LOGINIsabella's POV
I didn't answer Lila right away. My brain was still rebooting from the orgasm that hit me hard. My panties were soaked, and Lila was sitting there licking her fingers like she'd just finished dessert. And now Camilla was texting her. Asking if I was hurt. I stared at Lila’s phone screen like it might bite me. “What does she want?” I finally managed to say. Lila tilted her head, playful smile never fading. “She wants to know if you’re ready to stop running.” I laughed, almost hysterical. “Ready? I don’t even know what “ready” means anymore.” Lila leaned in again, kissed the corner of my mouth, soft this time, almost sweet. “It means you stop pretending you don’t want this.” She pulled back just enough to look at me properly. “Camilla always gets what she wants. And right now, she wants you in the game. Not watching from doorways. In it.” She winked at me. My heart kicked hard against my ribs. “I'm not… I don’t even know if I can…” “Girl, you already did. You literally came over my hand five minutes ago. That's a pretty good start.” That was embarrassing. I looked away. She caught my chin gently, turned me to face her. “Hey. No shame here. Not with me. Not tonight.” Her thumb brushed my lower lip. I barely made it back to my room before the shaking started. Not the kind that came with aftershocks and soft kisses. This was the trembling of someone who just crossed a line they couldn’t uncross, and now the line was chasing them. I locked the door, and leaned against it. Lila’s taste was still on my lips. I slid down to the floor, held my knees against my chest, hoodie bunched around me like armor that didn’t fit anymore. What the hell was I doing? I ran my hand through my messy hair. I went to Lila’s room, let her kiss me, and I let her touch me. I even came so hard I saw stars, and then I sat there panting while she texted my stepmother like we were planning a book club. And the worst part? I wanted more. My phone buzzed on the carpet beside me. I ignored it. It buzzed again, I looked at the screen. Camilla. I picked it up. *Headache still bothering you, darling? Come to my room. I'll take a look.* I stared at the message until the screen dimmed. Then it buzzed once more. I hissed. *I insist* I breathed in, counting one to seven, then I exhaled slowly. I stood up, and walked down the hallway like I wasn’t walking straight into a trap I’d already half-set myself. Camilla’s door was ajar. The scent of jasmine filled my nose even before I stepped inside. She was sitting on the edge of her bed in a deep green satin robe, hair loose, reading something on her tablet. She looked up when I entered and smiled, looking concerned, like a nurse about to take your temperature. Even though I knew it was all a show. “Close the door,” she said gently. I did. Like someone under spell. The click of the lock sounded too loud. She kept the tablet aside and patted the bed beside her. “Come here. Let me see.” I walked to where she was like my legs belonged to someone else and sat. She turned to face me, knees brushing mine. “You're flushed l,” she said, reaching out to press the back of her hand to my forehead. Her skin was cool, her touch stayed for a while. “I'm fine,” I lied. “You're not fine.” Her hand slid down to cup my cheek. Thumb brushed my lower lip just the same path Lila had taken an hour earlier. I sucked in a breath. Camilla’s eyes darkened. “You've been busy tonight.” I froze. My eyes almost popping from the socket. She smiled, small, knowing. “I can smell her on you. Vanilla. And something sweeter.” My face burned. What's really going on with these two? She leaned closer and whispered in my ear. “Did she make you come?” I couldn't speak. “Answer me, darling.” She pressed. “Yes,” I whispered. Atleast she had no idea I saw her with Dad, cause she seems to know damn well every fucking thing going on in this house. Her smile widened. “Good girl.” She stood up and walked to her dresser. Opened a drawer. When she turned back she was holding a small leather case. She placed it on the bed between us and opened it. Inside it was a stethoscope, a blood pressure cuff, a small silver thermometer. Kudos to having a nurse as a stepmom. But my eyes caught something tucked in the corner, a slim black vibrator and a bottle of lube. My mouth went dry. “Lie back,” she said. “On the pillows.” I obeyed, like a sheep to the slaughter. She climbed onto the bed, straddled my thighs, the robe falling open just enough to show she wasn’t wearing anything underneath. Urm… was this the new way nurses examine their patients now? She picked up the stethoscope, placed the cold metal against my chest, right over my racing heart. “Breath deep honey,” she murmured. I inhaled. She listened, tilting her head, listened again. “Your heart’s racing,” she said. “Very fast. Very… excited.” She set the stethoscope aside. Her hands slid under my hoodie in a twinkle of an eye. Pushing it up until my boobs were bare. She cupped them, thumbs brushing my nipples. They betrayed me by hardening instantly. “Sensitive,” she noted, almost clinically. “Already so responsive.” She leaned down and took one into her mouth, sucking gently while her tongue flicked over the peak. “Ah…” I gasped. Her fingers slid under my shorts, finding me still wet from Lila. She moaned against my skin. “Still wet. Perfect,” “Anyone ever told you you have a banging body?” I whimpered in reply as her thumb pressed my clit in slow circles, inserting two fingers inside me. “You're going to come for me,” she said softly. “Righy here.” On my fingers. While I listen to your heart try to beat out of your chest. She sped up, her fingers pumping in, thumb circling harder. I was already close… too cross. She leaned down and kissed me, deeply, like she was claiming me. Swallowing my moans as I came hard around her fingers, thighs shaking in ways I never knew was possible, my back bowing off the bed. She kept moving gently now, until the sensations washed off. Then she pulled her fingers out and licked them clean while holding my gaze. “Better now?” She asked. I chuckled, “A little.” “We're not finished,” she smiled, then reached for the vibrator. “Lie back,” she said. I did. Done lot of crazy stuff but it was gonna be my first time having a vibrator on me. She turned in on, the low hum filling the room. She pressed it against my clit. Oh heavens! I jerked. She smirked. “Somebody's Sensitive.” “My first time.” “Then you're gonna love it.” She worked it slowly in circles, light taps while her other hand slid up to cover my mouth. “Quiet, darling,” she whispered. “We wouldn’t want your father to hear how good I’m making you feel.” The mention of Dad sent a fresh wave of shame and heat through me. Camilla’s eyes darkened. “You like that,” she murmured. “The risk, ‘we shouldn't be doing this but we are’ kinda wrong.” I moaned against her palm, she turned the vibe up. I came again, harder this time, faster till tears began leaking from the corners of my eyes. She eased off, kissed my temple. “Beautiful,” she whispered. Then she looked toward the door. “Should we invite Lila up?” she asked softly. “Or do you want to keep this just between us… for now? I stared at her, heart racing, I had just been pleasured by my step… No. Camilla. I didn’t even have an answer for her. But my body did. It was already aching for more. Screw me. Camilla scoffed at my expression. “Welcome to the family game, darling.” My phone buzzed on the floor, totally forgotten. I didn’t look. Because downstairs, the house was quiet. But up here, like hell. The game had just started. And I wasn't sure I wanted it to stop.Isabella’s POV Lucas went completely still, two hands holding onto a chair for support. Not shocked at first. Just still, like his body stopped processing movement before his brain caught up.“What did you just say?” he asked quietly.Camilla didn’t answer immediately. She stepped farther into the room instead, slow enough to make the security guards behind her glance at each other nervously.Claire moved in front of me at once. “You need to leave. Right now.”Camilla barely looked at her. “You’re still trying to protect her from information she deserves to know.”Marcus laughed harshly. “You call this protection?”“I call it honesty.” She shrugged.“No,” Lucas said, voice laced with disgust. “You call it manipulation.”Camilla turned toward him, giving him.the attention. “Do I?”Marcus didn't utter a word, just held her gaze for what seemed like an eternity. Proof he was intimidated by h
Isabella’s POV “What does that mean?” Claire asked immediately.Lucas stayed near the door, one hand still wrapped around the handle like he hadn’t fully decided whether to come back inside or leave again. His shirt clung slightly to his chest from sweat, dark near the collar. He looked like he’d been pacing outside for hours instead of minutes.“I don’t know,” he said. “She wouldn’t tell me downstairs.”Marcus pushed away from the wall sharply. “Then why the hell is she here?”“Because security wouldn’t let her upstairs,” Lucas replied flatly. “And she started threatening to scream everything in the lobby.”“Jesus Christ,” Claire muttered.Ethan looked toward the hallway. “Who even told her Isabella was here?”Their gaze fell on me, no words said. My stomach cramped lightly again. I pressed my palm against it automatically.Lucas followed the movement of my hand. His eyes lingered there before lifting back to my face. That tiny movement did something dangerous to my pulse.I hated i
Isabella’s POVAll eyes on me, after Ethan’s question.Claire stood beside the bed with her arms folded tightly across herself, watching me carefully like she was scared of what I might say. Marcus leaned against the wall again, but the tension in his face hadn’t softened. Ethan stayed where he was near the window, waiting. Not pushing. Just waiting.And me… I couldn’t answer.My fingers twisted slowly in the blanket over my lap while my thoughts crashed into each other so hard it made my head hurt. Lucas’s face kept appearing in my mind no matter how much I tried to force it away. The way he looked holding me after the bleeding started. The panic in his voice. The way his hands shook when he thought he might lose me. Lose the baby.Then Marcus’s face slipped in right after it. The garden. His mouth against my hand. His voice promising he would stay even if the child wasn’t his. Ethan standing here now, looking at me like he already knew my silence was the answer he didn’t want.Every
Isabella’s POVClaire blinked, snorted the word, “Ethan?”The nurse nodded. “He said it’s important.”I closed my eyes briefly. Exhale slowly, of course it was Ethan. Because apparently the universe had decided I hadn’t suffered enough for one day.Marcus let out a low breath through his nose. “Perfect timing.”“Don’t start,” Claire muttered, glancing at him.The nurse looked between us awkwardly. “Should I send him away?”I opened my eyes again slowly. “No. Please let him in.” I waved at her.Claire turned to me immediately. “Bella… are you sure you want to see him.”“It’s fine. Let him in.” I forced a smile. It wasn’t fine, nothing was fine. But I didn’t have the energy to fight another situation right now.The nurse gave a small nod and stepped back out.Marcus folded his arms. “Lucas is going to lose his mind if he walks back in and sees Ethan here.”I laughed weakly. “Lucas already lost his mind.”Claire sat beside me again. “Do you want me to stay?”“Yes, I'm sorry I'm ruining y
Isabella’s POVThe doctor looked around the room slowly. Her eyes stopped on my face first, then Claire’s tears, then Lucas walking in with his head low.“What happened?” she asked.Nobody answered.Lucas still held the phone in his hand. The screen had gone dark after Camilla’s call ended.I stared at my mother. “Say something,” I whispered.Mom pressed her trembling fingers against her mouth. “Isabella..”“No.” I cut in quickly. “Don’t say my name like that. Just answer me.”Claire turned toward her so fast the chair legs scraped the floor. “Mom, what is going on?”Mom looked between us helplessly. Her mascara had smudged beneath her eyes. “I didn’t know this would happen.”Lucas laughed quietly.The sound made my stomach twist.“You didn’t know?” he repeated. “How exactly does something like this happen accidentally?”“Lucas, take a chill pill.” Claire said softly.“No, I want her to answer.” His voice stayed low, but I could see the tension in his jaw. His fingers tightened harder
Isabella’s POVThe phone slipped from Lucas’s hand and hit the edge of the hospital bed with a loud clack.Nobody moved. I stared at my mother, my chest heaving, I clucth the bedsheets.Claire stepped forward slowly. “Mom?”My mother still couldn’t look directly at me, and that hurt more than Camilla’s words.“Tell me she’s lying,” I whispered.My mother still wouldn’t look at me. My mother rubbed both hands over her face like she was trying to hold herself together.“Blair,” Lucas said, his voice sharp. Using her first name instead of “Mom” made my stomach twist.Camilla’s voice came through the speaker again, calm and smooth. “See? This is the problem with secrets. They always come out at the worst time.”“Shut up,” Marcus snapped. For once, everyone agreed with him.Claire moved closer to our mother. “Mom… what is she talking about?”My mother finally looked up. Her eyes were full of guilt. “I was going to tell you, Isabella.” She whispered.My heartbeat stumbled. “No, Is this a pr







