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All Chapters of The Ice King's Secret Mate: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 0001

•NYMERIA•"We are sorry, Miss Kane, but we have to let you go."My hand tightened on the phone against my ear. My knees almost buckled against each other.This couldn't be happening."Why? What happened?" I asked the HR manager, wondering why he thought it would be best to let me go when I was on my way to work."You will get paid for the hours you've worked since the beginning of the month, but we have no need for your position in our company anymore."I swallowed. "Oh, I— please, if you could just tell me—"The call ended before I could finish my sentence, and my stomach sank.Five years of early mornings, late nights, and skipped lunches. Five years of building something out of nothing, in a city that had never made it easy for me.Gone. In a two-minute phone call.Before I could even step back inside my apartment and process the weight of it, my cell phone rang again, and I groaned when I saw Leonard's name on the screen.My boss.I stared at his name for a moment before I answere

Chapter 0002

•NYMERIA•The drive home from the airport was intense. My chest tightened when I looked at the familiar roads and buildings that I hadn't seen in five years.The last time I was home, my mother had just died. And I had no one but Christopher.We had such an amazing relationship, and when one stupid night almost ruined everything for me, I took the next flight to Drakenfall the following morning and never looked back.The plan was not to come back.Millie looked up at me from the back seat of the cab. "Are we there?" she mumbled."Yes, Millie. We're there."She pressed her face back into my shoulder, and for that one wonderful moment, she never did anything out of the ordinary.***Christopher was waiting on the front steps of the house when the cab pulled up.The house had fewer minor renovations than it did five years ago before I left.His father had built it when the family business was at its peak, and it had passed to Christopher along with everything else when the old man steppe

Chapter 0003

•NYMERIA•"Nym."I stopped outside the tent with Millie by my side. I closed my eyes and wished we had never come here."Come, you must meet Declan," my brother said behind me. "You two haven't seen each other for five years."I turned around and plastered the widest smile on my face. "Ah yes, Declan!" I leaned toward them. "I'm sorry, but I wanted to get something for my daughter in the kitchen.""Nymeria," Declan said as he took my hand and brought it up to his lips. "It's so good to see you again.”I looked at him and remembered our last moments together. We were so close to being seen by my brother, and that moment almost scared me to death.I couldn't lose Christopher or him. So I left and never looked back. And now he was here. The boy I had loved all my life but couldn't have."It's — ah — good to see you again. You're alive and well," I answered, my heart pounding in my chest.The memories of his lips against mine clutched my heart and made me breathless.I remembered his heav

Chapter 0004

•DECLAN•"So, when were you going to tell me you got engaged to Sloane?" Chris asked as we walked to the edge of the riverbank with our wine glasses in our hands.I turned around and looked at Nymeria as she spoke with Sloane. "Well, Sloane and I had an understanding. We both lost people we loved, but the love is growing now."Chris placed his hand on my shoulder. "Sometimes love isn't rosy in the beginning. Sometimes, it starts off messy and misunderstood, but it eventually thrives in the end. Sloane is a good girl and will surely be a good wife.""You think so?" I looked at him when I saw Nymeria walking away from Sloane.I couldn’t tell if she was angry with her best friend being engaged to me, but I knew she didn't take the news well.We were more than what her brother thought we were before Nymeria left. But even after five years, my heart still raced when she was near."I know so," he answered, chuckling. "We are grown now and can't be fooling around anymore. And I am happier no

Chapter 0005

•NYMERIA•First day.I stood at the edge of the training floor with my clipboard pressed against my chest and reminded myself that I knew what I was doing.I had done this before. Years ago, but the knowledge was still there, buried under five years of spreadsheets and quarterly reports and a boss who couldn't take no for an answer.The team filed in gradually, some still pulling their shirts over their heads, others carrying water bottles and the particular brand of easy confidence that came with being professional athletes.They ranged in age, the youngest barely twenty, the oldest closer to thirty-five, and every single one of them looked at me with the same polite skepticism.I had expected that."Alright," I breathed, when the last of them had settled onto the benches. "I'll make this quick because I know you all have ice time after this. My name is Nymeria Kane. I'm your new physical trainer, and yes, Christopher is my brother, and no, that doesn't mean this is going to be easy.

Chapter 0006

•NYMERIA•The house was quiet when I walked in, and quiet, where Millie was concerned, was either a very good sign or the kind of silence that followed a disaster I would be cleaning up for the rest of the evening.Rosa appeared from the kitchen before I could work myself into either assumption."She has been perfect," she informed me, smiling. "She and I spent the rest of the afternoon baking and coloring. She's an angel." "We wouldn't be here if she were an angel," I muttered jokingly, but I noticed Rosa's face stiffening before she answered. "She ate all her lunch, took her nap without argument, and has been in the living room for the past hour." Rosa lowered her voice. "Drawing.""Oh," I scoffed, surprised. "Thank you, Rosa."She nodded and disappeared back into the kitchen. I walked toward the living room doorway, leaned against the frame, and smiled.Millie was cross-legged on the floor in the middle of the rug, surrounded by scattered crayons on the floor and the coffee table

Chapter 0007

•DECLAN•James appeared in the corridor from the showers and saw me looking at Nymeria when she left."She is a beauty, isn't she?" he murmured, standing beside me. "She made my groin engorged the entire time she was talking about physical training. But what I need from her is sexual therapy." He released a soft groan under his breath. "I could already imagine how she tastes with that round butt."I turned to him and scoffed. "Yes, you are absolutely right. And what else have you imagined with her?"He turned to me. "I will ask her out on a date in the morning and take it from there. I want nothing serious with her, but to squeeze that ass and leave the rest for anyone who wants to tap that ass after me."I leaned closer and grabbed him by his neck. He choked and tried to pull away from my grip, but it tightened until his feet were off the ground.James clawed at my wrist with both hands, his face going red, his eyes wide and panicked. He kicked once, twice, and found nothing but air

Chapter 0008

•NYMERIA•I gasped and stiffened when Millie called Declan her dad. It was unexpected and I didn't know how to react to that when I had never told her about her father.I stood there and watched Millie's small hands grip the back of Declan's knees. She looked so happy and for a moment, I felt bad for keeping her from truly experiencing the bond with her father."Daddy, are you here for me?" She squealed.Declan looked down at her, and I waited for the awkward laugh that would signal that he had no idea what to do with a child clinging to the back of his legs and calling him something he wasn't.Instead, he reached down and scooped her up in one smooth motion, lifting her off the floor and settling her against his side as if he had done it a hundred times before. Millie shrieked with delight and grabbed two fistfuls of his jacket."Well, hello," he giggled. "And who are you?""Millie." She smiled."Millie?" He chuckled. "That's a serious name for someone so small.""I'm not small," she

Chapter 0009

•SLOANE•My stomach twisted when I saw Sloane walking Declan out the door. She didn't even see that I was in the car because her eyes were glued on him.She stood at the doorway for a while before she walked back inside and closed the door.The thought of them having a conversation about how they had missed each other for the past five years made my stomach turn.I watched them five years ago, stealing glances at each other, even when Christopher was there. They used to sneak out and disappear into the basement together, doing God-knows-what.It always infuriated me because they knew they couldn't be together. They knew the risks of Christopher finding out.But because I loved Declan, I couldn't bring myself to tell Christopher the truth about them. I didn't want him to hate me for ruining his friendship with Christopher.So, I waited for them to come to their senses and realize that they couldn't keep on seeing each other behind Nymeria's brother's back.But when she told me they had

Chapter 0010

•NYMERIA•The equipment had arrived in three separate boxes, and whoever had packed them had made unpacking a twenty-minute job instead of a five-minute task.I sat on the floor of the storage room with the inventory sheet on my knee and worked through each item against the list. There were two resistance band sets, one foam roller pack, a set of suspension trainers still in the plastic wrap, and a blood pressure monitor that I hadn't ordered and would have to send back.I crossed it off the list and set it aside.The facility was empty at this hour. That was the point. I came in early, specifically because I needed the quiet to get through the inventory and set up the assessment station before anyone arrived and wanted to talk to me.I also thought about Declan's visit, which I avoided by leaving early.I was halfway through the second box when I heard running water in the bathroom.I stopped and listened. It was coming from the staff bathroom at the end of the corridor, the low, s

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