LOGINOrlando's POV I woke to the pale grey light filtering through the balcony doors, the sheets tangled around my legs. For a second I forgot where I was. Then the empty spaces on the other side of the room reminded me. No Aiden, no Macmillan and no Jordan. No familiar quiet breathing. Just a stranger’s neatly made bed and the hollow knowledge that everything had shifted. I dressed in silence and the room left before my roommate could come back. The corridor of the new wing was still half-asleep, polished floors reflecting the early light, and the distance to the main academic building stretched longer than it ever had before. The courtyard was already filling when I arrived. Students clustered in their usual groups, laughter sharp in the cool air. I spotted Lindsay near the steps of the science block, talking animatedly to a pair of girls. Her eyes found me the second I crossed the open space. She smiled, her smile was slow, satisfied and she lifted one hand in a small wave tha
Orlando's POVI woke to the pale grey light filtering through the balcony doors, the sheets tangled around my legs. For a second I forgot where I was. Then the empty spaces on the other side of the room reminded me. No Aiden, no Macmillan and no Jordan.No familiar quiet breathing. Just a stranger’s neatly made bed and the hollow knowledge that everything had shifted.I dressed in silence and the room left before my roommate could come back.The corridor of the new wing was still half-asleep, polished floors reflecting the early light, and the distance to the main academic building stretched longer than it ever had before. The courtyard was already filling when I arrived. Students clustered in their usual groups, laughter sharp in the cool air. I spotted Lindsay near the steps of the science block, talking animatedly to a pair of girls. Her eyes found me the second I crossed the open space. She smiled, her smile was slow, satisfied and she lifted one hand in a small wave that felt
Orlando's POVI woke to the pale grey light filtering through the balcony doors, the sheets tangled around my legs. For a second I forgot where I was. Then the empty spaces on the other side of the room reminded me. No Aiden, no Macmillan and no Jordan.No familiar quiet breathing. Just a stranger’s neatly made bed and the hollow knowledge that everything had shifted.I dressed in silence and the room left before my roommate could come back.The corridor of the new wing was still half-asleep, polished floors reflecting the early light, and the distance to the main academic building stretched longer than it ever had before. The courtyard was already filling when I arrived. Students clustered in their usual groups, laughter sharp in the cool air. I spotted Lindsay near the steps of the science block, talking animatedly to a pair of girls. Her eyes found me the second I crossed the open space. She smiled, her smile was slow, satisfied and she lifted one hand in a small wave that felt
Patrick's POV After breakfast was over, the both of us moved to the sitting room to meet my parents."Good morning mom and dad," Alpha Albert greeted.My parents greeted back, smiling at him. They turned to make, their smile deepened, it felt so real but I knew it was fake."How are you doing Paulo? How was is life as a groom?" My mother asked.It was so easy for her replace my identity with my brother's like I never existed. Her eyes landed on my neck, probably gazing at the many hickeys Alpha Albert left on me, I quickly covered my neck with my hand.Alpha Albert grabbed me by the waist in front of my parents and made me sit on his thighs on the couch, I tried to wake up but he pinned me down with his grip."I know your parents wouldn't mind me holding you like this in front of them, we are married after all, so stop being shy my dear Paulo." Alpha Albert said loud enough for my parents to ear."Right, Mr. and Mrs. Norman?" He asked, his gaze shifting from me to my parents."Of co
Aiden's POV “I want you, not Lindsay, and she knows that. I am going to be with you, Aiden, and that’s final. I don’t want anybody else, just you,” Orlando said quietly.I looked away from him as the last set of students filed out of the lecture hall, leaving only the two of us in the sudden, echoing quiet. The urge I’d been fighting since I first walked into the lecture hall and pretended not to notice him surged back, stronger now. I wanted to run my fingers through his hair and pull him into a hug.Orlando looked like a mess. Dark circles shadowed his eyes, and his hair was messy in the wrong way, tangled, nothing like the usual majestic style that made my stomach flip.I swallowed hard, fighting the need to reach out and smooth it anyway.“Orlando, there’s nothing we can do here. I know this is unfair, but it’s unfair for all of us. I’m no longer sad that you hid the fact you have a fiancée. I’ve moved past that. However, I don’t want to be the reason you disobey your parents,”
Orlando's POVI woke to the pale grey light filtering through the balcony doors, the sheets tangled around my legs. For a second I forgot where I was. Then the empty spaces on the other side of the room reminded me. No Aiden, no Macmillan and no Jordan.No familiar quiet breathing. Just a stranger’s neatly made bed and the hollow knowledge that everything had shifted.I dressed in silence and the room left before my roommate could come back.The corridor of the new wing was still half-asleep, polished floors reflecting the early light, and the distance to the main academic building stretched longer than it ever had before. The courtyard was already filling when I arrived. Students clustered in their usual groups, laughter sharp in the cool air. I spotted Lindsay near the steps of the science block, talking animatedly to a pair of girls. Her eyes found me the second I crossed the open space. She smiled, her smile was slow, satisfied and she lifted one hand in a small wave that felt
Aiden's POVI stood in front of the teacher's office, my heart pounding in my chest not because I just ran all the way here but because I was scared.I can't lose my scholarship, I did everything I could to get it because I knew I wouldn't be able to sponsor myself to school and I can't depend on m
Aiden's POV The cold air hitting my face felt like nothing, it wasn't soothing at all, nothing could sooth me at this moment.I wanted to book a cap, and go back to campus not caring about the pricing but I couldn't because there's a boy waiting for me to tutor him.There was a store nearby, I wen
Aiden's POVI have always hated mirrors, they always told the same story, thin shoulders, a narrow chest and messy red hair that refuses to lie flat no matter how much water I use on it. At twenty one, in a school that I never really belong to, I still look like the type of guy teachers asked to c
Mysterious Stranger’s POVThe boy was light, carrying him was no sweat. Slender and fragile, just how I like. Once I got him out from under the bar’s neon haze and into the back of the cab. His head lolled against my shoulder the whole ride, breath shallow and uneven, lips parted like he was sti







