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Because he was standing in stunned silence in the entryway to the kitchen And I knew instantly that he’d heard everything

Chapter 10

Aleks

“Aleks—”

When he reached for ly given back to hiht before felt like it had been obliterated in the last two minutes

They were brothers

Vaughn’s nepheas the one who’d been taken just like me

And Vaughn’s brother had been the one who’d had ain

“Oh God,” I whispered as I took another step back I ended up in the front rooht there Thankfully, for once,I hadn’t done enough of in my life

I ran

But Vaughn caught et the door open

“No!” I shouted

“Aleks,” he began as he grabbed un was suddenly in his hand, but he didn’t point it at ly, he pointed it at the other two men who had followed us into the front entryway “Don’t either of you fucking move,” he practically snarled I’d never seen or heard hiry

Until a few seconds ago when he’d been fighting with the one named Luca

His own brother

I tried to catch ument came back to me

You kneas off-li fro this! All you had to do was leave him the fuck out of it…

What did that mean?

“Aleks—”

“Talk fast, Vaughn,” I said “Because you’re scaring ht you wouldn’t let me down and I believed you—”

“The ht weren’t his hn interrupted