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Chapter One

Linc Kingston’s father was a po womanizer, an asshole of the first order, and he was dead, leaving behind four legitihter That they knew of

Linc spread the canceled checks he’d found weeks ago across his desk As he’d discovered yesterday froator he’d hired, the trail had led to a sister he knew nothing about, and the infor Who knehat other surprises awaited in the wake of Kenneth Kingston’s death of a heart attack a month earlier?

Picking up a glass of Macallan 18, not his first or even his second, he finished the contents Without hesitation, he poured himself another with the bottle he’d taken from the bar in the corner of the office that had once been his father’s

“Slon or you’ll end up sleeping here tonight,” his brother Xander said Feet kicked out in front of him, he leaned back in his chair

“I have a car waiting to take et as drunk as I want” Linc lifted the tumbler to his lips

Xander groaned “Look, I get it I’ht Dad was a stellar hu Are you really shocked he knocked up his secretary nineteen years ago and left a daughter to show for it?”

“No” Linc took another sip “But I am horrified by the fact that at some point he looked up the kid’s mother, found out the child was in foster care, and left her there” Linc’s private investigator had tracked down Tiffany Michaels and gotten the story Linc’s stomach churned at how his sister had been treated by both of her parents

Xander glanced up at the ceiling, adjusting his black-fra at a coed my mind I could use a drink myself”

With a shake of his head, Xander rose, walked to the bar, grabbed a tuht it back to the desk He picked up the bottle, poured hi in a hefty gulp

“What do Dash and Chloe say?” Xander asked of their siblings

Of course Xander wouldn’t kno they’d taken the news While Linc was dealing with their late father’s estate, the business he’d been helping to run for years, and the paperwork after their father’s death, Xander had been closed up in his ho He was a marine turned thriller writer after his return stateside whose books had been ot lost in his oorld Linc had called hiht to fill him in about their sister