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Chapter One

Luke

“I don’t knohat you boys have been doing up here,” Brooke says with a wide grin on her lips as she walks into the conference roos of take-out under her ar it!”

We all laugh as she lays the take-out on the huge table As always, it’s a fight for the Sesame Beef and General Tao Chicken

Eli elbows rab the box of Breaded Shrimp “Don’t eat all of that!” he snaps

“What are you going to do about it?” I say as I open the box and shove three of the ene froest Cline brother in the room Eli is the shts with et beaten up

“Let’s eat before you guys start wrestling on the table again,” Westin says as he lays out his napkin on the table and carefully places his chopsticks down

“Seriously, boys,” Brooke says as she sits at the head of the table and puts her feet up She’s playing with her black hair as she watches us massacre the food “That was quite the dividend check”

My three brothers and I own and operate Cline Invests, or Cline Corp for short Our younger sister Brooke owns a fifth of the company but her heart is in another arena She’s an actress and only collects the checks The checks that have been significantly larger lately

“Your big brothers areup a thick noodle

Brooke is shaking her head, staring at us in disbelief “Dad would be so proud of you guys”

“Nah,” Eli says, but he’s looking down at the table getting misty-eyed

“He would have been,” Brooke continues “You took the coe and look at what you’ve built”

“Thanks, sis,” I say, s at her “It means a lot”

“And we’re just getting started,” Westin says with that killer look in his eye He’s always been the one to push the rest of us whenever we’re lagging He’s a hard ass, but ouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him