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Engaged to His Brother, Raising His Daughter
آخر تحديث : 2026-11-02
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مشاركة:
تقرير
ملخص
Contemporary
First-Person POV
Familial Bond
Doctor
Dominant
Independent
Betrayal
Forbidden Love
Love-Triangle
Six years ago, Adrian Cole broke my heart with one text: “It’s over. Paige and I are engaged.” By morning, his engagement was front page news. By nightfall, I was on a bus to Oregon, pregnant with his child. Now I’m back in Halbrook to save my dying mother. I have a new life, a marriage proposal from a wonderful man, and one simple plan: stay invisible. Then my five year old daughter sends a complaint to the hospital’s CEO. Four minutes. That’s how long it takes for my carefully buried past to find me. Returning to Halbrook awaken secrets far more dangerous than the one I’ve kept from Adrian. My future belongs to one man, my past to another, and a decision that could destroy everything is already waiting to be made. I escaped one Cole brother. I never imagined the other could be just as dangerous to my heart.
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Chapter 1: Please Bring Your Mother
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Engaged to His Brother, Raising His Daughter Chapter 5: The Name on Her Emergency Contact
ADRIAN“Four million dollars a year, Adrian, is a very expensive way to feel sentimental.”Raymond Sterne said it pleasantly, the way he says everything, while his daughter’s slides glowed on the boardroom wall. He had a tan that did not belong in Michigan in February, and he was looking past me through the window at his own house on the lake.“The Juniper Ward is not a sentiment,” I said. “It is twenty-four beds.”“It is twenty-four beds that lose money every night they’re full.” He turned to the committee. “Paige, would you take them through it?”Paige Sterne stood beside the screen in a white suit, holding a laser pointer she did not need. She is thirty-three and the smartest person on her father’s side of any table. I was engaged to her for fourteen months once, and neither of us has mentioned it in five years.“Pediatric inpatient services lost four point one million dollars last year,” she said. “MeridianCare can absorb our patients in Grand Rapids at a third of the cost per bed
آخر تحديث : 2026-11-02Engaged to His Brother, Raising His Daughter Chapter 4: The Price of a Room
OWEN“Before you sign, Mr. Shaw, you should know that the hospital started a plan this morning to save the ward your shares can close. Sign here, and here, and once more on the line where it says Owen Harlan Shaw.”Walter Bray turned each page toward me with one finger, the way a man turns pages in a church Bible. He was small and pink, with a bow tie and the patience of a bank vault, and he had been my father’s lawyer for twenty-six years. I had known him for four months.I signed. My hand is better with a chisel than with a pen, and the H came out looking like a ladder.Isla thinks the H stands for Henry. I let her think so three years ago, and it is the only lie I have ever told her that I am still telling.“That completes the transfer,” Walter said. “As of today you hold thirty percent of the voting shares of Cole Health.”“What am I supposed to do with them?”“You vote with them, Mr. Shaw.”He took a pencil and drew four boxes on a legal pad.He wrote 30 for Adrian Cole, 25 for R
آخر تحديث : 2026-11-02Engaged to His Brother, Raising His Daughter Chapter 3: Report to Me
ISLA“Do I stand up when I present, or do I sit down?”Junie asked it in the elevator at two minutes to nine, with her clipboard pressed to her chest and her purple coat open. I had buttoned it twice. She had unbuttoned it twice, because she said a lawyer’s coat has to be open so the jury can see the tie.She was not wearing a tie. I have chosen not to fight that battle.“You do whatever the man says, and you say thank you,” I said.“Even if he’s the liar?”“Junie, we agreed on nicer.”“Even if he’s the man who broke the promise?”That is worse. That is so much worse, and she said it with a smile.The elevator opened on the ninth floor. Six years ago I knew every supply closet on the third floor and the fastest way from the cafeteria to the roof, and I had never once been invited past the eighth.A bald man in a cardigan was waiting at the glass doors with his hands behind his back. Everybody at Cole Memorial knows Hollis Grant by sight, mostly so they can hide from him.“Ms. Penn,” h
آخر تحديث : 2026-11-02Engaged to His Brother, Raising His Daughter Chapter 2: Five and Three Quarters
ADRIAN“Sir, you have a complaint from a member of the public who describes herself as five and three quarters.”Hollis set the tablet on my desk the way he sets down anything he considers dangerous, square to the edge and well away from my coffee. He has been my assistant for two years and was my father’s for twelve before that, and he still briefs me as if the hospital were an army base under attack.“Point of origin is the Juniper Ward break room,” he said. “The sending account belongs to Penn, Isla, registered nurse, with a start date nine days ago. The tone is hostile, and the spelling is excellent.”I read it once, and then I read it three more times.“Hollis, do you still have the Danner file?”“It’s in your bottom drawer under the parking garage contracts, sir. You have never let me move it.”The ninth floor was dark except for my desk lamp. I sleep up here three nights a week on a couch my father bought to impress a governor, and Hollis has stopped asking me whether I own a h
آخر تحديث : 2026-11-02
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