Elena and Markus Chapter 1

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Fifteen years after her father’s sudden disappearance, Elena arrives at the lawyer’s office to claim a modest inheritance. She expects paperwork and closure.

What she finds instead is a man who looks exactly like the father she thought she’d left behind—same eyes, same presence, same dangerous pull. Her half-brother, Markus. A stranger who feels terrifyingly familiar.

As the will is read and a shared property is revealed, old wounds reopen and something far more forbidden begins to stir. One meeting is all it takes for the past to crash into the present… and for Elena to realize some blood ties refuse to stay buried.

6 pages, 2700 words