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“I saw us as partners.”
He smirks and shakes his head. “You can call it that if you want.”
“What do you want, Jericho?”
“My legacy. So, there’s no fucking way I’m going to allow Bastian to take the CFO position, and I can’t see you working with him either.”
“No. But Grandfather already knew that. You haven’t told me what he said to you.”
“Because he didn’t say shit.” He chuckles, but there’s no humor behind his laughter. “He called me into his office, and looked at me for a full minute before he said he couldn’t figure out what to do with me yet. But he’d let me know.Soon.”
And the plot thickens. “That’sallhe said?”
“Yeah, so who knows what the old man could be planning?”
“Whatever it is, I know he wants us to run the company.”
“Sure, but rest assured our father and Bastian will be doing everything to work against that.”
“I know. If I know nothing else, I know that. Our dear father was shitting himself when Grandfather asked me to stay back after Monday’s meeting. I’ve seen him hedging around the office, watching me closer than usual, and asking about my whereabouts.”
“Expect more of that. Neither of them wants us in their lives, let alone to have any part of the Grayson legacy.”
Behold the story of our lives. One that framed our past and will shape our future. It always makes me sick, and I think of how our mother would have suffered.
She had the misfortune of meeting our asshole father when she was eighteen. She came to the US to further her studies and get work experience. She was hoping to make it here as an artist.
She met my father when he was working on a building he was going to purchase. It was opposite the college she attended.
He got involved with her even though he was already engaged to his bitch wife, Sloane. When Mom got pregnant with me, he made her think they were going to be the happy family. That’s why she got pregnant with Jericho just after she had me. But it was at that time that he was scheduled to marry Sloane.
As Sloane was set to inherit her father’s diamond mining company after their marriage, our father chose her. But he was always going to do that.
He disowned my mother and never looked back, even after she lost her job and had to live on the streets, pregnant and with a baby. My grandfather only happened to find out about us by chance. Mom wanted to go back to France, so he helped her get back there. After that, we never wanted for anything.
Grandfather just had one request—that we return for high school and prepare to be part of Graysons when the time came. That’s how we came to be and where we’re at now.
“We can’t let them win, Jericho.” I stare back at him with renewed determination.
“No, I don’t plan to. I’m ready to fight fire with fire.”
“Then let’s do this.”
He nods, and I mull over what I need to do next.
I probably shouldn’t have told Aurora that when we meet next, we might not know if we’ll be friends or foes.
I already know the answer, and it’s not friends.
Then again, we never were.
Friendsshouldn’tknow what the other tastes like.
And theyshouldn’twant a chance for another taste.
Chapter6
Aurora
