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2026-09-02 17:48:57
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My stepbrother and his friends want me Chapter 92; Rhys returns
EMMAA day and a half after the argument, things between me, Cade, and Theo had started to feel normal again.Not completely. There were still moments when a joke fell flat or one of us went quiet for no obvious reason, but we were trying. Cade kissed my temple when he passed me in the kitchen. Theo stole my coffee and laughed when I threatened to poison his next cup. Little things. The kind that reminded me we hadn’t lost everything.Then the elevator chimed.I was curled up on the couch with a book I’d barely read a page of in the last twenty minutes. Cade lay at the other end, scrolling through his phone, while Theo sat nearby with his tablet. We all looked up at the same time.I don’t know how to explain it, but I felt him before I saw him. Maybe it was the way Cade suddenly sat up, or how Theo’s fingers stopped moving across his screen.Then the doors opened.Rhys stepped out with a bag slung over one shoulder.He looked different from the last time I’d seen him up close. The bru
My stepbrother and his friends want me Chapter 91; Don’t defend him.
EMMAI had been avoiding them for three days.Three days of letting the anger just sit in me. Was I being dramatic? No, no I wasn’t. Why won’t they tell me? Cade and Theo were patient enough to let it stretch longer than it should have.On the fourth morning they stopped allowing it.The knock was firm. Two sets of footsteps waited on the other side of the door. I considered ignoring it. Then I considered the fact that they had keys and a shared refusal to let me disappear completely inside my own silence, and I opened the door before they could make the decision for me.Cade stood slightly in front. Theo a half-step behind. Both of them wore the same carefully neutral expression that meant they had already discussed how to handle me.“We need to talk,” Cade said.I stepped back and let them in. The door clicked shut. For a moment no one spoke. The quiet had a weight to it.Then the anger I had been feeding for days finally found its exit.“I know about the letter,” I said. My voice
My stepbrother and his friends want me Chapter 90; The news
EMMAI was sitting cross-legged on my bed scrolling through nothing when Maya’s name lit up the screen.I almost let it go to voicemail. The last few days had left me hollowed out in a way that made even friendly voices feel like effort. But Maya had a habit of calling when the silence in my head got too loud, and ignoring her usually meant she would just call again with more attitude.I answered.“Girl,” she said without preamble, “have you heard the news?”I frowned at the opposite wall. “What news?”“Rhys. Your Rhys. There is stuff circulating everywhere, the usual gossip boards, even a couple of the bigger community outlets. He held some kind of controlled press thing. Stood there and basically said the marriage to Victoria is done. Over. Cancelled. There is a formal letter too. People are losing their minds.”For a second the words did not connect properly.“What?”“I am serious. He went public. Not a quiet private withdrawal. Public. Bold. I can send you the video and the letter
My stepbrother and his friends want me Chapter 89; The recording
RHYS Cade’s message came through just after noon.We need to see. Now.I was already moving before I finished reading it. My apartment suddenly felt too small, the walls too close. Whatever had put that particular edge in Cade’s usually blunt phrasing was not something that could wait for a convenient hour.Theo was already in the living room when I arrived. Cade stood near the windows with his arms crossed, jaw set in a way I recognised from the worst nights of the old days. He did not waste time on greetings.“Emma told me about a recording,” he said.The temperature in the room seemed to drop.“What recording?”“Victoria played it for her in the cell. Repeatedly. It was your voice, Rhys. Saying you were done with her. That she had been a game. That none of it had been real.” Cade’s eyes stayed locked on mine. “She sat on a concrete floor and listened to you end things while she was already broken. That’s the version of you she has been carrying around in her head. That is what the
My stepbrother and his friends want me Chapter 88; Cade’s promise
CADE“Baby girl, what’s wrong? You’ve been quiet. Please talk to me.”The second the words left my mouth her face crumpled. The tears she had been holding in thin, stubborn lines finally broke free and ran freely down her cheeks. I was across the kitchen before I fully decided to move. The ice cream tub scraped against the floor as I pushed it aside with my foot and pulled her into my arms, one hand cupping the back of her head, the other locked around her shoulders. She went willingly, face pressed hard into my chest, and the sound that came out of her was raw enough to scrape something inside my own ribs.She sobbed like the crying had been waiting days for permission.“I don’t even know why I’m crying,” she got out between breaths. “It’s so stupid”I eased her back just far enough to find her face. My thumbs brushed the wetness from under her eyes, though more kept coming. I held her chin steady so she had to look at me.“Don’t,” I said. The word came out rougher than I meant it to
My stepbrother and his friends want me Chapter 87; The part I can’t forget
EMMAThe nightmares are back again.They returned with a vengeance, like they had only been waiting for me to believe I had outrun them. I woke with my face already wet, the pillow damp beneath my cheek, and the same useless anger rising in my chest before I was fully conscious. I wiped the tears with the heel of my hand hard enough that the skin stung. I thought I was over this. I had told myself I was over this. The fact that my body still betrayed me in the dark made me furious.Two days ago Rhys came to the penthouse.I knew he was here the moment the elevator opened on our floor. Something in the air shifted not scent exactly, not sound, just the old, familiar weight of his presence pressing against the edges of rooms he was not even standing in. He had a meeting with Cade and Theo. I stayed upstairs. I told myself I would not go near that hallway.I lasted twenty minutes.Curiosity and something uglier than curiosity pulled me down the corridor until I was standing outside the c
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