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Chapter 15 Rory's Pov
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2026-06-11 11:13:54
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Icing The Heart Chapter 19 Rory's Pov
The truth sat heavily between us. Jaxon relaxed against the kitchen island.For a moment, he looked exhausted. Not just physically. Soul-deep exhausted too. "Did you think I wouldn't want it?"The question caught me off guard.I looked at him. Really looked at him.The man who had spent weeks secretly building a case against the organization.The man who had taken a brutal hit to protect me.The man who had betrayed me before learning how much I mattered."No."His shoulders relaxed slightly."I knew you'd want the baby."The vulnerability in his expression nearly undid me."Then why?"I laughed softly.Not because anything was funny but because everything hurt."Because every decision felt impossible."His gaze softened. I continued before courage disappeared."One minute I was furious at you."The truth came easier now."The next minute I was remembering the cabin."His eyes closed briefly. "Rory.""I kept trying to hate you properly."The confession hung between us in a painfully
Icing The Heart Chapter 18 Rory's Pov
The world did not shatter dramatically.There was no cinematic explosion. No collapse of walls. No thunder cracking across the sky.Instead, everything became painfully, terrifyingly clear.I stared at the frozen image on my phone screen.The little girl holding the oversized hockey stick.The missing tooth. The crooked smile.The eyes. My eyes.A strange ringing filled my ears.For years, I had carried my father's memory like a sacred thing. Small. Fragile. Precious.My father teaching me to skate.My father waking before sunrise to drive me to tournaments.My father cheering louder than every parent in the arena combined.My father dying in what everyone called a tragic accident.Simple. Clean. Finished.Now a dead man was sitting inside a video recording telling me my father had died alongside him trying to expose corruption.Nothing about that was simple. Nothing about that was finished.Beside me, Jaxon looked equally stunned.His phone buzzed continuously from somewhere on the k
Icing The Heart Chapter 17 Rory's Pov
For a long moment, neither of us moved. The notification remained on my screen.FROM: Richard Kane, Scheduled Delivery ArchiveRelease only if Rory Callahan is in immediate danger.The dead weren't supposed to have perfect timing.Yet somehow, the man who had been buried fifteen years ago had chosen the exact moment the world learned about my pregnancy to reach into the present.My fingers hovered over the phone.Jaxon was staring at the screen as though it might disappear if he blinked."My father..." he whispered.His voice was almost unrecognizable. Now, he was not the calm captain. He was not the arrogant superstar.He was just a little boy hearing his father's name after years of silence.I looked at him. Every instinct told me to hand him the phone but the subject line wasn't addressed to him.It was addressed to me.Slowly, I tapped the email.A video attachment appeared and a file popped up. IF YOU ARE WATCHING THIS, SOMETHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG.My heart skipped and Jax
Icing The Heart Chapter 16 Jaxon’s Pov
For one endless second, I forgot how to breathe.The words hung between us, suspended in the air like a puck frozen inches before the goal line.Yes. She was pregnant. Like, she was pregnant with a child. My child. My mind refused to move beyond that single fact.Pregnant.Rory.The woman I had spent two years pushing away.The woman I had spent the last six weeks trying desperately to protect.The woman standing three feet away from me with tears shining in her eyes and every muscle in her body locked as if she expected me to become another enemy.I couldn't just understand it. Suddenly, the phone in my hand vibrated violently.Then again. And again.I didn't look at it.I couldn't. My focus was on Rory. Nothing existed except her."When?" I asked quietly.Her fingers curled protectively over her stomach."Don't.""When did you find out?""I said don't."Her voice wasn't angry. It was terrified.That realization hit me harder than any body check I'd ever taken.Rory Callahan wasn'
Icing The Heart Chapter 15 Rory's Pov
“You had proof,” I said to Jaxon after a moment.“Yes.” he responded carefully to me. “And you still did not tell me.”His face tightened. “I was trying to build enough to protect you.”The laugh that left me sounded tired even to my own ears. “There it is again.”“What?”“Men making decisions about my life for me and calling it protection.”His eyes closed briefly. “I deserved that.”“You deserve worse.”“I know.”I hated him and at the same time, I cared for him. The two truths stood inside me like enemies and neither one would die.“You should have told me the day you turned it down,” I said. “You should have sat me down and said, Rory, I agreed to help push you out, but now I want to fix it. You should have given me the choice to hate you with all the facts.”“I was afraid.”That stunned me into silence.Jaxon Kane did not say afraid.He said angry. Focused. Tired. Fine.Never afraid. Not at all. His voice dropped. “I was afraid that if I told you the truth before I had proof o
Icing The Heart Chapter 14 Rory's Pov
“ I found the other clauses too,” I said after a while and Jaxon’s body went still behind me.“What other clauses?”I laughed quietly. “You really do not know?”“Tell me.”I faced him again.“The impossible performance standards buried in my contract. The limited ice time used against my own metrics. The injury reports written like character defects. The media notes. The behavioral summaries. The fact that my entire career with this team was designed like a maze with every exit marked failure.”His expression darkened with recognition and somehow, broke anything that was yet to be broken inside of me. “You saw your file,” he said in a matter of fact tone. It was not a question; it was clear that he knew. I glared at him. “So you knew there was a file.”He sighed before responding carefully, “I knew they tracked incidents.”“Incidents.” I smiled bitterly. “That is a lovely word for living.”His hands flexed again. “I did not know the full structure.”“But you knew enough.”“Yes.”The
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