Chapter 49

Grace shook her head to clear it.

This was her ‘brother’ and he likely didn’t mean what he’d said the

way she was taking it.

It was an innocent question. She shouldn’t read too much into it.

This attraction she felt…was one-sided and couldn’t go anywhere. If she crossed that line, she’d only stand to lose him. He deserved better than that.

They both did.

She swallowed hard and averted her gaze.

“Of course, I would be sad over you. I care for you deeply.”

“As you did for Sean before you learned the truth about him?”

Actually, she felt more for Jay. But she couldn’t tell him that. If he misinterpreted her meaning, there would be no putting the genie back in the bottle.

And the last thing she wanted was any awkwardness or distance between them.

She valued his friendship too fiercely.

Grace cleared her throat and said, “I can love my younger brother

but that isn’t the same kind of love.”

“Oh?”

Jason wasn’t letting her off the hook, and the whole conversation

was making her want to cringe. “It’s two different feelings. I thought loving someone was forever and irreplaceable. I even… thought that lovers could live and die together.”

a romantic notion, Jason thought.

fairytales, 3D projector billboards, and living happily ever after. He had no experience with such things. His parents certainly were no example. Nor any of

of love… to live or die together.

all-encompassing. All empowering.

he suddenly want to experience such a thing? And

him?? Had he

course not.

didn’t believe in that kind of love, and he

to prove that it was honest and

had feelings for her. There was

her and realized that he also had become

feeling of being next to her.

whereabouts, to be there when she came home, and

her, and he was okay with it. Why else would he have

nothing wrong with enjoying someone

with himself, he was falling

fall in love… he couldn’t have done that.

promise to himself long ago to never fall in love

gentle tone of

He’d give her the out, for now, and fall back into their comfortable position of brother/sister and this little insular world

that was the answer she wanted to hear. And he meant it. Protecting her for life was as easy as lifting a finger for him. Hell, his accountants could probably find some tax write-off

him, her eyes so

pang of unease.

her sad, yet… when she one day discovered that he was not Jay Smith, some vagrant

Reed, President of Reed Corporation, how would she react to

was likely an understatement.

had built up walls all around her and he’d been

question of if he would hurt her,

Sanitation Center for their lunch break. However, she noticed that her colleagues were giving her sidelong glances one at a time. Some glances were looks of curiosity,

at her as they

walking toward her from the supply closet, who then pulled her aside and quietly

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