FAZER LOGINSome houses don’t have exits. Just doors that look like them. Roxy never wanted her mother’s new life. She certainly never expected to find herself living under the same roof as Dorian Sinclair—the powerful billionaire who now calls himself her stepfather. Calm. Controlled. Unreadable. Dorian sees everything, including the secret Roxy wishes she could erase. After he catches her witnessing something she was never meant to see, he doesn’t expose her. Instead, he quietly tightens his grip on her life. A driver follows her everywhere. Her movements are monitored. Every door seems to lead back to him. The estate may be beautiful, but Roxy soon realizes it is a cage. Then Evander comes home. Her former love. The boy who once broke her heart. The one person who knows who she was before the Sinclair family took over her life. Now Roxy is trapped between the man who knows her secret and the man who knows her past. But the more she learns about the Sinclair family, the more she realizes that moving into Dorian’s house was never a fresh start. It was the beginning of something far more dangerous. And the man she was supposed to call Dad may be the very reason she can never escape.
Ver maisRoxy I forced a sweet smile back at her. She thought she was the only one who could act. If she could lie to my face without blinking, so could I. “Let’s go down now,” she said excitedly. “Everyone is waiting for you.” She held my hand down the grand staircase. My eyes found Evander, and something in my chest lifted. He looked good in his black suit, hair styled, and I still remembered the scent on him. “Evander.” I slipped my hand free of my mother’s. “You look amazing.” “You look breathtaking, Roxy.” “Can we leave now?” Dorian’s voice cut in. I hadn’t noticed him standing there. I got in the car, and Evander slid in beside me. I expected Dorian to say something, but he didn’t, though his look said plenty. He was hard to read most days, but ever since Mary told me how he’d treated his son, I’d been trying harder to understand him, if only to protect Evander from whatever came next. Our driver, David, pulled onto the main road. I knew he reported everything back to Dorian, so
Roxy“Roxy,” Dorian called. I slowly turned around to face him.“Dad.” I forced a polite smile. I hated being in the same room as this man.“Why are you in here?”I hadn’t expected him to question me like this. “I came to check on Evander.”“Why? I heard you found him first.”“Is there something wrong with checking on my own brother?”He went quiet, his dark eyes locked on me, like he was looking straight through me.“You’re a grown woman,” he said softly. “You shouldn’t be in his room alone.”I held his gaze. Everything Mary and Evander had told me was true. He was pushing away anyone who cared about his son.He was using me as a weapon against his own son. He was a sinister man, and he and my mother were truly a match made in hell.“Are you implying something inappropriate might happen between us?”“Don’t misunderstand me.” He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. “Why would I think that?”“Maybe you’re trying to keep me away from him.”For half a second, he looked caught off gu
Roxy No matter what I said, Evander would never believe me. Even a fool could see what my mother and Dorian were doing to him. And my mother. She had shocked me more than anyone ever had. Whatever trust I’d had left in her was gone now. I was done hoping for anything from her. I needed to talk to Evander. Not just the shares. I just wanted to tell him I was sorry, that none of this had been my idea, that I didn’t want to be the reason his whole world had turned on him. I wiped my face, opened my door, and went straight to his room. I took a breath before knocking. The door was already open a crack. I pushed it and went in. “Evander, are you in here?” No answer. I stepped further inside and stopped. He was on the bed, asleep, but something was wrong with how he looked. I went to him fast. “Evander, can you hear me?” I put my hand on his forehead. He was burning up. “Shit!” I stood and ran out of his room. “Mary!” I shouted as loud as I could. “Where are you?” The house was
Roxy“What are you two doing?”Dorian’s voice cut through the room, calm and level, and I scrambled backward so fast my head spun.“Dad, I can explain—” The words were out before I could stop them. I clapped a hand over my own mouth.I’d been seconds from kissing my stepbrother in his father’s house, and my first instinct was still to confess it to the man standing in the doorway.Evander stood up calmly, tapping my shoulder as if nothing had happened. “What is there to explain, Roxy?”My pulse hammered in my throat. He couldn’t possibly be about to bring up our history now, in front of him.“Will someone tell me what’s going on in here?” Dorian’s eyes moved between my face and Evander’s blank one. For a split second, something dark moved behind them, not anger exactly, something colder and more interested than that.I braced myself for being thrown out. Getting thrown out in disgrace wasn’t how I had planned to leave this house.“Dad, relax.” Evander stepped between us. “I’m helping












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