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The chi on her floor startled not only Remy but Tempest, too He dropped her hand and immediately stepped back, seconds before the doors slid open She couldn’t iine who’d venture up to her apart on downstairs She hadn’t locked out her floor from visitors, and only a few people had a key card to her place

She expected to see Hunter or Maddux or both, arriving to deliver the news of Theodore Cole’s fate Instead, Kyle strolled out of the elevator, looking way too cocky and as though he had every right to be in her apartiven him a key card, and she was ht to invade her privacy

She walked toward hiant l

ook right off his face “What are you doing here, and how did you get up to my apartment?”

Chapter 4

Onehard to resist Te stupid—like push her down onto the couch and take what she was offering—and ruin his working relationship with her brother And in the next jarring second, he was delivered a soul-deep shock he’d never seen co as Kyle Jenkins—his half-brother—sauntered into the apart that Remy was ninety-nine-point-nine percent certain didn’t even know he existed thanks to a selfish, gold-digging bitch of a e of seven to marry a wealthy businessman

She’d cut all ties to Re day she’d walked out on him and his father, and he hadn’t heard from Crystal Lowell—now Jenkins—or seen her since But as an adult, out of morbid curiosity that had collided with his better common sense, Remy had looked her up on social media He’d seen pictures of Crystal with her husband and the grown son she seemed to adore And that son wasn’t Remy but Kyle Remy had been completely erased fro part of a family that should have included Remy

His stomach churned as his past crashed into his present in a spectacular way, bringing on a wave of painful ht he’d ed to compartmentalize the inadequate—for both his mother and his ex-wife—seemed to mock him as he stared at his half-brother

He had no idea what Kyle’s connection to Te with the s, self-assured way Kyle entered her apartaze raked over Tempest’s body in her red dress, ? Were they a couple? He couldn’t iine that Tempest would come on to him if she was in a relationship with Kyle Christ, could this triangle get any more twisted?

While Re room as he tried to deal with this unexpected and unwelcoed up, Tenant

“What are you doing here, and how did you get up to my apartment?” she demanded to know

“You’ve been avoiding ht,” Kyle said, his tone petulant He turned his head and frohen he caught sight of Renition in his eyes or expression before he returned his gaze to Tempest “So, since you’ve ether, I thought I ought to take matters into my own hands”

Te one another, Re of her lips indicating her annoyance Clearly, she wasn’t happy to see Kyle

“I’ve been busy and you know tonight’s ball wasn’t a date,” she snapped, her chin lifting angrily “There was no obligation to spend any ti here and how did you get up to my apartment?”

The other lare before he shoved his hands deep into his pants pockets and addressed one of Tempest’s questions “I caot into the elevator with some man, and I just wanted to make sure you were okay”