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Beneath the Same Roof

An intense, steamy forbidden romance

When Ava Monroe’s mother remarries into wealth, Ava’s world turns upside down — and so does her carefully guarded heart. Forced to live under the same roof as her enigmatic stepbrother Julian Hart, she’s thrust into a world of polished surfaces hiding raw, tangled emotions.

Julian is a man ruled by control and silence, a brooding enigma who keeps everyone at arm’s length — until Ava. Beneath his cold exterior lies a storm of desire and vulnerability that threatens to unravel them both.

As days bleed into nights filled with stolen glances, charged silences, and forbidden touches, Ava and Julian are drawn into a dangerous game of craving and restraint. Every secret moment deepens the connection neither wants to admit — but the consequences of crossing the line are devastating.

In a mansion built on power and expectation, can two broken souls risk everything for a love that should never exist? Or will the walls they live beneath become the cage that traps them forever.

BENEATH THE SAME ROOF

Beautiful — let's continue Beneath the Same Roof with Chapter 31, a powerful, dual-toned chapter that dives into the aftermath of truth. Fame has a cost. But so does love. As Ava and Julian bask in the intimacy of their honeymoon, the outside world claws at their peace. We'll balance tenderness with tension, desire with danger.

📖 Chapter 31 – Touch and Threat

Themes: Soft intimacy, public scrutiny, the price of transparency, standing ground together

We chose Naxos. A quiet Greek island. No tourists. No press.

Just blue water, olive groves, stone villas, and sky.

Mornings were lazy: coffee on the terrace, Julian reading poetry out loud, fingers brushing my thighs.

Afternoons were hotter: tangled sheets, open windows, my legs around his waist, his mouth at my neck.

> "You taste like rebellion," he said one day, voice hoarse.

> "And you move like you earned me," I whispered back.

Just his fingers learning every part of me again, slowly — reverent, unhurried.

Naked under the moon, waves licking our ankles.

> "Do you think people like us ever get peace?" I asked.

> "We don't find peace, Ava. We make it."

And he made it — on the shore, inside me, beneath stars that didn't judge.

PART 2: THE STORM BACK HOME (POV: Julian)

Day 7. My phone buzzed with a message from Marina:

Ava's episode with Late Night Now had gone viral. But not for good reasons.

> "You really don't think it's wrong — falling for your stepbrother?"

Ava had replied calmly, truthfully.

> "We didn't choose the circumstance. But we chose each other. That's the difference between sin and sovereignty."

Ava shook reading them. But not from fear.

> "I told our story to set others free. I'm not hiding again."

I flew back early for a scheduled live interview.

> "What do you say to the people calling your marriage incestuous and perverse?"

> "If telling the truth about how I love my wife makes you uncomfortable, maybe it's your concept of love that's broken."

> "We didn't write this story for permission. We wrote it for the people who were told their kind of love couldn't exist."

Ava, watching the clip from bed, tears in her eyes, hand over her chest.

Julian, on the flight home, watching the same video go viral.

And it would either love them for it — or try to destroy them.

chapter 31.