Numbers being added to ToC Chapters... can't turn them off

[dadagrrr]

My Table of Contents starts to add these numbers to the end of my Paragraph Style "Chapter Heading". I've looked to see what differences exist for the "9 Retreat" text vs. the "10 Destiny" and so on, but can't find a solution. It continues until the next level ToC entry.

Here is the text in question in the book:

And the rest of the ToC with this issue:

[Frans v.d. Geest]

I took a look at your shared document.. it is quite a mess! Why did you use Text variables? I don’t get it. And all those estranged Text frames... This is so bad set up that I advice you to start over from scratch to be honest or hire someone to this for you.