บททั้งหมดของ The Dare to Ruin Him, Falling for My Step Brother : บทที่ 111 - บทที่ 120

LUCAS'S POV"Sit down."Lucas said it quietly and both of them sat.Sebastian on the left side of the sofa. Eli on the right. Both of them looking at him with expressions that told him they already knew more than they were letting on and he appreciated that about them even right now at this particular moment when appreciation was not the dominant feeling in the room.He looked at his hands folded on his knee for a moment.Then he looked up."She called me at two o clock this afternoon." He disclosed. "I was in the middle of marking papers." He paused. "She was very calm about it. Very measured. Very Selena." He looked at Eli directly. "She told me about the clause. About the filing. About the reputational damage argument." He paused. "She presented it like she was doing me a favour by telling me early."Eli said nothing."She also told me." Lucas continued carefully. "That she had spoken to a lawyer who believed the filing had a strong chance of proceeding given the fraternity investi

SEBASTIAN'S POV"Selena signed it."I said it out loud in the sitting room and the words landed like something physical.Lucas stood up from his chair slowly.Eli was already typing back to Jayden."Where are you. We are coming now."Jayden's reply came immediately."Coffee shop on Mercer Street. Twenty minutes."Eli looked at Lucas.Lucas looked at me."She was there." I said quietly. "She witnessed the bet. She knew about it from the beginning.""Which means." Lucas said carefully."Which means everything she has built since." Eli pressed. "The engagement. The advisory board positions. The filing." He paused. "None of it was reactive. None of it was her finding out and responding." He looked between us. "She knew about the bet from day one and she let it run."The sitting room was completely still."Why." I said. Not a question. Just the word sitting in the air needing somewhere to land."Because it served her." Lucas disclosed quietly. "If Sebastian succeeded in making Eli fall for

SEBASTIAN'S POV"She called an emergency board meeting."Lucas put his coffee down and looked at me across the kitchen table."When?" He asked."Last night. Eleven forty seven.""I got it at midnight." He picked his coffee back up. "My lawyer called at twelve thirty. She is not just using Sunday dinner. She is using the board meeting to create an official record of whatever she plans to say at that table later.""Same witnesses potentially.""Yes."The kitchen was quiet. Morning light through the window. Selena's door had been closed when I came downstairs."My lawyer is filing the counter motion at nine." Lucas said. "She will know the moment it lands.""How does she react?""Carefully." He looked at me. "She always reacts carefully. Which means the board meeting becomes more important to her not less. She needs a paper trail. Every meeting. Every documented conversation. Every witnessed statement."I looked at my coffee."She has been doing this for months." I said quietly. "While s

ELI'S POV"Everyone sit down."Lucas stood at the head of the dining table with a legal pad in one hand and his reading glasses pushed up on his forehead and an expression on his face that none of us had ever seen before. Not the quiet careful Lucas who folded himself small at dinner. Not the newspaper Lucas. Someone else entirely.We sat down.Sebastian across from me. Bianca beside Sebastian. Lucas at the head."Devon's appeal changes Sunday completely." Lucas said. "Everything that happens at that table tomorrow night is potential evidence for Monday's hearing. Which means Selena is not just building a case for the separation. She is building a case for Devon's reinstatement simultaneously.""They are running coordinated operations again." Sebastian pressed."Yes." Lucas confirmed. "Whatever falling out they had after the suspension it is over now. They need each other." He looked at his legal pad. "Which means we need to be clear about what Sunday actually is before we walk in the

SEBASTIAN'S POV"They are here."Bianca's voice came through my door at exactly six fifty eight and I was already dressed, already standing at my window looking at the two cars pulling into the driveway below.Selena's lawyer first. A grey sedan. He stepped out adjusting his jacket and I watched him from the window and thought about Bianca's information sitting in our back pocket like a loaded thing waiting for exactly the right moment.Then Mrs Carter's car.Then a third car I did not immediately recognise.Then Devon stepped out of it.I watched him cross the driveway below. His jacket straight. His head up. That easy comfortable certainty in every step of him that had been there since the first day I met him and had never once wavered regardless of what happened around it.He looked up at the window.I stepped back.My door opened.Eli came in without knocking and stood beside me and looked at the driveway below where Devon was now greeting Selena at the front door with that warm e