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.”

romantic notion, Jason

happily ever after. He had no

live or die together.

all-encompassing. All empowering.

suddenly want to experience such a

him?? Had he fallen in love with her?

course not.

that kind of love, and he challenged anyone

prove that it was honest and

he did admit, that he had feelings for her. There was

realized that

feeling of being next to her.

to be there when she came home,

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

wrong with

honest with himself, he was falling into deeper emotional

in love… he couldn’t have done that.

to never fall in love

sad, right?” The gentle tone of her voice resounded in his ear.

blushing cheeks and a faint smile. He’d give her the out, for now, and fall back into their comfortable position of

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 for it.

she stared at him, her eyes so earnest and

pang of unease.

one day discovered that he

actually Jason Reed, President of Reed Corporation, how would

likely an

around her and

really a question of if he would hurt her,

with Claire, they returned to the Sanitation Center for their lunch break. However, she noticed

at her as they

closet, who then pulled her aside and

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