The Best of All by Vanessa Miller

Author:Vanessa Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Ian stormed into the Ritz-Carlton and made his way to his father’s room with anger in his heart. The warm hues and rich wood tones in the lobby did nothing to soothe Ian’s mood. Twelve years ago his father threw him off a senatorial campaign he’d been helping out with while in college.

He and a few coworkers from the campaign had accepted a lunch invitation from the media. Ian got cozy with a beautiful woman reporter who’d shown interest in him. Before he knew it, he’d inadvertently let the senator’s whereabouts slip out. That reporter then went to said location and found the very married senator soliciting sex from a male prostitute inside a men’s bathroom.

Ian had profusely apologized to his dad for ruining the campaign, even though it was the senator’s bathroom sex that was to blame. Ian never found out how she managed to sneak in the men’s bathroom. But it didn’t matter, he’d still blown it big time.

His father had been livid. He’d called Ian incompetent and a few other choice words. Ian had been distraught over his father’s anger, but the thing that had ruined their relationship from that day forward was what Walter Duncan had said next.

“You are a total screwup, Ian. I hope you know that you’ve cost us this election.”

“I think that Senator Rance cost us this election when he decided to have bathroom sex with someone who wasn’t his wife.” Ian put up a finger as he added, “Oh, and lest I forget, who also happened to be a man.”

His father wouldn’t let up on him. “You had no business giving that reporter any information about the senator’s whereabouts.”

Ian sat down and covered his head with shame. “I know that, Dad, and I have apologized profusely for my mistake. But I can’t take it back. We just have to move forward and worry about damage control and the next campaign right now.”

Walter shook his head. “Allowing you to continue playing this game of following in my footsteps will ruin me. You obviously don’t have what it takes to be in this business if you can’t even keep your mouth shut when you’re talking with reporters.”

“But I’m not just following in your footsteps, Dad. I love this business just as much as you do.” Ian had tried to plead his case.

But Walter wasn’t hearing it. He shook his head. “This was a mistake. You’re fired, son. Don’t bother coming back to the office. Oh, and I’d change your major from political science to business or something, because you’ll never get a job on another campaign.”

Walter Duncan had left his son bruised and wounded that day. But Ian hadn’t changed his major. He figured that if his father was right and no one would ever hire him to work on a campaign, he could teach in college or write books about politics. He would have done just about anything to remain in this game he loved.

But the one thing Ian would not do was accept charity from a man who didn’t believe in him from the start.

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