All Chapters of THE ICE WE BREAK :Fake dating the ice king : Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

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Chapter 189: The Missing Years

Leo POVThere came a point in every investigation when the search for answers stopped feeling like a pursuit of truth and started feeling like the dismantling of an entire reality, because each new discovery no longer added information to an existing story but instead removed pieces of a narrative you had trusted for years, leaving behind gaps large enough to swallow everything you thought you knew about yourself and the people who raised you.That was where I found myself now.The photograph had changed everything.The warning had made it worse.Cassandra’s discoveries had transformed suspicion into something much harder to ignore.Yet even after all of that, part of me still believed there had to be an explanation capable of making sense of everything without completely destroying the foundations of my past.I wanted to believe that.I needed to believe it.Unfortunately the records didn’t care w

Chapter 190: The Beginning of the End

Leo POVThere was a strange cruelty in watching multiple parts of your life collapse at the same time, because no single disaster received your full attention and no single wound had the opportunity to heal before another one opened beside it, creating a constant state of emotional exhaustion where every morning seemed to arrive carrying fresh complications from problems that already felt impossible to manage.That was what the weeks after my discovery felt like.My relationship with Maya was gone.The NHL draft continued moving closer.The investigation surrounding my mother had transformed from a painful curiosity into something capable of reshaping my entire understanding of the past.And Mr. Thorne, the man I once trusted without hesitation, now occupied the center of a mystery that seemed to grow larger every time new evidence surfaced.Nothing felt stable anymore.Nothing felt certain.Every

Chapter 191: Come Alone

Leo POVThe message stayed on my phone for nearly twelve hours before I finally acted on it, not because I lacked the courage to follow the instructions but because every instinct I possessed warned me that whatever waited at the end of that invitation had the power to permanently change my understanding of the past, and after months of uncovering lies, altered records, hidden histories, and carefully constructed narratives designed to keep me away from the truth, I found myself standing at a crossroads where ignorance felt safer than knowledge even though I knew I would never choose it, because once a person dedicates himself to finding answers, there comes a point where turning back becomes impossible regardless of how frightening those answers might be.The location arrived in a second message shortly before sunset, directing me toward an aging lakeside café nearly an hour outside the city, a place so small and isolated that I doubted anyone connected to th

Chapter 197: Consequences

POV :Mr. Thorne POVThe first official notice arrived before sunrise, appearing in my inbox with the sterile language institutions preferred whenever they wanted to discuss matters capable of destroying careers without acknowledging the human beings attached to them, and although I had anticipated the investigation ever since Cassandra’s report exposed connections that many people would inevitably examine more closely, seeing the formal announcement transformed a possibility into reality, forcing me to confront the fact that decades of professional achievement were now being measured against years of secrecy and questionable decisions that no amount of past success could fully justify.By midday the situation had escalated beyond private reviews and internal conversations, spreading through the university with a speed that reminded me how fragile authority truly was once confidence began to erode, because people who had spent years accepting explanations without c

Chapter 198: Father

Leo POVThere were certain conversations a person spent years imagining without ever realizing it, conversations built from unanswered questions and old wounds and quiet frustrations that accumulated over time until they became part of your identity, and as I drove toward my father’s house carrying the weight of everything I had learned about my mother over the previous weeks, I understood that I was approaching one of those moments because the truth had finally reached a point where avoiding it was no longer possible, leaving only a choice between confrontation and continued deception, and after everything that had happened I no longer possessed the patience required for silence.The house looked exactly the same as it always had, standing at the end of a quiet street surrounded by carefully maintained landscaping that reflected my father’s preference for order and predictability, yet the familiarity felt strangely hollow as I parked outside and stared at the

Chapter 192: The Price of Silence

Mr. Thorne POVThere were mistakes a man made in a moment of weakness and there were mistakes a man carried for decades because every decision he made afterward became another attempt to protect the consequences of the first one, and as I sat alone inside my office long after the university had fallen quiet, surrounded by shadows stretching across shelves filled with awards and photographs and accomplishments that once seemed important, I found myself staring at the life I had spent years building while realizing that none of it had ever been heavy enough to outweigh the burden of a single promise I made long ago, because the truth about Leo’s mother was not something that happened to me but something I actively chose to carry, nurture, conceal, and defend until the secret became so deeply woven into the fabric of my life that I could no longer separate who I was from what I was hiding.The cruel irony was that when everything began I genuinely believed I was

Chapter 193: What She Left Behind

Leo POVFor most of my life I believed the hardest part of losing my mother was not knowing where she went, yet as I sat across from the woman who had already shattered years of assumptions and carefully constructed lies while placing a weathered envelope on the table between us, I began to understand that uncertainty was only one form of pain and that certainty could sometimes hurt far more, because answers carried weight and consequences and permanence, and once they were revealed there was no returning to the simpler world that existed before them.The envelope looked ordinary enough, its edges softened by age and its surface marked by the subtle wear of something that had been handled carefully over many years, yet the moment I saw my name written across the front in handwriting I had only ever encountered in old records and fading photographs, a tightness formed in my chest so suddenly and so intensely that breathing became difficult, because despite ever

Chapter 194: The Conversation They Needed

Maya POVThe strange thing about heartbreak was that it did not always arrive with anger or dramatic endings or words sharp enough to leave visible scars, because sometimes it arrived quietly and settled into the empty spaces between two people who still cared about each other but no longer knew how to reach across the distance that had formed between them, and over the days following our separation I had convinced myself that accepting that distance was the mature thing to do, telling myself repeatedly that healing required space and that whatever existed between Leo and me belonged in the past, yet every time I saw another headline about his mother or another report about the growing investigation or another discussion about his upcoming draft prospects, I found myself wondering whether he was carrying the weight of everything alone and whether anyone had remembered to ask how he was actually holding up beneath the pressure.The answer arrived through Cassan

Chapter 195: The Leak

Cassandra POVThe most frustrating part of investigative work was not finding the truth but convincing people to believe it after they had already decided on a more convenient story, because once public opinion settled around a narrative it developed a stubborn life of its own, feeding on assumptions and emotions and incomplete information until facts became secondary to what people wanted to believe, and over the previous months I had watched an entire university accept explanations that never fully made sense simply because those explanations arrived quickly enough to fill the vacuum created by uncertainty, turning Maya into a villain, turning Leo into a cautionary tale, and turning a carefully orchestrated leak into a scandal that distracted everyone from asking who actually benefited from the chaos.The answer had been sitting in front of us for far longer than most people realized, hidden not behind elaborate conspiracies or impossible-to-obtain evidence

Chapter 196: Public Apologies

Maya POVThe strange thing about public opinion was how quickly it could transform from certainty into regret, because the same people who spent weeks dissecting your mistakes and assigning motives to your actions and building entire narratives around assumptions they never bothered to verify often became the first people to apologize once the truth emerged, behaving as though a simple correction could erase the damage caused by being judged by thousands of strangers who knew nothing about your life beyond a collection of headlines and carefully edited clips.The days following Cassandra’s report felt surreal in a way I struggled to describe, because for months I had existed inside a version of reality where every notification carried the possibility of another insult and every social media post seemed determined to remind me that the public had already decided who I was, creating an exhausting cycle of accusations and speculation that gradually taught me how

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