Master of his heart (Brielle and Max)

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The hatred was like lava, scalding Brielle’s heart until it trembled. She feared Cameron might take another drastic measure, but he merely gazed at her with profound intensity, barely clinging to his sanity.

“Lillian’s lost three fingers, Brielle. If you want Grandpa to live out his days in peace, you’ll tell Max to back off. Lillian should be out of the station by now. Three fingers should suffice to quench your grudge, right? If I don’t get your call by six tonight, I’ll pay Grandpa a visit.

With that, he followed the doctor who had entered, helping Miranda as they left.

The moment the hospital door shut, Aubree retched again, her face deathly pale. “Were those really Lillian’s fingers?”

Brielle leaned back against her pillow, her voice calm. “Yeah.”

This was Aubree’s first brush with such a scene, her stomach churning with acid, feeling as if her very teeth were souring. “Bri, Max couldn’t have done this, could he?”

“No, it wasn’t him.”

Maybe Max had another side to him, but he’d never present such a gruesome gift.

throbbed with

brought, tossing it into the trash can. “Could it be someone. else from the Dorsey family trying to

Ryan was still searching for Spencer

“I don’t know.”

shock of those severed fingers still lingering in her mind. And now. with Cameron’s threat, should she really contact Max

a Haywood through and through. The downfall of the Haywood family would

something was drilling into her

Haywood’s responsibility, not yours. They have no right to use him to manipulate you. Think about all

of Beaconsfield, you had to let go of

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you discarded, the higher you rose. Those who couldn’t let go ended up achieving

by the Haywoods‘

of the most significant figures in

now, both had become leverage against

at her legs and

Miranda had woken up after being pinched at the vital point. The image of those three fingers haunted her vision, making