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Lisa Pov

Penulis: Annie. Natt
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-13 00:11:50

The house had finally quieted down.

Not completely—Riley and Bella were still laughing somewhere upstairs—but the loud chaos from earlier had faded into something softer.

Calmer.

For the first time that night, I noticed something strange.

Kai was gone.

He had disappeared earlier without saying much, which honestly was not surprising. Kai had a habit of leaving when the house got too loud or the conversations got too personal.

But the moment I realized he was not here anymore, something shifted
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    The yellow taxi ride back to the city was filled with the familiar, comforting noise of my old life. Bella argued with the driver over the toll fees, Nikolai silently brooded while staring out the window at the passing highway, and Kai sat right next to me, his solid, grounding presence a constant warmth against my side.But inside my head, everything was spinning.The weight of the last forty-eight hours was finally catching up to me. The mansion. My father. Adrian. The Syndicate. The sheer, terrifying realization that my existence was a target, and that the people around me were constantly putting themselves in the line of fire just to keep me breathing. I looked at Kai’s sharp profile, then over at Nikolai’s tense jawline. They had spent the last twelve hours tearing the state apart to find me. They were willing to bleed for me. They had bled for me.And that was exactly the problem.By the time the cab sputtered to a halt in front of our apartment building, the morning sun was

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  • Owned By My Stepdad(MxM)   Elias pov

    I stood there, completely paralyzed, as Adrian’s words echoed around the pristine mahogany walls of the office.Bella is outside.She’s yelling at the guards.“What do you mean, she’s yelling at the guards?” I asked, my voice cracking under the sheer weight of the absurdity. “Adrian, there are men out there with submachine guns and tactical vests. She is five-foot-two and her primary weapon is a rolled-up fashion magazine!”“I don’t know what to tell you, man!” Adrian threw his hands up, looking genuinely traumatized. “The gate security fed her a line about ‘restricted entry’ and she told the head of security that his buzzcut was an analytical failure and demanded to speak to the manager of the mansion!”Dad looked between the two of us, his formidable eyebrows drawing together until they practically formed a straight line. “The manager of the mansion? Do you mean... me?”“Yes, Dad, you!” Adrian gasped, checking his watch. “And you have about four minutes before she figures out how to

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  • Owned By My Stepdad(MxM)   Family

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