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Chapter 244

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Chapter 244

Nathan’s chest heaved.

“I vanished because Jasper Cain kidnapped me,” he growled. “Because he wanted me gone.”

Lucian’s voice cracked, the sound ripping out of him raw and broken. “I earned my place beside her! I held her while she screamed your name in her sleep. I put her back together piece by piece when she thought you were dead!”

“I am the one she loves now!”

The words struck Nathan like a blade through the ribs.

Something inside him snapped.

He shoved Lucian back with a surge of adrenaline-fueled strength. Lucian stumbled, barely catching himself before Nathan surged forward again, wrapping his arms around Lucian’s waist and slamming him into the hallway wall.

Metal crashed.

A tray of instruments clattered across the floor, scattering like shrapnel. Nurses shouted. Someone screamed for security.

They went down together—silk tangled with cotton, fists swinging, breath snarling—driven by jealousy, grief, and a love neither man was willing to surrender.

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