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"Okay, okay," he said nervously, holding his hands up His bravado had dissolved once again "At ease, boys"

Neither Lucien nor Dylanto let you walk out of this place alive," Dylan said, his voice low and steady

"And for Matthew’s sake, I’ht fall to leave the island before I send out for those envelopes," Lucien said in his ear, his fist itching to s his emphasis on the name, Dylan couldn’t meet Lucien’s eye

"And I came all this way just to deliver your e, official-looking envelope out of his back pocket Dylan took it fro at it

"Get out," he said heavily, feeling the fragile new life he'd built for hi thread by slow thread

He watched his brother leave with Lucien close on his heels He sank down onto the nearest chair, shoving the envelope addressed to Matthew McKenzie into his back pocket and dropping his head into his hands

Outside, Lucien pinned Justin up against the ith a hard shove Edgy and rigid with fury, he towered over the other man in both stature and power In that ht, lover and father He was Lucien Knight, loyal friend, the man you'd want in your corner when the chips were down Theside of

"You speak to no one, or I will know You go straight to the airport, or I will know You board a plane, or I will know Set foot on Ibiza again, and I will know" He leaned his arainst Justin’s wind pipe, his face inches from the otherspell it out?"

The shifty fear in Justin’s eyes answered for him He was on his way He was a low life of no substance or worth, and he thought too eer ain

Justinand his throat sore, but satisfied that he’d thrown a grenade into his brother’s life in the fore envelope

Chapter Twenty-Two

Lucien walked back into the club, passed by Dylan’s table, and strode straight to the bar Two glasses and a bottle of vodka in his hands, he returned and pulled up a chair at the table

"Do you mind if I stick to Dylan?" His tone was neutral "I’ood measures and pushed one across the table