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Chapter 147: The Plan
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Dean:The private meeting room Lucas had booked was two floors above our father’s office, neutral territory dressed up as an emergency board session. I stood beside him with my eyes fixed on the door, trying not to imagine all the ways this could go wrong.I hadn’t been this nervous before a hockey game in years. At least on the ice, I knew who I was facing and what was expected of me. I knew the rules, the boundaries, the consequences of every move.This was different. This was my father and Mason’s father, two men who had spent most of our lives turning their companies into weapons and dragging everyone around them into a rivalry none of us had chosen.“They’ll come,” Lucas said, checking his watch. “Our father thinks this is about a supplier dispute. Mason gave his father a different version of the same story.”Mason arrived first, alone, looking as though he would rather have been anywhere else. He stopped just inside the room and glanced between us. “My dad’s five minutes out. Yo
Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 147: The Plan
Morning came slowly through Dean’s curtains, turning the room gold around us. I woke curled against him, his arm resting loosely around my waist, and for a few quiet minutes I stayed exactly where I was, listening to the steady rhythm of his breathing. There was something rare about being together without arguing, hiding, or trying to decide what any of it meant. I wanted to hold on to that simplicity for as long as I could.“I don’t want to go home yet,” I whispered.His arm tightened around me, and his voice came rough with sleep. “I don’t want you to go home yet either.” He pressed a sleepy kiss to my hair. “Then don’t make me.”“I wasn’t planning to. Stay with me for a couple more days.”“How many is a couple?”“Two days.”I lifted my head to look at him. “And after that?”“After that, we figure out the rest.”He didn’t make a sweeping promise about the future or pretend that two days could erase everything that had happened between us. It was only two ordinary days without decisi
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“I don’t think I should go.”Ava stood in front of the mirror, tugging at the waistband of her jeans and complaining that they felt tighter, even though she was barely showing. She had spent the last ten minutes insisting she had nothing to wear, yet she looked far too excited about the dinner invitation to be taken seriously.“You’re being ridiculous,” she said. “You came for graduation. Just come to dinner.”“That was different.”“How?”“I was invited to graduation. This feels like I’m inserting myself into something I’m not officially part of.”Across the room, Dean had been helping Ryan carry chairs. He set his down when he heard me and came over, wearing the patient amusement he reserved for my more stubborn moments.“You’re talking about it like it’s a state dinner,” he said. “It’s just the team and us. It’s the last time we’ll all be together before everyone scatters.”“Still.”“Iris.” His calm, measured tone made it clear he already knew I was being unreasonable. “Come. Please
Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 145: What You Could Have Had
Dean showed up at my father’s house the next afternoon. I found him standing beside his car when I stepped outside, his hands shoved into his pockets and uncertainty written across a face I had rarely seen unguarded.“I got in my car,” he said before I could ask. “I didn’t decide to come here. I just started driving, and somehow I ended up pointed in this direction.”I stopped halfway down the steps. “What do you want, Dean?”He met my eyes. “Can we talk?”“We’re always talking.”“Not like this.” He glanced toward the house, then back at me. “I don’t want another conversation where we try to solve everything or convince each other of anything. I just want to be around you.”I didn’t know what to do with that. “You drove all the way here just to be around me?”“Yes.”The honesty landed harder than any explanation could have. I looked back at the house, where my father was probably watching television or pretending not to notice my car still in the driveway, then faced Dean again. “Wher
Across The Ice: Falling for my ex’s biggest rival Chapter 144: The Meeting
Melissa drove us to the small café Mason had chosen as neutral ground. Before we went inside, she squeezed my hand. “You don’t have to say anything you don’t want to say.”“I know.”Mason was waiting at a corner table, his phone facedown beside his coffee. He looked less restless than he had the last time I’d seen him, but the way he kept checking the entrance suggested he hadn’t suddenly discovered inner peace. He stood when we approached and gave us a restrained nod.“Thank you for coming.”“I still don’t trust you,” I said, taking the chair opposite him.“Fair.” His mouth twitched, though there was no real humor behind it. “This isn’t about you trusting me. I’m trying to get my best friend back, and I know how bad this looks. Sophie is genuinely unstable, and Dean shouldn’t be marrying her to solve a business problem that isn’t even his to fix.”I folded my arms. “Then why should I believe anything you say?”“You don’t have to.”The answer stopped me more effectively than any defen
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“Iris, I have to.” Dean’s voice was quiet, resigned in a way I had never heard from him before. He sat across from me in the stripped-bare room, surrounded by the last traces of a life that no longer felt like mine. “I don’t have a choice. My father has been there for me my whole life. This is my chance to protect him for once instead of letting him be the one protecting me.”“How long are you going to keep doing this?” I asked, folding my hands in my lap to stop them from shaking. “How long are you going to keep sacrificing yourself for a family that keeps taking everything from you?”His gaze dropped to the floor. “I don’t have a reason not to anymore.”There was no argument I could make against that. The fight I had been holding on to slipped out of me, leaving behind an exhausted calm that felt more frightening than anger. I looked around the room at the half-packed boxes, the bare shelves, and the pale rectangles on the walls where photographs had once hung. Everything had alread
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