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Prologue

Victoria

The light knock of knuckles against old wood has , but my focus quickly snaps toward the doorway

Maybell, the woroup home I’ve spent the last three years ofdeeper with every step she takes inside She pauses beside the second bed in the rooet my roommate’s attention

She looks up fro her headphones from her ears

“Nira, why don’t you take a walk, het lost without having to tell her to

It’s her subtle way of avoiding the backlash of rebellious teenage girls who don’t do ith orders

Nira glances from her to me, and with an overdramatic huff, rolls her eyes and walks out

A scoffed exhale escapes Maybell as she drops beside irls, they’ll be the death of me”

“Yeah,” I agree “But would you walk away from this place if you could?”

“Oh, trustin the heavy creases around her eyes “I could go if I wanted, ain’t nobody forcing me here, but to answer your question, no I wouldn’t walk away” She’s quiet for a ht spoken in the next “I’d like to help care for the next generation while I’ve still got it in me”

Next generation

Right

The boys of Brayshaw, the power behind this town Brothers who share no DNA but are connected in every way that counts The boys Maybell has spent the last eighteen years caring for, and their fathers before them

The ‘next generation’ Maybell is referring to, though, isn’t the three she’s already helped raise, but the newest merowing inside his or her mother, and the other, just shy of three years old

A little girl who, as of this hter of Captain Brayshaw The little girl as not only hidden froed in, but from Captain himself He learned of her months after she was born and went on a mission to find her

He did, but their world is not a si home the moment he met her, but nobody could keep a Bray from their child forever And after several decades worth of battles between power faht one won

Zoey Brayshaw is finally hos Permanently