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Vane is here

Author: Annie. Natt
last update publish date: 2026-02-08 22:06:53

The psych lecture dragged on like a bad hangover—professor droning about cognitive dissonance, slides full of graphs that blurred together. I sat in the back row, notebook open but pen idle, mind a mess of half-formed thoughts. Kai. Luca. Vane. The hallway bump from last week kept replaying—his low voice (Careful. You don’t want to find out), the way his eyes had raked over me like he was deciding how to take me apart. I hated how it stuck. Hated how it made my skin heat every time I remembered
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  • Owned By My Stepdad(MxM)   Elias pov

    The silence that followed Bella’s mid-term lecture was absolute.A heavy, suffocating stillness descended over the grand stone portico. The security guards on either side of the doors looked like they were trying to blend into the masonry, utterly terrified to breathe. Kai hadn't moved an inch, his hand still hovering dangerously close to his jacket lining, while Nikolai’s gaze remained locked onto Dad like a wolf calculating the exact trajectory to a throat.And Dad? Dad just stood there.He didn’t summon twenty more men. He didn’t reach for a weapon. He just stared down at Bella, his face a perfectly carved block of stone, completely unreadable.“A mid-term,” Dad repeated slowly. His deep, resonant voice carried over the morning breeze, entirely devoid of the lethal edge it had possessed in the command center last night. It sounded almost… analytical.“Yes, a mid-term,” Bella said, completely doubling down. She took another aggressive step up the stairs, forcing Dad to actually tilt

  • 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

  • Owned By My Stepdad(MxM)   Elias pov

    The next morning felt strangely, unsettlingly normal.Strangely.Because I woke up, blinking against the sunlight filtering through massive velvet curtains, and for a few blissful seconds, I completely forgot where I was. I thought I was back in my cramped, slightly messy apartment, about to trip over one of Bella's stray shoes on my way to the kitchen.Then I actually looked around at the cavernous, high-ceilinged bedroom, the pristine furniture, the sweeping view of the estate, and reality slammed back into me like a physical blow.Right. Mansion. Dead father who wasn’t actually dead. Secret, mildly unhinged brother. Whole life completely ruined.Great. Phenomenal start to the day.I dragged myself out of the king-sized bed, brushed my teeth, changed into a clean set of clothes, and walked downstairs half-asleep, my boots clicking dully against the grand marble staircase.I was bracing myself for absolute chaos. I expected Adrian to jump out from behind a literal pillar just to anno

  • Owned By My Stepdad(MxM)   Family

    The room went dead silent.I was still awkwardly holding the pillow out like a shield. Adrian was still actively vibrating in his chair, trying and failing to hold back his laughter. And Dad was standing framed in the doorway, staring at the two of us with an expression of profound, radiating suspicion.Nobody moved. Nobody spoke.Then, Adrian completely and utterly betrayed me. He raised a hand and pointed a finger right at me. “He started it.”My head snapped toward him so fast I felt a pop in my neck. “What?!”“I was completely minding my own business.”I stared at him in absolute, jaw-dropping disbelief. “You literally climbed through my third-story balcony like a cat burglar!”Dad slowly turned his head to look at the open balcony doors, the curtains still fluttering slightly in the evening breeze. Then he looked back at Adrian. Then he looked back at me. For some reason, his face looked even less impressed than it had when he first walked in.I sat up quickly, dropping the pil

  • Owned By My Stepdad(MxM)   Elias pov

    After whatever the hell that was downstairs, I wanted to evaporate.No, seriously. My dignity was still in critical condition. Kai and Nikolai had basically turned into a tag-team detective duo, exposing my deepest, most embarrassing habits to my father like they were presenting state's evidence in a high-profile court case.Worse yet? Dad had looked weirdly satisfied afterward. Like he’d just cracked a code. Meanwhile, I had been looking for the nearest window to throw myself out of.So, when a guard finally led me upstairs and opened the door to a massive bedroom, I walked in without a word. The heavy door clicked shut behind me, plunging the room into silence.I looked around slowly, my brow furrowing.Of course. Of course it was gargantuan.Huge bed. Huge television. Huge windows. Huge couch. Huge bookshelf. At this point, I was entirely convinced that rich people were just clinically terrified of small things.I collapsed onto the mattress dramatically, staring up at the ceiling.

  • Owned By My Stepdad(MxM)   They came

    The atmosphere inside the control room shifted the second the security gates groaned open.The casual chatter died instantly. The guards went rigid, Adrian stopped smirking, and even Dad fixed his gaze entirely on the monitors.Naturally, my eyes were glued to the screens too.Kai and Nikolai walked through the gates side by side, yet somehow they looked worlds apart. Kai walked with his hands shoved casually into his pockets, his expression calm but intensely focused. Nikolai looked colder. Much colder. His sharp eyes slowly swept over the perimeter, taking in the guards, the perimeter cameras, and the scale of the mansion itself.Then, his gaze lifted. Straight toward the lens. Straight toward me.My heart skipped a beat. For a fraction of a second, the rest of the room melted away."Damn," Adrian muttered under his breath, breaking the spell.I frowned, keeping my eyes on the screen. "What?""They look like they came to start a war."Before I could process that, Dad turned away fro

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