The Auctioned Bride
His tone was calm, but there was pain in it.
He looked away, voice softening. “I used to live with him when we were kids. My parents died early, so his father took me in. Said it was a promise to my father. We were inseparable then…brothers, not cousins. He looked out for me. We did everything together.”
There was a faint smile on his lips, but it vanished as quickly as it came.
“Then his mother died,” Rico continued quietly. “And he found out the truth, that his father killed my parents. Over money, pride, I don’t even know anymore.”
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