Tristan’s POV
The encounter Marcus and I had in the garden only lasted for a moment, but it was enough to awaken the hatred that had been buried inside my chest for so many years.
Not a single day passed during those seven years that I tried to forget the betrayal Vanessa and Marcus did to me, yet I still couldn’t.
Growing up, Marcus and I were never really close.
It was because we had different fathers.
Yes… Marcus is my half-brother.
I was the son from my mother’s first relationship, while she was already married to Marcus’s father.
My father died in a car accident just days before my mother and I were supposed to move in with him. Mom’s best friend, Tito Marco—Marcus’s father—eventually became the man she married.
Ever since we were children, we have always tried proving that on
