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Chapter 23

Author: Bee Brown
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-26 13:07:56

ELVIS POV

After the funeral, thoughts of the boy I had met lingered in my mind. His image remained with me, but as time passed, the memory gradually faded. By the time I turned eleven, he had become a distant recollection.

That changed when Sergei Petrov's family moved to our town.

Word of their relocation spread rapidly, but I paid it little mind, "confident our paths would never cross, and even less concerned with their peculiar son".

Unbeknownst to me, fate had other plans.

When I was in middle school, the Petrov siblings joined my school, causing subtle ripples to spread almost instantly among students. Just like when they moved, their presence became the center of attention. Stories circulated about their years in the U.S., their impossible good looks, and their remarkable ability to excel at everything they touched. They became the kind of people others admired and envied from afar.

Everyone knew our fathers were rivals, entangled in a war across both global business and th
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