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“Your loss,” Aristides said, sounding bored “All right Thanks for the visit” He looked down at his son scornfully “But don’t think that this means I’ll put you back in my will”

“Are you kidding?” Holly said, outraged “Do you actually think he needs your money?”

“Shh, Holly It doesn’tbaby carefully, Stavros rose to his feet He was taller than his father, and his expression was utterly cold “Keep your money, you cheap bastard”

“Cheap!” The olderto hand off my family fortune to some little waitress I nant” He scowled at Stavros “I’m still not sure you’re even mine”

“I wish to hell I wasn’t,” he said quietly

“Gotten full of yourself with that company of yours? Just because you think you’re richer thanhis hand back through his skunk-striped hair “You’d never have built that company without me”

Stavros’s eyes ide “You say that, after what you did to Mom—”

“If I hadn’t cut her off without a penny, you’d never have had the drive toof yourself You should thank esture she’d seen Stavros use “I should own half your stock, purely as an issue of fairness”

Stavros’s fists tightened, then he looked at his baby sleeping nestled in the crook of one arm, and he exhaled

“You’re not worth another minute of my time,” he said, and he t

urned to Holly “Are you ready?”

“Definitely”

“Good Go!” His father’s black eyes narrowed as his voice built in rage “Get out of my house!”

Holly looked for one last moment at the rich, horrible old man “Goodbye Sorry you’ve made such bad choices in life”

Aristides looked shocked