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Kade stood frozen for a long moment, staring after him, and Ivy watched something shift behind his eyes — not fear, exactly, but the weight of a decision that had just been made for him whether he wanted it or not.
"You can refuse," Ivy said. "Can't you? Just say no?"
"Refusing a formal challenge means forfeiting the seat without a fight." Kade's voice was low, controlled, the same voice he used when he was holding something back by force. "I'd lose everything Damon's trying to take, and I'd lose it without even the chance to keep it."
"Then you fight him."
"Then I fight him," Kade agreed, and turned to look at her fully, something fierce and frightened both moving behind his amber eyes at o