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“If you came here to bust my balls—”
He sat beside me. “Are you going to let her go without a fight?”
“I’m the only one who has been fighting for us these last few years. She doesn’t want me.”
“Since when has that stopped you from doing anything?”
“She’s probably with Jax.”
“Actually, she’s with your sister.”
“She is?”
Taking off his suit jacket, he nodded to the bartender. “I’ll take what he’s having.”
“What are you doing here, man? Shouldn’t you be at work?”
“I own the company. I’m where I need to be.”
“Right… Alpha CEO.”
He chuckled. “Don’t remind me. Although, your sister has managed to change my image.”
“I just saw a Times article calling you a coldhearted bastard.”
He smiled. “I do what I can.”
“How does it feel to be one of the richest men in the world?”
“Not as great as it feels to be your sister’s husband and your niece’s father.”
“And soon-to-be nephew’s father.”
“Yeah,” he scoffed out, taking a drink. “And that.”
“What’s with the tone?”
“Picked up on that, huh?”
“It’d be hard not to. What’s going on?”
“I’m not going to lie to you and waste our time. I’m fucking scared shitless about having a boy.”
“I’d be more terrified about having a little girl and ending up in fucking jail for all the little shits trying to get down her pants. You remember what we were like, right?”
“Exactly my point. Karma. I was a selfish bastard. The shit I put your sister through … fuck, man. Let’s just say, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
“What’s that supposed to mean? You’re nothing like your parents.”
“You don’t know that. I don’t even know that. All I’m saying is I have to raise a man, and I don’t want to fuck it up.”
“You’re amazing with Capri.”
He took another swig of his whiskey, then leaned back into his chair, and rested his glass on the bar. “I worry I won’t be good enough.”
I jerked back, not expecting him to say that.
“You know how I grew up, Christian. Fucking kicked around from foster home to foster home.”
