All Chapters of His Dangerous Love On Ice: Chapter 221 - Chapter 230

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Chapter 221: Zane's POV

Chapter 221: Zane's POVMy brain couldn't process what I was seeing at first because it didn't make sense. Faces didn't just come off. Skin didn't peel away like latex.But this wasn't skin.It was a prosthetic. An entire reconstructed face made of synthetic materials that had been attached to living tissue underneath with some kind of medical adhesive.And underneath was something else entirely.Scarred tissue. Reconstructed bone structure. Damage so extensive that it was almost impossible to identify individual features.Except for the eyes.Silver eyes that I'd seen every day for three years during my military service.Eyes that belonged to a man who was supposed to be dead!Eyes that I'd watched close for the last time in that explosion twelve years ago.Mason!Mason!!"Hello, Zane," he said.His real voice was rough and damaged in a way that made it almost unrecognizable. But I knew it anyway. The familiarity.Knew it the way you know a voice that's been burned into your memory.

Chapter 222: Zane's POV

Chapter 222: Zane's POV"Pretty story," he said. "Very compelling. You always were good at talking your way out of things."He counted off on his fingers."But here's what I know for certain. I know that you've spent twelve years building an empire while I've spent twelve years having my face rebuilt. I know that you've moved on with your life, started a business, made money, found a girl.""While I've been stuck in this nightmare that never ends.""And I know that you never once tried to find me, never once looked for survivors, never once questioned whether maybe, just maybe, someone had made it out alive."The accusation hit me like a physical blow.Because he was right.I hadn't looked, hadn't questioned, had accepted the official reports that said everyone was dead. Because questioning would have meant admitting that I'd failed them. That I'd led them into a trap. That their deaths were on my hands."I believed you were dead," I said. "Everyone confirmed it. The reports said ther

Chapter 223: Olive's POV

Chapter 223: Olive's POVThe place was dark.I checked the time on my dashboard.7:54 PM.I'd driven with so much fucking hurry to get here, weaving through traffic and running yellow lights and praying I wouldn't get pulled over because explaining to a cop that I was racing to a kidnapper's hideout to save my pregnant best friend who had also slept with my stepfather and ruined my mother's marriage seemed like a conversation that would not end well for anyone involved.Now my hands were clasped at the steering wheel, gripping it so tight my knuckles had gone white.Heart racing.Scared as hell."Have I done a stupid mistake?" I whispered to myself in the dim cabin of my car. "What the fuck am I doing?"The car was still on, the engine humming softly, like it was waiting for me to make up my mind.I could turn around.Could throw the car in reverse and peel out of here and pretend I'd never gotten that call.But Brenda's face flashed in my mind, the way she'd looked at the restaurant

Chapter 224: Olive's POV

Chapter 224: Olive's POVI'd walked into a building full of armed men and not one of them had bothered to look in my direction. They were on their phones. Talking to each other quietly. Sipping drinks from glasses.Like I wasn't even there.Like the kidnapped woman walking into their boss's lair was just so routine and so unremarkable that they couldn't even be bothered to acknowledge it.I felt sick.Whatever this was, whoever I was about to meet, this wasn't some random psycho with a grudge.This was somebody powerful.Somebody with money and connections and an entire fucking army at his disposal.And he had brought me here for a reason.I kept walking, deeper into the warehouse, past the men who didn't see me, toward another door at the far end that was already opening as I approached.A man was holding it open.Tall. Broad-shouldered. Suit that fit too well to have come off any rack. He nodded at me politely, like a maître d' welcoming me to a restaurant, and gestured for me to go

Chapter 225: Olive's POV

Chapter 225: Olive's POVThe chair was uncomfortable.That was the first thing I noticed, which was insane considering everything else that was happening, but my brain seemed to have decided that focusing on small physical sensations was easier than focusing on the fact that I was sitting across from my best friend who was tied to a chair and being held hostage by a man I'd thought was just a flirty hockey player who I had first met at Hunter’s party.The seat was hard. Wooden. Not cushioned like the chairs in the lounge area outside, which felt deliberate, like he wanted me to be uncomfortable, like he wanted Brenda and me to feel the wrongness of this situation in our bones.Alonso was watching me from where he stood near the door, his arms crossed, his silver eyes studying my face like he was waiting for something specific to happen, like he was waiting for me to break or panic or beg.I wasn't going to do any of those things.At least, I was going to try not to do any of those thi

Chapter 226: Olive's POV

Chapter 226: Olive's POVHe sat down in a chair across from me, mirroring my position, and the casual way he did it was somehow more menacing than if he'd been pacing or looming over me. Like he had all the time in the world. Like nothing was going to interrupt this. Like Zane wasn't going to come crashing through the door to save me, because Zane couldn't come, like he was in charge which he was."Twelve years ago," Alonso said, "Zane Mercer was a soldier. A good one. He was twenty years old. He'd enlisted at almost sixteen because his father had pushed him into it. Because his father wanted him out of the house. Because his father had reasons that you don't need to know about right now.""What reasons?""That's not important.""It sounds important.""Olive," Alonso said, and there was a warning in his voice now, "we're going to do this in the order I want to do it in. Stop trying to redirect."I shut my mouth.Filed that information away for later. Zane's father had wanted him out o

Chapter 227: Olive's POV

Chapter 227: Olive's POVThe room was spinning."What?""Klaus found me," Alonso said, and his voice was almost gentle now, almost soft, like he was telling a bedtime story instead of dropping a bomb on my entire life. "He tracked me down somehow, followed me back to my hotel, and confronted me in the parking lot.""You're saying you were in his unit.""I was.""And you survived the explosion.""Barely. But yes. I survived.""Then why didn't anyone know?""Because the people who saved me had reasons for keeping me hidden. And because by the time I was healed enough to go back into the world, I didn't look like the man I used to be. I needed a new face. A new name. A new identity. And I needed to stay hidden until I was ready to do what I came here to do.""Which is what?""Which is finish what should have been finished twelve years ago."I felt sick.I felt like the floor had become liquid, like the whole room was tilting, like every assumption I'd ever made about the man I'd thought

Chapter 228: Olive's POV

Chapter 228: Olive's POV"Eleven years ago," Alonso began, "your precious brother was getting in the way of things he didn't understand."His voice had changed.Whatever softness or restraint had been there before was gone now. What replaced it was something cold and sharp and almost amused, like he was settling into telling me this story the way a sadistic kid settles into pulling wings off flies."Klaus was a smart kid," he said. "Too smart for his own good, really. He'd been digging around in places he shouldn't have been digging. Asking questions about Zane that nobody wanted answered. Putting pieces together about a past that was supposed to stay buried.""What pieces?" I asked.My voice was barely working. I could feel my pulse in my throat, in my ears, in places I didn't know it was possible to feel a pulse."That's not really the point of this story, Olive.""It's the point to me.""Mm." He smiled, and it was an ugly thing, that smile. Nothing like the charming grin from Hunte

Chapter 229: Olive's POV

Chapter 229: Olive's POV"That's not fair," I whispered. "He was forced to choose. That wasn't a choice. That was being put in an impossible position.""Was it?""What does that mean?""Olive, think about it. If those men had really wanted to kill his mother, they would have killed her. They didn't need Zane's permission. They didn't need to set up some elaborate test. They could have just killed her. The fact that they gave him a choice tells you something."I blinked, wanting to know the truth has never been so awful."Like what?" I managed to whisper."Like they knew which way he'd choose. Like they were giving him an opportunity. Like they were telling him, 'Look, your friend is getting close to exposing you. We're going to handle it. We're going to make sure he doesn't talk. But we want to make sure you're on board. We want to make sure you understand that this is what's best for everyone.' And Zane understood. Zane chose his mother. Zane chose himself. Zane chose his secrets sta

Chapter 230: Olive's POV

Chapter 230: Olive's POVHe'd lied to me.He'd lied to me for months.And now I was sitting in a warehouse with a man who hated him, listening to a story that I couldn't verify but couldn't dismiss either, trying to figure out how much of what I was hearing was true and how much was being twisted to hurt me."What about my father?" I asked."What about him?""You said earlier that you were going to tell me about him.""Did I?""You said there was something I needed to know."Alonso smiled.That awful smile again."Your father knows, Olive.""What?""Your father has known the truth about Klaus's death for years."The room tilted.The walls did the thing they kept doing, that closing-in thing, that suffocating thing, and I had to grip the edges of the chair to keep myself upright."What do you mean my father knows?""I mean exactly what I said. After Klaus died, Zane went to your father. He told Walter the truth. Or, at least, he told him a version of the truth. He told him that Klaus's

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