The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Romantic Mystery
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GRAYSON
Faster. Grayson Hawthorne was power and control. His form was
flawless. He’d long ago perfected the art of visualizing his opponent,
feeling each strike, channeling his body’s momentum into every block,
every attack.
But you could always be faster.
After his tenth time through the sequence, Grayson stopped, sweat
dripping down his bare chest. Keeping his breathing even and controlled, he
knelt in front of what remained of their childhood tree house, unrolled his
pack, and surveyed his choices: three daggers, two with ornate hilts and one
understated and smooth. It was this last blade that Grayson picked up.
Knife in hand, Grayson straightened, his arms by his side. Mind, clear.
Body, free of tension. Begin. There were many styles of knife fighting, and
the year he was thirteen, Grayson had studied them all. Of course,
billionaire Tobias Hawthorne’s grandsons had never merely studied
anything. Once they’d chosen a focus, they were expected to live it, breathe
it, master it.
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And this was what Grayson had learned that year: Stance was
everything. You didn’t move the blade. You moved, and the blade moved.
Faster. Faster. It had to feel natural. It had to be natural. The moment your
muscles tensed, the moment you stopped breathing, the moment you broke
your stance instead of flowing from one to the next, you lost.
And Hawthornes didn’t lose.
“When I told you to get a hobby, this isn’t what I meant.”
Grayson ignored Xander’s presence for as long as it took to finish the
sequence—and throw the dagger with exacting precision at a low-hanging
branch six feet away. “Hawthornes don’t have hobbies,” he told his little
brother, walking to retrieve the blade. “We have specialties. Expertise.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing well,” Xander quoted, wiggling
his eyebrows—one of which had only just started to grow back after an
experiment gone wrong. “And anything done well can be done better.”
Why would a Hawthorne settle for better, a voice whispered in the back
of Grayson’s mind, when they could be the best?
Grayson closed his hand around the dagger’s hilt and pulled. “I should
be getting back to work.”
“You are a man obsessed,” Xander declared.
Grayson secured the dagger in its holder, then rolled the pack back up,
tying it closed. “I have twenty-eight billion reasons to be obsessed.”
Avery had set an impossible task for herself—and for them. Five years
to give away more than twenty-eight billion dollars. That was the majority
of the Hawthorne fortune. They’d spent the past seven months just
assembling the foundation’s board and advisory committee.
“We have five more months to nail down the first three billion in
donations,” Grayson stated crisply, “and I promised Avery I would be there
with her every step of the way.”
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