Betrayal by Martina Cole

Author:Martina Cole [Cole, Martina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2016-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventy

Aiden was looking forward to meeting Colin Clark. They had heard of one another, of course, but they had never actually crossed paths in any meaningful way. They both wondered about the other, especially as they seemed of a kind. Everyone that Aiden had spoken to said the same thing: they were like two peas in a pod. That didn’t please him, because he had also heard that Colin Clark could be a bit of a cunt, so he assumed − rightly as it turned out − that people thought the same about him. Food for thought.

Aiden wanted to believe that the people he dealt with had a high opinion of him, even though he knew that wasn’t likely. He had a reputation as a good boss, but not as a good bet. He didn’t care about being liked but he did want to be respected. Knowing that Jade was the one that everyone apparently listened to, he needed to prove himself once and for all with this new partnership. The fact that he had once destroyed his creds overnight was something he still found difficult to digest, but it showed how precarious his position was. He had fucked up and, in doing so, he wiped out years of good work. He’d been playing catch-up ever since − that was what was so hard to accept.

Eric Palmer had forgiven him, he knew that. Eric was willing to let bygones be bygones because Eric still saw him as his natural successor. The problem was, though, that he could never forgive Eric Palmer or Jade. He loved them both but his belief that they had systematically tucked him up ate him inside.

He would always resent the fact that Eric Palmer had given Jade the power that should have been his. It was why he continued to do the dirty on her even though he wasn’t exactly proud of it. Between Jade and Eric they had fucking humiliated him, and they had tried to pretend that they were only trying to look out for him.

Now, however hard he worked to redeem himself, the damage had been done. And, as much as he loved Jade, there was a part of him that couldn’t really ever trust her any more. Even after all these years he still felt that he was being judged and that, without Jade at his side, Eric Palmer would never have trusted him again.

Everyone else had forgotten it – it was so long ago! But his fuck-up was something that he remembered every day of his life, and the fact that he continually felt that he wasn’t truly trusted was becoming his Achilles heel. He was desperate to prove himself – nothing he did felt enough. He tried to bring in more money than had been expected, taking on everything required without a word, finding new ways to earn an extra crust out of it. It was obvious to everyone that he was determined to prove himself. Now his foolishness with Destiny had set him back again – Eric Palmer had made his disappointment clear.

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