Ivy's POV.Blackmail?I stared at them, completely lost, my mind scrambling to make sense of what I was hearing. My heart pounded in my chest, but my thoughts couldn’t catch up. Blackmail? The only blackmail between me and Demi was a one-way ticket to expulsion, something I had been desperately trying to avoid.So why was everyone looking at me like I was the victim?I turned to Brandon, my confusion morphing into something colder, sharper. He was watching me with a lazy, triumphant smile, completely at ease like he had just won some twisted game.What the hell had he done?The principal sighed, folding her hands on the desk like this was some kind of heartfelt intervention. “Ivy, you should have told us that Demi was blackmailing you with your tapes.”My stomach dropped. My mouth went dry.Tapes? What tapes?She softened her voice, like she was speaking to someone fragile. “We have a counselor here. You didn’t have to deal with this alone. If you had come to us, we could have handled
Ivy's POV.I barely hesitated before shoving the door closed, aiming to shut Brandon out entirely. But he was faster. His hand shot out, catching the edge before it could slam in his face. His grip was firm, unyielding, and with what looked like minimal effort, he pushed the door back open, forcing his way in as if my resistance was nothing more than an inconvenience.“Wow,” he mused, stepping forward with the kind of arrogance that made my skin crawl. His lips curled into an easy smirk, as if he had all the time in the world, as if he had already won whatever twisted game he was playing.“This is the thanks I get? I expected at least a little bit of gratitude. Maybe even a heartfelt ‘Oh, Brandon, thank you for saving my life!’” His hand pressed against his chest in mock sincerity, his expression dripping with amusement. “Instead, I get an attempted door to the face. Feels a little unfair, don’t you think?”My fingers tightened around the edge of the door, my knuckles aching from the
32.Ivy's POV."Brandon…"It was meant to come out as a warning, something firm, something that would push back against whatever this was. But it didn’t.It came out as something else entirely.A breathy whisper.What the fuck?His smirk deepened instantly, satisfaction gleaming in his eyes like he had just won some kind of game. "Must've been fantasizing about me touching you since you watched me fuck Amari." His voice was low, taunting, laced with that cocky self-assurance that made me want to slap him, and maybe kiss him, too. "Because all it took was me staring at your tits to get you wet."My entire body jolted with mortification. Heat rushed to my face, a sharp, burning thing, and I swallowed hard, shaking my head. "That’s not true."Brandon tilted his head slightly, his expression almost pitying, like he found my denial adorable. "I can smell it, Ivy."My mouth opened, then closed. A rush of panic flickered in my chest, and I scrambled for something, anything, to throw back
33.Brandon's POV.Ivy had no idea what she was doing to me. She didn’t know that every sound that fell from her lips, every little shudder of her body, every slow roll of her eyes when pleasure took over, ruined me. It didn’t just turn me on; it consumed me, swallowed me whole, left me teetering on the edge of something dark, something uncontrollable.I watched her, my fingers barely moving, but she was already trembling, already lost in that haze of pleasure only I could pull her into. Her breath hitched, her back arched, her mouth parted in that perfect little moan that made my stomach clench painfully. I felt the tension in my body coil tighter, my cock throbbing against my zipper, the pressure unbearable. It was Ivy. It was her. No one else had ever done this to me. No one had ever made me feel like I was losing control just by reacting to my touch.The way she whimpered, hips twitching, her hands fisting so tight like she needed something to hold on to, like she was drowning i
IVY I stared at the score on the top-right corner of the script, willing the scores to change but it didn't. The 98 remained there while my stomach churned. I looked through the script, searching for a mistake from the teacher. There was a mistake quite alright but it wasn't from the teacher. It was from me and that stupid miscalculation had caused me two whole marks! "Careful Ivy," the voice that always annoys me and makes my skin crawl said. I didn't need to look up at him to see the taunt in his eyes. "Glaring at your scores won't make it change," he leaned over to peer at my script. "98. Not bad. From there to 70 to 40 and finally, the zero that you deserve so you'll be forced to withdraw. Who knows, I might be kind enough to employ you as a cleaner here." I looked up at him. If it was another person, I'd have been shocked at the intensity of the hatred in their eyes. But this was Brandon Castle. He hated me more than anything. And I hated him thrice as much. "Fuck
IVYI was frozen throughout dinner. Mom and her husband, my new stepfather, and also Brandon's father chattered all through it while my sense of doom increased by the minute.Brandon and I were now stepsiblings?I refused to believe it. But he was sitting right beside me and his father across from me. I've never seen Mom laugh as much as she did in the 30 minutes he has spent here.She was happy, free, and light. She was all of the things Dad stole from her. But how? How could she possibly find all of that in Brandon's father?How could Brandon be my stepbrother out of the blues?No no no. No way!"Evelyn!" Mom's loud voice jolted me out of my reverie. They were both staring at me."Sorry. What?""I've been calling your name for the past 2 minutes. Are you okay?""Yeah," I faked a chuckle, "I was just lost in thoughts. I can't believe the Alpha King is now my stepfather.""Ohh," Alpha Castle chuckled, "I can't believe you're my stepdaughter too. I mean, I've been observing your progre
IVYMom was pregnant. That was the recurring thoughts in my head as I dressed up for the date with Demi. She has apologized profusely for keeping it away from me. I've accepted her apology but I couldn't help but feel a little betrayed.She was pregnant. She was expecting another baby. I guess I should be happy for her.Because of the crowd that came to protest, we were all advised to stay back at home so I couldn't make it to the date with Demi. I texted him, then switched my phone off because I didn't want to receive his cars. I spent the morning in my room, setting things up and feeling a slight gratitude that I now had a bigger lunch. After lunch, Alpha Castle suggested that Brandon show me around the castle. I tried turning it down but Brandon surprisingly agreed. Now, I'm stuck with him. He led me far away from the main building. Barely showing anything to me. It was only after the main house was almost out of view that I started feeling a creeping sense of dread. "Where are
BRANDONI hate Ivy with every fibre of my being. I hate that lousy human being with everything in me. She should be nothing more than a slave, a servant at my beck and call. Humans shouldn't be more than that. Their kind was just inferior but Ivy? No one has caused me greater headache than her. My academic prowess has never been challenged until her. Most humans cower when I speak to them but Ivy always speak back. No one has disrespected me more as an Alpha Prince. No one has made me that infuriated. No one has spent that much time in my head. No one... My movements grew more frantic. I could feel my body spasming. My breathing was ragged and my up and down movement of my hand was so fast it was uncontrollable. In my mind, she was on her knees, hands tied behind her, my dick pumping in and out of her mouth. In my mind, she was talking back to me. She was just on her knees, eyes dripping with tears from the intensity at which I was fucking her mouth. Now, her mom was married to
33.Brandon's POV.Ivy had no idea what she was doing to me. She didn’t know that every sound that fell from her lips, every little shudder of her body, every slow roll of her eyes when pleasure took over, ruined me. It didn’t just turn me on; it consumed me, swallowed me whole, left me teetering on the edge of something dark, something uncontrollable.I watched her, my fingers barely moving, but she was already trembling, already lost in that haze of pleasure only I could pull her into. Her breath hitched, her back arched, her mouth parted in that perfect little moan that made my stomach clench painfully. I felt the tension in my body coil tighter, my cock throbbing against my zipper, the pressure unbearable. It was Ivy. It was her. No one else had ever done this to me. No one had ever made me feel like I was losing control just by reacting to my touch.The way she whimpered, hips twitching, her hands fisting so tight like she needed something to hold on to, like she was drowning i
32.Ivy's POV."Brandon…"It was meant to come out as a warning, something firm, something that would push back against whatever this was. But it didn’t.It came out as something else entirely.A breathy whisper.What the fuck?His smirk deepened instantly, satisfaction gleaming in his eyes like he had just won some kind of game. "Must've been fantasizing about me touching you since you watched me fuck Amari." His voice was low, taunting, laced with that cocky self-assurance that made me want to slap him, and maybe kiss him, too. "Because all it took was me staring at your tits to get you wet."My entire body jolted with mortification. Heat rushed to my face, a sharp, burning thing, and I swallowed hard, shaking my head. "That’s not true."Brandon tilted his head slightly, his expression almost pitying, like he found my denial adorable. "I can smell it, Ivy."My mouth opened, then closed. A rush of panic flickered in my chest, and I scrambled for something, anything, to throw back
Ivy's POV.I barely hesitated before shoving the door closed, aiming to shut Brandon out entirely. But he was faster. His hand shot out, catching the edge before it could slam in his face. His grip was firm, unyielding, and with what looked like minimal effort, he pushed the door back open, forcing his way in as if my resistance was nothing more than an inconvenience.“Wow,” he mused, stepping forward with the kind of arrogance that made my skin crawl. His lips curled into an easy smirk, as if he had all the time in the world, as if he had already won whatever twisted game he was playing.“This is the thanks I get? I expected at least a little bit of gratitude. Maybe even a heartfelt ‘Oh, Brandon, thank you for saving my life!’” His hand pressed against his chest in mock sincerity, his expression dripping with amusement. “Instead, I get an attempted door to the face. Feels a little unfair, don’t you think?”My fingers tightened around the edge of the door, my knuckles aching from the
Ivy's POV.Blackmail?I stared at them, completely lost, my mind scrambling to make sense of what I was hearing. My heart pounded in my chest, but my thoughts couldn’t catch up. Blackmail? The only blackmail between me and Demi was a one-way ticket to expulsion, something I had been desperately trying to avoid.So why was everyone looking at me like I was the victim?I turned to Brandon, my confusion morphing into something colder, sharper. He was watching me with a lazy, triumphant smile, completely at ease like he had just won some twisted game.What the hell had he done?The principal sighed, folding her hands on the desk like this was some kind of heartfelt intervention. “Ivy, you should have told us that Demi was blackmailing you with your tapes.”My stomach dropped. My mouth went dry.Tapes? What tapes?She softened her voice, like she was speaking to someone fragile. “We have a counselor here. You didn’t have to deal with this alone. If you had come to us, we could have handled
29.Ivy's POV.The air in the room was suffocating. The fluorescent lights buzzed faintly overhead, but all I could hear was the pounding of my own heart. My hands were clammy, gripping the hem of my sweater so tightly my knuckles ached. I kept my eyes fixed on the table in front of me, too ashamed to look anywhere else.My mother sat beside me, silent but rigid. She hadn’t spoken a word to me since we arrived. Not on the drive here, not while we waited. Nothing. But she didn’t have to. The disappointment radiating off her was enough to make me feel like I was being suffocated from the inside out.Across from me, the disciplinary committee sat in a row, their expressions unreadable. Principal Gladstone sat at the center, her hands neatly folded on the table, eyes steady and assessing."Evelyn Hughes," she began, and my stomach twisted violently.I forced myself to meet her eyes."There is no excuse for what you did," she said, voice firm but not unkind. "No reason that justifies acade
28.Ivy's POV.I thought I knew what it felt like to be humiliated, to feel powerless. Demi had made sure of that, treating me like I was disposable, something to be used and discarded whenever he felt like it. But this? This was worse.This was my future.My entire life’s work, every late-night study session, every extra credit assignment, every moment I had sacrificed just to make sure I made it out of here, all of it was now at risk because of one video. One carefully planted, perfectly timed move by Brandon.And the worst part? He didn’t even care.While I was drowning, and gasping for air, he walked through the house with that same arrogant ease, that same air of control. His world remained untouched, unshaken, while mine crumbled beneath my feet. He had thrown my life into absolute chaos, and he didn’t even spare me a second glance.I wanted to hate him. I did hate him. More than I had ever hated anyone. But hate felt useless when he had already taken everything from me.And I c
27: His WorstIvy's POV.Calling Brandon’s bluff had been a huge risk. A dangerous, reckless, stupid risk. And now, as I sat in class, staring blankly at the equations the teacher was writing on the board, my mind refused to let go of that moment.I had looked him in the eye and told him I wouldn’t let him control me. That he should do his worst.Then I turned around and walked away. And the craziest part? He let me. He didn’t grab me, didn’t drag me back, didn’t do a damn thing.Not that day. Not the next.Two whole days passed, and nothing happened.No threats. No calculated acts of revenge. No slow, creeping punishment meant to remind me who was really in charge.By the time the second morning rolled around, relief had started to settle in my chest, warm and hopeful.Maybe he had let it go. Maybe, despite everything, Brandon had enough of a conscience to leave me alone.Maybe, just maybe, I had actually won.But of course, I was wrong. Because on the third day, the second I stepped
Brandon's POV.I hadn’t planned on this.Teasing Ivy had started as just that. Just teasing. To watch her squirm, to prove that no matter how much she tried to act unaffected, she wasn’t. Because I knew it.I saw it in the way she stiffened when I got too close, in the way her throat bobbed with every sharp swallow, in the way her breath hitched even as she was trying so hard to stay indifferent.But this time, the second my eyes dragged down her body in that little black dress, something shifted.I felt it.The sharp pull in my gut. The sudden heat curling through my veins. The way my own breathing faltered without permission.She smelled too fucking good.Like something soft and sweet, vanilla and honey, with the faintest trace of that lotion she always wore, something subtle, something dangerous in how easily it wrapped around my senses. But beneath that, beneath the innocent surface, was something else.Something raw and undeniable.Her arousal.It clung to her skin, subtle but in
Ivy's POV I feigned confusion, trying to make my voice steady. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”Brandon didn’t buy it for a second.He shifted closer, his body brushing against mine in the smallest, most deliberate movement. It wasn’t even a touch, not really, just a slow, careful invasion of space. His hand hovered near my hip, so close that I could feel the heat radiating off of him, and could sense the exact distance between his fingers and my skin.My pulse kicked up, but I forced myself to hold my ground.“I smelled you the second you got there,” he murmured, his voice low, almost thoughtful.My stomach tightened. I knew exactly what he meant, but I wasn’t about to admit that.“I don’t—”“I smelled you,” he repeated, cutting me off, his tone quieter now, almost amused. Savoring. Like he was rolling the words around in his mouth just to enjoy how they tasted. “And I smelled what watching did to you. That little pulse of arousal you tried to fight.”I went still.Every