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Prologue

Callum

“Son, here’s your present Enjoy your transition from a boy to a man” My father pattedme in ultimate heaven “Thirteen women to celebrate your thirteen years of life”

That was how ht me up My father was a fine connoisseur of woe e money for both fa e was a façade that people crawled behind in order to unite terful faer bond which would produce heirs

Legacy was everything; without it, nothing mattered

We were, after all, The Kensingtons At a young age, I was groomed and schooled to marry a well bred wost my social strata easily

All of these ingrained idiosyncrasies and pompous cere We went to Caether Richard was in the same class as I was, but he was a freeshackled him to their own beliefs He didn’t live the way I did Richard was a unique ht ut directed me

With his guidance and support, I was able to find the woman that I could finally say I loved It was a dire day when that love was not returned On that day, I found out that my father married the woman I had wanted to spend the rest of my life with When I confronted him, it left me in shambles

“I did it for your own good! Love! That word is for cunts You’re being fanciful You’re a bloody Kensington and love is not part of our lives Get that through your skull, you direen eyes struck er as his words sent me to hell

I walked out of his hoain

Vowing to destroy hi bride

No one was going to o unscathed

As expected, the confrontation left utted, but the world had another lesson to teach —nore it

That call changed my life

Chapter 1

Callum

Approxio

The flight took a little over eight hours The whole time, I was anxious about what Richard had meant with his “I need your help, brother” state didn’t ask for help He was very ; he would rather keel over than ask for help I knew this man well For him to ask for help in that desperate tone was