We’d ended up touring thus far past it.

Chapter Fifty-4

Sloane

“Huge?”

My voice startled Ares. Leaping, he’d been lingering outdoors of Ramses’s dwelling workplace, the door cracked. He lifted a hand. “Little… Hey, you ought to be downstairs. The group will probably be right here any minute. You must go meet them.”

And why wasn’t he? He’d been forward of me after we each left Bru’s room following the photographs.

Ramses had truly been the primary to go away. He’d gotten a name, and after his cellphone, he’d stated he needed to go care for one thing. He’d talked about heading to his workplace and stated he’d meet us downstairs after he dealt with no matter he needed to deal with. I assumed that meant his name.

That had left the three of us children and Brielle, however Ares and I each had determined to offer Bru and her the room. We needed to offer them a while since properly… that was his mother.

It’d all been a very particular second, and I used to be nonetheless on the excessive of it. I angled near Ares. “What are you doing?”

I began to look into the room, however he raised his hand once more. He put his finger to his lips, and I used to be undoubtedly intrigued now. His growl was low. “Severely, little. Go downstairs—”

“Thanks for seeing me, Dad.”

What the…

I shouldered towards Ares upon listening to our dad’s voice, and I feel he solely let me as a result of he didn’t need me to make any extra noise. He hovered a head above me whereas we each peered inside that room and noticed our father. Ramses was behind his desk, standing whereas one other man stood in entrance of it, his hair graying white, curly. He wore a silver swimsuit, darkish in tone, with a black gown shirt and matching tie.

And he appeared quite a bit like our dad.

My mouth parted. I gazed up, however Ares wasn’t me. He had his eyebrows narrowed, onerous, and solely within the route of that room.

The person within the silver swimsuit put his fingers collectively, one flesh and the opposite… one thing else. Fingers of darkish metallic braced the person’s hand, a prosthetic. The person nodded and was older than our dad, a lot older. “I used to be stunned to listen to from you, son.”

Son…

“I’m positive you realize the shock lies extra with me,” Ramses stated, his fingers in his pockets. “You had been presumed lifeless a few years in the past, Dad. A bombing in Italy.”

This was information to Ares, his head lifting. His jaw shifted a bit, and I held onto the door.

“The authorities believed as a lot. I didn’t argue with it.” The person… our grandfather labored his prosthetic hand. He checked out Ramses. “How do you know I used to be alive?”

“Truly, our household lawyer,” Ramses stated, inflicting our grandfather to blink. “He needed me to know that the children’ shares in Mallick had been being talked about, my children.”

Our grandfather stated nothing however did moist his lips.

“Stated somebody needed to verify issues turned out okay with all that and, properly, Callum. That the children obtained what was theirs.” Ramses nodded. “However most significantly, that what was theirs caught, even when a sure somebody was nonetheless alive. Stated you gave them all the pieces and needed it to remain that means.”

Ares directed a glance down at me, his eyebrows squished collectively, and I used to be positive my expression matched.

Our grandfather laughed. “Fredrick by no means may maintain his mouth shut. May he?”

“Properly, he cares about this household, and he’s additionally how I discovered you. He gave me your contact and stated you had been just lately on the town,” Ramses continued. He drew fingers down his mouth earlier than asking his father to sit down. Ramses then defined he didn’t have lengthy to talk with him. “It’s the children’ promenade night time. I must be there for that.”

“I perceive,” the older man stated, crossing his legs in entrance of the desk. “Is that why you requested to see me? In regards to the children’ shares? Properly, you don’t have to fret about something. All the pieces unlocked to the kids after I used to be presumed lifeless, however I made positive with Fredrick that every one stayed, whatever the truth. They’ve all the pieces, and it’s all authorized. I guarantee you.”

I shook my head, and Ares did too. I knew he’d by no means met our grandfather, and after all the pieces with Dorian’s, I assume, properly, I’d assumed the person was the identical. He was a person obsessive about greed and energy, and it was due to our grandfather all this had begun. Callum had gone after me attributable to an obligation our granddad had failed to meet.

Ramses’s smile was refined after what his father stated. He sat again in his chair, his fingers collectively. “I assume I’ve one other factor to thanks for, I suppose,” he said earlier than opening his desk. He offered a small object, and even from right here what was clearly a flash drive may very well be made out. He put it on the desk. “A person often known as Lucas Grey offered this to me not too way back, a person who, till just lately, my buddies and I believed had been within the wind.”

Lucas?

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