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Part One

Chapter One

Four years ago

Misha Grachyov absently walked down the hallway, his gaze trained on theTall, dark-haired, and silver-eyed, he ht and hard-hewn body, he lookedelse

Or at least Cossack warriors who also happened to wear glasses and a lab coat over his school uniform

“Hey, Misha”

“Hi, Misha”

“Good , Misha”

Both reet the town’s hottest nerd, half out of sheer admiration and infatuation, the other half in hopes of exploiting a friendship with any of the Grachyov brothers The Grachyovs were the wealthiest family in this side of California, and everyone knew that each son was slated to inherit at least a billion dollars fronate father

Misha walked past all of thelance

Everyone silently sighed in disappoint secretly hoped they’d be the one to break Misha’s legendary concentration A lares when they saw their target slon in front of Room 1C

They had hoped the rumors about the Grachyov brothers weren’t true, but now that Seri Devereaux was in high school with the reality

Misha Grachyov had a sister complex

Seri rushed out of her classroo outside What was he doing here?

A sirls had formed a circle around Misha by the ti over her brother, flirting with their gazes and cooing words, but Misha appeared oblivious to them all

She tapped Misha on the shoulder “Hey, Misha”

He looked up right away, as if her voice was the only sound his ears recognized, and Seri could feel the other girls glaring harder at her back

“Seri” He s the girls around theirls sighed Out loud

Seri mentally shook her head Misha was so clueless If he weren’t her stepbrother, she would have thought he was faking it But because she had known him since she was five and had lived with him and the other boys since she was eleven, Seri kneas real