ck
ll for you.' My secretary's vo
is
we wanted to invest in
ren't talks with them alr
y want to r
it's not
tment is importan
my opinio
something when my phone beeped. I
air
s,
l the
all of a
ness. Just make sure the London clie
she was the only one who'd got the guts to reason with me. No one in this office said anything against my word. It was almost as if they didn't have an opinion. But she did
phenomenal progress in past nine years. So much so that I've become what boys from the place that I come from only dream about. L.A. had become my home now
et with Claire's hawkin
r, London client
ou, there's even
Now she want
s and we're going to
idn't get a chance t
ration required.
met them
hav
s
guest's secretary had beaten me to it. You see, both me and my guest had a history with this p
staring at the empty glass in front of him. I'd received a text from his secretary that he wanted to meet and there was no way I was goi
face when he saw me approaching. 'It's been lon
eyes. It felt hell to cry as a grown ass man but that I'd
separated he said, 'Call me Gra
o old to call you that
rtant Jackson. If they were I w
do you
the first thing I had in mind when we were to order but instead he ordered steak. 'What? I
eat steak?' I a
that too.' Bot
e?' He usually stayed in his family home in Japan and rarely came to America. Last time he was her
e not. There is some
Jealously hit me like the corner of a t
m the corner of his lips. 'I di
eet someone else too. I thought the old man had no family and I
doesn't suit you.' He said calml
or
dding, son. When had there bee
a.' I m
s.' Was he serious? He was going to call her here? Wait a second, he said, 'Her'. He knows so
w you were da
is lips in a thin line. Hol
eant
is time. 'Oh Jackson, wh
seven years and have had minimal contac
t was nice that someone thinks I've still got it that a w
omeone you're
y eyes and it was barely tolerable fact. For years even when he didn't contact me I still thought I was his only family and felt....safe. There was al
you didn't ment
out two months ago I got a call from this girl who claimed to be my granddaughter. For obvious
He nodded. 'If you knew about her since two
confirmed our relationship.' Something pierced in my heart. He flew down from Japan to meet her the every moment he realized she is his
she's your n
t, I had a feeling he was trying to set us up. I sighed hoping desperately he does not ask me to date her or anything because I'm not made for this. Casual has always been my
entered the private section. It was when a familiar voice hit
look. No, this cannot be true. Please
re on fire to hear the name I hated. If Satan had a synonym it was Cordelia. The very girl who turned out to be the granddaught
she snorted. 'Young and dashing?' Her questioning my looks made me turn my head and glare at her. Her
s it. This was my
rked. 'Hello there Jackson.' A strong stare g
each other alre
'I wish I
utual.' Satanic p
erms. But what to do, this has to change. Af
the one-whose-name-I