LOGINWhen he pushed her into the water at the alliance banquet — eight months pregnant, fighting for her life while he held another woman and asked if she was okay — something in Ivy finally broke beyond repair. She lost her son in a hospital room Noah never came to. She signed the divorce papers alone at midnight while he was across town blowing up birthday balloons for his first love. And when he finally walked through the door that night smelling like another woman's celebration, he had the nerve to ask if she even cared about the baby. She pushed the papers across the table and said one thing. "Reject me. Tonight.". He still doesn't know their baby is gone. And honestly? Let him find out the hard way. Ivy is done protecting a man who never once protected her.
View MoreDorian's POVStorm Hillcrest sat on the west end of the region like a scar on good land. The mansion was old, wide, deliberately intimidating, built by someone who wanted people to feel small the moment they stepped inside. I had lived here for eleven years and it still worked on me some mornings.But nothing about this room had ever made me feel small the way the man sitting across from me did.The torture room was not called that because of what happened to other people in it. It was called that because of what it felt like to stand in it. Cold stone, no windows, one door, a single light overhead that was never quite bright enough, and him. Always him. Sitting in that chair like a throne he had grown into over several centuries, completely relaxed, completely unhurried, looking at me with the particular patience of something that had never once been afraid of anything.I hated him.I had hated him since I was fifteen years old and he put a pack in my hands and told me I was Alpha no
Ivy's POV"Shut up." Noah's voice cracked across the courtyard like a whip. "All of you, shut the hell up right now."Nobody shut up."You want us to follow a man who doesn't even know what leading looks like?" The older man at the front didn't flinch, didn't step back, just looked at Noah with the particular exhaustion of someone who had been patient for too long. "Since she left, the pack has been in chaos. Complete chaos. No structure, no direction, nothing.""I said shut—""You made alliances with packs that should never have been touched," another man said from the middle of the group, his voice harder. "Demonic territory, Noah. You dragged us into agreements with people that would have gotten every single one of us killed. For what? For what?""You don't understand the full picture—""We understand enough," a woman near the back said. Her voice was quiet but it carried. "We understand that our pack has been falling apart from the inside and you were too busy chasing your own age
Ivy's POVNoah's arm was tight around me and the knife was still at my neck and I was trying very hard not to show him that my legs were shaking because I refused to give him that.I was weak. Not scared, weak, the kind that came from the inside out, like my body had been running on empty for too long and had finally decided to submit the invoice. Everything hurt in a dull heavy way that I couldn't place and couldn't explain and I had no time to think about it because Noah was pressing the blade slightly harder and talking and I needed to stay present.Then Liam's scent hit me.And something completely strange happened.My wolf surged so hard I almost gasped out loud, howling, thrashing, excited in a way she had never been in my entire life, and at the same time my knees nearly buckled and I felt both stronger and weaker simultaneously and I had absolutely no explanation for it. Stronger because he was here, because his scent settled over me like something covering something exposed,
Liam's POVKel came in and slammed his fist on the table hard enough to make everything on it jump. "What the hell is going on. Every pack in the region is pulling tight, the smaller ones are scared, all of them living in actual fear right now, and nobody is telling me why they're suddenly coming at Blue Elite with this kind of force.""Sit down," I said."I don't want to sit down—""Kel."He sat and I turned back to the young lad and looked at him properly. Two hours in this office and he had not wasted a single second of it. I wanted to keep him. That decision was already made in my head, I just hadn't said it out loud yet."Tell me again," I said. "All of it."He leaned forward. "She's innocent. Her leaving the party has nothing to do with any engagement with your rivals, nothing connects her to that meeting, not timing, not location, not motive. Whoever built this case against her did it fast and they did it sloppy and that means they panicked." He glanced sideways at my uncle sit
Ivy's POVDid he think he was talking to a five year old?Because I was standing here, or sitting here, technically, in steaming water with chain marks on my wrists and a bruise the size of a fist spreading across my jaw and Liam was looking at me waiting for an answer and the only coherent thought
Ivy's POVDelinda was already talking before we even fully crossed the threshold.She was standing dead center in the corridor, arms folded, chin lifted, dressed like she had been waiting for this exact moment and had rehearsed it three times in front of a mirror. Beautiful in the specific way that
Ivy's POVI laughed at his words and I watched Noah's face go through about six different emotions in four seconds and laughed harder."What?" he said."Nothing." I pressed my lips together and failed. "Nothing, it's just—" I shook my head. "Do you remember March? The heavy rain? The night the east
Ivy's Pov Amy's face did something I had never seen it do. Something genuine and hurt and ugly. She looked at him and then at me and then back at him and her voice when she spoke was very quiet. "Your wife," she repeated."Amy." Harder this time. "Leave."She left. And the sound of her footsteps g






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