Chapter 0368

Prologue.

Gabe.

I sit in my office, my mind reeling. Worry for my brother consumes me day and night. It’s been a couple of months since everything went

south with Emma and since he informed us that he married Ava

because he’d gotten her pregnant.

Since then, since he lost Emma, he hasn’t been the same. It’s like something inside him broke. Like he was only half living. Travis told me that Emma wasn’t doing any better, but as much as I treasure her, she wasn’t my main concern. My loyalties will always lie with Rowan,

no matter what he did.

I pull my drawer open and retrieve a packet of cigarettes. Lighting one up, I drag it in, feeling myself calm down just a little bit. I know it’s a bad habit, but I just can’t stop. Not when it’s the only thing apart from sex that is able to make me relax.

Standing up from my chair, I eye my office. I was interning at our family’s company. It’s been there for generations and has always been run by the men in our family. We aren’t sexists or anything like that; it’s just that there haven’t been any females born in generations. For some reason, the men in our family only produce males. Once, there was hope when my mom got pregnant after Rowan and me, but she miscarried at five months. The baby had been a girl.

I don’t turn around. I’ve fucked her enough times

man here to see

delivering such mundane news, her voice is

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attracted me to her. Her voice alone can make

have an appointment?” I asked, finally turning

once or twice I’ve called her in for

and that he has something

let him

in. He has dark hair slicked back, sharp, cunning

cane.

be needing a cane to walk, but then again, there are people in our social status that use it as a prop.

want?” I ask, not beating around

bush.

more I look at him, the more familiar he looks. I

I’ve seen him before.

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