Chapter 58: I Don’t Get It!
Lincoln balled his hands against the table.
"I met her mother first. Adriana. We fell in love. But then Sage met her. He fell in love with her as well. The thing is, she didn’t love him. She told him more times than I could count that she didn’t love him. But you see the problem was... Sage was obsessed with her. He knew he was better than I in every way and that he could have her if he persisted. And that was of course against her will. I tried to reason with him so many times. She doesn’t love you, why are you doing this?"
"But my brother..." Lincoln swallowed. "He was just... obsessed with her in a way that frightened her. He wanted her to be his no matter what it took. Mind you, he already had his first wife who was Preston, Lyra, and Brandon’s mother. She was heartbroken, knowing the man she loved was completely head over heels for another woman."
"I tried to make Sage understand he was hurting his wife in the process of what he was doing. But he didn’t care. Yes, their marriage had been an arranged one he didn’t want, but still..."
He pinched between his brows. "All Sage wanted was Adriana, to have her at all costs. He didn’t care that she was the woman I loved. He didn’t care that she didn’t love him. So long as she was his, he couldn’t care less about anything else."
Lincoln balled his hands against the table. "Adriana and I planned to leave the country together, because it felt like Sage was losing his mind. Who knows what he would do the longer this entire nonsense went on? Do you know what he did?"
Zayne watched him, listening silently. He asked, "What?"
"He kidnapped me before we could leave. Mr. Mancini, a man who would go to the extent of abducting his own younger brother for a woman, how crazy do you think he is? Would you do that?"
"Oh," was the only response Zayne gave.