Semua Bab Too Late to Want Me; I chose your Billionaire Brother: Bab 141 - Bab 142

Shanon couldn’t sleep.Long after the others had gone upstairs, he found himself back in his study, the one place where he still felt like the master of his world. Yet tonight, even here, unease crept into the shadows. His desk lamp cast a yellow glow over papers scattered like fallen leaves. He stared at the phone, thumb hovering over the dial.All it would take was one call. “Gary,” he would say, “I need you in here. Now.” And the man would come, eager, obedient, ready to explain himself. Ready to prove his loyalty.But Shanon didn’t make the call. His hand dropped to the armrest. He couldn’t shake Cillian’s words from dinner, couldn’t erase the sound of that name landing like a stone in water: Gary McAlister.The betrayal stuck in his chest like a thorn.He rose and paced. The walls of the study closed in, heavy with portraits of men who had never been betrayed, men who still looked down at him as though daring him to measure up. His jaw clenched. Maybe Cillian was wrong. Maybe Gar