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2026-01-08 23:20:10CHAPTER TWO
JULIA “Welcome home.” Steve smiles. I step out of the car, gazing at the house. It is beautiful. It gives old money vibe. I walk towards us. The steep gabled rooflines create a dramatic silhouette, which makes the house feel grand and established. The windows are arched, and the entryway seems warm and very elegant. The house’s colour is like taupe, or warm beige, something like that, with charcoal trim, and it makes it timeless. “Do you like it?” Mom asks, but I’m too busy looking at the landscaping,g which seems intentional with manicured hedges, sculpted shrubs, and symmetrical planters. This house is so expensive. The driveway is curved and trimed, which means the neighborhood is upscale. “Why don’t we go in?” Steve suggests, and I nod. He walks ahead and opens the door. Mom and I walk in, only to be hit by a vaguely familiar scent. I frown, trying to remember it, but it keeps escaping my reach. The foyer is grand, it has a high ceiling and a chandelier. A chandelier. Mom laughs at my gobsmacked expression. The hardwood floors are polished, and there’s an arched doorway leading deeper into the house. “You like it, eh?” Steve grins, proud of himself. “Wait till you see the rest of the house.” I no, and follow him to the living room. There are large windows, a fireplace, and nice furniture. The kitchen is open-plan, with marble countertops, custom cabinetry, black hardware and a long island. My heart skips in delight. “Your mom tells me you love to cook. Does this meet your standards?” He smiles. “This is perfect. Thank you, Steve.” I whisper, and he nods. He shows me the rest of the house, from the dining hall to the bedrooms, and the backyard. I feel so pleased. All my worries have faded away. I love this place, and I cannot wait to turn it into a home. “So, what do you think, Diana? Julia obviously loves it.” He is proud of himself. “Yes, she does. Thank you, Steve.” Mom kisses his cheeks, and he melts against her. “Our bedroom will be downstairs. You can take one of the bedrooms upstairs. The twins have the ones on the left. Or you can make your pick, there’s an empty bedroom downstairs and two upstairs.” He explains, and I nod, thinking about it. “Can you give us a second, Steve?” Mom asks softly. “Alright, baby.” He nods and walks away, giving us privacy. Mom looks at me for a moment before asking, “What do you think? What do you really think? The naked truth.” I exhale deeply, “I wonder if the twins will like me. I don’t know. I just hope they do. I’m a bit bummed that I have to start again, start making friends, and all that.” “Or, you can look at it from a different perspective? You get to make new friends. There’s an endless possibility of what you can do. It’s exciting. We get to experience a different life, a different culture, a different world. In a year, you’ll be in college, so why don’t we make the best of this? I know I will miss you. I will miss you so much.” She holds on to my shoulder. I nod, because she’s right. I can make the best of this. “I think I’ll take the bedroom on the other end, keep a bedroom between the twins and me.” I decid,e and she nods. “Alright, let’s unpack and settle you in.” She grins. I frown and propose, “No, let’s not do that yet. Help me bring my bags upstairs, then go to Steve. I’m sure he misses you. I’ll be fine. All I have to do is settle in.” She frowns, “Are you sure? I can help you. Steve can wait.” “I’m nineteen, Mom, so I’m sure. Don’t help me. I’ll settle in and come to you.” “Alright. I’ll order Pizza or something.” She kisses my cheeks, then leaves. Steve helps me with my bags, then he leaves too. I am alone. I don’t panic or worry. Instead, I make the bed, then try to set up my library. However, I encountered some problems with it, so I left it and got to other things. I work on my closet, arranging my clothes on the hanger, then my shoes. I hang up the curtains and let sunlight seep in, bathing the room in a warm glow. Satisfied, I turn back to my Library, but I still can’t fix it. Something with the wedges and hinges. Frustrated, I walk out of the room. I need to find Steve. I walk down the hall, then stop when I hear a sound. Laughter. A woman’s laughter. What? My mom and I are the only women in this house. Curious, I walk towards the bedroom. One of the twin’s bedroom. The door is ajar, and laughter flows through, as well as a deep voice. Goosebumps break over my skin immediately. I should turn away and leave, but I can’t. So, stupidly, I walk forward, and peek through the ajar door. My mouth falls open in shock as I see a young woman on the bed, wearing only a bralette, and … and a man, one of the twins, kneeling between her legs, with his head buried in her … oh, God! I squeak in shock. My eyes widens as the woman glances at me. Blood rushes to my head, and I turn around to run, only to bump into another man. One of the twins. Oh God. This is not how we were supposed to meet. I try to slip away from him, but he grabs my wrist and pin me to the wall. My heart is pounding. His eyes are so blue. His hair is blonde, and he has a smirk on his lips. The door opens. His brother and the woman walks out. “Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in.” He smirks, digging his fingers into my wrist.
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CHAPTER 130JULIAThe new house smells like garlic and something burning.That's Sebastian's fault."It's not burning," he announces from the kitchen, to nobody who asked, in the specific tone of a man who knows it's burning and has committed to the position."It's burning," Silas says, from the living room, not looking up from his book."It's a little burning," I confirm, from the couch, also not looking up.The new house is on the east side of the city.We chose everything in this house.Every room, every piece of furniture, every decision made by people doing it freely, with no one managing the outcome. It still surprises me sometimes. The freedom of it.Steve has been dead for four months.He's gone. The things he built are being dismantled. The pack is restructuring around something that doesn't run on fear, which is taking time, which will keep taking time, which is work the twins are doing carefully and daily.It's not clean.It was never going to be clean, but it is, increment
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CHAPTER 129SEBASTIANHe's gone.I stand over him, and I wait for something to arrive. Some feeling, some signal, some internal shift that marks the before and after of a thing this large. I've been living in the past my entire life. Twenty years of his house, his voice, his hand on every lever that mattered. Twenty years of the specific survival of being his son.The after should feel like something.It doesn't feel like anything yet.Just cold air. Just the street. Just the specific silence of an ending.Silas is beside me.Neither of us speaks.Julia makes a sound. I turn.She's still upright. Barely. Her shoulder was wrong, her face showing everything the night cost her, blood dried at her temple and her lip, her good arm wrapped around her ribs like she's holding herself in place.She's looking at me.I let her see me, all of it.She doesn't try to fix me.She just stays.Our mother is behind me.She's here.She's actually here.Her hand finds my arm.I look down at it. Her hand
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CHAPTER 128SILASI smell her blood from the end of the street.She's on the ground.His knee on her back.Her cheek on the street and her hand flat against the concrete still pushing, still pushing, blood on her face and her shoulder wrong in the specific way I recognise from the first attack, and she is hurt, she is badly hurt, and the thing that moves through me in that moment is not rage.He dies tonight.Sebastian is already moving.He hits my father like a verdict.My father releases Julia.I go to my father's right.He's fast.I know how fast he is. I've known since I was fourteen, and I learned the specific futility of fighting him in his full strength, the ceiling of what I was and the gap between that ceiling and what he was. He used to demonstrate it deliberately. The specific cruelty of showing us our own limits while we were still growing into them.I'm not fourteen.I'm not at my ceiling."Silas." His voice. The warmth is completely absent now, stripped down to the real
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CHAPTER 127JULIAThe moment arrives quietly.One second, Steve is turning toward the window, and his attention moves off me by three degrees, and something in my blood says:Now.I move.My elbow finds the side of his head before he's finished turning.The impact runs up my arm. He's solid, denser than he looks, the specific density of an alpha who has been what he is for twenty years, but the surprise of it, the fact that I moved first, that he was not positioned for me to move first, buys me the half second I need.I'm out of the car before he recovers.The street is empty.Of course it is.He chose this location. He chose this street. The deliberate emptiness of it is its own kind of message; we are somewhere he controls, somewhere he prepared, and for a half second I feel the shape of that close around me.Then he's out of the car.And I feel something else.He's fast.Faster than I expected, and I expected fast. He crosses the distance between us in a barely human movement, the
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CHAPTER 126JULIAI don't look back.The car is black. He opens the door. I get in.The door closes. The distance opens.It's physical.That's the thing nobody could have told me, the thing I couldn't have understood before the bond, before whatever woke up in my blood and rewired the way I experience proximity and absence. The distance is physical. As the car pulls away from the house, I feel it the way you feel a temperature drop, immediate, total, the specific cold of moving away from the two people my body has learned to orient toward.I breathe through it.I catalogue it and set it aside.I will feel this later.Right now, I need every available resource directed outward.Steve sits beside me.I give him nothing.He smiles anyway, which means he expected nothing and is comfortable with it, which means he's done this before, which means I am not the first person he has sat beside in the back of this car and calculated.I think about his sons.I think about what twenty years of
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CHAPTER 125SEBASTIANMy father knocks on the door of his own house like a visitor, like a man making a social call, like someone who has decided that the performance of civility is its own kind of power. Which is it? Which he knows it is. I stand in the hallway, and I hear the knock, and something in my chest goes cold and specific.Silas is beside me.Julia is behind us.Rowan and Bree are in position.I open the door.He looks the same.He's smiling.I want to put my hand through it.I hold.She's beside him and small.She looks at me, and her eyes are the same.Dark and direct and seeing everything.She's older. She's thinner. She's here. My mother is here.My heart bursts alive."Boys," my father says warmly.Like a reunion, a family occasion.I don't look at him.I can't look at him right now because if I look at him right now, the hold will break and everything we've planned, everything Julia laid out in the garden with her jaw set and her voice certain, will come apart before
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CHAPTER 79JULIA – POINT OF VIEWSilas pulls away from me, and Sebastian swoops in.I smile at him and melt into his kisses. I am exhausted, my heart is pounding, but I’m not done. I want more, and I’ll get what I want. Sebastian is a willing lover. The rain comes down harshly outside, and darkness
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CHAPTER 78SILAS – POINT OF VIEW“What did you just say?” She whispers, voice trembling.I play it cool, “What did you hear?”“What … what you said about sex and pain, what?” She stammers, cheeks burning, eyes flickering between us. I don’t want to gaslight her, but I do just that, “Something I re
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CHAPTER 77JULIA – POINT OF VIEWSebastian turns me inside out. I am his to break and mould. He makes me cum over and over again. I am panting, with beads of sweat all over my body. My thong is gone, and my bra hangs on a thin thread.He settles between my legs and fondles my breast hard. I throw
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CHAPTER 75JULIA – POINT OF VIEWSilas walks in, shuts the door hard behind him, and looks at him.My whole body is thrumming with need and anticipation. They’ve turned me into a wanton woman, someone who cannot be sated. Silas had his hands inside me ten minutes ago, but here I am, still wanting m
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