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Alexa and the Badboy 37.
Ice Queens Need Love TooCHAPTER THIRTY SEVENAurora's POVWhen Knox drove away, the silence that followed felt heavier than the night.I stood at the window long after his taillights disappeared, arms wrapped around myself, forehead pressed to the cold glass. The quiet pressed in from every corner of the house, so thick it rang in my ears. Normally, I loved silence. It was safe, predictable, mine. But tonight, it was a prison.Because silence meant memory. And memories… were knives.I closed my eyes, but Noah’s grin was there, sharp and mocking. Kristy’s laugh echoed, dripping with the same poison it always had. One look at them, one sound of their voices, and I was seventeen again, locked in a bathroom stall with my chest caving in, breath coming too fast, knowing they were outside, waiting to cut me down all over again.I shook my head, trying to clear it, but the image clung stubbornly.Knox’s face tried to cut through the storm, his steady gaze, the way he’d slipped his hand ov
Alexa and the Badboy 36.
Ice Queens Need Love TooCHAPTER THIRTY SIXKnox's POVThe day had been a slow crawl of fire and glass. I’d watched Aurora walk through the halls with her head high, her mask held in place, but I wasn’t fooled. I saw the twitch of her fingers when someone whispered. I caught the way her shoulders stiffened whenever someone glanced too long. And yet, she hadn’t broken.She’d lasted through the gauntlet, through the cafeteria showdown, through every blade disguised as a stare. Pride for her swelled in my chest so hard I almost choked on it. I wanted to take every damn rumor, every smirk, and crush it beneath my boot, but I also knew that wasn’t what she wanted from me. She wanted space, dignity, a chance to breathe on her own without me throwing punches for her. So I played my part. Quiet shadow. Steady presence.When the last bell rang, I waited by her locker like always. She didn’t say much, just gave me that look that said, let’s go home. No complaints from me. She deserved quiet
Alexa and the Badboy 35.
Ice Queens Need Love TooCHAPTER THIRTY FIVEAurora's POVThe air felt heavier than it should have.Every step I took toward the school gates dragged like an anchor was tied around my ankles. My lungs burned, not from exertion but from dread pressing against my ribs. It had been four days. Four days since I’d vanished from these halls, locking myself away, convincing myself the world had already moved on without me.But as soon as the building loomed in front of me, I knew I’d been lying to myself. The whispers hadn’t died. If anything, the silence of my absence had given them room to grow.When I pushed open the main doors, the sound hit me like a wave. Laughter, footsteps, lockers slamming, all of it too loud, too sharp, scraping against my nerves. My head ducked instinctively, hair falling like a curtain around my face as I slipped through the throng of students.And then it started.The stares.Some subtle, sliding away when I looked up. Some bold, lingering, drinking me in like
Alexa and the Badboy 34.
Ice Queens Need Love TooCHAPTER THIRTY FOURKnox’s POVThe first thing I noticed when I woke wasn’t the sunlight sneaking through the blinds. It wasn’t the faint hum of a bird outside her window or even the crick in my neck from sleeping on a mattress that wasn’t mine.It was her.Aurora.Her body was curled against me, small and soft in ways she never let anyone see when she was awake. My arm was still around her waist, my palm resting lightly against the dip of her stomach as if I’d been afraid she might slip away in the night. I probably had been.For a long moment, I didn’t move. I just breathed her in. Damp hair still smelled faintly of shampoo, clean and warm from her bath. The faint rhythm of her breath tickled against my chest, steady now, calm in a way it hadn’t been last night when she was unraveling in my arms.God. Last night.The memory hit like a fist to the gut, her breaking apart in the doorway, shaking so hard I thought she’d crumble to dust if I didn’t hold her tig
Alexa and the Badboy 33.
Ice Queens Need Love TooCHAPTER THIRTY THREEKnox's POVWe lay there in silence for a long time, her hand a fragile weight in mine. I thought she’d fallen asleep. God knew she needed it, but then her voice trembled in the dark.“It started a long time ago,” she whispered.I turned my head toward her. She wasn’t looking at me, just staring at the ceiling like it held the answers she’d been running from.“I was thirteen.” Her throat worked, swallowing. “It was my best friend’s birthday party. Kristy. She-” Aurora’s voice faltered, and she clenched her blanket tighter. “She poured fruit punch all over me. Right in front of everyone.”I frowned, not understanding at first. “Why would she-?”Aurora let out a shaky breath. “Because she thought I betrayed her. She thought I went behind her back and kissed the boy she liked. Noah.”Her face twisted with something sharp. Shame, anger, hurt all tangled. “But I didn’t. I’d barely spoken to him. I wasn’t even feeling well that week, so during P.
Alexa and the Badboy 32.
Ice Queens Need Love TooCHAPTER THIRTY TWOKnox's POVI noticed the empty seat before the first bell even rang.Aurora’s chair sat untouched, the desk beside mine glaringly bare, and with every passing period, the weight in my chest grew heavier. She wasn’t sick. I knew it. Or at least, not sick in the way she’d want people to believe.Four days.That’s how long she stayed away.And in those four days, the air at school shifted. Whispers buzzed down hallways, vague at first, then sharper. Someone had seen her with a guy. Someone else claimed she’d been running from something. A third voice hinted at a name, though no one seemed to know for sure. Rumors spun, tangled, multiplied like wildfire, each one a twisted reflection of the truth no one had the guts to say aloud.I didn’t need their stories. I’d seen the look on her face that night. I’d seen how her whole body trembled, how her voice shook as she’d begged me.“Take me home, Knox. Just take me home.”That memory stuck like a tho
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