Janus
At Tristan James’, I made sure I kept Andrew Simon closer. After all, keep your enemies closer - Isn’t that what they say? - not that I had confirmed he was an enemy. He was just bitter about how both of us were illegitimate and our father had acknowledged me, but not him. I couldn’t blame him. For all my talk about not caring about the money end of it, I wasn’t sure how I would feel about being set aside while a sibling enjoyed the inheritance. I had been poor long enough. I had been hungry long enough. I would have been alright with continuing in that vein, but opportunity had risen and who was I to say no? It also came with the best thing that had ever happened in life - meeting Valerie.
I wanted to know Andrew’s every movement. My half-brother didn’t seem to have any problem w
