Chapter 11

Alvin muttered it to himself, gray in the face."Loves you? Look how much of her love you burned through!"Howard jabbed a finger at his nose. "The Wharton family dragged this company back from the dead, and you, you ungrateful disaster, destroyed all of it!""Get out! Take your junk and get out of this house!"His parents shoved him out the door, and the slam behind him was deafening.Alvin sat down hard in the hallway, dazed.The pride he once carried like a crown had been ground into the mud in a single day.Hannah hurried up with two oversized suitcases, her hair a mess and fury in every step."Alvin! What the hell have you been doing?"Hannah grabbed him by the collar and screamed at him, her eyes red."The bank seized the ocean-view apartment I live in!"And every credit card you gave me is frozen. I just tried to use one!"Howard jabbed a finger in his face and laid into him. "The Wharton family dragged this company back from the dead, and you, you ungrateful disaster, destroyed

Chapter 12

That pet name stopped me cold. Only one person had ever called me that. I looked up into his rare ice-blue eyes.A long-buried memory broke open.Twelve years ago, under the crumbling walkway of St. Peter's orphanage, a boy covered in injuries and still unbroken had the same defiant blue eyes.The orphan I had casually sponsored back then was the man the whole underworld now feared."Don't be afraid. You have me."He rested his forehead against mine, his voice steady and certain.The panicked hammering in my chest steadied in a way I couldn't explain.I nodded hard and closed my hand around his warm palm.In the end, the fight to the death I had braced for never happened.Ulysses' elite team swept in like ghosts and tore through the factory's defenses with overwhelming force.A few muffled shots rang out, and every thug Alvin had hired through the black market was disarmed and taken down, left sprawled across the floor and groaning."Ms. Wharton!"The elderly butler hurried out of the

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