This was one of the darkest and most pivotal chapters so far. We finally saw Robert strike with the kind of precision and cruelty that makes him the true spider at the center of this web. it’s a brutal reminder that Robert plays chess while everyone else is scrambling with checkers. For Ivy, this is a breaking point too,, she hears firsthand the price of their choices. For Killian, it’s worse: he’s forced to sit powerless as Victor carries out Robert’s will, and then Robert twists the knife by dangling an impossible revelation, that his father might still be alive. This chapter shifts the entire story into deeper territory: grief, vengeance, and secrets . From here, every move Killian Makes is no longer just about Ivy or revenge, it’s about his very identity. Brace yourself. The Wolves just showed their teeth, and the game has officially turned into war.
Chapter 118 – Closing the NetThe Wolfe mansion gleamed under the midday sun, but inside, the air felt weighted, like a storm pressing against glass.Robert sat at the head of the long mahogany table, every inch of him a portrait of control, shoulders squared, movements deliberate, expression carved into cold stone. Victor paced at the far end, the energy in him frantic, restless, spilling into every corner of the room.The phone on the table buzzed once, discreet, and Robert picked it up. He listened in silence, his expression never shifting.“The extraction is complete,” the voice reported.Robert’s eyes narrowed, though his tone remained calm, clinical. “Hold position. Secure until further instruction.”He ended the call and set the receiver down with surgical precision, as though he were placing a scalpel back on a tray. He didn’t need to pace, didn’t need to shout orders. His control was absolute. He had always known where this game was heading. Killian, for all his arrogance, wa
The line went dead.But the echo of it, the scream, the manic laughter, Robert’s voice like a blade carving through me, kept bleeding into the silence. I sat there with the phone pressed to my ear long after it had already gone cold, my body rigid, my mind refusing to believe what I’d just heard.Mrs. B’s voice. Her cry. Victor’s madness. The sound of her life being torn away.And Robert’s calm pronouncement, like he’d just ordered the weather to change.I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t think. All I could do was sit there and listen to the silence where she used to be.Ivy’s hand touched my arm. “Killian?” Her voice was soft, fragile, as if she already knew. “Calm... Calm down.."I turned to her, but no words came. My throat closed up, the weight in my chest pressing down until it hurt to exist. I saw the question in her eyes, the terror, the need, and I still couldn’t say it. Because if I said it, it would be real.Mrs. B was gone.The only person who ever looked at me and saw a boy wor
The burner phone buzzed against the table.A sharp, vibrating sound that cut through the silence of the safehouse like a blade.Ivy was asleep again. it was as if she had not had any good sleep in months, her head pressed against my chest, her hand curled over my heart as if she could anchor me there. I’d spent hours listening to her breathing, memorizing the rhythm. For the first time in years, I felt something close to peace.And then that damned phone lit up.Unknown number.But I knew.I stared at it, jaw locked, blood turning molten in my veins. I should’ve thrown it into the fire the second I brought Ivy here, but part of me had been waiting for this. Expecting it.The Wolfe don’t let go. Not without blood.The phone buzzed again.Ivy stirred, whispering my name. I pressed a kiss to her hair, forcing calm I didn’t feel.“Go back to sleep,” I said, my voice a gravelled lie.Her lashes fluttered, but she didn’t push. She trusted me. And that was the cruelest part.Because when I s
The safe house was too quiet.It had the kind of silence that never sat right with me,,too clean, too distant, like a room waiting for something to break. Ivy was asleep on the couch, her knees drawn up, her hair spilling like dark silk over the pillow. I sat across from her in the armchair, half a whiskey in my hand, half a curse in my mouth.I should’ve been at ease. She was here. Out of that damned mansion. Out of Victor’s cage. But there was no ease in me. Not now. Not when every second we breathed was borrowed time.I kept watching her chest rise and fall, the steady rhythm like an anchor, but it was also a weight. She trusted me enough to sleep. That meant I couldn’t afford to fail.The burner phone on the table buzzed, shattering the quiet.I was up before the second vibration, snatching it. My voice was a low growl when I answered. “Yeah?”“Killian?”Mrs. B.My shoulders unclenched just enough to let out a breath. “It’s me.”“Good.” Her tone was brisk, but beneath it I could h
Robert Wolfe was a man who believed silence was the sharpest weapon in his arsenal. Noise was for men who had nothing else to offer, men like his son Victor who thought rage equaled power. Robert knew better. Rage clouded, rage exposed. Strategy killed.The study smelled of smoke and oak, curtains drawn to keep the morning light at bay. The shattered whisky glass from the night before had already been swept away, though Robert could still see the stain bleeding faintly into the carpet fibers. He sat behind his desk, hands clasped, and waited as one of his men returned with a phone pressed into his palm.His voice was low, clipped. “Call Mercer back. Tell him the retraction is coming. Immediate.”The man nodded, no questions asked, and disappeared again.Extraction. That was the word Robert had used. Cold. Clean. Not a trace of softness to it. He gave no further instructions aloud, but his men knew what it meant, and a message would be sent soon to killian or anybody that helps him , a
The Wolfe mansion had been locked down for hours, the air so thick with tension it felt like smoke in the lungs. Victor stormed through the halls like a rabid dog, his orders echoing off marble and steel. Guards doubled, gates reinforced, every servant interrogated until their hands shook with fear.But Robert sat in his leather chair, silent. A predator at rest. Watching. Thinking.He had lived long enough to know rage was a luxury only the inexperienced indulged in. Weak men shouted; strong men calculated. And Robert Wolfe had never been weak.The knock at his study door came hesitant, almost apologetic. One of his men entered, phone in hand, bowing his head low as if approaching an altar.“Sir,” the man said carefully. “It’s Mercer.”Robert’s sharp eyes flicked to the phone. Daniel Mercer. A name few in his household even knew. A shadow asset. A relic of older, dirtier days. Useful precisely because he was invisible.Robert gestured with two fingers. The phone was placed into his h