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"Yes, because you’ve proven otherith your deplorable behavior so far today"
"I’ other than show up, and if that’s deplorable, Mother, then I deeply apologize," I say Mercy gives ht What was so ilares atover to Mason I’ this farce now
"Your brother and that terrible wife of his have decided to divorce Unfortunately, this is going to put some strain on him for the foreseeable future His old-digging little shit can’t get her hands on it That also et everything in order, that is"
"What the fuck!" I yell "You can’t do that You don’t have control over hs "That’s where you’re wrong, dear boy We had a clause put in that, if we feel like you’re unstable or that your life and those you are surrounding yourself with are unstable, the shares in the coo into h to release them back to you And honestly, Maddox, with you about to leave again--for god knohat and where--I don’t feel like you have the best interest of the company If you cared about the coiven of twenty-five percent of Locke Oil, then you would be doing the right thing and not playing little war games" She turns back to Mason, and not for the first tirab her by the back of her hair and teach her a thing or two about who is in control of my life "But that’s neither here nor there now" Her s short of pure evil
"It really is a shame, brother, that you don’t pay more attention to the paperwork that the fa back to Mercedes
I try to re up blank Shock and outrage that I’ quite literally fucked byit hard for me to concentrate
"Think hard, little boy Ren? Prenuptial agreeagerowl at Masons mention of Mercedes They can treat me however they want, but I won’t let them hurt her
"Oh, did I make you h "You really are a co to darken and I can feel the energy co off me in waves I want blood I want to srins off their faces The ones that tell ain, that they have won I’ hate it The last thing I need to be stressing about before I’ out is this bullshit I need my head clear I need to be focused And with just a five-minute conversation, they’ve blown that all to shit
"I want to speak to Jefferson" My voice sounds foreign even topoint, and it’s taking everything I have in o apeshit
"And what do you think Jefferson can do for you, Maddox? He’s our lawyer, and unless you have some hidden money in your thrift-store furniture at home, I doubt you can even afford the cost to call hi
She’s right though I have nothing to fight with And since I’ in less than a week, there isn’t any tiet ho at Mason with an expression that I can’t understand I clearover at s her shoulders She’s never been one to jump into confrontation, which is another reason I’ve worked so hard to keep her away from my mother and brother
"This isn’t over," I tell the, brother," he says with a hard tone to his usual indifference towardstoe to toe with me I look into the face so different to my own Where I’m tan skin, black hair, and even blacker eyes, he is the coht-brown hair, hazel eyes, and pale skin How have I never noticed thedarkness that swirls around him?
"Check Mate," he snarls under his breath
"Youers back, wipes the blood frohs in ht now, I’m a bastard that has complete control over you, and you will do best to remember your place Have fun on your little trip I trust you two can see yourselves out?"
He turns his back and I watch as my mother rushes to his side and fusses over her baby With nothing but rage coursing through my body, the et a little larger
Mercedes does her best to calm me down, but I know that they’ve won There’s no way I’ll get my shares of the coh not to read the paperwork Jefferson sent over, assu the coe to Mercedes I should have known I should have seen it coetting a little brighter cloud et past this," she coos e get back into my piece-of-shit truck
"Yeah, Mercy? How exactly e do that? We’re barely staying afloat now You’re going to have to do better at the spending We can’t be wasting every check I get on ner purses and shit"
"I…I can try, Maddox But there are things we are going to have to buy now"
She smiles when I look at her, confused