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Zeke rolls the liquid in the bottom of his glass. “Maybe it’s time for a change in management.”
Cold ripples through me at his words.
“You want to usurp dear old Mum and Dad?” Lucas asks, his eyes widening.
Zeke’s mouth pulls into a tight line. “Why not? Those pair of cunts have been in charge for too fucking long.”
Kane, who has been quiet up until now, speaks. “They have support.”
“So do we.”
“They have more.”
“So we’ll build more. Those two have been a fucking thorn in our side for years. I’m tired of doing what they want, and we all know they are a threat to Aurelia. Do you really want to risk them abducting her and forcing her into some shit union with a fucking stranger?”
Aurelia shivers at his words, her eyes darting between her brothers.
“I don’t want anyone to get hurt because of me,” she says softly.
Lucas is quick to reassure his sister. “No one is getting hurt.”
Aurelia glances down at her lap before she excuses herself. The urge to go after her as she pushes up from her chair is immense. She’s so young, having just turned nineteen. She doesn’t need this hanging over her.
I watch her cross the grass, making her way back to the house, before coming back to the conversation around the table.
After a couple of minutes, I push up myself. She’s been gone a while and I want to check she’s okay. Kane grabs my hand, peering up at me. He doesn't have to say a word. I can read the question in his eyes. Am I okay?
I dip down and kiss him before taking the same trail Aurelia took minutes before. When I step into the house, I'm greeted by silence.
Then I hear it. A giggle.
I follow it deeper into the bowels of my house until I come to the small sitting room which doubles as a library. Through a crack in the door, I see Aurelia pressed against the wall. All I can see is a ball cap and a strong back encased in a jacket. She giggles again as she tilts her head so he can kiss her neck, and I watch as she slides her knickers off her feet.
I feel like a voyeur watching this, wrong and perverted, but if any of her brothers knew one of their men was kissing her in our home, they would lose their minds. I need to know who it is.
I shift on my feet, and as I do, floorboards creak beneath me. Aurelia's eyes snap up and horror crosses her face as she meets my gaze. But it is the man she is with that my attention is locked on. He quickly glances over his shoulder to see who was there, and I get my first look at him.
Ryan Malone.
Zeke's bodyguard, and once the Fraser brothers find out, a dead man.
