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He’d gone out in public with one to the jazz festival…ht the paparazzi would be lurking Maybe it was only the fancy restaurants and bars and parties he orried about Would it be a criether? Was it that since I worked for him that he orried about the impropriety of it? If that was the case, why didn’t he just say so instead of h?
I opened up anotheron ain This tiave me hundreds of thousands of hits and thousands of photos to look through I found that oddly, throughout the years, Aaron had been raphed either alone or with his male business associates There were a few photos o the captions, I found that those too were business h relationship with a wo seen with her in public? It had to be hard to go through life being that uptight and worried about what everyone else thought of you
I sighed and switched the cootten nowhere with having a relationship with hiet back to work before I screwed that up too
AARON
“I don’t have to sell my company to you” The old man slammed his drink down into the table like an insolent child It was after nine o’clock and I’d been trying to reason with hihed heavily I really wasn’t in theRobyn and her sexy, cornflower blue eyes out of my head as it were This should have been a quick and easy two-drink deal I was trying to stay calm and be patient Harvey Hamilton was a nice man I didn’t want to pull any punches with him if I didn’t have to I looked at him and randfather yet he ran one of the most lucrative businesses in the US and Canada
I’d gotten to this point with him purely by happenstance My acquisitions officer had been approached by the old rown-up children who together owned sixty-five percent of the stock in his co had told me they were incredibly hard people to tolerate, iven the stock to the they’d be as proud to be a part of it as he was I could see in the faded blue of his watery eyes that he noas a mistake
“No, Mr Hamilton…you don’t But the harsh truth that you and I both know is that I don’t need you to sell it to me Your children have already set their price and I haveup those numbers Once I make that purchase…and I’ stock in your company”
“You’re a billionaire You own controlling stock in your own coh to shave Why do you need mine?”
“I don’t need it, sir But, it’s a sound investment and…”
“Of course it’s a sound investrandfather built it with his oo hands…literally His work has been showcased in museums…hell the park in upstate New York turned one of its boathouses into a oing to have a heart attack, he was so agitated At last he just said, “It should stay in ry, the last, pleading My heart was not completely cold I felt bad for the old man But he was the one who raised the children that illing to sell him out, not me The consequences of that failure were his to bear obviously…not mine
“Mr Haoing through is so you should work out within your family Your company could be torn apart if you refuse ht I had et out ofstock I would just take it over It was messier that way, but doable
“Only if you choose to tear it apart,” he said, “Letman What if one day the children you’d loved and nurtured turn against you and threaten to destroy what you built with your own hands…”