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Chapter 19 Continuation (2)

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Three days later, the "United Front" made its first public appearance since the disaster.

The funeral for Marcus was held at a small, private cemetery overlooking the Hudson. It was a cold, somber affair, attended by the elite of New York—the same people who had watched Ivy’s humiliation at the gala.

Dante stood at the head of the casket, dressed in impeccable black, his hand firmly holding Ivy’s. She wore a veil of black lace that obscured her eyes, making her look like a mourning widow before she was even a bride.

As the priest spoke of "loyal service" and "tragic loss," Ivy scanned the crowd. She saw the whispers. She saw the way the board members from Chapter 13 looked at her—no longer with pity, but with a burgeoning fear. They saw the way Dante looked at her. He didn't look at her like a trophy anymore. He looked at her like she was the only thing holding the world together.

After the service, Julian Vane approached them.

"Dante," Vane said, his voice oily with false sympathy. "
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  • HIS POISONOUS POSESSION   Chapter 19 Continuation (2)

    Three days later, the "United Front" made its first public appearance since the disaster.The funeral for Marcus was held at a small, private cemetery overlooking the Hudson. It was a cold, somber affair, attended by the elite of New York—the same people who had watched Ivy’s humiliation at the gala.Dante stood at the head of the casket, dressed in impeccable black, his hand firmly holding Ivy’s. She wore a veil of black lace that obscured her eyes, making her look like a mourning widow before she was even a bride.As the priest spoke of "loyal service" and "tragic loss," Ivy scanned the crowd. She saw the whispers. She saw the way the board members from Chapter 13 looked at her—no longer with pity, but with a burgeoning fear. They saw the way Dante looked at her. He didn't look at her like a trophy anymore. He looked at her like she was the only thing holding the world together.After the service, Julian Vane approached them."Dante," Vane said, his voice oily with false sympathy. "

  • HIS POISONOUS POSESSION   Chapter 19

    [The United Front]The blue and red lights of the emergency vehicles sliced through the morning mist, turning the charred, salt-slicked ruins of the Palisades into a surreal stage. The roar of the Atlantic was now joined by the rhythmic thrum of a news chopper circling overhead, its spotlight sweeping the cliffs like the eye of a vengeful god.Ivy stood on the gravel drive, draped in a heavy wool blanket that a paramedic had wrapped around her shoulders. She was shivering, but not from the cold. The chill came from the inside—the realization that the "House Rules" had not been destroyed by the collapse of the vault; they had simply been codified into a blood oath.Beside her, Dante was being treated for the laceration on his shoulder. He sat on the bumper of an ambulance, his face a mask of weary, aristocratic grief. To the officers and fire marshals milling about, he was the tragic hero who had barely saved his fiancée from a catastrophic structural failure.He looked at Ivy, a silen

  • HIS POISONOUS POSESSION   Chapter 18 Continuation (2)

    The pressure change was sudden and violent. One moment they were being crushed by the weight of the Palisades; the next, they were being spat out into the open water of the cove.Ivy broke the surface, gasping for air, her vision blurry with salt and tears. The rain was still falling, a cold shroud over the black water. She felt the heavy tug of her clothes, the weight of the ruby necklace still tight around her throat—a permanent brand even in the middle of the ocean."Dante!" she choked out, her voice barely a whisper against the waves.A few yards away, a dark shape bobbed in the water. Dante emerged, his hair plastered to his forehead, his face pale and ghostly in the moonlight. He swam toward her with a ragged, exhausted stroke, his hand finding her shoulder and pulling her toward a flat shelf of rock near the cave entrance.They dragged themselves onto the stone, collapsing side-by-side, their chests heaving, their bodies shivering with a deep, bone-deep cold.Above them, on the

  • HIS POISONOUS POSESSION   Chapter 18

    [The Salt and the Silt]The high-pitched whine of the diamond-tipped drill bit against the reinforced steel door of the vault was a sound that set the teeth on edge, a mechanical scream that filled the small, stone-walled chamber. It was the sound of a countdown. Marcus, the man who had been the shadow in the corner of the Moretti legacy for three decades, was no longer waiting for orders. He was correcting a mistake.Ivy stood in the center of the vault, her legs trembling but her mind startlingly clear. The "Long Con" was over. The submissive trophy had been shed like a winter skin, and beneath it stood the architect—the woman who had learned to read the bones of the Palisades better than the man who owned them.Dante was leaning against the iron safe, his breath hitched, his eyes fixed on the door where the first sparks of the breach were beginning to shower the floor. He looked at the gun in Ivy’s hand—his gun—and then up at her face."You’re serious," he whispered, the words bare

  • HIS POISONOUS POSESSION   Chapter 17 Continuation (3)

    Dante looked at the drive. For the first time since she had met him, Ivy saw a flicker of genuine fear in his eyes. Not fear of her, or fear of the law—but fear of himself."The truth is a cage, Ivy," he whispered. "I was trying to keep you out of it.""I’m already in the cage, Dante! You put the collar on me! If I’m going to be your trophy, I deserve to know whose blood I’m polished with!"Outside the vault door, they could hear Marcus pounding on the stone. "Dante! Open the door! She’s poisoned you! She’s found the black sun! You have to let me finish it!"Dante stood up, pulling Ivy with him. He walked to the safe—the one Ivy had already opened—and pulled out a heavy iron lever.

  • HIS POISONOUS POSESSION   Chapter 17 Continuation (2)

    Isabella turned her head, her eyes milky and wide. "You found the paper truth. But the paper doesn't burn like flesh. The fire wasn't just to hide the debt, little bird. The fire was a ritual. Dante’s father... he didn't die because of Rossi. He died because he wanted to be the only god in this house."Ivy felt a chill that had nothing to do with the dampness. "What are you saying? Dante believes his father was a victim.""Dante believes the lies that keep him king," Isabella whispered, grabbing Ivy’s wrist. Her grip was cold and skeletal. "The 'Shadow Ledger' isn't the weapon. The weapon is the third drive. The one marked with the black sun. It doesn't prove the crimes, Ivy. It proves the succession.""I don't under

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