Chapter 228 False Control
Ivy's POV:
I didn’t know how long it had been.
Time stopped behaving the way it was supposed to somewhere between the first blow and the moment I came back into myself.
My body kept score even when my mind drifted. Pain had layers. Dull where it had settled. Sharp where it was still fresh. My...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Devil in Suit
2. Chapter 2 The Ghosts of Past
3. Chapter 3 The Eyes that Burn
4. Chapter 4 The Ghost in the Room
5. Chapter 5 Ashes and Obsession
6. Chapter 6 When Ghosts Refuse to Sleep
7. Chapter 7 The Walls Are Closing In
8. Chapter 8 The Name On The Door
9. Chapter 9 The Devil At The Door
10. Chapter 10 Bloodlines
11. Chapter 11 The Claim
12. Chapter 12 Shadows of Heart
13. Chapter 13 The Proposition
14. Chapter 14 The Meeting
15. Chapter 15 Ripples
16. Chapter 16 Breaking the Walls
17. Chapter 17 New Beginnings
18. Chapter 18 Agreements and Intentions
19. Chapter 19 Temptations and Tensions
20. Chapter 20 Laughter and shadows
21. Chapter 21 Hearts in the Balance
22. Chapter 22 Quiet Currents
23. Chapter 23 Gifts, Laughter, and Business as Usual
24. Chapter 24 Crowns and Raises
25. Chapter 25 Shadows and Strategies
26. Chapter 26 Care and Confessions
27. Chapter 27 Grazed and Guarded
28. Chapter 28 The Muscle Meets Magic
29. Chapter 29 Shadows Over the Weekend
30. Chapter 30 The Papers of Protection
31. Chapter 31 Unspoken Sparks
32. Chapter 32 Lines We Can’t Uncross
33. Chapter 33 Breakfast and Blushes
34. Chapter 34 The Dinner Arrangement
35. Chapter 35 Satin and Sparkle
36. Chapter 36 Breathless
37. Chapter 37 A Seat At His Table
38. Chapter 38 Catty Intrusions at the Table
39. Chapter 39 Lines in the Sand
40. Chapter 40 Crossing The Lines
41. Chapter 41 Heat in the Morning
42. Chapter 42 Whispers and Warnings
43. Chapter 43 Justice in the Shadows
44. Chapter 44 Office Wars
45. Chapter 45 Sweet and Bitter
46. Chapter 46 Old Flames, Old Wounds
47. Chapter 47 After the Smoke
48. Chapter 48 The First Morning
49. Chapter 49 A Taste of Happiness
50. Chapter 50 Castles and Havens
51. Chapter 51 This is....Home
52. Chapter 52 Sunsets and Kisses
53. Chapter 53 Passion, Possession, Claim
54. Chapter 54 Light Through The Sheets
55. Chapter 55 I Could Breathe Again…
56. Chapter 56 Where we belong
57. Chapter 57 Whole Unit
58. Chapter 58 You Feel Like A Dream
59. Chapter 59 Happiness Suits You
60. Chapter 60 Glowing Emerald
61. Chapter 61 Conspiratorial Giggles
62. Chapter 62 Unveiling of Rooftop of Roses
63. Chapter 63 In the Light of Her Yes
64. Chapter 64 The Afterglow of Yes
65. Chapter 65 In The Glow of Our Beginning
66. Chapter 66 Morning Bliss
67. Chapter 67 The Announcement
68. Chapter 68 The World Beneath His World
69. Chapter 69 The Queen for the Dark King
70. Chapter 70 The Masked Gala
71. Chapter 71 Sparks in the Dark
72. Chapter 72 Veins of Glass
73. Chapter 73 Echoes of Fire
74. Chapter 74 The Name in the Dark
75. Chapter 75 The Echo Protocol
76. Chapter 76 The Silent Tower
77. Chapter 77 The Ghost in the Wires
78. Chapter 78 The Storm Breaks
79. Chapter 79 The Line That Shouldn’t Exist
80. Chapter 80 The Fire That Stayed
81. Chapter 81 The First Spark
82. Chapter 82 The Day the Sky Burned
83. Chapter 83 The Night That Ended Twice
84. Chapter 84 Ashes Don’t Forget
85. Chapter 85 The Light Between Fires
86. Chapter 86 The Family War Room
87. Chapter 87 The Mirror Network
88. Chapter 88 The Hunt Begins
89. Chapter 89 Ghost Code
90. Chapter 90 Sector Zero
91. Chapter 91 The City of Embers
92. Chapter 92 The Ghost in the Heart
93. Chapter 93 After the Fire Sleeps
94. Chapter 94 The Pulse Beneath Glass
95. Chapter 95 Mirrors Don’t Forget
96. Chapter 96 The House That Breathes
97. Chapter 97 The Weight of the Heart
98. Chapter 98 The City of Reflections
99. Chapter 99 Symmetry
100. Chapter 100 The House That Dreams
101. Chapter 101 The Quiet Before Light
102. Chapter 102 The Measure of Quiet
103. Chapter 103 The Light Between Us
104. Chapter 104 The Day Before Forever
105. Chapter 105 The Light We Made (Luca’s Story)
106. Chapter 106 Static in the Silence
107. Chapter 107 Listening to Ghosts
108. Chapter 108 The Sound Beneath the Signal
109. Chapter 109 The Weight of First Impressions
110. Chapter 110 The Echo of Movement
111. Chapter 111 The Pattern of Breath
112. Chapter 112 Resonance
113. Chapter 113 The Mirror Code
114. Chapter 114 The Third Pulse
115. Chapter 115 Resonance Drift
116. Chapter 116 The Drift
117. Chapter 117 The Feedback Bloom
118. Chapter 118 Mapping the Human Variable
119. Chapter 119 The Line Between Signal and Feeling
120. Chapter 120 Moment of Vulnerability
121. Chapter 121 Backtrace
122. Chapter 122 Cross-Signal
123. Chapter 123 The Blind Spot
124. Chapter 124 The Confession
125. Chapter 125 The Mirror Event
126. Chapter 126 Intimacy Threshold
127. Chapter 127 Patient Case #2
128. Chapter 128 The Echo in Recovery
129. Chapter 129 Boundary Breach
130. Chapter 130 The Family Table
131. Chapter 131 Brother's Reflection
132. Chapter 132 Memory Leak
133. Chapter 133 The Quiet Before
134. Chapter 134 The Truth That Lives Inside
135. Chapter 135 The Kiss
136. Chapter 136 System Overload
137. Chapter 137 ICU Softness
138. Chapter 138 Discharge & Fragility
139. Chapter 139 Distance Protocol
140. Chapter 140 Don’t Disappear
141. Chapter 141 Reboot & The Pattern
142. Chapter 142 Resonance in the Field
143. Chapter 143 The Board Summons
144. Chapter 144 Blame
145. Chapter 145 Lines Drawn
146. Chapter 146 Not On My Watch
147. Chapter 147 Clarity, Not Chaos
148. Chapter 148 PATTERN: PROTECTOR
149. Chapter 149 Don't Let Go
150. Chapter 150 Patterns Don’t Lie
151. Chapter 151 The Choice
152. Chapter 152 The Reckoning
153. Chapter 153 After the Chaos
154. Chapter 154 The War Council - Matteo
155. Chapter 155 Exit Routes - Ivy
156. Chapter 156 Ghost Eyes
157. Chapter 157 Assigned
158. Chapter 158 The Assignment
159. Chapter 159 Terms I Didn’t Agree To
160. Chapter 160 A Week of Watching
161. Chapter 161 Ghost Channel
162. Chapter 162 The Wrong Night to Ghost a Moretti
163. Chapter 163 The Boy In The Basement
164. Chapter 164 The Shape of the Problem
165. Chapter 165 The Man Who Starts Fires Quietly
166. Chapter 166 Stop Looking at Me Like That
167. Chapter 167 The Distance He Refuses to Give Me
168. Chapter 168 THE RED THREAD
169. Chapter 169 TRY ME
170. Chapter 170 DAWN AT THE ESTATE
171. Chapter 171 Impact Point
172. Chapter 172 Quieter Truths
173. Chapter 173 Staying, Not Running
174. Chapter 174 What It Doesn’t Know
175. Chapter 175 Too Close
176. Chapter 176 It Doesn't Understand People
177. Chapter 177 What Machines Remember
178. Chapter 178 The Problem Is You
179. Chapter 179 Safe With Me
180. Chapter 180 I Am Guarding
181. Chapter 181 Anticipation
182. Chapter 182 The Breach
183. Chapter 183 Almost
184. Chapter 184 The Mark.
185. Chapter 185 The House Knows
186. Chapter 186 Breakfast and Interrogations
187. Chapter 187 Not Yet
188. Chapter 188 OH. MY. GOD.
189. Chapter 189 K-I-S-S-I-N-G
190. Chapter 190 What He Always Knew
191. Chapter 191 DISTANCE
192. Chapter 192 Stay
193. Chapter 193 Borrowed Warmth
194. Chapter 194 I Stay
195. Chapter 195 RECON
196. Chapter 196 RECON: ALPHA
197. Chapter 197 After The Quiet
198. Chapter 198 INTERRUPTED TRUTH
199. Chapter 199 Delivered
200. Chapter 200 Life vs Threat
201. Chapter 201 After the Birth
202. Chapter 202 The Second Call
203. Chapter 203 Quietly, Completely
204. Chapter 204 Silent Deletion
205. Chapter 205 The Follow
206. Chapter 206 Response Time
207. Chapter 207 Almost
208. Chapter 208 The Name In The Room
209. Chapter 209 Burn Radius
210. Chapter 210 Clear Line of Sight
211. Chapter 211 Inside The Building
212. Chapter 212 No Safe Distance
213. Chapter 213 The Fire Before The Fire
214. Chapter 214 Small Mercies
215. Chapter 215 The Cost Of Mercy
216. Chapter 216 The Night Everything Burned
217. Chapter 217 Recognition
218. Chapter 218 Ownership
219. Chapter 219 Family Lines
220. Chapter 220 No Small Mercies
221. Chapter 221 The Hunt Begins
222. Chapter 222 Controlled Damaged
223. Chapter 223 False Signal
224. Chapter 224 Controlled Damage
225. Chapter 225 Late
226. Chapter 226 Found And Lost, Again
227. Chapter 227 No Time For Mercy
228. Chapter 228 False Control
229. Chapter 229 The Trap That Bites Back
230. Chapter 230 Ashes Don’t Scream
231. Chapter 231 Burn The Myth
232. Chapter 232 Before She Wakes
233. Chapter 233 After The Fire
234. Chapter 234 Epilogue - What Survived
235. Chapter 235 Epilogue - What We Built
236. Chapter 236 Epilogue - What We Choose
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