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Chapter 41 Jaxon’s Pov
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2026-06-29 04:26:27
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Icing The Heart Chapter 63 Jaxon’s Pov
My father’s voice changed when he heard the voice. “Evan,” he said. Evan’s entire body went still.“You know me?”“I remember you.”Evan laughed once.There was nothing amused in it.“Of course you do.”“I came back for you.”“No.”Evan took another step forward.“You came back after the fire. There is a difference.”My father did not answer.Evan continued.“You came back after everyone else was gone. You came back to a building full of smoke and ash, and you found one kid hiding behind shelves.”“I found you alive.”“You found me terrified.”“I know.”“You gave me a blanket.”The words changed Evan’s face.Not softer.More exposed.Then he looked at the door.“You said you would come back.”The silence that followed felt like something breaking.My father spoke quietly.“I did.”“No.”Evan’s voice cracked.“You came back one time. Then Mara took me away. Then she put me somewhere else. Then people found us. Then I came back here because there was nowhere else to go.”Mara covered
Icing The Heart Chapter 62 Jaxon’s Pov
I knew my father’s voice before I knew what it was saying.That was the cruel part.I had not heard it in years.Not properly.There were old recordings somewhere in Evelyn’s house. A few videos from my childhood. Some interviews he had given before he disappeared from the public part of our lives. A voicemail he had left for Amelia on her sixteenth birthday that Evelyn kept stored on an old phone no one had the courage to delete.But none of those things had prepared me for this.For his voice coming through a crack in a metal door beneath a library floor.For the tiredness in it.For the urgency.For the fact that some part of me still recognised him before I could stop myself.“Rory,” he said again.“Please do not let them open that door.”The words moved through me like a blade.I stood completely still.Everyone else seemed to disappear for a second.Bennett.Mara.Evan.Rory beside me.The broken glass across the floor.The red warning light above the door.All of it blurred at
Icing The Heart Chapter 61 Rory's Pov
I looked at Mara.“What happened to him?” I asked. Mara’s mouth trembled slightly.“We tried to move him.”Evan laughed.“You tried to move me once.”“Evan—”“You gave me a new name. A new address. You gave me a room in a house with a woman who was supposed to be my aunt. Then someone found us.”Mara’s face crumpled for one second.Then she forced it back into place.“She died protecting you.”“She died because you put us somewhere you thought was safe.”The words struck harder than any of us expected.I understood him.That was the terrible part.I understood why he had locked the doors.Why he had watched us arrive.Why he had stood upstairs clapping while the lights went out.He wanted control.Not in the way Victor wanted it.Not to own us.To survive us.To prove he would never again be the child behind the locked door while everyone else chose what happened next.“Why are we here?” I asked.Evan’s eyes returned to me.“You are here because you were going to go below ground.”I
Icing The Heart Chapter 60 Rory's Pov
The clapping stopped after the fifth sound.One.Two.Three.Four.Five.Slow.Measured.Almost polite.Then the library went silent again.I could hear glass settling around us.Tiny pieces still dropping from the ceiling in distant corners of the room. Rain tapping against the windows. My own breath. Jaxon’s breath somewhere close behind me.The whole building seemed to be holding itself still.Waiting.“Show yourself,” Bennett said.Her voice cut through the dark.Nothing answered.I stood with my hand against my stomach and my other hand still holding the edge of the ledger. The page beneath my fingers felt cold. Too cold. I could not stop looking at the words written there.Unregistered third-generation subject.Expected date of expression unknown.My child had been reduced to a line in someone else’s book.A possibility.A forecast.A thing waiting to become useful to people who had spent years deciding that other human beings were materials.The thought should have made me feel
Icing The Heart Chapter 59 Jaxon’s Pov
Mara continued anyway. “They were wrong about what it was. They thought they had found something they could create, control and reproduce. They thought fear was the trigger.”Her eyes moved to me.Then back to Rory.“But Clara believed the response was not created by them.”The room shifted.Bennett looked at Mara sharply.“What?”Mara picked up a folder from beneath the circulation desk.I had not seen her place it there.Maybe she had carried it from the beginning.Maybe it had been waiting for us.She opened it.Inside were pages aged yellow at the edges.Handwritten notes.Clara’s writing.Rory saw it.Her face changed.She took one step forward.Mara held out the folder but did not release it yet.“Your mother believed they were studying the wrong thing,” Mara said.Rory’s eyes stayed on the papers.“What did she believe?”Mara looked at her.“She believed the response was a survival mechanism.”The words moved through the room quietly.But they reached something inside me.Every
Icing The Heart Chapter 58 Jaxon’s Pov
The voice did not sound like a recording.That was the first thing I knew.Recordings carried distance, even when they were clear enough to make you forget they had been captured years ago. There was always something missing beneath the words. A breath taken too late. A flatness in the sound. The faint mechanical edge of a voice travelling through wires instead of air.But the woman speaking through the library speakers sounded close.Too close.Like she was standing behind us in the dark.“Rory.”Her name moved through the building.Soft.Broken.Familiar enough that Rory’s fingers tightened around mine.I could not see her face. The lights had gone out completely. No emergency fixtures. No glow from the rain-dark windows. The library had become one black, breathing space around us.But I felt her.Her breath catching.The way every part of her body went still beside me.“Do not let them take you home.”Then the speakers clicked.Silence returned.Not ordinary silence.The kind that
Icing The Heart Chapter 5 Rory's Pov
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Icing The Heart Chapter 3 Rory's Pov
By six in the morning, I had cleaned my apartment twice and hated myself for the third time before sunrise.The kitchen counters were spotless. The living room rug had been vacuumed so aggressively it probably needed therapy. I had rearranged the throw pillows, wiped down the windows, scrubbed the
Icing The Heart Chapter 2 Rory's Pov
By six forty-three, I had tried on six outfits and hated every single version of myself.The black dress made me look like I was attending a funeral which, to be fair, was close enough. The red one looked like I was trying too hard. The jeans said I had not tried at all. The cream blouse looked too
Icing The Heart Chapter 1 Rory's Pov
My back slammed into the boards so hard the whole rink seemed to crack open.For one blind second, all I heard was the thunder of my own body hitting glass, the sharp scrape of skates and the distant shout of someone calling my name. My helmet flew off, skidding across the ice like a useless piece
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