The temptation of my brother-in-law

Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Eight

Malachi’s POV

Maurice walked into my office without knocking. He only did that when something was urgent.

"What?"

"Travis completed the Zhao Wei operation."

I looked up from the files I’d been pretending to read. "And?"

"Clean. Efficient. Seven dead. Zhao walked away alive, just like you ordered."

I sat back. "How did Travis seem?"

"Sober. Focused. Almost like his old self." Maurice dropped into the chair across from me. "He also got information out of Zhao before letting him go."

"What kind of information?"

"About Emily. Zhao said she approached him three months ago. Wanted to form an alliance. Offered to help him take down the Blackwood empire from the inside."

My jaw tightened. Three months ago. She’d been planning this even longer than I thought.