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CHAPTER 89: A Strategic Action

Author: Arial Sterling
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-28 18:40:42

IVY.

The frantic pounding of my heart stood in sharp contrast to the quiet of my office. The gentle click was the last punctuation mark on the intense moment I had just shared with Ivy as the door had just barely closed behind me.

With the rich mahogany cool beneath my fingers I made my way to my wet bar and filled a tumbler with a generous amount of amber liquid. Even the smell of aged whiskey which permeated the air was insufficient to mask her face. I could still hear what she said.

“Thats much more logical than you just being a cold-hearted playboy.”

She understood. She saw the fortress as a construction rather than a natural state. a self-imposed prison designed to keep others out. That crafty enraged woman Ivette had a way of tearing down my well-constructed barriers without my knowledge. The whiskeys burn provided a pleasant diversion from the roiling in my stomach as I took a long sip.

She was harmed by me. I couldn’t get out of my head the image of her heartbroken face in
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