Lance

I wasn’t wrong.

Not long after what happened at Alice’s apartment, the pieces on the chessboard began to move.

And the first to move were my two half-brothers.

Half-brothers by blood, but never family.

I was in my office at Richardson Foods when Rene walked in and placed a folder on my desk.

“Sir, this came from legal monitoring,” he said as he set it down in front of me. “It looks like the two names we’ve been watching are becoming… active.”

I didn’t open the folder right away. I already knew who he meant.

My father’s two illegitimate sons.

Men who had spent most of their lives lingering...