All Chapters of ICE PRINCES OF HELL: Veins Of The Omega: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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CHAPTER: 11. RUN AWAY BOY (1)

EZRA'S POVCole knocked 3 times before I could just pretend I wasn't home at all. "I can hear you breathing just fine, Ezra. Get the fuck out and stop living that introvert life." He yelled so much that I feared he would draw a lot of attention to my abode. I stared at the ceiling. "That's a concerning level of confidence." "Open this door now, young man! You look like something the city chewed up and I am not letting you play tomorrow looking like that." I eventually gave in and answered the door. He looked me over at once. He was in a grey jacket, hands in his pockets, and wearing the expression of someone who had already decided how this conversation was going to end. "You slept all throughout the day," he said. It wasn't a question. "I am fine." "I don't think so. You have the eyes of a man who has been staring at match footage since midnight and forgot to eat." He stepped back from the door. "Let's go."▪︎▪︎▪︎The market was two blocks away and had too ma

CHAPTER: 12. HEAT IN THE LOCKER ROOM.

EZRA'S POVCole was already beside me before I'd fully stopped moving. "Hey," he tugged at my shirt, his voice low and cut under the noise. "Talk to me. Are you alright? You completely froze out, brother." I blinked and softly exhaled before turning my head to his side. "I am fine."He eyed me, holding my arm as worry etched on his face. "I don't think you are. I actually suspected that something was wrong. You've been saying that for two days now and it's getting less convincing each time." He positioned himself slightly in front of me, blocking the sight lines from the opposite of the ice without making it obvious he was doing it. "This is the first time you've lost yourself in the middle of a game. What's going on with you?" When I didn't seem to give him a quick response, he threw the opposite team a brief suspicious glance and then moved his face closer to mine. "Or is the team too strong for you to handle? Do you know any of them before now? Or are you just fee

CHAPTER: 13. HEAT IN A LOCKER ROOM (2)

EZRA'S POV "Don't move any closer. Don't touch me." I warned them. I really tried my best to sound stern but my voice came out wrong instead. It was too thin and too unsteady to carry the weight I needed it to carry. Lucien had taken half a step forward and stopped at my words, his hands slightly raised like he was approaching something he didn't want to startle. Me. The gesture made it worse somehow. I didn't want careful. I didn't want measured. I wanted them gone! Out of my sight. Was that too much to ask?? "Ezra..." "I said don't!" I pressed harder into the locker behind me. The metal was cold through my jersey and I focused on that, on the cold, trying to use it as an anchor. "Get out. All of you. Right now."Nobody moved. The room was thick with it now. My pheromones had saturated every corner of the small space and I could see the effect landing on them whether they wanted it to or not, the slight tension in Lucien's shoulders, the way Caius had stopped blinking, th

CHAPTER: 14. WHAT'S HAPPENING?

DORIAN'S POV.The car ride back was twenty-three minutes. I knew because I watched the clock on the dash the entire way, giving my eyes somewhere to be that wasn't the interior of the car, wasn't my brothers, wasn't even the window where the city ran past in its ordinary late-evening indifference. I honestly wished I could disappear from their midst because nobody spoke. Not even a word across that twenty-three minutes, which for a car containing Lucien was either a record or a warning sign and I didn't have the capacity to determine which. The silence wasn't super uncomfortable and I knew that it was not because they lacked what to say. We all had too much to say but had somehow collectively wordlessly agreed that none of it was going to be said yet. One of the few things we still did in unison without trying. How were we going to even start? I kept my eyes on the clock as the locker room kept replaying anyway. Every single thing finally had the chance to display back in my brain

CHAPTER: 15. WHERE IS EZRA?

LUCIEN'S POVWe had arranged ourselves around the laptop in front of us. Dorian was the closest to the camera, Caius was sitting to his right, Riven at the edge of the frame with a look that depicted boredom while I was leaning against the back of the couch where I could see everyone's faces without being directly in anyone's eyeline. Caelan's face filled the screen. "The win was a clean one." He said, by way of greeting. "I watched the footage this morning. You played well." "Thank you, Father." Caius replied. Caelen nodded once, accepting the compliment briefly. Then his eyes moved across the four of us, almost as if searching for a fifth person or maybe anything that could answer the question in his heart before dropping it. "Ezra," he mentioned...as expected. The word landed in the room like a stone into still water. Nobody dared to speak for half a second. Riven was still while Caius's expression didn't change but his pen stopped moving. I lowered my gaze strategical

CHAPTER: 16. HELLO PRETTY BOY.

EZRA'S POVI made it through the door before my legs gave out. It wasn't some sort of dramatic one or that I even collapsed. If I did, I'd have no one to lift me up. I just slowly slid down the back of my door until I was sitting on the floor with my knees pulled up and my bag still on my shoulder. The cold door was against my spine and my apartment was quietly dark too. I sat there for a while. In here, it was just me and the smell of my own pheromones against the world. I pressed the heels of my hands against my eyes. "What did you do?" I whispered. I had walked into that locker room to catch my breath. I wanted to leave. I was going to. I had my bag in my hand and the door was just not too far away from me. The plan was to leave and come back home faster, even if I had to do that on willpower. If only I had fought harder before that door opened. I mean I tried my best. I said, "Don't." But they didn't listen! They were to be blamed! They were always bad news. My face was h

CHAPTER: 17. UNTIE ME RIGHT NOW!

EZRA'S POVThe first thing I was able to register fully was the chair that I was currently tied to, specifically the fact that my wrists were bound to the arms of it like something that wasn't rope. It was softer than rope but that wasn't even helpful!My ankles were also dealt with similarly and no amount of initial experimental pulling was going to change either of those facts.I went still as my brain immediately got into a rescue mode. 'Inventory. Start with inventory.' I thought, trying to calm myself down. The room was relatively small. It was not completely dark as there was light coming from somewhere behind me. It was like from a lamp instead of an overhead fixture. The floor was wood and the walls were bare. It smelled like a place that had been aired recently and wasn't used often. There were no sounds from directly outside the door which either meant soundproofing or distance from wherever people were. My bag was gone and I didn't even have the phone with me. I was sti

CHAPTER: 18. HIS FIRST KISS.

RIVEN'S POVThe food stall was just three blocks from the building and the woman running it worked fast, which I appreciated. There was no unnecessary conversation. She took the order, made the food and handed it over. That was a clean transaction. I liked people who understood that an exchange didn't require embellishment.My phone rang while she was bagging it and I glanced at the caller. It was Caius. I picked up on the second ring. "What?" "Where are you?" "Went for a run. I won't be back soon. Why?" There was a pause before his voice came through. "We're heading out again in a few hours. It's another search radius for Ezra. Are you coming?"I watched the woman fold the top of the bag with the efficiency of someone who had done it ten thousand times. "No." "Riven..." "Keep me updated." I hung up. The woman held out the bag and I took it and paid and turned back toward the building. Behind me, two girls at the adjacent stall had dropped their conversatio

CHAPTER: 19. DON'T LOOK.

EZRA'S POV "You need to shower."I looked at Riven from across the room, still standing against the locked door, whether this was a new category of problem or an extension of the existing one. "I'm fine." "No, you're not. You've been in those clothes for almost a day." He nodded toward the bag on the table. "There's a change in there. Bathroom's through that door." "I don't need you to..." "Ezra." He said my name flat and final like the conversation had already ended and I was the only one who hadn't caught up to that yet. I looked at the bathroom door then at the bag and then at him again. The truth was that I could feel the day on my skin and the heat residue still clinging underneath my clothes and the particular discomfort of someone who had been running on adrenaline, no proper rest and the idea of hot water was genuinely difficult to argue against even in the current circumstances. "Fine." I replied. "Turn around."He frowned. "I am not undressi

CHAPTER: 20. SUSPECT.

DORIAN'S POVThe city at night had a specific quality that I had stopped finding interesting approximately four hours ago. We had covered two locations since dinner. Both dead ends. It was starting to feel more like bad luck. I sat in the front seat and watched Voss City move past the windows and said nothing. "Riven still hasn't called back," Lucien said from the back seat. "He said he went for a run." Caius responded, not looking up from his phone. "A run." Lucian's voice had that particular flatness it got when he'd decided something was absurd but hadn't fully committed to saying so yet. "He's been on a run for over twenty hours already. Is the lack of blood already affecting him this much?" "Riven runs long when he needs to clear his head. You know that." "I know that when there's nothing happening. We're in the middle of looking for Ezra and then he goes for a six hour run." I kept my eyes on the road instead, not fully participating in their discussi

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