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Leaning against Yolanda like this \u2026 somehow, it made him feel oddly safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yolanda could only stare helplessly at Denton.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Was this kid planning to sleep out here instead of going back to his room?\u00a0<\/p>\n
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In the bedroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adriana leaned against the headboard and handed Curtis the stretch\u2013mark oil.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A dad\u2019s participation during pregnancy really did matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe little ones are behaving today,\u201d Curtis murmured, carefully rubbing the oil over her belly. His voice dropped instinctively, as if he were afraid of startling the babies inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adriana reclined against the pillows, watching him with a soft smile.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The happiness she\u2019d always wanted was really nothing more than this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got another prenatal checkup tomorrow,\u201d she said quietly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was no way Curtis could go with her to the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If he showed up there, it\u2019d be too easy for someone to spot him\u2013he still had to stay in the shadows, at least for a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Irene would be flying in soon, too, so Gary would be the one taking Adriana to her appointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to go with you,\u201d Curtis muttered, clearly unhappy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet Gary take me. You just wait for me at home,\u201d Adriana said, ruffling his hair. \u201cTomorrow, I\u2019ll ask the doctor everything carefully. The babies are almost ready to meet us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Curtis nodded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGary\u2026\u201d he started, then hesitated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He wanted to tell Adriana about everything between him and the Harrisons, but the words stuck in his throat, tangled up with old guilt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandpa\u2013Gary\u2019s dad\u2013he hates me for killing his daughter. After my mom died, he fell seriously ill. Then, he stepped back from the company and handed Harrison Group over to Gary. He\u2019s been retired in Veneji ever since. We haven\u2019t seen each other in\u2026 a very, very long time,\u201d Curtis spoke quietly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adriana wrapped her arms him, heart ach he knew this was a wound buried deep, where he\u00a0<\/p>\n
never let anyone touch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cGary was a soldier. He never cared about running a company. From the very beginning, he had no intention of taking over Harrison Group. He just wanted to stay in the army and live out his dream. But after my mom died, my grandpa\u2019s health went downhill, and Gary had no choice. He had to give up his own dream, walk away from the mission he wanted, and come home to take over the business. So, yeah. he\u2019s held a grudge against me ever since.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gary had always blamed him, on some level, for his sister\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He might not believe what outsiders said\u2013that Curtis was some kind of monster\u2013but the fact that his sister had died was unchangeable, and it sat there between them like a wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s the one who kept insisting I should be thrown into a psychiatric hospital. He said I was a lunatic wh killed his mother. If Grandpa hadn\u2019t protected me with everything he had, Gary probably would\u2019ve dragged me in there himself. When I was 11, Grandpa was out of Harborton for a few days, and Gary trie to have me committed by force. I stabbed him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back then, Gary had only been in the army a short while\u2013a rookie with a head full of fire, dreaming of becoming a special forces soldier. One knife wound, and both the scar and his medical record would automatically disqualify him from ever passing the selection.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was exactly why, to this day, this uncle and nephew couldn\u2019t stand to look at each other\u2013and why even Fox couldn\u2019t stomach it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because when Curtis had lashed out, he\u2019d genuinely wanted Gary dead. And Gary, thanks to his \u201ccrazed\u201d nephew, had forever lost his chance to fulfill the one dream that had meant everything to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you \u2026 really want to kill him back then?\u201d Adriana asked in a whisper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She could understand when Curtis killed his mother\u2013he\u2019d been forced into a corner, and there had been no other way out. But when he stabbed Gary \u2026 what had been going through his mind then?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suddenly, she understood why so many people in Harborton, both in private and in public, called Curtis a lunatic, a demon, a man who\u2019d killed his mother and then his own uncle. Because at that time, his behavior had been truly terrifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Curtis shook his head. \u201cBack then, it was just \u2026 blank. My head felt completely empty, like my body didn\u2019t belong to me. I couldn\u2019t control what I was doing. I even \u2026 started wondering if I really was mentally ill. Grandpa had me evaluated in secret by psychiatrists and specialists. They said it was a combination of hereditary mental vulnerability and severe childhood trauma, leading to episodes where I lost control.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was why, when he spiraled again as a teenager\u2013pushed, drugged, and nearly turned into a killer a second time\u2013Harold had shipped him off to the old ancestral home in Govendale, told him to stay put in the family altar, and focus on stabilizing his mind and body.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adriana studied him, a faint frown between her brows.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If all of that had been triggered by childhood trauma\u2013if those violent outbursts were really just extreme stress reactions, the kind people sometimes described as an uncontrollable \u201crage state\u201c\u2014then why \u2026 Why, after all this time married to him, had he never once shown even the smallest hint of violent temper in front of her?\u00a0<\/p>\n
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He hadn\u2019t so much as raised his voice at her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Curtis, at his core, was meticulous and impossibly gentle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How could that same person have tried to kill someone more than once?\u00a0<\/p>\n
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maybe you were given something? A drug or some kind of \u201cIs it possible someone set you up? Like poison that pushed you over the edge?\u201d She trusted him. She truly believed Curtis wasn\u2019t the kind of man who\u2019d just snap and start killing people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Curtis froze and turned to look at her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even though his loss of control had always felt strange, it had never once occurred to him to wonder if it might have been caused by outside interference\u2013by medicine, toxins, or someone deliberately pulling strings in the dark.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was only after Grandpa sent him to the ancestral home in Govendale and he met Adriana that his emotions had finally settled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back then, he\u2019d thought she was the medicine for his soul\u2013something that could soothe and tame the wild, vicious thing living inside his chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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