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Arriving on his level, she walked out of the elevator and toward the living roo over by the floor-to-ceiling s overlooking the city He turned around, and when he saas her, a sneer forht before he downed the rest of the alass he held He’d clearly arrived after she’d gone to Telasses of alcohol he’d already consu by the resentful look he cast Arabella’s way, things didn’t bode well for her

This Wilder sibling wasn’t as benevolent or compassionate as his sister had just been No, there was loathing in his eyes as he raked his conteain

“Ahhh, Maddux’s kept wolass on the living roo, stopping a few feet away “What is it about you that’s gotten underyears of planning for a woman he should despise just as much as her father?”

The anger in his voice was palpable, and Arabella lifted her chin and held her ground “Whatever my father did, I had no part of”

“No, of course you didn’t,” he drawled in a patronizing tone, close enough now that she could se the fact that you’re Theodore’s blood, and you’re probably just as conniving as your father and you’re trying to mess with my brother’s head Butet tired of, and then he’ll get his shit together and finish what your father started and drag both Gavin and Theodore down to the depths of hell, where they fucking belong”

Arabella’s hands clutched into fists at her sides at Hunter’s derogatory re her own teh you deserve to be slapped across the face for your rude co to let it slide because you’re clearly drunk and angry”

“Why the fuck shouldn’t I be angry?” he yelled, loud and belligerent “Your goddamn father killed our parents”

Arabella gasped, feeling as though all the oxygen had suddenly been sucked out of the room Shock kept her entire body rooted to the spot, and she prayed that somehow, someway, she’d misheard Hunter “What did you say?”

“I said, your prick of a father killed my mother and father,” he said, his voice calreedy he extorted monthly payments from small businesses like my parents’ diner And when they were so tapped out financially and couldn’t pay what Theodore demanded, he decided to teach them a lesson that cost both of them their lives”

The horrifying ie that Hunter painted in Arabella’s mind caused hot tears to fill her eyes “You have to be mistaken,” she rasped She didn’t want to believe it She was beginning to think her father was capable of al and cri a difficult ti her mind around the possibility, but if it was true, then oh, God

A sob escaped her throat, her heart felt as though it was splintering in two, and all she could think was that she had to confront her father, face-to-face She desperately needed straight answers Noher questions No more lies She had to look in his eyes and know if he was really capable of ending two innocent people’s lives

She spun around and rushed toward the elevator

“Where are you going?” Hunter demanded

He sounded so h his voice alone ought to halt her in her tracks But unlike his brother’s co to dissuade Arabella She had no loyalty to Hunter, and wasn’t this what he wanted? Her out of his brother’s life?

“I’ to find out the truth from my father,” she said, her voice a shredded wreck “I need to hear it fro so horrific” Or rather, she didn’t want to believe it, but the churning in her stoood omen