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33 ~ Sloane
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2026-07-06 15:01:39
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Marrying The Wrong Brother 34 ~ Zane
Was she giving me my space or was she terrified of what she saw of my family?That was the thought that kept swimming through my head as we drove home.Why?Sloane didn't say anything for the entire drive home.I noticed it because I noticed every single thing she did now, small or large. The details always caught my attention and over time I had discovered it was a deliberate choice, and I did enjoy looking at her.She did not push me to tal,k seeing my mood. I was not sure if I should have been thankful for that or not. Instead she just sat next to me with her hands folded in her lap watching the city lights go by outside the window. She let the silence sit between us without trying to make me feel better with words I did not want to hear.Maybe the city lights and the silence were what I needed at that moment. Maybe I was thankful for her being quiet with me, in a way that I could not really understand now.My mind was thinking about the things that were revealed at the meeting ov
Marrying The Wrong Brother 33 ~ Sloane
The room exploded again."This is theft." Roman was on his feet, both hands flat against the table like he needed something solid to keep himself upright. "You're telling me my own father's empire is being handed to a stranger based on letters and a lab result?" Cole yelled."I'm telling you what Gerald specified," Marcus said evenly. "I don't make the will. I only read it."“I don’t care! I demand answers!” Roman screamed.“This guy just came out of nowhere and most especially right now and we are supposed to just accept it?” Cole asked angrily.Beth had gone pale, paler than I'd seen her all morning, her composure entirely gone, replaced by something raw and unguarded that made her look years older than she had standing on those front steps.Asher said nothing.Marcus began reading.The properties came first, a list that took up two full pages, holdings across three states and two countries. It was an empire that had clearly been built across generations and protected with the sa
Marrying The Wrong Brother 32 ~ Zane
This didn't make any sense. He had to prove he was whom he claimed he was. Asher placed the documents on the table without ceremony. I reached out, grabbed them and started going through them. It contained DNA results, formatted in the clinical language of two separate laboratories. Letters, yellowed slightly, the handwriting on the envelopes unmistakably my father's, though I wasn't ready to admit that out loud yet, not until I'd seen them myself. Then I returned them. I was sure that as power play, he went ahead and laid them calmly, evenly spaced, like a man presenting evidence he'd already accepted rather than evidence he expected anyone else to dispute, trying to prove he had nothing to hide. Roman wouldn't look at them. He sat with his arms crossed and eyes fixed somewhere past Asher's shoulder, with denial and anger plastered on his face. His expression suggested refusal from a man who understood that looking would mean seeing the quite irrefutable fact and acceptin
Marrying The Wrong Brother 31 ~ Sloane
I knew they would eventually find out. Those were my thoughts. I mean, whose marriage could he possibly be talking about? That was the only coherent thought I managed in the seconds after the glass shattered, the rest of my mind became a kind of white static. My hand still curled where it had been holding water that wasn't there anymore while Zane's fingers tightened around mine beneath the table, warm and steady, and I realized he'd reached for me again without thinking, the same automatic gesture from the car ride was here again. No one else noticed. They were all looking at the broken glass, the spreading water and of course me who had done it. “Oh my gosh dear, you must not be used to such high stake meetings.” Beth said condescendingly. My face burned up from the embarrassment I felt even though Zane’s hands on my thighs helped reduce it. “Let’s get the help to clean that up for you.” She added and pressed a small bell that summoned a help who rapidly cleaned up the place
Marrying The Wrong Brother 30 ~ Sloane
Everyone took their seats with careful precision like pieces arranging themselves on a chessboard, ready to play a deathly competitive game.I tried to figure out what would make me feel less like an outsider in a room full of strangers who all shared blood I didn't have. Then I looked around properly and understood something that helped, marginally. It was the fact that nobody else looked comfortable either.This lookedlike hell for everyone too.The worst part of being here was having to meet Cole again. There was still some anger in me left towards him. He just sat there and stared angrily at me but I couldn't care less. The last I checked I was the victim not him.I decided to focus on something, erasing his existence from my mind. I chose to focus on the other part of the family.Roman sat with his hands folded, composed, but his jaw worked slightly when he thought no one was watching. The cousins along the side of the table kept glancing at each other, then away,like they were
Marrying The Wrong Brother 29 ~ Zane
Roman looked exactly as I remembered him.Same silver at the temples, same suit cut with precision. The man had spent decades perfecting how to look like old money even when his portion of it had always been smaller than he believed he deserved.The man was someone who never moved before he understood exactly what moving would cost him.He watched us approach without changing his expression.My eyes moved past him before I could stop them, and there she was. Beth, standing slightly behind Roman's right shoulder, dressed in something pale and unremarkable with her hands folded in front of her composed like a woman who had spent thirty years learning to disappear into rooms while watching everything happening in them.My jaw tightened.I hadn't seen either of them since the reading of my father's will, five years ago, and the intervening time had done nothing to soften whatever I felt looking at them now. Roman's eyes were already calculating. It was so obvious I could see it, the way
Marrying The Wrong Brother 19 ~ Sloane
What the hell are you hiding from me? I had opened my mouth to ask him that when he received a phone call and his countenance changed. The rooftop was empty and the last few guests had left. I had turned to him with the question that had been sitting on my mind since midnight in the villa but
Marrying The Wrong Brother 18 ~ Zane
She was looking at me differently now and it wasn't the cold look from the morning after the ruin or professionally neutral look she'd worn for the last three days. This was weighted, suspicious and in the mix it was almost as if I could sense disdain. She looked like she was missing a piece o
Marrying The Wrong Brother 17 ~ Sloane
Did he want to belittle me or make me feel small?As he opened the door, I stood in the hallway with my phone held up, screen facing him. On it was the Instagram post, with specifically, the comment section, which had apparently grown considerably since I'd last looked at it.I was furious with how
Marrying The Wrong Brother 16 ~ Zane
I could never have thought the mighty Sloane was sacred of a little darkness.She was still holding on to me like her life depended on me.The lightning had gone, the thunder moved east and the rain had softened from light ropes to a steady grey curtain. The ark interior had settled into the dimnes
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