All Chapters of Beneath The Ice : Claimed By My Stepbrother : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Theo pulled back just enough for our eyes to meet, and the look he gave me. A raw, needy, little wrecked moan snapped the last thread of restraint I had left. I cupped his face and kissed him hard, tongues sliding hot and urgent. He tasted like relief and desperation, and I drank it in, biting his lower lip until he moaned into my mouth.“Bed,” I growled against him.We stumbled backward, mouths still fused. Theo’s hands shoved under my hoodie, palms greedy over my skin like he needed to touch every inch to believe I was here. I yanked the fabric off and tossed it, then attacked his shirt, dragging it over his head. The second our bare chests pressed together, we both groaned. Skin on skin, heat on heat. His nipples were already tight peaks against my chest.I pushed him down onto the mattress, crawling over him. My mouth latched onto his neck, sucking hard enough to leave a mark while my hand palmed his cock through his sweats. He was rock hard, throbbing.“Fuck, Noah,” Theo panted,

Theo~By second period, I wanted the entire school to collectively shut the fuck up.Unfortunately for me, that was impossible because apparently nobody here had anything better to do than obsess over Noah and Nikolai like they were starring in some trashy reality show.Every corridor conversation somehow circled back to them. Every time I opened my phone, another blurry screenshot or stupid comment appeared somewhere I didn’t ask for it. Someone had even slowed the video down frame by frame like the kiss contained state secrets.It was ridiculous.Worse, it was getting under my skin anyway. I slammed my locker harder than necessary and immediately heard Melody sigh beside me.“That locker has done nothing to deserve this,” she said calmly.“Neither have I.”“Debatable.”I shot her a look before dragging my books out roughly. “If one more person asks me whether Noah and Nikolai are secretly in love, I’m going to start committing felonies.”Melody leaned against the locker beside mine,

Theo~ It took longer than it should’ve for Noah’s mother to leave. Not because she was difficult to get rid of but she acted like she had nowhere else to be, which somehow made everyone else feel like they were the ones intruding on her schedule. She eventually walked off with a final look at Noah that I couldn’t fully interpret, something between amusement and evaluation, like she was filing him away somewhere in her head for later use. Melody had disappeared right after that. Which was honestly the first good thing that had happened all day. Noah stayed behind long enough to argue with me for another minute about “not making things worse,” like I had personally invented public perception, then finally got dragged away by someone from the team who looked like they regretted existing near him. That left me alone in the hallway with Melody eventually reappearing near the lockers, quieter than usual. Which was very odd for her. Considering the fact that she was a chatter box who

Joe~By the end of practice, I was getting genuinely sick of Nikolai Voss or Kolv or whatever the fuck he is existing.Which honestly felt unfair because technically he hadn’t done much to me personally yet but there was just something deeply irritating about him. The attitude. The constant smirk like he was in on some joke nobody else understood. The way he always looked completely relaxed even when people clearly wanted to punch him.Especially Theo.That part bothered me more than I wanted to admit because Theodore Laurent was not subtle no matter how much he thought he was. He got tense around Nikolai in this specific way that didn’t feel normal and then there was Noah.Fucking Noah who came with his grins and stupid smiles. The rumors.The video.The weird tension every single time those three ended up in the same room together.Something about it felt wrong. I shoved my hockey bag harder into the locker than necessary before glancing toward the opposite side of the room where N

Theo~I left Noah standing there because if I stayed another second I was going to do something stupid and I already had enough stupid things collecting in my life like it was some kind of hobby I didn’t sign up for.He called my name once behind me but I didn’t answer.Didn’t even turn.Just kept walking because that was safer than whatever he was about to say next and I knew it, he knew it too, that was the annoying part about him, he always knew exactly when to push and when to let things sit just long enough to come back worse later.I hated that about him.Or I thought I did. The rink was empty when I got there which was exactly what I needed and I didn’t even waste time changing properly at first, just sat for a second on the bench staring at my gloves like they were supposed to give me instructions on how to be normal again.They didn’t.Nothing did.So I just got up and did what I always did when my head got too loud for words.Moved.Skates on, tape checked, stick in hand, li