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Prologue

Tristan

April 2nd, 2014

"Do you have everything?" Ja her nails as she stood in the foyer of my parents’ house Her beautiful blue doe eyes s me how lucky I was to call herher petite body closer to mine "Yup I think this is it, babe I think this is our moment"

Her hands draped around my neck, and she kissed me "I’m so proud of you"

"Of us," I corrected her After a few tooand sellingto life My father was my best friend and business partner, and ere both on our way to New York tointerest in partnering with the two of us "Without you supportingeverything we ever dreaain

I’d never known I could love soot a call froain, which isn’t surprising seeing as how he takes after his father so much"

I smirked "What did he do this ti fun of his glasses that he hoped she would choke on a toad because she looks like a toad Choke on a toad--can you believe that?"

"Charlie!" I called toward the living roo out with a book in his hands He wasn’t wearing his glasses, which I knew it had to do with the bullying

"Yeah, Dad?"

"Did you tell a girl she should choke on a frog?"

"Yes," he said ht-year-old, he seeetting upset with his like that"

He replied, "But she looks like a freakin’ toad, Dad!"

I had to turn away to laugh "Coht I dreaded the days when hugging his old ood for your ht?"

"Yeah, yeah"

"And put your glasses back on while you’re reading"

"Why?! They are stupid!"

I bent down and tapped his nose "Real lasses!" he whined

"Yeah, well, real lasses, buddy," I said He gru his novel The fact that he was aot his love of reading from histo her sto to do with his love of books