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A lot of palencies were being greased on a regular basis to deflect the heat off of their illegal activities Those bribes and hushMafioso untouchable The cesspool of fraud, nepotism, and misrepresentation Maddux had encountered over the years had sickened him, and it wasn’t until very recently that he’d found a reputable group of attorneys ere just as eager to bring down the organization as Maddux was, and who helped in breaking the case wide open

Forto happen, which hy he’d kept everything close to his vest But it had been a h all the obstruction to finally get the attention of the ethical agents within the FBI

And now, as of to, there would be over a dozen raids and arrests all over the city, and Theodore and Gavin were on that list

Reaching the lobby elevator, Maddux stepped inside the lift and pressed the button for his penthouse, then took off his suit jacket and tugged at the tie around his neck to give thehim With each upward level he passed, the knot in his stos to end between hi they’d shared in a very short tiivable And a part of hi to feel toward his had lived the past fourteen years feeling the same way about her father

The elevator chimed as he reached his floor, and after the doors slid open and he stepped out, he heard the eency stairway door slam shut, which was odd since nobody used that exit unless, well, there was an e only a few feet away, an abnor across his features

“Fuck!” Hunter said, and jaitation “I’oddamn sorry!”

Confusion filtered through Maddux, and he tried not to let his brother’s rattled composure worry him until he found out what had caused it Hard to tell with Hunter lately, since his behavior had been running hot and cold since the night of the ball Maddux wasn’t sure if it was a result of everything that had, or rather hadn’t, gone doith Theodore or the fact that the woman Hunter had met and slept with ditched him without a trace

“Sorry for what?” Maddux asked calmly as he dropped his suit jacket on the back of the nearest chair in the living roo on and as that that just went out the stairwell?”

“It was Arabella,” Hunter blurted out “I came up here to talk to you, then she arrived and I said soer and I told her about her father killing our parents She didn’t believe me and was insistent she talk to her father, and she ran out”

Maddux’s entire body tensed and he tried to hold back the fury rising up in hi with Arabella to come out in a controlled environment, and in a way that he could soften whatever he could, and not just yell out the fact that her father and Gavin wereher the whole, complete picture

He jabbed a finger toward his brother “You had no right to tell her,” he said heatedly

Hunter went froht because she needs to knohat a prick her father is And you weren’t going to tell her, so I did!”

Maddux felt torn, because a part of him understood his brother’s fury, while another part of hi

“She’s not what you think,” Maddux said, his voice dropping to a lol Arabella was soft and gentle and sweet And so fucking crushable when it ca like her father, and so helpout of here, I ao”

Hunter gaped at hi serious?”