All Chapters of My Hockey Bully Stepbrother : Chapter 121 - Chapter 124

Tyler's PovI was still half-asleep, tangled in the sheets, when the knock came.Susan was already up and moving toward the door before I could properly sit up. I knew who it was the second I heard the soft rhythm of the knock. Summer.The guilt hit me square in the chest, fast and heavy. Because there was Susan in that thin nightgown that barely reached her thighs, and there was me, clearly just waking up beside her. No way Summer missed what had happened in this room last night.It *had* been a wild night. The kind I didn’t usually let myself have. I’d enjoyed every second of it—Susan’s laugh, her hands, the way she made everything feel simple. But underneath that warmth sat something I kept shoving aside, something I’d gotten scarily good at ignoring.I’d told myself it was fine. Summer had Crew. Maybe Gray too, from the way things looked lately. And me? I was her best friend. Practically a brother in her eyes. There was no path there, even if part of me sometimes wondered.Susan o

Summer's PovEveryone had cleared out.Marcus, Jason, the two girls whose names I never fully caught, the random guy nobody claimed to have invited -- all gone. The house was quiet again except for the sound of Crew and Gray moving around putting things back in order, and Ruby, who was still asleep in my room doing what Ruby did best.I was on the couch with my phone, scrolling through nothing in particular, letting my brain rest.Then I saw it.Susan's profile. A selfie. Her and Tyler, both smiling, Tyler's arm around her shoulders, the kind of photo that looked effortless because someone put effort into making it look that way.The caption said: *officially his.*I was not following Susan. The algorithm had simply decided that this was something I needed to see this morning. I stared at it for a moment, then kept scrolling like I had not stopped at all.So it was official now. They had gone on their little date and he had asked her out and she had said yes and now it was on the inte