Ice Breaker Chapters Novels & Stories

Chapter 184 ~ Iris The moment the door closed behind them…I broke. It wasn’t graceful, It wasn’t quiet. It was everything I had been holding in crashing down at once. A sharp breath left my chest, and before I could stop it, the tears came. Hot, heavy, uncontrollable. I sank slowly onto the edge of the bed, my hands covering my face as my shoulders trembled. This… This was not how I imagined my home. Not like this. Not broken into pieces I couldn’t hold together.

He chuckled before whispering in my ear, "Everyone can be broken. You too will break. Soon." They both left a moment later, leaving me trembling and filled with dread. I placed one hand on my chest, feeling my heart thunder against my ribcage. I believed Eric's words. I believed it because, as I sat on that cold ground, overwhelmed by helplessness, something within me began to crack... ***

Hard rocks and asphalt encase me all over. One bullet flies by my head. I see it coming a mile away so of course it doesn’t hit. 3 more fly by. Rocks start to crumble off me and I know a negator is nearby, I need to hurry before it gets here. I breathe in 3 deep breaths and clone myself. Now there are 5 of me.

I was the one who broke Apollo's heart. He was the golden heir of the Sun, my childhood love, and I pushed him away so hard that I drove him all the way to the frozen wastes beyond the North Wind. He stayed there for eight years. Now he was back. He had a new nymph goddess by his side, and they were going to hold their sacred divine marriage right here in our polis. That same week, the temple oracle gave me my final prophecy: I had three months left to live. When my mother wheeled me outside to see him, Apollo's mouth curled into that cruel, mocking smile I remembered all too well. His dark eyes swept over me from head to toe, taking in the wheelchair, the thinness of my arms, and the ghost-

Just when Beck was about to speak, his phone rang suddenly. It was a call from Miles. Beck walked off to a quieter spot to take the call. Miles said through the phone, "Let's get some drinks tonight." "I'll pass. You guys can go ahead." "Why…" At that moment, Shanice ran over with a skewer in her hand. "Uncle Beck, this grilled chicken is for you!" Beck stooped down and took the skewer from Shanice. Miles heard Shanice's voice. "Are you having a barbecue?"

Maya The strange thing about damaged friendships was that repairing them rarely happened through dramatic apologies or perfectly timed conversations because most relationships that survived mistakes tended to rebuild themselves through smaller moments, while trust returned gradually through consistency rather than declarations and people often found themselves feeling comfortable again before realizing exactly when the discomfort had started fading, which was a truth I found myself confronting more frequently as Chloe slowly reentered parts of my life that had remained empty ever since our friendship fractured months earlier. Nothing changed overnight. Neither of us pretended otherwise.

For the first time, Claire believed love didn’t have to hurt to be real. ⸻ Across the city, Fabian stared at the divorce papers once more. He finally understood the truth he had avoided. This wasn’t a misunderstanding. It was an ending. And some endings did not come with second chances.

C H A P T E R 3 : T H E N I C E B A C K R U B A N D C H I L D H O O D M E M O R Y J A V I E R S U M M E R S

BOOK 3: CHAPTER 57: The Point of No Return “Baby girl... why aren’t you ending the call?” Greg’s voice cuts through her like ice, slicing straight into the molten chaos she’s sinking in. It jolts her, hard, yanking her out of the reverie she’s been drowning in—the one laced with forbidden pleasure and a darkness she can’t seem to pull herself from. Her breath hitches. For a split second, reality crashes down on her chest like a weight, and she remembers where she is. What she’s doing.

Was I already halfway out the door just by wanting more than ice and applause? The thought burned, unwanted. And then, before I could chase it down further, the door handle turned. The hinges creaked, and the door opened. And I froze.