All Chapters of The Ice King's Secret Mate: Chapter 21 - Chapter 29

•DECLAN•"Declan!" Millie squealed when she saw me approaching her on the front porch. She was playing with her dolls with another girl around her age when she saw me."Hey, buddy," I greeted her, kissing her forehead. She smiled and handed me her doll."This is Nina, and I would like you to have her," she answered, and then leaned over. "She's a bad girl and wakes my other babies when they are sleeping.""Oh," I chuckled, thinking about how she was behaving like a doll as well as her mother. "I will keep my eyes on her for you until she wakes up. Deal?""Deal." She smiled while looking up at me. I smiled back at her and headed inside the house."Nymeria!" I called out as I peeked in the living room and walked down the hallway. I finally stopped at the kitchen doorway. Nymeria was standing at the counter with her back to me, one hand resting flat on the surface and the other holding the handle of the coffee maker. She was staring at the window above the sink. Not at anything outside

•NYMERIA•"Nymeria, what's wrong?" Rosa asked when she found my room upside down. I had turned over the bed, emptied my closet, and all my bags, looking for the medallion.I felt like I was losing my mind because it was the only thing that my mother gave me and told me never to lose it.She trusted me with it for some reason, and I had only one job. To keep it safe so it didn't land in the wrong hands."I am looking for my coin-sized medallion," I answered her. "It was in my bag when we arrived here, but now I can't find it anywhere. I don't know where it is."Rosa stepped into the room and looked around at the mess. "What does it look like?""It's a small, dark metal, about the size of a large coin. The edges have markings on them." I picked up the emptied tote bag from the floor and shook it again even though I had already done that twice. "It's always in the inside zip pocket. Always. I haven't taken it out since we arrived."Rosa crouched down and checked under the bed, running he

•DECLAN•"FUCK!" I snapped as I yanked the files against the wall in my office. I couldn't believe that this entire time, it was Nymeria.I couldn't wrap my mind around that thought without feeling sick.I looked at the documents on the floor, picked them up, and threw them into my trash bin. I then grabbed my lighter from the counter and lit everything on fire.I watched as the flames engulfed all the documents and left nothing but ashes."Baby, where's the smoke coming from?" Sloane asked outside the door, and she twisted the doorknob before she realized it was locked. "Declan, open the door!""Everything's fine," I replied. "Go to bed.""What are you burning in there?""Old documents," I answered. "Nothing important. Go to bed, Sloane."She sighed, and then her footsteps moved away from the door and down the hallway.I turned back to the bin and watched the last edges of the papers curl and blacken. The photograph was the last thing to go. I watched it until there was nothing left

•NYMERIA•I leaned back against the pillow and tried to calm my breathing. After everything I heard, I didn’t think I could sleep. I kept feeling scared that someone might break the door down and hurt me.What he said about “the girl” made me nervous. Besides the girl from marketing and me, there were no other girls at the game.The cheerleaders didn’t count because they didn’t really work with us. Still, I shook my head and told myself I was probably overthinking everything.Even though Declan was dating my best friend, he had always been kind to me. I couldn’t imagine him planning to hurt me or any other girl.I got out of bed and poured myself a glass of lemon juice from the counter. Then, I sat on the edge of the bed in the dark and tried to relax.Maybe he was talking about someone else. A player’s girlfriend, someone from the sponsors, or somebody from the league office.“The girl” could mean anyone, and “not yet” could mean lots of different things depending on the conversation