Jake's POVI barely slept that night. Every time I closed my eyes I saw Marcus's face in that hospital office, calm and certain and completely unashamed of the fact that he was in love with our brother's wife. I kept turning the conversation over in my head like a coin I could not stop flipping, looking for the side that would make sense, looking for the angle that would let me believe my oldest brother had simply lost his mind instead of choosing to burn down everything our family had built.By the next morning I had made a decision. I needed to talk to Marcus again. Not because I wanted another confession, but because I needed to understand whether this was real or whether it was just a powerful man taking advantage of a woman whose marriage was already falling apart.I found him in the private library at the mansion during the early afternoon. He was reading a financial report and drinking black coffee the way he always did, like sleep was an inconvenience he had stopped tolerating
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