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The corner of his mouth quirks up.

“Yeah, I bet it is.” He bends down to me, his lips pulling in a devastating smile. I can’t help but let my eyes flutter down to his mouth. Just moments ago, it was crushing mine under it. “Use the money, princess. It’s yours. But remember,youare mine. Go against that at your own peril.”

He straightens up and turns around, leaving me in the middle of the room with his shirt around my shoulders. I watch him walk away, two snakes coiling into each other on his back, creating the illusion that they’re swirling as he walks. Stares trail after him, girls licking their lips and guys raising their hands to high-five him. Sade doesn’t grace any of them with his attention and keeps walking as if they’re not even in his way. They move out of his path before he can barrel through them like a panzer.

There’s an ease and natural quality to the way he does it that is almost inhuman. Courtesy of his training in paramilitary groups, which he is destined to lead. He had his last test before Dad started working for his father last summer. In a war zone. The other maids say that he was always a troubled kid, but the young man who came back from the war is just a shell possessed by a demon. Everybody is worried about what the test did to Micah’s soul because that damage is not as obvious beyond his new viciousness.

I wonder whether Duke Romano Royales would have subjected his biological children to the things he made Sade and Micah face. All the grueling training from such a young age, as if his wife had betrayed him by having the boys. Even though he knew exactly what he was getting into when he married a pregnant woman.

Word has it that the boys’ mother, Annabelle Sinclair, was already pregnant with Sade when Romano married her. She came from an extremely rich family, and her illegitimate pregnancy was a disgrace to their name. So her father agreed to give the bankrupt Duke Romano Royales his daughter’s entire inheritance ahead of time in exchange for him marrying her. The only condition was that she remained alive. Her death would have reverted her immeasurable wealth back into the hands of her family or, later on, her son.

Now, if she dies, all the money and power that Romano controls falls back into the hands of her eldest son, namely Sade, and then Micah, if anything should happen to him first. This is probably why Romano has done his best to expose the boys to the most dangerous things over the years. Why he subjected them to life-threatening training programs. It’s a miracle that they survived. Fact is, with their grandfather now gone, if they die, their adoptive father remains the sole heir of Annabelle’s immense wealth.

Sometimes I think Sade and Micah gritted their teeth and survived only to spite their evil father. Evil that seems to run in the duke’s family.

Duke Romano Royales’ own father was a violent alcoholic and gambler who lost the entire family wealth to shady people. The same people that Romano later formed alliances with to traffic arms and train paramilitary groups, after he married the ridiculously rich Annabelle. She was pregnant with the baby of her high school sweetheart at the time, who mysteriously died after the affair came to light. Some of the cooks whisper it was Romano himself who plotted it all in order to secure his future. Circumstances needed to be nothing short of desperate for Annabelle ever to agree to marry him.

But even though Romano never abused his wife physically and he adopted her son, he treated her like shit. He told her things so awful she soon started drinking at breakfast. It was like he was trying to make her sink into depression, taking pleasure in her pain. After a while, he started making her watch him fuck other women. The senior cook, Mrs. Jones, said she found her mistress tied to the chair with her eyes band-aided open after being forced to watch such a show.

Later, Romano forced his wife to take part in orgies, allegedly saying that whorish cunt of hers that spawned Sade needed to be punished. Desperate for a way out, she gave up all protection, including condoms, hoping she’d get an incurable disease and die. Every time she tried to end her suffering with pills, Romano found her and had her stomach pumped. Not because he cared, of course, but because losing her also meant losing her money. But what she got after one of those wild parties was pregnant. That’s how Micah happened. Sade was almost three at the time.

And Romano was furious. In the three years they’d been together, he’d never managed to put a baby in her belly. And he tried hard, Mrs. Jones said.

That’s probably why Micah is even sicker in the head than Sade. At least Sade knows who his biological father was. Micah was literally born from a gang bang, and if it hadn’t been for Sade’s protection, Romano would probably have drowned him in his bath as a baby.

Now, watching Sade Royales head out of the college pub, those brutal muscles snaking in his back, is like watching their past unfold in front of me. A past that could destroy all of us if they unleash their trauma onto the world. But, for now, it seems Sade is only going to unleash it on me.

CHAPTER II

Justine

The road home is anightmare. I flinch every time a car speeds by, gathering Sade’s shirt closer around me. It’s so big that it covers me almost to my mid-thighs, but these are all students coming from the party. Theyknowwhat happened there. The only thing this shirt achieves is that they have less of a hard time recognizing me. Sade made it clear that no one is to touch me, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be the target of cruel jokes. There’s no policing looks and attitudes, especially since everybody knows Sade would never take me seriously. Both he and Micah are set to marry rich heiresses.

Thanks to Sade, I’ll be watching my reputation die a slow and painful death.

Then it hits me like a punch in the gut–my reputation went down the drain the moment when Dean shared those porn videos of me in group chats. Some would argue that what Sade did was actually a small mercy. Without his intervention, twisted and fucked up as it was, I would have ended up being treated like the college slut. Without an important family name to protect me, what Dean did would have made me fair game for all the rich alligators at Norton King’s. Not anymore. Now, Sade Royales laid claim on me.

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