Marry Me To Destroy Them
I pressed, unable to help myself.
Marcus glanced toward the door Ethan had disappeared through, lowering his voice. "There was a girl," he said, "years ago, before either of us had any money, before Vance Global Holdings existed as anything more than an idea Ethan scribbled in the back of a notebook. Something happened to him, back in school, something he's never fully talked about even to me. But I remember, right after it happened, the way he changed. The way he got quieter, more focused, almost obsessive about becoming powerful enough that nobody could ever hurt him or the people he cared about again."
Something cold and unplaceable moved through my chest, the same disorienting familiari