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And then, suddenly, the most balanced of the four of us went crazy for the woman who was supposed to be an adventure only, until the time came for him to fulfill the rules of a signed agreement which would result in the end of more than a decade in search of revenge.

I could see the fucking chaos coming a mile away. The moment Zeus demanded that Madison never do exclusive dances again, performing only on stage, I guessed he was heading down a path of no return.

He decided to pay the equivalent of what she would collect from private dances, just so she wouldn't be alone with another man.

In fact, I know he demanded Madison's resignation, but it wasn’t successful, since she's not the docile type.

If he wasn't creating hell for himself, I might find it amusing to see him, always so centered, crazy about a much younger girl with no sophistication whatsoever. Nothing in my mood even comes close to that, though.

I and my two other brothers, Dionysus and Hades, as well as our cousins Odinand Christos?*, decided to get together to find a solution to the problem that has now arisen, since Zeus, even if he himself hasn't realized it yet, no longer seems willing to fulfill his part of the agreement with Gordon, the patriarch of the rival family.

Once the pact between the two is broken, we will never be able to acquire theGordonBankshares we need.

Even when I thought that Madison was just temporary in my brother's life, there was already a chance that our plans had gone to hell, because Gordon is traditional and hates scandals. Just a small leak of the relationship between Zeus and Madison would have been enough to make him back off.

A banker having an affair with a dancer? There could be no bigger scandal in New York.

When we invited him to this meeting at Dionysus's house, Zeus didn't know what we had planned—he thought it was just lunch. But as soon as he arrived, he realized that it was no accident that even Christos, who lives in North Carolina, had come.

"It's no coincidence that you’re all here," Zeus says, stating the obvious.

“No, it's not,” I reply.

He looks at me and understands that the meeting is related to Madison.

"Let's go outside," Dionysus proposes. "The nanny who’s with Joseph?* is a new hire, and I don't like the idea of her being by the pool with him without my supervision."

We sit on chairs around a table, in the shade of a tree, and soon a maid appears to offer drinks.

"I can’t stay long," Zeus warns.

"Why not?" Odin asks, even though we all already know the answer.

"I have a date," he says.

"WithMadison?" I ask, because diplomacy has never been my strong point.

"What is this? Because if you think I believe that this meeting was by chance, you don't know me that well."

"It wasn’t by chance," Hades confirms. "It's an attempt to stop you from destroying your own life."

"Conversations in code aren’t my specialty," my older brother growls, irritated.

"No, they're mine," Odin says, showing an unusually good sense of humor.

"Just tell me what you need."

"We have an alternative for yoursituationwith Gordon."

"I’m not going to break the promise I made to my grandfather."

"What exactly was that?" the oldest of us all, Christos, continues. "As far as I know, it was to destroy their entire fortune to avenge your father's death."

"Yes, and to wipe their centuries-old name off the map. That's why I made the deal. There’s no other way to bring them down. I've been doing research for years."

"We’re buying shares inGordonBank," Odin says.

"What?"

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