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Chapter Sixteen: Breaking the Pattern

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A soft knock startled me.

I sat up quickly, heart hammering, adjusting the sheets and brushing my fingers through my tangled hair to make it look like I’d just woken up. The truth was, I hadn’t slept at all. Not after what I’d heard downstairs. Not after hearing Robert Wolfe say the words that would haunt me for the rest of my life.

He’s not my son.

Killian Wolfe wasn’t Robert’s son. He never had been.

The door creaked open, and Victor stepped inside. Clean-shaven, dressed in gray sweats and a dark fitted tee, his damp hair still curled at the edges from his morning shower. He looked… perfect. As always.

“Ivy,” he said softly. “Did I wake you?”

I blinked slowly and let a drowsy smile play across my lips. “Mmm… no. I was just waking up.”

He stepped in, closing the door behind him with a soft click. There was something different about his expression, like he was watching me too closely, trying to read something I wasn’t ready to show.

“How did you sleep?” he asked, walking toward the bed
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Ivy is trying to do what’s right. To bury the fire and choose the safer path. But desire, once awakened, doesn’t die quietly, it haunts, it lingers, and it refuses to be ignored. This chapter marks a turning point, not because she chose Victor… but because it’s the first time she truly felt the weight of what it means to let go of the man who broke all her rules. Killian might not be a Wolfe by blood, but he’s burned into Ivy in ways no name can erase. Things are only going to get messier from here.

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