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FORTY EIGHT

Author: Nora Baker
last update Last Updated: 2024-09-06 22:24:05

Chapter 48

Orion's POV

That bastard

I gritted my teeth as I watched my stepbrother go and wondered if I had made a mistake by letting him walk freely without bending his nose to the side.

He has no right to nutt into my affairs. I was Ciara's husband and she was my wife. He wasn't the marriage police so he couldn't dictate what was right and wrong besides I wasn't with Sophie in a room or something. This was a bar with so many people around. What course possibly grow wrong?

“He hasn't changed much since the last time I saw him,” Sophie commented and I whipped my head around to look at her.

I simply hummed but didn't reply. Bryan's presence has put a damper on my mood and now all I wanted to do was go back to my hotel room and sleep with Ciara wrapped in my arms, my nose buried in her hair so I could sniff her sweet coconut shampoo.

“You got married?” Sophie asked, her tone accusatory and I glared at her wondering why she thought she had a right to question me.

“Excuse me?” I could
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