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IVY’S POVThe words hung heavily in the air between Zara and me and it was now becoming suffocating, and I sat there staring at her as if she had just told me the world was ending.Damon. The man who had broken me. The man who had taken everything from me. The man I had spent the let year trying to forget. And now he was coming back into my life, not as a ghost from my past, but as a living, breathing presence that I would have to face.I stood up and walked to the window. I needed air. I needed space and I needed to think. The city spread out below me, bustling and alive, but I felt frozen in place, like the world was moving forward without me.Zara followed me quietly and stood beside me. “Look, I know this is a lot to process,” she said softly. “But you do not have to make a decision right now. You need to think carefully about what is best for the company. And for yourself.”I stared out at the city below, but I did not see it, because my mind was elsewhere. I was back in Snowrich

IVY’S POVThe apartment was quiet, but my mind was anything from quiet as I sat on the couch across from Tara, still trying to process everything that had happened in the past few days, the board meeting, the shareholder event, Damon’s unexpected return into my life, and the weight of it all pressing down on me like a heavy blanket that I could not shake off. I told Tara everything, about what Zara had said, about the shareholder event, and about Damon being the one hosting it. Tara listened without interrupting, but her eyes were growing wider with every word I spoke, and when I finished, she leaned forward and with an excited glint in her eyes.“We are going,” she said firmly. “We are definitely going.”I frowned and shook my head slowly, “Tara, I do not know if I can face him. Just thinking about seeing him again makes my stomach turn.”But she waved her hands dismissively and brushed off my concerns like they were nothing. “Face him? Ivy, you are not the same woman who left Snowr

IVY’S POVI sat on the couch staring at my phone in my quiet apartment, still wondering why Kael had not picked up my calls. It was not like him to ignore me, and the silence was eating me up like a slow poison spreading through my veins. I had tried calling him twice, maybe three times, and each time, the phone just rang and rang until it went to voice mail. He had never done that before. He always picked up, always made time for me, and always answered no matter how busy he was. Something was wrong. I could feel it in my gut.Tara was sitting beside me, scrolling through her phone, completely oblivious to the storm raging inside my head, when we both heard a knock at the door. Tara jumped up before I could move, practically sprinting to the door and opened it. Then to my surprise, I heard her laugh loudly and say, “Come in, my crush.”I frowned, and turned around to see who she was talking to, and my heart skipped a beat when I saw Liam standing there, my second brother, wearing his

KAEL’S POVI sat alone in my dark office, behind my desk, with a glass of whiskey in my hand, staring at the wall without really seeing it because my mind was still trapped in the nightmare that had become my life.Miranda’s words echoed in my head over and over again like a nightmare that I could not wake up from. I am carrying your child. I am six months pregnant, and I could not escape them. I could not escape the ultrasound image, the doctor’s confirmation, and the DNA test result that had sealed my fate. I was going to be a father, and the mother was Miranda. The woman I had tried to so hard to get away from. The woman who had been pretending to be sorry while she was carrying my child all along.I had not move from this chair in hours. The glass of whiskey in my hand had gone warm, but I did not care. I just sat there, staring into the darkness and wondering how my life had come to this. Everything had been so perfect, so right, and so full of hope. And now, it was all crumbling

KAEL’S POVThe drive away from Pedro’s house felt like a blur, and I gripped the steering wheel so tightly that my knuckles turned white, but I did not feel the pain because the only thing I could feel was the crushing weight of everything I had lost, everything I had just destroyed, everything that had just been ripped away from me in a single, devastating moment that I could not undo.I replayed the argument in my head over and over again, each word cutting deeper than the last, each accusation landing like a blow to my chest that left me gasping for air. Ivy’s voice echoed in my ears, sharp and broken, filled with pain and betrayal, and I could still see the tears steaming down her face as she told me she was done. I am breaking up with you. I cannot do this anymore. I can not be with you knowing that you are going to have a child with Miranda. I will not be the other woman in my own relationship.I felt like I had lost everything. I felt like the groumd had been ripped out from un