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Chapter 55

Author: Miss J
last update publish date: 2026-04-06 04:47:25

Summer's Pov

I wasn't even that eager to get into Crew's car after school.

That's what I told myself, anyway. I was just tired and my feet hurt and the fastest way home happened to involve his passenger seat. That was all it was.

Ruby and Cain were standing near the entrance when I was walking out and I spotted them before Ruby spotted me, which meant I got to watch her see me, smile, and wave from across the parking lot like we were acquaintances. Like we were two people who recognized each ot
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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 56

    Summer's PovI did not sleep.Not at one. Not at two. Not at three in the morning when I was lying on my back staring at the ceiling like it had answers written on it that I just hadn't found yet. I kept replaying it. The way he'd said it.*I just wanted to spend more time with you.*And when I'd asked why, he'd said he'd been enjoying my company. That he craved it. He'd been almost shy about it, which was the part I couldn't stop coming back to, because Crew Ashford was not shy. Crew Ashford did not say things like that. And yet there he was saying exactly that, sitting in my room looking at the floor like he didn't quite know what to do with himself.I told myself it was nothing. Siblings enjoy each other's company all the time. That's a normal thing that happens in normal households. I told myself that until about three forty-five and then I just gave up and lay there until my alarm went off.****Gray and Crew were both in the kitchen when I came downstairs.They said good morning

  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 55

    Summer's PovI wasn't even that eager to get into Crew's car after school.That's what I told myself, anyway. I was just tired and my feet hurt and the fastest way home happened to involve his passenger seat. That was all it was.Ruby and Cain were standing near the entrance when I was walking out and I spotted them before Ruby spotted me, which meant I got to watch her see me, smile, and wave from across the parking lot like we were acquaintances. Like we were two people who recognized each other from somewhere.I stood there for a second in my own head thinking, are we waving now? Is that what we're doing?I waved back. I got in the car. I didn't say anything about it.The drive home was quiet the way it had been that morning, and I looked out the window and tried not to think about Ruby's face, tried not to think about the way Cain had his arm around her like she belonged to him and she was just standing there letting the rest of her life happen somewhere else. I tried not to think

  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 54

    Summer's PovHonestly, going back to school felt like breathing again.The whole weekend had been too much. Too much house, too much tension, too many feelings I didn't know what to do with. And then there was the painting.Gray had shown me his work the morning after I'd seen it, properly this time, walking me through a few of the pieces he'd finished and some he was still working on. He was calm about it, the way Gray was calm about most things, like sharing something that personal was just another conversation. I stood in front of each one and tried to say the right things, but my mind kept drifting back to that corner of canvas in the hallway, the sketch underneath the paint, the line of my jaw done carefully in pencil.When I finally asked him about it, he'd smiled like he'd been waiting for that question.He said it was a gift. That he'd been working on it for a while and he'd meant to keep it hidden until it was finished, and he was a little annoyed I'd seen it before it was do

  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 53

    Summer's PovI woke up touching my cheek.Not dramatically, not like some girl in a movie pressing her fingers to her face and sighing at the ceiling. I just woke up with my hand already there, like it had been there all night, like my body had decided on its own that it needed to hold onto something my brain was still trying to process.I pulled my hand away and stared at the ceiling.He kissed my cheek.Crew Ashford kissed my cheek, said thank you, and walked out of my room like he hadn't just completely short-circuited something in my brain. And the worst part, the part I kept coming back to no matter how many times I tried to push it away. The worst part was that I hadn't moved, I hadn't said anything. I'd just sat there on my bed with my heart doing something embarrassing in my chest and watched him leave.It was a cheek kiss. People kiss cheeks all the time. It means nothing. It's a goodbye thing, a hello thing, it's what aunts do at Christmas and what friends do when they're be

  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 52

    Crew's PovI watched her walk right past me like I wasn't even standing there. She didn't actually see me.She didn't even glance my way….yeah because she didn't see me. She just pushed her door open and disappeared inside, and I stood in the hallway like an idiot, staring at the space she'd just been in.I'd been watching her all afternoon. First at the pool, when she and Tyler were splashing around like they didn't have a care in the world, laughing at nothing, and she kept pushing water in his face and he kept pulling her back in. Then when Gray joined them and somehow the whole thing turned into some kind of group thing with the others, and Summer was right there in the middle of it, loud and bright and alive, and I was just... watching from somewhere that wasn't there.At one point she grabbed Tyler around the neck from behind and he spun her around without even thinking twice, like it was the most natural thing in the world. Like they'd been doing that forever.I don't know why

  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 51

    Summer's Pov We had been in the pool for almost an hour when Gray appeared at the edge of the pool area.He was still in his regular clothes, hands in his pockets, looking at the two of us like he had been standing there for a minute already."Summer." He smiled. "I was thinking we could finally do that painting session. If you're done here."I grabbed the edge of the pool. "Right now?""Whenever you're ready."I looked at Tyler beside me. Tyler opened his mouth and I already knew what he was going to say so I cut it off before it started."Tyler can come too," I said."Summer—""He can come, right Gray? You don't mind?"Gray looked at Tyler for half a second. "No, I don't mind at all."Tyler pressed his lips together and said nothing.We climbed out of the pool and I grabbed my towel and started drying off. The evening air was cool and the garden was quiet and I was feeling genuinely good about the day.Then I felt that specific weight of someone's eyes on you that makes the back of

  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 21

    Summer's Pov Tyler grabs his face where I slapped him, his expression twisted with shock and rage."What the hell?" His voice is loud in the confined space. "What did you just do?""Do I have to remind you that I slapped you?" My hand is shaking but my voice is steady. "What the hell were you tryi

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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 12

    Summer's Pov I walk toward Crew's car, each step making me more annoyed. Why is he here? Why can't he just leave me alone?I bang on the window with my palm.The glass slides down smoothly, and Crew's face appears, that infuriating smirk already in place."Careful, sis." He gestures at the window

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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 23

    Summer’s PovI woke up at six-fifty AM, stared at my ceiling for four full minutes, and then made the mistake of thinking about it.The hand on my waist. The thumb on my chin. Those blue eyes, too close, too sharp, doing absolutely nothing to deserve the way my heart had completely lost its mind.I

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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 27

    Crew's Pov She was already gone by the time I got downstairs.I noticed it before I even reached the kitchen — the house had that particular kind of quiet that meant Summer wasn't in it. I didn't know how I knew the difference. I just did, which was its own problem.Victoria was at the counter wit

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