==Layla==
The phone call disconnected with a sharp click. The voice of Julian Langford, Maddox's hidden twin brother, was gone. But his words remained in the air, thick like poison. He had stolen the will. He had signed the contract with Cynthia. He was the new CEO, and Maddox was now a penniless nobody.
Maddox stood over me in the small music room. His chest was still wet from the shower, and his shirt was ripped open. The phone was clutched in his big hand so tightly that his knuckles went completely white. His face was a mask of dark, murderous fury.
He didn't speak. He just turned around and marched out of the guest house, his heavy boots slamming against the grass as he headed back toward the main mansion.
I scrambled up from the piano bench, my broken shirt flapping open. The pur
