Semua Bab Rejected By Him; Claimed By His Crazy Brother: Bab 1 - Bab 6

Ixora's POVI pushed open the front door and entered the house, shutting the door behind me quietly. Keys jingled in my palm, and the weight of two shopping bags holding onto my fingers was oppressive. I let out a sigh. It had been a long day. All I wanted to do was curl up with Christopher and watch something dumb with him.But something wasn't right. I can feel it in my bones.The house felt too quiet, too still. I started walking down the hall, light footsteps on the floor. Then I heard it—sounds from far away coming from our bedroom.I first thought it was a video. Maybe he was watching another one that was really loud. I rolled my eyes and kept walking. But the closer I came to the bedroom door, the louder the sounds got. A muffled giggle. A soft moan. The squeak of something on the bed.I stopped.My hand also stopped mid-air, right above the bedroom door handle.No. I shook my head. He would not.I'm sure he was watching porn or something.But my stomach turned. A knot of fear

Ixora’s POVThe door slammed open so hard it bounced off the stone wall with a deafening crash. The sound rang through the room—sharp, jarring, metal on rock—and it was so loud, so sudden, it felt like the air got punched out of the space. The room stopped. Everyone froze. It was like the world held its breath all at once.I didn’t move. My hand was still midair, fingers wrapped tight around Flora’s wrist while hers were tangled in my hair. Time hung suspended. Every pair of eyes in the room turned toward the door. No one said a word. No one even breathed. The tension buzzed under our skin like electricity just before the storm breaks.He stood there.In the doorway.Still.His chest rose and fell in a slow, steady rhythm, like he’d walked miles through something heavier than air. Rain, maybe. Or something worse. His black hoodie clung to him, soaked through and dripping onto the stone floor. Water pooled at his boots. His dark hair was a wild mess, damp strands stuck to his forehead,

IXORAI followed him, no not because I trusted him but or because of safety. I followed him because at this point Kade’s threat had teeth and I’d experienced those claws too many times to wait for more marks. “You are dead to me” I felt my heart feel nothing, it should have stung, but all I felt was chills, like my heart had long been exiled on the matter. Outside, the air hit my face like a slap, I expected him to look back, soften a bit like I had seen on that instant but he didn’t instead the words came out flatly from his throat “I didn’t do it for you, all this was done for my sake” A feeling I couldn’t explained ran through me as his words cut, there was something underneath them, something lingering, lurking behind those sharp steeler blue eyes. It made the wolf in me stir. Reality set in even if no one said anything I felt it I was his, and that terrified both of us. The pull was something I could not imagine, from the second I saw him, my instincts screamed. Not in f