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28 ~ Sloane
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2026-07-03 14:22:30
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Marrying The Wrong Brother 31 ~ Sloane
I knew they would eventually find out.Those were my thoughts.I mean, whose marriage could he possibly be talking about?That was the only coherent thought I managed in the seconds after the glass shattered, the rest of my mind became a kind of white static.My hand still curled where it had been holding water that wasn't there anymore while Zane's fingers tightened around mine beneath the table, warm and steady, and I realized he'd reached for me again without thinking, the same automatic gesture from the car ride was here again.No one else noticed. They were all looking at the broken glass, the spreading water and of course me who had done it. “Oh my gosh dear, you must not be used to such high stake meetings.” Beth said condescendingly.My face burned up from the embarrassment I felt even though Zane’s hands on my thighs helped reduce it.“Let’s get the help to clean that up for you.” She added and pressed a small bell that summoned a help who rapidly cleaned up the place, repla
Marrying The Wrong Brother 30 ~ Sloane
Everyone took their seats with careful precision like pieces arranging themselves on a chessboard, ready to play a deathly competitive game.I tried to figure out what would make me feel less like an outsider in a room full of strangers who all shared blood I didn't have. Then I looked around properly and understood something that helped, marginally. It was the fact that nobody else looked comfortable either.This lookedlike hell for everyone too.The worst part of being here was having to meet Cole again. There was still some anger in me left towards him. He just sat there and stared angrily at me but I couldn't care less. The last I checked I was the victim not him.I decided to focus on something, erasing his existence from my mind. I chose to focus on the other part of the family.Roman sat with his hands folded, composed, but his jaw worked slightly when he thought no one was watching. The cousins along the side of the table kept glancing at each other, then away,like they were
Marrying The Wrong Brother 29 ~ Zane
Roman looked exactly as I remembered him.Same silver at the temples, same suit cut with precision. The man had spent decades perfecting how to look like old money even when his portion of it had always been smaller than he believed he deserved.The man was someone who never moved before he understood exactly what moving would cost him.He watched us approach without changing his expression.My eyes moved past him before I could stop them, and there she was. Beth, standing slightly behind Roman's right shoulder, dressed in something pale and unremarkable with her hands folded in front of her composed like a woman who had spent thirty years learning to disappear into rooms while watching everything happening in them.My jaw tightened.I hadn't seen either of them since the reading of my father's will, five years ago, and the intervening time had done nothing to soften whatever I felt looking at them now. Roman's eyes were already calculating. It was so obvious I could see it, the way
Marrying The Wrong Brother 28 ~ Sloane
Tomorrow won't be easy.Four words. Four words that communicated a very ominous warning Zane gave me that I spent half the night mulling over, trying to extract some additional meaning that wasn't there, and the other half failing to sleep because of it.I got up at six anyway.Because if I was walking into something, I was going to walk in looking super professional so people would think I belonged there.I acted like it was a business meeting because that's the only kind of situation I knew that involved a lot of people in a room who might not want me to do well.I put on a charcoal gray suit that made me look capable without seeming like I was trying too hard to impress. I made my hair like I did when I went for shareholder presentations and my makeup applied with the same exacting hand I used before facing a hostile board.It didn't help.What am I doing? This isn't a freaking board meeting!I exhaled, knowing that even as I told myself otherwise, even as I went through every mot
Marrying The Wrong Brother 27 ~ Zane
Oh Thank God, it’s just one man and I can pay him off.That was the first thing I noticed once my pulse settled enough to actually assess the situation instead of just reacting to it. I was so glad that it was not a coordinated ambush, like four photographers working a tip. But just one very lucky man with a camera and an opportunistic instinct that came from following society pages for a living.“Mr Della Ross, can you look here?” Her screamed as the flashes continued.He was so lucky to have been in this exact place to be standing too close to a parked car because he'd recognized a license plate or gotten lucky on a tip from a valet.“I just wanna get one picture to go!” He screamed again as he continued with the pictures.So fucking annoying.I swore in my mind but then again, one man was a problem with a simple solution. Pay him off, easy.I got out of the car before Sloane could say anything, my body between her and the camera, making sure he couldn’t get a decent picture of he
Marrying The Wrong Brother 26 ~ Zane
I knew the second I looked at her face.And I'd seen panic before in my line of work. It was common in boardrooms during hostile takeovers, hospital corridors. It was that look of someone whose body had started reacting before their mind caught up. Sloane's eyes had gone distant and it looked like it had everything to do with the room around her, her breathing was visible now in short, shallow pulls. I didn't ask what was wrong because asking would have wasted seconds I didn't have.I got her out.The valet had the car at the curb before I'd finished crossing the lobby, and I had her in the passenger seat with the door closed before she'd said a single word.She was shaking.Now, I wouldn't have been worried if it were just small tremors but it was not. Her whole body was shaking and she had her hands pressed flat against her thighs like she was trying to hold herself together through sheer physical pressure.Her breath was coming in sharp and uneven pulls that didn't seem to be bri
Marrying The Wrong Brother 18 ~ Zane
She was looking at me differently now and it wasn't the cold look from the morning after the ruin or professionally neutral look she'd worn for the last three days. This was weighted, suspicious and in the mix it was almost as if I could sense disdain. She looked like she was missing a piece o
Marrying The Wrong Brother 17 ~ Sloane
Did he want to belittle me or make me feel small?As he opened the door, I stood in the hallway with my phone held up, screen facing him. On it was the Instagram post, with specifically, the comment section, which had apparently grown considerably since I'd last looked at it.I was furious with how
Marrying The Wrong Brother 16 ~ Zane
I could never have thought the mighty Sloane was sacred of a little darkness.She was still holding on to me like her life depended on me.The lightning had gone, the thunder moved east and the rain had softened from light ropes to a steady grey curtain. The ark interior had settled into the dimnes
Marrying The Wrong Brother 15 ~ Sloane
Was his heart beating that hard for me?That was what my mind kept coming back to.I was in the shower the next morning and his heartbeat was there, the thought in my mind. The way his chest had felt under my palm, warm and solid, beating with urgency that told me everything I suspected but was not
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