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After The Fallout
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2026-08-23 02:55:15POV: Ava Bennett
"They're taking him out in handcuffs right now, it's on every channel," Marissa said, rushing up beside me as the crowd of reporters surged toward the side exit where two police officers were leading Sterling away from the building."Where's Vanessa?" I asked, scanning the chaos of flashing cameras and shouting voices, my heart still pounding from everything I had just watched unfold on that stage."Gone, she pulled the little girl into a car the se
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The Ice King's Forbidden Heir After The Fallout
POV: Ava Bennett"They're taking him out in handcuffs right now, it's on every channel," Marissa said, rushing up beside me as the crowd of reporters surged toward the side exit where two police officers were leading Sterling away from the building."Where's Vanessa?" I asked, scanning the chaos of flashing cameras and shouting voices, my heart still pounding from everything I had just watched unfold on that stage."Gone, she pulled the little girl into a car the second the recording ended, nobody's seen which direction she went," Marissa said, holding her tablet up so I could see the live news feed already looping the audio clip of Sterling's threat over and over.I pushed through the crowd toward the stage, ignoring the reporters who shoved microphones toward my face, shouting questions about my company, about Eve, about whether I had known any of this before tonight."Miss Bennett, did you know your daughter was being used as leverage?
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir The Press Conference
POV: Ava Bennett"You're doing what?" I said, gripping my phone so tightly my knuckles went white as I paced my office an hour before the press conference was set to begin, my heels clicking sharply against the floor with every turn."I need you to trust me, Ava, just for the next hour, that's all I'm asking," Noah said on the other end of the line, his voice steady in a way I hadn't heard from him in six years."Noah, if you walk onto that stage and something goes wrong, Sterling could still bury my license review before we even get a chance to explain," I said, stopping at the window overlooking the arena where black cars were already lining up outside, reporters spilling out onto the sidewalk with cameras slung over their shoulders."Nothing is going to go wrong," Noah said. "David and I have everything we need. Just be there. Watch.""David," I repeated slowly. "You've been working with David.""For three days," Noah said. "He didn't tell you because he wanted to be sure before he
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir Unlikely Allies
POV: Noah Callahan"You called me for help," David said, opening the door to his hotel suite before I could even knock a second time, his expression somewhere between amused and suspicious."I know how this looks," I said, stepping inside past him, my shoes echoing against the marble floor of the entryway."It looks like the guy who's spent two weeks glaring at me across parking lots suddenly needs my connections," David said, closing the door and crossing his arms over his chest."Sterling gave me until Friday to marry Vanessa, or he buries Ava's franchise in a licensing investigation, and he made it clear Eve's medical care gets caught in the crossfire," I said, dropping onto the edge of the couch because my legs felt too unsteady to keep standing."He threatened her," David said, his voice going flat, all trace of amusement gone from his face."He didn't have to say it directly, but yes," I said, rubbing both hands over my face. "He knows exactly which words to avoid so nobody can
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir The Old Owners Return
POV: Noah Callahan"Mr. Sterling is in the private lounge and he's asking for you specifically, not Miss Bennett," Dylan said, catching me in the hallway outside the locker room, his face tight with worry."Sterling doesn't own anything here anymore, Dylan, he sold the team, he has no reason to be in this building," I said, though I was already walking toward the lounge before I finished the sentence."That's exactly what I told security, but he had some kind of old executive badge that still worked on the side door," Dylan said, jogging to keep up with me.I pushed open the lounge door and found the old man sitting comfortably in one of the leather chairs, a glass of scotch in his hand like he still owned the building."Noah, good to see you're still standing after that circus on the news this morning," Sterling said, not bothering to stand up."You need to leave, you don't have access to this facility anymore," I said, standing in the doorway with my arms crossed."I think you'll wa
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir The Woman On The News
POV: Ava Bennett"You should have told me," Noah said, standing in the doorway of my office the next morning, his tie loose around his neck like he hadn't bothered to fix it after driving straight from the hospital."Close the door, Noah," I said, setting down my pen and folding my hands on the desk to keep them from shaking.He shut the door behind him and stood there, not moving any closer, just staring at me like he was seeing a stranger."She's mine," he said, not a question this time."Yes," I said simply, because there was no point in lying anymore, not after what happened at the hospital."Six years, Ava, I have a six-year-old daughter I didn't know existed for six years," Noah said, his voice shaking between anger and grief."You made your choice on that ice rink, Noah, and I made mine on the airplane that same night, and my choice was to protect her from a family that would have used her the exact same way they used me," I said, standing up from my chair to meet him at eye le
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir Same Blood
POV: Noah Callahan"Sir, you can't be back here, this is a restricted area for patients only," a nurse said, stepping in front of me as I pushed through the double doors of Seattle General's pediatric wing."I'm looking for a little girl, dark curly hair, about four years old, she might have come in with a woman named Ava Bennett," I said, my chest still tight from the sprint across the parking garage after David called me in a panic.Wait, David had never called me. He had called the front desk of the arena, and Dylan had picked up, and Dylan had run straight to find me on the ice, breathless, saying only one word."Hospital.""I can't give out patient information, sir," the nurse said, though her eyes softened slightly at whatever she saw on my face."Noah!" David's voice called out from down the hallway, and I turned to see him standing outside a room with his hands shoved deep into his coat pockets, his face pale."What happened, is she alright?" I asked, closing the distance betw
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