All Chapters of Claimed By My Stepbrother : Chapter 201 - Chapter 203

My chest tightened. I hated that silence more than I hated noise because silence meant ‘waiting’, and waiting meant ‘something’ was coming.I pressed my forehead against the cold glass and sighed. Maybe it wasn’t a fight, maybe it was just… I don’t know, a heated discussion? But I’d seen the tension in his shoulders that told me he wasn’t expecting a friendly chat.Then it happened.The first sound wasn’t even loud — just a rumble that made the floor beneath my feet tremble slightly, like the walls had taken a deep breath. Then came the explosion.It was deafening.A flash of light cut through the edges of the window, and a blast of heat rolled in right after it, rattling the panes so hard I thought they might shatter. My heart stopped — literally stopped — before slamming back into rhythm, faster, and harder.“Oh my God,” I whispered, stumbling backward.Smoke. I could see it from the window now. Thick, dark, rising in the distance like a storm cloud. And then came the screams — no

I raised it high, but she caught it midair, her fingers wrapping around my wrist with bone-crushing strength. The shard trembled between us, catching the light. For a second, all I could hear was our breathing — ragged, harsh, wild — echoing through the burning silence of the room.Then she grinned.And twisted my wrist, the glass slipped from my hand, slicing my palm open.Pain shot up my arm so hard I almost dropped the glass. She took that second to flip us over, her body slamming down on mine, knocking the air clean out of my lungs. My back hit the floor again, and the shard slipped from my hand, skidding across the wood.“Got you now,” she hissed, her face inches from mine. “Let’s see how long your little human lungs last.”Her hand clamped around my throat before I could react, and I gasped, clawing at her arm. Her nails dug into my skin again, reopening the wounds she’d already made. My vision blurred at the edges, darkening. I could hear my heartbeat in my ears — thump, thump