All Chapters of Tamed By The Campus Bad Boy: Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

LEON'S POV"His brother??? ," Aaron repeated, the words landing between us like a stone dropped into still water. "Ethan has a brother?????""According to Hayes, yes," I said, still staring at the message like it might rearrange itself into something less alarming. "Younger by two years. She says he's been posting under that username for almost a year, defending Ethan in forums, talking about you specifically, Aaron, long before any of us knew Ethan existed as a threat."We called Hayes back the second we got to the truck, and her voice, when she answered, carried a grim certainty that told me she'd already put more pieces together than the message had let on."We pulled his address this morning," she said. "He's local. Lives about twenty minutes from campus. We're bringing him in for questioning this afternoon, but I wanted to warn you both — given the courthouse encounter, given the leasing office, given what happened at Rose's parents' house, it's very possible he's the same person

LEON'S POV"The fence," I repeated, reading the message over Aaron's shoulder, my chest tightening all over again despite the emotional weight already sitting heavy in the room from his mother's letter. "What does Damian know about that?"Aaron called him immediately, putting the phone on speaker, and Damian's voice came through sounding tired but urgent."I've been doing some volunteer work near your parents' neighborhood, Leon," he said. "Community garden thing, part of trying to actually be useful to somebody after everything I put you both through. I overheard two guys arguing near the community center yesterday, and one of them mentioned Rose's name. I got close enough to hear part of it before they noticed me.""What did you hear," I asked, my pulse spiking."One of them said something like 'Caleb wasn't the only one watching the house,'" Damian said. "The other guy shut him up fast after that, but I got a decent look at both of them before they walked off. I think whoever was a

LEON'S POVI watched Aaron read the email 3 three more times before he finally set the phone down, his hands still trembling slightly, his eyes bright with tears he didn't even at all bother hiding."Sh- she’s real," he said, his voice thick with disbelief. "Leon, she's actually real, and she wants to meet me.""Of course she does," I said softly, pulling him into a hug. "You're not just some stranger who wrote her out of nowhere. You're her brother."He laughed wetly against my shoulder, the sound tangled somewhere between joy and overwhelmed disbelief. "I don't even know what to say to her. What do you even say to someone you've never met but you're supposed to have this whole shared history with?""You don't have to figure that out tonight," I said, echoing words that had become something of a mantra between us over the past year. "Write back when you're ready. Take it slow."He nodded, wiping his eyes, and pulled up a reply window, staring at the blinking cursor for a long momen

LEON'S POVMy suitcase sat open on the bed for three days before I finally forced myself to actually fill it, like leaving it empty a little longer might slow down the calendar somehow."You've packed and unpacked that same stack of shirts four times," Aaron said from the doorway, arms crossed, trying and failing to keep his voice light."I keep thinking I'm forgetting something," I said, which was true, though not in the way he probably assumed. What I was actually afraid of forgetting wasn't a shirt or a charger. It was this — the exact weight of mornings waking up next to him, the specific sound of his laugh through the kitchen wall, all of it about to be replaced by an ocean and a five-hour time difference for four months.He crossed the room and pulled me into him, resting his chin on top of my head. "You're allowed to be excited and sad about this at the same time, you know. It's not a betrayal of us if you're actually looking forward to it too.""I know," I said, though some st

LEON'S POVI hadread Aaron's frantic string of texts the moment I landed, my stomach twisting into knots as the plane taxied toward the gate, the eight-hour flight suddenly feeling like it had stretched into an eternity of not knowing.Aaron: Call me the second you land. Something happened. I don't want to worry you before you're actually off the plane but please call me.I called before I'd even fully made it off the jet bridge, my hands shaking as I pressed the phone to my ear."Aaron, what exactly happene?""I got a text," he said, his voice tight with barely controlled fear. "Right after we hung up. From an unknown number. It said something about your new host family not being as safe as you think either. Leon, I don't know if this is real or if it's just someone trying to mess with us again after everything with Ethan's brother."My blood ran cold, standing in the crowded, unfamiliar airport, exhaustion and jet lag crashing head-on into fresh fear. "Did you show it to Detective H