Chapter 26

The Knight and Brooks families were evenly matched. In her past life, Tristan saw Alexander as an arch-enemy. Why? Because Daphne had lain in the hospital, pale and crying, claiming she was pregnant with Alexander’s child, and that he’d forced her into an abortion. The four Knight brothers had gone all out to investigate and, sure enough, found out Daphne had been thrown out of the Brooks Group building by Alexander’s right-hand man shortly before her alleged abortion. That sealed it — they vowed to avenge their sister and take down Alexander, that jerk. But it wasn’t until the very end — literally their dying breath — that Daphne told them the truth. She'd never had an abortion. She wasn’t even involved with Alexander. At all. Turned out, she'd just used the excuse of going to visit Vivian to sneak in and try to seduce Alexander by taking off her clothes right in front of him. That’s why Alexander had her tossed out. Remembering all that messy history made Tristan’s hands ball into fi