Chapter 0689

Chapter 0689

‘You don’t even remember, do you?” Maximus said softly, realization dawning on him. Peter’s blank stare was all the confirmation he needed.

It was painfully clear to Maximus that his brother’s fractured memories and deteriorating health were dragging him deeper into chaos, Maximus resolved that he wouldn’t let Peter face this alone, no matter what it took.

“Maximus… I would never give Alexia away! You know that perfectly well.”

“Why?”

“That woman is already living her own hell! Why would you want to add another one to it?”

“She’s the reason you’re like this!”

“As much as I’d love to agree with you, the truth is, she’s not.”

“Peter, what the hell are you talking about?”

you really think that, with Frank’s history, he’d let himself be pushed around by a woman?”

was his

he wouldn’t have handed her over to Leonardo

you defending her?”

course

“Then what?”

who ordered my death–not Alexia He sent the hit because what they’re saying in the media is true. Marcus and I… we’re killers. Everything I wrote in the investigation is true. I’m no saint, Maximus. You have no idea how much I enjoyed my work. Those men were scum, ruining the country, and Marcus paid me well for every single one

Maximus said, clenching

the man lying on that bed, unable to believe that his hands were stained with so much blood. In his mind, all he could see were images of Peter holding his grandson and smiling, or Peter with Mary in the past. That

man being painted before him now had nothing in common with the one he

a thug, but that’s what I did in my youth. Everything else was just a front–a very profitable one, sure–but not my main source

Marcus!” Maximus snarled, his fists

a job, and I accepted. My job was to clear the path for him, and I did it. I knew exactly what I was getting into. Even Catherine suspected. I used to joke about

“Peter…”

do you know why I clung so tightly to Mary when Catherine left her with me? Do you know why it hurt

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