This Love by Emily Snow

Author:Emily Snow
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Contemporary Romance, New Adult
Publisher: Emily Snow Books
Published: 2018-08-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

BENNETT

My phone is the only thing that can wrench me away from Veronica the next morning.

Its generic ringtone goes off furiously on the floor next to my bed, so I grab it from the pocket of my jeans and accept the call before she can hear it. She looks so goddamn peaceful, hair fanned out on my pillows, lips parted in a sleepy smile, that the last thing I want to do is wake her. Not yet, at least.

“Hey,” I whisper roughly, dragging on my boxers and sliding off the bed.

“Sleeping in, son?” My jaw twitches in frustration at my father’s chuckle. Why’s he calling? Shouldn’t he be on a flight to Australia right now? “You won’t be able to do that when you’re working for me this fall.”

I wait until I’m out of my bedroom and in the hallway to answer him. “What if I said no?”

“Why would you?” At my snort, he sighs. He tells me to hold on for a second, and I hear him typing away on his laptop. That’s my father, always working. “It makes sense, Bennett. You’re not returning to Duke, and you won’t start Harvard until next spring. What did you plan to do? Lay around drinking and racing cars all day?”

“Mom doesn’t seem to notice what I do in my spare time, and you’re never here.”

Dad grunts, and I can picture the pissed off look he’s giving me from thousands of miles away. He hadn’t given a fuck about my suspension from school. “Your grades are excellent, why the fuck would they suspend you for attendance?” were his exact words when I approached him with the truth: I spent the majority of the year avoiding the physical act of going to class in favor of partying and bullshit.

But me leaving for North Carolina had never been a part of his agenda, so why should he care?

For once in my life, I defied Delaney tradition by choosing Duke over Harvard. My grandfather, Dad, and all my uncles went. Even my older brother, Cain, attended Harvard for a year before telling my parents to suck his dick and taking off to work as a bartender in California. My decision to go to Duke was a big disappointment, so my father welcomed my suspension. Then, when none of the favors he called in to get me into his alma mater for the upcoming semester worked, he offered me a position shadowing him for four months while I waited.

He gave me the happy news a few nights ago, as a nineteenth birthday present.

“Working for me is better experience than any degree would offer you,” he snaps. “Do you know how many young men would kill for this opportunity?”

He just opened Pandora’s Box with that one. I swing the fridge open and grab a bottle of water. “Then maybe I shouldn’t go back to school at all.”

“Don’t be a goddamn fool.”

Twisting the top off my water, I take a big gulp. “I can always enroll in community college.

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