เข้าสู่ระบบSome secrets are kept in the dark. Others are screamed into the pillow. Aubrey "Yuna" Vance is a girl living a double life. To the students at Dam’s College, she’s the quiet, studious wallflower. But behind the closed doors of her mother’s new mansion, she is a voyeur, haunted by the rhythmic sounds of her stepfather’s bedroom and the shadow of a stepbrother who knows her every shameful habit. Jake Thomas is the billionaire athlete-turned-coach who built an empire on discipline. He’s the man who saved Aubrey’s mother from poverty, but to Aubrey, he is a walking temptation, a "hunk of a man" whose every glance feels like an intrusion. Then there is Drake, Thomas’s son. A popular biker with a cruel streak and a mountain of blackmail. He’s caught Aubrey at her weakest, and his price for silence is her total submission. When the school’s golden boy, Brendan, enters the fray with a public declaration of love, the fragile peace in the Thomas household shatters. Aubrey is no longer just watching; she’s being hunted. Between a stepfather who hides a mistress and a dark desire for his stepdaughter, and a stepbrother who wants to claim her out of pure spite or the sweet golden boy Brendan in which the world will be very much willing to accept but Aubrey is drowning in a sea of forbidden heat. In a house where the walls are thin and the secrets are thick, Aubrey must decide: Will she play the "good girl" for the world, or will she surrender to the noiseless dreams that keep her wet and awake at night?
ดูเพิ่มเติมCHAPTER ONE
The sound usually started at midnight.
A dull, rhythmic thud of a headboard hitting the drywall. It was a heavy sound, expensive and private, yet it bled through the hallway of the new house. I found myself at their door again, the cold floor biting into my knees. I leaned in, my eye pressed to the keyhole until the metal rim left a dent in my skin.
Inside, the room was a blur of tangled sheets and shadows. My mother’s back was arched, her fingers digging into the shoulders of the man pinning her down.
"Yes, Jake! Harder... God, Jake!"
Jake Thomas didn’t say much. He just moved. He was a mountain of a man, his back a map of shifting muscle that caught the dim light every time he lunged forward. I watched the way his hands—large, scarred from years of coaching bikers—gripped her waist like he was trying to snap her in two.
"You’re going to disturb the kids," he muttered, his voice a low vibration I could feel in my own chest. He didn't slow down. If anything, he hit harder, his eyes fixed on the door as if he knew exactly who was shivering on the other side of the wood.
I pulled back, my breath coming in short, shallow stabs. My hand was already down my shorts, my skin hot and damp. I couldn't help it. Every time he looked at me at the dinner table, or the way he filled a doorway just by standing in it, it all fed into this. He was a biker coach, a billionaire, a man who took up too much space.
And right now, he was taking up all the space in my head.
"What are you doing there?"
The voice was a low crawl. I jerked back, my heart slamming against my teeth.
Drake.
He was leaning against the opposite wall, his hands buried in his pockets. He looked exactly like his father tall, built, and entirely too handsome for his own good. But where Jake was steady, Drake was a live wire. Mischievous. Mean.
"I... uh..." I scrambled to my feet, my hand flying to the back of my neck to hide the heat I knew was staining my skin.
Drake didn't ask again. He just stepped forward, his boots silent on the carpet. He nudged me aside with his shoulder and bent down, taking my place at the keyhole. A slow, ugly smirk spread across his face as he watched his father work.
"You're watching," he whispered, his eyes crinkling at the corners.
I lunged forward, slamming my hand over his mouth before he could say another word. I didn't think; I just grabbed his arm and hauled him down the hall toward the living room, my skin prickling with the fear that the bedroom door would swing open.
He snatched his arm away once we reached the dark living room. "Care to explain that?" He crossed his arms, looking me up and down like I was a puzzle he’d already solved.
Drake was an asshole. There was no other word for it. From the moment my mom married into this family, he’d made it his mission to keep me under his thumb. He was the king of the school, the biker everyone wanted to be or be with. And he knew it.
"Stay out of it," I hissed.
"Why should I? I think I’ll go back in there and tell them." He turned, as if he were actually going to do it.
"You wouldn't."
"Try me." He paused, looking back at me. "Unless you do my bidding this weekend. My bike needs a tune-up, and I’ve got errands. You’re my shadow for the next forty-eight hours."
I clenched my jaw so hard it ached. This was his game. Catch me in a corner, then bleed me dry. "I'm not doing it, Drake. Go ahead. Tell them. Tell them I was watching them make us a sibling."
The words flew out before I could stop them. I was shaking, the adrenaline making my vision blur.
Drake stared at me. The smug look faded, replaced by something heavier. He stepped into my space, his chest nearly brushing mine. "Why?" he asked, his voice dropping. His hands found the small of my back, a touch that felt more like a brand than a caress.
"What are you doing?" I whispered, my knees going soft.
"Didn't you get wet watching them?" He leaned in, his lips inches from my ear. "We could help ourselves, Aubrey. No one has to know."
I shoved him back, my skin crawling with a mix of revulsion and a heat I didn't want to admit to. "You're sick. Just stay away from me."
"Why?" he teased, that smirk returning. "It's just an expensive joke, right?"
I didn't answer. I turned and bolted for my room, slamming the door and twisting the lock. I threw myself onto the bed, burying my face in the pillow to drown out the sounds still echoing from down the hall.
My heart wouldn't slow down. My legs were heavy, the friction of my jeans against my skin feeling like a dare. I reached into my bra, my fingers shaking as I squeezed, trying to replace the image of Jake with anything else. But it was no use.
The room felt smaller. Darker.
Suddenly, I felt a weight on the mattress. Hands—rough, veiny, and solid—hit my waist, arching me up. I felt a tongue, hot and insistent, tracing the dip of my navel. I sucked in a breath, my eyes flying open to the moonlit room.
It was him.
He didn't say a word. He just moved with that same brutal precision I’d seen through the keyhole.
His veiny hairy hands were aching me up, his hair, not long but they were brushing against the skin of my stomach that I stuttered, shaking, gasping, my legs suddenly wrapped around his neck, his long tongue ferreting into my empress that kept crying to be attended to.
It did, he was licking, sucking. My hands could barely grip the pleasure out of my breast when the center of pleasure have rendered every other part of my body useless.
"Ahhh..."
"Ahhhh..."
This is what..."Ahhh..."
"Fuck..." I hissed out and then, he loomed over me. His hair was a mess, his eyes dark pits of mischief and hunger. He looked down at me, his lashes casting long shadows on his cheeks.
My heart beat changed again..
"Did you get wet seeing me fuck your mother?"
"Is she okay?" I heard my mother’s voice drift from the hallway as they followed me up."Just being a typical teenager," Jake replied. I could almost feel the weight of his hand on her waist, pulling her flush against him. "Don't worry about it. She’ll be fine.""If you say so," she murmured.I collided with Drake at the top of the stairs. My steps faltered, the air leaving my lungs as his eyes searched my face. His brows furrowed, his gaze lingering a second too long, but I didn't give him the chance to speak. I pushed past him and bolted into my room."Come down for dinner!" my mother called out after me.I threw the bolt and collapsed against the wood, my breath coming in shallow, jagged hitches. Every detail of Jake’s face in the car was burned into my mind. The way I’d kissed him—the fact that he hadn't been surprised. For a heartbeat, he had let the mask slip, showing me a flicker of genuine, raw need. It hadn't
"Yuna..." His voice gave out a raggedy gasp that made me tremble. Made me want to lean in more tease him more. His eyes shot out to me in warning, but I could feel the slow burn shake in his arm, where I held. Then all of a sudden, the car screeched to a halt. His pants coming faster than normal. I could feel the heat radiating off him, thick and heavy in the cramped space of the SUV. My lips were still tingling from the taste of him, and the silence that followed was louder than the engine’s hum.He didn't push me away. He didn't start the car. He just sat there, his fingers digging so hard into the leather of the steering wheel that I heard it creak."You're shaking," I whispered, my hand moving from his jaw to the back of his neck, my fingers tangling in the short, dark hair at the base of his skull. "Is it because of her? Or is it because of me?""Aubrey, stop." He thundered out but I could feel the betrayal of coldness in his voice. I had crossed a line. "I saw how you looked
CHAPTER FIVE"Who is it?"The question hung in the air, sharp and accusing. I felt the color drain from my face. "Don’t tell me you... you peep through my...""I don't need to peep," Drake interrupted, his voice a low, jagged crawl. He stepped into my personal space, his hands heavy on my shoulders. "You aren't exactly quiet, Aubrey. You're loud. High-pitched. Sometimes I wonder if the neighbors can hear you, let alone our parents."A flicker of mischief danced in his eyes, but it felt like a threat. I swallowed, my throat dry."That’s why I have to blast my speakers every night," he whispered, his breath ghosting against my ear. "To drown you out. It’s pathetic, really."I felt myself shrinking, my skin burning with a shame so intense I couldn't look him in the eye. He was assessing me, reading every twitch of my expression."So tell me again," he pressed, his grip tightening. "Who is it?""Brendan..." The name tumbled out, desperate and hurried. "It’s Brendan. I... he’s just too hot
CHAPTER FOUR "You forgot your project in my car."His voice was a low vibration that seemed to settle in the small of my back. I looked up as Thomas approached, his presence casting a long shadow over the linoleum floor. I didn't say anything. I couldn't. My eyes stayed fixed on his hands as he held out the document.As I took it, his fingers brushed against mine. The contact was brief, but it felt like a static shock that traveled straight to my core. My heart didn't just beat; it stuttered."I’ll be around to see what your brother is up to," he said, his gaze lingering on my mouth for a second too long. "Find me after school. We’re going home together."I managed a clumsy nod. I watched him turn, his broad shoulders moving with a heavy, deliberate grace as he walked away.Every eye in the hallway followed him.Stephanie shoved my shoulder the moment he was out of earshot. "Wait...that’s your stepdad?"I didn't answer immediately. I watched him stop to talk to a lecturer, his head t












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