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CHAPTER 062: A PERFECT LIE II
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2026-10-10 00:10:06
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Claimed by the wrong leister brother CHAPTER 063: A PERFECT LIE III
A bitter laugh scraped its way out of me. “Wonderful.”My mother reached for my hand. “Luca, sweetheart, please. We can talk about this later. Right now you need to go back outside. People are waiting. Rosalind is waiting for you.”Rosalind. My wife.I closed my eyes and saw her standing beside the priest, fingers trembling around her bouquet. Then the church doors opening. Kade. The stranger beside him. The fear on her face before she buried it.My eyes snapped open. “Don’t do that. Don’t tell me to go back out there and smile.”“Darling."I swallowed hard, refusing to let either of them see exactly how unsteady my hands had gotten.“I’ve spent my entire life doing exactly what this family expects of me.” The words came from somewhere I hadn’t known was still open.“And I’m tired.”I didn’t know where that had come from. Maybe it had been sitting there for years, underneath the captaincy, the interviews, every time I’d told myself being the good son was worth whatever it cost.I l
Claimed by the wrong leister brother CHAPTER 062: A PERFECT LIE II
“Don’t you dare tell me to lower my voice.” “I’m not doing this with you.” “Of course you’re not.” Her laugh came out brittle, thin. “You never do anything with me anymore, do you? You make your decisions. And then you expect me to just stand there and accept it.” “That’s not what this is.” “Then what is it?” Another silence. I stared at the narrow gap of light between the door and the frame, my pulse starting to climb. “I’ve given you enough time,” my father said. “Time?” Her voice cracked around the word. “You want to talk about time? You chose today, Nicholas. Today. Of every single day you could have brought this into our son’s wedding—” “I’m not the one who brought it into the wedding. The paperwork was supposed to be handled privately.” “Then why is it here?” “Because I want this finished.” My stomach dropped straight through the floor. What finished? “You couldn’t even wait until Luca left for his honeymoon?” Her voice climbed, more raw now. “One day, Nicholas. On
Claimed by the wrong leister brother CHAPTER 061: A PERFECT LIE
LUCA’S POV “Congratulations, son. This is one hell of a wedding.” I shook the stranger’s hand. “Thank you. I appreciate it.” He grinned, giving my shoulder a friendly squeeze before moving on to the next group of guests. I watched him go without any idea who the hell he was. Not his name. Not what he did for a living. Not whether I’d ever met him before today. Nothing. And judging by the number of unfamiliar faces scattered across the garden, I wasn’t the only one pretending. Half the people at my wedding were strangers. That was my mother’s doing. She’d spent months putting together the guest list, insisting that certain people had to be invited, that certain connections were important, that this wedding was about more than two people exchanging vows. Apparently, it was also about business. Connections. Reputation. Making sure the right people saw the Leister family standing together beneath a canopy of white roses. I loosened my grip on the empty champagne flute in m
Claimed by the wrong leister brother CHAPTER 060: ISN’T IT A LOT LATE FOR THAT? II
Something inside me shattered — not loudly, more like glass settling after the crack already happened, the damage already done long before the sound reached me. Because suddenly six years of confusion had an answer. Every mixed signal. Every almost. Every time he’d pulled me in and then quietly stepped back a half-inch, just enough that I never knew which version of the pull was real. I hadn’t imagined any of it. He’d felt it too. He’d simply chosen never to hand it to me. “You were never imagining it,” he continued, like he’d read exactly where my thoughts had gone. “The connection. I felt it too.” My heart didn’t just hurt. It felt like something had reached in and closed a fist around it. “Then why didn’t you say anything?” He looked away, toward the window, toward anything that wasn’t my face. “I was a coward.” I swallowed hard against the tightness climbing my throat. “You were the best thing that ever happened to me, Birdy.” There it was. The exact
Claimed by the wrong leister brother CHAPTER 059: ISN’T IT A LOT LATE FOR THAT?
NOAH’S POV(The wedding day)I barely slept.Every time I closed my eyes, I was back in the back seat of Kade’s car. His hands, his mouth, the way he’d looked at me after like he was trying to memorize something he had no right wanting to keep. And then, right behind that memory, came the other one. My own voice, steady in a way I hadn’t felt in weeks.‘I’m letting Luca go.’I’d spent the whole night trying to convince myself I meant it. This morning, I needed to. Because today was the day I finally had to.“Are you okay?”Quinn’s voice pulled me back into the car, into daylight, into the Leister estate rising up ahead of us through the windshield, already overflowing with cars parked three deep along the curb. People moved in and out of the front doors in a steady current. Someone hurrying past with garment bags over one shoulder, another balancing a box of white flowers against her hip and voices drifted out through open windows.Everyone inside getting ready to watch Luca Leist
Claimed by the wrong leister brother CHAPTER 058: OVER MY DEAD BODY II
“You think you’re untouchable.”“No.” I dragged the chair back with one hand and dropped into it. “I think you’re fucking terrible at threatening people.”Terrence’s men shifted. I noticed. So did Atlas.His eyes flicked toward them before coming back to me. “You’re arrogant.”“And you’re boring the fuck out of me.”He leaned back. “You don’t even know why I called you here.”“Actually, I know exactly why.”“Then tell me.”“You spent twenty-four hours realizing I didn’t give a shit about your little countdown, and decided you needed to see my face to feel like you still had leverage.”His jaw clenched. “You’ve been interfering with my business.”“Your business interferes with mine.”“My shipment is missing.”“And somehow that’s my problem?”“You think you can just take whatever you want.”“Occasionally.”He stared at me. I stared back, unbothered, letting the silence stretch until it started to cost him something.“You’ve hidden behind Casper for three years,” he said finally. “I’ve
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