Amber eyes, sharp jawline, expression cold and unreadable.
Oh, I knew that face...
Even from this angle, I recognized him immediately. That was the obsessive older stepbrother—the one who ruined my sister's life during our last encounter.
I remembered everything.
Ever since my sister was born, she hated him. She despised how he was always around and called him a leech, a freeloader riding on the Gardner name. She even mocked him to his face and behind his back, but he wasn't just anyone.
He was the grandson of my grandfather's best friend. After Grandpa passed, my dad took him in and raised him like blood.
And my sister? She relentlessly tormented him, humiliated him at school, socially isolated him, and wore him down until only steel and silence remained.
Eventually, he changed.
He became cold, calculating, and dangerous.
But he also became brilliant.
Straight out of college, Dad handed him the entire Gardner Group and named him CEO.
My sister, who was spoiled and accustomed to having everything handed to her, finally realized what was slipping away from her.
So what did she do? She panicked and made the worst move possible. She hired some men to kidnap him or maybe something even worse.