บททั้งหมดของ Owned By My Stepdad(MxM): บทที่ 121 - บทที่ 130

I did not remember when I fell asleep.One minute I was lying there, staring at the ceiling with my mind running in circles, replaying everything that had happened, and the next… nothing. Just darkness. No dreams. No peace either. Just exhaustion finally winning.The knock was what pulled me back.Not loud, but enough to drag me out of whatever shallow rest I had managed.I groaned softly and pushed myself up, my body feeling heavier than it should. For a second, I just sat there, trying to remember where I was, trying to push away the lingering haze in my head. Then it all came back at once, and my chest tightened.RightThis place, This mess,Another knock.I stood up slowly and walked to the door, opening it without much thought. A maid stood there, her posture stiff, her eyes lowered. She held a tray of food in her hands, careful, almost nervous.“Your meal, sir,” she said quietly.I s

I did not answer him immediately.Not because I did not hear the question, but because I did not know which answer would not make everything worse.Vane stood there, watching me with that calm expression that never truly meant calm. There was something restrained in his posture, something held back so tightly it made the air around him feel heavier.“You want to explain what that was?”The question echoed in my head again.I exhaled slowly and ran a hand through my hair, buying myself a second.“It was nothing,” I said.The moment the words left my mouth, I knew they sounded weak.Vane did not react the way I expected. He did not get angry. He did not raise his voice. If anything, his silence became sharper, more deliberate.“Nothing,” he repeated.There was something in the way he said it that made my chest tighten.I frowned slightly. “It just happened. It did not mean anything.”That made his gaze shift, not away, but deeper, like he was trying to see through the words instead of l

“Enough.”The single word settled over the room with quiet authority, cutting through the tension without effort. It was not loud, but it carried weight, the kind that made movement feel unnecessary.Everything stilled.I turned toward the door, my thoughts pausing for a second when I saw him.Cyrus.I did not hear him come in, which somehow made his presence more unsettling. He stood there like he had always been part of the scene, calm and composed, his gaze moving briefly between Vane and Nikolai before settling on me.“Is there a problem?” he asked.No one answered immediately.Nikolai stepped back first, subtle but deliberate, as if acknowledging something unspoken. Vane did not move, but I could feel the restraint in him sharpen, like he was choosing not to react.I frowned, confusion pushing past everything else.“Why are you still here?” I asked.The question slipped out before I could think too much about it.Cyrus looked at me, his expression unchanged, almost amused in a wa

The ride was silent the entire way.Kai tried a few times to talk, I could tell from the way he glanced at me and the small shifts in his tone whenever he said my name, but I did not respond. Not because I did not hear him, but because I did not trust my voice to stay steady.So I just watched the road.Watched everything blur past the window like my thoughts, none of it settling into anything I could hold onto properly.Eventually, he stopped trying.That silence should have felt comforting. It did not.It felt like something I was sitting inside with no clear way out.When we arrived, I realized it was not a house like I expected. It was an apartment building, quiet and modern, tucked away from the main noise of the city. Kai got out first, then waited for me without saying anything, like he was giving me the choice to follow or not.I followed.We went up together in silence, the elevator ride even quieter than the car had been. The doors opened into a hallway that felt too clean,

We did not stay in the dining area for long.As much as I wanted to hold onto that moment, to sit there and pretend everything was normal again, I knew it would not last. There was too much sitting between us, too many unanswered questions, too much time we had lost.I stood up first.“Come,” I said quietly.Bella did not argue. She followed me immediately, like she already knew we were not done, like she had been waiting for this part more than anything else.We walked back into the room Kai had given me. I closed the door behind us, not bothering to lock it this time. The space felt smaller now, but not in a suffocating way. Just… full.Bella looked around briefly before turning her attention back to me, her expression already shifting from relief to something more serious.“Start talking,” she said.I let out a slow breath and sat on the edge of the bed. For a second, I did not know where to begin. There was too much, and none of it felt easy to explain.But she was Bella.If there