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Norman threw his hands up in mock surrender. "Relax, I'm just making an observation. You've got that look, you know? The one where a man's trying to figure out if he screwed up or if she's just being difficult.""Get. To. The. Point," Shawn growled, his patience wearing thin.Norman's smirk grew wider as he leaned against the edge of the desk. "Fine. I came to talk about us.”Us?" Shawn echoed, incredulous."Us. You know, the family dynamic. I think we have some unresolved issues we should work out," Norman returned with a healthy amount of sarcasm.Shawn snorted, crossing his arms over his chest. "Unresolved issues? The only issue in this room is you, Norman, you've been a pain in my butt since the day you learned how to talk.”Norman laughed; the sound sent a shiver down Shawn's spine. "Always so melodramatic. Look, I know we don't see eye to eye, but I thought maybe we could settle things. Like men."Shawn narrowed his eyes. "What are you getting at?""One on one," Norman said, his
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They both sat in silence for a while before Ryan resumed his chaotic packing. Eva stared at him, trying to process his words. “And then what? You’re just going to walk away from everything you’ve built?”"What choice do I have?" he spat, frustration now at its brim. "I lied, Eva. I fudged all that I had. I have no defense, I can't redeem that." She took a step closer with the words, "That isn't true. You make errors, yes, but it doesn't put a stop to your life. There's always a solution. There's always a path forward ”Ryan laughed bitterly, then shook his head. "You sound just like your old man.”Eva tensed, ever conscious of her father, the shadow across both their lives. "What does my dad have to do with this?""You don't think he'll find out soon?" Ryan challenged, raising his voice. "You don't think he'll judge me, like he's always judging everyone else? He might be your dad, but to me, he's my freaking nightmare.Eva’s chest tightened. Their fathers, brothers by blood, couldn’
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"Hope you’re ready to lose, Shawn," Norman said with a smirk as he spun the basketball between his fingers. The echo of the ball’s bounce reverberated through the empty indoor court. Shawn strode in, his jaw tight, his expression unreadable. His eyes zeroed in on Norman, and for a moment, neither man spoke. The tension between them crackled like a live wire. "I am not here to play such mind games with you, Norman, Shawn said icily, "Let us have done with this." "Ah, that cocky attitude.” Norman taunted, throwing the ball to Shawn. “But it has nothing to do with any of that, this is just because I got to your skin. Admit it." Shawn caught the ball; his grasp firmly clamped on. "You've always gotten under my skin since the day you were born, asshole. Let's do this." Norman burst into a riotous fit of laughter. "Always so serious, no wonder Ava's distant, must be exhausting to live with you since you don't know your way around having fun." Shawn's fists clenched but then he ju
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Shawn was knuckling down onto the wheel on his way home. His jaws clenched as if in a vice-the rhythmic hum of tires in motion did nothing to stop the storm brewing inside his head. Norman's words replayed over and over in his brain like a broken record, their syllables wrenching the knife deeper into his chest with each ticking second that passed by.‘What really happened in Italy?’‘Ask your wife instead.’Shawn snorted under his breath and shook his head, the action an unconscious attempt to loosen the persistent voice in his skull. “It's Norman,” he tried to reassure himself, “He's just stirring trouble, like always.” But no matter how hard Shawn tried, the seed had been planted, and it began to grow far faster than Shawn was able to control.The memory of Ava telling him about meeting Norman in Italy resurfaced. She was hesitant, claiming she didn't remember because Norman didn't actually leave a mark before saying they just met at a party but didn't relate much. And Shawn had b
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"Why is his phone switched off?" Eva muttered irritably, since for umpteen times she had tried calling Ryan's number.It played the automated voice message-ice-cold and impersonal. She drew the phone back from her ear and stared hard at the screen as if willing it to change. It didn't. He shut her out.She snatched her purse and keys, turning a blind eye as she did so to her assistant's inquisitive stare. The drive dragged interminably to his apartment while her mind wrestled with feelings of guilt and many questions in dire need of answers. What had she expected after everything that happened? He had all the reasons in this world to walk away.She finally arrived at his building in near deafening silence. She rapped on his door, and it reverberated down the hall."Ryan, it's me! Open up!"Nothing.This time, heavier knocks could be heard, with an elevated voice. "Ryan, please! I just want to talk!"Still nothing.She set her ear to the door, praying at least for the faintest sound of
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Eva steered through the gates, the mansion looming in front of her through the dark. She hadn't told Shawn she was returning tonight, and she wasn't even quite sure what reception she would get. Moonlight glazed the windows with soft luminescence, but all of the lights inside were off.Eva put the car in the park and clutched the wheel as she took a deep breath. "It's all right," she whispered to herself, "he's probably just sleeping. No big deal."She came outside into the cool night, pulling her suitcase along the driveway behind her. Immediately, the stillness enveloped her; night wrapped around her, it seemed, with the heaviness of some unvoiced threat. The sitting room inside was dead quiet; just a dark well of air.She felt her way cautiously, her fingers brushing the wall for the staircase. Her foot had just touched the first step when a sudden sound made her freeze-a ringing phone. Its shrill tone cut through the silence and sent a shiver of alarm.Before she could recover fr
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“Ava," Shawn said, his voice low, keen, like a blade slid between her ribs. "Tell me exactly what took place between you and Norman in Italy."It came as a bolt from blue to striking lightning in the air around them. Eva's fingers tightened on the spoon over her dessert. She willed her breathing to turn even, but her heart did otherwise. It hammered an uncanny rhythm against her chest."What?" she returned softer than she knew.“You heard me,” Shawn replied, his jaw clenched. The cool calculated expression in his eyes made her blood run cold. “Tell me exactly what happened, and don't you dare lie to me.”She swallowed hard as her mind contorted in ways to try and get herself out of this. Norman's name had been the minefield in their conversations. Shawn hated his cousin, and she knew that he did it with full awareness. Whatever game he was playing, Eva just could not allow it to blow up her carefully constructed facade.She could not allow it to destroy her.“Shawn, I…I really don't k
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