All Chapters of MARKED ON ICE: My Alpha Roommate Is An Omega : Chapter 31 - Chapter 38

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30. DRUGGED

❄️ZOREN❄️"Are we going, or are you planning to stare out that window all night?"Rylan's voice cut through whatever had just taken hold of my body, that flare behind my ribs still burning hot and unreasonable, my jaw clenched so tight I could feel it in my temples. I turned away from the window before I could see anything else, before I could watch Theron's stupid gold-tipped head walk away from my apartment like he had every right to be standing that close to what belonged to me.He does not belong to me. He is a rookie I cannot stand.Shit I need to get it together."Let's go." My voice came out rougher than I meant it to.Rylan grabbed his jacket off the back of the couch and gave me one of those looks, the kind that meant he had clocked something and was choosing, for once, not to say it out loud. I appreciated that about him tonight more than I usually did.We left the apartment and the hallway was quiet except for the hum of the overhead lights, and then Bird was there, steppin

31. COME FIND ME

💎SAPPHIRE💎 The door clicked shut behind Rylan and for one perfect second it was just us. Just me and Zoren and a candle burning low between two plates neither of us had touched. Three years I had waited for a room this quiet, this private, no cameras and no reporters and no chairman hovering at the edge of every conversation like a shadow that refused to leave. Three years, and I finally had it, and I intended to make every second of it count. "You didn't have to come." I kept my voice soft, careful, watching him settle into the chair across from me like it physically cost him something. "But I'm glad you did." "I didn't have a choice." He said it flat, cold, exactly the way he said everything to me. "Rylan tricked me." "I know." I let a small smile pull at my mouth, let him see that I wasn't ashamed of it. "I asked him to." His jaw tightened. He reached for the wine instead of answering me, and I watched him drink like it was the only thing standing between him and walking str

32. AND IT HAPPENED AGAIN

🤍RAV🤍What the hell just happened?I stood there with my hand still pressed flat against my cheek, the food bag hanging forgotten from my fist, staring at the empty hallway where Theron had just disappeared like he hadn't done anything at all. Like a kiss on the cheek was nothing. Like it hadn't just short-circuited every thought in my head.It's nothing, Ravael. He's just like that. Warm. Handing out affection like loose change. He probably kisses half his own team on the cheek without a second thought.I almost believed it. Almost.I let myself into the apartment because standing in an empty hallway touching my own face was not a good look for anyone, alpha or otherwise. The sitting room was dark and silent and Zoren's absence hit me like a held breath finally let go — I'd just watched him and Rylan head out past me at the building door not twenty minutes ago, Rylan tossing a "hey rookie" over his shoulder while Zoren didn't even glance my way.Good. That meant hours, at least, be

33. THE NEWS BROKE FIRST

❄️ZOREN❄️The mattress dips under her weight first, before anything else, before I even see her clearly, her knee pressing into the sheet beside my hip and then the other one, and I feel the heat of her settle over me before her hands ever touch my chest. Her palms land flat against my sternum and slide down slow, mapping muscle like she's memorizing it, and when she finally lowers herself onto me I have to grab her hips just to keep from finishing right there.God.She takes me slow, inch by inch, her whole body shuddering around the stretch of it, and the sound that comes out of her throat is high and broken and completely unguarded. I want to hear it again. I chase it, rolling my hips up into her, and she gasps and grinds down harder like her body already knows exactly what mine wants before I've asked for it.Her short hair falls forward in loose curls that brush against my jaw when she leans down, and I fist a hand into it, dragging her mouth to mine. She tastes sweet, impossibly

34. THE LONGEST MORNING

🤍RAV🤍 Morning practice ended and I skated off that ice like my legs belonged to someone else. Hollowed out. Wrung completely dry from an entire night of crying into my own knees on cold aluminum bleachers with nobody around to hear a single sound I made. I never went back to the apartment. Not once. I could not make myself walk through that door and lie down on a rug four feet from the man who had pinned me to his bathroom wall and knotted me while completely out of his own mind, so I stayed on the ice instead. I stayed through the first team's warmup, hiding at the far end near the boards where nobody would notice a rookie who hadn't slept. I forced my own body through drills on legs that had absolutely nothing left to give, my thighs screaming with every stride, every check I took from an alpha twice my size landing like it was trying to finish what last night started. Hating Zoren Maveth had never once required effort. That part came easy, the way breathing came easy, autom

35. NO!

🤍RAV🤍The academy gates loomed dark against a sky already bleeding orange into purple by the time I dragged myself through them, my duffel bag slung heavy over one shoulder and every muscle in my body still humming with the ache of a full day spent sleeping instead of existing."Rav!"Theron's voice cut across the courtyard before I'd made it ten steps past the gate, and I turned to find him jogging toward me, his gold-tipped hair catching the last of the sunset light, his brow already pulled tight with something that looked a lot like actual worry."Where the hell have you been?" He stopped in front of me, breathing a little hard from the jog, his eyes sweeping over my face like he was cataloging every detail that had changed since he last saw me. "You missed every single class today. Coach was asking.""I needed to clear my head." I kept my voice steady, easy, the deep register slipping back into place like a coat I'd only briefly taken off."You okay?""Yeah." I held his gaze bec

Chapter 36

🤍RAV🤍Silence swallowed the whole rink for one full second, thick enough to feel against my skin, every player near the boards frozen mid-motion like the sound of my own voice had physically stopped time itself.Congratulations, Ravael. You just told the captain of the Arctic Wolves no, in front of his entire kingdom. Someone should really give me a medal, or maybe just a coffin, because I fully expected to be dead by morning either way.Zoren skated toward me slowly. Unhurried. The kind of pace a man only uses when he already believes the outcome has been decided in his favor, when the walk itself is meant to be part of the punishment, dragging out the dread before he even opens his mouth. My heart slammed hard against my ribs and I forced my spine straight anyway, forced my chin level with his instead of letting it drop the way it always wanted to drop whenever he got close enough to smell.Deep voice, Ravael. Alpha posture. Shoulders back, chin up, do not let this man see one sin

37. ONLY YOU

🤍RAV🤍Theron's dorm hit me like stepping into a completely different universe the second he shoved the door open, warm lamplight spilling gold across walls plastered with photographs pinned up in no order whatsoever, him and his teammates mid-laugh with their arms slung over each other's shoulders, a golden retriever that had absolutely no business being on academy grounds, a lopsided trophy wedged between a stack of dog-eared comic books and an empty bag of chips he clearly hadn't bothered throwing away in days.Nothing about this room belonged to a monster. My chest actually loosened just standing in the doorway of it."Sorry for the mess." He dropped his bag and kicked a stray hoodie out of the walking path with the kind of practiced ease that told me this happened every single day, that he'd stopped apologizing for it years ago and only remembered the habit because I was standing here now. "Wasn't exactly expecting company.""It's fine." I lingered a beat too long in that doorwa

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