Claiming Roman by Trevion Burns

Author:Trevion Burns [Burns, Trevion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

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After demolishing the entire pint of ice cream, Zoey had disappeared back into the bedroom with Angie, promising the guys they wouldn’t keep them waiting for too long.

That had been over an hour ago.

Val, Roman, Leo and Gary all sat in the living room watching ESPN. The sports highlights were usually enough to pacify any man, but with each second that passed, the brothers found themselves sinking deeper into a hefty vat of annoyance, stewing in it, wondering why in god’s name all the women in the world seemed to be on a mission to make the men in the world as late as humanly possible.

Fingers tapped faster, legs bounced harder, and the impatient aura in the room grew heavier as they eyeballed the door Angie and Zoey had disappeared behind over an hour ago.

“Are they dead in there, or what?” Gary beamed.

Roman was relieved Gary had broken the, slightly uncomfortable, silence that had settled in.

“Who’s going to go knock and tell Zoey to hurry her ass up?” Roman asked. Thankfully, his question broke the ice even more, nervous laughs ensuing.

“Not me,” Val immediately bowed out.

“Fuck no.” Leo was right on his heels.

“You know I’m her ‘man-of-honor’, right? I think I’ve suffered enough.’” Gary looked pained.

Roman held his hands up. “Fair enough.”

“So, you planning on coming back to work anytime soon?” Leo asked.

Roman’s eyes met his. “Nah…”

“Nah?” Val jumped in. “That’s it? That’s all you have to say?”

Leo and Gary shared a look, then turned their attentions back to the TV, staring a little too hard at it to be convincing.

Roman’s eyes met Val’s. “To be honest, I’ve been looking to get out of Novsky for a while now. Find my own path. Figure out what I want for my own life.”

“And you’ve had this change of heart only after you’ve used Novsky to stack a dozen investment properties up and down the East Coast, insuring your financial freedom for the rest of your life, only to up and leave without so much as a word? Not even a fucking two weeks notice. That’s real nice, Bro. Thanks a lot.”

“Would you rather I be broke? Miserable? Struggling? If it makes you feel any better, Brother, I’m running a strong two out of three, so you can rest easy. I’m struggling. I saw my real father, and he doesn’t want a god damn thing to do with me. So I apologize if this whole experience has forced me to take a step back and ask myself who I am, and what I might want out of this life…” Roman’s voice shook as he spoke, not missing the fact that he’d caught Leo and Gary’s attention, once more.

Val eased up, breaking his eyes from Roman without responding.

Roman knew the family company, Novsky, was in trouble, they all did, so he knew Val’s sensitivity really had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with the fear of losing the company he’d built with his bare hands.

“You really found your dad?” Gary asked.

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