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Chapter 31 Rory's Pov
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2026-06-23 21:10:27
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Icing The Heart Chapter 31 Rory's Pov
The cracker stopped halfway to my mouth.I missed you.I should have had something sharp ready. Some sarcastic defense. Some clean little blade to cut the moment down before it grew too large.Nothing came.He stood on the other side of the island, tall and exhausted, with his hair still messy from the long night and his eyes heavy with everything he had done wrong and everything he wanted to do right. The sight of him should have been easier to resist.It was not.“I was right here,” I said.His mouth twisted. “No, you weren’t.”I looked down. He was right.For weeks, I had sat beside him in public, smiled for cameras, answered reporters, shared an apartment, shared a bed once, shared breath in the dark and still, I had been gone. Somewhere behind my eyes, behind my voice, behind every polite answer I used like a locked door.He had noticed.Jaxon noticed everything except the things fear made him blind to.A knock came at the door before either of us could say anything else.Both of
Icing The Heart Chapter 30 Rory's Pov
The message sat on my phone like it had been carved there.Ask Evelyn why she knew your mother.For several seconds, neither Jason and I spoke.The secure apartment had gone too quiet again. That seemed to be its favorite trick. It allowed small moments of warmth to settle, allowed laughter to appear cautiously, then ripped the floor open with one sentence from a man who should have already been in handcuffs.Jaxon stood beside the table, staring at my phone with a frozen expression. The soft amusement from remembering our childhood meeting had vanished completely from his face, replaced by the controlled, dangerous stillness I had once mistaken for arrogance. His eyes had gone flat and cold but I knew him better now. The colder he looked, the more violently he was feeling underneath.I looked down at the photograph again.Victor had Lena.Or at least, he wanted us to believe he had her.She sat beside him in the image, her shoulders straight, her chin lifted, her mouth pressed into a
Icing The Heart Chapter 29 Jaxon’s Pov
After a moment, Agent Bennett pointed toward one of the photographs and spoke with a detective tone, "Amelia attended six different events involving Rory."I stared hard. Then stared again as if trying to understand.The evidence was undeniable. The dates stretched across several years.Long before Rory and I met. Long before professional hockey. Long before any of this."Why?" I asked.The question came out sharper than intended.Agent Bennett looked frustrated.For once, she didn't have an answer."We don't know."Rory continued studying the photographs. Something about her expression changed. Very slightly.Then she picked up one particular image. "Wait."Every head turned toward her. She slid the photograph across the table. Toward me.My stomach tightened immediately.The image showed Rory's father standing outside a small arena.Amelia stood beside him. There was nothing unusual there.Then I noticed the third person. The person was a woman. She had dark hair, a warm smile and o
Icing The Heart Chapter 28 Jaxon’s Pov
Sleep never came.The federal apartment was quiet, secure, and probably safer than any place Rory and I had been in weeks and yet my mind refused to settle.The city stretched beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows in a sea of lights. Barges drifted slowly along the Hudson. Traffic crawled across distant bridges. Somewhere below, thousands of people were ending ordinary days and preparing for ordinary tomorrows.Ordinary felt like a luxury.I stood alone in the kitchen shortly after three in the morning, staring into a mug of coffee that had long since gone cold.The name kept replaying in my head.Amelia Kane-Callahan.My sister's name. Rory's surname.Connected.Somehow.How in hell was that possible?The archive had never contained coincidences. Every file Richard Kane created had purpose. Every note. Every contingency. Every hidden recording.Which meant my father had deliberately written that name.The implication refused to leave me alone.A soft sound drew my attention just then a
Icing The Heart Chapter 27 Rory's Pov
The meeting continued for another hour.By the end of it, nobody seemed particularly happy.Federal protection remained necessary.Public disappearance remained impossible.Victor remained missing.The archive remained incomplete.Everything was complicated. Totally complicated. Exactly as expected.Eventually, Agent Bennett dismissed everyone. Well, everyone except me and Jaxon.That detail immediately caught my attention.The room emptied gradually.Marcus left first.Several agents escorted him toward another interview room.Lena disappeared into a conference call involving attorneys, federal prosecutors and what sounded like a deeply unfortunate television producer.My mother lingered for longer. Watching us. Observing. Thinking. The familiar habit irritated me even as I wondered what was going on in her mind. Finally she approached us and knowing her, I braced instinctively.The reaction wasn't subtle at all. Evelyn noticed how I had reacted. Of course she noticed. She noticed
Icing The Heart Chapter 26 Rory's Pov
The entire room seemed to be waiting for my reaction.Federal agents. Investigators. Lawyers.A kidnapped public relations director who had apparently escaped her own abduction through sheer force of annoyance.My future child's father.All of them were watching me.Expecting something. Agreement perhaps.Acceptance. Gratitude. They were just expecting something profound.But I did not give them something profound.Instead, I laughed in response and the sound echoed through the operations room. It was a long, disbelieving laugh that grew stronger the more I thought about what Agent Bennett had just said.Federal protective custody.Of course, it was federal protective custody.Why stop at conspiracy, murder, corporate corruption, genetic experimentation, media scandals, pregnancy leaks and billionaires behaving badly when we could add witness protection to the list?The universe had clearly committed itself to excess.Agent Bennett remained perfectly calm as he spoke. "I understand th
Icing The Heart Chapter 21 Jaxon’s Pov
The mood shifted sharply an hour later. Marcus had arrived. And Federal agents had escorted him upstairs. Agent Cole remained with him.A precaution I appreciated.Marcus entered the apartment looking like someone hadn't slept in days.His usually relaxed appearance had vanished completely. Dark ci
Icing The Heart Chapter 20 Jaxon’s Pov
The photograph sat on Rory's phone screen like a loaded weapon.Lena was alive.At least, she appeared alive.She sat in a metal chair inside what looked like an abandoned warehouse. Her expression remained remarkably composed considering the circumstances. There were no visible injuries. No obviou
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 secr
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 miss
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