RIVAL'S TO LOVER'S: My Step Brother Is Now My Roommate のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 21 - チャプター 30

LILIAN’S POV His kisses were getting hotter by the minute. I could feel my body heat increasing by the minute and he wanted more and more. No, I wanted more and more. He pushed me down to the bed and crawled over me. I could see a beast stalking his next meal….which at this point was me. That shit turned me on. “I want to see you strip…” he said with a deep sexy voice and that made the water from my little hole multiply. Without another word, I got down from the bed and stood in front of him. “What am I stripping to?” I asked with a silly smirk on my face. I loved this game we were playing. He picked up his phone, pressed play on the phone screen and the sound ‘sex sound’ came balancing out of it. Fuck, he had taste in music. As the music played, I began to strip while he watched me with lustful eyes. I slowly pulled my top over my head leaving my place bra which covered up almost nothing but my nipples. I wasn't a big-breasted girl, but I had boobs that could turn a man on and

HAYDEN’S POVThe week of soccer tryouts couldn’t have come at a worse time or maybe it was perfect timing.Anything was better than thinking about the mess I’d made.I woke up to an empty bed.For a second, I just stared at the ceiling, blinking against the morning light cutting through the blinds. My head was pounding, not from alcohol, but from everything else. The fight, the party and Stephen’s face when he saw me last night.Lilian wasn’t there and her side of the bed was cold.I sat up slowly, rubbing a hand over my face. She hadn’t left a note or a text either. I checked my phone anyway.There was nothing.That was strange. Lilian wasn’t exactly the “sneak out quietly and disappear” type. She usually liked to leave an impression.I pushed the thought away. It doesn’t matter. I had bigger things to focus on.Soccer tryouts started today. It was a new semester with a new roster and a new captain.Last semester, it was Stephen and me at the top. Him as captain and me as the main st

STEPHEN’S POV:I knew he was coming before he even said my name.Hayden had this way of walking when he was pissed with heavy steps, shoulders tight, jaw locked like he was chewing on a fight before it even started. I was at my locker, pretending to scroll through my phone, when I felt him behind me.“Stephen.”There it was. I closed my locker slowly and turned around. “Hayden.”His eyes were already blazing and it was not the usual competitive spark. This was personal like it had always been. “What did you say to Lilian?” he demanded.Straight to it, no small talk or pretense.I shrugged, leaning back against the lockers like I didn’t have a care in the world. “Morning. How are you?”“Don’t,” he snapped. “What did you say to her?”I studied him for a second. He looked different, probably tense or defensive, like someone had taken something of his and he was ready to throw punches to get it back.Interesting.“I asked her if she was proud of herself,” I said calmly.His fists clenche

HAYDEN’S POV:I didn’t think the title would follow me off the field. But it did.By lunch, people were clapping me on the back in the hallway. By the end of the day, someone had already posted the final goal on their story with “CAPTAIN HAYDEN” in bold letters.It felt unreal.Gerald had been the first to yell about a party.“Captain needs a proper celebration,” he had announced in the locker room, slinging an arm around Tyler. “Tonight. My place with no excuses.”Even Stephen had still been there when he said it. He didn’t react. Just kept unlacing his boots like he hadn’t heard.The silence between us was heavier than the win.By the time I got home, adrenaline had turned into restless energy. I showered, changed twice, then stared at my phone for a full minute before typing the message. Party tonight. You coming?The three dots appeared almost instantly. It was Lilian. Am I invited? Or is this a “captain only” event?I smirked. I’m asking you to be my date.There was a longer

HAYDEN’S POV:I didn’t look back.I knew if I did, I’d see her standing there under the oak tree with that shattered expression on her face, and I didn’t trust myself not to walk back and undo everything I had just said.The dirt path felt uneven beneath my shoes as I made my way down from the cliffs. My knuckles throbbed with every heartbeat. I flexed my hand once and pain shot up my arm, sharp and grounding.I deserved it.The party noise was faint now, just a distant hum behind the roar of the ocean. The wind cooled the sweat on my skin, but it did nothing for the heat crawling under it. I could still see Stephen’s face when my fist connected with his jaw. The word ‘Captain.’ echoed in my head again, but it didn’t feel like a victory. It felt hollow.I replayed what happened at the fight over and over. Stephen’s smirk, his comment about Ella. The way he had said her name as if he owned it.I shoved my hands into my pockets and kept walking. My busted knuckles brushed against denim