Part 2: Blake’s hand moved toward the yellow folder with the casual confidence of someone who still believed I had come there to ask for something. I didn’t stop him. There was a shallow crease across the folder where I had gripped it on the way into the room. Five years earlier, I had walked away carrying June because protecting her mattered more than whatever inheritance my father could take from me. Now I had come back carrying something else. Blake’s fingers reached the edge. He glanced at me, almost amused, as though he expected the same brother he had mocked for fixing furnaces and making birthday cakes after work. I kept my hands flat on the table. No speech. No threat. The clock kept moving toward one. Blake pulled the folder a little closer and looked down at it. His confidence held, but his attention sharpened when he noticed how deliberately everything inside had been arranged. Then his thumb slid beneath the cover, and he began to open it. ────────────────────── Type CASTLE and I’ll post Part 3. ANSWER ” CASTLE ” IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE WATCHING THE FULL ST0RY IN PART 3

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Part 2: Blake’s hand moved toward the yellow folder with the casual confidence of someone who still believed I had come there to ask for something. I didn’t stop him. There was a shallow crease across the folder where I had gripped it on the way into the room. Five years earlier, I had walked away carrying June because protecting her mattered more than whatever inheritance my father could take from me. Now I had come back carrying something else. Blake’s fingers reached the edge. He glanced at me, almost amused, as though he expected the same brother he had mocked for fixing furnaces and making birthday cakes after work. I kept my hands flat on the table. No speech. No threat. The clock kept moving toward one. Blake pulled the folder a little closer and looked down at it. His confidence held, but his attention sharpened when he noticed how deliberately everything inside had been arranged. Then his thumb slid beneath the cover, and he began to open it. ────────────────────── Type CASTLE and I’ll post Part 3. ANSWER ” CASTLE ” IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE WATCHING THE FULL ST0RY IN PART 3 Read More