Todos os capítulos de FORBIDDEN ICE: CLAIMING THE CAPTAIN'S SISTER: Capítulo 241 - Capítulo 250

CHAPTER 241PUBLIC EXECUTIONELLISWe were laughing about something stupid.I don’t even remember what it was now. Probably Rowan making fun of Noah’s new haircut or Noah arguing that professors secretly enjoyed ruining students’ lives. This was the kind of nothing conversation that made mornings feel lighter.Rowan had his hands in his pockets, shoulders loose. Noah was mid-rant about a quiz he forgot we had. I was half listening, half watching the way the sun hit the campus buildings.Then my phone began to vibrate in my pocket. I smiled without thinking.“Bet that’s our girl,” Rowan said. I pulled it out and yes… it was our girl. I answered immediately, lifting it to my ear.“Hey, baby.”I expected her response to be something warm, instead, her breathing was shaky and uneven. I straightened instantly.“Isla?” My smile dropped. “What’s wrong?”Rowan and Noah stopped walking at the shift in my tone. Their laughter faded, brows dipping as they watched me. On the other end, her voic

CHAPTER 243THE HOLLOW BETWEEN HEARTBEATSISLAI don't know how long I stayed curled up under my sheets. I couldn't even tell what day it was anymore. Morning and night blended into one endless stretch of gray, and I lay in the middle of it, unmoving under my sheets. The curtains stayed drawn, the lights stayed off–Sonia respected that, and I stayed under my blanket like it was the only thing keeping me from dissolving completely. I hadn’t looked in a mirror, but I could feel it, the way I had thinned out into something brittle. My lips were dry, my eyes burned constantly and my body felt heavy, but not because I felt tired but because I felt lifeless. It was like I was haunting my own bed.Sonia tried. God, she tried.“Isla, please,” she said for what felt like the hundredth time, gently tugging at the edge of my blanket. “Just get up for a few minutes. Let your skin feel something that's not the foam of your bed.”I didn’t respond.“You can’t stay like this.”I kept my gaze fixed

CHAPTER 245LINES DRAWN IN THE OPENROWANWaiting outside in her room felt longer than the last two days combined.The shower had been running for a while now, steam slipping from under the door and curled into the room, thick and warm. But it did nothing to ease the tightness in my chest.I leaned back against the wall, arms folded, staring at nothing.The past forty-eight hours had been brutal. Campus gossip had teeth, and it bit hard. Every hallway we walked through felt like a courtroom, and every whisper felt like a verdict. Betrayers. Dogs. Desperate.I’d been punched twice by someone I used to call brother. and I would’ve taken ten more if it meant Isla didn’t look the way she had when we walked into that room earlier. She looks hollow like someone had scooped her out from the inside.Noah was the one that broke the silence. “You think he’s ever gonna forgive us?”Ellis exhaled slowly, staring at the floor. “I don’t know.”That was the honest answer. I didn't know either. I p

CHAPTER 247THE WORDS OF MY MIND ISLA I was tired of hiding. Tired of whispering. Tired of shrinking every time someone looked at me like I was something rotten they’d accidentally stepped on.For days, I had let the shame sit on my chest like a stone, let the silence swallow me whole and let Asher’s absence carve a hole straight through my ribs.But that morning, something changed.Maybe it was because of how tired my soul was and it was suddenly angry. Maybe it was because they had been suspended from the team. Maybe it was how they stood by me, regardless of the backlash they were getting. Or maybe I was just done crying. Because suddenly, I wasn’t sad anymore. I was angry.I was angry at everything. At the students who wouldn't mind their business, at the sun that shone too brightly, at Victor. But most of all, I was angry at my brother. Asher hadn’t spoken to me at all. All he had done was shut me out. I stared at my reflection in the mirror before leaving my dorm. My eyes w

CHAPTER 249APOLOGY IS THE BROTHER OF RECONCILIATION NOAHI had never been afraid of Asher. Not when he was pissed after a lost game. Not when he threw the first punch. Not even when he looked at us like we had personally betrayed his bloodline.But as I stood there watching him hug Isla, I felt something unfamiliar settle in my chest.Uncertainty.His back was to us at first. His arms wrapped around her tightly. And for a second, I saw the version of him that existed before all this… just a brother who had lost too much too young.Rowan stood slightly in front of me, protective even now. Ellis’ posture was calm, but I knew him well enough to see the tension in his jaw.When Asher pulled away from Isla and turned toward us, his expression was unreadable. I couldn't read anything hiding behind his eyes. He walked closer to us and none of us moved. The air felt thick, like the moment before a puck drops and we were waiting to see who would take the lead. “We’ve been friends since I g