Father of the Bride by Jennifer Dione

Author:Jennifer Dione
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackberry Publishing
Published: 2018-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The rest of our lunch went kind of like an awkward first date. I asked about what he did. He had worked the same construction job he got when he moved away from Jersey up until his retirement. He had worked his way right on up to the owner of the company. He became really close with the original owner of the company and their family and since the owner of the company had no children he had left the company to the best qualified person, my father.

He hired someone to manage and operate the company and he basically just reaped the rewards and raked in the money. It was interesting to find out that my father was actually well off, in fact he was very wealthy. He had contracted his own construction team to build a home in Mississippi. He gave back to the community by building homes for those in need, like single mothers and fathers. Even though he had never married and had no other children outside of me he was well known and adored by the people in his community.

"My main goal all these years, when I'm giving back and doing charity is to keep families together, if one of my guys is struggling to pay his bills, not only will I give them a raise but I will also give them a house, completely paid off, so that his wife and kids don't end up in a shelter and he ends up in another shelter away from them. Family to me is the most important thing. I wasn't ever like that because my parents were never really good parents to me, my brother died when I was young and my sister hasn't spoken to me in years. It took me losing my family in the blink of an eye for me to really realize how important family is."

From the small things here and there, that I had heard about my father from my aunt I expected him to be some uneducated and poor man. But he had actually gone back to college and gotten his Master's in Business Management.

"It took me about ten years to complete what should have only been six years of school but the owner of the company was always pushing me to finish. He let me take days off when I had exams. He let me study and do my classwork and reports on the job. Little did I know that if I hadn't finished he never would have given me the company. His wife told me that after he passed. She said that it really showed him how determined I was, because as much as I wanted to quit I never did, I just kept pushing. That is how he knew that no matter what I would never let his business go under, because now not only did I have the passion to do so, I also had the knowledge, and passion is as important as knowledge."

I told him

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