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Arrogant, perhaps.
Now he was torn between waiting, asking Blake for her number, or driving over there to see if she was all right.
He just needed to know she was fine.
That was all.
His phone vibrated on the bedside table, and he grinned. This would be her.
Ward Montgomery.
Fucking hell. Talk about a stalker father. Couldn’t he just give him space? He stared as the phone kept ringing, then let out a sigh.
“Jacob Dufort,” he said, his voice husky from sleep and the fact it was only seven damn thirty.
“Jacob, it’s Ward.”
“Yup.”
“Didn’t expect you to answer,” Ward added.
“Shall I hang up?” Jacob asked, running his hand through the front of his hair, cringing at what a dick he sounded like. “Fuck, sorry.”
He was. That was a childish and unnecessary response.
Ward was quiet.
Then said, “Let’s talk. Get this over with. If you don’t want me in your life afterward, then I will honor that. But let’s sit down as two grown men and work out how we want to move forward.”
Shit.
Ward had received just as much of a shock as him the moment he learned he had another son in the world.
While wanting time to process the news was a fair enough request, ignoring Ward himself wasn’t helping.
But his place was a fucking mess. He’d told his housekeeping team to take a month off so he could wallow in his misery. Two weeks on, he was regretting it.
“I’ll come to you,” Jacob said. “Midday?”
“See you then,” Ward said, and hung up.
“Shit,” Jacob cursed, dropping the phone on the bed.
He was about to meet his father. The man he shared DNA with.
Let’s sit down as two grown men and work out how we want to move forward.
How did they move forward?
What did he want?
To have a relationship with him? Jacob couldn’t blame him—Ward didn’t know he existed until a few days before he’d learned the news. It was his mother, Samantha, who was at fault.
He just hadn’t expected to ever have a father. He didn’t know how to be a son to a man. And, Christ, Ward already had three sons.
How did they feel about having a half brother all of a sudden?
His cousins, Fletch, Daniel, and Hunter, had met their half brother, Jackson, a while back and it had been a bit of a shit show while they worked out what his intensions were. And learned the history of their shared father.
