All Chapters of Beneath The Ice : Claimed By My Stepbrother : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Noah~That incident with the crazy professor was more than enough to brighten my day and all thanks to that son of bitch Niko. He pretty much gave me the gist of how the lecturers preyed on her students in ten seconds and I spent the next ten getting there and the rest was… As they say, history. I was cutting across the main walkway when I spotted him, already mid-conversation with a girl I hadn’t seen before. She was leaning against him like she’d known him forever, talking with her hands, laughing like whatever she was saying was funny enough.Theodore looked… normal and relaxed more than I've ever seen him in the twenty four hours we've been together.That didn’t sit right with me. I slowed down without meaning to, watching them for a second longer than necessary before I walked straight over like I had every right to be there.He noticed me first and his entire expression tightened for half a second before he fixed it, but it was enough.The girl followed his gaze and turned tow

Theodore~ “Noahh!” I had barely gotten his name out of me when Noah flipped me onto my stomach like I was nothing. My body hit the mattress with a bounce, still buzzing and oversensitive from the first round. Cum leaked down my thighs and every nerve felt fried. I tried to push up on my elbows, clinging to whatever scraps of dignity I had left. “Wait— fuck, Noah, I need a minute—” His large hand slid up my sweat-slicked back and pressed between my shoulder blades, forcing me right back down into the sheets. The second his bare skin touched mine, something inside me snapped. My arms gave out completely. My hips lifted on their own, back arching like a cat in heat, offering my ass up to him without a single conscious thought. Heat flooded my face. Shame burned through me, but my body didn’t care. The worst had happened. Noah’s low, dark chuckle vibrated against my spine. “Holy shit, Theo. One touch and you’re presenting like a desperate little whore. Where’d all that captain bullsh

Theodore~The entire lecture was hell.Not because the professor was boring or because I didn’t understand what was being taught. I usually liked this class. It was one of the few places where my brain normally shut up long enough for me to focus on something useful.Today?Absolutely fucking not.Because Noah sat two rows behind me the entire time.I could feel him there.Every single second. It didn’t even make sense because he wasn’t touching me, wasn’t speaking, wasn’t doing anything at all, but somehow his presence still crawled under my skin anyway. Every time someone laughed behind me, my brain automatically assumed it was him. Every shift of movement had me hyperaware.And the worst part?I knew he noticed.Of course he did.Noah noticed everything. I tried focusing on my notes again, forcing my attention back to the board while Melody leaned closer beside me.“You’re doing it again,” she whispered.I kept writing. “Doing what?”“That thing where you look like you’re trying no

Noah~Theodore was still shaking all over despite what I said. That alone told me how bad it was because usually, when Theo got stuck in his own head like this, he either snapped at everybody until he burned himself out or buried himself in work until he physically couldn’t stay awake anymore.Right now?He was just sitting there and his textbook was open in front of him, but he hadn’t turned a single page in almost twenty minutes. His jaw kept tightening every few seconds like he was replaying something ugly in his head over and over again, and every now and then, he’d start chewing the inside of his cheek without realizing it.Yeah.Someone definitely said something fucked up. I leaned back against my pillow, watching him for another second before finally speaking. “You’re doing it again.”Theo didn’t look up. “Doing what?”“Thinking too loud.”That got me a tired glare.“I’m not thinking loudly.”“Baby, your face looks like you’re about to declare war on humanity.”“I said stop cal

Theodore~For one full second, nobody moved.The iced coffee slipped slightly in her hand as she stared at us like her brain had completely stopped processing properly. Noah had stepped back so fast his shoulder hit the wall behind him while I was pretty sure my soul had physically left my body.“Oh my God,” Melody whispered again.I opened my mouth.Nothing came out.Actually nothing. Which was insane because usually, I always had something to say. Excuses. Lies. Deflection. Anything.Right now?My brain was just static.Melody looked between us slowly, her expression going from shocked… to confused… to something dangerously close to realization.“No fucking way,” she breathed.“Nope,” I said immediately.Unfortunately, I said it way too fast. Noah glanced sideways at me like he was trying not to laugh.Traitor.Melody blinked rapidly. “Theo—”“It’s not what it looks like.”That sounded fake even to me.“Really?” she asked slowly, pointing between us with her coffee. “Because from wh