Broken Empire by Savanna Gray

Author:Savanna Gray [Gray, Savanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-25T01:58:28+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Sienna

Marco texted me on the burner phone, instructing me how to escape my property without being seen. I pretended to have a headache so I’d have an excuse to go to bed early. Brian believed my lie. He was downstairs, manning the front door, when I enlisted Cara’s help to sneak out of the house.

“Don’t do this. Your father will find out,” she insisted.

“Please, Cara.” I held my hands in front of me, begging her. “I love Marco. I want to be with him not Karl. I can’t marry that awful man when my heart belongs to Marco.”

“I want to help you, but your father will have my head if he knows I assisted you in any way.”

“Just watch my back, okay? Can you do that?”

She sucked in a deep breath, and then pulled me into a hug. “Be careful, Sienna. I don’t want to see anything happen to you.”

“My dad is evil, but he would never hurt me.”

She held me at an arm’s length. “I used to think that… until I found something about your brother in Mr. York’s office.”

Just thinking about Ethan made my heart sink into my stomach. He was the only person who knew what it was like to ride the waves of my father’s career. And now he was gone. Because of that, I no longer felt whole, like a part of me was missing without my brother in my life. Cara and Marco were all I had left.

“What did you find?”

“Something I shouldn’t have seen.” She shook her head, as if she wasn’t proud of herself. In all the years I’d known Cara, she’d never snooped, never spoke ill of my father. “I don’t think Ethan killed himself. I knew your brother well, and he was never suicidal. I raised you both, even tended to Ethan when he was sick or at his worst. A few days ago, I overheard your father on the phone in his office.”

“And?” I bit the inside of my cheek, nerves bubbling up in my chest. “What did he say?”

“He said with Ethan out of the way he could proceed with his plan.” She removed a crumpled piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to me. “And then I found this in the garbage can. I don’t normally go through the garbage, but seeing Paternity Test at the top of the page had caught my attention.”

I unfolded the paper and read the words three times before I could look up at Cara. My eyes widened along with my mouth. I stared at her in horror, both of us standing in my bedroom unsure of what to say next. A brief silence passed between us, where I tried to process her words.

“My dad wasn’t Ethan’s father. How is this possible?”

Cara shrugged. “Your mother is never home. She may hide her affairs, but she’s been having them for years. Their marriage was about convenience, not love. More like a business arrangement.”

Ethan looked like my mother, where I was the spitting image of my father.

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