Chapter 18
"Plus," Nathan added, "there's your sister's career to consider. Aspen just started working as a senior colleague at Morrison & Associates. She got there on her own merit, her own qualifications. But if you cause a scandal with Rhys Larsen, if you drag the Hawkins name through more mud, it could reflect badly on her. Could cost her that position."
"You wouldn't want to ruin Aspen's career, would you?" Jeremy asked, his voice carrying an implicit threat. "After everything she's worked for, everything she's accomplished, you wouldn't want to destroy it all just because you're angry or jealous or whatever it is you're feeling right now."
Ravyn looked at each of them in turn—her mother with her cold ultimatum, her father with his businessman's calculation, her brothers with their
