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Theo~I woke up first, the room still dim with early morning light filtering through the curtains. For a few disorienting seconds, confusion clouded my mind as I registered the unfamiliar weight draped across my waist and the steady warmth pressed against my back. Then it hit me all at once—Noah. His arm was curled possessively around me, fingers splayed over my stomach, and the memories from last night flooded in without mercy. The raw argument that had shattered everything between us, the desperate confession that had cracked my heart wide open, the way his mouth had claimed mine like he was starving, and finally, the unrelenting intensity of him inside me, fucking me deep and dirty until I came apart screaming his name. A slow, involuntary smile curved my lips. Last night hadn’t been some fevered dream. It was real. He was here, tangled up in the sheets with me, and for the first time in months, the heavy knot of anger and longing in my chest had loosened into something warm and

Theo~I stayed leaning against my car long after Benito hung up, the parking lot emptying slowly around me as the sun dipped lower in the sky. The phone felt heavy in my hand, still warm from how tightly I’d gripped it during the call. His words kept echoing in my head, over and over, like a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from. “You need to leave Noah. I’ll expose both of you.” The threat had lodged itself deep in my chest, making it hard to breathe properly. The happiness I had felt this morning while waking up tangled with Noah now seemed so far away, fragile and threatened by forces I didn’t fully understand.Eventually I forced myself to get in the car and start driving. The familiar roads blurred past the windows, but my mind was miles away, replaying every conversation I’d ever had with Benito. All those late nights talking about life, the way he had listened when I vented about Noah, the easy laughter we shared how much of it had been real? How much had been part of whatever ga

Theodore~I stood frozen outside the abandoned ice rink, the cold evening air biting through my hoodie and raising goosebumps along my arms. Benito’s words hung between us like smoke—“Five minutes won’t be enough to tell you who’s trying to destroy your life.” My chest tightened, every instinct screaming to bolt back to the car and pretend none of this was happening. But my feet stayed planted on the cracked pavement, arms folded tight across my chest as I stared him down.“You’ve got five minutes,” I said, voice flat.Benito let out a tired laugh that didn’t reach his eyes. “I’ll need more than that.”I didn’t smile. “Then start talking.”He took a long breath, shoulders slumping further under the weight of whatever he carried. The abandoned rink loomed behind him, its broken windows dark and empty like forgotten eyes watching us. “I never applied to Blackwood.”I frowned hard, the confusion cutting through the fear for a second. “What?”“I was transferred.” He shoved his hands deepe

NoahThe room went silent the second the door slammed behind me. My bag slipped off my shoulder and hit the floor with a dull thud. I stood in the doorway looking between Theo and his father, neither of them moving. The air felt thick enough to choke on. Theo’s face was pale, jaw tight, eyes still locked on the man across the kitchen like he hadn’t fully processed what he’d just heard. His father stood with that same controlled posture he always carried, the one that made every room feel like a board meeting instead of a home. Noah's mother had talked about his fucking stiff demeanor but seeing it in person was an entirely different thing. I stared right at him as I repeated myself, my voice low and calm like I was not about to fucking loose it.“What the fuck did you just say?”Theo’s father didn’t panic. He didn’t raise his voice or even look surprised. He simply studied me the way he probably studied contracts, calm and assessing, as if I were another problem that needed solving