All Chapters of Claimed by my Biker Stepbrother: Chapter 61 - Chapter 64

Chapter 58Pearl I was a vibrating wire of nerves and leftover lust, and you just had to believe me when I said it wasn't a nice feeling. The second Zander’s footsteps retreated down the hall and probably behind Vienna, I scrambled away from the door, my mind racing faster than my pulse. I had maybe sixty seconds to transform from a "wrecked, claimed woman" into a "grumpy, sleep-deprived roommate."And the worst part? I had to sell it too, or Zander's performance would have been for nothing. Great. No pressure. No fucking pressure at all. I sprinted to my closet, my movements frantic. I caught a glimpse of myself in the full-length mirror and nearly choked. My hair was a bird's nest of knots from Zander’s fisted hands, my lips were swollen to twice their size, and my neck, my neck was a damn crime scene. Dark, plum-colored brands decorated my collarbone like a map of everywhere he’d been.“Shit, shit, shit,” I hissed, pulling a thick, high necked black hoodie over my head. I fo

Pearl I cried until my ribs hurt,but it wasn't the quiet kind either, nor was it the graceful, single-tear type. I cried like something had been ripped out of me and left exposed. The sound of it filled the room, ugly, raw, and humiliating, and even though there were times I asked myself if Zander could hear me, I didn’t even try to stop it.I pressed my face into the pillow to muffle it, but the sobs still tore out of my chest in broken gasps. My throat burned, my head pounded, and every word I’d thrown at him replayed over and over, each one sharper than the last.Maybe I never knew you at all.The worst part? I didn’t even know if I meant it.Tears soaked the pillowcase. My body eventually gave up before my mind did. The sobbing turned into shuddering breaths, the shuddering turned into silence, and at some point, exhaustion dragged me under the cold hands of darkness disguised as sleep. I had no idea how long I'd slept for, but judging from the fact that I was beyond disorie