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Chapter 6 - The First Move
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2026-03-16 17:49:38
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WICKED INHERITANCE Chapter 11 – The Second Gun
Rain struck the glass walls of the tower like impatient fingers.London stretched below them—grey water, grey sky, grey buildings stacked like secrets—but inside the twenty-first-floor hallway, the air had turned heavy.Marcus Halberg didn’t look like a man cornered.That bothered Ivy more than anything.Sebastian stood between Marcus and the elevator, tall enough to block the entire hallway if he chose. His shoulders were loose, but Ivy knew that posture.It meant he was seconds away from violence.Marcus noticed it too.
WICKED INHERITANCE Chapter 10 – London Doesn’t Forgive
The jet took off at 2:40 a.m.Ivy didn’t sleep.She sat by the oval window of the Blackwood private jet, watching Los Angeles disappear beneath the clouds while the quiet hum of the engines filled the cabin.Across from her, Sebastian Blackwood sat with his long legs stretched out, reading something on his tablet like they were flying to a routine business meeting.Not chasing a man who might know who murdered his brother.Not running toward a truth that could destroy both of them.Ivy hated how calm he looked.“You planned this,” she said.Sebastian didn’t look up.“Planned what?”“You already knew Marcus was in London before we spoke last night.”He finally raised his eyes.“Yes.”“And you didn’t tell me.”“You would’ve gone anyway.”“That’s not the point.”“No,” Sebastian replied quietly.“It’s exactly the point.”Ivy leaned back in her seat, crossing her arms.“You don’t trust me.”Sebastian gave a small humorless smile.“I trust you exactly as much as you trust me.”Which meant—
WICKED INHERITANCE Chapter 9 – The Man Who Knew Too Much
The first mistake people made when they thought a murder was solved too quickly… was believing the silence afterward meant safety.Sometimes silence meant someone was waiting.Ivy didn’t sleep that night.The city outside her bedroom window glittered with the indifferent calm of Los Angeles after midnight, but inside the Blackwood mansion the air felt heavy.Like something had shifted.Detective Cruz reopening the investigation had changed the rules of the game.But what Sebastian had said before leaving lingered in her mind far more dangerously.Someone knew where we were.Someone had known about the vineyard.About the Aston Martin.About them.Ivy sat at the small desk in her bedroom, scrolling through a list of names on her tablet.Every man who attended the hunting party.Twenty guests.Twenty potential witnesses.Twenty potential enemies.Most were investors.A few were politicians.Two were old friends of Julian’s from before Blackwood Global became an empire.But one name caug
WICKED INHERITANCE Chapter 8 – The Woman Who Doesn’t Blink
Detective Elena Cruz didn’t rush.People who rushed usually wanted something.Cruz preferred to let people wonder what she already knew.The lobby of Blackwood Tower gleamed with the sterile perfection of billionaire ambition—white marble floors, chrome fixtures, quiet security guards pretending not to watch everyone who walked through the doors.She paused just inside the entrance and looked up.Forty-two floors.A monument to power.Also, she suspected, a monument to secrets.
WICKED INHERITANCE Chapter 7 – The Knife Behind the Smile
The problem with war was that it rarely announced itself with explosions.Most of the time, it arrived quietly.Like a text message.Ivy was halfway through her second cup of coffee when her phone buzzed against the marble kitchen counter.She had slept exactly two hours.Sebastian’s kiss still burned on her mouth like a bruise she couldn’t see but couldn’t stop touching either. The memory of it had followed her all night—violent, reckless, unforgivable.She hated that her body remembered it so vividly.
WICKED INHERITANCE Chapter 6 - The First Move
The first board meeting after Julian Blackwood’s death felt less like corporate governance and more like a quiet declaration of war.Blackwood Global headquarters stood exactly as it always had—forty-two stories of glass and steel cutting into the Los Angeles skyline—but the atmosphere inside had shifted. Power had become unstable, like a chandelier hanging by a single thread.Everyone could feel it.Ivy arrived precisely at 8:55 a.m.Not early enough to appear eager. Not late enough to appear careless.The executive conference room stretched along the eastern side of the building, a cathedral of glass with a table long enough to seat twenty. The skyline burned gold beyond the windows as the morning sun rose over the city.Ten board members were already present.They stood when she entered.Not out of affection.Out of calculation.“Mrs. Blackwood,” one of them said.Ivy acknowledged the greeting with a small nod as she walked to the head of the table—the seat Julian had occupied for
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