All Chapters of Caught in Between Lust and Desires: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

🖱️Victor🖱️My blood was boiling.Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Literally.I could feel it crawling under my skin, thick and hot, like it wanted out. Like it wanted violence. Like it wanted blood so badly my fangs ached even when my mouth was closed. Every breath felt wrong. Every heartbeat felt like an insult. That pathetic human did this to me. Jayden. That fragile little creature with sharp eyes and too much audacity was the reason I had been cockblocked, humiliated, and left craving blood like a starving animal.I paced my dorm room like a caged predator, fingers flexing, jaw tight enough to crack stone. Two days. Two fucking days without blood. Royal vampires are not built for restraint like this. We are fed. We are supplied and maintained. That is the agreement that comes with power and duty and crowns soaked in centuries of obedience.And now my father had cut me off.Because of Sammy and his pathetic mate.The thought of that wolf prince made my vision darken. The fact

🖱️Jayden🖱️ “I can’t believe you slept over,” I said, staring at River like he had personally committed a crime against my mental health. He had just stepped out of the bathroom, towel slung low on his hips, steam still clinging to his skin like confidence. He was humming. Humming. In my shared space. Like this was normal roommate behavior and not a violation of several unspoken laws. “Well what else were you expecting from a leech,” Jane said flatly as she grabbed her bag from the chair. “Let’s go. Bestie. This leech makes me want to throw up.” River rolled his eyes dramatically. “First of all, rude. Second of all, I am almost done.” He bent to pull on his shirt, struggling slightly like he was in a race against time. “Give me five seconds. Literally five.” “You said that ten minutes ago,” Jane snapped. “And yet,” he said smugly, sliding his arms through his sleeves, “here I am. Still fabulous.” I shook my head, fighting a smile. A week ago, this would have annoyed me. Today,

🖱️Jayden🖱️ “This is maddening.” Jane’s voice cut through the cafeteria noise as she stared down at the script in her hands like it had personally insulted her bloodline. Trays clattered at every corner with students laughing too loudly, magic hummed in the air, but our table felt sealed off from all of it. A small island of fury and disbelief. I watched her jaw tighten as she read. “They want you to say you posted a fake, photoshopped video,” she continued slowly, eyes scanning the lines again like maybe they would change if she blinked hard enough, “because the prince who was interested in you lost interest within a day and you got jealous.” She looked up at me, eyes blazing. “Are they fucking real.” River leaned over her shoulder to peek at the paper, then made a low sound in his throat. “Oh wow. They really said let’s villainize the human and call it peace.” I felt something tight and sharp lodge itself right behind my ribs. “When they said apology,” I said quietly, keepi

🖱️Jayden🖱️“Dude, you are so cool.”River said it the moment I stepped outside the dorm, like he had been holding it in and finally lost the fight. His grin was wide and proud and completely inappropriate for someone who had just watched me antagonize a vampire prince in his own room.Jane reacted instantly.I did not even see her hand move.One second River was talking, the next he was clutching his mouth, eyes wide, trying to speak and producing absolutely nothing. Not a sound. Not even a squeak.“You are too bad for him,” she said calmly, like she had just adjusted a crooked picture frame instead of muting a grown man.River pointed at her, offended and silent.“She’ll undo it in a minute,” I said, already tired. “You’ll survive.”Jane ignored him and grabbed my arm, fingers tight and grounding, and pulled me away from the door like she was afraid it might open again and swallow me whole.She did not yell. She did not lecture.“I’m proud of you,” she said quietly as we walked.Th

🖱️Jayden🖱️“Are you even human.”Jane said it the second the door slammed shut behind us, and the way she said my name right after was sharp and shaking and nothing like her usual controlled calm.“Because what the fuck was that, Jayden.”I barely had time to sit before she was in front of me, pacing like the room was too small to hold whatever fear she was trying not to show. Her hands kept moving like she wanted to grab me and shake answers out of my body.“That was not normal,” she continued. “That was not stress or nerves or some dramatic council bullshit. Your blood triggered everybody in that hall. Wolves. Vampires. Everyone. It was like you poured intoxication into the air and watched predators lose their minds.”I looked down at my arm.The bandage was soaked through now, red creeping past the edges like it was alive and looking for somewhere else to go. My stomach twisted.“I didn’t do anything on purpose,” I said quietly. “I swear.”Jane stopped pacing and stared at me lik