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“Then what?”
“Then Saint is selling the company. He wants nothing to do with his father’s empire. His dad has tried to blackmail him for years and get him to give up his dream of being drafted and go work for him.” I sit here silently for a long moment trying to digest what he’s told me.
“What about Gary suing you?” I ask.
“He can try. We have the money this time and he doesn’t. His daddy is broke. We’ll hold him up in legal paperwork until he runs out of money. This is his last ditched effort to try and one up me. He’ll never get the upper hand, we made sure of that.” A shiver runs through me at his words, they sound so final.
CHAPTER22
Darius
Istart to get worried when she says nothing for a long time. I know I just laid shit out for her but if telling her the truth means I get my girl, then I have no regrets.
“Gary used me to get to you, didn’t he?”
“Yeah, Goldie.”
“Did Gary know about you being his twin?” I shake my head even though she can’t see me.
“No, he hated me and Corvin because of football. He had no idea that we were even related at that time. Gary is fucked up, Goldie.” She snorts.
“Yeah, I’m well aware of that fact.”
“Gary knew my mom sold her body for drugs. After what he did to you, he tried tobuymy mom.” She gasps and slowly turns sideways so she can face me, her face a picture of disgust.
“He tried to sleep with his own mother?” I roll my lips over my teeth and nod. “Oh, that is just gross.”
“Yeah, it is,” I admit.
“Did he… do it?”
“No.”
“Thank God—”
“It wasn’t from his lack of trying. But, apparently even Jenny Lockhart has a moral compass and draws the line at fucking her own son,” I say with an edge to my voice.
“Wait, so your mom knew who Gary was the whole time?” I grit my teeth and nod, her eyes soften. “How?”
I take a deep breath before giving her the story she eagerly wants. “When Gary and I turned one, Victor turned up at the trailer park demanding one of us.”
“Why?” I hear tinges of pain in her voice, but it isn’t for herself, it’s for me.
“Victor’s father told him that he wouldn’t hand over the company to him unless he had an heir that he could pass the company onto.” Anger flares to life in her eyes.
“Victor never wanted Gary, he just wanted to inherit his fortune.” I nod. “How did he know your mom?”
“Jenny said she met him at a bar she used to sing at, some swanky joint in the city. He would screw her every time he was in town. She got knocked up and Victor fled, leaving her alone and pregnant. She lost her job and had no choice but to move out of the city into a trailer park where she raised us for a year, until Victor came and stole Gary.” Her eyes widen and her mouth pinches to the side. I can see the cogs of her mind turning over. “Just say it.”
“When did your mom start doing drugs and… prostituting herself?” I frown.
“Why?” She reaches out and cups my face between her hands, sadness clouds her features.
“Just answer, please.” I try to think back to when I first remember her starting to dabble in narcotics.
“Maybe around the time I turned two. She didn’t shoot up at first, she just started to drink. Then, when that didn’t give her a buzz, she started on the hard shit and well, you know the rest.”
“Oh, Darius,” she says brokenly. I lean forward and gently grip her waist as I place a soft kiss to her lips.
