teeth.
The asshole was enjoying this — every fucking second of it.
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When Leah got home early from work, she was hoping for one thing — to fix what was left of her relationship with Daniel. Instead, she walked in on him in the arms of another woman. Heartbroken and humiliated, she stormed out, blind with tears… and straight into the path of an oncoming car.
But death wasn’t the end for Leah.
No!
Death was actually the beginning.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 43: More Like A CurseSILAS °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ There are a lot of things I expected to run into in the afterlife. Floating grandpas. Judgmental angels. Maybe even that dog I kicked when I was ten. But what I didn’t expect? A former subordinate. It was right after being separated from Leah by the game master, because the game was supposed to be fair. I hated being separated from her. But what’s new? I’ve been hating a lot of things lately. The others shuffled around me after the push Off the line game, limping, panting, crying, bleeding… you know, the usual afterparty. Then a guard approached from the edge with his black uniform, heavy boots, and mask covering half his face. Standard issue game-lackey. But the way he walked… it was like someone who knew me. He stopped right beside me, and before I could ask who the hell he thought he was, he spoke quietly, his voice low and familiar in the way a stranger shouldn’t be. “Silas.” My brows shot up. “That’s bold of you,” I said. “Using my name like we’re
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Chapter: CHAPTER 42: Me?She suddenly twisted and grabbed my wrist. “Shit,” I cursed under my breath. Not giving me a moment to think, she yanked me and I flew forward, slamming onto my knees, the stone floor tearing my skin open. I gasped. She held my wrist like a vice. If she dragged me one more inch— No. No. NO. I dug my nails into her hand, kicked backward, anything, everything. She didn’t even flinch. “I’m ending this,” she snarled and hauled me up. I saw the chalk line right there next to my foot. One shove. One breath. One heartbeat. I curled my knee, pulled my leg back, and kicked—hard—into the side of her knee. Something popped and she shouted, her grip loosening as pain shot up her leg. I used the opportunity to wrenched free, stumbled upright, and shoved her back with both hands. She stumbled and slid… One foot landing outside the circle. The alarms screamed. It was… over. I just stood there staring, chest rising and falling so fast I thought I’d pass out on the s
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Chapter: CHAPTER 41: ShitWhen the screen finally flashed my number, I thought I would panic. I thought my stomach would drop, or my legs would freeze, or that I would choke on my own breath the way I did every time a teacher called my name in school. Or when I was called to HR back when I was still alive.But none of that happened.Instead… I felt nothing.Like someone had reached inside my chest and pulled the cord connecting me to reality. Every emotion—fear, dread, disgust, the instinct to run—just fell quiet inside me.I was hollow.Maybe that was acceptance. Maybe I had already died before stepping into the circle.Numbers echoed across the room in the Game Master’s booming voice, and the spotlight rotated until it landed on me and the person and 0269. Fate really had a sick sense of humor.Someone nudged me gently from behind and only then did I realize I hadn’t moved. My feet were glued to the floor. I forced one step forward, then another. I wasn’t walking into a circle—I was walking into my own fune
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Chapter: CHAPTER 40: God, I Was Such An IdiotThey marched us into another hall that was bigger than the last, echoing with that hollow emptiness that made me feel like my bones were hollow too. The floor was smooth stone and polished, almost reflective. In the very center of the hall was a huge white circle, drawn thick like the kind of chalk line cops draw around bodies at crime scenes.Olympic death games, perhaps.The Game Master walked ahead, tapping the cane he carried against the ground, almost bouncing with excitement.Some people were already whispering, trying to guess the challenge.He turned toward us, eyes shining with playfulness.“Welcome!” he announced. “To the next round. The rules are simple.”He tapped his cane once in the middle of the circle.“One on one. Each team enter… only one stays in the ring. Push your opponent out, and you win. If you leave the circle, you lose.”He spun, clapping his hands together once.“Last teammate standing survives. The losing member…”He let the sentence trail into silence, li
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Chapter: CHAPTERS 39: 00:04:02°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･I attempted another sip of soup and tried not to think about what flavor it was supposed to be. Artificial “nutrient”? When the light blinked. It happened so fast I barely registered the drop in temperature before the inevitable voice boomed through the speakers: “Beloved players! How lovely to see everyone eating so well!” Forks froze mid-air and someone at the next table flinched hard enough to drop their spoon. But there was no point complaining. I swallowed the last mouthful out of pure instinct. Might as well. No telling when we’d get another meal. The worst part was how automatic it felt. Like I was already being conditioned. 0269 stretched, wiped her hands on her pants, and grabbed her tray with one hand. “Come on,” she said. “Better move.” She didn’t have to tell me twice. I stood, falling into the slow shuffle of bodies heading toward the exit. The air felt tight, but then again, everything here did. We filed in, taking spots among the crowd. Everyone wai
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Chapter: CHAPTER 38: Honestly, SameI hugged the blanket tighter, staring at the dull light overhead. The dorm was quiet, the tension from earlier still humming in the corners.I couldn’t sleep anyway. Might as well talk.“You… ever scared?” I asked, voice quiet, almost timid.She chuckled softly, the sound low and amused. “Scared? Yeah. Everyone’s scared.”I let that settle in my mind and swallowed. We stayed quiet for a while, then started talking again about stupid and random things that felt too normal for a place like this.She talked about how she couldn’t sleep unless she was lying on her back, one arm over her head. She demonstrated it right there on my bunk, and I had to bite back a laugh because she looked so annoyingly comfortable.I told her I hated the sound of people chewing loudly. She said she once nearly punched someone for that. I wasn’t sure if she was joking.We talked about the beds being too hard, the cold metal floor, the weird smell of the dorm, the way the walls hummed like they were alive. We
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