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The Ice King's Forbidden Heir You're Proving It Now
POV: Noah Callahan"Everything," Ava said. "Say all of it out loud tonight. I'll listen to every word."It was nine o'clock. Eve was asleep upstairs with a FrostTech guard in the hallway and Ava's old stuffed rabbit tucked under her chin. We sat at the kitchen island with two untouched mugs between us, and I could hear my own pulse in my ears."Hollis says the knee won't last the season," I said. "I told him to hold the report because I was afraid. Not for you. For me."She did not move."If I'm hurt, I'm nobody. That's what I believed for most of my life. A man who can't skate is a man nobody needs. And you own the team, Ava. You own my contract. So when the scan came back I thought, she'll look at me differently. She'll see a bad investment." My throat tightened. "I told myself I was protecting you. Mostly I was protecting me.""Noah.""Dylan said I was doing it again. He was right. I made myself the hero of a story where you were too fragile to hear the ending." I held out both han
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir Who Pays You?
POV: Ava BennettMarissa slid the note across the boardroom table at 8:14. I read it upside down before it reached me.SCHOOL. MAN AT FENCE. EVE IS SAFE. GO.I was in the stairwell before the chairman finished his sentence. I did not remember pressing the elevator button or running through the lobby, only the cold air outside and my driver's face as I jumped into the back seat."Eagle Creek Elementary," I said. "Whatever it takes."He ran two red lights.I called Janelle from the back seat. She picked up on the first ring."There's a man outside Eve's school," I said. "Gray Subaru, tan jacket, a long lens. His name is Leland Shaw.""How do you know that?""Dale Pruitt gave Noah the name this morning.""Dale Pruitt is sitting in my conference room," Janelle said. "I'm waking a judge for a protective order as we speak. Ava, do not let Noah touch that man.""He promised.""Promises and tempers are different animals.""I know," I said, and hung up before she could hear me breathe.Three p
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir He Is At The Doorway
POV: Noah CallahanI texted Ava from the guest room at 4:40 in the morning, because I had not slept and could not stop my thumbs from shaking.Leaving at 5:30 for Aurora Avenue. David will sit in the lot. I'll go in alone like he asked, but David can see the booth through the window. Anything you want changed?Her answer came in under a minute. She had been awake too.Wear the heavier coat. Keep your phone on and the call open the whole time. Eve goes to school today with a guard. If we hide her, he wins.A second message followed.Thank you for telling me first.I stared at those six words for a long time. Then I put on the heavier coat.The diner on Aurora was a low box of orange vinyl and fluorescent light, half empty at six. A waitress with a pencil behind her ear nodded toward a corner booth where a man sat hunched under a cap, both hands wrapped around a mug he had not touched.He looked about forty and weighed maybe a hundred and fifty pounds. His scrubs were wrinkled. When I s
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir One Fight At A Time
POV: Ava Bennett"One fight at a time," Noah said. He had not sat down. He stood on the far side of the kitchen island gripping its edge, his weight shifted onto his right leg. "That's why. You were already in the middle of a war, Ava. I didn't want you fighting two.""So you chose which one I was allowed to know about.""I chose to protect you.""From a torn ligament." I laughed, and it scraped my throat. "Noah, I have watched that knee for ten years. I know its sounds. I know which stairs it hates. You told me a defenseman caught you with a stick, and I iced it. I put a bag of frozen peas on a ruptured ligament and kissed you goodnight.""It was one week.""It was eight days of you looking at me and lying.""I didn't lie. I left something out.""That is the same thing when it's your wife's face on the other end."He pushed a hand through his hair. It was shaking. "What do you want me to say? That I'm sorry? I am. I'm so sorry I can't breathe around it. But if the trial goes badly, i
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir What I Didn't Say
POV: Noah Callahan"Complete tear of the anterior cruciate," Doctor Hollis said, tapping the glowing scan with the cap of his pen. "And the meniscus is torn through behind it. I'm sorry, Noah. I wish I had a gentler way to say it."That was last Tuesday. The imaging room at Seattle General had smelled like floor cleaner and old coffee. I remembered that because I had focused on the smell. It was easier than looking at the picture of my own knee, gray and wrong."How long?" I asked."Surgery within three weeks, or you risk permanent damage. Then nine months of rehab if everything goes well. Your season is over.""My season." I laughed once. "It's the playoff push.""It's your knee, and you already have two surgeries in it." Hollis put the pen down. "Does your wife know? She owns the team. She'll see the injury report by Friday.""Hold the report.""Noah.""Until after the trial. Just until she testifies against Whitfield. She has five weeks of preparation, a hearing, a daughter with as
The Ice King's Forbidden Heir I See How You want It To Look
POV: Ava Bennett"She'll be polite," Janelle Park said, walking beside me down the courthouse corridor with a folder pressed to her ribs. "That's what makes her dangerous. Colette Brandt has never raised her voice in a courtroom, and she has never lost a case she cared about.""I've sat across from worse," I said."Not many." Janelle stopped at a door with a brass plate. "Short answers, Ms. Bennett. Don't explain. Explaining is how she builds her house."Inside, a court reporter sat at the end of a long oak table with her hands poised over a stenotype. Colette Brandt rose from the opposite side as I entered. She was past sixty, silver hair in a smooth bob, a gray suit so plain it must have cost a fortune. Her smile was warm enough to make me want to check my pockets."Ms. Bennett. Thank you for coming. I know what a morning you've had.""Let's begin," I said."Of course." She sat, folded her hands, and waited for the reporter to nod. "State your full name for the record."For forty mi
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