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When the Frost Gives Way Chapter 10
In the departure lounge, my phone screen lit up. The word "Mom" flashed across it.The moment I answered, a barrage of screaming tore through the speaker. "Fiona Carter, you ungrateful little wretch! Your brother's criminal justice program put him on disciplinary probation! Your mess went viral online! You destroyed your own brother. Are you happy now?!"Then came the sound of a struggle on the other end."Mom, stop..." Kyle's voice came through the phone, heavy with exhaustion, stripped of every trace of the cocky swagger he used to carry. "I brought this on myself. I can't blame anyone else. Fiona... I'm sorry."He hung up.I leaned back in the departure lounge chair, staring in silence at the restored cameo pendant in my hand.Grandma, after you left, they loved me even less.I opened my contacts, blocked every number from that family, then opened my banking app and set up an automatic monthly transfer of three hundred dollars for parental support.That legal minimum would be my onl
When the Frost Gives Way Chapter 9
My departure was like pulling the last load-bearing wall out of Derek's company.I did not take a cent, but I took the core project's entire source code and every authorship right attached to it.I had built it through countless sleepless nights that had pushed me past exhaustion. They could not even understand the code, let alone reproduce it.When the major clients discovered that the project Vivian had put her name on was nothing but an empty shell, they pulled their funding one by one.And in the business world, Julian was more ruthless and decisive than I could have imagined.In less than two weeks, he severed every supply chain lifeline Derek had, trapping him in a dead end with no way out.Derek was hit with massive breach-of-contract penalties. His entire cash flow collapsed.That office Vivian had claimed, the one reeking of cheap perfume, was shut behind a stark white court-ordered closure notice.Derek went bankrupt, saddled with debts he would not be able to repay for the r
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The heater was on inside the car. Julian pressed a hot latte into my hands, its rich, bitter scent chasing away the damp chill.Outside the window, the storm that had been building finally broke.My phone was buzzing nonstop.Sophie Grant, the receptionist I used to get along with at the company, had secretly started a livestream in the employee group chat.On the screen, Derek swept Vivian's pink laptop and crystal figurines off her desk in one violent motion. Over a chorus of piercing screams, he grabbed Vivian by the throat."Why did you do it... Why did you lock Fiona in there? You knew how much that award meant to her!" Derek's eyes were so red they looked ready to bleed, the veins standing out on the backs of his hands. "Do you have any idea that because of you, she never got to say goodbye to her grandmother?! Vivian, what the hell is wrong with you?!"Vivian clawed at his arms, her nails raking bloody lines across the backs of his hands.With everything exposed beyond denial, s
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Three days later, I finished signing the last notarized property documents I needed before leaving the country.The moment I stepped out of the attorney's office, Derek and Kyle blocked my path.Derek's eyes were ringed with dark circles. Stubble covered his jaw, and his shirt was badly wrinkled. He looked disheveled and exhausted.He grabbed my wrist, his voice raw. "Fiona, where have you been these past few days? What did Julian mean by what he said?"Before I could shake him off, he rushed to explain himself, with a note of self-deception even he did not seem to hear. "I asked Vivian when I got back. She swore to me in tears that she had nothing to do with it."He looked at me, and somehow his tone still carried a note of blame. "Fiona, Vivian is so timid she won't even step on a bug. How could she possibly do something like that? You two have been best friends for years. You know her. Don't let some outsider like Julian poison you against her."I watched him rush to Vivian's defens
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The sharp smell of disinfectant gave way to a faint scent of cedarwood. I opened my eyes to the cold white ceiling of a hospital room.My right hand was wrapped in a warm, broad hand.Julian Reed sat in the chair beside my bed, still in his suit jacket. His tie was loose, and his eyes were bloodshot.When he saw my eyes open, he did not ask something useless like "Are you okay?"He just tucked the blanket around me, his fingertip gently brushing the gauze on the back of my hand. "You're safe now. I'm here."I looked at his exhausted, bloodshot eyes, and my nose burned.Five years.Whenever I had cramps, Derek would only tell me to sleep it off, then complain that I was being dramatic if I took a painkiller.Yet here was someone from my past, catching every piece of me that had been about to shatter in the dark.Julian studied my calm face for a moment, then reached for a tablet beside him. "I've looked into everything."He tapped an audio file. His voice was low, careful. "Fiona, this
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"Who are you?"The figure curled up in the corner was not Fiona. It was Frank, his face beaten red and swollen.He was huddled on the ground, shaking violently, wailing through his tears. "Stop hitting me... Please stop! Please!"Derek's heart plummeted. He lunged forward and grabbed Frank by the collar, his eyes red. "Where is she?! Where is Fiona?!"Kyle rushed over and kicked Frank hard in the ribs. "Where is my sister? If you laid a hand on her, I will make sure you rot behind bars for the rest of your life!""I didn't touch her... I never touched her!" Frank was sobbing, blood and tears and snot streaming down his face. "Some man in a suit carried her out!"Derek's fingers began to tremble.A man in a suit?"Wait... he said to give you this!" Frank fumbled in his pocket with shaking hands and pulled out a bloodstained note. "He told me to give this to you. He said if you wanted to see her, go to this address!"Derek snatched the note. The handwriting was stark and hard-edged, and
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