Chloe’s voice cracked the silence. “You… you have a twin brother?”

Valerius’s jaw tightened, eyes never leaving hers. “Yes. I do.”

She blinked rapidly, her chest rising and falling. “And how come I’m just hearing about him now? I didn’t…” her throat caught “…I didn’t know.”

A low chuckle slipped from the other man, the mirror image, yet somehow darker. His smile was edged like a knife. “Good old Valerius. Always keeps things to himself until he decides to ...