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After finalizing the last details of my fortune, I picked up the phone and called the one person who had the to change my life forever.

“Peter?”

“Marcus…”

“What’s going on? You don’t usually call me twice…”

“Well… technically, you called me earlier…” I said, trying to sound casual.

“What’s wrong?

“You know I consider you a brother, right?”

“Yeah… You usually bring it up when we’re drunk.”

“Marcus… There’s something I need to ask you.”

“Are you getting sentimental?”

“A little… What would you do if 1 died today?”

“What the hell, Peter? We’ve talked about this before, and we left it in the past. Remember?”

power

“I’m not talking about suicide. I mean if I had an accident my car failed, the brakes gave out, the tires blew out… Things that could happen.”

“Peter, what kind of question is that?”

“Just answer.”

if anything ever happened to

talked about that a lot. But now, things have changed. I have

really following where you’re going with

about this, if someone killed me or I died in an ‘accident,‘ you were just supposed to take my body and bury me near my mother. Back then, no one would’ve cared. But now …

have to worry about your wife or child. Everything you have would pass to them. I don’t know what kind of person your wife

“But

if my family shows up? What if they try

Leonardo’s son–there’s no way they won’t fight for control. But if you

deep breath.

something you need to

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Chapter 0025

is it? There’s still something you haven’t told me after all these

but the baby isn’t mine.” I admitted, resigned.

Silence.

exactly what he was going to ask, but he

know this is going to cause problems down the line, right? Have you thought about that? I doubt your brother will take it well if you hide something this

was the one who convinced her. I was the one who pushed her to go along with this. And now I regret it–because I know this is going to

understand that she can’t deny Maximus his right to be a father. If he chooses to walk away from the responsibility, that’s different–then he’d

down the people who killed your family. And I… I did it by sleeping

asking? Of course not!” Marcus scoffed. “I fell in love once. I got married once. I had the chance to be a father once. And life–those damn bastards–took it all away from me. I could never start over. That would be like betraying Valentina. And

should rethink that…”

this conversation countless times, and we always agreed–love, for me, is

I knew their relationship wasn’t something that happened overnight. Marcus wasn’t the kind of man who fell easily. If

it

least resented me–because I ruined all

to love again. He had locked his heart away. And then, he met Mary. She had woken something in him, pulled

reappeared… I shattered the peace he had built over twenty

anger, his actions–everything he did–was just a reaction to

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