Lucius hadn't slept with me, yet there he was, sitting at the table with the rest of the Browns for lunch. The lunch I eventually decided to attend. Most of the family was there: Leonardo, Lucia, Liam, Leah, Lionel, Lennon, and, of course, Lucius.I took a seat next to my ever-communicative husband,
Two days passed with me confined within the walls of the Brown mansion, trying to adjust to a false, artificial calm. I had obeyed Lucius's more of an order than a suggestion, and now, here I was, finally back in my city, at Jenna's apartment. As soon as she opened the door, she pulled me into a tig
Lucius smiled with such malice as he looked at Andrew, almost as if silently listing the reasons not to attack him in the middle of a church."This isn't the time for this conversation," he finally said."And when will it be? You came to Fairmount Corporation with promises of international expansion
"Are you sure? Because I can't shake the feeling that of all the places he could have chosen, doing it in his office doesn't sit right with me," I argued."Oh, come on, Marianne. Haven't you heard of lawyers and doctors? Where else do they go when they make that decision? Their offices, their home s
It was hard to breathe, hard to even understand what was happening to me. I knew I had fallen to the ground from the blow I had been dealt, and I also knew the man who attacked me was trying to take me somewhere. I could feel it as he hoisted my body over his shoulder.He took several steps while I
"It was an accident too," he said with such... such calmness. The same calm he used to pull his phone from his pocket and make a call. "Come clean this up. Things got out of hand today."I felt sick and deeply disturbed by what I had just experienced. My stomach churned until I vomited onto the grou
Even through my tears, I couldn't accept it. I refused to. Hearing Lucius's accusations had broken something deep inside me."We're just a small real estate company. A boring, traditional real estate company with regular people working in it. We're not criminals, Lucius," I insisted."The salaried e
"The upper management and shareholders are more or less aware of what's going on. I imagine that includes Andrew?" I asked."That's an easy question for someone as smart as you.""Since I'll take that as an obvious yes, does Amanda know? Is she involved in this?""That's harder to say. For now, she'