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k so we can round up business with the domestic ones by this weekend. I'm heading to a fa

just as Jake, my security detail

I asked from

It's all

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ter said she hadn't come in t

been friends for as long as I can remember, he'd be someone I'd blacklist a

r on the back. "Let's head

e says, and

as there, I asked no questions and agreed to be present at his house. It doesn't really matter

t Kayden, Nina and Audrey are here already. I took a deep breath and put on my Stoic and un

my chest tightens because of a dis

uts her arms around her waist and everyone else laughs at something she say

nally," my grandfather s

ander's and get you this," I said as I handed hi

ignore him and focus on the only pe

doing?" My grandfather asks, al

nd he sends h

. Glad he's

y parents passed away, he took me in, trained me, and when I showed intere

at. "Glad you're finally here, Asher. It's been

enough." I mutte

that?" A

ner?" I asked my grandfather, ignor

up from the couch, we headed to the

ile I sit to his right, Audrey beside me, while

of their affection towards each other, an obvious attempt to piss

last week, Asher," Audrey says in

k, my voice laced

empted to believe my boy, Kayden's exper

sly experts at cheating. "You could support them just as you've been

se favorite toy was snatched from him. "It's not my faul

my chair, a gr

lationship with me," I say. "And yes, I am acting like a kid whose toy was snatched away

u just say?"

den!" My gran

't pass her back around when you're don

ou should have more respect for women than that

r. I let my emotions

I called you over because I had an announcemen

cleared, we all give

hing I'm extremely proud of, apart from my family, of course." He chuckles and takes a deep breath.

" Audrey says excitedly, So. Who

all know my stand in the family, so obviously my successor w

it?" Kay

be a family man. That means any one of you w

t ready to settle down yet, and K

then. "As soon as Nina and I get mar

he case." My grandf

t

e so sur

ke you have someone y

ally,