All Chapters of Owned By My Stepdad(MxM): Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

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Elias pov

I did not remember when I fell asleep.One minute I was lying there, staring at the ceiling with my mind running in circles, replaying everything that had happened, and the next… nothing. Just darkness. No dreams. No peace either. Just exhaustion finally winning.The knock was what pulled me back.Not loud, but enough to drag me out of whatever shallow rest I had managed.I groaned softly and pushed myself up, my body feeling heavier than it should. For a second, I just sat there, trying to remember where I was, trying to push away the lingering haze in my head. Then it all came back at once, and my chest tightened.RightThis place, This mess,Another knock.I stood up slowly and walked to the door, opening it without much thought. A maid stood there, her posture stiff, her eyes lowered. She held a tray of food in her hands, careful, almost nervous.“Your meal, sir,” she said quietly.I s

Vane Pov

For a second, I did not move.I stayed in the doorway with my hand still resting on the handle, staring at a scene my mind had already registered but refused to fully accept at first glance.Nikolai and Elias.Too close.Not just physically close, but close in a way that carried weight, like something had already happened between them that the room had not yet finished confessing.Elias was the first to react. He turned his head slowly toward me, as if my arrival had pulled him out of a place he had not fully realized he had entered. His expression was unsettled, his breathing uneven in a way he seemed unaware of, which made it worse.I noticed everything.I always did.Nikolai, however, did not move at all. He looked at me with calm irritation, like I was an interruption rather than a threat, which was either arrogance or confidence. I had not decided yet.That alone made the air colder.“Am I interrupting something?” I asked quietly.My voice was controlled, too controlled.Elias st

Elias’s POV

I did not answer him immediately.Not because I did not hear the question, but because I did not know which answer would not make everything worse.Vane stood there, watching me with that calm expression that never truly meant calm. There was something restrained in his posture, something held back so tightly it made the air around him feel heavier.“You want to explain what that was?”The question echoed in my head again.I exhaled slowly and ran a hand through my hair, buying myself a second.“It was nothing,” I said.The moment the words left my mouth, I knew they sounded weak.Vane did not react the way I expected. He did not get angry. He did not raise his voice. If anything, his silence became sharper, more deliberate.“Nothing,” he repeated.There was something in the way he said it that made my chest tighten.I frowned slightly. “It just happened. It did not mean anything.”That made his gaze shift, not away, but deeper, like he was trying to see through the words instead of l

Elias Pov

I thought he had left it there.That the conversation, as sharp and suffocating as it had been, was over for the night. The silence after Vane walked out felt heavy, but it was manageable, something I could sit with, something I could slowly try to understand.I was wrong.The knock came later, not rushed, not aggressive, but deliberate enough to pull me out of my thoughts. For a moment, I considered ignoring it. I was not in the mood for another interruption, not after everything that had already happened, but something about it felt different.Controlled. Intentional.I stood up anyway and walked to the door, opening it without asking who it was, and the moment I saw him, I understood why the knock had felt that way.Vane.He did not wait for an invitation before stepping inside, his presence filling the room in a way that immediately shifted the air again. This time, it was not just tense, it was focused, like he

Something was wrong

“Enough.”The single word settled over the room with quiet authority, cutting through the tension without effort. It was not loud, but it carried weight, the kind that made movement feel unnecessary.Everything stilled.I turned toward the door, my thoughts pausing for a second when I saw him.Cyrus.I did not hear him come in, which somehow made his presence more unsettling. He stood there like he had always been part of the scene, calm and composed, his gaze moving briefly between Vane and Nikolai before settling on me.“Is there a problem?” he asked.No one answered immediately.Nikolai stepped back first, subtle but deliberate, as if acknowledging something unspoken. Vane did not move, but I could feel the restraint in him sharpen, like he was choosing not to react.I frowned, confusion pushing past everything else.“Why are you still here?” I asked.The question slipped out before I could think too much about it.Cyrus looked at me, his expression unchanged, almost amused in a wa

Lied about my existence

The moment Kai told me to get my things, I did not ask another question.Not because I understood what was happening, but because I could feel the shift in the room, the kind that made staying behind feel like a mistake you only realize too late. Whatever Cyrus had just done, whatever decision had been made, it was already final in a way I could not fight yet.Kai stayed close as I gathered what little I had. It was not much, just the things I had managed to hold onto in a place that never really felt like mine. Every step I took felt unreal, like my body was moving faster than my thoughts could catch up.When I came back out, Kai was waiting near the door.“You ready?” he asked.I nodded once.That should have been the end of it.But it was not.Because as we stepped into the hallway, Vane was already there.Leaning slightly against the wall, as if he had been waiting for that exact moment. His eyes moved to me immediately, not Kai, not the guards behind us, just me.“I will take him

School days

The ride was silent the entire way.Kai tried a few times to talk, I could tell from the way he glanced at me and the small shifts in his tone whenever he said my name, but I did not respond. Not because I did not hear him, but because I did not trust my voice to stay steady.So I just watched the road.Watched everything blur past the window like my thoughts, none of it settling into anything I could hold onto properly.Eventually, he stopped trying.That silence should have felt comforting. It did not.It felt like something I was sitting inside with no clear way out.When we arrived, I realized it was not a house like I expected. It was an apartment building, quiet and modern, tucked away from the main noise of the city. Kai got out first, then waited for me without saying anything, like he was giving me the choice to follow or not.I followed.We went up together in silence, the elevator ride even quieter than the car had been. The doors opened into a hallway that felt too clean,

I missed you

I did not realize how long I stayed in that position until the quiet started to feel different.Just… still.At some point, the exhaustion caught up with me, not enough to sleep, but enough to make everything feel slower. My thoughts were no longer racing, just sitting there, waiting, like they knew I would come back to them eventually.A soft knock came from the other side of the door.I did not move immediately.Then Kai’s voice followed, calm as always.“Elias. You should eat.”I exhaled slowly, pushing myself up from the floor. My body felt heavier than it should, like I had carried more than just myself into this room. I brushed my hand over my face quickly before unlocking the door and stepping out.Kai was already in the hallway, leaning slightly against the wall like he had been waiting but did not want to pressure me.I did not say anything.He did not either.We walked into the dining area in silence, and the table was already set. Simple. Clean. Like everything else about h

I love you

We did not stay in the dining area for long.As much as I wanted to hold onto that moment, to sit there and pretend everything was normal again, I knew it would not last. There was too much sitting between us, too many unanswered questions, too much time we had lost.I stood up first.“Come,” I said quietly.Bella did not argue. She followed me immediately, like she already knew we were not done, like she had been waiting for this part more than anything else.We walked back into the room Kai had given me. I closed the door behind us, not bothering to lock it this time. The space felt smaller now, but not in a suffocating way. Just… full.Bella looked around briefly before turning her attention back to me, her expression already shifting from relief to something more serious.“Start talking,” she said.I let out a slow breath and sat on the edge of the bed. For a second, I did not know where to begin. There was too much, and none of it felt easy to explain.But she was Bella.If there

Troubled

We did not realize how late it had gotten until the silence in the apartment started to feel deeper.Not the kind that comes from a quiet evening, but the kind that settles in when the day has taken too much out of you. Bella had stopped talking at some point, her energy finally dipping after everything she had said, everything I had told her.She looked at me, then at the bed.“I am not leaving you alone tonight,” she said simply.I let out a small breath. “I was not planning to ask you to.”She nodded once like that settled it.We stood up almost at the same time and walked toward the bed, neither of us saying anything else. It did not feel awkward. It did not feel strange. It felt nice.We both slipped off our shoes without thinking, small movements that felt automatic, like we had done this a hundred times before even though we had not. Bella moved first, climbing onto the bed and pulling the covers over herself without ceremony.“I am exhausted,” she muttered.“That is obvious,”

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