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Chapter 55
Cash
“Whatthefuckishe thinking?” I grumble as I flip through the pictures Frank brought me. My brother is back to his game of meeting with my father and Grace’s mother.Why?The past few months haven’t been great with him, but he was coming into the office, keeping his head down, and joining me for lunch a few times a week. I had no reason to suspect that he’d go back to our father. I figured after all he’d learned, he’d be done with him.
Frank eyes me uneasily. “That’s not the worst of it.”
I lean my head back in aggravation and sigh. After rolling my neck a few times, I give him my full attention. “Please tell me what is worse than my brother sneaking around with my psychopath father and the woman who raised Grace and tried to destroy her? I mean can you imagine if Grace finds out her mother is hanging out with my father?Or my brother?The woman has been nothing but the devil to Grace. I don’t want her to have this stress while she’s seven months pregnant!”
“I’m not sure it will be as much of a surprise as you think,” he quips.
“What are you talking about?”
“The guy I had following Grace’s mom—he…uh…just informed me that she’s been going to Boston once a week for the past few months.”
I shrug. “To see my father. I can’t believe it. They’re screwing each other, aren’t they? What are we in some sort of Spanish soap opera?”
“They are called telenovelas and they’re awesome,” Frank replies, his chin tightening.
“You just think the girls are hot,” I retort.
“No. They have good storiesandfucking hot sex scenes. I’m telling you, you’re missing out.”
I let out a laugh. “Thanks for that. Anyway, okay, so Grace’s mom and my dad.” I groan in disgust.
“No, that’s not where I was going with this. I mean, obviously I think they’re sleeping together. But that is not who she was going to see.”
“Okay, I’ll bite. Who was she going to see?”
Please don’t tell me Chaseis having an affair with Grace’s mom. That would obviously be way worse.
“Grace.” He looks at me to gauge my reaction, but confusion is all I feel.
“What? Grace hasn’t seen her mother since the hit piece she did on her months ago.”
Frank shakes his head. “Nope. She’s been meeting with her for the last few weeks at least. She hasn’t mentioned this to you at all?”
I clamp my mouth shut as unease filters through me.Why wouldn’t she tell me?
The door to my office swings open and Chasestorms in. “What the hell are you doing in Bristol?”
My fingers knead my forehead, and I try to speak evenly. “I think the better question is why are you spending time with Dad and my girlfriend’s mother?”
Chase turns to Frank and then looks back at me. “You’re having me followed?”
“For good fucking reason, apparently!”
“I can’t believe this. I cannotfuckingbelieve I trusted you. What are you doing in Bristol?” he booms.
The audacity of this kid.
“Visiting Pa?” I say exasperatedly, throwing up my hands.
Chase shakes his head, and he points at me angrily. “You bought a fucking building, Cash! There’s a goddamn distillery. And I talked to the guys on the ground in Nashville…you’ve completely stopped operations there. So, I’ll ask you again, what the fuck are you up to?”
My teeth clench together as my stomach sinks with the knowledge that the cat is out of the bag, and my girlfriend, the only person aside from Frank who knows this, has been meeting with the woman who has been spending time with my brother. It’s all just a little too convenient. A little toofuckingconvenient. “Why are you spending time with Grace’s mom?”
Chase throws up his hands. “Because I found out she was having an affair with Dad years ago, and I was trying to figure out if she’s my goddamn mother!”
