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He Let My Brother Die, so I Married Another Don
He Let My Brother Die, so I Married Another Don
Author: matches

Chapter 1

Author: matches
It was long dark by the time I got back.

Getting my brother out had left me covered in blood the whole way from the docks to the house. In the end it was men from the family next door who couldn't stand to watch, and they helped me get him to a hospital.

Damian was still on the couch, carefully picking out gunmen for his adopted sister. When he saw me come in, he raised a hand and wiped a streak of blood off my face without thinking about it. "Where have you been? Look how filthy you got yourself."

I met his eyes. "Saving my brother."

He hummed and turned away to prune a potted plant. I looked at that plant, which had never belonged in this house, and something in my chest went dull and heavy. My brother's life mattered less to him than a houseplant.

My brother had stood alone to hold the shipment that meant everything to him, holding on until I dragged him out half dead and he was taken to a hospital. Damian said he didn't want to wipe up our messes.

And that adopted sister, he sent her to the safest dock to do the simplest pickup, and still gave her fifty gunmen to keep her safe.

When Damian finished with the plant, I called out to him. "Let's break up."

He blinked, then scoffed, "Break up? Are you joking? Because I wouldn't lend you men for your brother?"

I looked him straight in the eye.

"Yes. Because of that. Fifty gunmen, handed over without a thought to a girl you've known three months. My brother has been loyal to you for three years, and when it was life or death you wouldn't spare him ten men. That's the family rule?"

Damian rubbed his brow, impatient.

"Vivi just got here. If I don't send enough men to make a show of it, what happens when someone pushes her around? As for your brother, I trust him. If he can't handle something that small, ten men wouldn't have helped him either."

My voice wouldn't stop shaking. "He followed you through hell back when you were nobody."

Damian looked down, deliberately avoiding my eyes.

"If your brother is really in trouble and asks me for help, I'll send someone. Until then I'm not wasting my men."

Something in me broke and I screamed at him, "He held out because he didn't want to bother you! He's already been shot, they took him to the emergency room, how is he supposed to ask you for anything?"

Damian seemed to realize at last that he'd been cruel. He was quiet for a long time, then changed his answer. "I'll arrange a doctor for him."

Then he lifted his arms to hold me the way he always did. That was his standard move after a fight, his way of asking for peace. I stepped out of reach.

I was tired. I didn't want to gamble with my brother's life anymore, and I didn't want to spend any more of my youth betting on a man's love. "Strike my name from the family. We're done."

Damian's voice went cold. "Elena, do you have to fight me on everything? I already promised to get your brother treated. If you insist on leaving the family, I'll pull every bit of medical care he's getting."

The blood drained out of my lips. This was Damian's territory. If my brother didn't get treatment, he wouldn't last half a day.

He knew perfectly well that my brother was the person I cared about most, and he used him against me anyway.

I closed my eyes and told myself that my father had promised to send people for the two of us in three days.

Three days. Then I'd take my brother and leave here forever.
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