Chapter 61 Rory's Pov

I looked at Mara.“What happened to him?” I asked. Mara’s mouth trembled slightly.“We tried to move him.”Evan laughed.“You tried to move me once.”“Evan—”“You gave me a new name. A new address. You gave me a room in a house with a woman who was supposed to be my aunt. Then someone found us.”Mara’s face crumpled for one second.Then she forced it back into place.“She died protecting you.”“She died because you put us somewhere you thought was safe.”The words struck harder than any of us expected.I understood him.That was the terrible part.I understood why he had locked the doors.Why he had watched us arrive.Why he had stood upstairs clapping while the lights went out.He wanted control.Not in the way Victor wanted it.Not to own us.To survive us.To prove he would never again be the child behind the locked door while everyone else chose what happened next.“Why are we here?” I asked.Evan’s eyes returned to me.“You are here because you were going to go below ground.”I

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Chapter 62 Jaxon’s Pov

I knew my father’s voice before I knew what it was saying.That was the cruel part.I had not heard it in years.Not properly.There were old recordings somewhere in Evelyn’s house. A few videos from my childhood. Some interviews he had given before he disappeared from the public part of our lives. A voicemail he had left for Amelia on her sixteenth birthday that Evelyn kept stored on an old phone no one had the courage to delete.But none of those things had prepared me for this.For his voice coming through a crack in a metal door beneath a library floor.For the tiredness in it.For the urgency.For the fact that some part of me still recognised him before I could stop myself.“Rory,” he said again.“Please do not let them open that door.”The words moved through me like a blade.I stood completely still.Everyone else seemed to disappear for a second.Bennett.Mara.Evan.Rory beside me.The broken glass across the floor.The red warning light above the door.All of it blurred at

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Chapter 63 Jaxon’s Pov

My father’s voice changed when he heard the voice. “Evan,” he said. Evan’s entire body went still.“You know me?”“I remember you.”Evan laughed once.There was nothing amused in it.“Of course you do.”“I came back for you.”“No.”Evan took another step forward.“You came back after the fire. There is a difference.”My father did not answer.Evan continued.“You came back after everyone else was gone. You came back to a building full of smoke and ash, and you found one kid hiding behind shelves.”“I found you alive.”“You found me terrified.”“I know.”“You gave me a blanket.”The words changed Evan’s face.Not softer.More exposed.Then he looked at the door.“You said you would come back.”The silence that followed felt like something breaking.My father spoke quietly.“I did.”“No.”Evan’s voice cracked.“You came back one time. Then Mara took me away. Then she put me somewhere else. Then people found us. Then I came back here because there was nowhere else to go.”Mara covered

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Todos os capítulos de Icing The Heart: Capítulo 61 - Capítulo 63

Chapter 61 Rory's Pov

Chapter 62 Jaxon’s Pov

Chapter 63 Jaxon’s Pov