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Dillon

Looking out s, I felt a sense of peace overcome me

It was good to be back

Usually, I took a week every suo down to Caet it ready for the inco campers, but this year, business had kept me away

Instead of having fun in the sun with my family, my twin sister, Jas our coone to San Francisco And, while she’d finished up her trip in time to head to camp, I’d been delayed in San Francisco

Luckily, things had turned out well on my trip, and it looked like an expansion to San Francisco would be a good ether a proposal for the board, but I was feeling confident

Lewis Sporting Goods had been in our faenerations, and the board consisted of randparents had passed, they’d left the company to all four of their sons, but Gabe’s parents ran the local bar and grill, and Serena’s parents had o They still owned shares of the company, but were now silent partners, and didn’t sit on the board

It was the same with my cousins, ere ether When it cas and leave Lewis Sporting Goods to Jazzy and me

Gabe, our oldest cousin, had been an NFL player, but was now retired and focused on his family Reardon, the person I was closest to, other than Jazzy of course, was the lawyer in our small town and had just started a faest cousin,middle school, but had come back for vacations and holidays, and was a very talented artist

While our cousins had followed their passions, Jasmine and I had been happy to take over the faine doing anything else

Picking up the phone, I pressed the button to my executive secretary

“Carol, do I have anything pressing this afternoon? I haven’t been to s and freshen up I’ll be back later to play catch up, but if there’s so I need to be here for, I can stay”

“You have a four o’clock with Laurel Turner, but I assuo home, and kept your afternoon clear”

I grinned and said, “You’re the best”

Carol had been with our company since I was a little boy, and she probably knew me just as well as my own mother

“Don’t I know it,” she quipped, then disconnected

I chuckled as I hung up, then frohen the name of the appointment penetrated

Laurel Turner

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