My Brother Kept Bragging About a Deal He’d Already Lost

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There it was. Not loyalty. Not even panic, really.

Anger.

Old anger.

I thought of the polished smile and the cruel little comments and realized something ugly and useful: she’d probably been waiting for him to slip.

“You told people I was giving you inside information?” I asked.

Sophia answered for him. “He implied it. To the wrong person, I guess.”

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