All Chapters of MARKED ON ICE: My Alpha Roommate Is An Omega : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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20. WHO WAS IN MY BED?

❄️ZOREN❄️I stepped away from Sapphire the moment the investors surrounding us turned their attention to someone else. I walked away because I had done enough pretending for one evening. My face was starting to ache from holding it so still for so long.The cold air outside would clear my head. That was the excuse I gave myself. Fresh air. Nothing else.Not because I wanted to see where the bird had gone. Not because I wanted to know why he had left so suddenly with his shoulders curled inward like he was escaping something terrible.I shook my head. No. That could not be it. I was not looking for him. I had no reason to look for him. He was an irritation. A nuisance. A problem I had not solved yetI did not chase after problems. I eliminated them.Before I reached the door someone stepped directly into my path and blocked it completely.Fucking Rylan.His hair was now sky blue and it caught the chandelier light and threw it back in shades that did not belong anywhere near a formal ev

21. A FRIEND?

🤍RAV🤍My head stayed down the entire ride back to the academy. I pressed my forehead against the cold glass of the window. I closed my eyes and kept my breathing slow and even. I was pretending to be asleep. I was not actually asleep. I could not have slept if someone paid me.Theron had sat beside me again and I did not want to talk to him. I did not want to answer his questions. So I kept my eyes closed. I kept my body still. I listened to the voices around me without responding to any of them.Everyone else on the bus was tired but excited. The energy buzzed through the cabin like static electricity. They were talking about the banquet and the champagne and the chandeliers and the food.Some of them were talking about Sapphire. She was really pretty, her dress was stunning and her smile lit up the entire ballroom.Some of them were talking about the chairman's speech and how it felt like a political game.Some of them were talking about how terrifying Zoren looked standing beside

22. AGAIN!

🤍RAV🤍Red lights were on and they bathed the entire room in the color of blood.Broken bottles were scattered on the floor right where I usually slept.Shards of glass glittered on the dark fur rug. The room smelled like alcohol and it was so strong my nose burned from it.Whiskey.And by the window was Zoren fucking Maveth.He turned when I entered and his crimson eyes were darker than I had ever seen them. They were not focused and they were not cold. They were something else entirely. He looked like the first time I saw him in the locker room. Drunk and unsteady and dangerous.Shit he is drunk again.Before I could turn around and get out and run and hide, his deep voice vibrated through my chest."Who slept on my bed?" His eyes were fixed on me and they did not blink.Shit. I did.I did not even get to sleep for thirty minutes because of the stupid banquet. I had made sure to straighten the sheets before I left. I had made sure the pillows were fluffed. I had made sure there was

23. A DIFFERENT KIND OF ALPHA

🤍RAV🤍 My hands were still shaking when I opened Jack's message. I expected anger. I expected disappointment. I expected him to tell me I was fired and I was never welcome back at the bar again. I had missed my shift without calling. Jack was strict about punctuality and Jack had fired people for less. My salary was the only thing keeping my suppressants stocked and my scent blockers fresh and my stomach halfway full and now it was gone. I was going to lose everything because of one stupid banquet. I opened the message with my heart in my throat. “Kid, don't apologize. I know this academy means everything to you. Chase your dream. The bar isn't going anywhere. Neither am I. Come in whenever you're free. You'll always have a shift waiting for you. Proud of you.” I read the message twice because I was sure I had misunderstood it and I was sure my tired brain was making up words that were not there. Then I read it a third time and my throat tightened and my eyes stung. Nobody

24. OUR AGREEMENT

❄️ZOREN❄️My head felt like someone had driven a hockey stick straight through my skull. The afternoon light pouring through the curtains only made it worse. I sat on the edge of the bed for a long moment with two fingers pressed against my temple. Fragments of last night drifted through my mind like debris on dirty water.Whiskey. The banquet. The old man. Sapphire.Bird.My brow furrowed. I pressed my fingers harder against my skull. There had been vanilla cream. Sweet. Soft. Everywhere. On my pillow. On my blanket. On my sheets. I remembered grabbing Bird. I remembered demanding answers. I remembered his face too close to mine. His eyes too wide. His body too still. After that there was nothing. The rest was black.I pushed myself to my feet. The room tilted for half a second before steadying. The apartment was silent. Too silent. The kind of silence that meant someone had been here and had already left. The broken whiskey bottle was gone. I remembered it shattering on the floor. I

25. HOODIE OFF

🤍RAV🤍The puck hit the ice with a sharp crack and Zoren was already moving before I could even blink. My stick felt heavy in my hands and my shoulders were screaming from the extra drills and my ribs were on fire every time I inhaled. The bindings were crushing the bruises underneath and every breath was a knife between my bones.Quitting was not an option and quitting meant losing the academy and losing the apartment and losing the only future I had ever wanted. I had not come this far to let Zoren Maveth break me on a practice drill.He stripped the puck from me instantly and his stick was a blur and his body was a wall I could not get past. I did not even see him take it. One moment the puck was on my blade and the next moment it was gone and he was already skating back to center ice."Again."I pushed myself back up and my legs were shaking and my lungs were burning and I lined up across from him. Another faceoff and another loss and I did not even touch the puck this time."You

26. EXPOSED

🤍RAV🤍Sweetheart.I sat on the edge of the examination table with the paper crinkling under my thighs and I let that word sit heavy on my chest. Nobody had called Rav Steele sweetheart in two years. Nobody was supposed to. I had built this whole person out of a deep voice and squared shoulders and a walk that swung wide instead of narrow, and here was this nurse looking at me like I was something soft, with Theron standing right there by the door watching the whole thing unfold."I fell during drills." My voice dropped low the second it left my mouth, automatic, a reflex I didn't even have to think about anymore. "It's nothing.""Mm-hm." She didn't even look up. She crossed to the supply cabinet and pulled gloves out of a box and snapped them onto her hands with two quick motions. "You boys always say that. Right up until it's a fractured rib and you're begging me for painkillers at midnight." She glanced back at me, her mouth curving into something teasing. "Hoodie off."I did not

27. PREGNANT?!

🤍RAV🤍The words hung in the air between us and I could not make myself move. My hoodie was still bunched around my shoulders and my chest was still bare and the nurse was staring at me with her hands pressed against her mouth like she was trying to physically hold the words back in."Please." It cracked out of me before I could stop it. "Please don't tell anyone."She lowered her hands slowly. Her eyes were still wide but something in her face had already started to shift, the shock draining out and something more careful moving in behind it."You're an omega." She said it again, quieter, like she needed a second pass just to believe it."Yes." My voice came out small and it did not even try to drop low anymore. There was no point. Not with my chest bare and my ribs painted seven different shades of wrong and every truth about me sitting out in the open air of that little white room like evidence at a trial. "I forged my documents. I bind my chest and I take suppressants and scent b

28. A GOODBYE KISS

🤍RAV🤍 "No." A laugh tore out of me, humorless, brittle, the kind of sound that scrapes on its way out instead of easing anything. "No, it couldn't be." Wren just watched me with those steady eyes and did not argue, which somehow made it worse. If she'd laughed back, if she'd told me I was being ridiculous, I could have believed her. Instead she sat there quiet and let the silence do the arguing for her. The universe could not possibly be this cruel. It happened once. One night, one drunk alpha, one mistake buried under suppressants and lies and two years of careful survival, and it could not just casually reach into my life and plant something there without so much as a warning. "Rav." Wren's voice was careful now, the kind of careful people use when they already suspect the answer is going to hurt. "When was your last heat?" I frowned. The question did not even make sense at first, like she'd asked it in a language I used to speak but had forgotten. "What?" "Your last heat.

29. TOO FAMILIAR

❄️ZOREN❄️I skated off that ice before Bird even made it to the tunnel, my legs carrying me faster than made sense for a man supposed to be walking away in victory.I had told myself the whole session was about the competition. Silverpeak was circling and I had not lost a match in years and I was not about to let a rookie who could barely hold his edges cost me the one thing that actually belonged to me in this school. That was the story I kept feeding myself, drill after drill, every time I called his name across the ice and watched him push past the point his body wanted to quit.But every time I checked him into those boards, something happened in my chest that had nothing to do with training.My head went thick. Foggy, the way it got right before a rut hit, except a rut was not supposed to arrive out of nowhere on a Tuesday afternoon over a rookie defender with shaking hands and a jaw that refused to unclench.My pulse climbed every time he looked up at me from the ice, breathless

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