All Chapters of My Ex Framed Me, So I Dated His Rival: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Noah.“Damn.” I stared at my phone, then leaned back in my chair with a slow grin on my face.This tea was exactly what I had been waiting for.“So it finally happened.”I had known something was off for a while and I couldn't put my finger on it.Ivy thought she was smart. She was too private about her relationship with Tyler, especially when things weren't perfect.But people would always talk because their eyes are everywhere, and Tyler wasn't exactly difficult to read when he was distracted.Lately, he had been distracted.And Ivy?Ivy had started looking like someone who was trying very hard to convince herself she was fine.I looked at her name on my screen again.“Damn,” I muttered. “This is my time to get her. This is the time.”I paused and tilted my head.“No,” I said and the smile faded slightly. “Not like that.”I needed to take advantage of her bad night. That was one of the ways to get to a lady's heart.Show up like you wanted to help her out and give her a shoulder to

Tyler.This was getting out of hand.Ivy's hand was still flat against my chest, right over the place where my heart was trying to claw its way out.Her fingers trembled, and I could feel her fear beneath everything.I still wasn't going to forget that we were having a serious argument in which she accused me of cheating on her.My wolf was still half-risen, and he was pacing back and forth in my chest.One wrong breath, and I would shift in front of her, in a public hallway, and everything we had tried to protect would shatter.But I didn't want that.I caught her wrist before she could pull away.“Don’t,” I said. “Don't step between us like that again. He could have…”“He didn’t,” she cut in, trying not to look straight into my eyes. “You were about to lose it, Tyler. I felt it. The whole tunnel felt it. Your eyes had already changed colour, and it meant that your human side was losing it.”Shame burned through me, hotter than the rage I had.I released her wrist like it burned me a

Ivy.I got into the car with Noah and found myself thinking a lot as he drove.I kept my face turned toward the window so he wouldn’t see the fresh tears that kept slipping free no matter how hard I blinked.The mate bond in my chest felt like it was about to eat me alive. It kept throbbing inside me, and with each mile we moved, it began to hurt so badly.Somewhere out there, Tyler still didn’t know I had gotten into another man’s car.Not just another man, but Noah! My ex.But you wouldn't blame me.Somewhere out there, his wolf was probably still pacing from the almost-shift in the tunnel.He was completely unaware that the girl he had kissed was now breathing the same air as someone else.Noah didn’t speak for a long time.He just drove with one hand loose on the wheel, the other resting near the gearshift like he was giving me a good amount of space.The silence felt heavier than any argument.What was worse was that I could smell him, and he smelled so good.My body still rememb

Tyler.The silence inside the truck was worse than any fight I had ever been in.Ivy kept crying every second, and her tears soaked into the seats and into my skin.I didn't even know what to say to her.Every sob she tried to swallow sent a fresh pulse of pain down the bond.The scent of Noah still clung to her hair and the collar of her coat.It was faint, but it was enough to make my wolf go mad.I tightened my hand on the steering wheel as I kept driving.Although, I didn’t drive us back to the city.I took the long road that wound higher into the hills.I wanted us to be away from anyone who might see an alpha on the edge of losing control.I finally parked, and for a long moment, neither of us moved.The air was filled with so much tension that I didn't even know if this was the right thing to do or not.Everything felt wrong.Her guilt hit me in jagged bursts.My rage and terror flowed back to her whether I wanted them to or not.The crack Noah had forced open with his mouth an

Tyler.I held the phone out so she could see every detail of the picture Noah had sent.Ivy’s face went white.The color in her face drained so fast I thought she might pass out.Her mouth opened, then closed, and no sound came out at first.All I could hear was this small, broken breath that hit me straight through the cracked bond like a fist.“I… I didn’t know he took that,” she whispered. “Tyler, I swear. I fell asleep. I was crying so hard in the car I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I must have dozed off for a few minutes. I didn’t pose. I didn’t say yes to a photo. I didn’t even know the camera was out.”My wolf didn’t care about the details.All it saw was her soft face in another male’s passenger seat. All it felt was the way the bond had twitched when Noah’s message came through, like something inside the connection had turned its head toward his voice.“You fell asleep in his car,” I said, and my voice sounded flat and dangerous. “You did all that after you told him yes to a ni