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Ivy's Pov I was alone in my room again. Dominic had just left the house to deal with something important. The look he had on his face, it told me it would be serious and probably violent. He had that cold, determined expression that meant someone was going to be completely ruined by the end of the night. I felt a little relief that he was finally fixing the stalker problem, but I also felt a new anxiety. If he was focused on the stalker, he wasn’t focused on me. That meant I still had to decide about the baby and the clinic all by myself. I kept my hands on my stomach and waited for another small kick, but the baby was quiet now. I stood and paced the room, nervous about Dominic being gone so long. The house felt empty and huge without him. I kept thinking about Victor Shaw’s criminal record for blackmail and extortion. I knew this wasn’t just a simple conversation at the abandoned mill. At my desk, I pulled out my backpack, hoping to distract myself and maybe plan for tomorrow wh

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Ivy's Pov It was almost midnight when I finally heard the front door open downstairs. I got off the bed and ran to my door. I stood there listening to the sound of his footsteps on the stairs. He sounded slow and heavy. I heard him walk into the study, and the door closed hard. He was back, and I knew the confrontation was over. I waited five minutes for him to settle down. I knew I should wait until morning, but the energy in my body would not let me be still anymore. I had to tell him the truth before the sun came up and before the baby moved again. I opened my door and walked out of the room. I walked down the long, dark hallway and then down the staircase. I was shaking all over, but I forced my legs to keep moving. I stopped outside the study door. I raised my hand and knocked on the wood hard three times. “Come in,” Dominic’s voice commanded. It sounded tired and rough. I slowly pushed the door open and walked into the study. The room was dark, except for the small lamp on

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Dominic's Pov I stood in the study long after Ivy walked out of the room. The air was cold and heavy around me. My hand still felt the shape of her small body where I had held her tight against my chest. Her confession was running through my head over and over. I am pregnant, Dominic. The shock of the truth was massive. It was a complete shift in the situation that changed everything I had been planning. I had been focused on eliminating outside threats, such as Victor Shaw and Janelle. I had been focused on control and stability, but now I had a secret inside the house that was bigger than any other problem. I was going to have a child. The initial feeling was not joy or excitement. It was a cold, sharp fear that shot straight through my determination. I was going to be responsible for a child, a child that was already growing inside Ivy. A child who was completely dependent on me for safety and survival. The fear was quickly replaced by a massive, focused determination. My job wa

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Ivy's Pov I woke up late the next morning. I had finally fallen into a deep sleep after telling Dominic the truth about the baby. I walked into the kitchen to find something to eat. I was standing by the refrigerator pulling out the orange juice when I saw him. He was standing completely still by the entrance to the kitchen. He was a very tall man with dark hair and a gray suit, he was wearing an earpiece, and he was staring straight at me with no expression on his face at all. He looked like a very expensive, very quiet statue. I almost dropped the glass of juice on the floor. I stared at him, and he did not move an inch. "Who are you?" I asked. My voice was tight and shaky. "What are you doing standing there?" The man did not answer me. He just kept looking at my face, I realized then that he was a professional. He was one of Dominic's people, and he was here to watch me. He was a bodyguard. I put the juice down fast and walked toward him. I stopped right in front of his fac

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Ivy's Pov I had finally convinced Dominic to let me leave the house but only for necessary things. He said it was essential for me to appear normal now that the house had become a new fortress. I hated the feeling of being watched all the time by John, the silent bodyguard. He was not supposed to talk to me unless there was an actual emergency. I knew he was close by but I was trying to ignore him. Today Dominic sent me out for groceries. He wanted specific organic foods that he had decided were good for me now that he knew about the baby. I hated shopping because it felt fake. I was supposed to be a normal teenager buying cereal but I was actually a pregnant girl with a criminal stepfather being watched by a silent man in a suit. I walked out of the supermarket and the automatic door slid open. The sunlight was bright and I squinted my eyes against the sudden change. I pushed the shopping cart full of healthy food toward the black SUV that John always drove. I looked for Joh

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Dominic's Pov I was back in the study. I had been on the phone for the past four hours dealing with the new security installation. Workers were all over the house connecting the new alarms and the thermal cameras. I felt a huge satisfaction in knowing the house was turning into a fortress now that I knew about the baby. No one would get close to them inside my control. Ivy was supposed to be out doing the small shopping trip I had allowed. John, the silent bodyguard, was supposed to be her shadow and report to me immediately if anything went wrong. The groceries were supposed to be delivered an hour ago. I looked at the clock on the wall. It was now past the deadline. I felt a small, irritating tension in my chest. Ivy was not answering my last two text messages. I had messaged her ten minutes ago and then five minutes ago and both messages were still unread. She was not supposed to ignore my texts when she was outside the house. I picked up my phone to call John directly. The p

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Ivy's Pov I was still sitting on the cold concrete floor in the basement. Victor Shaw was standing over me. The single lightbulb was flickering and the long shadows made his face look even meaner, i had not been able to move or speak since he told me his name. He slowly pulled an old wooden chair over from the corner and dragged it across the concrete until it stopped right in front of me. He sat down facing me, his knees almost touching my face. "So, the little bird is finally awake," Victor Shaw said. His voice was low and calm but it was cold. "You gave me a lot of trouble at the supermarket. Your big, rich stepfather is going to pay a very high price for this trouble. He thought he got rid of me but he was wrong." I tried to shake my head but the rope on my wrists was too tight and the position of my body was awkward. "Let me go," I whispered. My throat was dry and the sound was tiny. "My stepfather will give you whatever you want. Just let me go home now." "I am not letti

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Dominic's Pov I was standing in the command center I had set up in the study. The room was now full of three police officers and two of my own security consultants. The police chief had come through for me. The entire city was looking for the dark cargo van now. I had the raw anger of a thousand men in my chest. Victor Shaw had taken my leverage and my weakness and my future all at once. I was staring at the large screen on the wall. The screen was showing a live map of the entire city with red dots marking all the police cars. I had given them the exact time of the abduction from the supermarket video. Now we had to wait for the data to tell us where the van went. The lead police detective, Detective Ruiz, walked over to my side. He was a tall man with a serious face. "We have checked every major road camera in a five mile radius of the supermarket, Dominic," Detective Ruiz told me. "The van is not a common make and we have the license plate number now. We should have a hit very

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Ivy's Pov I woke up because of a beeping sound. It was a slow and steady noise that felt like a hammer hitting the inside of my head. I tried to open my eyes but my eyelids felt like they were glued shut with something thick and sticky. My whole face felt heavy and hot. When I finally got my eyes open a little bit the light in the room was so bright that it made me want to scream. I was not in the basement anymore. The air did not smell like mold or dirt. It smelled like bleach and sharp soap. I was lying on a bed that was very hard and narrow, i tried to move my arm to touch my face but I felt a sharp tugging on the back of my hand. I looked down and saw a clear tube taped to my skin. There was a bag of liquid hanging on a metal pole next to me. I looked around the room slowly. The walls were a pale green color and there were no windows. I saw a chair in the corner and a small table with a plastic pitcher of water. I realized I was in the hospital, i remembered the supermarket

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Dominic's Pov I sat in the uncomfortable plastic chair next to Ivy's hospital bed for the entire night. The room was mostly dark except for the light coming from the hallway and the glowing screens of the machines. The steady beeping was the only thing I could hear in the silence. I watched her chest move up and down very slowly. She looked so small under the white hospital blankets. Her face was covered in dark bruises and her lip was swollen where that animal had hit her. I felt a massive weight of guilt pressing down on my chest. It felt like I was the one who had kicked her. I was the one who had promised her that Victor Shaw had been handled. I had told her the white car problem was gone and that she was safe in my house. I had spent thousands of dollars on cameras and alarms and guards but none of it mattered. I had let her walk out of that supermarket and I had let a monster take her to a basement. I looked at her pale hands resting on the sheets. They were thin and they l

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