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Chapter 110: Getting Everything She Wants
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2026-09-03 20:06:12
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Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 128: How Do I Prove Myself
Dean showed up at my father’s house less than twenty hours after the photo went live. I knew it was him before I reached the window. His car came up the driveway too fast, the familiar sound carrying through the quiet house with enough force that I recognized it immediately.My father opened the door before I could make it downstairs, and Dean’s voice rose through the hall. “Sir, I need to see Iris. Please.”“She’s upstairs.” My father’s voice had taken on the careful edge it always acquired when he was deciding whether someone posed a threat. “Go easy.”Dean found me sitting on the edge of my childhood bed. The room looked almost exactly as it had when I left it, which somehow made everything worse. The old bookshelf stood crooked against the wall. The curtains had faded in the sunlight. Even the bedspread I had hated at sixteen was still there, and now I felt an unexpected, almost painful attachment to it.“Iris.”“You drove three hours.”“I would have walked if I had to.” He crosse
Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 127: The Chauffeur
Dean had asked me to join him at the charity event and the after-party Harold Whitfield’s foundation was hosting that weekend. I told him I was too tired, too far behind on my capstone, and too worn down by everything that had already happened between our families to spend another evening in a room full of people who had watched Sophie try to destroy my career. He understood. He didn’t argue or try to change my mind. He went with his father instead, because business had a way of claiming him whether he wanted it to or not. Ava and Ryan were there too, part of the hockey and sponsor crowd that always seemed to gather around events like that. I went to my father’s for the weekend instead. The distance helped. So did the thought of not having to watch Sophie move through the room in whatever new performance she had prepared. I found out about the photo the same way I found out about most things lately: through my phone, which lit up with three messages in quick succession while I sat
Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 126: Harold’s Requirement
My father’s office looked exactly as it always did, all glass walls and an uninterrupted view of the city. Arthur stood at the window with his back to the door when I walked in, his hands clasped behind him. He only did that when he was trying to decide how much of the truth to give me at once.“You wanted to see me,” I said, taking the chair across from his desk.“I did.” He turned, and the tiredness in his face made me sit a little straighter. “Harold Whitfield called me this morning.”“About what?”Arthur came around the desk and sat down, folding his hands in front of him. “He wants to formalize a proposal between you and Sophie. Marriage, eventually. He’s presenting it as a strategic alliance between our companies, to take place after you graduate.”For months, I’d been waiting for some version of this conversation. That didn’t make it any easier to hear. The vague threat I’d been carrying around finally had a name, a timeline, and a business plan attached to it.“I want to be cl
Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 125: Ignore Her
“What did she mean?” I asked once we were back in the car, the parking structure shrinking behind us until it disappeared from view. “The part about your fates being sealed. What was she talking about, Dean?” He didn’t answer immediately. His hands remained steady on the wheel, his attention fixed on the road. When he finally glanced at me, I didn’t see the guarded expression he wore whenever he was keeping something from me. He looked genuinely confused. “I don’t know. I have no idea what she’s referring to.” “You’re sure?” I pressed. “Your father hasn’t mentioned anything? You haven’t overheard something?” “Iris, I promise you, I don’t understand it any more than you do.” His gaze returned to the road. “Sophie says a lot of things that aren’t true. I think you should ignore her.” I wanted that to be enough. I wanted Sophie to have thrown out the cruelest thing she could think of simply because she knew it would get under my skin, with nothing real behind it. That was easier to
Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 124: Sealed?
By the time the event finally wound down, my feet were throbbing inside my heels, and I was more than ready to go home. Dean kept one hand at the small of my back as we made our way toward the parking structure, his touch warm and steady, while Lucas and Charlotte walked a few steps ahead of us.Sophie was waiting beside our car.“Iris.”I stopped. Dean’s hand pressed a little more firmly against my back, a silent reminder that he was there. “Sophie, I really don’t want to do this tonight.”“I just want to talk.” She moved closer, her expression as polished as ever, though something sharp had slipped through the cracks. “I hope you understand that you’re wasting months with someone who is never going to marry you. Our fates were sealed a long time ago, before you even knew his name.”I stared at her, too tired to pretend I didn’t understand what she was doing. “What did I ever do to you?” I asked. My voice came out flatter than I intended. “You approached me. I was open to being frien
Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 123: Included
The dress Dean had bought me on the island still carried a faint trace of salt air when I drew it from the garment bag. Emerald silk fell in one clean line from the shoulders, and paired with the sapphire earrings he had insisted on buying me on our last night there, it transformed my reflection so completely that I had to look twice.My copper hair was pinned into a sleek low bun, with a few loose strands softening the line of my face. When I stepped out of the bathroom, Dean stopped halfway through fastening his cufflink. His gaze moved over me slowly, openly, and I felt warmth gather beneath my skin.“You’re staring,” I said.“I’m allowed.”The simple answer made me smile, though the nerves I had been trying to ignore returned as soon as we left the room. We picked up Lucas and Charlotte on the way to the event, and for the first few minutes, no one said much. Dean kept checking the GPS, his hands steady on the wheel, but every time the venue appeared on the screen, his expression
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