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CORRUPT ME (GIVING MY INNOCENCE TO MY BROTHER'S BESTFRIEND) CHAPTER FIFTY SIX
CHAPTER FIFTY SIX"The most terrifying thing about love is not feeling it. It's knowing that the person you feel it for never promised to stay."MYRAThe word was right there.Sitting in my chest, fully formed, completely certain, the way some things arrived without announcement and then refused to leave. I knew the answer to my brother's question. Had known it probably longer than tonight, longer than I'd been willing to look at it directly.But knowing something and saying it out loud were two completely different acts and I stood there in the noise of the event with Luca's face in front of me and my mouth wouldn't form the word.Because saying it made it real in a way I couldn't take back.And Zyran had never promised love.That was the thing I kept returning to, the specific thing that sat at the center of all of it like a stone I kept finding when I reached into the warmth of what we'd built. He'd said it clearly, early on, in that honest and devastating way he had of telling har
CORRUPT ME (GIVING MY INNOCENCE TO MY BROTHER'S BESTFRIEND) CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE
"The people who love you the most are sometimes the ones you have to fight the hardest to be seen by."MYRAI wasn't supposed to hear it.That was the thing I kept telling myself afterward, like it somehow changed what I'd heard. I'd gone looking for Zyran because he'd been gone from the main room for longer than made sense and I'd felt his absence the way I'd started feeling his absence — immediately and with a specific kind of awareness that I was still getting used to.I'd followed the route most likely to find him, which had taken me past the side corridor, and I'd heard voices before I reached the door.I'd stopped.I wasn't proud of it. I hadn't intended to eavesdrop on a private conversation between my husband and my brother. But the sound of both of them — quiet and tense in a way that meant something serious was happening — had frozen me on the other side of that door before I'd made a conscious decision about anything.I'd heard enough.Not all of it. Pieces. The specific pi
CORRUPT ME (GIVING MY INNOCENCE TO MY BROTHER'S BESTFRIEND) CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR
"The worst betrayals are the ones that come from the people who had your trust completely."ZYRANThe silence lasted about four seconds.Which doesn't sound like a long time. But four seconds of silence between two people who had known each other for over a decade, standing in the corner of a room full of noise while one of them waited for the other to deny something — four seconds was a long time.I didn't deny it.I'd thought about it in the half second between his question and now. Had run the calculation the way I ran every calculation — quickly, completely, looking at every available option and its consequences. I could redirect. Could give him something technically true that wasn't the full answer. Could buy time, create distance, handle this later in a better setting.But this was Luca.And I didn't lie to Luca. That had been true for eleven years and it was still true now even standing here with the specific look on his face that I was watching develop in real time."We should
CORRUPT ME (GIVING MY INNOCENCE TO MY BROTHER'S BESTFRIEND) CHAPTER FIFTY THREE
"The moment you realize the plan you made for someone else has become something you have no control over."LUCAI noticed it before I could name it.That was the thing. It wasn't one specific moment where everything became clear. It was a collection of small things, arriving one after another over the course of a single evening, until the picture they made together was impossible to look away from.The event was a Kingsmen adjacent gathering — one of those semi-formal things that happened three or four times a year where the families came together under the pretense of something civilized. Good food, expensive wine, the kind of venue that made everything look legitimate from the outside. I'd been to dozens of them. They were usually tedious in a productive way, the kind of evening where useful things got decided in quiet corners while everyone pretended to be there for the food.Tonight I'd had other things on my mind. The Serpents were making noise again. There were financial movemen
CORRUPT ME (GIVING MY INNOCENCE TO MY BROTHER'S BESTFRIEND) CHAPTER FIFTY TWO
"The most dangerous man is not the one who threatens loudly. It's the one who shows up quietly and already knows everything."ZYRANI found the bastard jeremy at two in the morning.That wasn't difficult. Nikolai's file had his routine mapped out with the kind of precision that came from ten days of careful observation — the bars he frequented, the hours he kept, the particular late night habits of a man who believed himself completely unwatched. Jeremy Torrence moved through the city like someone who had never once considered that the wrong person might be paying attention.He was at a bar in Midtown. Not a dive, not a club — somewhere mid-range and comfortable, the kind of place that attracted young professionals who wanted to feel like they'd made it without quite having done so yet. He was at a corner table with a drink and his phone, jacket on the back of the chair, completely at ease.I sat down across from him.He looked up.To his credit, his face didn't immediately show fear.
CORRUPT ME (GIVING MY INNOCENCE TO MY BROTHER'S BESTFRIEND) CHAPTER FIFTY ONE
"The truth doesn't always arrive loudly. Sometimes it comes out quietly, in the dark, to the one person you finally trust enough to say it to."MYRAI didn't plan to tell him.Even sitting there with his question still in the air between us, even with the walls already lower than they'd ever been, my default was still to find the version of the truth that was real enough to satisfy without being complete enough to expose everything. I'd been doing that my whole life. Giving people enough to feel like they were getting something while keeping the most fragile parts behind glass where no one could reach them.But I was so tired.That was the thing I kept coming back to sitting on that step with Zyran's hand holding mine. The specific exhaustion of maintenance. Of keeping the surface smooth and the story consistent and the most damaged parts of yourself invisible to everyone who claimed to care about you.I was so tired of being invisible in the ways I'd chosen and visible only in the wa
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