Chapter: Chapter 19Soren was drowned by his words, which he considered kind. Elias had a way of speaking that didn’t carry the heavy history or expectations that came with JR. It felt light and refreshing. Like someone was finally seeing him without all the layers of their complicated past."Maybe we need to talk more," Soren said, his eyes softening as he looked at the younger player. A small part of him knew this was dangerous, but the kindness in Elias’s voice pulled at something tired deep inside his chest.Elias’s whole face brightened with a wide, genuine smile. Ease flooded his chest, and he let out a soft breath of relief. “That’s fine, totally fine. I mean, since you have finally decided to make it my way for the first time.” There was clear happiness in his voice, like he had been waiting for this small opening. Sudden approval flickered in Soren’s tone, and it made Elias stand a little straighter, his shoulders relaxing.“I will get to text you,” Soren said quietly, slinging his bag over hi
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Chapter: Chapter 18Soren’s thumb hovered over the delete button for half a second too long. He tapped it quickly, shoving the phone back into his pocket as JR’s question hung in the quiet of the car.The rain pattered steadily against the windshield, the wipers cutting smooth arcs through the Seattle downpour.“Who’s texting you this late?” JR asked, his voice low but edged with that familiar sharpness. His hands gripped the steering wheel tighter, knuckles paling. “Your face just went white, Soren. Don’t tell me it’s nothing.”Soren swallowed, forcing his expression neutral as the red light ahead glared at them like an accusation. “Just one of the guys from the team. Nothing important. Logistics for tomorrow’s optional skate.” The lie slid out easier than it should have, but it still tasted bitter. He reached over and rested a hand on JR’s thigh, careful of the braced hip. “Really. Let’s just get home. I’m wiped.”JR didn’t look convinced. He glanced sideways, those intense blue eyes scanning Soren’s
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Chapter: Chapter 17Soren stood at the kitchen counter the next morning, the Seattle dawn casting pale gray light across the open living space. He gripped his coffee mug so tightly his knuckles whitened, as if it could anchor him against the storm raging inside his chest. The guilt from Chicago had burrowed deep overnight, settling into his bones like a bad bruise that throbbed with every heartbeat. Sleep had been almost nonexistent, just fragmented images of Elias’s mouth on his, the brief spark of something dangerously simple, and then the crushing horror that followed.Behind him, JR moved quietly, still shirtless from bed, the faint outline of old scars and fresh hockey bruises visible across his broad shoulders. He pressed a warm kiss to the back of Soren’s neck, lingering there as if he could sense the tension coiled in Soren’s muscles.“You sure you’re okay?” JR asked, his voice low and rough with leftover sleep. His hands settled on Soren’s hips, his thumbs tracing slow circles over the fabric
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Chapter: Chapter 16: New RivalChapter 16: New Rival Six months after winning the Stanley Cup and three months after their quiet courthouse wedding, Soren thought life had finally settled into something beautiful.He and JR were the golden couple of the NHL. They played on the same line for the Seattle Storm. The media called them “Ice Husbands.” Sponsors loved them. Their apartment overlooking the water felt like home. Most nights they fell into bed exhausted but happy, still insatiable for each other.But perfection never lasts in professional hockey.The new rival arrived during training camp for the next season.Elias Voss, a 26 years old Finnish superstar winger, acquired in a blockbuster trade. Tall, blond, dangerously charismatic, with sharp cheekbones and an easy smile that made half the team swoon. He was fast, skilled, and had that quiet intensity that reminded Soren of a younger JR.From day one, Elias gravitated toward Soren.“You’re the reason I wanted to come to Seattle,” Elias said during their fi
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Chapter: Chapter 15: EngagementsChapter Fifteen: The decision deadline came faster than Soren expected.He stood in the Grizzlies’ GM’s office exactly one week after the Vancouver game, heart pounding as he faced the man who had believed in him since he was a rookie.“I’ve made my decision,” Soren said, voice steady. “I’m requesting a trade to Seattle.”The GM leaned back in his chair, studying him for a long moment. “You’re sure? This is your home, Calder. We built this team around you.”“I know.” Soren swallowed. “But I’ve found something worth more than staying comfortable. I love playing here, but I love him more.”The GM sighed, then nodded. “We’ll make the deal work. You’ve given this organization everything. The least we can do is let you chase happiness.”Soren left the office feeling lighter than he had in months.***He didn’t tell JR right away.Instead, he showed up at JR’s apartment that night with a bottle of expensive whiskey and a nervous smile.JR opened the door, took one look at his face, and kne
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Chapter: Chapter 14: Sand Game, New RulesChapter Fourteen: Same Game, New Rules***The next two weeks were a whirlwind of adjustments.Soren was cleared to return to optional skates with the Grizzlies. The locker room was still tense, but some of the ice had thawed. Mitch gave him a nod when he walked in, a few veterans clapped him on the shoulder, others kept their distance. It wasn’t forgiveness yet, but it was a start.JR, meanwhile, was dealing with his own chaos in Seattle. The Storm organization loved the publicity their relationship brought, but some veterans grumbled about “distractions.”But through it all, they made time for each other.Every night they could, they were together; sometimes in Vancouver, sometimes in Seattle. The sex remained explosive, but it was the quiet moments that grounded them now: cooking dinner together, watching game film and arguing plays, falling asleep wrapped around each other.One night, after a particularly grueling practice, Soren arrived at JR’s apartment exhausted. JR took one
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The Billionaire's Breeding Vessel
"I’ll marry you... but only if you save my mother," Melinda Jason whispered, her voice trembling with raw desperation as she stood before the intimidating billionaire Stanley Stewart.
He looked at her with cold piercing eyes and replied, “Fine. But you’ll give me an heir. That’s the only reason I need a wife.”
She ran to him with guts and reckless hope, signing the contract marriage that promised to save her dying mother. On their wedding night, however, Stanley tore away her virginity in the most humiliating way possible.
“You’re nothing but a vessel,” he said coldly as he took her without emotion, leaving her shattered and bleeding on silk sheets. “Don’t expect love. This is a transaction!!”
When Melinda discovered she was pregnant, she dared to hope again. “Maybe this baby will change everything,” she whispered to herself, gently touching her stomach.
But fate delivered a brutal betrayal.
She overheard Stanley speaking to his family:
“She was only ever a breeding vessel. Once the child is born, we take him and dispose of her. She means nothing to me.”
Heartbroken and furious, Melinda swore her child would never become a pawn in his dangerous mafia empire. She vanished without a trace, faking her death to protect her unborn baby.
Six years later, the world knows her as Dr. Melinda Jason, a brilliant, untouchable neurosurgeon radiating power, beauty, and icy poise.
Now the tables have turned.
The man who once used her so cruelly is on his knees before her, his voice breaking as he begs, “Melinda… please. Give me a chance to make this right.”
Will she destroy the billionaire who broke her… or finally do him to the fullest?
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Chapter: Chapter 15: A Close CallLiam was three months old the first time Melinda saw a black car idle too long outside Rosa's shop.She'd been standing at the window with him balanced against her shoulder, patting slow circles on his back the way that usually settled him toward sleep, when the car caught her eye, sleek and dark against the dusty pickup trucks that usually lined Millbrook's main street. It sat there for nearly ten minutes before pulling away, and Melinda told herself it was nothing, a lost tourist, a salesman checking a map, anything but what her racing heart insisted it might be.She didn't sleep that night. She sat by the window instead, Liam's bassinet pulled close beside her, watching the empty street until the sky started to lighten.***"You're spiraling," Rosa said the next morning, finding her hollow-eyed over a cup of coffee she hadn't touched. "One car, Melinda. This is a farming town. Strangers pass through for a hundred boring reasons that have nothing to do with you.""You don't know Sta
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Chapter: Chapter 14: Sarah WhitmoreThe town was called Millbrook, and it was smaller than anywhere Melinda had lived in her entire life, a single main street, a diner that doubled as the only real gathering place, a population that measured itself in the low thousands rather than the millions she'd left behind.Elena's cousin, a soft-spoken woman named Rosa who ran a small tailoring shop off the main road, took her in without asking more questions than necessary. She'd set up a room above the shop, simple but clean, and helped Melinda find a job answering phones at the medical clinic two streets over, cash under the table, no paperwork that would ever connect Sarah Whitmore to anyone the Stewarts might be searching for."You're safe here," Rosa told her, the first week, watching Melinda flinch at the sound of an unfamiliar car pulling up outside. "Nobody in Millbrook has any reason to look twice at you. Give it time. The fear fades slower than the danger does, but it fades."Melinda wanted to believe her. Some nights s
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Chapter: Chapter 13: The Trail Goes ColdBy the time Marcus reported the bus station lead, the bus itself was already four hours gone, and the trail split into a hundred possible directions the moment it crossed state lines.Stanley stood over the map spread across his desk, red pins marking every place his men had checked in the last week, hospitals, bus routes, small clinics that might treat a pregnant woman without asking too many questions. None of it led anywhere solid. Whoever had built Melinda's new identity had done it well, clean enough that even his contacts inside two state agencies couldn't pull a match."She's gone," Marcus said quietly, the closest he'd come to saying it outright in a week. "Whoever helped her knew what they were doing. No paper trail, no bank activity, nothing under any name we can tie to her.""She had help beyond the nurse," Stanley said. It wasn't really a question. He'd interrogated Elena himself twice more since that first meeting, and each time she'd given him nothing, held that same uns
최신 업데이트: 2026-08-13
Chapter: Chapter 12: A Room Above the CityMelinda counted the hours by the changing light through the small window, gray to gold to gray again, and by the second night she understood how easily a person could lose track of time when every hour felt exactly as frightened as the last.Elena hadn't come. Not the second day, not the third. The burner phone Elena had left her stayed silent except for one message, sent late on the second night: ‘Careful. Being watched. Will come when I can.’Melinda read it a dozen times, searching for reassurance in four short words and finding only more reasons to worry. She didn't dare reply. She didn't dare do anything but wait, pace the narrow room, and press her hand to her stomach whenever the fear climbed too high, whispering to the baby the way she had every night since the mansion, quiet promises she was starting to fear she couldn't keep.By the fourth morning, the small stash of food Elena had left ran out, and Melinda faced a decision she'd been avoiding: stay and starve slowly in a ro
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Chapter: Chapter 11: The Hunt BeginsMarcus worked through the night without sleeping, and by the time the sun came up, he had a name.A car had been spotted near the hospital's east wing the evening before, nothing unusual on its own, except that the driver had lingered in the loading dock area for nearly forty minutes, well past any normal delivery window. Traffic cameras picked up a woman matching Melinda's description walking briskly along the access road behind the hospital shortly after. From there, the trail thinned, but it was enough of a thread to start pulling."She had help," Marcus said, laying a folder on Stanley's desk. "This wasn't something she planned alone in an afternoon. Fake documents don't come from nowhere, and neither does a place to disappear to. Someone's been coordinating this for weeks."Stanley hadn't slept either. His shirt was the same one from the night before, sleeves pushed up, his face carved from something harder than exhaustion."Elena Ramire," he said. It wasn't a question.Marcus no
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Chapter: Chapter 10: The Storage RoomThe old storage room sat behind the hospital's east wing, a squat brick building the staff used for broken equipment and boxes no one had the heart to throw away. Melinda had never been inside it before tonight, but Elena's directions had been exact, past the loading dock, through the gap in the fence, third door on the left, the one with the broken lock that only looked broken.She arrived breathless, her coat damp with sweat despite the cool night air, her hand still pressed hard against her stomach like she could shield the baby from her own racing heart. She knocked twice, the way Elena had told her to, then once more after a pause.The door opened just enough for Elena to pull her inside."You're here," Elena breathed, wrapping her arms around her before Melinda could say a word. "God, you're actually here. I was so scared you wouldn't make it.""I told Stanley I wasn't feeling well," Melinda said, still catching her breath. "I had maybe an hour before someone checks on me again.
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