Torn Between The Carter Brothers

“Those things are just bluffs! You made them up!”

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Marco finally yelled after finding his voice, but I almost Idighdf cause for someone claiming to not be guilty right

now, he sure as hell looked guilty as hell.

“You look guilty, Marco. There's no use denying any of this. You and father have put people in jail for claims you

both committed, you've committed a lot of crimes, stolen a lot of money and so many more things... and | have

proof of everything on my list. Do you seriously needto keep listing them?” | glanced over at my father at

the end of my sentence and he exhaled sharply, his face twisted in rage as he stared atlike he was gonna

stranglethrough the screen.

“You're lying, you're-" Marco was still speaking when our father shot him a sharp look.

“Silence!”

Marco instantly swallowed his words, and | felt bad for him cause he had always been super scared of our father,

and he never got to outgrow that fear. Unlike him, | was more like a problem child since | could remember, so |

never had a phase where | was scared of my father.

“Didn’t I ask you to clean up all traces?!” Our father continued, his voice harsh and hard, and Marco flinched, his

head downcast.

“I did clean it up! I did! | don’t know how he got a hold of all that.” Marco responded after a few moments but our

father scoffed.

“Clearly you didn’t do a good job! You fucked up somewhere as usual.”

Marco flinched again, and this time, | felt the urge to defend him from our father.

When we were growing up, | used to protect Marco from oir father as best as | could. I'd take the fall for most of

his crimes and get punished in his stead. Our mother never cared enough to ever intervene, her only concern

was the latest fashion trends till date.

“What do you want?” My father’s words pulledback to the present, and his angry eyes were onwhen |

focused on him again.

“Sign off the will, back off without a fight, then all these crimes of yours would stay between us all forever.” 1

revealed, watching as his jaw clenched tightly in anger. He shot a glance over at Marco who cowered into

himself.

“This wouldn't be happening if you had married that girl, you fool.” Our father gritted out at Marco who pointedly

avoided his gaze.

“Enough blaming Marco already.” | snapped, ignoring the way Marco's eyes shot upward to stare atwith

clear surprise, and fully focusing on my father who seemed to grow more serious.

“You foolish son of mine.” He stated as he regardedbut | rolled my eyes as | relaxed in my seat.

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completely unfazed.

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“Are you gonna sign the will off toor not? | don’t have all day.” | demanded.

“We can’t just give all of it to you.” He growled and | laughed as | rolled my eyes.

“But that’s what you two were gonna do to me. You were gonna take it all and leavewith nothing. Why can’t |

do the same?” | drawled.

| never planned to take Marco off the will completely anyway. | wasn’t as heartless as them.

“You just can’t.” My father continued in a hard voice. “You'll run the company to the grounds. You never sat still

to learn how to run it. Only Marco can still run it smoothly.” He pointed out, which wasn’t a lie.

Working in an office every damn day never appealed to me, and | never planned to take Marco off running the

company, he'll just now have to answer toand not my father.

“Marco will still run the company, but | call the shots, that is all.” | drawled, and again, Marco had shock written

all over his face.

Like he couldn't believe | wasn’t kicking him to the curb.

Well, not everyone is as heartless as himself and father, for one.

“W- what about me?” My father demanded and | snorted.

“You get morning.”

His eyes widened and he leaned forward, slapping his hands on the table. “You can’t do this to me!”

| shrugged. “I can. You betrayed grandfather, kickedout just cause | won't follow your sick footsteps and you

forced Marco to follow your footsteps and beliefs. You get nothing from me, father.” | said in a firm voice, my

gaze unwavering, and by the t| was done, my father looked like he might combust from anger.

“You'll regret this.” He growled and | rolled my eyes.

“Send over your signature before you start doing that. Thanks.” | crooned, watching as he pulled out of the

zoom call.

He was undoubtedly gonna send the signature cause he wouldn't like his mess to see the light of the day.

Marco looked awkward with just the two of us left.

“Why aren’t you kickingout?” He asked bluntly and | shrugged.

“We're brothers.” | stated.

His lips thinned. “You didn’t remember that when you were fucking Addison?”

My mind instantly went to Addison as soon as she got mentioned, and her face materialized in my mind, which |

quickly shoved to the back of my mind, cause | have no business imagining her face in my mind.

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“She was your ex, and | never knew that.” | stated calmly and he scoffed again.

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“Well, she dumped you after | asked her to. Despite all you said, her heart was still withat the end of the

day.” He grinned this time, looking pleased as hell, and | felt bad for Addison cause she clearly didn’t know. what

she was walking into, just as he continued.

“We're gonna get back together, and you better not ever entertain getting together with her ever again.”

| reminded myself again that whatever he did with Addison was none of my business as | nodded. “Of course. |

wouldn't ever dream of it. What | had with her is already in the past after we ended things.”

Marco looked very pleased. “Good.”

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