The mistress pushed his pregnant wife down the courthouse stairs, but she had no idea the woman’s brother was the most feared lawyer in the state
Part 1
Blood spread across the white marble steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse before anyone understood what had happened.
One second, Khloe Harrington was standing at the top of the staircase with one hand under her eight-month pregnant belly, begging her husband’s mistress to leave her alone. The next, her body was tumbling backward down thirty unforgiving steps while lawyers, clerks, and strangers froze in horror.
At the top of the stairs, Vanessa Kensington stood with both hands still raised.
At the bottom, Khloe lay twisted on the landing, her navy maternity dress darkening with blood.
And beside her, dropping to his knees so hard his palms scraped open against the stone, was Harrison Cole.
Her older brother.
Her lawyer.
And the one man in Pennsylvania every corrupt millionaire prayed would never learn their name.
“Khloe,” he said, his voice breaking for the first time in his adult life. “Look at me. Stay with me.”
Khloe’s eyes fluttered open. Her lips trembled. She grabbed the lapel of his suit with a blood-slicked hand.
“Harry,” she whispered. “The baby. Please save my baby.”
Then her hand went limp.
