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“Sure” A small smile touched her lips “I trust you and whatever you decide and how you decide to do it, Maddy,” she said, surprisingly him with her support after his brother’s tirade “You’ve always taken care of us Frohteen and Hunter and I were even younger, you’ve done everything in your power to keep us safe and protected And you’ve worked your ass off to build a great life for all three of us,” she added, indicating with a wave of her hand the warehouse he’d built into a luxurious building and apartments for each of them, and the billion-dollar security fir they could ever want or desire “I know you want vengeance for our parents as much as Hunter and I do, and I also know that you will make Theodore Cole pay The timeline has just been altered a bit It’s already been fourteen years What’s another feeeks?”
The tight, uncorateful for those words and her understanding, despite the unexpected way things had played out
She stepped up to him and placed a warood, honorable doings as you claim, then please don’t hurt her,” she said, and he knew his sister wasn’t referring to physical disco “I saw the attraction and awareness between the two of you back in the kitchen when Hunter and I arrived, which tells ht think or believe It’s already going to be painful enough for her when she watches her father’s ugly and public downfall She doesn’t need to have her own heart shattered, too”
His sister had always been so intuitive So tender and caring A gentle souljust like their ainst Arabella just on the basis of being Theodore’s daughter—unlike Hunter—said everything about her compassionate character
But keeping Arabella here at his penthouse had nothing to do with for an attachment or intimate emotions with her Yes, he wanted her Desired her And whatever happened between thebeyond that Especially with the daughter of his enemy
“As for Hunter, he’ll cool off and co an appearance now that all the serious conversation was off the table “I think part of his anger and frustration toward this situation is because he ht at the ball, took her back to his aparthosted I’ doubly betrayed”
Maddux winced at her choice of words but got her point “He actually told you he had a one-night stand with someone who attended the ball?”
She nodded, her eyes bright with amusement “Yes When I stopped by his place earlier, he was already in a et it off his chest and told me”
Maddux arched a brow, finding that bit of infor “Since when does Hunter actually want more than a one and done with a woman?”
“Since last night, apparently,” Tempest said cheekily “Hunter only knows her first nah she accidentally left a crystal shoe behind in her haste to leave Now, he’s determined to track the woman down and find her Sounds like a classic Cinderella fairy tale, doesn’t it? Maybe she’s the one” She sounded excited by the prospect
Maddux rolled his eyes at his sister’s starry-eyed, romantic notion “U Hunter, I’m more inclined to believe that she was a freak in the sheets and he wants a repeat” He and his brother were cut from the same cloth that waydominant and completely alpha, in the boardroom and the bedroom
“You are so crude, Maddy,” she said, though she was laughing “I guess we’ll see, won’t we? I’ve never seen Hunter so twisted up about a woman before, so I’d like to believe it’s ood lay”
“And what about you, baby sister?” he asked, focusing on her love life for a change “Did you find your Prince Charht’s fairy-tale ball?”
A telling blush swept across her light coaze to stare out the office s “No I wasn’t looking”
He smirked