Broken #4 by Renna Peak

Author:Renna Peak [Peak, Renna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Renna Peak

8

Seven Months Earlier

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I looked at the number on the cell phone and thought for a moment about whether I should even answer. The area code was San Francisco, but it definitely wasn’t my grandmother’s number. I decided to answer, praying it wasn’t someone who might actually ask me to come back to that hell hole of a city.

“Mr. Richardson? This is Carrie from Hospice of San Francisco. Your grandmother asked me to call…”

I closed my eyes. I knew this day would come, just not this soon. My heart felt heavy in my chest when the woman on the other end of the line told me that my grandmother had just been admitted to their facility. She said the doctors had given her three months, but with this type of cancer, no one could ever be sure. She could have more time than that, she said, or maybe she would have less. Three months’ time was the average.

I hung up the phone. I leaned back in my chair, closing my eyes to let the information sink in. My grandmother had raised me from the time I was four—she was the only parent I had really ever known. And even with her crazy vendetta against the Davis family, she was the only family I really had aside from my sister. I knew I had to go back—had to see her at least one more time before she died. I owed her that much.

I finished up the paperwork I had been working on. I had originally thought that buying this company in Osaka a few months ago was going to be a pain in my ass—especially after Senator Davis had paid me to keep Daniel busy here. To keep him the hell away from his daughter, anyway. Christ, I hadn’t let myself think about Jenna Davis in years. I wondered if she looked the same—her long brown hair and deep blue eyes that could cut into a man’s soul… Stop. I couldn’t let myself go back to those thoughts. I wouldn’t allow myself to think about her ever again, not after I knew she had made an actual choice to be with the douche bag that was Daniel Sato. Any woman who could choose that was one I wanted to stay as far away from as possible.

Keeping Daniel busy had been easy. I hadn’t even had to see the asshole since I brought him here a year ago. God, had it already been a year? Time was flying, and I really needed to think about what in the hell I was going to do about that. My grandmother would be asking as soon as I flew in to see her, anyway. She would want to know what I planned to do to keep the Richardson family name alive—not that there was much of a Richardson name left to keep alive. She wanted great-grandchildren, and it was something she’d been giving me grief about for the past few years. I felt a little pang of guilt in my stomach, knowing she wouldn’t live to see her first.

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