Icebreaker Chapter 13 Novels & Stories

His father’s face looked tense, as if he were holding back his anger. “What’s really going on here?” Allen asked. Aaron closed his eyes for a moment, then let out a long sigh. "Bad news. Zagami died. His ship exploded.” Allen’s eyes widened in shock. "What?!" ***

“Then tell her. Before she has to hear it from someone else. Secrets never stay buried in this sport.” He wasn’t wrong. Marlin stood. “I’ll update you once negotiations begin.” I nodded, voice rough. “Thank you.” They filed out, Marlin first, Cole trailing after him, throwing me a tight, supportive half-smile. Isaac paused at the doorway, studying me like I was a skater about to attempt a quadruple jump on thin ice. “You survived a career-ending fall,” he said. “You’ll survive this too.” “Because I paid for it,” I muttered.

Machinery hummed. She felt the pull again. Blood to blood. Legacy to nightmare. Grey stepped beside her. “You sure you want to go in there?” Mira’s answer was quiet. “I have to. If I’m going to break the Circle’s grip, I need to see where it started.” She took Echo’s hand and stepped through the door. The cold swallowed them instantly. Metal. Stone. Memory. Vault Three had been asleep. Now it was waking up. End of Chapter Nineteen

"There are no guards here, Ezra! No throne! Just you and me and the girl you’re about to watch die!" "You're wrong," I countered, stepping forward—one slow, predatory inch at a time. I let the rain drench me, let the cold settle into my bones until I was as numb and lethal as the ocean itself. "I am exactly what I’ve always been. The man who breaks things. And you, Ivan... you’re already broken. You’re just too high on your own fear to feel the pieces falling off." "Shut up!" "Remember the club, Ivan? Remember how it felt when I shattered your ribs? That was a warning. This... this is the end of the Sokolov line."

"You are basically telling the entire division that I burnt down my own arena just to catch you in the crossfire, Ada." "I know the rumors, Chloe Bennett. Charles Whitaker already told the council it was your line that laid the fire trap, but you didn't know my team was doing midnight drills on that sheet. You wanted to drop the ceiling on Charles, not me." "If the ice had cracked open completely, I would have pushed both of you into the black water myself. Don't look at me with those soft eyes, Chloe. Do you honestly believe I still have a mate's bond left for you after what your father did to the southern borders?"

Suddenly, I am the tip of the spear. "I’m clear!" I bellow. Mateo answers with a guttural grunt of affirmation. The puck meets my stick. I launch it with every pound of Alpha strength I possess, sending it screaming over the goalie's shoulder and into the back of the net. The final buzzer sounds. 5-6. Victory is ours. The Pacific Ice Arena erupts into a chaotic symphony of triumph. There has never been this level of fervor at a Stormbreakers game. But beyond the professional glory, there is a more primal fire burning. I cannot wait to get my hands on the brilliant strategist who engineered this moment.

It looked like it was practically built for students to sneak out. I was just about to jump down to the other side when his voice called out once more. "Hey, rule breaker!" I glanced back over my shoulder. "What?" "Who are you?" I let a slow smirk spread across my face before giving him my answer. "Andriette."

The only thing on Summers Hartley’s mind was revenge. Being a half-breed, she was born extremely weak and completely incapable of protecting herself or anyone, and that cost her. Her family was slaughtered, and her pack was reduced to ashes. As the Alpha heir to Silverguard pack, she swore to destroy the monsters responsible: the Bloodmoon pack. When the perfect chance for revenge arrives, she hides behind a new identity as the dying Alpha’s personal healer and enters the Bloodmoon pack. Every day she heals the pack, she has promised to destroy. Sworn to pay back the same hand, her mission is simple: poison the Alpha who murdered her people and, together with her uncle, destroy eve

A quake rippled through the trench floor. The AI-echo shimmered. “He wakes.” “Who?” Lucien demanded. And then—something punched the ocean floor above us. A sonic boom of water and pressure. Clara’s voice cut through the comms, panicked and cracking. “You have to surface! A second signal just launched from the Arctic! Ivy—it’s him. The First Mind.” The Awakening Begins. I turned to Lucien. “Can you get us out?” “Yes,” he said. “If we leave now.”

The coldness of the water which I felt on my feet, now rose all the way to my shoulders. And now, here I was, my breath shortening with each second. My vision started to become blurry as I felt myself hit the bottom of the sea. "I really am dying." Just a few split seconds before I lost consciousness, I faintly saw a hand reaching out to me. The painful, hard times were over for me now — I could finally be free. ... I could hear a faint voice to my left — a female voice, to be exact. "It must be mom's voice. I guess I am dead..." I thought as I brought myself together and bravely opened my eyes.