Total pages in book: 154
Estimated words: 142664 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 713(@200wpm)___ 571(@250wpm)___ 476(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 142664 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 713(@200wpm)___ 571(@250wpm)___ 476(@300wpm)
I will never understand how men and women can do that to their own children without any care for what it might do to their young hearts and minds. She’s been carrying around this trauma since she was eight years old, and no one else seems to have noticed. It pisses me off and makes me want to hit something or someone.
She’s tough because she had to be. She’d built up walls around herself as a way to protect herself; now I have to pull them all down to get to the heart of her so I can heal her or show her how to heal herself.
I hate that her life was so damaged before she even got the chance to live. It breaks my heart, actually. She’s so sweet and innocent without even knowing. She doesn’t realize that her every action is that of the hurt little girl who lost her father’s love and then had to deal with his monster of a wife and her kid, who Alyssa saw as the person who took her place.
I won’t tell her this, but her Dad will have to go a very long way to gain my respect. Any man who would leave his own daughter to raise someone else’s is a piece of shit if you ask me. But I guess that’s something I shouldn’t speak on since I have no real experience with it.
That being said, I’ll be sure to keep an eye on him going forward because he won’t get the chance to hurt her ever again in this life, not with me around. It may not be fair since I wasn’t part of her life back then; she was a literal child, after all. But retrospectively, I hate what he did to her and will make him pay dearly if he fucks up again.
I don’t think she realized that I counted him among her enemies when I made that statement the night before. He doesn’t know it either, but I’ll have him taken out before I let him fuck with her heart again.
“Come on, let me teach you how to handle this monster.”
“Don’t you have people doing that?”
“Yes, but I know how much you like being in control. Never leave your safety to anyone else. I’ll teach you how to fly our private jet later.”
“You can fly?”
“Of course, it’s not as hard as you may think since computers do most of it. It’s all math, and you’re a math head, so it should be a breeze.”
“What else can you do?” She was back to being playful.
“Haha, nice try, but you’re not seeing my dick until after the wedding.”
“You… I…” She slapped my chest and pouted before trying to walk away. “Nasty!”
“Very, and tomorrow night, I’m going to get you very dirty as well, little Alyssa.”
Her face was pink, and her lips were twitching as she fought hard not to smile or laugh. “Who would’ve ever thought that one of the richest men in the world would have such a filthy mind?”
“What? You didn’t think I was human?”
“It’s not that. It’s just… I don’t know; you seem so far removed from human emotion.”
“Don’t kid yourself, sweetheart; there’s a big difference between the boardroom and the bedroom.”
“Oh yeah? How so?”
“I can fuck in both places, but the execution and results are vastly different.”
She didn’t have a comeback for that one so I took her to the helm and moved the captain out of the way to show her how it’s done.
ALYSSA
I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun that didn’t involve closing a big business deal. By the time we were out on the water for a few hours, I was starting to relax and enjoy myself. Garrett seemed to be going out of his way to make the point that we were the hosts, not treating me like a guest.
At first, I didn’t get it, but the girls kept pointing it out. Like the way, he wouldn’t commit to something without asking me first. For instance, when one of my brothers asked him something about the future, he’d say, I’ll have to talk to your sister about that.
He kept including me in everything, which was kind of weird because I hadn’t the first clue about most of it. I know I’m rambling, but I think that is part of his ammo, keeping me on my toes at all times.
He's so open and casual with his damn billions. I’m gonna have to have a talk with him about that shit because if he goes from billions to millions, I’ll leave his ass. I said that to him, and he laughed until he cried. I guess he didn’t take me seriously.
At some point Dad came to sit beside me while the others had cornered Garrett. “So, you’re doing this. You’re sure.”