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This club makes my bar look tired and dated All the time I shot down my sister’s ideas to make the bar better, ht This place is packed and buzzing with a contagious energy I never wanted that fucking bar in the first place I know our dad left it tome a future, but in reality, it just took the future I had planned for myself away And now, the whole reason I even accepted the bar in the first place, is flying off to better things With this prick sitting across from me with his fancy watch and expensive whisky My baby sister wants to be famous and this asshole has all the means to make that happen

“She’s too young” My argu asshole take ht She’s all I have left Soelled hair can’t swoop in, wave iven up everything for Sofina Fucking everything

I glower at Ronan Hayes—CEO of Harose Records— face It was already infuriating for him to invite me here in the first place To have to tell the dooruest I know he’s into those power trips and I’ll be daratitude I’m here because of one reason

Sofina

“To know she’s in love?” he probes, his eyes hard and calculating “To know her own mind and make her own choices? How old were you when you fell in love?”

My chest aches at his words Too young Too stupid

“It’s different”

His nostrils flare “Why? Because she’s your sister?” He rolls his eyes and checks his watch as though this very conversation bores him “We’re not that different, you and I,” he continues, piercing me with his authoritative stare “My er brother, and step up But you need to know You did your job She’s grown She’s starting her career and her life”

Sadness and loss roil around insideIt was just me, Dad, and Sof When Dad died, then it was just the two of us I hate that she’ll be gone soon too Then what happens tocare about leave me?

“I don’t knoho I aers through ave up everything else to be here for her To raise her

“Then don’t lose her by giving ulti her to choose a mediocre life It’s beneath her She’s too talented, Lucca Don’t darken her drea her live them without you”

Another ache in hthis conversation if this asshole didn’t show up on his white horse thinking he needed to save her from the person who loves her the most in this world

“Why do you care? Why did you call enda

“Because she , and it pains me to see her in distress”