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Tuxedos and Ticking Bombs

مؤلف: Norah Black
last update تاريخ النشر: 2026-02-15 22:37:29

NINA'S POV

He's trying hard not to look at me, but the veins pulsing on his temple tells me everything I need to know.

We sit silent in the backseat of his car, and for half of the drive, I catch him stealing glances at me.

The thought of being a mental wrecking ball to Cassian's calm sparks a low fire in my chest, and for a moment, I forget we're driving to get him prepped for the altar.

The car skids over a speed bump and our knees brush lightly, sending tremors down my spine.

Stupid road.
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Rachelle Kouame
I hope Nina mom found out about her husband cheating with her stepson fiancé, did Jason got killed?if so interesting.
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    CASSIAN’S POV“Stop.”It comes out as a whisper, because if I speak any louder, I’ll break.Stop. The word echoes over and over in my head until it builds into a scream, but I don’t let it out. I can’t. Not when her bra is falling to the floor like the last piece of her dignity, and all I can do is stand there and try not to burst open.All these months, all this time I spent trying to protect Nina Donovan from every monster in the world, and I never realized that I’ll become one of them.“Nina…” her name burns my throat like acid, “please, put your shirt back on.”“No.” She shakes her head roughly, red flaming in her cheeks.“Please—“ “Show me where,” her body moves forward, skin glistening in the warm light, “show me where he touched me.”My breath slows with each step she takes towards me, ceasing completely when she stops two feet from where I’m standing, eyes slicing into mine like darts.Back the fuck away from her, Cross. There’s nothing for you here.I take a step back, bu

  • My Stepbrother's Lust    Believe My Body

    NINA'S POV Cassian never looks at me once during the flight.Not when the jet takes off, not when the stewardess asks if we want dinner…not even when I wake up with my cheek pressed against the window and realise I'd fallen asleep crying.He spoke only when he had to—to the pilot, to the flight attendant, to the driver waiting outside the airport.Never to me.By the time the tyres crunch over the gravel leading into the ranch, I've stopped feeling less like his passenger and more like luggage—like something fragile he’s transporting from one place to another... careful not to break it, careful not to touch it either.And amidst all this, my heart won't stop racing. I've held my breath, clenched my fists and torn my mind away from the steady rise and fall of Cassian's chest, but it just buffers right onto the one man whose last name now echoes in my ears like a haunting.Axel Cross.Cross. It makes no sense yet so much all at once. If only I can get the chance to—No, Nina. We're not

  • My Stepbrother's Lust    Just a Kiss

    NINA'S POV Axel.His name echoes in my head like an unrelenting whisper, drowning out Cassian's voice.No.No, no, no.For what feels like an eternity, I forget how to breathe…as if the truth has somehow found a way to step on my lungs and not let go.Everything fades—Cassian, the countdown, the couch…none of it exists anymore.But those eyes.Those impossible blue-grey eyes smiling back at me from a photograph that should belong to a stranger. The same eyes that belong to Axel.But it can't be, no. I didn't…I met Axel on a random day at the movies. He helped me. He's been nothing but helpful and generous and…god. He even drove me to the restaurant to see my mom.Did he know? All this time, has he just been lying to my face? No. He doesn't know Alex. Axel. Alex. Axel. Alex. He doesn't know his father. He came to THIS CITY to look for him. Fucking hell…the truth has been staring me in the face all this time, and I just drowned it out with drinking and…kissing Axel. My fingers d

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    CASSIAN'S POV Time is a cruel thing.People say it flies when you're happy and crawls when you're hurting, but I don't think that's true.Time doesn't slow just because you're in pain.It slows because pain deserves an audience.It stretches every second until it snaps, lingers over every breath, drags each heartbeat across your ribcage like the universe is determined to savor every miserable moment before it lets you move on, and right now, I'm starting to think that's its favourite part.I sit on Lucas's couch with my elbows braced against my knees, my fingernails digging crescents into my palms hard enough to drown out the ache in my side.Almost.The bedroom door stays shut for now, but I know she'll walk through it eventually.She has to.Some things are inevitable.The sun will rise, blood will dry, people will leave, and sooner or later, Nina will walk out of that bedroom and find me sitting here… waiting for the words to calm the tempest in my head. Time seems to know it to

  • My Stepbrother's Lust    Tell Me I'm Still Yours

    NINA'S POV I have every reason to hate the man lying in front of me.He's broken my heart. Humiliated me. Made me cry until I couldn't fucking breathe.So why am I sitting here counting his breaths...terrified one of them will be his last?Cassian's eyelids flutter open again—not enough to wake up fully, just enough to remind me he’s still here.He's done that three times since Lucas left, and I hate how relieved that makes me each time those grey eyes settle on my face for one second, two, three…My fingers tighten around each other until my knuckles burn, and I keep my eyes on the rise and fall of his chest. That's it…just…breathe.My fingers rake through my hair and form a fist. I can't tell what's making my heart pound harder—the fact that Lucas had shot him, or the fact that if he doesn't make it back from that pharmacy soon, Cassian might bleed to death right in front of me. Okay, Nina, you're overreacting. But he has already bled through the second bandage, and now my hand

  • My Stepbrother's Lust    Bleeding For You

    CASSIAN'S POV I could stand up. I just can't bring myself to.Nina sits across from me with her hands folded neatly in her lap, her head bowed as though the floor deserves her attention more than I do.She won't look at me.She hasn't looked at me since Axel walked out the front door.But I don't need her eyes to know she's been crying.I see it in the redness lingering on her cheeks, in the way her shoulders curl inward with the careful rise and fall of every breath… like she's trying not to let another one break.And then there's Lucas.Standing in the kitchen doorway with his arms folded across his chest like a prison guard making sure I don't do the one thing my entire body is begging me to do.Cross the room. Apologize. Touch her.I hate him for it.The worst part?He's probably right. I don't know how long we've been sitting like this, but by the time I finally find the voice to speak, the storm outside has stilled, found its way into my chest…and stayed there. “You never got

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