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Finn didn’t even flinch. In that instant when Baron’s blade had flown past him, he almost wished it had ended his life.

But Baron hadn’t finished him.

That hurt more than death itself.

“Mr. Gunn… kill me. I deserve it.”

“You do deserve it!”

Baron yanked a report from his jacket and hurled it at him.

“Read it.”

Finn’s trembling hands tore open the envelope. His eyes widened, horror filling them. Then blood spurted from his lips, but even as his body convulsed, he clutched the paper with desperate strength.

“Mr. Gunn… this isn’t real, right? Tell me this isn’t real!”

“It’s real.”

Baron’s voice was iron. “Phantom was pregnant. She left this behind before her mission. I was already preparing a wedding for you two. But you destroyed her. You destroyed your child.”

“No!”

tore from his chest. His

the agony of being an orphan. With Phantom, he had sworn their child would never suffer what he had. He would love that baby with

Phantom had carried his child, and

his choices had killed

time, Finn’s

unable to look at him. His voice dropped low, bitter. “Even if I had slept with Natalie,

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knew… I knew you liked Natalie long before. If five years ago she hadn’t fallen for Jensen,

“Shut up!”

Finn across the floor, sending him sprawling in

He seized Finn by the collar, dragging him up, eyes burning scarlet. His words struck like

them. You betrayed me, fine. But why involve Natalie? Do you know that if you hadn’t exposed my

“She would have!”

broken,

She gave everything for him—that’s what killed her! Even without me, even

do you love such a foolish woman? Why risk your life for her again and again? My brothers, my woman, my child are all dead because of her. Don’t I have the right to hate her? To wish her torn

howl, like

cold. “So you sent Yvonne to the National Hotel–one, to reveal Phantom’s true cause of death, and two, to push her into