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Chapter 25: Secrets, secrets
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2026-09-19 16:24:59
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Caught Kissing My Stepbrother. Chapter 27: Prescription Bottle
IZEL’S POVWaking up with the realization that you are hopelessly in love with your illegal, unauthorized roommate is, objectively, a terrible way to start a Wednesday.I woke up feeling completely exposed, like the universe had peeled back my skin and left all my nerve endings completely bare. Every single thing Jace did that morning felt magnified by a thousand. I watched him brush his teeth. I watched him run a hand through his damp hair. I watched him shamelessly steal my oversized vintage band hoodie right off my desk chair, pulling it over his head and looking entirely too good in it. He bumped my shoulder on his way out of the bathroom, acting completely, infuriatingly normal, while my brain was just endless, looping static.I didn't say a word about Vivienne’s 3 AM thirst trap. I didn't say anything because I had no idea if I even had the right to be angry. We weren't dating. We were surviving a bizarre housing arrangement and occasionally making out on the floor. Plus, I was
Caught Kissing My Stepbrother. Chapter 26: Inlove
IZEL’S POVThe house felt like a crime scene that had been sanitized by expensive professionals.When I walked into the kitchen the next morning, the air was thick and completely suffocating. The giant decorative vase was obviously gone, leaving an awkward, barren circle on the granite counter. The drywall had already been patched, possibly by some guy Richard called that must have come at dawn, but if you looked closely, you could see the wet spackle. Worse, there was a faint, rusty shadow on the white oak floorboards right by the pantry. Nobody else seemed to notice it, but my eyes locked onto it like a heat-seeking missile.Breakfast was a masterclass in excruciating tension. Jace was operating on a frequency of pure, agonizing guilt. He didn't speak to me. He couldn't even look at me. Instead, he directed all his energy toward my mother, hovering around her like a remorseful Victorian ghost. He poured her coffee with absolute precision. He pulled out her chair. He practically begg
Caught Kissing My Stepbrother. Chapter 25: Secrets, secrets
IZEL'S POVI got my mom into a kitchen chair before I even fully registered what my hands were doing, pressing a dish towel against the cut on her arm while Richard shouted something about the first aid kit and then abandoned that plan entirely in favor of just grabbing his car keys.Jace hadn't moved.He stood exactly where the vase had left his hand, staring down at the blood pooling faintly on the tile, then up at his father, then back down again, like his eyes couldn't hold either image for more than a second at a time. I had never seen him look like that. Not in a hospital hallway, not on a stairwell floor during a security chase, not even the night his own heart tried to quit on him in our pool. This was different. This was a boy realizing, in real time, exactly what he was capable of."I'm fine," my mom kept saying, which was objectively untrue, given the amount of blood currently soaking through a dish towel that used to be white. "Really, it's just a scratch."It was not just
Caught Kissing My Stepbrother. Chapter 24: Blood On A Vase
I had never cared this much about a school assignment. Honestly, it was bordering on pathetic. My entire academic career had been built on doing just enough to secure a solid B-plus and slipping out the back door while the overachievers fought for extra credit. But this was different. My actual photography was going on a public gallery wall, subject to the judgment of strangers whose only metric wouldn't be whether I used the correct font size on a title page.To prep, we spread the entire batch of fifty prints across Jace’s comforter. We sat cross-legged on his mattress, ruthlessly sorting through the stack like cutthroat gallery curators who were also quietly, illegally dating.Jace picked up a shot of himself launching off the starting block, water droplets suspended around his shoulders, his form flawless. He frowned, tossing it onto the discard pile by my knee."Absolutely not," he muttered."Are you insane?" I grabbed it back. "You look heroic. Put this on a billboard and people
Caught Kissing My Stepbrother. Chapter 23: Ten Minutes!
IZEL’S POVThings got better after the driveway fight. I mean, it wasn’t some cinematic fix where the rain washed away our sins and we walked inside holding hands. We were still us. But the air in our bedroom stopped feeling like a loaded gun.Jace actually started asking questions instead of acting like he owned the place. I stopped acting like a feral raccoon guarding a trash can and gave him actual answers. The tension didn't evaporate entirely. You can't just erase the fact that our entire dynamic is a borderline felony against social norms. But the sharp edges definitely wore down. It felt like a nasty bruise finally fading into a dull yellow. You could actually press your thumb against it without wincing.Professor Alvarez did not care about my emotional growth. She cared about my midterm portfolio."Technically competent. Emotionally dead," she announced on Tuesday afternoon. She swiped through my latest digital contact sheet with the grim expression of a health inspector findi
Caught Kissing My Stepbrother. Chapter 22: Under Review
Richard's car hadn't been washed in probably three weeks, which either meant he trusted me to notice or he was hoping I'd need something mindless to do with my hands now that swimming wasn't an option. Either way, I was out in the driveway that Saturday morning with a hose, a bucket of suds, and enough pent-up energy to strip the paint off if I wasn't careful.I heard Izel's sneakers on the gravel before I saw her."Jace."Something in her voice made me put the sponge down before I even turned around.She held her phone out, screen already unlocked, and there it was — us, standing at the fundraiser banner table, heads tilted toward each other at an angle that no stepsibling relationship on record had ever required. Underneath it, a stranger's comment sat there in the open for anyone scrolling to see. wait who's that with jace."Okay," I said, mostly to myself, wiping my hands on my jeans. "Okay. This isn't — nothing in this actually proves anything.""Jace.""I'll get it taken down. I
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