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 MoreIvy's POVMy back was on fire.The chains had been cutting into the same spots for hours and I had stopped feeling my fingers a long time ago and the cold of the cave floor had moved past uncomfortable into something that lived in my bones and just sat there. I couldn't call anyone. I had no link with Liam, no mind link, no way to reach through the bond that didn't fully exist yet and say come now, come right now, they are going to kill me. I had the tracker. I had pressed it until my thumb was raw and now I couldn't even feel my thumb and I didn't know if the signal was still transmitting or if the chains had blocked it or if Liam was even looking at it.I had never felt this alone in my life and I had felt very alone in my life.Amy came back after Noah left.She walked in slowly, no rush, no urgency, the way people move when they know you are not going anywhere. She pulled a chair from the corner of the cave and set it in front of me and sat down and looked at me with the expressio
Liam's POVI was going to lose my mind.I had been sitting in that car outside Ironveil territory for six hours telling myself I gave Noah twenty-four hours and I was going to honor that and every single minute of those six hours, my Lycan had been pacing the inside of my chest like a caged animal that had already decided the cage was temporary. I kept pulling up the tracker signal. Watching the coordinates. The signal had gone stationary north of the main property hours ago and hadn't moved and I didn't know if that was good or not and the not knowing was the worst part.I didn't understand why I cared this much. That was the honest thing I kept running into. I had a contract with Ivy. A practical arrangement. She needed authority, I needed a Luna, clean transaction, no emotional complications. So why the fuck was I sitting outside another Alpha's territory with my jaw locked and my hands flat on my thighs and every piece of me screaming to move?My Lycan didn't answer that questio
Noah's POVI stood there and watched them wrap the chains around her and told myself it was necessary.It was necessary. Ivy was not the woman I married. The woman I married would never have looked at me the way this Ivy looked at me, with that specific fury in her eyes that had no apology in it, no softening, no door left open. The woman I married used to flinch when I raised my voice. Used to smooth things over before they became confrontations. Used to find a way to make herself smaller so the room stayed comfortable. This one scared me and I was not going to say that out loud to anyone alive.I told myself the chains were about keeping her safe. Ivy would hurt herself if she saw an opening. I knew that about her. I knew the way she thought when she was cornered and I knew that she meant it when she said she would rather die than come back and that was not something I was willing to risk, not because I was soft about it, but because a dead Ivy was a useless Ivy and I needed her fu
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 drainage was flooding and I could see from my window that the lower settlement was going to have a problem by morning?" I watched him. "I came to your office with a full proposal, printed, bound with cost projections, structural breakdowns, contractor contacts, everything. I knocked on your door and Amy was on your couch with my blanket and a cup of tea that I made, Noah, I made it that morning before I even knew you'd need it, and you looked at me like I had interrupted a funeral." I tilted my head. "You told me the projects were meaningless. That I was disturbing you. You said, and I am quoting directly, that you didn't have time for my hobby projects." I let that land. "I came back twi
Liam's POVIt’s been one week. I was gone for one week and somehow in that time my brother had decided to use the treasury wing as a personal punching bag, Alpha Edmund had taken his security agreement and his wounded pride I
Ivy's POVI didn't understand what was happening. I didn't understand this place, these people, or why two women who had never seen me in their lives hated me with the specific intensity of something personal. All I knew was that my face was still stinging from the slap, my scalp was burning from w
Ivy's POVMy hands wouldn't stop shaking.I stood in the middle of that hall and watched Noah announce the punishment like he was reading a grocery list, and something inside me — the last small piece that had still, stupidly, been hoping he would come back to hi
Ivy's POVThe knock came at eight in the morning.I was still in my oversized grey sleep shirt, hair pulled up in a messy bun, holding a half-empty mug of tea I hadn't actually tasted yet. I pulled the door open without thinking and immediately wished I hadn't.Amy stood in the hallway looking like
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