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Chapter One Hundred and One: The Countdown

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I sat at the long mirrored vanity, surrounded by swatches of satin, lace, and glittering trims that the stylists kept laying out in front of me as though I were their canvas instead of their client. My reflection stared back at me, ghostly pale beneath the golden light, lips pressed too tightly together for comfort.

“You’ll love this neckline,” one of them chirped as she held up a sketch. “It’s timeless, elegant, exactly what a Wolfe bride should wear.”

Wolfe bride. Not Ivy. Not a woman with her own tastes, desires, and dreams. Just an accessory to the name.

I murmured something polite and let them chatter over each other, pulling pins from their mouths and clicking their pens against their sketch pads. My wedding dress arrive today, hand sewn in Italy, they’d told me with smug pride, as though the fact alone should have filled me with joy.

Instead, all I felt was the tightening of my chest, the way my ribcage seemed to contract with every breath, like the very walls of the estate had
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In this chapter, Ivy faces the crushing reality of her wedding preparations: a ceremony planned entirely without her voice. Yet beneath the silence, something begins to stir in her, an awakening resolve, a fire that belongs solely to her. The pieces are moving, the countdown has begun, and Ivy’s path toward freedom is no longer a question of if, but when.

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