All Chapters of My Arch Nemesis in my Bed: Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

I made it about ten minutes after leaving the festival before Kai started losing his mind completely, his voice roaring through my head loud enough that I had to pull over on the side of the road and grip the steering wheel until my knuckles went white.He touched her, Kai snarled, pacing restlessly inside my consciousness like a caged animal. *He put his scent all over her. He’s daring us. We need to claim her properly before he tries again.*“Shut up,” I said out loud to my empty car, which probably looked insane to anyone driving past. “I’m not claiming anyone. That’s not how this works.”*That’s exactly how this works,* Kai shot back. She’s ours. She’s always been ours. And that bastard brother of yours just tried to stake a claim on what belongs to us.The worst part was that he wasn’t entirely wrong. Cain had deliberately scent-marked Lily in front of everyone, knowing exactly what kind of reaction it would provoke. And it had worked, because I could still smell him on her even

Luca I woke up to the sound of Lily moving around her room, it was still dark outside.“You should probably go,” she said when she noticed I was awake, her voice carefully neutral. “Jessica has an early class, but she’ll be back soon.”I sat up, looking for my clothes that had ended up scattered across her floor i.“Don’t you think we need to talk about what just happened,” I said, finding my shirt and pulling it on while trying to ignore the way my entire body was still buzzing.“No,” she interrupted, finally looking at me with an expression that was completely blank. “We don’t need to talk about anything. This was a mistake.”“It wasn’t a mistake,” I said, standing up and moving toward her despite the obvious walls she was trying to rebuild between us.“Yes, it was,” she said firmly, taking a step back to maintain distance. “You came here upset about Cain, I was frustrated about everything that’s been happening, and we made a really bad decision. That’s all this was.”“That’s bulls

I felt my stomach drop because that was possibly the worst information I could have received.“She bailed on us for him?” I asked, trying to keep my voice neutral even though internally I was panicking about all the ways this could go wrong.“Apparently he just showed up at her dorm and asked her to lunch, and she said yes without even thinking about our plans,” Riley said, stabbing at his food without actually eating any of it. “She’s been texting him constantly since the festival. I can see her checking her phone every five seconds and smiling at whatever he’s saying.”I could see the jealousy written all over Riley’s face, mixed with genuine hurt that Naomi was prioritizing this new guy over him.“Maybe it’s just lunch,” I said weakly, though we both knew that was probably wishful thinking given how I know first hand how persuasive Cain can be.“Or maybe it’s him trying to get close to her for whatever reason,” Riley replied, finally looking up from his untouched food to meet my ey

I left Luca’s place early the next morning, sneaking out while he was still asleep. The sun was just starting to come up as I walked across campus back to my dorm, the early morning air cold enough that I could see my breath.Jessica was still asleep when I got back to our room, which meant I could shower and change without having to explain where I’d been all night. The hot water felt good against my skin, washing away all the evidence of what we did.After pulling on clean clothes I checked my phone and there were three missed texts from Naomi, all sent around midnight.I’m okay!Stop worrying so much. I’m fine, I promise.I tried calling her immediately, but it went straight to voicemail like she’d turned off her phone or was deliberately ignoring my calls. So I sent back a text: We need to talk. Call me when you can.The read receipt showed she’d seen it, but no response came through.By the time I made it to campus to meet with Ethan and Riley, I was running on about three hours

My father appeared at the door about two minutes later, wearing pajamas and looking confused and worried in equal measure when he saw me standing on the porch. “Lily? What are you doing here this late? Is everything okay?”He was still broad-shouldered despite being in his fifties and had always made me feel safe growing up. He’d always been the calm one and the problem-solver who could fix anything and I hated that I was about to shatter whatever that we have been maintaining is.“No, everything’s not okay,” I said, and I was surprised by how steady my voice sounded. “We need to talk, right now.”He must have seen something in my expression that told him this wasn’t a conversation that could wait until morning, because he just nodded and stepped back to let me inside. “Your mother’s still asleep, let me go wake her up.”“No, don’t,” I said quickly. “I want to talk to you first, alone.”My father looked like he wanted to argue with that but something in my face must have convinced him