I Am a Pawn to Control My Brother

nd just gave a cold laugh be

go meet hi

like he was talking about somethin

was the hottest actor in the e

d just been named the you

o was the medi

hanks to my

d me, Nicholas, and my sick m

om cheated with another guy,

here, he sent a

ed to make t

hings

he possib

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ho'd been go

Nicholas sin

years older, but

ractically

ys listen

h my dad, Damien Franc

older, with gray

t, successful busines

tood up, excited, re

tively pu

ped his hand, his

you and your brother down. I know

ance, stone-faced, fe

ft, he didn't e

new he w

la

you want?

around, I didn't b

I know I failed you all. I was blinded by greed w

ng this now? My mom's gon

n't expect me to say

came here to tell you that Nicholas and I wi

ed to

ed after me, gr

had my reasons! Your mom'

urned back. "Wh

d," he said, gripping my hand tightly,

with her meds. That's what made her con

ha

because of me. Later, she got

ause childbirth weakened he

k there was

mom?!" I grabbed h

the dark too. It was only later that I foun

you three. All I ask now is a chance to make it righ

y eyes burning wit

us, for making my mom, Nich

murder, I had to find th

want me to

ke I was his lifeline. "All I ask is that you

m silently, my

ncy re

hat that

him, the deadbeat who

ould I uncover my mom's caus

eep breath and meeting his

. "Ivory, I knew you're a good d

d back, staring

d to my mom," I said, pausing to emphasize