Naughty Package: A Taboo Stepbrother Romance by Ryli Jordan
Author:Ryli Jordan [Jordan, Ryli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ryli Jordan
Published: 2016-12-25T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 2
I spent all afternoon fielding off the hounds. Every genealogist in the country was working over time trying to prove that their clients had a stake in my father's fortune. Then there were the lawyers. As soon as I managed to get a replacement phone, they started calling, one after the other, offering their condolences, services and outlining their fees, all while trying to make me believe that they were the only ones that could keep me swimming in money.
I knew my place. My father had no living family, my mother was dead and I was his only child. The executor was a trusted friend and he assured me that my mother and I were the sole beneficiaries, but that I would have to take over the company and swim with the sharks.
I was taken, surrounded by my father's personal security to the headquarters of Valenti mobile, in downtown Los Angeles. It was a monolithic structure built on the backs of Chinese laborers that made everything from the phones he sold to the walls that held the building together. They took me to t the sixth floor where a formal fanfare of random lackeys stood on either side of the hallway to greet me when I walked in. I dodged them as best as I could, flanked on both sides by my security guards.
I'm a staunch democratic socialist. I hate the corporate system. It's a funnel setup to gavage people like my father with enough money to turn their livers into gold.
That was why my father was on his way out. He was a glutton, and the lifestyle caught up with him. He was nodding out during his board meetings, taking pills when he should've been working, he hadn't taken care of business in 30 years. The board got their way without any interference from him and they weren't going to like me coming in and trying to take control, but I planned on making some changes and they were going to have to deal with it.
I dawned a pair of the biggest sunglasses I could find and filled my stomach with sports drinks to stave off the feeling of having my head stuck in a microwave. Then I stumbled into the office and braced myself against the table to keep from falling over.
“Mr. Valenti,” Regis Harper, the de facto dictator shot up out of his chair. “Are you hung-over?”
I gave him a cocky grin and fell into my chair at the head of the table, affecting fluid, drunken movements to add to the effect. Then I looked around the room. “Y-you're stuck with me.” I spat out with a flawless drunken tone.
Harper grabbed the phone. “Yeah, security could you have Ray Valenti removed from the building? No...” his voice went lower. “He's drunk.” There was a pause. “Oh, yeah? Well, enjoy eating ramen for the rest of yo—
He pulled back the receiver, shocked. Then he hung up the phone. They must've hung up on him.
“I pay them,” I mumbled.
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