Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 237

Chapter 237

"But I gotta admit, he continued in a quieter voice, "it's different when you're not doing it for money. When you're doing it for someone who actually fucking matters."

I looked at him.

Underneath the tech genius was a man willing to burn down an empire just to help me save the woman I love.

Norlan wasn't just a hacker. He was my weapon.

And tonight, while the cameras would flash and the guests would toast and the world would believe I was celebrating... I'd be plotting the destruction of a man too arrogant to see the fire rising around him. A man who started a war years ago and was foolish enough to think he'd won by attempting to claim a woman that was never his in the first place.

"You're a fucking psychopath," I muttered, smirking as I tucked the drive into my coat pocket.

Norlan shrugged. "Takes one to love one."

I reached for the glass of whiskey he'd abandoned and took a sip, letting the burn center me. Then I glanced at him again.

"Thank you," I said.

Norlan looked at me like I'd just spoken in another language. "For what?"

glass. "For making

it up now. "Man, that might be the slickest ghost I've ever built. I'm not surprised he bought

it. He begged for it. After Alfred fed him that crap about my assets being frozen, he went straight into panic mode. Suddenly, I

practically sold his soul to get in on

"He thinks he won."

"The real Elvris operates like a damn myth-clean trails, direct-to-client encryption, no public-facing platforms. Even their NDAs are signed using retina scans. Nobody ever sees the real product unless they're on the inside. So all I

I chuckled. "Of course."

'founder.' Staged email threads between fake developers. A few made-up patents just obscure enough to sound real. I even planted a bogus investor profile in a private venture capital server. Kex found it by 'accident."" He made air quotes with his fingers, grinning. "Man

at the

you Alfred brief? Perfect actors. They even threw

scaffolding' lingo. Got Kex drooling." I

down slowly, absorbing the magnitude of what

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ever go

with a smile. "If I go dark, they're fucked. You? You're the only one

hit

crystal, casting fractured haldssoveraccrowd of monsters in tailored suits and million-dollar smiles. Gold-trimmed hilings spiraled along a grand staircaseethittied to a stage dressed for royalty, not a goddamn engagement. Alpha after Alpha, lounging in arrogance like they owned the floor beneath their feet. And

parents standing and chatting with Alpha Mellors and

corner of the hall,