I looked around.
“Where's Ethan?”
“Safe. For now.”
Then Adrian walked into the room.
My heart broke instantly.
He stood beside my father.
I couldn't breathe.
“You promised,” I whispered.
Adrian wouldn't look at me.
My father laughed.
“Did you really think he loved you?”
Everything inside me collapsed.
Adrian had betrayed me.
Just like I had betrayed him.
Then my father picked up the contract.
“I spent ten years creating this war,” he said proudly. “Ethan hated Adrian. Adrian hated Ethan. And while they destroyed each other, I prepared to take everything.”
Suddenly, Adrian grabbed the contract.
He threw it into the fireplace.
My father's smile disappeared.
Police officers entered from every door.
Adrian finally looked at me.
“The house is wired with cameras.”
My father tried to run.
Ethan stepped into the doorway.
His back was still injured.
He was holding a phone.
“You talk too much, Dad.”
Everything had been a trap.
Adrian had pretended to betray me because my father was monitoring our conversations.
Ethan and Adrian had secretly worked together for weeks.
My father was arrested that night.
Months later, Walker Corporation and Cole Holdings announced an unexpected merger.
At the press conference, Ethan stood beside Adrian and forced a smile for the cameras.
“Don't misunderstand,” Ethan whispered. “I still hate you.”
Adrian adjusted his tie.
“I know.”
Then Adrian placed his hand around mine beneath the table.
Ethan noticed.
His expression immediately darkened.
“Take your hand off my sister.”
Adrian smiled.
“Still trying to control everything?”
Their argument started again.
The cameras went wild.
The internet exploded.
And I sat between the two most powerful men in the room, realizing something almost unbelievable.
I had entered Adrian Cole's life as a spy.
I had lied about my name.
My family.
My mission.
And my feelings.
But in the end, Adrian had known almost everything.
The only thing he never discovered until it was too late—
was that I had fallen in love with him long before he fell in love with me.
And apparently, my brother's greatest enemy was no longer trying to destroy our family.
He was trying to become part of it.