All Chapters of Contract Bride to the Ruthless Ice King : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The elevator doors opened into the violent wind of the rooftop. Cold rain slapped my face at once.I stumbled forward, still trapped in my mother’s tight grip. Her arm was locked around my throat, and the gun in her shaking hand pressed against my side.The roof of Blackwood Tower was dark, wet, and dangerous. The city stretched far below us, glittering like nothing terrible was happening above it. The helicopter at the far end of the roof had its blades spinning fast, throwing rain and wind across the concrete.My heart dropped. They were really taking me away.“Move,” Eleanor hissed into my ear.I tried to pull her arm away, but she tightened it until I could hardly breathe. “Mother, stop,” I choked out. “Please. This is enough.”She laughed softly. “Enough?” she whispered. “Nothing is enough when you have spent your whole life watching others sit on the throne that should have been yours.”The helicopter door opened. A tall man stepped out slowly. For one second, the rain and wind

The doctor's final words hung in the sterile air of the corridor like a death sentence. "He might never wake up again." The world around me seemed to spin violently, the bright hospital lights blurring into streaks of harsh white. My knees buckled, and I had to press my palm against the cool, painted wall just to keep me from collapsing onto the floor. The bullet that had ripped through Alexander's side on the rooftop wasn't just meant to stop him, it was laced with a rare, slow-acting poison designed to trap him in a permanent coma. "Mommy?" Leo's tiny voice cracked, breaking through the roaring silence in my ears. He looked up at me with wide, terrified eyes, his small fingers tightening around my hand. Beside him, Julian was shivering, his little thumb stuffed into his mouth as he stared at the closed double doors of the operating room. I swallowed the heavy sob rising in my throat, forcing my body to move. I knelt in front of our two beautiful boys, gently brushing the st

The rain came down in freezing, relentless sheets, blurring the red numbers on the server box until they looked like bleeding slashes of light in the darkness.00:29:5500:29:5400:29:53My breath hitched in my throat as Gideon's words echoed over the roar of the wind. The trap was an active circuit, a lethal loop twisted between two city districts. Alexander believed he was breaking into a highly secured building to save his sons, but Gideon had already planned every move. The moment Alexander forced his way into the server vault and triggered the physical override, the system would automatically send a signal to a receiving antenna at the Brooklyn docks.That signal would activate the explosives where the boys were being held, turning Alexander’s rescue mission into the very thing that could destroy them."Mommy!" Leo cried out in a broken, desperate voice. He tried with all the little strength he had to pull the thick wire away, but it held him tightly against the wooden crate, le

"We’re losing his pressure! Get the secondary line in now!"The sterile chaos of the triage unit was a blur of shouting voices and the piercing scream of a heart monitor. I stood paralyzed in the trauma bay, my hands still stained with Alexander’s warm blood. Leo and Julian were tucked against my sides, wrapped tightly in their blue blanket, their wide eyes fixed on the doctors surrounding their father.Alexander lay flat on the gurney, his chest bare and his skin a frightening, deathly pale gray. The massive bandages applied at the terminal were entirely soaked through with deep crimson. The fever from the Swiss toxin had taken over, slicking his forehead with sweat."Stitches are completely obliterated," a doctor barked, applying brutal pressure to Alexander’s side. "The internal thoracic artery is leaking. Prep the operating room for an immediate re-exploration! We need to neutralize the remaining toxin before his organs fail.""Elena..."A low, fractured whisper cut through the me

The sound of Gideon Ross’s weak, bloody laugh seemed to bounce off the concrete walls of the vault, making my skin crawl. He lay pinned to the floor by Marcus's grip, but the look in his eyes was pure victory."Alexander," I whispered, my voice trembling as I stared at the backup laptop screen.The text on the small monitor was flashing violently in a bright, toxic yellow.*Failsafe Sequence Transferred.**Master Loop: Locked.**Time Remaining: 00:30:00*Thirty minutes. The entire global network was still at risk, and the clock was ticking down again.Alexander stood up slowly from the floor, his face completely pale from the fever and the blood loss. His large hand pressed firmly against his torn stitches, fresh crimson staining his fingers. He looked down at Gideon with a cold, terrifying fury."Where is the third vault, Gideon?" Alexander growled, his deep, rough voice dropping to a dangerous pitch. He stepped forward, his boots clicking heavily against the broken glass on the floo