Chapter 10

Atlas had never imagined that the woman he once saw as pure and kind–his first love–could be capable of something so cruel.

That she would dare to hurt his wife and be responsible for the death of his child.

His entire world tilted as he stared at Ivy, his gaze dark and unreadable. For the first time, he looked at her not as someone he had once adored, but as a stranger.

Ivy’s composure cracked, and panic took its place. Large, glistening tears streamed down her face, her breaths ragged with desperation.

The hot droplets landed on Atlas’s ice–cold hands, but he didn’t move.

“This isn’t real,” she choked out, shaking her head violently. “I didn’t do this. Those videos are fake–they’ve been edited! It’s Celeste! She set me up because she’s jealous of how much you love me! She’s trying to turn you against

me-“.

“Enough.” The word came out like a growl, low and lethal. Atlas’s patience snapped, his anger no longer restrained.

His temples throbbed, veins prominent against his skin, his fury barely contained.

“You’re still lying?” His voice was deadly quiet, yet it carried enough weight to silence the room. “Even now, you’re trying to blame Celeste?”

His chest rose and fell with barely contained rage.

“She’s not that kind of person, Ivy.” His voice trembled with fury. “And you-” He let out a short, bitter laugh. “You’ve

more than I ever thought

lips parted slightly, stunned. For the first time, he wasn’t defending

her lashes, but a

longer desperate but mocking. She let out a sharp, hollow

look at you. The moment Celeste is involved, you turn on me without hesitation. You don’t love me–you never

seeped

whispered. “You’ve always loved

fingers twitched at his sides. His breath came unevenly, as if his own body was rejecting the truth

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forgive you?” Ivy taunted, her voice

closer, eyes

continued, her words cutting into him like

stomach twisted. “She knows what you did to her father and she knows you made

pregnant.”

tremor ran through his

you prioritized me over her.” Ivy’s eyes darkened with

to you?” Atlas’s throat felt tight, suffocating.

way she had looked at him that last night. The quiet, eerie

cruel and sweet all at once.

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