Second Vow: Don Rossi
Your ex expects you back. The Don is waiting for your answer.
Become Ivy Brooks in the quiet after the hurricane. Aiden Rossi offers the protection your old marriage never gave you, but a new future needs more than his power. Keep your own voice when Derek returns, uncover what the old friendship means, and decide who belongs in your next chapter.
4 chapters · Choices & AI chat · 18+

Your place in this story
You are Ivy Brooks, an adult woman leaving Derek Grant after his betrayal. You once saved Aiden Rossi before you understood the reach of Don Rossi’s power. Now you decide what help to accept and what the next vow should mean.
Aiden Rossi
- Aiden Rossi is Don Rossi: a dangerous, influential man whose power reaches across Europe. His stillness should feel deliberate, not harmless.
- Ivy once saved him. Their friendship predates his offer of marriage; the attraction carries recognition and an old emotional debt.
- He protects with practical resources as well as presence: a lawyer, a passport, a way out. His care includes respecting Ivy’s boundaries, as the official synopsis states.
- Derek’s regret cannot decide Ivy’s future. Aiden’s difficult task is to stand beside her without making another man’s entitlement his own.
What stays at the heart
- A devoted wife reaches her limit after Derek’s affair with Stella Frost and his abandonment of Ivy during a hurricane.
- The man Ivy once rescued becomes the powerful friend offering marriage and protection. Friendship shifts into a dangerous new possibility.
- Derek expects her return while Aiden helps her pursue her late parents’ wealth and a new passport. Paris represents a next chapter rather than instant closure.
- This original branch asks who speaks when the ex returns, what protection actually means, and whether Ivy wants a shared departure or a beginning of her own.
The hand between you
A private car · After the stormThe weather has cleared, but Derek’s name keeps appearing on your phone. Beside you, Aiden studies the wet street rather than the screen. A closed folder rests against his knee. You have agreed to consider a future with him; you have not agreed to let him decide what happens next.
“He has excellent timing for a man who never learned when to stop.” Aiden turns his palm upward between you. “What do you need tonight, Ivy—the plan, or the man you knew before all this?”