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He averted his gaze. “I didn’t do anything.”
“When did you start manipulating EXODUS?” I got in his face. We were almost the same height, but I was a quarter inch taller. I looked down on him every bit of that quarter inch. He stared at me with contempt. “Answer me.”
“She poisoned you. We used to hang out, you used to confide in me. Now you believe some bitch who fucks around.”
I punched before I thought. He doubled over, blood dripping down his cheek to the floor. I grabbed him by the hair and made him look at me. “Mama is dying. Do you get that? What if you took the chance she had to be cured?”
He flinched. “I know damn well exactly how sick she is.”
“Then how could you do this to her?”
“I. Didn’t. Do. Anything.” He wiped the blood on his sleeve.
I released his hair, and he stumbled backward. “I don’t want to turn you in, but you aren’t leaving me much choice. You could go to jail for a very long time, Drew. Don’t you get it?”
“Was that your wife’s idea too? Don’t you see how she’s ruined our family legacy?”
My face fell. All the years between us flashed in my mind. We’d been close from the minute he came into this world. Everything that meant something to me had been nothing to him.
“I want the truth,” I said in defeat.
“You and Dad picked the wrong side.”
“There were no sides until you made them.” I moved to the open front door of his apartment. We were done.
“What are you going to do?”
I paused, keeping my back to him. “Go to the police.”
“Are you sure you want them digging into this situation?” The malice in his voice told me everything. No, I didn’t want them looking further into this, but what choice did I have, even if it cost me?
Slowly, I turned. “I trusted you. I thought—I thought we’d run Carter Energy until we died. That was the ultimate for me.”
“We still can. Just get rid of the bitch.” My God. He hated her. He absolutely despised Mulaney.
“Shut the hell up. She’s my wife. And you took everything away.”
“I’m your brother.”
“Are you? Family would not do this to family.”
“If you have to ask, then I guess I see things differently than you.”
A heaviness settled over me as I crossed the threshold out of the apartment.
“If I go down, she goes with me,” Drew called.
“It’s not just her you set up.” I didn’t bother to look back. I couldn’t stand to.
Chapter Forty-Nine
Mulaney
“What happened to your face?”
Easton had a shiner on his cheek and his shirt was untucked when he walked into his parents’ apartment. “You should see the other guy,” he grunted.
“It didn’t go well with Drew?”
