All Chapters of Step Brother's Deadly Obsession : Chapter 91 - Chapter 94

Naomi’s Pov The railyard felt like it was breathing. Not loudly not in a way you notice right away. More like the quiet rise and fall of something waiting, patient and dangerous. Cassian stood inches in front of me, one hand hovering just behind his back as he whispered the count. “One…” His voice barely stirred the air. “Two…” His breath steadied, even though mine didn’t. He raised his hand for “three..” A faint scrape of gravel behind me. I turned with nothing but instinct A hand clamped over my mouth. Another hooked around my waist. A sharp tug no sound, no warning and the ground slipped under my feet. The guard pulled me backward into a narrow slit between two containers. Dark. Tight. Cold. So silent it felt suffocating. His grip was iron, pressing my spine against his chest, his breath hot and panicked behind my ear. “Don’t move,” he hissed. My heart slammed once, hard, and every lesson I’d learned in the months since escaping the ledger came crashing ba

Naomi’s Pov The van smelled like cold metal and fear. Not loud fear, the quiet kind that settles in your clothes and clings to your skin. The kind that sits with you even after you’re safe. The three girls were huddled in the back seats, wrapped in the blankets Mara handed them. Rubio drove fast, his eyes glued to the road, checking the mirrors every five seconds. Mara sat near the sliding door, gun across her lap, watching the windows like they might breathe. Cassian sat beside me. Not touching. But close enough that the heat of him brushed against my arm every time the van hit a bump. He wasn’t talking. He wasn’t blinking enough. He sat forward, elbows on his knees, hands clasped so tightly his knuckles were bone-white. He was still shaking. He hid it well. But I could feel it in the small movements, the twitch of a finger, the tight pull of his shoulders, the way his breath kept catching halfway in. Rubio’s eyes flicked to the rear mirror. “Boss… you good?” Cassian didn