canter felt he

sister Gabby cowe

s hiss. "She did it, Jocelyn. She leaked the files to

orporate lawyer, yet I had been completely snowed by my own family. I raised the

he worl

n front of my eyes, like ch

tier lawyer can't see throu

arm locked

ius but doesn' t think to check th

A small, discreet camera blinked back at me. Of course. The serv

e fake sister, Nicole, did it. He' s jus

e sudden silence. My gaze snapped to Nicole, the girl I' d grown up with, the one we all t

nstructed by my family, cra

ed with rage. "What the hell, Jocel

"Jocelyn, how could you? I thought you wer

er to Nicole. Her sobbing hitched for

L

d snapped to the side, a red mark bloomin

loded. "

flinch. I just pointed a single,

gerously calm. "And the server logs. They h

he was caught. He stared at me, his eyes promising murder, then

t with barely controlled fury. He was shutting it down

old security guards. "Take her

s face. It was a primal, gut-wrenching

not there! E

ing backward on the floor. "He knows

cellar to her. It was a place of profound trauma. My own past complicit

ag

shielding her with my body. I faced my brother, the heir to

ugh me," I said. The wor

d in my vision again, c

. He' s malicious. He know

l. He' d burn the world down

h Nicole wasn' t brotherly affection. It

elyn," Ethan snarled, h

arm, pulling her to her feet. She was shak

levator, my back rigid, expecting a fight. But Ethan just stood th

the secure garage of my own apartment building, Gabby' s legs gave out. She c

in that house who might talk: the housekeeper, a woman who had worke

d my personal legal protection, but she finally bro

been tormenting Mis

" I d

police report from... from her assault, back in the Bronx. He got th

lood drain f

r sobbed. "He printed photos of her attackers and covered her bedroom walls

squabble. This was a viper' s nest. My family wasn't just dysfuncti

ents appeared, st

lly waking up

s. She stood by and watched. G

actually do something? Or

the guest room and looked at Gabby, sleeping fitfully, her face et

ted to b

o build her i