bChapter /bb54 /b

bSean /bdidn’t waste ba /bsingle word or even spare Zac a proper nceb. /bbHis /bbfist /bflew straight at Zac’s face with full bforce/bb, /bpowered by unrestrained

furyb. /b

bZac /bstaggered back from the blowb, /bclutching his face. “bWhat /bthe hell’s your bproblem/b?!”

Sean pulled Charlotte behind him, shielding her with his body. His voice was bicy/bb, /bteeth clenched in rage. “Stay the hell away from her.b” /b

Zacb, /balready seething from the punchb, /bexploded when he saw Sean guarding Charlotte like she was his.

He shoved Sean hard. “She’s mine! Don’t you fb*/bcking touch her!”

Sean handed bthe /bfood container to Charlotte. “Be good. Go wait over there.”

Then he turned andnded a hard bkick /bstraigh

into Zac’s sideb, /bsending him sprawling to the ground.

Zac scrambled up, battered and humiliated. bHe /bwas a Gib

heir-

—pampered, admired, treated like royalty his whole life. When had he ever

been humiliated like thisb? /b

And this man? He clearly wasn’t just some passerby. One look at the way he shielded Charlotte, and it was obvious that there was something between them.

They hadn’t even been broken up that long, and she already had someone belse/bb? /b

The thought stabbed at his pride, and jealousy twisted inside him like a de.

Furious, bZac /bthrew a wild punch at Sean’s face.

Sean dodged it cleanly, thennded a brutal blow to bZac’s /bnose. Blood burst from his bface/b.

Charlotte tried to intervene, but bwith /bboth men in a blind rage, there was no stopping them. She stepped asideb, /bnot wanting to make things

worse.

Blood streamed from Zac’s nose, and he felt every ounce of rage surge straight to his head. Eyes wild, veins bulging, he let out a curse and threw a vicious kick at Sean.

Sean grunted from the impact but retaliated instantly, shoving bZac /bto the ground. He pinned him down with a knee to the chest, one hand mped around his throat, the other smashing fist after fist into his bface/b.

Sean had always been the calm,posed heir, groomed to perfection. He hadn’t thrown a punch since that one incident years ago.

But bnow/bb, /bbfor /bCharlotte, he had lost all restraint.

Zac, taking hit after hit, finally broke freeb. /bHis face was swollen, eyes bloodshotb, /bveins pulsing with fury. He roared andunched himself back at Sean, fists flyingb, /bevery punch thrown with recklessb, /bmurderous bforce/b.

Sean didn’t hold pack either. bHe /bfought like he meant bto /bbend /bbit/b, bnding /bblow after blowb, /bbjust /bbas /bbsavage/b.

Charlotte stood frozen. She had never seen either of bthem /blike this–relentlessb, /bbrutalb, /btotally unhingedb. /bAt firstb, /bshe was btoo /bstunned to speak. But as the fight spiraled out bof /bbcontrol/bb, /bfear gripped her.

Someone could get seriously hurt. Or worse.

She tried shouting for them to stop, over and over, but neither man heard her. They were too far gone–caught in a blood–soaked blur of fists and bfury/b.

Sean’s driver rushed forward to break up the fight, but Zac shoved him to bthe /bground.

w the chaos and the driver lying

The security guard at theplex entrance came running at the sound of themotion. But as soon as he on the groundb, /bbhe /bfroze. Without a word, he pulled out his phone and called the police and ban /bambnce.

Rassersby, rmed by how vicious the brawl lookedb, /bquickly veered off bcourse/bb, /bskirting around the bushes to avoid getting caught in bthe /b

crossfire.

Even when the paramedics and police finally arrived, the two men were still locked in a brutal fistfight.

bThe /bofficers had bto /bphysically pull them apart.

Neither bZac /bnor Sean had the upper hand. Both looked wrecked.

Zac’s face bwas /bbswollen /bbeyond recognition, blood bsmeared /bacross his face from bhis /bbusted nose. His shirt bcor /bwas tornb, /band bhis /bbentire /b

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appearance was a mess bof /bdirt and bloodb. /bbHe /blooked like he had just crawled bout /bbof /ba war zone.

Sean didn’t look much better. A cut bled down the side of his bface/bb, /bhis lip bsplit/bb, /bbhis /bhand gashed from Zac’s cufflink. He was bcovered /bin dirt, blood, and sweatb–/bnothing like theposedb, /belegant man people usually saw.

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