White Roses Beneath the Moon
READING AGE 12+
At the Mercer winter gala, my adopted brother ended his engagement to Silas Calder in front of three hundred guests, then left the ring on the table beside Silas's wheelchair. My family expected me to take his place. I was the biological son they had found too late, the inconvenient heir with a name they could spend to keep an old-money alliance intact. I also remembered the story I'd once read: Silas became its villain, and I was meant to be one of his first casualties. But the man in front of me wasn't asking to be saved. He was asking whether I would let my family decide what his life was worth. If I stood beside him, could I do it without making the same choice for him?
Unfold
The Mercer Foundation's new chair took over at the beginning of the next month. I wasn't on the board. My temporary contract ended, and Margaret offered me a permanent role in the audit office.
I accepted, with one condition: my reports would go to the full board, not just the Mercer family.
The first time I entered the office aft……
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