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He saw it in the glances his sister shared with Valerio, his business partner and best friend They had witnessed his shifting moods, his restless lack of focus and his irritation with the debilitating

headaches that could hit at any moment

Teeks previously, when they had been informed that he had miraculously survived, they’d both rushed to where he’d been kept, at an elite private medical facility on a tiny island off the coast of Brazil Up until that point he’d had no ularly focused on rebuilding the physical strength he had lost during the months he’d spent confined to a hospital bed

Talking to them had been painful, but he had started to recover soland had been Dani’s idea, and he had seen her eyes fill with hope that he would soically be restored to his former self

It had worked to a certain extent With their help, the gaps in his e disconnection from it all Dani was deter but apathy for the strange world he had re-entered At tied for the peaceful solitude of his anonyuilt for his own selfishness

In his absence, soday he continued to be re over the hole he had left behind Growing togetherof the look on his best friend’s face when he’d revealed that in Duarte’s absence he and Dani had fallen in love and were now engaged to be married

His best friend and his twin sister were going to be un as a measure to protect Dani fro had only angered him further

It wasn’t that he didn’t want them to be happy But they’d buried him Mourned him And then they hadhell

His anger was a constant presence and it sha No one could have known he was still alive In fact, his father’s oldest friend in Brazil had ensured that no one knew until the tiht

But Duarte hadn’t told them that part of the story yet He hadn’t told anybody Telling the truth behind the events that had led to hi captured and tortured at the hands of Brazilian gangsters wouldthe secrets he’d kept fro holes in them, thanks to his memory loss

Dani had been subtle, but pointed in her questions about when he et back to work Velamar, their luxury yacht charter company, was just about to open new headquarters in the US and in the Caribbean It was so towards forhad been hostile and he had refused to co

After the press conference thatback to Rio for a while, to assist with securing one of the Avelar Foundation’s charity developments—a sizeable portfolio of prime urban development sites in Rio De Janeiro, which had been the catalyst for all the trouble he had brought into their lives

Of course the charity was only one of the reasons he was returning to Rio, but he hadn’t told them that

Dani had been stone-faced and had walked away frole word Valerio had been torn between theed Duarte to take a large security detail and be careful

He knew his sister was hurt by his distant moods, but he felt stifled by her company, by her obvious happiness with Valerio and by her questions about his time in recovery But he didn’t want to talk—didn’t want to re his broken body to its li down the wealthy cri sure they paid for their crimes

The insistent chirabbed his attention The screen showed a text e from an undisclosed number

We found her