Bound by Betrayal

<p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I owed my brother my life. My loyalty.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He'd saved me from pain and lifelong scars more times than I could count taking the brunt of the demons haunting me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the time came to return the favor and settle a debt I never imagined my sacrifice would</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>leave me bound in marriage to a woman who would consume my heart.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Amalia Montesinos.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I fell for her fire. Her rage.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The soft pieces of her very few knew.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Loving her was never part of the contract.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My purpose was clear-ensure she inherited her empire then go our separate ways.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I had lived at the edge of death for so long that I'd forgotten what it felt like to be alive.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until her.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>My wife.</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'd be damned if I ever let her go.</span></p>