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7
SILAS
“The meeting isat ten in the general manager’s office on the third floor. I sent you an agenda of talking points about the merging of employees,” Bradley said. I had him on a video call, but I couldn’t see his face since I was looking at a different window on my laptop scanning the agenda I’d opened from his email. “Do you need me to give you bios on each of the Hyport leadership who will be there?”
“No.”
“After, a car will take you to lunch with the owner of the boutique hotel in Frederikshavn. She’s made the trip down from the north to meet you.”
He pronounced the town completely differently than how it looked written in my travel itinerary. I didn’t speak Danish, but it sounded like Bradley did.
“Name?”
He shared her name and a brief bio.
“After?”
“Airport. Flight back to Denver. Then you have three hours of meetings, meet-and-greets and–”
“Send that info to me tomorrow and I’ll go over it on the plane.”
“Will do.”
My cell rang and I grabbed it from the side table. “It’s Dex,” I said.
“Tell him good game yesterday. Two goals and an assist.”
I’d worked with Bradley long enough to know he was sharing the stats, like the amazing assistant he was, so I could praise my brother regardless that I’d missed the game.
“Thanks, Bradley.”
The video call ended and I swiped my cell.
“Where the hell are you?” Dex asked right away.
“Denmark.” I slapped my laptop closed. A quick glance out the hotel room window offered nothing but inky black. This far north, it was dark early this time of year. It didn’t matter to me because my internal clock had no idea what time it was. All I knew was that I wasn’t tired, which meant jet lag was fucking with me. What else was new?
Since the summer, Mav was content with the James Inn projects and nothing more. He hadn’t stepped foot in the Denver corporate office in three months. He wasn’t involved in this Hyport sale. Theo and Dex never had a hand in the business. That left me to carry on James Corp, to run the family hotel business. And grow it, the latest step of that with the Hyport deal. That meant travel. That meant being a better juggler than a clown at the circus.
“Jesus. You travel more than I do,” Dex pointed out. “Is this all for that merger?”
That was saying a lot since my not-so-little brother was a professional hockey player and pretty much on the road eight months out of the year. But he stayed mostly in North America. Me? Lately, I was on every continent but.
“Yeah.”
“That’s the deal that Dad fucked up, right?”
I sighed. “Yes. He slept with the owner’s personal assistant. Among other things.”
“Figures,” Dex said on a grunt. We both knew how much of a philanderer and total dickhead our father was. He fucked anything that wore a skirt. The younger the better. He hadn’t cared if his actions were far from ethical or completely immoral and totally inappropriate.
Not only had he slept with that assistant, he took his merger team and a few from Hyport Asia to a brothel in Thailand. The place had specialized in barely legal women. Yeah, that kind of not-safe-for-work shenanigans.
The deal hadn’t gone through, obviously, and the Hyport team had wanted nothing to do with James Corp. Until me. Until I’d buried my father’s antics right along with him.
“How long are you there?”
“Meetings are done for today. I have things in the morning, then I’m headed back to Denver. For a day. Then I go to Singapore to meet the Hyport Asia division.”
