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Chapter 20

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last update Last Updated: 2026-02-26 03:33:41

The city streets blurred past as Ivy Harper sat in the back of the sleek black car, hands folded tightly in her lap. The hum of the engine and the occasional flicker of headlights reflected on the windows, painting her face in shifting shadows. She felt… strange. Calm, but heavy. Anticipatory, yet anxious. It was a feeling she’d grown familiar with, but this time, it carried a different weight. She was about to see Emily.

The hospital loomed ahead, sterile and imposing in the early evening ligh
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    The hospital room emptied within minutes.The nurse dismissed. The tablet confiscated. Emily persuaded—gently—to rest.Now it was just them.Ivy. Sebastian. Lucien. Rafael. Jaxon.No more softness.No more careful phrasing.The air was precise.Sebastian spoke first.“How long?”Ivy didn’t pretend to misunderstand. “Two meetings.”“We know that,” Rafael said coolly. “I’m asking how long you intended to keep it from us.”Her jaw tightened. “Until I understood what he wanted.”Lucien’s gaze was steady. “And now?”“Now I know he wants you destabilized.”“And you thought playing both sides would stabilize us?” Rafael asked.“I’m not playing,” Ivy snapped quietly. “I’m preventing escalation.”Jaxon finally spoke. “By withholding critical information.”His voice wasn’t angry.It was analytical.That almost hurt more.Sebastian stepped closer, not threatening — just deliberate.“You don’t get to decide alone which risks we take.”“And you don’t get to decide alone what truths I deserve,” she

  • Owned By The Enemy    Chapter 30

    Ivy didn’t sleep.Again.Emily hearing something had shifted everything.It meant the fracture wasn’t contained inside the penthouse anymore.It had reached her sister.That was unacceptable.At 6:12 a.m., Ivy was already dressed.By 6:40, she was in the hospital parking lot.Too early for visitors. Too early for coincidence.Perfect.Emily was awake when she walked in.“You look terrible,” Emily said softly.“You look alive,” Ivy replied, sitting beside her bed.A small smile.But it didn’t reach either of their eyes.“You heard more than you told me,” Ivy said quietly.Emily hesitated.Then nodded.“They think you’re a risk.”Ivy didn’t flinch.“What exactly did you hear?”“Leak. Monitor. Contain damage.” Emily swallowed. “And that you’ve met him twice.”Ivy exhaled slowly.“They’re not wrong.”Emily’s eyes widened slightly.“Ivy—”“I’m not betraying anyone,” she cut in gently. “But I am trying to understand what’s happening. And I can’t do that blind.”“You’re playing both sides.”

  • Owned By The Enemy    Chapter 29

    Hospitals had a sound.Not loud.Not chaotic.But constant.The steady hum of machines. Soft footsteps. Muted voices behind curtains.Emily had grown used to it.What she hadn’t grown used to was the way nurses whispered when certain visitors came.Or how security lingered longer than necessary outside her room.She wasn’t weak.Recovering, yes.But not blind.That afternoon, Ivy had stepped out to take a call.Emily hadn’t meant to eavesdrop.She had just been reaching for her water when she heard it.A familiar voice in the hallway.Sebastian.Calm. Controlled. Low.“…we can’t afford another leak.”Emily stilled.Leak?Another voice. Lucien.“It’s internal. It has to be.”Emily’s fingers tightened around the blanket.Internal?“I don’t want to consider it,” Sebastian continued, “but proximity matters.”There was a pause.Then Rafael’s voice — sharper than usual.“She’s been meeting him.”Emily’s heart stopped.She’s been meeting him.Meeting who?There was silence.Then Jaxon.“Conf

  • Owned By The Enemy    Chapter 28

    The penthouse felt different the next morning.Not louder.Quieter.Controlled.Too controlled.Ivy stepped into the living area and immediately felt it — the subtle shift in atmosphere. Rafael was already dressed, leaning against the bar with his usual lazy posture. Except nothing about him was lazy today.Lucien was scrolling through something on his tablet.Jaxon wasn’t visible.Sebastian stood by the window.No one greeted her.That had never happened before.“Good morning,” she said evenly.Rafael glanced up. “Morning.”Lucien’s eyes flicked toward her briefly. Then back down.Sebastian didn’t turn around.Her chest tightened.They knew something.Or they suspected something.And they weren’t saying it.Downstairs, in the secured operations room, Jaxon stared at the logs again.Timestamp. Access route. Internal authentication.It was clean.Too clean.The breach that had leaked minor financial skeletons the previous night hadn’t come from an external hack.It had used an internal

  • Owned By The Enemy    Chapter 27

    Ivy noticed it in the silence first.Not the loud kind.The careful kind.Sebastian had always been controlled. Rafael always sarcastic. Lucien observant. Jaxon quiet. But now their movements were too precise. Their eyes lingered a second too long.They were watching something.Or someone.At dinner, Rafael barely touched his glass.Lucien asked her three unrelated questions about where she had been earlier that evening.Jaxon checked his phone twice in ten minutes.And Sebastian?Sebastian just looked at her.Not accusing.Not suspicious.Calculating.“I’m fine,” Ivy said lightly, though no one had asked.Sebastian’s gaze didn’t move. “I didn’t say you weren’t.”The air shifted.Rafael leaned back. “Security protocols are tightening.”“Oh?” Ivy raised a brow. “Am I under house arrest?”Lucien’s lips curved faintly. “If you were, you wouldn’t know.”It was a joke.But it wasn’t.Ivy felt it.Something was happening beneath her feet.And they weren’t telling her.That night, she didn’t

  • Owned By The Enemy    Chapter 26

    The rain slicked streets reflected city lights like fractured glass, each puddle a distorted mirror of the world Ivy had grown up in. She stepped from the car, boots clicking softly against the wet pavement, heart hammering. Every instinct screamed that this meeting was dangerous — not in the way the men had trained her to expect, but in a way she hadn’t felt since Emily’s accident. Vulnerable. Exposed.The note had been simple: “Alley behind the old gallery. Midnight. Come alone. —F”No explanations, no apologies in ink, just a promise that someone from her past wanted to speak. Ivy had no illusions. Whoever “F” was, this was a risk.Her pulse quickened as a figure emerged from the shadows. Tall, imposing, yet familiar — the man she had imagined countless times but never expected to see. Her father.“Ivy.” His voice was low, careful, and threaded with a weight she couldn’t place. “I… I know I have no right to ask for this, but I need you to hear me.”Ivy froze. Memories crashed again

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