Chapter 18 Ivy is Vile

**Jax**

I blew out a breath and shook the nerves from my hands. Chloe had set up what would eventually become the girls' playroom for Piper, and as I always did when I stayed here, I was sleeping in Sean's room - directly across the hall from Piper. Despite having gone to bed two hours ago, I hadn't slept a wink. Between knowing she was so close, her parting words when we'd been outside earlier, and my insatiable desire to talk her out of offering herself up as a spy, sleep was a lost cause.