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Prologue

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The ga When it comes to love, the truth can make you or break you And sometimes it can do both Sometimes the truth is all we need to set us free I wasn’t out for revenge I was searching for the truth Only the truth can destroy lives I have the power to destroy as I’ve been destroyed Only I’ to do All I know is that I want to make him pay He will pay for what he has done toof him

Part I

Chapter One

Brandon

"Brandon, I'ent as she spoke to er and it's your fault If you don't do anything, I don't knoill happen" She hung up before I could say anything else, and I ran ht about what she had said My heart was racing, and I could feel the cold sweat of fear building up inti from her now

I should have known thatto be that easy One would think that waiting seven years for the love of my life to come back tobut s was ever smooth or simple for me

I stared at the phone init intoto break the news to Katie Our wedding was supposed to be in one month, but if Katie found out the truth, I wasn't sure if the wedding would still go forward at all I’d wanted to et to marry her at all

I wasn’t sure if Katie could take any ht now Not with all the revelations that had come forward recently I knew she was still pretty upset about the incident in the bar Even I knew that it had been slightly out of line, but I hadn’t been able to stophad wanted to show that bartender that Katie was et inout the future I had planned I didn’t care what I had to do If Greyson Twining thought he had heard the last of —old school friend or not

Greyson and I had gone through boarding school and college together We were both the sons of proainst the status quo of our environments and what had been expected of us We had decided to start the club ere seniors in high school, though we’d actually started it ere freshe

“We should start a secret club” Greyson had been intense as he’d stared at me in the dorm we’d shared “It will be exclusive and private and we can do whatever hen ant”

“Isn’t exclusive basically the sa as private?” I raised an eyebrow at him

“We need to create the rules” He ignored my comment, his blue eyes alive with excitement “First rule is that no one joins without both of us consenting”

“Joins what?”

“Our club,” he muttered, exasperated “We can call it the private club”

“That’s the name?”

“Yeah It’s brilliant” He grinned at me “It’s perfect We can talk about it in public and no one will ever know”

“Sounds stupid” I rolledto the hall to grab a slice of pizza”

“We can have worabbed a pen “Special women”

“Special women?” I stared at him “What does that mean?”

“You know Women who don’t ask questions”

“No, I really don’t” I leaned against the door and stared at my best friend clinically

Greyson Twining was most probably the irls in our coed boarding school wanted, and he was already attracting a lot of girls in college With his golden-blond hair and sky-blue eyes, he was the picture-perfect All-American boy And he knew it He charmed students and teachers alike, yet he never see came to him so easily

“When we start Harvard in the fall, we’re going to need so to set us apart froht in his eyes

“We are the usual idiots” I ran h my hair “We’re handsome, white, and rich We’re the men who run the world”

“Let’s run a different world” His face was serious “Let’s start our own club”

“Fine Whatever” I shrugged at him nonchalantly “Do you want a slice of pizza? I’m starved”

“I’m too busy to eat” He wrote furiously “I need to plan this carefully”

“What’s there to plan?”

“You won’t be huffing and puffing when I have the hottest wo you”

“Hookers?” I blanched “No thanks”

“We would never have hookers at the private club” He shook his head “Like I said before—special women”

“Greyson, why don’t you just do your calculus hoet about this?”

“Brandon, when are you going to understand that if you want to rule the world you have to doe And if you want to be in charge, you have to change the rules”

“I don’t want to rule the world”

“You just want to fall in love and get irl Pussy”

“You’re a pussy, punkass”

“I’m a punkass who’s about to start the best private club in the world” He lay back in his bed and his eyes sparkled “And you are either in or you’re out What’s it gonna be?”